Chapter Eighty-Six: Pursuing Victory

Under the protagonist's water attack tactics, the military fortress with 100,000 paving ant barbarians and ten ant queens stationed in the army was conquered after less than ten days of resistance, and the paving ant barbarian army was completely annihilated, while the big-headed ant expeditionary force only paid a slight price of thousands of casualties, which can be described as a great victory.

The protagonist himself didn't expect the water attack to work so well. According to his plan, he originally wanted to use the water attack to destroy about half of the enemy's living force, and then command the big-headed ant expeditionary force to attack. Due to the previous decapitation operation, after eliminating many paving ant ants, the replenishment of the pavement ant barbarian army will not be able to catch up with the attrition on the front line. At the same time, due to the deterioration of food when damp, there will also be problems with the food supply of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army.

The protagonist intended to use a three-pronged approach to weaken and eventually eliminate the enemy forces that were holding the Vice-Nest. But after a water attack, the enemy army is almost wiped out, and the protagonist regrets why he has to rush into the enemy's nest to chase and kill the queen ant, what a superfluous move.

Fortunately, the results were satisfactory, and the objectives of the campaign were achieved with few casualties. After the battle, the two most costly legions were tasked with cleaning up the dead pavement ant carcasses in the basement and repairing some of the underground structures damaged by the flood. These two legions will then remain in the area until they are transferred to the receiving forces sent by the Main Hive.

The other forty-eight legions regrouped on the ground, prepared for an hour without delay, and immediately pursued the next target.

Before leaving, all the kings entered the conference room of the Vice-Nest for a brief meeting. The mud in the conference room has been cleaned in advance by conscientious worker ants, and there is no sign of water soaking on the white pebble floor.

During the meeting, the real achievements have made all the kings completely convinced of the Divine Envoy King. At the meeting, the next goals and plans were briefly discussed, and there were still five secondary nests to be recovered. All the kings have faith in the Divine Messenger King, and in their opinion, this year's counteroffensive will soon be successful.

At the end of the meeting, the kings returned to their legions. The Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force marched to the next sub-nest.

In the evening, the army arrives near the second nest, and the legions are ready to set up camp, and after learning that the enemy occupies the nest is half an hour away, the protagonist communicates with the legions to stop camping and rush to the vicinity of the hive while there is still twilight.

Subsequently, the army raided this sub-nest at night, because it was already dark, according to the physiological habits of big-headed ants and paving ants, they usually did not move at night, so the paving ant barbarian army did not send scouts on the ground, until they were killed into the sub-nest and then hurriedly organized spontaneous resistance. But the defenders of this sub-nest had only one legion and a few scattered paving ants, less than three thousand, and after being penetrated by a large number of enemy troops, they were completely wiped out after resisting for half a night.

The second nest was also recovered.

The army rested for most of the night in the second sub-nest, and by mid-morning, after leaving two legions with heavy losses to garrison and clear up, as was customary, the remaining 46 legions continued their departure.

The scout worker ants of the third sub-nest of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army spotted the advance of the Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force in the afternoon, and then all the defenders of this sub-nest of about 5,000 soldiers poured out of the nest and started a battle with the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force in the wild, regardless of the absolute disadvantage of numbers.

If it was in the past, these 5,000 soldiers would have been able to hold out for a day or two before they were completely annihilated. But this time, after the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force was launched, the protagonist personally commanded the Divine Envoy King's legion to enter the battle on the far left flank, quickly defeated the enemy in front of him, and then detoured back to the rear of the enemy flank, and came with a bead curtain reversal, driving the retreating enemy army into the enemy legion that was still fighting, and the enemy army was forced to huddle together, crowded with each other and difficult to exert combat power. The Divine Messenger King's legion quickly annihilated the enemy forces with the cooperation of friendly forces. Subsequently, the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force attacked the secondary nest of the enemy, and successfully captured the third secondary nest.

After resting for the night, the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force easily captured the fourth and fifth secondary nests of the weak defenders on the second and third days.

It wasn't until at the last secondary nest that the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force encountered strong resistance.

The topography of this secondary nest is quite special. The secondary nests of big-headed ants are generally built on relatively solid ground at high places, and the soil is generally loess or cement, which can ensure that the excavated underground nests are strong and not easy to collapse.

And the last sub-nest protagonist saw it and named it "Waterfront City". As the name suggests, this secondary nest is located on the edge of what the ants call a great river, in the middle of the river to be exact.

The big river is the boundary river between the kingdom of the big-headed ant and the paving ant barbarian country, about five or six meters wide, in the eyes of humans is just a small river ditch, but for any species of ants it is an insurmountable moat.

The "Waterfront City" is built on a small island in the middle of a large river, about half a meter away from the south shore where the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is located, and about five meters away from the north shore where the Paving Ant Kingdom is located. The whole island is composed of a huge rock in the water, and a huge banyan tree grows tenaciously in the crack of the rock plate, the roots of the banyan tree are firmly rooted in the cracks of the stone, and some thick roots are exposed to the surface, entrenched on the rocks, and finally plunged into the mud under the water. The entire island is Banyan's sphere of influence.

There is also a dead willow tree more than one meter long, which died and fell due to the inability to resist the competition of the banyan tree, forming a natural bridge between the island and the south shore.

The "Waterfront City" is located on the island, and because there is not much soil on the island, this secondary nest is not built underground, but has been dug under the rough bark of the large banyan tree to crisscross the tunnels and nest chambers. This is both a water city and a tree city.

The first challenge faced by the Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force was to climb through the narrow trunk of a dead willow tree to the island where the "Waterfront City" was located. The paving ant barbarian army in the "Waterfront City" had already spotted the enemy in advance, and large groups of barbarian army warriors poured out of various tree holes and bark crevices, and soon gathered on the ground of the island, covered with willow bridges.

The Paving Ant Barbarian Army had no intention of crossing the bridge to fight the Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force in the field, so they stood on the bridge and on the island, waiting for the Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force to attack.

This willow bridge is very narrow, and the trunk of the willow tree is the thickness of a human forearm, even if the bridge deck is full of ants, it can only allow dozens of ants to attack the enemy at the same time. And a bridge of more than half a meter, advancing at a normal speed, can take days to break through the enemy's defenses. Maybe the god can speed up the advance of the king's army, but this kind of narrow battlefield will fall into the water and be washed away if you are not careful, and it is basically impossible to return alive after being washed away, and the protagonist is reluctant to send his own veterans to undertake the dangerous task of attacking the bridge.

After carefully observing the length of the willow bridge and the strength of the enemy army, the protagonist decides to attack the fortification himself.

Last time, the protagonist entered the state of killing the god and went down to earth.,Killing all sides in the paving ant base.,After that, he fell into an extremely uncomfortable killing sequelae due to loss of strength.,It took two days to recover.。 This lesson is too painful, this time the protagonist decided to stop in time after he crossed the bridge, and there should be no more sequelae.

In addition, the protagonist also wants to take this opportunity to experiment with his control over the "God Killing" state, and the protagonist's sanity is almost completely lost after entering the state last time, leaving only the instinct to kill, which makes the protagonist very worried, no one wants to be in a state of loss of control, even if it is drunk.

After sending messengers to communicate with the kings of the various legions, it was agreed that the Public Security Corps would follow the protagonist to attack the Willow Bridge.

When the protagonist is ready, he climbs from the end of the willow tree on the riverbank, and the public security corps follows.

The defense line of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army is in the middle of the bridge, and the protagonist slowly leans forward, and there is a slight commotion on the opposite defense line. Upon seeing the enemy, the commanders of these paving ant squads gave the order to attack. Countless black paving ants spread forward like a tide from the pale willow wreckage, threatening to drown the protagonist who had left the battle line alone.

The protagonist is not afraid at all, he activates the collision mode, lowers his head and rushes forward, only to see that in an instant, a blank passage with a white willow background is exposed in the black ant nest, and countless paving ants fly up the moment they contact the protagonist, either falling into the river and struggling to be washed downstream, or crashing into their companions and causing several companions to fall.

After the protagonist rushed for a while, he had already killed the end of the bridge half a meter away, and reflexively rushed into another enemy-dense area, and after several consecutive collisions, there was no paving ant barbarian army on the bridge deck that still maintained its formation, and a large number of paving ants fell into the river, and the rest either hid on the side of the bridge, or scattered and unorganized.

The protagonist is rushing to kill at this time, while trying to use reason to suppress the instinctive killing intent and bloodlust that is gradually rising in his heart, after seeing that there is no formed resistance on the bridge deck, he sends out an attack signal, and then the public security regiment takes the lead in rushing across the bridge, sweeping away the remnants of the enemy on the bridge, and fighting with the defenders on the island. The other legions immediately crossed the bridge, taking advantage of their numerical superiority to divide and surround the enemy forces on the island.

The protagonist quietly retreats to the Legion of the Divine Envoy King, trying to calm the negative emotions in his heart. The Divine Legion did not cross the bridge to protect him. The protagonist climbs a tall, dry branch of a willow bridge and watches the battlefield.

The island has become a crowded battlefield, the whole island is the size of a four-person table, tens of thousands of ants gather here, the stones, the roots of the trees, the crevices of the stones are all warring ant colonies, densely packed with no trace of the background of the earth or rocks, only black and yellow ants in sight.

The paving ant barbarian army did not expect the bridge defense line to be lost so quickly, and a large number of paving ant reinforcements were still on the way down from the nest in the high canopy, and the scattered troops at the bridgehead of the small island were quickly crushed, divided, and surrounded by the big-headed ant expeditionary force, and only a few legions established a defensive line around the trunk and root of the big banyan tree.

The battle is about to begin.