Chapter 21: Ambush (3)

Before the Paving Ant Scouts could relay the information, the Paving Ant Army had already discovered the traces of the Divine Envoy King Legion, which meant that the Scouts failed to deliver the information back in time, and they were caught off guard.

In order to complete the ambush, the Divine Envoy King's legion made a careful plan and executed it like a machine with the diligence that is unique to ants, and finally achieved this perfect raid.

In the air, the Flying Knight, as an eye, keeps a close eye on the things of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army without being noticed by the enemy.

It wasn't until the Paving Ant Barbarian Army entered the predetermined ambush area that the Flying Knights began to change their flight trajectory and lower their altitude in the direction of the ground army to facilitate observation from the ground, informing their ground allies in a way borrowed from bees.

On the ground, the Divine Envoy King legion lurked in the grass two or three meters away from the shore of the ravine, far beyond the detection range of the paving ant scouts.

In the past, it would have been a joke to set up an ambush here, because the distance was too far and the view was blocked by vegetation, so the ambush troops could not observe the enemy's movements at all, and they would not be able to grasp the favorable timing of ambushes and surprise attacks.

Even if a small number of sentinels are ambushed on the shore of the cliff to pass on information, they will inevitably be discovered by experienced paving ant scouts, startling the enemy, causing the enemy to be alert, and even losing the fighter.

However, with the help of the Flying Knights, the Legion of the Divine Envoy King can be freed from its dependence on ground reconnaissance to a certain extent.

However, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army relied too much on ground reconnaissance, and when the scouts on the ground did not detect anything unusual, the entire army was like a blind man blindfolded and tentacles.

- I'm the dividing line -

A large amount of sand fell from the cliff face, tumbling and smashing into the dense army of paving ants, causing a small commotion.

The Paving Ant Warrior on the edge of the line instinctively dodged the "falling rocks" in panic.

And in the forward legion, the legion commander who was protected by layers of guards had just received the information that the scouts in front of him had desperately passed back.

In fact, this information is no longer important, and the forward king of the paving ant army can already see that there are many dark shadows on the cliffs on both sides.

What else could this be an enemy?

Defensive orders for enemy attacks are quickly transmitted to the entire Legion through tentacles and scents, and the Legion will form a close formation to guard against a condescending attack by the enemy.

The Striker King is not very worried, the number of enemies is not much, at least far less than the Paving Ant Army, as long as the formation is not torn apart by the enemy's first wave of surprise attacks, the Striker Legion can hold out until the arrival of reinforcements in the rear.

In particular, when the Forward King vaguely saw that the enemy's formation on the cliff was very thin, he strengthened this belief.

The only thing that made the Striker King frown was that the legion under his command was all workers who had not been in battle much after all, and they were chaotic when they formed the formation, and many of the kings who served as squad commanders could not restrain their subordinates well, resulting in a lot of delay in forming a defensive front.

But the enemy did not dive condescendingly at the first time, which made the striker king breathe a sigh of relief, which bought his subordinates a little time. When the formation is formed, even if the enemy forces plan to eat strongly, they will have to pay a lot of time and battle damage, and then the friendly forces in their rear will have the opportunity to counterattack.

But what the Striker King didn't know was that behind him, not far away, where his eyesight was missing, the other three paving ant legions were also ambushed......

Only the 3,000 soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Legions of the Divine Envoy King participated in the ambush, but they faced 10,000 soldiers of the four fully formed Paving Ant Legions.

Even if the Divine Envoy King's legion had the advantage of ambushing, it might not be able to eat this enemy army steadily. What's more, the protagonist also asks that the enemy army not be allowed to break and escape.

That's why tactics are crucial.

The choice of this ravine ambush battlefield is very particular, the cliffs on both sides of the bank are mostly sandy soil layers, difficult to climb, the angle is relatively steep, and the entrances and exits on both sides are narrow, and only a small number of troops from the Divine Envoy King Army can be blocked.

Now, all the Divine Legion needed was to kill and wound as many enemies as possible as planned, and then drive them away.

- I'm the dividing line -

In less than half a minute after discovering that they were ambushed, the forward legion of the Paving Ant Army had roughly formed a tight defensive formation, and although the speed was not fast, it also made the forward king more satisfied.

At this moment, there was a scene that surprised his big jaw and couldn't close.

I saw that above the cliff, in the thin line of the enemy's army, countless black dots faintly appeared, dense like a puff of black smoke, and quickly "fell" towards his own army.

The legion covered in black smoke immediately turned on their backs, and even the guards directly under the forward king himself were knocked down and then wounded.

The Striker King immediately asked his subordinates to bring over a cloud of "black smoke" that had fallen on the ground nearby.

It is a crumbled "grain of earth" that appears unusually hard. Any soldier who is hit by these "soil particles" will have cracks in their hard outer carapace, and if they are unfortunate enough to be hit in the head, they may even die.

This is exactly the earthenware bullet thrown by the Divine King's legion using a sling.

A normally thrown pottery bomb, with its mass and kinetic energy, simply cannot cause damage to the paving ant warrior. However, after the rotation and acceleration of the catapult, its kinetic energy is greatly increased, and it can already cause damage.

A single projectile is not very accurate, but when a large force is projected en masse, it can still cover a stationary enemy army.

Under the first wave of stone-throwing strikes, the Paving Ant Advance Legion has already paid hundreds of casualties, although there are very few dead, but the continuous struggle and movement of the wounded soldiers has shaken the integrity and stability of the formation.

The striker king had no way to deal with it, he could only keep sending defensive signals, but to no avail. Injured worker ants are no longer listening to instructions, but are just struggling on their own, which is a common manifestation of recruits.

The dense slings were fired three times, and the vanguard army was full of mourning, and even one of the midlimbs of the Striker King was injured by a fragment of a clay bullet that broke on the gravel that smashed to the ground.

The limb snapped instantly, but fortunately he still had five legs and could move at about the same speed as before.

And in his legion position, there were wounded soldiers everywhere, and the complete formation almost no longer existed, only the warriors on the periphery of the formation close to the cliff wall, because they were covered by the steep cliffs on both sides, suffered very few casualties.

In other words, the periphery of his legion position basically maintained a complete formation. This gave the Legion King another glimmer of hope, as long as the periphery of the position could hold on, he still had a chance.

He immediately gave the order and began to reorganize the defenses within the legion.

However, the Divine Envoy King Legion obviously would not give him this opportunity......