Three days later, in the morning, the protagonist rode Xiaoqing alone and flew to the Southern Fortress. He had come to test the results of the training of the slinger team led by Lambray and Lambother.

After the team assembles, they go to an open field outside the fortress and demonstrate the results of their three days of training to the protagonist in batches.

The protagonist is surprised that they have changed their training grounds, and he had been training in a clearing surrounded by an earthen embankment in the fortress before he left last time.

After the review, the protagonist is quite satisfied - these soldier ants can be regarded as able to throw pottery bombs to the target area two decimeters away, although the throwing is extremely uneven, and the scattered surface of the pottery bullets on the ground is also large and frightens people to death......

However, on the battlefield, when facing tens of thousands of enemies, such a deviation does not have much effect.

However, the protagonist found that there were only more than 80 soldier ants who came to the scene, which was more than 10 fewer than when the whole group was full.

After questioning, Rambery and Rambosser report to the protagonist as follows:

Previously, the protagonist had developed a method of having ten soldier ants stand in a row to practice throwing, so as not to accidentally injure their companions by throwing pottery bombs together.

However, the protagonist still overestimates the IQ of these soldier ants, and after he leaves, there are all kinds of bizarre casualties in the actual training.

Some of the ants stood too close to each other when they threw them, and as soon as they swung the sling, they knocked their companions unconscious...... Fortunately, the slings hadn't increased their speed at this time, but just knocked their companions unconscious!

That's not all, at first, many soldier ants completely grasped the direction of throwing out (after all, the ants didn't understand what a tangent was), and the fired pottery bombs flew around, some forward, some to both sides, and some directly into the team of soldiers who were waiting behind them. The flying clay bombs caused a few casualties among the soldiers on standby and other ants in the vicinity.

After Rambery and Rambosser found out, in view of the fact that the protagonist was not there and could not ask for instructions, they adjusted the plan on their own, so that they could stop this self-harm training method in time.

They moved the training ground to the open area outside the fortress, greatly increased the distance between the ants, reduced the number of soldier ants thrown each time from ten to five, and then let the untrained ants hide in the trench, which reduced the casualty rate of the later training.

Even so, all kinds of accidents still emerge one after another, and after a few days, there are only more than 80 soldier ants left who can still stand here intact......

Except for the three deceased, the other wounded were basically sent back to the main nest for treatment on the same day, and most of the disabled soldier ants could no longer serve! And the protagonist in "Dongyang City" didn't pay attention to these wounded, so he didn't know in advance that so many oolongs happened in training.

Fortunately, after many trainings, under the guidance of the commander, these soldiers slowly mastered the technique of throwing pottery bombs straight ahead.

After listening to the report, the protagonist was speechless for a while, and countless grass and mud horses galloped past his heart, and after the training of the past few days, the casualty rate was comparable to fighting a vicious battle.

He knew that military training would inevitably lead to accidental injuries, and even in the Celestial Empire, which had established the country by force in the previous life, many recruits were injured or even sacrificed during training every year.

Especially in the grenade throwing link, the veterans are required to give one-on-one guidance, and bulletproof pits are dug around them, and even this is not foolproof.

Thinking of this, he was relieved, but Lambray and Lambesser improved their training methods, and they also gained something.

After checking the results of the training, the protagonist is generally satisfied, and after three days of high-intensity training, this group of slingers can already go to the battlefield to try their skills.

The protagonist promises Lambery and Lambboss that they will be transferred enough soldiers from "Dongyang City" to fill the gap in the team.

Later, the protagonist summons him and tells him that in the afternoon two squads of slingers will be in battle for today's defensive battle, while the protagonist will stay and watch the battle.

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On the sand and gravel ground in the south, there was a slow sound of creatures crawling by.

Standing on the earthen embankment of the fortress, looking south, there was only a blur in the far direction, and his vision could see the scene within three meters accurately at most, and he could vaguely see the range of one meter. And now, nothing can be seen in the distance.

Even so, as a male ant, his eyesight is much better than that of worker ants and soldier ants, who can only see moving objects within a decimeter and sometimes even need to use their antennae to make accurate judgments.

Even if he couldn't see the scene in the distance clearly, with the experience of many days, he also knew that another batch of parasitic ants, numbering about seven or eight hundred, had come to die.

The protagonist hovers in the air on Xiaoqing, and he can see clearly - a large number of parasitic ants emerge from the grass about four meters south of the fortress, and line up through an open gravel field to approach the fortress.

Approaching about three centimeters from the fortress and two decimeters from the edge of the trench, the parasitic ants stopped.

Through the sight and the breath wafting in the distance, both armies spotted each other.

The parasitic ants began to enter a manic state under the hormone stimulation of the silk thread parasite, but they still spread the team into horizontal teams in a relatively orderly manner under the command of the big worker ants.

Just as the enemy was changing formations, the defenders of the fortress, who had been waiting for a long time, also deployed a defensive formation on the top of the half-decimeter-wide earthen embankment.

Unlike before, this time at the top of the embankment, there were some ants with strange weapons - these were the soldiers of the slinger squad.

Before the parasitic ants had fully unfolded their formation, a dense and rapid sound of breaking through the air suddenly sounded.

The big workers looked up, their compound eyes barely catching some dark shadows quickly streaking across the sky, and soon, something smashed into the nearby team.

The protagonist sees in the sky a wave of pottery bullets slashing through like meteors and smashing into the position of the parasitic ant team.

The parasitic ant that was directly hit immediately lay on the ground, with broken bones and tendons. Even if it didn't hit directly, the pottery bomb that smashed into the open space in the middle of the team shattered and sputtered countless fragments, which could severely damage the nearby silk thread parasites.

The two squads of slingers had now divided the ants into two groups and took turns throwing pottery bombs.

Since the team of seven or eight hundred ants was not much on the ground, and the soldiers were blindly shooting in the general direction under the command of the male ants, the hit rate of the first shot was very low.

Of the more than forty pottery shells thrown for the first time, less than ten smashed into the dense formation of the enemy army.

Even so, it caused the death of three parasitic ants, many injuries, and dozens of silk parasitic bacteria were traumatized.

What's more, the parasitic ants were taken aback by the sudden blow, even with the furious buff of the silk parasitic fungus, and the big worker ants tried their best to suppress it, there was still a small chaos in the parasitic ant army.

Ants have always been afraid of inexplicable threats. Just like a naughty boy who teases an ant with a grass stalk, the ant's sensory organs are limited and it cannot find the attacker, it will only run away in a panic to increase its chances of survival.