Through the Flying Knight's vision, the protagonist sees three large bodies in the middle of a procession of smaller ants.

These are three gourd-shaped insects with black carapaces that glisten in the sunlight. The front of the insect head is fan-shaped, with fish-scale wrinkles on the surface, and the head is in the middle of the head with a square angular process with a thick lower and a sharp upper point. There is also a transverse ridge in the middle of the dorsal plate of the prothorax, which curves slightly anteriorly into an obtuse angle in the middle of the ridge and has a dentate angular process at each end.

This is a dung beetle, the smallest of the three dung beetles is also a decimeter long, and the largest one is 50% larger than the smallest.

They stand in the midst of the parasitic ants, as conspicuous as fully armored war elephants standing in the human army.

The daring flying knight lowered his height, quickly grazing over the back of one of the dung beetles, just three centimeters high. His audacity quickly caught the attention of the Lightgold Workers and the Workers, but before the enemy could react, the Flying Knight had already risen in height and retreated.

With a glimpse of the low-altitude flight, the protagonist saw that in the gap between the carapace on the back of the dung beetle, dozens of silk parasites were densely grown, and this dung beetle seemed to be a moving silk parasite bonsai.

Why dung beetles are in the army of parasitic ants, and they seem to act together, not being carried by parasitic ants as prey.

Could it be that parasitic ants have been able to domesticate beetles like dung beetles? The protagonist once thought about domesticating beetles as draft animals, and although this plan has not yet been implemented, it is still feasible to refer to the case of successful domestication of flies. Could it be that parasitic ants have also mastered the method of domesticating insects?

How is this possible, you must know that the history of the big-headed ant kingdom is hundreds of thousands of years, and the technological progress is also unusually slow, how can these parasitic ants achieve a technological leap in such a short time after migration?

Could it be that the technology of domesticating flies in "Dongyang City" has leaked out? This is also impossible, there are only a few ants in the entire "Dongyang City" who have mastered the domestication technology, and they are all under strict control, and it is impossible for parasitic ants to come into contact with them.

Or is it due to silk thread parasites? The protagonist once saw a dung beetle and a dead leaf butterfly feeding on the "pyramid of ant corpses", and then being infected by the mycelial larvae on the corpse pile.

Can different insects infected by the silk thread parasite coexist peacefully and even fight together? The protagonist has no experience or intelligence in this area, but judging from the detection of the flying knight, the most likely and worst-case scenario is that the parasitic dung beetle is a secret weapon that the enemy can effectively command.

The army of parasitic ants is interspersed with three large parasitic dung beetles, and the scene resembles that of Hannibal's army over the Alps surrounded by tall war elephants.

And the protagonist, and the fortress he is in, will soon be attacked by such an enemy army.

The protagonist's brain is running at high speed, and such an enemy army has never been encountered, especially the giant parasitic dung beetle like a war elephant.

What should be done against this monster that seems to be very strong and powerful?

Going out in the field? Not to mention whether they can deal with these three parasitic dung beetles, if they abandon the strong fortress and go out to fight, the combination of parasitic ants and silk parasitic fungi alone is enough for the Divine King Legion to drink a pot.

Staying in the fortress? According to the previous tactics, the pottery bombs of the ranged troops would definitely not be able to cause damage to these three parasitic dung beetles with rough skin and thick flesh. The defenders of the city wall will obviously not be able to stop the attack of this parasitic dung beetle, and when a large number of parasitic ants rush in along the gap broken by the parasitic dung beetle, the army of the god envoy will be forced to be involved in a bad street battle.

So how to deal with parasitic dung beetles? There have been successful experiences in dealing with war elephants in human history, can we learn from them?

The protagonist anxiously recalls the memories that are gradually blurring in his mind, which are the knowledge he learned from books, television, and movies in his previous life.

War elephants are special forces that have appeared in the history of ancient human warfare, and they play the role of tanks in modern troops in ancient warfare. Trained war elephants, brave and invincible, can break through city gates, destroy barracks, dismantle weapons, step on enemy troops, trap enemy formations, and often cause great damage to the enemy. War elephant troops have appeared in South Asia, Southeast Asia, southern China, West Asia, North Africa and Europe in ancient times.

However, there are many examples of successful defeats of war elephants in history.

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", when Zhuge Liang conquered Meng in the south, he faced the elephant soldiers and beasts of King Mulu in the first battle. When fighting again, Zhuge Liang prepared a wooden giant beast that could breathe fire, scared off the war elephant monsters of the Southern Barbarian soldiers, defeated the King of Mulu, and captured Meng Shu for the sixth time. Zhuge Liang took advantage of the animal's fear of fire.

In ancient Europe, the armies of several countries used war elephants against Rome. The Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire also accumulated a wealth of experience in dealing with war elephants.

At the Battle of Zama in 202 BC, Hannibal's elephant charge did not achieve the desired effect, because the Roman army's formation had pre-empted the passage for the enemy elephant to charge.

At the Battle of Thapsus in 46 BCE, Caesar armed the Fifth Legion with a tomahawk and commanded his legionnaires to concentrate on the legs of the elephants, which resisted the elephants' charge, which later became the symbol of the Fifth Legion.

During the Battle of Tapsus, it is said that the pig became an effective weapon against war elephants. Pliny the Elder wrote: "War elephants are terrified by the screams of the smallest pigs. "It is said that during the siege of the city of Megara, the people of Megala poured boiling oil on a herd of pigs, which set them on fire and drove them to the enemy's war elephants. Faced with the screaming pigs with flames on their bodies, the war elephants scattered and fled in fear.

The Romans dealt with war elephants by avoiding the frontal onslaught of war elephants, attacking elephants' physical weaknesses (nose and legs), and taking advantage of certain elephant characteristics (fear of fire, fear of pig cries).

When Timur attacked India, in a campaign in 1398, he faced a formidable enemy army with more than 100 war elephants. Timur used a large number of cavalry to delay the charge of the elephants, and then he ordered the burning wheat stalks to be piled on the camels' backs, and the smoke from the burning drove the camels forward, causing the enemy elephants to scatter backwards in fright, and finally Timur won a great victory. It is also the use of fire and smoke to scare war elephants.

It can be seen that both Chinese and foreign military strategists rarely face such a huge weapon of war as war elephants, but make full use of their weakness -- fear of fire.

So, can you also use this trick against parasitic dung beetles? The protagonist looks down at the ground, and beneath his feet, there is a burning fire inside the fortress.