Chapter 276: Flyhawk (4)
Outside the "Hunting Ground City", the two armies faced each other, and the army formation was in full swing, and a fierce battle was in full swing.
The Fly Eagle sat on its mount and circled the battlefield over and over again, overlooking the battlefield and the battle situation.
Since the protagonist increases the supply of high-grade food, the eyesight of male ants such as the Fly Eagle has improved again. They already have a more prominent field of vision advantage than ordinary ants such as worker ants and soldier ants.
Previously, ordinary males could only clearly see objects within half a meter, and vaguely saw objects within two meters.
By now, well-nourished, well-developed males are able to see clearly within two or three meters, and are especially sensitive to moving objects as always. And in a large gathering like the military array, the male ant flying knight can already see it from a distance of about five meters.
The increase in eyesight is mainly due to the fact that nutrition is guaranteed. In the past, although the male ants were not short of food, their food sources were too single, especially the large-headed ant nests generally relied on honeydew and plant seeds as staple food, and the supply of prey was unstable, resulting in adequate caloric intake but insufficient protein intake, which would cause malnutrition and poor development.
Because of this, protein-rich high-grade foods are so important in the kingdom of the big-headed ants, and the males oppose the god's king's supply of high-grade foods to the large-headed worker ant class.
After the protagonist raised mealworms on a large scale, there was actually no shortage of meat in the Divine Envoy King's legion. The abundant supply of high-grade food makes the physical fitness of the second and third generation males far exceed that of the first generation of males raised according to the traditional method.
The increased eyesight also makes the Flying Knights safer on their missions, avoiding dangerous cobwebs, dragonflies, or enemy ambushes in the trees. This is also the reason for the recent sharp decline in the casualty rate of flying knights.
Soaring in the sky, the fly eagle likes this perspective and prefers this sense of security.
Although he also loved the feeling of commanding an entire infantry army to fight on the ground, he also knew that he was safest when he was in the air, unlike the infantry who would always encounter all kinds of dangers.
Even the Divine Envoy King has been in distress in many battles and fought in person!
The Flyhawk and the two flying knights behind him formed a triangular formation of three knights, which was a common aerial squad formation used by the flying knights.
Their mission, along with several other groups of three horsemen, is to cooperate with the operations of ground forces over the battlefield to detect and transmit military information.
Specifically, they are responsible for reporting the battle situation, especially the enemy's movements, to the commander of the battle in a timely manner; the second is to guide the scout troops to cut off the communication between the enemy's main force and reinforcements; Third, when the enemy army is defeated, it is necessary to guide the ground troops to pursue and not let go of any enemy, especially the old-fashioned king.
The Fly Eagle had been keeping a close eye on the direction of the enemy's home formation, and when he flew to the area directly above the entrance and exit of the "Hunting Ground City", he could see the enemy troops lined up at the edge of the vegetation cluster. According to the general law of the formation of the big-headed ant kingdom, he guessed that the ancient king's main formation was here, and he was also in it.
Every five minutes or so, the Flyhawk and the wingmen can circle the battlefield, if there is no emergency, every fifteen minutes or so, the Flyhawk and the wingmen will return to the sky above their own formation, and then one of the wingmen will land, pass the information packet to roll, and then return, and the three-horse formation continues to begin to circle.
If there is an emergency, the flying knights will immediately abandon the hovering and report to the main formation.
Thanks to the ants' communication methods using information packets, the Flying Knights don't even have to judge the enemy's intentions on their own. Just hand over the packet to the commander, and the commander will analyze and decide.
Such a mission is very boring, except for being able to see the whole situation of the battlefield from a high perspective, it is not good.
And if there is a mistake in the intelligence, it will be entirely the responsibility of the Flying Knights, as in the previous battle, when the Flying Knights left out some of the enemy messengers who scattered and fled, causing enemy reinforcements to arrive.
The Flyhawk doesn't like this kind of work, and he's waiting for an opportunity.
Soon, the opportunity came.
The enemy's ground forces began to retreat and dispersed into two groups, one retreating from the front-line battlefield to the "Hunting Ground City", and the other retreating from the enemy's main position along the antway to the other side nests.
In addition, there were some scattered squad-sized enemy troops who began to disperse and break through, not sticking to the ant road, but moving in any direction where they could escape.
The Flyhawk drove his mount back to the sky above his own formation, and the wingmen who had already had a tacit understanding immediately descended to report the military situation.
Afterwards, the Flyhawk led the wingmen to quickly return to the sky above the enemy, and began to guide the scythe hunters on the ground to chase down the fleeing enemy troops.
The two main forces of the enemy army, the Flyhawk ignored them, and one was to retreat to the "Hunting Ground City", even if they went underground, it would be impossible to escape; The other group that escaped along the ant path did not need to worry, there were other flying knights who would lead a large force in pursuit, and there were also our legions in front of them to block it.
The most important task of the Fly Eagle is to encircle and intercept the scattered and fleeing enemy troops, which is a meticulous job. Moreover, the eagle intuitively sensed that the old-fashioned king might be among them.
Generally speaking, the ant army rarely breaks out in a scattered way, but the old king and some other males have obviously lost confidence in the frontal breakout, and there will be a squad-level scattered breakout.
The three Flyhawks chased over each lone enemy squad, and then drew a figure-eight trajectory on the spot that resembled a bee dance.
The scouts on the ground who have good eyesight will see it and follow the instructions to pursue them.
In the face of individual scythe warriors, these scattered enemy squads are often defeated without the strength of a fight.
Soon, the Fly Eagle led the Flying Knights and almost swept away these scattered enemy squads.
There are very few enemy forces on the ground now, only the enemy warriors who have been scattered in twos and threes are fleeing for their lives, these enemies are not a threat, even if they can make it through this area of the beasts alive and return to the other secondary nests, it will not strengthen the defense of those secondary nests.
The hawk began to turn its attention to searching for enemy males. In the breakout, some enemy males took advantage of their field of vision, and in the melee and defeat, they avoided the siege of the hunter scythe ant scouts, and fled with three or two followers in embarrassment.
The Eagle had not found any trace of the Old-fashioned King, and he assumed that the Old-fashioned King had abandoned his troops and fled on his own. Just like according to the confession of the previous captive, this is how the old-fashioned king escaped from the main nest "Qingqiu City" to "Hunting Ground City".
Soon, a large, moving male ant looming in the grass caught the Flyhawk's attention.