Chapter 109: Conquer the Wood Ant Clan
On the morning of the 20th, the army of the Divine Envoy King had set out on its journey.
The weather was nice today, and although it was morning, it didn't feel cold. There was a spring rain last night, and the ground was slightly wet, but not to the point of mud, but instead brought a fresh earthy smell to the air, which is the taste that the protagonist likes.
A long line of Divine Messenger King warriors was marching on the ground after the rain, a long and winding procession, passing around the plants and stones on the ground, passing through the gentlest places.
The morning sun shines on the dewdrops, reflecting a colorful luster. At the same time, this morning light also covered the Divine Envoy King Legion, and the dazzling iron armor reflected the light, making the entire army look like a shining golden stream.
The protagonist rides "Little Black", under the guard of eight flying knights, and flies through the air, guiding his troops forward.
He looked at his troops on the ground with satisfaction, the majestic troops. When he was just downcast here, when he was besieged by red fire ants, he didn't expect that in less than a year, he would build a strong army. Moreover, every soldier of this new army is armed to the teeth, and the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers is stronger than that of the previous soldiers in the homeland.
The Legion of the Divine Envoy King, this is it, immortal, immortal, even if there is only one seed left, it can find a new place after drifting with the tide or the wind, and re-germinate and grow, until the giant tree reaches to the sky!
- I'm the dividing line -
When the main force of the Divine Envoy King's army arrived in the woods where the forest ant nest was located, some foraging forest ants discovered this force.
At this time, the warriors of the Divine Envoy King were already very close to the forest ant nest.
The Flying Knights had already located the nest of the forest ants in their previous reconnaissance, which was the target of the Divine Envoy King Legion. Unlike the bellied ants, which are also forest ants, forest ants do not nest in trees, they all nest on the ground, and they are a large bulge that protrudes from the ground.
This bulge is about the size of a human table of eight immortals, and the surface is a thick layer of dead branches and leaves.
Under the cover of thick foliage, the nest looks like the surrounding ground at first glance, and those who don't know it will think that it is a natural bulge.
However, there are always many forest ants on the surface of this ant nest, which exposes its attributes, and also allows the flying knights of the Divine Envoy King Legion to find the target in the previous reconnaissance.
The Divine Legion of Kings swooped down on their target's lair, but they couldn't speed up on the uneven layers of dead leaves in the woods. The foraging worker ants of the forest ants were more adapted to such terrain, and after discovering the sneak attack of the Divine Envoy King Legion, they hurried back to warn them one step faster.
The reaction time left for the forest ants is very short, and there is also a shortage of major generals in their nests.
When the protagonist hovers over the forest ant nest and sees only about a thousand forest ant warriors coming out, divided into many squads, and moving quickly on the trees instead of the ground, the protagonist wants to laugh.
I couldn't imagine that the forest ant clan, which could send tens of thousands of soldiers before, can only send such a small number of troops to protect their nest now!
As for the abnormal behavior of Lin Ant not gathering but dividing his troops, the protagonist didn't take it to heart - in the face of the absolute strength gap, many tactics are more like funny.
The protagonist asks the Flying Knight to send an order to the ground team, telling them that the enemy army is small in number, and the whole army will quickly attack to take down the enemy nest as soon as possible.
Soon after, the Divine Envoy King Legion was finally blocked by the forest ants not far from the nest.
The number of these forest ants was too small, a dozen or dozens formed a small force, coming down from the trunk of the tree, trying to attack the flanks and back of the marching troops of the Divine Envoy King's army.
However, the Divine Envoy King's legion is lightly armed, and the whole army is elite warriors, and there are no weaknesses. Those forest ants who finally got around the back found that they were also kicking the iron plate.
The Divine Envoy King's army also divided into small forces, and went up the tree to expel and pursue those forest ant warriors, and the forest ant warriors fled when they saw the pursuers turn around, and did not touch them.
Slowly, the protagonist discovers that something is wrong in the air, and also understands the intentions of the forest ants...
I saw that the size of the large army of the Divine Envoy King Legion was getting smaller and smaller, and countless troops in small teams were scattered on the trees everywhere, and many of them had lost their chasing targets, like headless flies.
It turned out that those forest ants who were driven and chased spontaneously induced the pursuing Divine Envoy King Warrior to the end of the high tree branch, and then these forest ants disappeared not far in front of the Divine Envoy King Warrior.
The forest ants did not disappear into thin air, but jumped off the tree.
As arboreal ants, forest ants have evolved to be more adapted to the terrain crisscrossing trees, and their occupational ants also have pseudo-three-dimensional thinking, knowing that on branches of any height, as long as they jump down, they can reach other branches or ground.
The reason why it is pseudo-three-dimensional thinking is that these occupational ants do not really have the concept of three-dimensional space like female ants, but only experience and instinct.
It's like in an RPG game, where a character steps on a teleportation point and automatically jumps to another location, not because the player understands the principle of teleportation, but just knows how to get from here to there.
The warriors of the Divine Envoy King did not understand this, they just saw the enemy disappear, and the male ants who led the team found that the enemy appeared in a new place, and hurriedly led the team to find a new way to chase after them, but they couldn't catch up at all. Or simply lose the target and have to go back the way it came.
And the forest ants, who got rid of the pursuit, went to harass the Divine Envoy King Legion again, forcing it to continue to divide its forces to chase.
The protagonist sees that something is wrong, and quickly tells the flying knights to go and tell the various units to return, not to disperse, and to go straight to the enemy's lair.
As the Divine Envoy King's army was no longer fooled, the forest ants, who were unable to force their troops, finally rallied together and put up a final resistance when their nests were already exposed to the intruders' noses.
The forest ants fight to protect their territory and nests, and they are not heroic, they are not tenacious. But the huge numerical advantage made the sacrifice of the forest ants seem tragic but to no avail.
On the bulging nest covered in dead branches and leaves, the corpse of a forest ant fell at every step of the Divine Envoy King's legion.
It only took half an hour for the Divine Envoy King Legion to completely crush the resistance of the forest ants and attack the nest.
The nest ** forest ant has no soldiers and has been completely conquered. The protagonist orders the execution of all captured male and adult forest ants, and kills dozens of forest ants, leaving the remaining three forest ant queens and tens of thousands of ant eggs, larvae, and ant pupae as trophies and transported back to [Xinyang City].
In this way, the army of the Divine Envoy King conquered the forest ant clan and turned the forest ant into the fifth vassal ant clan under his command.
Subsequently, the Divine Envoy King Legion left a small team of warriors in the nest of the forest ants to garrison, and when the ant colonization team arrived, they took over this new nest and this new territory.
The Divine Legion of the King destroyed one of the most important vassals of the Red Fire Ant Country, and the Red Fire Ant Kingdom quickly reacted!