Chapter 68: The Heavy Rain is Coming
The protagonist leads the Divine Envoy King's legion to bypass the friendly legions that came to take over the position, and returns to the reserve area in the rear to assemble. The protagonist asks each team to count the battle damage and then summarize it to himself. He found that after a vicious battle that lasted in the middle of the night, not a single ant was killed in the army of the Divine Envoy King, and there were not many injuries, mainly some minor injuries, and the more seriously injured were a few worker ants, who either broke their tentacles or broke a joint limb, and their lives may be affected in the future. These eventual injuries are caused when they are in front of the paver ants and workers.
But compared to the glorious results of the Divine Envoy King's legion, this loss was not worth mentioning at all. The protagonist can't remember how many legions on the opposite side have been defeated by his legions, eight? Nine? Or ten? All he saw was that the worker ants had moved to the back of the pavement, and the ant carcasses had been piled up into a hill. The protagonist himself estimates that the Divine Envoy King's army has killed at least six or seven thousand paving ant barbarian soldiers, including dozens of paving ant kings. If we add the results of other legions, since the battle yesterday afternoon, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army has lost 10,000 soldiers in half a day, which can be called a fiasco.
The protagonist analyzes why his simple tactics can achieve such great results. First of all, because ants are a typical two-dimensional creature, they are accustomed to acting on a plane, whether it is the ground, a stone or a plant, ants regard it as a two-dimensional plane (the two-dimensional plane can be imagined as a flat piece of paper), they only pay attention to the movement on this plane, but ignore the other dimension, that is, above and below. However, the division of labor of the protagonist's legion is very clear, after the worker ants contain the enemy, the soldier ants who climb on the back of the worker ants are condescending, which is equivalent to launching an attack on the enemy from the top down from the third dimension, and the neck of the paving ants lying on their stomachs is exactly within the most comfortable attack range of the soldier ants. Three-dimensional attack two-dimensional, the gap in this dimension brings about a very unequal battle loss ratio between the two sides. Of course, the method used by the soldiers of the Divine Envoy King's Legion to understand this three-dimensional tactic also relied on a two-dimensional way of thinking, as long as these soldiers regarded the backs of the worker ants as the ground.
After the withdrawal of the Divine Envoy King Legion, the other legions still continued to use the ancient and dull tug-of-war tactics step by step, and the Paving Ant Barbarian Army finally got a chance to breathe and no longer had to face the slaughter of the Divine Envoy King Legion.
The sky is finally starting to light up, and the night of great pain for the paver ants is finally coming to an end.
The protagonist commands the legionnaires to rest in place, with no camp and no food, so they can only fall asleep for a while to replenish their strength. The ants can not eat for several days after they are full, but after a fierce fight, a lot of energy is consumed, and many ants have a lot of deflated stomachs. The protagonist is eager to send a messenger to ask the police how to solve the food problem, and the "Grain Kiln City" will deliver the grain.
But the public security corps is still on the front line and has not retreated, and the protagonist can't ask. The Public Security Legion engaged in the battle earlier than the Divine Envoy King Legion, and it has not been withdrawn until now. However, their record is far worse than that of the Divine Angel King Legion, and the physical exertion is not so drastic.
The protagonist quietly watches as the white of the east darkens the horizon little by little, and he looks forward to the sunrise. Suddenly, a drop of rain hit his head, then burst into a fine drop of water and bounced off.
The protagonist looks up at the sky, and the clouds are not thick, but the raindrops, which are not dense, fall without warning. Since it was not a rainstorm, the air pressure did not change significantly, and the ants did not have a premonition of the rain.
But even the light rain caused by the change in temperature in the early morning is not to the liking of ants. Rain is always a huge threat to ants.
After feeling the rain, the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force and the Paving Ant Barbarian Army invariably stopped fighting. The Paving Ant Army quickly picked up the corpses of both the enemy and the enemy in their own positions, and retreated back to the secondary nest in order.
The Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force also retreated, and the reserve legions, which had not engaged in the battle, were the first to move towards the nearby trees, and they climbed the huge trunks of the trees, and hid in the hollows of the trees, in the crevices of the bark, or in the dry places with the rain on their backs. The protagonist also climbs a locust tree with the army of the Divine Envoy King, this locust tree has a thick trunk, and the protagonist lies upside down under a branch that sticks out horizontally the thickest, and the rain can't hit it at all.
The protagonist looks back and sees a large number of big-headed ants running wildly on the battlefield, drizzling rain drops on the ground and soaking the soil, many ants covered in mud and water, stumbling after the commander to find a place to hide from the rain. Not only on the big trees, but also in the cracks of the rocks and under the leaves of broad-leaved plants, there are legions of big-headed ants, and some legions even burrow into the moth-eaten holes of fallen rotten trees.
The rain soon stopped as the sun rose in the early morning, and did not cause any losses to the Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force or the Paving Ant Barbarian Army. However, the Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force decided to stop the attack and return to the "Grain Castle".
With the exception of the sluggish protagonist, all the ants felt an unusual change in air pressure. When Roll tells the protagonist that there is about to be a rainstorm, the protagonist looks up and realizes that although it is already daytime, the clouds have unconsciously thickened, and the wind is stronger than last night. Indeed, another rainstorm is coming.
There was no need for the legion commanders to communicate more, and all the legions consciously moved quickly in the direction of the "Grain City". The protagonist also ran wild with his subordinates, if he didn't hurry up, a group of veterans he had managed to cultivate did not die on the battlefield, but died in a rainstorm, it would be too funny.
On the way, the Divine Envoy King's legion maintained its formation as best it could, and quickly retreated with a group of friendly troops who were also in a hurry. The protagonist is tired of walking, and climbs onto the twin ant vehicle carried by two sturdy soldier ants, and lies on the silk bed. He looked up and saw that the dark clouds were gradually thickening, but the sky was still bright, and it should not rain immediately, so he was a little relieved.
The protagonist sends a messenger to call Roll over, causing him to climb onto the silk bed on the Twin Ant Vehicle. This upcoming rainstorm reminds the protagonist of the heavy rain a while ago, when they couldn't get to the main nest in time to participate in the wedding flight, the protagonist has been trying to ask them the reason for the delay, but then he forgot about it when he was busy, and now he can finally ask carefully while he is in a hurry.
After listening to the protagonist's question, he motions for the protagonist to receive a packet.
Soon, this packet was sent in, and it contained everything that had been experienced in those days with the first perspective of Roll.