Chapter 214: Gravel Battle (1)

The next day, March 16, 3 years, the Divine Envoy King's army marched to the main nest "Qingqiu City" as scheduled.

The main nest had learned yesterday that the Divine Envoy King had led an army to attack and arrived near the main nest. When the protagonist conquers the last two secondary nests along the way, he does not send troops to block the road, but allows some of the worker ants who are out foraging to flee to the main nest on their own because they cannot return to the nest in battle.

Although each of these worker ants does not know much about the specific situation, the information of multiple worker ants is combined, plus other information collected by the main nest during this time, the king meeting still finds out the movements and intentions of the protagonist.

The protagonist also deliberately lets go of the ants.

Although it is possible to maintain a stealthy march to achieve the suddenness of the attack. But this kind of raid will be very effective against the secondary nest, but not against the main nest.

Each nest is ruled by only one or a few males, and if you raid and kill these commanders, the remaining ants will soon submit to their fellow conquerors.

However, the main nest has a huge underground city, thousands of males and hundreds of thousands of ants, and the protagonist is not sure that he will be able to kill or control all the males in the first wave of raids.

As long as there are fish that slip through the net, these male ants who have formed a big enmity with the protagonist will inevitably organize the forces around them to entangle with the Divine Envoy King Legion, so that the Divine Envoy King Legion will be forced into a street battle.

Street fighting is always a nightmare for superior armies and home for inferior armies, where there is no way to play the superiority in strength and equipment. As a last resort, the protagonist doesn't want to get the elite into the quagmire of street fighting.

Therefore, the protagonist has already planned to let go of some ants who are ventilating and reporting, so that the king meeting of the main nest will know that he is coming.

According to the way the ants behave, the main nest will inevitably cobble together an army to meet it, and it will concentrate the last troops and commanders that the main nest can collect. And in the field, the protagonist is confident of defeating any opponent.

As long as this force is eliminated, the remaining males of the main nest will not be able to set off too much storm, and the overall situation will be decided.

- I'm the dividing line -

Half an hour south of the main nest, the ant road is scattered into several here, extending to the south, southeast and southwest respectively, this is a road intersection, in the past there are always messengers or convoys of each secondary nest passing by, from time to time there will be ants to stop, the daily fresh pheromones on the side of the road, as a fresh road sign.

But today, there is silence here, no ants coming and going, only a few budding grass buds shivering in the cold spring wind in the desolate gravel fields by the roadside.

Soon, though, a lot of ants appeared here.

A large swarm of ants crowded each other from the dense grass and shrubs to the north into the sparsely vegetated gravel ground.

This is the army from the main nest "Qingqiu City", and there are tens of thousands of people.

Although there are quite a few of them, they cover the ground and look black from the sky. But the "old-fashioned king" who commanded this army knew that this army was almost a rabble.

The old-fashioned king is a fairly senior king in the main nest.,And the protagonist also knows each other.,But it's not a friendly acquaintance.。

As the most senior male ant of the conservative wing in the Council of Kings, the Old-fashioned King often criticizes the attack on the Divine Envoy King, and can be said to be one of the culprits behind the final confrontation between the Council of Kings and the protagonist.

Although he didn't have much military experience, he didn't have a turn to go to the north bank of the Great River. But when the enemy army is approaching, only a king like him, who is rich in qualifications and prestige, and who is bent on maintaining the rule of the male ant class, and who is inseparable from the protagonist, can command this improvised patchwork army.

The army of tens of thousands was divided into sixteen legions and nearly three hundred squads, each of which was not fully staffed. These are all troops formed by various commanders on a temporary basis, and there are many commanders and few soldiers, so naturally they cannot be full.

But the morale of this army is very high, or the morale of the commanders is very high. After all, they are the army of the main nest. In the past, no secondary nest would challenge the authority of the main nest, nor did it have that strength, and the size of the main nest was several times or even dozens of times larger than that of any nest.

These armies from the Lord's Lair believe that the rebellious and cruel Divine Envoy King will eventually be defeated by themselves.

The army set up a front on the gravel ground, and most of the worker ants and soldier ants who were captured and sent were old, weak, sick and disabled, or the newly born generation, either with weak combat effectiveness or lack of actual combat experience. Although these ants are naturally organized to complete the commander's orders, they will inevitably crowd each other and appear chaotic.

This is the only way for the Divine Envoy King and his army to go to the main nest, as the king, although he is not good at fighting formations, the old-fashioned king still chooses this place as the decisive battlefield.

The sand and gravel ground is relatively flat, the vegetation is sparse, and the ants also prefer to choose open ground for fighting, after all, their thinking is closer to the two-dimensional, complex grass and other environments, for them is no less difficult than the rainforest battlefield for human armies - it is difficult to use large forces there, and can only be a paradise for guerrilla warfare.

- I'm the dividing line -

About half an hour later, scouts of the Divine Envoy King's legion appeared outside the gravel field.

These scouts were soon confronted by the Scouts of the King's Council Army from the Main Lair.

Although the scout of the Divine Angel King's legion is a scythe hunter, he grew up in the "Southern City" and also has the aura of a big-headed ant. Both scouts have the aura of their own kind, but the commanders of both sides have ordered the smell of each other's nests to be used as a sign of the enemy, so these scouts are extremely fierce in their fights, just as they are against their old enemies.

The scouts of the Divine Angel King's legion are long, strong, and agile scythe hunters, and those soldiers who come from the main nest to make temporary cameo scouts are no match and are forced to retreat to the main formation.

The Scythe Hunter Scouts quickly touched the edge of the King's Army, and after confirming the location and size of the enemy army with the naked eye, some of the scouts returned to report the military situation, while others were still roaming around the enemy army, suppressing the scouts of the King's Army to go out to spy on them.

Although the old-fashioned king could not observe the whole situation, he also learned about it under the report of the messengers who came and went. Dissatisfied with this passive situation, he ordered several legions to go out and expel the enemy scouts.

But the Scythe Ants of the Legion of the Divine Angel King do not go head-to-head with these legions, but flexibly avoid them. The King's army needs to maintain a military formation, and its speed and reflexes naturally cannot be compared to these hunters, who naturally like to act alone or on a small scale.

The King's army didn't bother about this for long, and after a while, the scythe hunters suddenly withdrew from the battlefield in an orderly manner.

But this did not make the old-fashioned king breathe a sigh of relief, and he soon learned that the army of the god envoy king had entered!