Many "mosquitoes" wandered back and forth over the long snake formation of the Divine Envoy King Legion, as if entering a realm without ants.

The flying knights were affected by humidity in their flight status today, and with the lesson just now, they did not dare to approach too closely, so they could only linger outside, trying to interfere with and attract away this group of "mosquitoes".

But the "mosquitoes" seem to be determined to carry out the "decapitation" tactic, but they can't get there. Fortunately, they had no means to attack the ground, otherwise the army of the Divine Legion would suffer.

These "mosquitoes" never found a conspicuous male ant commander, and instead tried to attack a few male ants with larger size, but fortunately, the surrounding gods made the king warriors desperately protect them, and the "mosquitoes" failed to succeed several times, but lost more than ten of them when they landed.

Only then did the protagonist understand that the decapitation tactics of the "mosquito" had to be implemented by landing hand-to-hand combat in the end, which was effective for the commander who was alone or in a loose position, and was basically ineffective against the well-protected Divine Envoy King Legion.

The hand-to-hand combat ability of these "mosquitoes" seems to be much weaker than the warriors of the Divine Angel King, who are armed to the teeth.

But the "mosquito" is still resolute and still lingering, the army of the god envoy king can no longer march normally, the "mosquito" has to be on guard as soon as it comes, and it can't be put into the flying knights, the protagonist hurriedly orders the artillery unit to prepare to shoot in the air.

The rope system that comes with the artillery cannot adjust the firing angle to a particularly high level, so it can only pad stones and soil under the cannon and pile up the muzzle of the gun.

As the swarm of "mosquitoes" flew directly above the muzzles, several guns that were already ready to shoot filled with gravel shrapnel suddenly fired a salvo.

I saw that there seemed to be a black fog rising between the muzzles, this black fog rushed into the air at a very fast speed of the black fog composed of "mosquitoes", the "mosquitoes" did not have time to dodge, the two black fog passed through each other, dozens of "mosquitoes" crackled like rain, and those who fell to the ground were killed or injured, most of the dead were killed, and half of the injured were small.

The artillery fired in a hurry, and the artillerymen also fired into the air for the first time, and several guns were missed, but they also frightened the "mosquito" troops.

The group of "mosquitoes" finally withdrew "buzzing", and the scout troops of the Divine Envoy King's legion caught a few still alive from the fallen mosquitoes and escorted them to the Divine Envoy King.

The protagonist looks at these "mosquitoes", in fact, they are all very small paving ant worker ants, but they are physiologically different from ordinary worker ants: their jaws are larger, one size larger than the big jaws of ordinary paver ant worker ants, and they look deformed on their small heads. Its thorax and abdomen are swollen and developed like that of male ants in order to adapt to flight, but the abdomen is small and its limbs are short.

The protagonist tried to forcibly dock the tentacles, wanting to interrogate and read the information in the other party's mind, but failed, after all, the paving ants are not parasitic ants whose consciousness has been confused, they have a strong hostility and wariness towards foreign races, and under the resolute resistance of the will, the protagonist can't read any useful information smoothly.

In the end, these captives could only bite off their wings and limbs, tie their big jaws with ant silk, and carry them on.

After that, the Divine Envoy King's army trekked for 5 days before joining the army of leafcutter ants, and the journey was extremely difficult.

Not only did the "mosquito" troops harass them every once in a while, but the rain and mud along the way alone made the Divine Envoy King's army suffer enough.

Even the army of the god envoy king was trapped in a temporary camp for two days by the spring rain, and the food of the army was eaten, and they worked hard until the rain stopped, and then hurriedly went on the road to join the next group of convoys.

The hardships and harsh environment along the way also caused the Divine Envoy King to lose troops due to illness.

Ants are very tenacious creatures and rarely get sick, but as long as they get sick, it is a big problem, and their physiology has become seriously problematic.

These days have been humid, which is very conducive to the breeding of germs, and the camp of the Divine Envoy King's army will sometimes seep water under the continuous spring rain, so that many soldiers will get wet, their body temperature will also be reduced, and their immunity will be weakened.

The ants suffer from a variety of diseases, some simply lose their strength, how to feed honeydew to replenish physical strength is useless, some of the patients can heal themselves, and some of them will die soon.

There are also some patients who do not know when ant mites appear on their bodies, and this parasite can occasionally be found in ant nests, each with the size of an ant's compound eyes, lying on their bodies and sucking body fluids.

Ant mites have a special ability to interfere with ants' judgment so that they cannot be detected by the ants, and then quietly suck blood until the patient is drained.

Fortunately, the male ants, Shengong ants and Shenbing ants in the army will not be deceived by ant mites, and after the first case was found during the camp, the whole army was screened that night, and dozens of patients were found, and the ant mites were killed in time without causing greater consequences.

The rain also made it difficult to hunt many fierce insects, and some hungry and poor-eyed fierce insects tried to attack the Divine Envoy King Legion, but basically they became food instead.

Only on the penultimate day of the retreat trip, a group of dozens of flies and tigers appeared, but they were bold, and their eyesight was good enough to see that the Divine Envoy King Legion ants were numerous, but they still dared to wander around the periphery, trying to attack some lone scout squads from time to time.

Flyers are usually lone rangers, but these flies move in groups, are extremely fast, and are good at lurking, and can also jump and pounce on targets that fly relatively low, making the Divine Envoy King's legion overwhelmed.

Finally, the flying knights were dispatched to monitor the flock of flies and tigers in the higher airspace, always reminding the army to be on alert in time. Under strict guarding, this group of flies and tigers had no chance to take advantage of it, so they retreated.

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The ordeal of the Divine Envoy King arrived at their destination on May 7 and joined the army of leafcutter ants.

On May 9, the vanguard of the Leafcutter Ant Army finally returned, and they were also extremely difficult along the way, and the losses were even greater, with 50,000 leafcutter ants at the time of departure, and after some fighting and retreat, less than 20,000 soldiers finally returned alive.

At this time, the Leaf Cutter Ant Army has already built a defensive line in the central region, preparing to defend itself against the Paving Ant Imperial Army that may move south at any time. But the defense line built by the leaf-cutting ants made the protagonist very dissatisfied.

The defence of the leafcutter ants in the local area is built on scattered trees and shrubs, and there are no nest fortresses on large areas of flat land, and such a defense system is a lonely point that can be easily broken by each one.

The protagonist goes to the commanders of the Leafcutter Ant Army, but the other party says that there is nothing they can do, the Leafcutter Ants are not good at building underground nests, and they are arboreal ants.

The plan of the Leaf Cutter Ant Army is to wear down the enemy's strength through attack and defense battles one by one, and then choose the opportunity to defeat the enemy in a decisive battle.

The protagonist is not optimistic that these tree nests, which are too scattered and lack the heart of the large forest, can really consume the enemy's living force...