Chapter 124: The First Battle Is Unfavorable (1)

Taking advantage of the fact that the army of parasitic ants has not yet climbed halfway up the hills, the protagonist asks the Divine Messenger King's army to move downwards and move the battle line forward to protect the rare scale insect resources.

Soon, the Divine Envoy King's legion spread out in formation on a relatively favorable terrain.

This is the top of a miniature cliff, which is actually a rock jutting out of the ground, about half a meter wide and half a meter high. The stone meets the ground on three sides, with only a south-facing section forming a cliff.

Although this section of the cliff is nearly 90 degrees, its height and width are not enough to completely stop the footsteps of ants who are good at climbing. However, the cliffs can be a great obstacle to the silk threads, which are less able to crawl.

The protagonist has the army of the Divine Envoy King form a semi-circular formation on the cliff stones.

Five of the legions were lined up in a straight line, facing the direction of the cliff. Due to the blockage of the cliff, there is not much defensive pressure on this side, and even if the parasitic ants climb the cliff, they will inevitably lose their formation.

Fifteen legions were lined up on the other side in an arc that protruded in the middle. The last ten corps served as reserves.

The protagonist once again rode Xiaoqing into the sky, overlooking the entire battlefield, and an army of about thousands of parasitic ants soon appeared under the cliff.

What makes the protagonist strange is that these enemies do not form the usual marching columns or combat columns of the Big-Headed Ant Army.

To be precise, these parasitic ants have no formation at all, like an unorganized colony, spontaneously gathering into a criss-crossing tree-shaped team, densely intertwined on the ground, extending forward little by little.

In this tree-shaped formation, there is no thickness distinction between the branches of each tree, as if either direction is the main force, and neither is the main force. At the front of the line, there were a large number of parasitic soldiers, sometimes in horizontal formations, sometimes in columns, advancing in an orderly manner.

But this strange formation was not slow, and it soon reached the bottom of the stone cliffs.

At this time, the army of parasitic ants in the downwind direction had already smelled the scent of the assembled Divine Envoy King Legion from the air.

I saw the parasitic ants in front of them who smelled the smell of the enemy, and their compound eyes began to turn red little by little. Then these parasitic ants, whether worker ants or soldier ants, gave up their charge upwind on their own, completely ignoring the formation or the integrity of the line.

The protagonist of this first batch of parasitic ant armies did not see a single large worker ant, as if it was all the resistance of the enemy's spontaneous organization, rather than the effective command of the operation after the large worker ants were formed.

The parasitic ants were in a hurry, and a few tried to climb the stone cliffs, but the scattered enemies were completely unable to shake the battle line of the Divine Envoy King's legion.

The silk threads shed from the bodies of these parasitic ants were completely powerless to climb the nearly vertical cliffs, and they accumulated more and more under the cliffs, and many of them were trampled to death by the parasitic ants who were hurrying away.

The greatest threat to the Divine Envoy King's legion was the flanks, where a large number of parasitic ants bypassed the stone cliffs and launched a fierce attack on this side. In particular, there are also a large number of parasitic soldier ants.

Stimulated by silk thread parasites, these parasitic ants are not afraid of death. Although ants are very brave in battle, these parasitic ants are even better.

Not only do they not care about injury and death, but they also have more strength than ordinary ants.

The protagonist soon saw some soldier ants on the front line of fighting according to traditional experience, and they were caught off guard, and were quickly caught by the parasitic soldiers with large pincers, lifted into the sky and thrown backwards into the team of parasitic ants, and were quickly separated to death.

Fortunately, the soldiers in the second and third lines quickly woke up, and no longer tried to wrestle with the parasitic soldiers on the opposite side, but instinctively lay firmly on the ground, pinned down the opponent's pincers according to tactics, and then handed over to the teammates in the back row to condescendingly bite off the enemy's neck.

But in the first round of confrontation, more than a dozen soldiers were killed, and the casualty rate was really staggering.

After adapting to the enemy's strength, the casualties of the Divine Envoy King's army dropped rapidly, and the meat grinder-like tactics came into play.

These parasitic ants, who do not have a unified command, have absolutely no idea what the retreat is. However, the parasitic ants gathered together interfered with each other, and only a small number of parasitic ants were able to fight the legions of the Divine Envoy King on the front line, and then be harvested in rounds.

Batches of parasitic ants fell in front of the Divine Envoy King's legion, and their corpses were quickly crossed and crushed by the subsequent parasitic ants, but they still couldn't shake the strong battle line.

Soon, however, new threats emerged.

A large number of silk parasites, which had smelled the scent of a potential new host, had left the body of the original host, the parasitic ant, and followed the scent towards the Divine Envoy King Legion.

These silk thread parasites were like small snakes, snaking towards the indestructible Divine Envoy King's legion line.

The number of these silk thread parasites is three times that of the parasitic ants, and if it were not for the large number of silk thread parasites trampled to death by the chaotic parasitic ants, the overwhelming crawling silk threads would be extremely spectacular and terrifying.

These filamentous parasites may be more suitable for unsuspecting new hosts of parasitic new hosts in small-scale contact. But in the chaos of the battlefield, only a few lucky people can climb to the host's side.

But it was this sporadic silk thread parasite that brought great casualties to the Divine Envoy King Legion.

Although the protagonist emphasized the need to pay close attention to these silk threads before setting out on the expedition, in the midst of the chaos, the enemy is a steady stream of parasitic ants who are not afraid of death, and most of the front-line soldier ants can't spare their hands to deal with them even if they pay attention to the slowly approaching silk thread parasites.

Perhaps subconsciously, the soldiers themselves did not see any threat to these tiny, delicate threads.

Soon, however, the threads found their way and climbed up their backs along the legs of the soldiers of the Divine Angel King's legion.

Some of the silk threads were removed by the soldiers in the back row in time, but there were also a few fish that slipped through the net and slammed into the cracks in the carapace of the soldiers.

The attacked soldier ants suddenly felt a sharp sting pain coming from their backs, and under the distraction, these soldier ants were easily lifted high by the parasitic ants and killed.

A small number of soldier ants endured the severe pain and continued to persevere, looking for an opportunity to retreat to the rear according to the protagonist's request. However, under the attack of silk threads and parasitic ants, very few soldier ants can successfully retreat after being wounded.

Everything that happened on the battlefield on the ground was imprinted into the eyes of the protagonist flying in the sky, and the line of the Divine Envoy King's army quickly retreated two or three steps, leaving behind a corpse.

In just half an hour of fighting, the Divine Envoy King Legion had killed more than a hundred soldier ants, most of them died from the sneak attack of the silk thread parasite, and dozens were wounded.

Even if nearly a thousand parasitic ants have been eliminated at this moment, it cannot comfort the protagonist's bleeding heart.

Silk parasites, at this moment, are finally showing their fangs. Like a lurking assassin, ready to deliver a fatal blow to the unreachable Legion of God.

The Divine Envoy King's army has been reduced by nearly one-tenth of its strength, and two-thirds of the parasitic ant's troops have not been able to put into the front line, and they are crowded with each other and blocked in the rear.

The protagonist can't imagine how heavy the Divine Envoy King's legion will pay if he wants to completely destroy this wave of enemy troops under the dual threat of silk parasites and parasitic ants.

To add insult to injury, the protagonist catches a glimpse of a parasitic ant's nest in the valley, and a large number of enemies are pouring out of the ground.

The second wave of enemies is about to enter the battlefield.