On the same day, the construction of the "transfer station" was completed, and the army and supplies were stationed in the city, and they had a good rest for the night.

The next day, the army assembled outside the nest and prepared to march. Although yesterday experienced a day of marching and construction, but after a whole winter, the current God King Legion eliminated the old and weak, and the combat effectiveness and endurance have reached a higher level.

Although this time in the operation, the target is not ants, but locusts. At the moment, the locusts do not seem to be threatening, and seem to only flee without moving back. However, the scene of locusts frantically grabbing the corpses of their own kind yesterday made a deep impression on the protagonist, and last night he still held a meeting to ask the commanders to be vigilant to deal with it.

The army arrived at the target grassland in a marching column, and when many locusts could already be seen at the edge of the grassland, the army began to form one after another.

The heralds shuttled back and forth, and the five legions, led by experienced legion commanders, quickly spread out into a horizontal formation, and then flanked forward, taking on the shape of crane wings.

In the center of this crane wing array, the troops are relatively dense, and the depth of the battle line is also thicker, and the flanks go to the flanks, the thinner the battle line becomes.

Because of the huge disparity in numbers, the ants lined up in a very narrow formation, extending the length of the battle line as much as possible.

When the ants were arrayed, the locusts that were closer had noticed the abnormality and fled the area in a hurry, but they did not flee far, as long as the ants did not appear in the field of vision, or were far away, these locusts felt safe.

But soon, they will pay for this false idea.

After the formation was arranged, the protagonist gave an order, and the smell and sound information representing the attack were transmitted, and the command was sent back and forth with the order, and the entire Divine Envoy King army began to move.

The two wings of the front were like open arms, driving the locusts in all directions. The ants are not known for their speed, and they still need to be lined up in a neat line, so naturally they can't catch up with the locusts who are jumping and jumping.

However, while most of the locusts that fled in all directions were able to escape, a small half of them were in the middle of the ant army.

By the time the locusts sensed something was wrong, it was too late.

The ant army in the middle did not maintain a horizontal formation like the two flanks, but soon dispersed into small groups and began to round up the locusts that fell into the encirclement.

This is the usual tactic used by ants when hunting, the troops on both flanks are only responsible for disturbing and driving away the prey, and the main force in the middle is the real hunter.

Similar tactics have been used in hunting in human history. For example, the Mongols and Jurchens used a lot of hounds and falcons to drive away their prey when hunting, and when the prey fell into a siege or was exhausted, the hunters would shoot them.

A squad of ants besieges a locust, and as long as any part of the locust's body is firmly bitten by several ants, it is in danger.

Well-trained warriors will never let go, and the bitten locusts sometimes can't flee with strength, and sometimes they can't escape far because the burden is too heavy, and they will soon be killed by ants in swarms.

Ants hunt efficiently, they know how to focus on biting the neck of the locust, cutting off the nerve centers there. Although the locust whose head is connected to the nerves of its body can still move under the manipulation of the residual nerves, it has lost the ability to escape and is doomed to death.

This time the battle was not about gaining prey, and after cutting off the locust's nerves, the warriors stopped paying attention to the locusts that were still "alive" but had become vegetative, and continued to hunt other locusts.

The protagonist watches the hunt from the top of a bush not far away, surrounded by Nobita, Mulan, and the Praetorian Guard.

Although it seems that the battle is fierce, and the ants are also advancing step by step, and the locust corpses are left along the marching route, the protagonist cannot be said to be very satisfied.

Although the ants' usual hunting tactics have been effective, they obviously cannot be caught in one catch.

Disturbed locusts will not be attacked as long as none of them have penetrated into the encirclement. Even if they fall into the encirclement, some locusts that are larger, jump smarter, or simply have better luck can escape.

The protagonist sees a locust that is already very large, it seems to be about to become an adult, it jumps lightly, and its wings fluttering, and it jumps nearly a meter away, and escapes from the encirclement.

The ants were not as efficient as they could have been, and it often took five or six minutes for a team to besiege a medium-sized locust, often requiring five or six minutes of dogfighting.

Among them, the performance of the Hunting Scythe Ant Scout Team is far superior to the big-headed ant warriors, these Hunting Scythe Ant Warriors are born hunters, they don't need a whole squad to rush up, a group of three or two is enough to subdue the vast majority of locusts, only in the face of particularly large locusts, only five or six need to work together.

The natural jaws of the scythe ant can easily bite the carapace behind the neck of the locust, not only cutting off the nerves in the neck, but also directly biting off the head of the locust.

However, the number of scythe ants is too small, and it has a limited effect on the battle situation.

Nearly an hour later, the protagonist estimates that the number of locusts killed is no more than a hundred, less than a thousand.

Even if it is killed day and night, for several hours a day, it will take more than ten days to eliminate these locusts, not to mention that as the density of locusts decreases, the hunting efficiency will drop sharply, and the physical strength of the army is not enough to maintain high-intensity combat all the time.

This dragged on for too long, and the protagonist faintly felt that something was wrong, but there was no way. Ants are limited by their size, speed, strength, and organization, and it is difficult to improve the efficiency of hunting.

The protagonist immediately sends a messenger to the "Southern City" to demand that all the adult scythe ants in the area be transferred to participate in the battle to speed up the efficiency of locust extermination.

As the ant army advanced, it left behind a trail of locust corpses, as well as some of the severed nerves that were not dead but were already like the living dead.

When the army is far away, the protagonist prepares to change the viewing location.

But at this time, a new scene made the protagonist's heart tighten:

I saw that after the ant army was gone, the locusts that had been killed and dispersed actually gathered again, and this time, they gathered more densely and quickly.

Because, behind the army of ants, there is something that attracts them.

The locusts, which were the first to gather, had begun to eat the corpses of their companions killed by the ants. In a highly competitive pasture, any blades and sprouts of grass need to be fiercely contested before they can be eaten.

There is now no vegetation left in the entire meadow except for rough rhizomes. Driven by hunger, the locusts apparently underestimated the threat of the ants, and instead took the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of the ants.