Rambotu leads the retreating remnants back to the hilltop position, and the protagonist lands.

Fortunately, due to the southerly wind, most of the enemy troops lost the movement of the Divine Envoy King's legion, and only a small number of parasitic ants launched an attack on the top of the mountain.

After quickly crushing the sporadic offensive of parasitic ants, the protagonist notices that the parasitic ants, who have lost their targets, begin to bite and devour the corpses of fighters on both sides on the battlefield.

On the battlefield, limbs were flying and blood was splattering, and countless parasitic ants fought for a piece of corpse, but they were very measured and did not cause casualties to their allies.

Pity the Legionnaires who failed to retreat, not only in the wilderness, but also in the belly of the enemy.

The protagonist didn't have time to feel nostalgic, and when the enemy army didn't catch up, the protagonist abandoned the defensive position on the top of the mountain, and led the army of the Divine Envoy King to quickly withdraw from the northern slope and hide in the dense bushes.

It's already around three o'clock in the afternoon, and the protagonist takes the defeated army, and doesn't care about a little respite, and flees all the way north until it gets dark before escaping back to "Dongyang City".

Rambovan, who was in charge of the palace, led five squads at the end, but luckily they didn't encounter an army of parasitic ants in pursuit. After sheltering the stragglers along the way, they did not withdraw until late at night.

The ants are not accustomed to marching at night, but they have to flee for their lives at this moment. Fortunately, a large number of pheromones were left along the way, which effectively helped the ants, who were almost invisible in the dark night, to identify the direction.

Lan Bofei and Lan Bo Fo, who rushed to hear the news, were shocked to see the army fleeing back in panic. The protagonist asks a worker ant to take Xiaoqing back to resettle him, and then asks Rambo Buddha to count the battle damage.

He himself plunged headlong into the conference room and was left alone. He needed to calm down, and this was the biggest setback he'd ever faced.

It wasn't until late at night that Lamboverford reported the battle damage data to the protagonist.

Before the expedition, the Divine Envoy King's Legion had a direct personal guard and 30 squads, with a total of 30 kings and 1,554 soldier ants.

After the defeat and retreat, only the pro-guards and 27 squads, 27 kings and 1,016 soldiers successfully escaped back to "Dongyang City". Except for the Guards, who had no losses, all the other squads suffered heavy losses, and three other squads were completely wiped out.

And the veteran soldiers who followed the protagonist from the time of the expedition to the secondary nest occupied by the Paving Ant Barbarian Army are now only one hundred and fifty.

The protagonist has his troops disbanded and their respective wounds to recuperate and rest. Then let Mulan take the guards to guard the entrance of the conference room, and no one will let in.

He spent the night alone in the conference room, and at the moment he had mixed feelings.

Although he used to be a human, even since he crossed over to become an ant, he has always hoped to one day become a human again.

All his efforts were largely aimed at being able to live like a human being: using fire, making pottery, making sedan chairs, sleeping on silk beds, and digging toilets.

However, as he came to this world for more and more, he especially after returning to "Dongyang Castle" and becoming the de facto ruler.

The protagonist begins to slowly see the ants around him as intelligent beings similar to himself, after all, he now has the same body and genes as them.

Although this change in perception is subtle, the protagonist himself is not aware of it. But now he no longer sees ants as lowly microorganisms that can be trampled to death with a single foot, as he did when he was a human.

He regarded them as his brothers, Mulan and Xiao Mi as loyal subordinates, and all the ants in Dongyang City as his own people.

So at this moment, in the face of the tragic loss, it is impossible for him to be indifferent, and a painful feeling makes him uncomfortable and uncontrollable.

He is not the kind of famous general who will shout: "The number of casualties is not important" and "How much you have lost, I will replenish it for you when you come back". In his previous life, he was not a successful person, and he always had a kind of petty family spirit, and even when he played games, he wanted to pursue a lossless clearance.

But reality is not a game, there are no cheats and no cheats.

Because of the protagonist's conceit, because he blindly sent troops without finding out the enemy's situation, and without assistance and military superiority, this defeat was caused.

If we look at the numbers alone, the loss of hundreds of ants does not make "Dongyang City" break its muscles and bones. On the contrary, in the war of the ant world, tens of thousands of casualties are the norm.

And if the queen ant of "Dongyang City" is in full production, it will not take half a day to make up for these losses.

But this war destroys the protagonist's blind conceit and pride, and incidentally shakes his confidence.

Fortunately, the protagonist quickly adjusted his mood, and the next day, he had basically walked out of the shadow of failure.

As a small person, the protagonist in his previous life suffered a tragic stock market crash, bought virtual currency that fell to worthless, and also encountered betrayal of friendship and love, and every time he survived with psychological hints.

Now, the same is true for the protagonist, he tells himself that Cao Cao still cuts his beard and abandons his robe, Zeng Guofan can only fight stupidly but can also be defeated repeatedly, what is the big deal if he is only defeated once?

On this morning, the protagonist summons the twenty-nine surviving kings to a meeting in the conference room.

In accordance with the requirements of the protagonists, the kings actively carried out criticism and self-criticism in the conference room, summing up the gains and losses of yesterday's battle.

These kings do not understand what criticism and self-criticism mean. However, as a natural fighting race, male ants have their own opinions on the gains and losses of battle.

Most kings believed that the thinness of their forces was the main cause of their defeat. Although the army of the gods made the kings suffer heavy losses, they inflicted three or four times as many losses on the enemy as their own, and if there were sufficient troops, the kings said that they were not afraid of the army of parasitic ants.

In their opinion, the dead ants are just numbers, and only when the three dead kings are mentioned will they be sad and embarrassed.

Rambotu's point of view is more pertinent, he believes that the individual combat effectiveness of parasitic ants has surpassed that of ordinary big-headed ant warriors, especially the silk thread parasitic fungus makes the legionnaires unable to guard against it, and it will involve a lot of energy. However, the lack of command is the enemy's greatest weakness. He also believed that with the same number of Legionnaires, he would be able to easily defeat the Parasitic Ant Army.

The protagonist himself makes a self-criticism as an example, he criticizes his own underestimation and conceit, and does not do a good job of adequate enemy reconnaissance.

As for how to destroy the enemies of the parasitic nest, many kings asked for the help of the main nest's troops. After all, there are a large number of soldier ants and worker ants in "Dongyang City", but there are not enough male ants to command.

However, the protagonist says that the main nest is busy cleaning up the remnants of the paving ant barbarian army, and there is no way to support the battlefield here. The truth is that the protagonist doesn't want to work the army of the main nest, otherwise his fictional authorization to send troops will be revealed.

The protagonist proposes that the queen ants of the nest lay 100 male eggs, while Rambo Fei teaches the second batch of 50 male ants about warfare as soon as possible. After the new batch of kings participated in the wedding flight, they went out again to attack the parasitic ant nest.

And the time of the next wedding flight, the protagonist himself is scheduled for two months later. Of course, when the time comes, it will have to be borrowed in the name of God's will.

The kings at the meeting all agreed to this suggestion

In the end, the protagonist asks that after each battle in the future, all the kings should follow the way they did today, summing up the gains and losses of experience. Although the kings are confused and do not understand the purpose of doing this, they still accept the protagonist's orders.