Chapter 26: Battle of the Hundred Regiments (3)
More than 3,000 paver ants and more than 100 yellow lynx ants rushed out of the camp.
In order not to completely scare the red fire ants into cowering under the ground and not daring to come out, and in order to completely collapse the passage to the underground nest and destroy the existing shortcut to 30,000 points of evolution fragments, Zhong Heng did not choose to continue bombing, but let the ant army go on.
According to the aggressive nature of red fire ants, if a foreign enemy comes to attack, the practice is to pour out of the nest and resist the enemy outside the "national gate", so that more red fire ants can be lured out from below, and then pretend to retreat and then saturate bombing.
A brutal hand-to-hand battle began.
There were still thousands of red fire ants on the ground, but they were scattered and chaotic, and they were obviously no match for this advance army that had gathered into a torrent. Black, dotted with a few bright yellow-green torrents, a wave slapped past, and in just one shot, hundreds of red fire ants were bitten off their heads with large foreheads by the meadow paving ants that pounced on them, or fell under the formic acid sprayed by the yellow ants before they could figure out what was going on.
The meadow pave ant is also one of the few ants that can fight the red fire ant in a large army on a frontal battlefield, except that it does not have the notorious stinger of the red fire ant and the notoriety of killing all other creatures, they have all the advantages of the red fire ant: belligerent nature, extremely aggressive and expansive, and terrifying reproductive ability...... Even, their thick armor makes it impossible for the stingers of small and medium-sized workers, with the exception of the 4,5 mm long soldier ants of the red fire ants, to kill them in one hit.
In the melee, the grass paving ants on the side of the final balance were basically one for two, or even one for three, and a higher ratio of four crushed this group of chaotic red fire ants that had not gathered and formed.
As for the yellow lynx ant, due to the scale limitation, although the hard-hitting battle of the frontal battlefield may not be able to defeat the red fire ant, but if it is about the ratio of casualties, it is difficult for the red fire ant to take down a yellow ant even if ten are killed or injured. Because they have a swarm weapon that is no less harmful to red fire ants than flamethrowers - formic acid.
As soon as this lethal weapon came out, the red fire ants who had finally reacted immediately fell down in batches like wheat harvesting, struggling on the ground in pain, and each yellow lynx ant could basically take down more than a dozen red fire ants.
However, formic acid is limited after all, but it doesn't matter, there is also a size advantage. The largest soldier ant of the red fire ant is only four or five millimeters long, while the smallest small worker ant of the yellow ant, which is used to raise larvae and remove mites and other parasites, is so big, and the size of the large worker ant has reached more than one centimeter.
The difference in size is huge, the difference is almost as high as that of a baby and a professional wrestler, and as long as a single yellow ant is not surrounded by a torrent of red fire ants, it is completely a one-sided slaughter. They are powerful enough to cut off the branches, and the large forehead that bends the leaves is just a slight clamp, and the red fire ants that are bitten, whether they are worker ants or soldier ants, are not without exception cut in half, and even more directly clamped into the pulp.
Even if the slender legs are occasionally attacked by the stinger of the red fire ant, it is fine, because they also have the secret of surviving with broken legs, as long as they continue to exceed three legs, they can basically maintain their combat effectiveness no less than that of a full state
The battle lasted for six or seven minutes, and the red fire ants that were still scurrying outside were basically slaughtered, and more than half of Zhongheng's troops were killed and wounded, about half of the grass paving ants died, and more than 50 yellow ants died, and there was no "ammunition" left.
Record: The average battle loss ratio is one to five, and the annihilation of seven or eight thousand red fire ants can be said to be a victory in the first battle.
"Forward!"
Zhong Heng gave an order to the ant colony through 20 "array eyes" arranged in the ant colony, anyway, these guys were originally used as death squads, and they didn't feel distressed when they died.
The colony began to search for the entrance to their nest on the top of the corpse-strewn nest, and by the way, slaughtered some of the remaining ones that had lost contact with the main underground nest.
After about ten minutes, the ground, which was so silent that there was hardly a single red fire ant, finally moved, and after a yellow lynx ant inadvertently removed a piece of broken dirt blocking an ant path, the terrifying side of the red fire ant finally showed itself in front of this army, which had never suffered a big loss.
Like a faucet that opens the floodgates, countless red fire ants erupt from the passage below, drowning the yellow ant, several of its kind and dozens of paver ants in the blink of an eye. In the face of absolute numerical superiority, they fell under the stinger of the red fire ants without even turning up a wave, and they no longer had the majesty of a few or even a dozen of them before.
The ratio of battle losses in the first battle after suffering a surprise attack: tens to 0.
This is the horror of the red fire ants, don't look at them in the chaos just now, they are weak, and they will be crushed with one blow, but when they really enter the battle state, they react and gather into a torrent, but they have the power to sweep thousands of troops, and the giant insects, birds and small mammals that are millions of times larger than their size have to fall under the swarm of their tail needles.
A steady stream of red tide flowed out of the ground, at least several times or even ten times the number of the routed army in the previous chaos! In the face of this absolute superiority, the ant troops of the final balance no longer have the prestige they had before, and as long as they are drowned by the red tide, there is no possibility of getting up.
A paving ant bit the butt of a red fire ant's soldier ant as if it were dead, and bit it like a watermelon with a powerful forehead, but in the next second, at least five or six red fire ant jaws clamped its body and tore it to pieces; A large worker ant of the yellow ant, with a body size of 1.5 centimeters, is comparable to a giant for these red fire ants, it only killed two or three red fire ants with its big jaws, and was drowned by the tsunami-like red tide rushing from the red face, and did not even struggle a few times.
Such a scene is played out everywhere in the red earth full of corpses, even if it is just a swarm of swarms, the strength of the team is terrifying, the previous glory of one-to-a few no longer exists, most of the ants belonging to the side of the final balance can not even do one for one and then falls, and when the red fire ants leave the place where they are covered, only the fragmented corpse remains remain.
"Withdraw!"
Through the 20 "array eyes" hiding in the outermost area, Zhongheng once again issued an order, although these are all death squads as victims, they can't die here in vain like this.
"Come on, you'll be better in a moment."
Throwing down the corpses along the way, the troops of the final balance withdrew towards the way they came. As if by design, these ants, especially the yellow ant, which outran the red fire ant block by a lot, deliberately slowed down their speed, allowing the red fire ant to emerge from the ground, full of vengeful rage, to follow closely behind, constantly devouring some of the missing teammates who lacked arms and legs.
"Come on, you'll be nice later." Secretly let out a sneer in his heart, and finally Heng knew through the vision of the wasps hovering above that these red fire ants had been tricked.
War has always been fought in terms of comprehensive strength, and it is a comprehensive comparison of such factors as strategy, intelligence, reconnaissance, weaponry, logistics, venues, and, of course, troops, all of which are indispensable. These red fire ants, whose combat ideas are not as good as those of primitive people, except that their strength is stronger than that of the final balance, the rest are completely foolish, not to mention the brainless tactics of "brothers rush", and they also know nothing about the strength of the surrounding enemy forces, and they are completely unaware that the final balance, which has controlled their overall situation through "spy satellites" like wasps, has set a trap for them to drill into by themselves.
In front, only a few hundred of the final balance ant troops were running, and behind, an army of red fire ants a hundred times their size was chasing. I saw tens of thousands of red fire ants pouring out of the hole, and in their simple and angry brains, they only chased after them, killing the murderers of countless of their compatriots who had fallen behind one by one, and even if they climbed the thorns, they didn't feel that they had stepped into the encirclement of the enemy.
It's time!
After the remnants of the defeated army on his side rushed through a tree branch, Zhong Heng thought secretly.
"Keep throwing!"
"Bang Bang!"
The "grenadiers", which had been silent for a long time, went into action again. A fire cannon smashed directly on the way forward of the red fire ant army, every explosion can squeeze these densely packed together, the red fire ants that have committed the taboo of fighting in the era of hot weapons are blown up to the flesh and blood, dozens, hundreds of them go to the sky at the same time, not to mention, the rest are either smoked to the ground by the smoke generated before and after the explosion, or they are bitten to death and stabbed to death by the compatriots in the chaos, and they are once again collapsed in the blink of an eye.
The rear troops were hit by the gaps, and this time without the air defense fortifications of the nests, they were almost completely wiped out, except for a few who fled back in the confusion. And at the front, the vanguard of the Red Fire Ants also suffered a fatal blow from the final balance of the reinforcement army.
On the trunks of the nearly vertical towering ancient trees, a neat 20x20 square is arranged, and hundreds of yellow lynx ants who have been waiting here for a long time aim their tails full of formic acid at the dense red tide below.