Upon hearing the queen ant's call, the ant army's fighting spirit immediately soared.
The ants, who were somewhat listless after their first battle with the insects, suddenly became energetic and lively, as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
From Zhao Zian's divine perspective, those who were seriously injured in the first battle against the insects have not yet fully recovered and are currently showing a yellow "minor injury" status, still some distance away from returning to a green "healthy" status.
But now they have all returned to a green state.
The other ants that were not originally injured also showed some changes.
A white halo appeared at the top of the status bar for all the ants.
Zhao Zian sensed it and realized it was some kind of enhancement or buff.
It seems the queen ant has learned a new group-boosting buff?
However, he no longer had time to learn more about the current situation.
The horned beetle was right in front of me.
He immediately manipulated a few ants to go over and entice them a couple of times.
It didn't attack, it just kept wandering around there, and led them towards the traps it had set.
The horned beetle was also getting desperate. It had come to seek revenge, so how could it tolerate such provocation from the enemy?
He rushed over, intending to tear those wretched ants to shreds.
The horned beetle army had already charged forward. Perhaps due to the interference of pheromones, or perhaps due to their anger clouding their judgment, they failed to notice the trap set by Zhao Zi'an.
The vanguard charged straight into the corrosive slime area, pushing aside the obstructing leaves and crashing headfirst into the slime. The horned beetles in front of them instantly rolled around in pain.
The first thing the horned beetle did after being hit was to try to back away.
However, the subsequent insect-extermination team was completely unaware of its condition and continued to advance, ultimately pushing it directly into the slime.
The horned beetle is now in the same situation as the ant at the beginning; it died within seconds.
Perhaps because they had dealt with slimy flesh worms before, the horned beetles lasted longer than the ants, but they did not develop a full acid-resistant armor; they only lasted a few seconds longer than the ants.
In such a short time, it would be impossible for them to evolve acid-resistant armor.
A large number of horned beetles died in the slime, while some were lucky enough to escape, but were still seriously injured.
Some insects have sticky mucus on them, but when subsequent insects pass by, they also get some of the mucus on them, thus causing the mucus to spread.
This situation has greatly affected the morale of the Horned Bugs and the speed of their advance.
The trap has worked.
Upon seeing this, Zhao Zian immediately ordered the main force to charge forward, taking advantage of his illness to finish him off.
The queen ant suddenly flapped her wings, and the entire insect charged out first.
Then, the two specialized ants and the other ants rushed in as well.
The queen ant was at the front, and the ants behind her followed, plunging into the battlefield like a sharp blade.
The front lines of the Horned Bug army were already in a state of great chaos due to the slime traps.
The ants' onslaught immediately broke their formation.
For a time, the queen ant and specialized ants wreaked havoc within the horned beetle army.
However, perhaps because she has not fully adapted to the changes in her body, the queen ant's killing speed is not as fast as that of specialized ants.
Sometimes, they even lose control of their bodies and kick their own little ants away.
That's understandable.
In the past, the queen ant had to be fed by worker ants, and she spent all her time giving birth.
You have to practice fighting too.
However, specialized ants are pure killing machines. They are very large, although they are not very intelligent.
However, their ingrained combat experience enabled them to unleash a devastating mowing-down-enemies-with-the-grass-and-grab-the-enemy-spots-.
And the queen ant's initial cry also gave them a buff.
They also experienced the first insect war, and now their stamina seems even more abundant than before the first war.
They charged wildly across the battlefield, their speed seemingly even greater.
Taking advantage of the hornworms' confusion, the ant army instantly killed nearly 1,000 hornworms.
The once-fierce army of horned beetles suddenly lost much of its morale.
However, their total number is over 20,000.
It is four or five times the number of ants.
Leaving aside their advanced combat capabilities, they completely overwhelmed the ants in terms of low-level combat power.
The super-large units are, after all, only the queen ant and three specialized units.
The chaos didn't last long.
After the horned beetles in front died, the large force behind them quickly surged forward.
They filled the gaps on the front lines of the battlefield.
However, at this time, the ants' overall combat strength seemed to have increased.
Originally, worker ants and ordinary horned beetles were roughly evenly matched in combat.
It all comes down to luck; whoever bites off the other's head first.
However, thanks to the queen's buff, the worker ants now have more energy and can gain a slight advantage over ordinary horned beetles.
The soldier ants' desire to attack intensified.
Originally, the giant horn beetle could put up a fight against the soldier ants, and if it was lucky, it could even use its brute force to knock the soldier ants over with its large horn.
Now they are being suppressed even more severely, and many large horned beetles have had their heads bitten off by soldier ants.
However, although the ants attacked fiercely, they were outnumbered and suffered heavy injuries while attacking the enemy.
Zhao Zian ordered all the ants to step back.
First, exit this slime trap area.
The initial chaos has successfully killed many Horned Bugs, and the Horned Bugs on the front lines are no longer so panicked.
After the ant army retreated a little, the hornworms immediately followed suit.
However, a lot of slime still remained in the trap area.
Some casualties will still occur when the horned beetles pass by later.
Their combat effectiveness will be weakened, and they will not be able to maintain peak combat effectiveness when they rush to the front line.
The horned beetles, after all, have a numerical advantage; there are too many horned beetles fighting at the front, and the beetles behind can't squeeze in.
They will keep moving to the side and attack the ant army from the flank.
To prevent being surrounded, Zhao Zian ordered the ants to fight and retreat simultaneously.
With his godlike perspective, he can constantly observe the situation on the battlefield.
Manipulate the ants to keep retreating to avoid a bad situation.
Soon, the ants retreated to the vicinity of their nest.
Behind me was the ant nest, but there was nothing left inside.
The ant nest was located on a relatively high hill nearby, on a small earthen slope.
The ants have gradually retreated to this small mound, taking advantage of the higher ground.
At this point, both sides had suffered some losses.
Both sides maintained considerable fighting strength, resulting in a stalemate.
However, the ants were outnumbered, and nearly half of their worker ants had already died.
Although the high-end combat force did not suffer too many losses, they were all injured and their combat strength was no longer at its peak.
Just then, a specialized ant was suddenly controlled by Zhao Zian and returned to the vicinity of its nest.
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