I Am the Swarm

Although the red and black ants coalition lost more than 100,000 troops, some support came one after another from their rear territories within two days, and the total strength was still more than 500,000.

On Rowan's side, as the newly mature bugs in the territory arrived at the front line one after another, the total force was close to 300,000.

The gap in strength between the two sides was gradually narrowed.

But the enemy army finally came to their senses and no longer gave Luo Wen the opportunity to continue to consume. They assembled a large army, ignored the emptied underground passages, and ignored the surrounding harassment, crossed the underground base, and marched towards the interior of the swarm territory.

Rowan was hiding on the trunk of the vegetation that the coalition forces were about to pass by. After a rough estimate, the ratio of red and black in the coalition forces had reached 1:9. The red ants inside had already been consumed by the entrance of the underground base for most of the time due to their charge ahead.

Although their total number is still more than 500,000, their combat effectiveness has shrunk a lot.

However, in the center of the army, Luo Wen unexpectedly found several huge red ants. They are dozens of times larger than ordinary red ants, and through their long, bulging abdomen, they are the queens of red ants.

Rowan didn't find these guys during his investigation before. It seems that they were brought over by reinforcements from the rear in the past two days. Moreover, these queens can live in harmony. Could it be that red ants are a group with many queens?

It's just that their attitude of dragging their families together makes Luo Wen feel a little familiar.

After thinking about it for a while, he was surprised to find that this is the classic tactic of the Zerg - the whole family changing families?

Unexpectedly, with the IQ of these red ants, they could think of such a tactic.

However, it is clear that the tactics they have comprehended are still flawed. The essence of the house-changing style is to defend one's own home well and hold back the enemy's main force, while one's own large forces take the opportunity to capture the enemy's base camp.

But now, the army of swarms is right next to them, and they want to forcefully change their home, it's really courting death.

The swarms of insects hidden underground in the base came out in full force, biting the rear army of the red and black coalition army, and the two torrents collided together. The transport bugs rushed into the battlefield with the worker ants on their backs. First, a wave of long-range strikes paralyzed some enemy troops, causing chaos, and then quickly withdrew.

Most of the coalition forces are now black ants. They don't have stingers, and they have nothing to do with these long legs that don't like to fight.

Even if someone occasionally bites the transport bug's foot, it will be stabbed to death by the transport bug next to it.

The effect of formic acid spraying in this open-air environment is not as good as that in narrow underground holes. But now don't expect them to kill many enemy troops. Many enemy troops whose tentacles had been corroded turned into headless flies, scurrying about in the army formation. After a while, the tens of thousands of troops behind the coalition forces were completely in chaos, and gradually lost touch with the friendly troops in front.

At this moment, the swarm of bugs following behind sped up and rushed forward, and the two sides started a fierce hand-to-hand battle in the open field.

Although ordinary black ants can be regarded as weak chickens with very poor combat effectiveness, but at this time tens of thousands of troops are fighting, the difference in individual force is not so obvious.

Even Luo Wen, who is extremely powerful alone, may be killed by black ants if he is surrounded by the enemy.

The tragic case of the spider at the beginning reminded him all the time.

Just as a red ant hugged a worker ant tightly and stabbed its stinger into its abdomen, a passing transport insect pierced its head and died instantly. But its stinger was still stuck in the abdomen of the worker ant, and the toxin quickly disintegrated the internal muscles of the worker ant. It had no strength to pull out the stinger, and the struggle gradually weakened. Gradually, the two opponents hugged each other silently.

As a giant ants charged too far forward, just as soon as it pinched off a black ant, it was surrounded by dozens of black ants. Some of the joints that bit it pulled it around, and some stepped forward to attack it. arthropod joints.

When it had two legs left, reinforcements finally arrived and rescued it.

However, it has lost its ability to move without being able to grow arthropods again, and what awaits it will be processed by recycling proteins.

Hundreds of bugs die every moment on the battlefield, and the intensity of the battle is indescribable in words.

Due to the lack of terrain advantages and direct hand-to-hand combat, although the swarm's combat power is stronger, the battle damage has still increased a lot.

However, when a large number of mobile troops of the Zerg Swarm arrived, the coalition troops who had been back and forth with the Zerg Swarm army just now showed their defeat in an instant.

The efficiency of using pheromones to transmit information is too low after all. The news of the attack on the rear is transmitted to the decision-making level of the coalition forces layer by layer, and then passed on layer by layer.

When the former coalition army turned into the rear army, and when they turned back to fight Rowan's army, the swarm had already wiped out the tens of thousands of coalition troops, and took advantage of their mobility to sneak away with their spoils.

The coalition forces were so desperate that they began to pursue with the whole army, but the traces left on the road showed that the swarm troops were divided into several routes to withdraw.

The worm with a low IQ has not read the art of war, so he rashly divides the army into several teams to pursue. But after chasing for a certain distance along the remaining pheromone, they encountered the choice of a fork in the road again, so they divided up again.

These leftover pheromones were processed by the spy bugs under Rowan's order. They were originally intended to simply divert the attention of the coalition forces and slow down their pursuit.

But I didn't expect these ants to be so upright. Whenever they encountered a fork in the road, they would start to divide their troops.

Continue to assign spy bugs to arrange fork roads along the way. After the army of bugs converges, they simply eat some of the spoils to replenish their exhausted stamina.

After a while, the army began to assemble and prepare. Due to the haste of the incident, Luo Wen only has about 150,000 soldiers available now, and there are more than 100,000 scattered around this area.

Although Rowan had already dispatched communications troops to look for those mobile troops, he still hoped that they would play by ear and not bump into the enemy's large troops and lose their lives in vain.

After several divisions, apart from the main force protecting the Queen Ant, the number of coalition forces is still more than 200,000, and there are many other small groups of only 20,000 to 30,000 left.

Luo Wen lured a team of more than 20,000 ants away from the main army. The army of more than 100,000 ants ambushed here took the transport insects and surrounded them in an instant, trying not to let any one go.

With such a large gap in numbers, the combat power of a single unit is still not dominant, and this small group of troops has been wiped out without consuming much energy from the swarm army.

Afterwards, Rowan led this army to wander around the coalition forces, constantly seducing a small group of troops to come out, and then annihilated them.

Although the tactic is single, it has been tried and tested every time, which makes Rowan feel like he is at a high place. With his ordinary human intelligence, he was too bullying to play tactics among a group of bugs.