"It's Allen, he's back!" Lucy scanned the mountains with a tactical telescope and said happily when she saw a figure approaching quickly.
Hubble spit, the smile on his face shrinking.
When Allen returned to the slope, several non-commissioned officers immediately surrounded him and asked about the situation of the insect nest. Allen told what he found out one by one, and drew a rough sketch on the sand on the ground with his fingers to illustrate.
"Judging from the space on the mountainside, the number of ordinary sword ants is probably three to four hundred. The number of guard black ants is around thirteen or four, plus a queen ant. I think we have to be careful."
After Allen finished speaking and sat down, Lucy handed over the marching water bottle. He took a sip and looked at the other non-commissioned officers, "What do you guys think?"
"It's just some big ants. We attack through several passages, and it will be over if we siege them." Hubble said, pointing at the entrances of several passages with his hand.
Sergeant Ye Feng shook his head and said: "Not right. There are many branches in the knife ant nest, even if we attack at the same time, we may not be able to achieve the effect of siege. On the contrary, we may be blocked and killed by these dangerous species that are familiar with the passage, let us fight on our own , and was finally defeated by each of them.”
The sergeant was an oriental man with a delicate and cautious mind. But hearing him deny his tactics, Hubble was very unhappy. He snorted at the moment, perhaps because he had been "profoundly" reminded by Ke Jiesi before, he didn't get angry immediately like before, and chose to remain silent.
"What Sergeant Ye said is not unreasonable. In my opinion, we should still target the queen ant." Sergeant Mode pondered, and finally his finger landed on the queen ant area drawn by Allen.
The remaining two non-commissioned officers also nodded in agreement.
Lucy interjected: "There is an invisible connection between the queen and the ant colony. In fact, the ant colony has a group will. In this group will, the queen is the main body. Once the queen dies, the group will It will also collapse. At that time, the knife ants will have no leader and fall into chaos. They will disperse without us taking action. They will not be absorbed as members of the new ant nest until they hit other ant colonies."
"This is a conversation between non-commissioned officers, and you are not a soldier." Hubble said coldly.
Several non-commissioned officers and some nearby soldiers cast dissatisfied glances at him.
Allen said indifferently: "What Lucy said is not unreasonable, and everyone should act together. If soldiers have opinions, as officers, they must have the virtue of listening. What do you think?"
Ye Feng was the first to say: "Of course, if you don't have the capacity to listen to your subordinates' suggestions, you will only be reduced to a headstrong person."
Hubble got bored, smacked his lips and stopped talking.
Allen looked at Lucy and said, "Do you have any suggestions?"
Among these people, he is the one who knows Lucy's ability best. In the death ring that day, she could come up with many strategies with just two people, but Allen went straight to the point and chose the simplest and most brutal method.
Things are very different now than they were back then.
Lucy was also not humble, and said: "It's very simple, since the goal is set, then the rest is the link of infiltrating and killing the enemy. In terms of infiltrating, Allen has already figured out the cave leading to the queen ant, which should be It's not difficult. The difficulty lies in killing the enemy, I can imagine that when we enter the queen ant's nest, it will definitely call the knife ant to protect itself."
"If it is blocked by many sword ants,
I believe it will be an uphill battle. Lucy moved her finger to the space outside the queen ant's nest, and said: "My proposal is that one team is responsible for killing the queen ant and her personal guards, while the other teams deploy defenses in this area to intercept rescuers." Knife ants. As long as you persist until the queen ant is punished, the sword ants will disperse, and this ant nest will no longer be a threat. "
"So, who will be responsible for killing the queen ant?" Sergeant Ye Feng asked.
Sergeant Mode looked at Allen and said, "Since Sergeant Allen discovered the queen ant, they should be the ones to do it."
What he meant was obvious, that he wanted to give Alan the job of killing the queen ant. Of course, it is not easy to get this credit. Leaving aside the queen ants, those dozen or so black ants were a huge problem. This is also one of the reasons why the ant-killing queen was seriously injured and handed over to Allen's first team. Not to mention Allen himself, but Lucy, Willick and Broy under him, all of them are of non-commissioned officer level.
It is no exaggeration to say that among the six teams, Allen's team is the strongest. It will be much easier for them to complete the task.
Some people disagree.
Hubble said displeased: "This is really funny. Why should Sergeant Allen's team take over the good job of killing the queen ant? Just rely on him to scout the ant nest. If you say that, then I will go in for a while Huan, doesn't this good thing have to happen to me too?"
"Sergeant Hubble, now is not the time to discuss." Ye Feng frowned and said, "The most important thing is to end the ant nest as soon as possible, so there is no need to discuss these trivial matters."
"Since that's the case, let's break up and do it alone, anyway, I won't take advantage of this kid for nothing." Hubble stood up and said to the other two non-commissioned officers: "What do you think, do you want to work hard for others, or work hard for yourself? "
After a little hesitation, the two non-commissioned officers lowered their heads and left with Hubble.
"These idiots!" Maud cursed in a low voice.
"It's just human nature." Allen shook his head.
Ye Feng said: "Then let's act too, don't let Hubble and the others take the lead."
Allen frowned and said, "Wait."
"What's wrong?" Maud asked.
"Just now I have alarmed the knife ants when I came out of that passage, I have to inform Hubble and them not to act rashly, and finally act with us." Allen said and looked at Naz.
Naz nodded and said, "I'll inform Sergeant Hubble."
Moder said, "That bird man Hubble, if you want me to talk to him."
Allen shook his head and said: "We are colleagues in the end, and intelligence sharing should be done."
The night grew darker.
"Sergeant Hubble, what do you say?"
The three teams dived to the mountain on the left side that Allen said, and Hubble glanced at the first two caves with dim red light, and gritted his teeth: "What else is there to say, of course it is to act immediately, don't you wait? Allen and the others come to divide? Besides, it will be dawn soon! Let's go."
At daybreak, the activities of the knife ants will become active, and it will be even more difficult to exterminate them.
Under Hubble's command, his soldiers climbed up the rock wall nimbly. The other two teams followed suit. Hubble climbed up a cave by himself and pointed to another entrance. The other three teams went into different passages.
When Naz arrived, Hubble and the others had already left cleanly, and the soldiers had no choice but to return. Joining the team after a while, Naz reported: "They started
acted. "
"Then we can't wait here." Sergeant Maud said.
Ye Feng suggested: "Since Hubble and the others chose the left side of the ant nest as the entry point, how about we go to the right side?"
"No, let's attack from the front, contain the ant colony, and see if we can create opportunities for Hubble and the others," Allen said.
Moder shot him a look and said, "That would give Hubble the credit for nothing."
"If everyone grabs credit in the war and loses cooperation, how can we win?" Allen said lightly.
Ye Feng nodded and said, "Just do what Allen said."
Moder shrugged and said, "Okay, you are all good people with a big heart, so this time it's better to take advantage of Hubble and those guys."
Immediately, three teams rushed towards the ground entrance of the ant nest, and Allen's team was the strongest, rushing to the front without hesitation. Ye Feng and Moder were divided into left and right teams, a little behind, forming an arrow formation. Before the arrow penetrated into the ant nest, gunshots and shouts suddenly sounded in the ant nest. Allen frowned, knowing that Hubble and the others were in trouble. Don't dare to stay, run with all your strength. He shot left and right, and was the first to rush into the ant nest.
I thought I would be attacked by knife ants, but unexpectedly entered the nest, but found a mountainside that could accommodate forty or fifty knife ants, but it was very clean, and those knife ants didn't know where they went. In the depths of the ant nest, gunshots continued to ring out, and the sound grew louder, like a fierce battle. Allen looked behind the two sergeants Moder and Ye Feng, and made a gesture, and the three teams immediately went deep to find out.
"Damn it!" Hubble rolled over, avoiding the sharp front legs of a few knife ants, and rolled behind a stalagmite. Soldiers on both sides rushed forward, and machine guns swept wildly, before they shot the sword ants to death and drove them back. Hubble poked his head out and took a look. The passageway was densely populated with sword ants. The giant ants are so dense that they almost block the passage, making it impossible to get an inch in.
Hubble cursed: "This boy Allen must have lied to me. This is no way to a cave leading to the queen ant. It is clearly a trap, this sinister boy!"
It turned out that not long after their team entered the passage that Allen had walked through before, they were attacked by knife ants. Hubble thought that Allen had given them false information, but he didn't know that it was after Allen left, and the sword ant was attracted by the movement of him fighting with the guards, and lingered nearby. Several Hubble teams did not send out scouts, so they drilled inside. In the end, the bargain was not picked up, and the knife ants blocked the passage.
While Hubble was cursing, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and fight the knife ants.
After Alan's three teams went deep into the ant nest, they found that the knife ants were concentrated in one place, knowing that they were attracted by Hubble's three teams. Moder yelled: "Alan, you go and kill the queen ant. Sergeant Ye and I will help those three idiots."
"Be careful." Allen did not hesitate, gestured, and led his team to leave. Walk along a passage and enter the mountainside space connected to the queen ant's nest. Just after exiting the passage, a black ant guard rushes over with bared teeth and claws.
Allen greeted him, the gun on his left hand roared, and poured all the bullets from the barrel on the black ant. The bullets swept across the dark insect shell, although it was not in vain, but it only swept out a shallow bullet hole, leaving a very limited amount of insect blood. The black ant rushed forward, and the bullets could not penetrate the gaps between its nodes, so it was difficult to seriously injure it.
As soon as he was about to hit him, the black ant had already waved its sickle and slashed at Alan. Allen threw away the machine gun, held a knife in both hands, and pulled out a round of gray moonlight to meet him brazenly!
(end of this chapter)