The next day, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army changed their tactics.
All we can say is that changes are forced and require the cooperation of objective conditions. In the past, neither the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army nor the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army were able to adapt to changes at such a fast speed. They often stuck to their original style of play and suffered a bloody blow, and then it took maybe a year or two to adapt to the situation. Make adjustments.
However, as the frequency of wars in the ant world becomes higher and higher, both the pavement ant barbarian kingdom and the big-headed ant kingdom need to adapt to this normal state. Those who cannot adapt will lose their hegemony in the fierce competition and decline.
Therefore, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army, which has more enemies, was more fickle than the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army in the past, so that it could adapt to an environment surrounded by enemies on all sides and maintain hegemony. After becoming aware of the new position of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's army, they formulated targeted tactics only half a year later. This is not only because of King Fuye's personal genius, but also because the needs of the entire reality give birth to genius.
The army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom has a variable like a protagonist. Under the influence, many commanders also have a new understanding of war tactics. Even if they are just imitations as poor as infants, it also brings the vitality of change to the army.
In this way, the two strongest races on both sides of the river, and the two most mercurial armies, started a desperate battle around a small sub-nest.
As the weather turns cooler, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army must race against time. The next morning, the paving ant barbarian army began to build pontoons at four different locations to cross the stream.
If it were placed half a month ago, even if the paving ant barbarian army had such a plan, it would not be able to implement it.
At that time, the stream surface was still relatively wide and the water flow was relatively fast. There were few suitable places for building bridges, and there were not many dead branches and leaves that could be used to build pontoon bridges.
Now, after a few strong winds in late autumn, the ground is covered with dead branches and leaves, which are excellent building materials. The narrowing and slowing of the stream also makes the stream that was originally a natural chasm crossable almost everywhere, and is no longer a daunting journey.
So, early that morning, amidst the strong smell warning and rapid friction warning sound of the sentry, the soldiers of the Northern Expedition Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom who rushed out of the nest on the shore suddenly discovered that in addition to the enemies in front of them, there were more nearby. The enemy is building a pontoon bridge.
The four pontoons are separated by a short distance from each other and have already extended past the center line of the stream. The second pontoon bridge in the east is being built at the fastest speed and is already close to the shore.
The sentries on guard had poor eyesight, so they only noticed the enemy's movements at this time.
The warriors of the branch immediately gathered under the command of the male ants. The male ants had better eyesight. They immediately understood the enemy's intentions and judged that the existing strength of the branch alone could not defend the crossing points, nor could they just defend the river crossing points like yesterday. Defeat the enemy with your own strength.
As a result, the messenger was dispatched urgently to the "Target D" lair to seek help.
The kings who were separated from the nest commanded the only legions at hand and laid the first line of defense.
The first pontoon soon approached the shore. This time, the pavement ants learned the lesson from the previous day and arranged many warriors in front of the pontoon. They bravely fought with the big-headed ant warriors standing on the shore, biting their jaws, and even biting After defeating the enemy, take the initiative to jump into the cold stream and let the current drag you and the enemy away at the same time.
Under the cover of such a brave offensive by the pavement ant barbarian army, the remaining pavement ant workers took the opportunity to put the first branch from the pontoon to the other side. Subsequently, the branch was firmly bitten by several worker ants. Their six limbs were connected and they used their bodies to tightly connect the branch to other building materials of the pontoon.
A small group of pavement ant warriors immediately crawled from the branches to the shore. This brave group of "first climbers" were quickly surrounded and killed by the big-headed ant warriors, but a steady stream of pavement ant soldiers were passing through this narrow Road attack to avoid water filled pontoon battlefield.
The Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army also immediately commanded a counterattack, trying to contain the enemy troops on the branches while trying to push the branches away from the shore. But if you want to push the branches, you actually have to push the entire pontoon floating on the water. A few ants simply cannot complete this task.
Just as the fierce battle on the first pontoon was going on, the second pontoon was about to dock on the right side of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's army position.
The big-headed ant commander on the front line had to send his precious reserves to intercept and was unable to launch a counterattack on the first pontoon bridge.
As fierce battles broke out at the bridgeheads of both pontoon bridges, the first-line Big-Headed Ant Kingdom army was stretched thin and could only fight on the left and right.
As the third and fourth pontoons also appeared on the shore, the pavement ant army began to gather all its forces, preparing to take advantage of the situation to kill across the stream in one go, dragging the battle into a large-scale hand-to-hand battle, and fiercely spit out the Bad breath.
The reinforcements from the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army finally appeared on the battlefield. The combat experience on the first day made them realize that if they wanted to defend for a longer period of time, they must stop the enemy on the bank of the stream to avoid turning the battle into a mutually depleting battle.
Therefore, the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army did not hesitate to compete with the Paving Ant Barbarian Army for the bridge head. However, due to the limited passing capacity of the pontoon bridge, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army could not form a strength advantage to open the gap even if the pontoon bridge had been built on the other side.
For a time, surrounding the bridgeheads of the four pontoon bridges, the two sides were fighting in darkness.
A flying knight flew by. He controlled the altitude to be one or two decimeters above the ground, observed the battlefield at close range, and prepared to go back and report the battle situation to the protagonist.
In his eyes, a dark-brown torrent gathered on the north bank, then divided into four streams across the water, and collided with a large yellow-brown phalanx on the south bank of the stream.
In the stream, there were a large number of black or yellow figures floating. They were corpses that had fallen into the water, or even living soldiers from both sides.
The two sides fought fiercely around the bridge. But in the end the battle didn't last long.
As the worker ants on the first pontoon bridge, which acted as nails and ropes, were frozen, the first pontoon bridge slowly broke, and a large number of branches and leaves spread out, causing many pavement ant warriors who were passing through the pontoon bridge to fall into the water.
The lucky ones grabbed the floating building materials, were carried downstream by the current, and then hit the second pontoon bridge. The impact destroyed the second pontoon bridge, followed by the third pontoon bridge. Only the fourth pontoon bridge upstream is still in normal use, but it is obvious that the troop transport capacity of one pontoon bridge alone is no longer able to break through the defense line.
As a result, the pavement ant barbarian army retreated with gold, and a large number of soldiers roared away. Then they worked hard to rescue their fallen companions on the shore and collected recyclable building materials.
The Big-headed Ant Kingdom's army was on the other shore, killing the fallen enemies floating towards this side and picking up the bodies to use as future army rations.
The fighting ended the next day.
