After receiving the information that the remaining sixteen sub-hives of the Old-Fair King's Army were gathering reinforcements, Gun immediately paid attention. The male ant commanders at the "Hunting Ground City" forward base held a meeting to discuss how to deal with this enemy force.
The reinforcements alone are not terrible. These reinforcements from the enemy's secondary nest behind the enemy must be improvised. The soldiers are all grown-up ants with broken hearts, or the old, weak, sick and disabled who have not been recruited before, and are of poor quality. They are not as good as those enemies in "Hunting Ground City" who have experienced several battles, and are somewhat weaker in terms of combat skills, organization, and experience.
The enemy forces in the "Hunting Ground City" alone are not scary. The entrance and exit of this lair is not large, and it is backed by a small mound of soil accumulated at the roots of a bunch of shrubs. As long as the Divine Envoy King's army sends some troops to form an encirclement and blockade the entrances and exits, the enemy can be trapped underground without the need for a direct battle.
But if two groups of enemies appear at the same time, the Divine Envoy King's army, which only has four legions, will have difficulty taking care of both ends, and will easily lose sight of one.
At the meeting, Rambo Wan and other male ants believed that the enemy forces would not coordinate operations because although the enemy reinforcements knew that "Hunting Ground City" was in danger, "Hunting Ground City" did not receive information about the arrival of reinforcements. Our army can defeat them one by one.
Rambo Fei is more pessimistic. He believes that within a day or two at most, the enemy forces in "Hunting Ground City" will have to launch a massive counterattack due to lack of food. If enemy reinforcements arrive at this time, our army will be easily attacked from both sides.
At the same time, Rambo Fei also accused Xiao Ying, the leader of the Flying Knights. In the past, when the enemy broke through and caused a large number of defeated troops, and used the bushes behind the entrance and exit as cover to escape, it was the flying knights who were responsible for guiding the scout troops to pursue them.
However, the flying knights obviously missed several defeated enemy armies. By the time they discovered them, it was already too late. The enemy had already exceeded the pursuit range of the nearest scout team of the Divine Envoy King's Legion.
Flying Eagle is also very angry. He said that due to the formation of a new army, six of his nine generals were transferred away. Now his command ability is affected, and he cannot blame himself.
In fact, his former subordinates suddenly became equal to him. Not all ants are selfless and have no grudges. Smart individuals like male ants also have other little thoughts.
Flying Eagle was originally a very utilitarian male ant. His goal has always been to become a king, so he has always worked very hard.
Although the protagonist has given him the treatment of a legion commander, the Flying Knights do not have a legion. Flying Eagle still aspires to be the top commander of a full infantry legion like Gun and Lamborghini.
When there were only six legions of the Divine Envoy King before, the commanders were all male ants of the same generation as the Divine Envoy King and were older than Flying Eagle, so he didn't think it was a big deal. However, the commanders of the newly formed legion were all his former subordinates, which caused a big gap in Flying Eagle, although the protagonist did not notice this.
At this time, Gun also supported Rambo Fei's view. As the more senior male ant, he straightforwardly believed that this was Xiaoying's responsibility, and announced that he would suspend his honeydew for three days as a punishment.
This is a common minor punishment for erring male ants in the ant world. Flying Eagle did not send any more messages, as if it acquiesced to his accusation and punishment, and the matter seemed to be over.
Next, the top brass of the army continued to discuss tactics for the battle.
——I am the dividing line——
On April 17, on the ninth day when "Hunting Ground City" was still under blockade, the reinforcements eagerly awaited by the defenders trapped in the isolated city arrived.
The rotating flying knights of the Divine Envoy King's Legion had discovered their traces when the enemies were gathering and reported urgently.
The commanders of the Flying Knights today were Flying Eagle and Locust Jackal, and they relayed important military information in a timely manner.
Gun sent Rambowan's Third Army and Ramboser's Sixth Army to attack, while the remaining troops monitored "Hunting Ground City" and prevented the city's defenders from breaking through.
In fact, since the last attempt to break out of the siege occurred in a small-scale battle and failed, "Hunting Ground City" has been surprisingly calm in the past two days, which made the commanders of the Angel King's army somewhat lose their vigilance.
But not long after the two legions of Rambowan and Ramboser set off, something strange happened in "Hunting Ground City", and a large number of ants began to pour out of the ground.
This is obviously no coincidence.
The old-fashioned king placed a large number of couriers carrying rescue information packages in the last breakout force. The order conveyed by these messengers was to agree that the reinforcements and the defenders would launch a counterattack together this morning.
When the old-fashioned king calculated that it was almost time based on his biological clock, he dispatched a large number of troops to participate in the counterattack. And this happened to seize the most vulnerable opportunity when the Divine Envoy King's army had already divided its forces.
Rambo Fei immediately followed the planned plan and led the second legion to encircle it, seizing the perimeter of the entrance and exit of "Hunting Ground City" and setting up a circular defensive position.
At the beginning, the razor tactics of the Divine Envoy King's army played a great role. The old-fashioned King's army that poured out one after another suffered bloody blows in front of the defense line, leaving casualties and casualties.
But soon, as the corpses increased rapidly, Rambo Fei's Second Army had to retreat to avoid the mountains of corpses to maintain the defense line. But this increases the length of the front and weakens the thickness.
However, the old-fashioned King's Army was not afraid of death and continued to attack ferociously. The soldiers of the Old-fashioned King's Army who came out from the underground completely ignored the corpses of their companions scattered all over the roadside, crawled over them, and continued to join the battle.
The old-fashioned king's army has informed all the male ants that they have run out of food. These male ants know that if they do not win, they will only starve to death.
Once the male ants strengthen their belief in fighting, the ant warriors under their command will be extremely brave. Even if they lack command in the battle, they can still explode with terrifying combat effectiveness.
This is exactly what is said in the Art of War: "A sad army will win", "Don't pursue a poor enemy", "A trapped beast still fights" and "A last-ditch fight". The more an army reaches the end of its rope, the more determined it will be to fight and generate powerful energy. Good commanders will take advantage of this combat power on a "last-ditch" basis, while their opponents will have to carefully consider how to respond. The Han army that responded appropriately was the Han army that won a decisive victory in the "Siege of Gaixia". The improper response was the Qin army that killed 200,000 people after Xiang Yu "broke the cauldron and sank the boat".
Gun and the others did not have this kind of military literacy, and they did not realize that the old-fashioned king's army would launch such a violent counterattack.
Under the constant pressure of the enemy, and with no time to clear away the dead bodies everywhere, Rambo Fei's Second Army had already suffered a lot of losses in the last battle and had many new recruits. Gradually, it could no longer withstand the pressure. .
Rambo flew to Gun for help, and Gun had to prepare to use the reserve force of the Beetle Legion.
