In the next few days, the flying knights regrouped and continued to conduct reconnaissance on the north bank of the river. They just tried to stay overnight as little as possible. Even if they had to stay overnight, they carefully selected the place where they stayed and set up sentries. After this period, no major losses occurred.
According to the reconnaissance information of the Flying Knight, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom is now doing its best to resist the invasion of the mysterious ants. They mobilized the entire country to resist in the territory north of the main nest. Although they suffered heavy losses, they achieved the strategic goal. Purpose.
The individual combat effectiveness of the Pavement Ant warriors is far inferior to that of the enemy, but with the strong will to fight and the support of the entire territory, the Pavement Ant Barbarians actually withstood the enemy's attack and maintained the battle line in the main nest. Three days' journey to the north, the war was not allowed to spread to our main nest again.
The surrounding situation at this time is also conducive to paving the way for the Ant Barbarian Kingdom. In addition to the mysterious ants, another major enemy of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom - the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, has not yet fully recovered from last year's war of attrition and chose to stand still.
Since there was only one queen in the Northern Expedition last year, it was difficult to quickly regain strength. After the spring of this year, the Northern Expeditionary Army's first task is to breed more ant queens. For the remaining Old King's Conference faction, this is a more important task than opening up territories. Without enough ant queens, the Northern Expeditionary Army will A mosquito struggling in the wind and rain may die at any time.
After the beginning of spring, the territory of the Northern Expeditionary Army has fully supported and hatched the eggs of more than ten queen ants. These young queens have emerged from pupae. As long as they participate in the wedding flight ceremony, they can become adult ants that can continue to reproduce and contribute to the race. back.
In addition to the queen ants, a group of new-generation male ants born in the occupied areas on the north bank of the river will also participate in the wedding ceremony. These are the latest generation of heirs to the ancient Big-headed Ant Kingdom and the ancient King Conference faction.
In order to prepare for the first wedding flight ceremony organized on the north bank of the river, and for the future of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, the Northern Expedition Army had no time to think about anything else.
It was precisely thanks to the conservatism of the Northern Expeditionary Army that the Pavilion Ant Barbarian Kingdom avoided fighting on two fronts and was able to stop the mysterious ants with all their strength.
The eastern border, which was originally unstable and required a certain amount of troops to be garrisoned, has also been greatly reduced because of the mysterious ants that raided the forest area last autumn and wiped out a large number of indigenous Japanese black brown ants and black-headed sour ant tribes.
The remaining tribes of indigenous Japanese black ants and black-headed ants are fighting for a large number of territories suddenly vacated in the forest area, and have no time to invade the pavement ant barbarian territory to fight the autumn breeze.
The Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom was able to fight the invaders with all its strength. The territory was several times larger than the territory of the Divine Envoy King's legion. The war potential that could break out was terrifying. Wave after wave, hundreds of thousands of troops continued to attack. The protagonists who gathered and watched were dumbfounded.
You know, if there are no mysterious ants, if the protagonist leads the Divine Envoy King's army on the northern expedition, he will be the one who needs to face the hundreds of thousands of troops from the ant barbarian country that paved the way. Does his army have the strength to annihilate so many and tenacious enemies?
At least the mysterious ants are not afraid of these paving ant armies. Although the number is only one-tenth of the opponent's and the organization is not high, the mysterious ants are more fierce and fearless than the paving ants, and their individual combat effectiveness is incredible, even It can also continue to take the initiative to attack under heavy siege by the enemy.
The strength of both sides is the same as that of a large group of human troops besieging a small group of aliens. The side with fewer numbers has the advantage.
The north bank of the river was reduced to a Shura field, and every day was a great war. Every day, tens of thousands of soldiers died on the battlefield in the wilderness. It was really "the city was filled with bones and corpses were everywhere."
Most of the losses were attributed to the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army, so that because the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army suffered casualties so quickly, it actually greatly reduced the logistical pressure - many soldiers set out on the road after eating well from their home nests, and then trekked to the battlefield. , and even died in battle before the next supplementary meal.
Neither the Divine Envoy King's Legion nor the Big-headed Ant Kingdom can bear the five-digit casualties every day for a long time.
However, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom, which has a vast territory and reproduces faster, seems to be able to withstand it for now. Reinforcements sufficient to replenish the battle losses gather from various places on the battlefield every day, and all the nests are still operating at full capacity to reproduce new ants and collect food.
Many ants kill the elephant, not to mention that the mysterious ants are not invincible elephants, they are temporarily contained.
But the protagonist also knows that this kind of stalemate maintained by huge losses on the battlefield may be broken at any time because one party cannot support it.
Taking advantage of the stalemate in the war on the north bank of the river, the protagonist needs to speed up the integration of forces on the south bank of the river.
Now the only thing on the south bank of the river that can pose a certain threat to the Angel King's army is the parasitic ant.
The protagonist personally flew to [Southern City] and learned that after the beginning of spring, the parasitic ants frequently left the swamp again and harassed the mountain forest land occupied by the indigenous hunting ant tribe.
With a winter's respite, the surviving tribe of indigenous ant hunters were able to gather their fellow tribesmen after spring and form an alliance force. Under the attack of the coalition of hunting sickle ants, the first few small groups of parasitic ants were quickly defeated.
But then, the size of the parasitic ant army that left the swamp and entered the mountain forest began to become larger and larger. There were already as many as a thousand parasitic ants attacking in groups.
Although there are thousands of ant-hunting ants in the coalition, they are enough to deal with enemies several times their size. But no one knows when an army of parasitic ants will appear on a scale that is difficult for the coalition of hunting sickle ants to resist.
The indigenous Scythe Hunter Ants have begun to contact their kin further away. Under the instructions of the protagonist, Kite led a small team of fifty Scythe Hunter Ant warriors and mixed in.
Due to the complex origins of the Scythe Hunter ant alliance, no ants of the same tribe would be suspected - although some tribes were surprised that Kite, as a male ant, could actually command as many as fifty warriors. After all, among the ant clan, the status of male ants with weak fighting ability is not high, and a tribe that can dispatch fifty warriors to join the coalition must be a large tribe. Many ants cannot understand a powerful tribe. They actually let male ants serve as the leaders of the army.
Fortunately, in the face of a powerful enemy, the simple-minded indigenous hunting ants did not dwell on these issues, and Kite successfully led the undercover agent and continuously passed the information back to [Southern City].
It is reported that the indigenous ant-hunting tribes whose territories are far away from the battlefield have also begun to respond to the call for coalition forces. They have put aside their petty disputes among tribes and gathered little by little to prepare for the threat of the parasitic ant army that they have not encountered for many years. Even the legendary tribes deep in the hills that were said to be able to suppress the parasites responded to the call.
The fighting in the hilly areas has shown signs of becoming more intense.
