Just yesterday, Suzaku received a battle report from the front: the last main force of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army blocking [Purple Leaf Licheng] had been defeated.
This means that [Purple Leaf Licheng] no longer has an organized army of paving ants, and the enemy's front can reach the nest under its feet at any time.
This day would come sooner or later, and Suzaku had long been mentally prepared. The troops that had been standing in front of him were originally cannon fodder, responsible for delaying the enemy and buying time for him to build this line of defense.
And why are he and his troops not just cannon fodder? The kings of the main nest did not expect that they could really lead the army to block the attack of the mysterious ants. In the eyes of the male ants of the main nest, this line of defense of [Purple Leaf Licheng] was just a defense for the main nest. Deploy a buffer position to buy some time.
The fall of [Purple Leaf Licheng] was not a question of "yes" or "no" in the eyes of those kings, but a question of "when".
But Suzaku doesn't care about this. Ants don't value individual life and death. Any individual ant is expendable in front of the collective. Individuals themselves also have this awareness. Apart from the biological survival instinct, they are not particularly afraid of death.
On the contrary, Suzaku believed that it was a great honor to receive this mission, and he was also very motivated - even if he could not completely block the enemy here, he would still make these mysterious intruders pay a high price. This is the greatest contribution she can make to this collective, this country with a long history.
However, the friendly forces in front of him collapsed faster than expected. The overall defense of [Purple Leaf Licheng] and its surrounding lairs has not yet been completed, which will obviously have a certain adverse impact on the subsequent defensive battle. .
The defense facilities of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom are not as well-structured and well-divided as those of the Divine Envoy King's Army. There are trenches, earthen walls, and underground facilities.
The defense facilities of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom are just a single underground part. These underground defenses are no different from ordinary ant nests.
The so-called enhanced defense means to expand the underground lair as much as possible, horizontally and vertically, so that it can accommodate more soldiers and food storage. As the lair expands and becomes more complex, the underground environment will also confuse attacking enemies to a certain extent. Defenders who are familiar with the terrain can attack flexibly in the underground passages extending in all directions without worrying about being divided and surrounded by enemies. -This is the only thing the defender can rely on.
Currently, [Purple Leaf Licheng]'s underground defense facilities are only 80% complete, while other lairs are less than 60% to 70% complete.
However, the enemy's approach was imminent, and Suzaku had no choice but to let the legions commanded by male ants that had been intensively trained in [Purple Leaf Licheng] move out one after another and stationed themselves in other sub-nests to prepare for the upcoming war.
——I am the dividing line——
It was a cloudless, sunny summer day with somewhat warm temperatures.
Pavement ants don't like this hot weather. They prefer to hide in underground nests or move in the shade of vegetation at noon.
But after a period of war, the commanders of the pavement ants understood that the mysterious ants really liked to attack in this kind of weather. They did not even avoid the scorching sun and dared to march long distances under the scorching sun.
Not afraid of scorching heat or severe cold, the adaptability of these mysterious ants is indeed exaggerated.
In order to guard against enemy attacks, Suzaku's scouts had already spread out. About three or four hours north of the two auxiliary nests on the front line, there were pavement ant scouts active all the way.
In such hot weather, these scouts could only stay at the furthest cordon for just a quarter of an hour, and then they had to go back to their nests or surface water sources to replenish water. For this reason, Suzaku could only send out a large number of scouts in rotation.
The reason why it is necessary to spend so much money to prevent enemy attacks in advance is not unnecessary. In the previous battle with the mysterious ants, the scout troops that the pavement ants were proud of did not bring any advantage on the battlefield.
The fighting method of these mysterious ants is so strange. They clearly did not send out scouts, but they could always accurately grasp the location of the main force of the pavement ant barbarian army, and then launched an attack before the pavement ant army received early warning, and the battle ended Melee and chaos.
This severely weakened the numerical advantage of the Pavement Ant barbarian army.
In order to avoid making the same mistake again, Suzaku, who was good at summing up experience, sent out scouts in large numbers at any cost, even if many ants got heat stroke.
Fortunately, ants are still more resistant to heat than cold, and this reduction is completely within the acceptable range.
Hard work paid off, and Suzaku's scouts discovered the actions of the mysterious ant army in advance.
A mysterious ant army lined up in two lines, winding from a distance, advancing in an arc under the bright sun.
Although the pavement ant scouts on standby not far away had inferior eyesight to the other party, the boat was able to turn around easily. When they realized that the enemy was approaching with great force, they immediately turned around and fled.
The speed of the pavement ant warriors is only slightly faster than that of the mysterious ants. If the mysterious ants appear within half an hour of the main force of the pavement ant barbarian army and are discovered by the scouts, then even if the scouts run back to warn, they will not be able to provide sufficient formation for the large army. time.
But this time, the fortified nest was still three or four hours away, giving the pavement ant scouts plenty of time.
Moreover, there were pavement ant scout warriors who rushed to meet them along the way. These warriors immediately spread out in relays to various parts of the nest territory and other nests in the rear, quickly spreading the news of the enemy's attack.
Without its advantage in surprise attacks, the mysterious ant troops were unable to weaken the defenders in ground battles and had to engage in head-on underground battles - this was Suzaku's wishful thinking.
This incoming mysterious ant army numbered about a thousand and was the vanguard of the large army. Such an army already possesses extremely strong combat effectiveness. In battles with enemies, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army has defeated thousands of enemy warriors, and the total number of them does not exceed the number of ant limbs (ants have six limbs).
This vanguard of mysterious ants has been attacking the city all the way, fighting invincibly, and is two or three days away from the main army.
But they didn't feel anything was wrong and were still taking the initiative to attack. Even if this time the mysterious ants noticed that the enemy was prepared, they would not be timid.
This is the psychology of long-term winning. If there is a litterateur among the mysterious ants, they might come up with the attributive saying "if the mysterious ants are less than a thousand, they will be invincible if there are more than a thousand."
After arriving at the nest at the forefront of Suzaku's defensive position, this force quickly launched an attack on the underground defenders.
A defensive war broke out.
