The short-lived victory in the defense battle of the second and third sub-nests did not last long. The next day, Suzaku never received any news from these two locations.
The scouts wandering around [Purple Leaf Licheng] were ordered to take the initiative to go to two battlefields at noon the next day. What they saw was an extremely familiar scene of a large number of mysterious ants carrying corpses underground. Then, Suzaku learned that both secondary nests were lost.
As a result, [Purple Leaf Licheng] has lost its northernmost barrier and is directly exposed to the enemy's front.
Sure enough, that afternoon, the scouts hurriedly reported that a large black tide-like army of mysterious ants was heading here. It seems that the next attack target of the mysterious ants has been determined.
This time, there were so many mysterious ants, nearly ten thousand in number, that they could not even form a single column. They had to march in parallel in several columns. They looked like winding black streams that kept intersecting and flowing. It bifurcates, like a flood, overwhelming everything in its path.
This formation covered a wide area, making it impossible for many of the scouts on the periphery of [Purple Leaf Licheng] to get rid of the pursuit in time.
If Suzaku hadn't sent out enough scouts, they might not have been able to detect the movements of the enemy army and report back, and would have suffered a surprise attack.
If Suzaku hadn't already ordered all the troops to be prepared and prepared, the scouts would have only provided less than a quarter of an hour of warning, which was not enough for the entire [Purple Leaf Licheng] defense line to quickly adjust to the first wave of offensive.
Such a large number of mysterious ants have become almost all the main enemies on this road. And this route of enemies is the key strategy direction among the four-pronged troops invaded by mysterious ants this time.
It can be said that whether the pavement ants can buy enough time on this line of defense to take advantage of the next main nest defense battle, repeat last year's victory, and even fight a beautiful defensive battle here to disintegrate the enemy's attack. offensive; or the mysterious ants will gain an unstoppable victory, and then continue to attack the main nest, completely destroying the foundation of the overlord on the north bank of the river. Everything depends on this battle.
In the sky, the flying knight sent by the protagonist was wandering, witnessing several columns of mysterious ants disappearing and appearing under the green vegetation, quickly crossing a soil ridge in the north, and then surrounding the entire purple-leafed plum tree.
As always, these mysterious ants did not send any scouts, but they could accurately find the location of [Purple Leaf Licheng] and would never make a mistake.
The flying knights in the air are safe, but underground, invisible, every pavement ant faces a life-and-death struggle at any time.
The battle throughout the day was lackluster. Suzaku's targeted layout did play a big role. Although [Purple Leaf Licheng] still retained six entrances and exits after filling in, the number of enemies who could enter during the war was not very large. , coupled with the larger underground structure compared to other lairs, make the attacker very uncomfortable. The Pavement Ant Barbarian Army achieved certain results.
But at dusk, just when Suzaku expected that the enemy would withdraw to rest, he did not wait for the enemy to withdraw.
Although there was no daylight underground, Suzaku determined that it was already night based on his biological clock. Only now did he confirm that the enemy would not go back to rest like pavement ants or big-headed ants, but would instead prepare to continue fighting.
Indeed, in the previous offensive and defensive battles of the sub-nest, the mysterious ant army with only a thousand soldiers had to withdraw and reorganize to preserve its strength, and would be replaced by other troops for night attacks.
But the current main force has tens of thousands of soldiers who can fight at night, and there is no need for unnecessary retreat and formation changes.
The good news for Suzaku was that he no longer had to be unprepared for surprise attacks, but there was more bad news.
The defense lines he deployed were all set up according to the half-day combat time. Now the troops on the front line were hungry and exhausted.
But Suzaku had no way to send out the transferred troops. On the one hand, the underground lair passage was too narrow, and on the other hand, the defenders in many places lacked grassroots male ant commanders. It was almost impossible for the two legions to carry out handover while stabilizing the defense line. impossible.
Mysterious ants rarely have this trouble. Although they are larger, the total number of warriors who have gone underground so far is only three or four thousand, and they are scattered into countless small groups. There are not many warriors in each place.
Those warriors who feel that their energy is exhausted can find a wider passage or passage intersection to turn around, return to the ground along the way they came, and let other energetic friendly forces continue the attack.
The more trouble the mysterious ants encounter when they form an array like this is traffic congestion. Two groups of troops traveling in the opposite direction are often blocked together. The narrow passage can only allow the big mysterious ants to go alone, and they need to find a place. Just know how to drive.
Suzaku sent out a small team to go around and it was quite successful at first, but as more and more mysterious ants entered the ground, the team to go around often didn't have time to attack the enemy troops who were pinned down on the front line from behind. They will encounter other mysterious ant troops in the rear and be massacred.
At night, although the escaped male ants already knew that the team's tactics had failed, Suzaku was helpless.
The cannon fodder regiments that had been fighting for most of the day and had fixed the defensive area were still unable to be rotated and suffered heavy casualties. And small teams are still being dispatched in a steady stream. Even if the casualties are heavy, they can at least relieve the pressure on the front line.
Suzaku sat in a nest near the bottom of [Purple Leaf Licheng]. An endless stream of messengers sent battle reports from all over the nest, allowing Suzaku to understand the battle situation.
At this time, Suzaku had to admit that most of his defense strategy had failed. The small team's strategy of bypassing and attacking still had room for use against an enemy force of a thousand. However, when the number of enemies thrown into the nest exceeded two or three thousand, , this tactic loses room for use.
Now, the reason why [Purple Leaf Licheng] has not completely fallen is that the pavement ant defenders still control two-thirds of the nest chambers and passages. This is only due to the huge size of the underground nest due to the number of defenders.
If some measures were not taken, Suzaku felt that it would be a miracle that he could hold on until the morning after tomorrow.
Suzaku had to summon several messengers and issued orders to them, preparing to implement the last backup plan.
So, these messengers went all the way up from a secret passage that reached the bottom of the nest, lifted up a bit of soil blocking the ground, climbed up from the secret exit, and headed east, south, and west in the dim light of the early morning. Rush in one direction.
Behind them, the ants that had broken off the secret passage were re-blocked with soil. It looked like the entrance had never appeared before.
