The mysterious ants seem to have a keen sense like radar, and can always detect the opponent's large forces within a certain distance nearby.
But the few messengers sent by Suzaku failed to attract the attention of the mysterious ant army just a few meters away.
The messengers immediately split up and accelerated in three directions. The entrances and exits behind them were blocked again, as if everything had never happened.
——I am the dividing line——
Suzaku, who was hiding deep underground, could not see the sight of the ground gradually being covered by sunlight again, and the sun gradually moving to the highest point of the blue, cloudless sky. This was another good day with the sun shining brightly.
In the dark underground, Suzaku could not see it. The mysterious ant warriors who had withdrawn from the underground began to stretch their limbs in the sun, as if to dispel the fatigue and coldness of a night of fierce fighting.
He could only observe the deteriorating trend of the war situation from the constant flow of battle reports.
The garrison of [Ziye Licheng] has a total of 11 legions, including 4 main legions and 7 cannon fodder legions.
So far in the battle, 1 main force corps and 2 cannon fodder corps have been completely wiped out, and 1 main force corps and 3 cannon fodder corps have suffered serious battle losses. Overall, after half a day and a night of fighting, nearly half of Suzaku's troops had been lost.
The top third of the nests have been completely lost, and some of the nests are in dangerous fights, and some troops have lost contact.
The enemy will soon be able to occupy the upper half of the lair. If this progress continues, it is still unknown whether Suzaku and the others will be able to see the sun tomorrow.
Due to the concentration of granaries in the upper half of the nest, Suzaku lost two-thirds of its food reserves. But fortunately, with the current progress of battle damage, Suzaku still has more than enough food on hand.
However, the good news is that when Suzaku expanded the defenses of [Purple Leaf Li City], they deliberately blocked most of the passages between the upper and lower parts of the nest, leaving only seven or eight passages.
In this way, even if the enemy completely occupies the upper half of the nest and wants to attack the lower half, it will be like starting to attack the nest again. This can bring some geographical advantages and breathing space for the defenders.
Suzaku had realized that the continuous fighting had made the frontline troops extremely exhausted, and began to consciously mobilize fresh troops to garrison near the entrances and exits of the lower half of the nest, and try his best to meet the defenders of the upper half of the nest who were ordered to withdraw.
After realizing that the enemy was outnumbered, Suzaku had ordered the gradual abandonment of the upper half of the nest.
This was done as a last resort. The upper part had been completely penetrated by the enemy, but the defenders were torn into pieces. Rather than wasting strength in a head-on confrontation with the enemy, it is better to gather effective forces into subsequent positions.
Compared with the upper part of the nest, the lower part of [Purple Leaf Licheng] is also the same as other ant nests in the same location. The passages are narrower and the nest chambers are smaller. Some passages are even difficult for mysterious ants to easily penetrate.
Suzaku can only hope that the terrain here can play a little role.
After only one day of fighting, Suzaku had given up on the unrealistic idea of killing a large number of enemies here. Now he just wanted to hold on longer and buy an extra day or two for the defense of the main nest.
Maybe only the main nest is the truly advantageous battlefield. [Purple Leaf Licheng] is still too small and weak in comparison.
What Suzaku is waiting for now is the messenger he sent out and the reinforcements the messenger brought back.
——I am the dividing line——
Several messengers went separately to the other three nearby sub-nests belonging to Suzaku's command.
These three sub-nests have not been attacked by the mysterious ants. It seems that the mysterious ants have also realized that the defenders of [Purple Leaf Licheng] are the main force here, and are ready to complete their victory in one battle, and have not divided their forces to attack other nearby nests.
There are also fifteen legions in these three lairs, but there are only three main legions, and the rest are cannon fodder legions. Many cannon fodder legions are not full.
After the messenger arrived, the local ruling male ants immediately followed Suzaku's order and sent reinforcements to [Purple Leaf Licheng].
Only one unsatisfied cannon fodder legion was left behind in each of the three sub-nests, while tens of thousands of soldiers from the other twelve legions quickly set off.
Following Suzaku's order, this army did not go directly to [Purple Leaf Licheng] not far away, but took a detour to gather at a location half an hour south of [Purple Leaf Licheng], so as not to be advanced by the enemy. find.
The mysterious ants can always find the location of the approaching Pavement Ant Barbarian Army. Although Suzaku doesn't understand the reason, he already knows this characteristic. Therefore, if you want the army to successfully support [Ziye Licheng], you have to find a way.
Suzaku, like his teacher, was known for his intelligence and scheming in the Barbarian Kingdom of Paidao Ant, unlike most of the male ant commanders who were reckless. In the order brought by the messenger he sent, there were arrangements for this point.
A cannon fodder army circled to the north of [Ziye Li City] and approached the entrance from the north.
At this time, most of the mysterious ant army has entered the underground nest, and is intensifying its attack from the upper half of the nest to the lower half of the nest, and has conquered two connecting passages between the two nests.
At this time, there were less than two thousand mysterious ants left on the ground guarding the entrance.
After sensing the approach of an army of pavement ants, half of the mysterious ants left their position to expel them.
After a brief battle between the pavement ants and the mysterious ants, it turned out that they were no match at all. The only male pavement ant commander immediately ordered the troops to retreat through smells and friction sounds.
The pavement ant warriors retreated quickly, but the mysterious ant warriors were not slow in pursuit. The two sides fought and moved, and soon left the nest entrance dozens of meters away. The corpses dropped by the pavement ants were scattered along the way.
At this moment, another legion of pavement ant cannon fodder approached from the northwest near the entrance of [Purple Leaf Licheng].
This time, the mysterious ant army, which only had about a thousand warriors left, did not split up its forces to pursue them, but only made a defensive gesture towards the legion of paving ants. The pavement ant army is constantly trying to provoke, trying to get the defenders to leave their position.
These two cannon fodder units of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army were both feint attacks, and the ten legions of the main force had already taken the opportunity to arrive at the place where the messengers left [Purple Leaf Licheng].
However, they did not dig the passage that the messenger left, which led to the bottom of the lair.
The scouts who had visited the spot in advance had used their tentacles to search back and forth on the ground, found the scent-marked spot, and guided the army there.
This place is several meters away from the mysterious ants and out of sight of the enemy. Maybe the mysterious ants have a magical sense and sense that there are enemies here, but the remaining mysterious ants must guard the entrance and exit and have no time to come over.
The pavement ant army immediately dug out several entrances and exits that were originally blocked - entrances and exits leading to the upper part of the nest!
