April 2nd, sunny.
The rising sun in the morning sounded like a battle horn. When the white light illuminated the earth, the legion of the God Envoy King defending the city and the red fire ant army attacking the city all entered the battlefield at this time.
On the Angel King's legion, the 4th legion, the 5th legion and the 6th legion are the first-line troops, and the 2nd legion and the 101st legion are placed as reserve teams on the second line behind the city wall. The two legions that participated in the night attack last night Then rest in the nest temporarily.
As for the red fire ant army, although they struggled for most of the night in the night attack and smoke attack of the Angel King's army, except for the loss of a few hundred red fire ants and slave auxiliary soldiers, they were not injured.
Ants have a short sleep period, and usually just take a few naps. It's just that they can't easily move outside the nest in the dark at night. Therefore, after a night of hard work last night, the red fire ant army did not appear tired. They still came out of the nest in high spirits and formed an array.
Hundreds of thousands of red fire ant armies cannot be put into the battlefield at once - the city wall built by the Angel King's army across the entire neck of the peninsula is only a few meters wide in front, and the battlefield cannot spread too many troops at all. .
If it weren't for such a favorable geographical location, which could greatly limit the attacker's strength advantage, the protagonist would not dare to defend the city against a hundred thousand enemy troops.
The attack force that the fire ant army can invest at one time is only five to seven thousand soldiers, and the maximum number of soldiers cannot exceed ten thousand. Otherwise, they will crowd and trample on each other, which will be counterproductive and so on.
But the fire ant army still pulled all its troops out of the underground camp and lined them up. When hundreds of thousands of troops lined up, the momentum was still very shocking.
I saw that the red fire ant army formation was a long fan-shaped east-west direction, about ten meters long from east to west, and about one meter wide from north to south. It spread out on the mainland in an arc shape, surrounding the [Xinyangcheng] peninsula like an iron barrel. , confronting the defenders' defense system across the depression.
The formation of the red fire ant army is very distinctive. Different ant tribes have different carapace colors, and they are arranged in separate formations, making them distinct.
Those whose front part is bright red and whose back part is dark under the sun are the fierce warriors of the fire ant family, and they account for half of the army.
The elite military formation of the red fire ants is divided into three parts. About 35 people are in the center of all the military formations. A large red area looks like the elite red warriors. This is their central army.
The remaining 25 are divided into two parts. They are at the extreme sides of the formation, seemingly holding down the formation. These are the left army and the right army.
The warriors sandwiched between the central army and the red fire ant formations on both wings are the slave auxiliary soldiers of various races. Their formation is not so strict. From this point, it can be seen that their combat effectiveness is inferior to that of the red fire ants.
All the slave ant tribes divided their troops into two parts, one on the left and one on the right to defend the central army. Each ant tribe hugged together and was slightly separated from other ant tribes.
In the slave auxiliary formation, those with dull body color and generally slightly larger than the big-headed soldier ants, but slightly smaller than the large soldiers of red imported fire ants, are the burrowing ant warriors.
Burrowing ants are mainly engaged in logistical tasks such as nest building and foraging in the fire ant army. They also serve as cannon fodder in battles, and their underdeveloped jaws are their only weapon.
The body shape and color of wood ant warriors are very similar to red fire ants. They are Chinese red wood ants. If you look carefully, you can see that there are differences between them and red imported fire ants. The wood ants' heads are more rounded, unlike the red imported fire ants, which are heart-shaped. The wood ants' only weapon is their jaws, which are far less strong and developed than the red imported fire ants. And there are no stings.
In addition, forest ant warriors have two body types. The difference in body size between large and small worker ants is only about 1mm, which is not a big difference. The body length of the big and small fire ants can be nearly doubled.
Wood ants are excellent jungle warriors. According to "Lao Xin", when the fire ant army attacks the leaf-cutting ant country, the fire ant warriors are mainly responsible for the ground attack, while the wood ants and other ant slave auxiliaries mainly attack on the trees, fighting each other. Cooperate.
Japanese black and brown ant warriors are all black. If fire ants and forest ants are red-armored warriors, then black and brown ants are black-armored warriors. These black and brown ants are close to the size of burrowing ants and one size larger than the workers of Big-headed ants.
The protagonist has come into contact with the black and brown ant tribe on the north bank of the river in his hometown, and knows that these black and brown ants have a relatively burly body. In fact, their only weapon is the big jaw, and their organization is disorganized and their fighting will is weak. Even the cowardly ants expressed their disdain for the combat effectiveness of the black ants.
However, black brown ants are also relatively adapted to fighting in the woods, and have good hunting abilities in trees, so they have a place in the fire ant army.
Finally, there are the Belly Ants. They are the same race as the "Old Heart" genetically, but now the two sides belong to different camps and are about to meet with swords. Both sides are Osaka ants. Their bodies are red-yellow to brown-yellow in color and look golden in the sun. They are very beautiful.
The soldiers of other ant tribes in the fire ant army are generally larger than the big-headed soldier ants. Only the bell-bellied ant warriors are the only ones smaller than the big-headed soldier ants.
These pocket warriors are not very effective in the Red Fire Ant Army, but they are indispensable. The reason is that they are the only unit in the Red Fire Ant that has long-range attack methods.
——I am the dividing line——
The red fire ant army has a clear formation, shining with red, black and gold light. It looks like it has bright armor and a neat military appearance.
However, after last night's victory in the night attack of the Divine Envoy King's Army, and under the repeated encouragement of the protagonist, the commanders' morale was also high.
After the army of fire ants was assembled, it finally began to move. They separated a force of about ten thousand and began to climb into the depression and approach [Xinyang City].
The number of the enemy's first wave of troops was only one-tenth of the total strength, and there were only a thousand elites of the red fire ants themselves. The others were slave auxiliaries of various races. They were obviously here for a tentative attack.
However, the defenders on the front line of the Divine Envoy Army were only three-quarters of the enemy's first wave of troops. Many of them were still new recruits, and they could not stand with their arms and legs folded, so they could still carry out defensive operations normally.
The flying knight troops in the air did not participate in the defense, but kept circling and monitoring to prevent the enemy from ambush.
But this is a home battle. The protagonist is standing on a high observation deck. The enemy's formation and movement can be seen clearly at a glance. The flying knights' reconnaissance role is not as prominent as in the field battle.
When the fire ant vanguard crawled out of the depression and moved forward a certain distance, they entered the range of the crossbow.
This time, the Red Fire Ant forwards launched a full-scale attack on the entire front wall of [Xin Yang City], but they were also exposed to the firepower of all 8 towers and 16 ballistae that were encrypted on the front defense line.
These ballistae are manned by specialized ballista teams, which have been trained intensively in recent days.
As the first round of volleys of crossbows set off a wave of flesh and blood among the fire ant army, the battle officially began!
