As dusk came, another attack by the fire ant army was repelled, and their momentum was suppressed. They finally withdrew to the underground camp. The exhausted defenders could finally leave the city wall and return to the underground lair to rest.
In [Xinyang City], batches of logistics teams composed of worker ants entered the battlefield to clean up. They collected thousands of corpses, most of which belonged to the enemy, and a few of them belonged to the God Envoy King's army.
After a whole day of fierce fighting today, the 4th Army, 5th Army and 6th Army, which have been fighting on the front line for a long time, are very exhausted and have suffered a lot of losses. Many of them were exhausted in the afternoon battle. Killed in action.
You can't blame the protagonist for always changing the front-line troops or not devoting reserve troops. The enemy's offensive continues all the time, and there is no time for rotation at all. Rotation in the face of enemy attacks is simply suicidal.
Fortunately, today's bloody battle is finally over, but tomorrow, the same tragic battle will continue.
Although the God Envoy King's army has killed a lot, it also has its own hidden dangers - in [Xinyang City], there are not even enough healthy soldier ants to fill the gap, and it will take nearly a month for the new generation of soldier ants to emerge from pupae and reach adulthood.
The protagonist can only let these three legions rest the next day, and let other legions take up the defense line for rotation the next day.
That night, the Angel King Legion once again tried to organize a night attack. Because the six Big-headed Ant Legions all had combat missions or were exhausted, the protagonist led the 7th Legion to the night attack.
It's just that the 7th Legion is relatively new to this aspect, and the protagonist needs to be commanded indirectly through the commanders of other vassal ant tribes. Tonight's night attack was very slow.
The fire ants that suffered losses last night also stepped up their vigilance. The magic soldier ants discovered that there were sentries on guard at all entrances and exits of the enemy camp.
In the end, for the sake of safety, the night attack ended in an anticlimactic manner, with not a wisp of poisonous smoke drifting into the enemy camp.
The protagonist led the night attack team to abandon the newly dug combustion chamber and flue, and retreated to [Xinyang City] in despair.
After returning, the protagonist also learned his lesson and disbanded all the other vassal ant tribes, leaving only a few pavement ant teams led by "Floating Leaf II" to train the technical movements of night smoke attacks on the peninsula. From now on, these The pavement ant warriors are specialized night attack troops!
——I am the dividing line——
As the sun rises, the protagonist sees that today's sky and earth show completely different colors from yesterday.
It was white, white as snow, light white, and annoying white.
There is a very tall poplar tree where [New Yangcheng] is located. There are also many poplar trees in the Black Forest to the north. In addition to poplar trees and willow trees, there are also poplar trees in the Golden Beach Forest to the east.
The willows were so densely packed that in April, a large number of catkins and catkins suddenly burst out.
The sunshine has been warm recently, and the wind has picked up again today, which is a good time for the willows to flourish and bloom.
So, one night later, the sky and the earth were suddenly filled with countless floating catkins, flying, circling, chasing and landing like goose feathers in the white wind.
Humans definitely hate such weather, but to ants, such weather does not matter. After all, no matter how light and small the flying catkins are, they cannot get into the compound eyes and spiracles of ants, nor can they cause allergies to ants.
But today's fire ant army is particularly annoyed by these uninvited willow catkins.
The depression to the north of [Xinyang City] is a naturally formed lowland, which almost completely blocks the front of [Xinyang City], just like a trench.
The fire ant army usually doesn't care about this huge stretch of trench. The depression is only three or four decimeters deep, and the slopes on the north and south sides are gentle, which is not enough to stop their steps.
But today, a small number of weeds in the saline-alkali land in the depression, the dried rhizomes of dead weeds from previous years, and raised small stones half buried in the soil, all these small obstacles together form a continuous network.
The flying catkins were hooked in front of these obstacles and stopped. Then the fluffy catkins caught more companions passing by, and countless flying catkins began to spread like snow.
When the red fire ant army began to form their formation, they suddenly discovered that a large amount of flying catkins had accumulated on the back side of the depression, blocking almost all the way forward in the depression!
These flying catkins are as dense as a web in the depression, and the soft white fibers inside are intertwined with each other. Although it is not as sticky as a spider web, any ant that dares to trek through it will definitely be completely trapped by the criss-crossing fibers.
The sudden April flying catkins were like God helping the Angel King's army, blocking more than 90% of the enemy's attack front. Moreover, countless Feixu are still continuing to strengthen this blockade network!
Although the red fire ant army is big, it is not without adaptability. The attack team of tens of thousands of ants they sent today was divided into two parts amid the flying catkins in the sky. There was no accumulation of flying catkins on both sides of the depression approaching the river beach. The place passed and came to the south side of the depression to assemble.
There were also countless slave auxiliary soldiers, who, under the orders of the red fire ants, went down to the depressions and used their big jaws to clean up the flying catkins that were lumped together bit by bit.
There are actually poplar and willow seeds in these flying catkins. If taken out, they can also be used as military rations. Therefore, such a move by the red fire ant army can kill two birds with one stone, but the pace of the attack will definitely be slowed down.
As for the defenders, they were also affected by the flying catkins, but they were in a much better situation than the enemy.
During this period, the wind blows mostly from the south, and sometimes the wind direction changes briefly. [Xinyang City] Mainly because of the accumulation of flying catkins on the inside and outside of the towering city walls. The south wall has the most, and the north wall also has it, but much less.
The Divine Envoy King's army also started dealing with the flying catkins on the south wall early in the morning, otherwise the ants' way up the wall for defense would be blocked.
Compared to the slave auxiliary soldiers of the Red Fire Ant Army who rely entirely on their jaws and brute force to figure out Feixu's clumsy methods, the protagonist commands the God Envoy King's army much more skillfully and efficiently.
The soldiers of the God's Envoy Army, together with the auxiliary worker ants, brought drops of water from the river or the underground water channel of the nest, and sprinkled them on the flying catkins. The originally fluffy catkins immediately shrank into a ball, and the ants could calmly I separated the flying catkins and moved them away, and it was easy to find the seeds inside. These flying catkins seeds were brought back to the nest and used as food storage for [New Yang City].
As the flying catkins on the south wall quickly disappeared, the defenders successfully climbed up the wall and set up their positions before the enemy could launch an attack.
The flying catkins on the north side of the city wall have not been cleared by the Divine Envoy King's army. Although these flying catkins piled up in the corners are not many, they are also a major obstacle to the enemy's attack!
God bless the Legion of Divine Envoy King. The protagonist has never been so fond of those ubiquitous flying catkins as he is today!
