On August 8, the red imported fire ant country launched a full-scale attack on the leaf-cutting ant country, and a battle that changed the geographical pattern began.
Before today, both countries had hoarded a large number of troops and supplies to the front line during several months of pre-war preparations.
War is actually about logistics. Even in the world of ants, this wise saying is still valid. Both sides now have their troops and supplies gradually in place, and the war can be reignited.
When the war resumed, the total number of troops invested by both sides exceeded one million. This was a terrifying number. If all the ants were crowded together without leaving any gaps between each other, so many ants would be enough to fill a room of more than a hundred people. Square meter three-bedroom apartment.
A million-level battle, the scale of which was unimaginable even for the Angel King's Army at its peak. At its peak, the standing strength of the God's Angel King's Army was only about 300,000, and the enemy it faced had never put together so many troops for a single battle. middle.
However, because the militaries of the Leafcutter Ant Country and the Red Fire Ant Country are still in the stage of all-people soldiers, unlike the Angel King's Army, which already has a standing army, so although the troops invested by the two countries seem to be large, the overall strength of any one of them is The strength is not necessarily as strong as that of the Divine Envoy King at his peak.
But no matter how you look at it, a million-level ant war is also an unprecedented battle!
The attacking red fire ant nation invested an overwhelming force, about 500,000 ants. Among them, there are 200,000 red fire ant warriors, 160,000 burrowing ants, 40,000 forest ants, 50,000 black brown ants, and 50,000 abdominal ants. The forest ant warriors were all recruited before the forest ant clan was destroyed.
A force of this size is almost the entire wealth of the Red Fire Ant Nation. Although the Red Fire Ant Country claims to have millions of warriors, that is only after all working ants are taken into account, including the old, weak, sick and disabled.
After losing an army of 150,000 in a previous disastrous defeat, the total number of ant colonies currently mobilized by the red fire ant country is only about 800,000, and the necessary ant colonies responsible for production and transportation must be left behind. 500,000 troops is already the maximum strength that the Red Fire Ant Nation can invest.
The Red Fire Ant Nation is indeed in a hurry this time. The last battle was a rare disastrous defeat for the country in recent years. This time, the Red Fire Ant Nation invested 200,000 of its own warriors to vow revenge. You know, there are only 300,000 soldiers of the Red Fire Ant Nation left in total. The last 100,000 red imported fire ants left are workers of both young and old age groups. In other words, the red fire ant country has invested almost all of its own effective force.
The 500,000-strong army cannot stay on the front line all the time, otherwise it will be an unbearable burden on the economy and logistics of the Red Fire Ant Country. So they chose to attack first.
On the other hand, the leaf-cutting ant army has invested a total of 700,000 troops. The leaf-cutting ant country has a stable food supply, and the ant population far exceeds that of the red imported fire ant country. In this battle, they had the advantage in strength and were on the defensive side.
However, because the primary goal of the leaf-cutting ant army is to protect the several new nests they have just captured, saplings have just been planted in this new territory, and there are no tall trees to provide the leaf-cutting ants with a home field advantage.
The leaf-cutter ant army knows that it is difficult to compete with the same number of red fire ant armies in a ground battle, and can only rely on its numerical advantage to fight a war of attrition.
So out of the 700,000 troops, 300,000 were placed on the new territory, and the rest of the troops were assembled in the forest area adjacent to the new territory. There were a small number of troops between the two armies to protect the communication lines, forming a dumbbell-shaped defensive posture.
The fire ant army's early attack plan was to regain the territory with all its strength. There were no forests there yet, and the fire ant army could defeat the enemy in ground combat where it was good at it. At the same time, the forest ant warriors are the main force, with black and brown ants and bell ants as supplements. They pretend to attack the woods, making it difficult for the enemy's local troops to support the battlefield in the new territory.
If the God Envoy King's army had not wiped out the forest ants, the Red Fire Ant Nation would have expected to receive an additional 50,000 forest ants during this period. With 90,000 forest ant warriors, it would have been more confident in the containment war.
After losing the support of the forest ants and greatly weakening their forest fighting strength, the red fire ant nation had to change its tactics - since the enemy's reinforcements could not be contained, then the reinforcements should be eliminated first!
——I am the dividing line——
In a battle involving millions of troops, it is impossible for all the troops to gather together.
The battle front is one kilometer long. With the ants' mobility, just walking along the front would take half a day without interruption. For a large army, this distance is too long. It takes about one or two to maneuver.
On such a long front, the red fire ant army divided into four groups and attacked the leaf-cutting ant army.
The first group of about 100,000 warriors, mainly auxiliary soldiers of various races, with only a small number of fire ant warriors, launched a feint attack on the lost territory just occupied by the leaf-cutting ant nation.
The second group of about 100,000 soldiers, also mainly auxiliary troops, launched a feint attack on the Leafcutter Ant Nation's homeland, inducing the Leafcutter Ant Nation's reinforcements to split up.
The third group has about 150,000 soldiers, and the fourth group has about 150,000 soldiers, both of which are the main force with a large number of red imported fire ant warriors. The two groups were deployed at the junction in the middle of the dumbbell-shaped formation of the leaf-cutting ants, one south and one north, with the purpose of destroying the reinforcements of the leaf-cutting ants.
The plan of the red fire ant army is to induce the reinforcements of the leaf-cutter ant army to attack, first eliminate the reinforcements, and then surround the main force of the leaf-cutter ant army on the lost ground. They have huge appetites and are ready to eat an army of leafcutter ants in one bite.
Since the reconnaissance capabilities of both sides are not as good as those of the Divine Envoy King Legion with its flying knights, both sides only know that there are many enemy troops in front of them and their general deployment, but the specific number and layout of the other side are all in the fog.
The battle started when neither side knew much about the enemy.
The first group of the red fire ant army attacked frontally. Under the threat of the supervisory team, the auxiliary soldiers of the red fire ant army fought extremely tenaciously, especially the remaining forest ant warriors who could no longer be replaced. They knew that their clan had been destroyed, and a Everyone was fighting as if they wanted to die.
The leaf-cutter ant army felt that the enemy was very fierce and they thought they had encountered the main force of the red fire ant army, so they sent a messenger to ask for reinforcements to come up and fight the enemy here to the death.
The mainland of the Leafcutter Ant Kingdom was also attacked, but the fire ant army of the second group was not strong. Not only were there few fire ant warriors, but there were also few forest ant warriors. They were quickly defeated by the mobilized army of 400,000 leaf-cutting ants and retreated, leaving behind nearly 50,000 corpses.
After receiving a request for help from the front line, the 400,000 leaf-cutting ant army reinforcements set off after a short night's rest. The leaf-cutting ant army, which had just won a significant victory, had no idea that they were stepping into a death trap.
When it was confirmed that the leaf-cutting ant reinforcements had left the woods, formed a marching array hundreds of meters long, and headed to a location 1.5 kilometers away for support. The third group and the fourth group of the Red Fire Ant Army left their base almost at the same time and headed for the long-planned ambush battlefield.
