The Leafcutter Ant Nation has approximately 400,000 reinforcements. This is their entire mobile force on the front line. They are divided into multiple columns and advance eastward in a long snake formation about 1-2 meters wide and up to 100 meters long to support the main force. The new territory garrison fighting the fire ant army.
This large army of leaf-cutting ants lacked vigilance. Their commander believed that the main force of the red fire ant army was fighting fiercely with the defenders of the new territory in the east. They had previously repelled a large partial division of the red fire ant army. There should be no large troops nearby.
On the route along which the leaf-cutter ant army advanced, there were small groups of troops stationed at regular intervals to protect the traffic lines. Although they found some red fire ant army scouts - which was normal in wartime - they did not find any enemies. Information about the presence of large military units.
Therefore, the leaf-cutting ant army just immersed itself in its journey, with only a small number of troops on the flanks to guard.
If the leaf-cutter ant army had flying knights, they would not be so optimistic.
Viewed from the air, armies of fire ants are already rushing in from the north and south directions like a red tide, and are about to hit the thin dam formed by leaf-cutter ants.
Because the northern and southern armies of the red fire ant army are blocked by the leaf-cutter ant army's continuous linear positions, information communication is inconvenient. They have not been in contact since they separated yesterday, and they only arrived at the predetermined area separately.
However, after the scouts of the two clusters discovered the traces of the leaf-cutter ant army, the two clusters in the north and south began to act according to the plan, showing good execution ability.
The scouts of the northern group sent back information earlier, and they set off earlier. The cluster in the south was about half an hour behind the north because the scouts discovered the information late.
Both clusters originally had 150,000 fighters, but now the number of the third cluster in the south has exceeded 200,000. This is because the remnant army of the second cluster, which was defeated last night, came closer under the leadership of the surviving fire ant commander.
The current marching formation of the leaf-cutting ant army is very long, and it is difficult to take care of both the beginning and the end. The best tactic for the red fire ant army should be to divide and surround them in several columns and eliminate them one by one.
However, the Red Fire Ant Army does not understand this tactic. Knowing that ambushes and surprise attacks are already the ceiling of the Red Fire Ant Army's military skills.
When the 150,000-strong army of the fourth group of the red fire ant army suddenly appeared to the north of the leaf-cutter ant army, the number of flank cover troops of the leaf-cutter ant army was too small. They did not rush to warn until the enemy came to kill them, but it was already too late.
The red fire ant army quickly defeated the leaf-cutter ant army's small flank cover force. The front formed an irregular straight line and slammed into the leaf-cutter ant army's marching column.
The leaf-cutting ant army also immediately adjusted to fight, but because they were in a marching column, it was difficult to change their formations for a while. At the beginning, they were basically small units fighting independently under the leadership of their respective commanders.
Among leaf-cutter ant warriors, except for the small proportion of large leaf-cutter ants that can compete with fire ant warriors in single combat, the most numerous small leaf-cutter ants are not rivals of red fire ants. They need to rely on size coordination and numerical superiority to compete.
In the midst of the chaos, many leaf-cutter ant soldiers, big and small, got lost during the march, and they had no choice but to fight back.
The red fire ant army's raid caused a lot of casualties to the leaf-cutter ant army, but with a numerical advantage of nearly three times, the leaf-cutter ant army survived the initial panic.
Countless flying messengers passed the orders of the top female ant commander of the army to the male ant commanders at the middle and lower levels. The long snakes of the leaf-cutter ant army began to twist, extending their heads and tails, using longer formations. , began to encircle the red fire ant army in the north.
If the war situation continues like this, the leaf-cutter ant army will rely on their numerical advantage to completely surround and eat the main force of the red fire ant army.
But half an hour later, the situation changed suddenly.
A larger number of red fire ant troops from the south arrived on the battlefield. The red fire ant army finally gained a numerical advantage, and the balance of the battle began to tilt.
What's even more terrible is that the leaf-cutting ant army did not expect that there were enemies behind them. They all faced the north and fought. What remained in the south were the weakest troops carrying baggage and their supreme commander's main formation.
The first wave of attacks from the third group of the red fire ant army rushed into the formation of the supreme commander of the leaf-cutter ant army, killing the young female ant and a dozen older male ant staff members around her.
The leaf-cutting ant army, which lost its unified command, once again fell into fighting independently, and this time, their command system could not be restored.
The battle situation suddenly changed. The leaf-cutting ant army in the farthest place did not know that the command headquarters was being blamed. It still faithfully carried out the previous orders and completed the siege of the fourth cluster of the red fire ant army.
But just a few minutes later, in the middle of the battlefield, the red fire ant army attacked from the north and the south, wiping out the leaf-cutter ant army in the middle and opening up the connection between the two groups.
The sun has reached the west, and now the battlefield has become a situation where the red fire ant army is in the middle and the remnants of the leaf-cutter ant army are on the east and west sides.
The leaf-cutter ant army in the west is larger, with about 200,000 soldiers, while the leaf-cutter ant army in the east has about 100,000 soldiers.
The red fire ant army knew the principle of concentrating its troops. They sent slave auxiliary soldiers to the east to contain another leaf-cutting ant army, and the main force of the army surrounded the leaf-cutting ant army in the west.
The battle was extremely fierce, and the leaf-cutter ant army, which had no way out, resisted desperately. However, the leaf-cutter ant army, which had no numerical advantage, no individual combat effectiveness advantage, and lost its command, was already unable to escape.
When night fell, under the moonlight, corpses were everywhere. The red fire ant army had slaughtered all 200,000 leaf-cutting ant troops. Their killing efficiency was evident.
Later, the red fire ant army did not return to their nest, but continued to maneuver eastward under the moonlight, preparing to eliminate the remaining leaf-cutting ant army overnight.
The leaf-cutter ant army in the east was originally under less pressure and had already elected a new commander and rebuilt the command system, but they did not know what happened to the other troops.
The two sides continued to fight under the moonlight, and the leaf-cutter ant army finally felt the pressure was increasing. After receiving no news from the main force for a long time, they also became suspicious.
Finally, the leaf-cutter ant army chose to retreat. Under the cover of night, the red fire ant army did not complete the encirclement in time. The remnant army of 50,000 leaf-cutter ants broke through eastward and fled into the new territory.
There are still 300,000 elite fire ant troops guarding there. After pursuing for a while, the red fire ant army had no choice but to give up the pursuit of victory.
This battle lasted from morning to midnight, and finally came to an end. The fire ant army wiped out 350,000 leaf-cutting ants at a cost of 100,000 casualties.
Now the red fire ant army has a slight numerical advantage with 400,000 to 350,000, and has also taken the initiative on the battlefield.
The remaining 350,000 leaf-cutter ant army had already received information that the reinforcements might be defeated, but before they could react, after sunrise the next day, the leaf-cutter ant army suddenly found that they had been surrounded!
