The red fire ant country has an unusually big appetite. Yesterday, they wiped out 350,000 leaf-cutting ant troops in one go. After winning the biggest victory since the century-old war between the two countries, they were not satisfied. Instead, they prepared to kill the remaining 350,000 leaf-cutting ant troops. and eat it.
The red fire ant army did not return to their nest to rest last night. Instead, they sent a large number of slave auxiliary soldiers to brave the dangers of the night to act as messengers and guide each army to the designated position overnight, completing the siege of the remaining leaf-cutting ant army. net.
The soldiers of the red imported fire ants also rested on the spot for a while, while their slave auxiliary soldiers were on the road all night, cleaning up the garrison and building garrison points, and they were exhausted.
On the contrary, there was almost no movement from the leaf-cutter ant army. After accepting the remnants of the reinforcements who fled into the new territory during the night, no measures were taken to deal with the changes in the war situation.
The remnants of the reinforcements only thought that other troops might have been defeated based on their own experiences, and they didn't know how bad the situation had deteriorated.
The commanders of the garrison cluster in the new territory did not receive the information. They thought they were facing the main force of the red fire ant army, and they could not understand why the reinforcements were suddenly defeated.
The leaf-cutter ant army's confusion, delay, and hesitation cost them the opportunity to break out early. On August 9, the red fire ant army completed the siege of the leaf-cutting ant army.
Next, if the leaf-cutting ant army can withstand the offensive of the red fire ant army, or break through and retain its effective strength, then this two-country war, which has been rare in recent years, will continue.
However, if the fire ant army achieves its campaign goal and eliminates the leaf-cutting ant army, then even with the strength of the leaf-cutter ant country, it will not be able to reorganize a large force to resist the fire ant army's offensive in the short term, and it will inevitably lose troops and territory.
In fact, on the 9th, the encirclement network just completed by the red fire ant army was still very weak. At this time, the red fire ant army had only a little more troops than the leaf-cutter ant army. They were evenly distributed everywhere. Without mobile troops, the encirclement was like paper. generally.
If the leaf-cutter ant army is determined to break out at this time, it will be difficult for the red fire ant army to stop it. However, the leaf-cutter ant army, which has severed contact with the mainland, still plans to stick to this new territory and contain the red fire ant army as planned.
This plan drawn up by the leaf-cutter ant army before the war is not wrong. Although the strategic and tactical level of the leaf-cutter ant army is not as good as that of the Spartan warrior-like red fire ants, after all, it is a country that can compete with the red fire ant country for hundreds of years. This plan is It's not wrong to start.
The new territory and garrison are like a wedge firmly nailed to the fire ant's country, containing a large number of fire ant troops. With Ben Tu's 400,000 reinforcements at any time to support them, as long as the fire ant army is out of food, the leaf-cutter ant army will win.
The leafcutter ant nation knows that its biggest advantage lies in the number of troops and its extremely solid logistics foundation. However, as long as the red fire ant army invests too many troops, the food output from the rear will not be able to keep up. In the past, the leaf-cutter ant army relied on such stalemate and delaying tactics to push back the red fire ant army many times, and then took advantage of the situation to regain lost territory or launch a counterattack.
But they didn't expect that this time the fire ant army would be so desperate to encircle the point for reinforcements and succeed. At this time, the leaf-cutting ant army in the new territory is still continuing to implement the old plan. The food route between them and the mainland has been cut off. The food is only enough to last for half a month, and the situation is gradually becoming dangerous.
——I am the dividing line——
The flying knights of the King of Divine Envoys flew intensively yesterday and observed the entire battle from a high-altitude perspective.
When the leaf-cutter ant coalition was about to be attacked from the north and the south, the flying knights once reported to the protagonist.
The protagonist also hesitated whether to quickly warn the leaf-cutter ant army. After all, the two countries still have trade relations, and there is also the common enemy of the red fire ant country. The enemy of the enemy is a friend.
However, thinking about the previous arrogant unilateral adjustment of trade volume by the Leaf Cutter Ant Nation and its stubbornness and arrogance in negotiations. In fact, the Leaf Cutter Ant Nation's attitude towards the God Envoy King's Legion was not equal and intimate from the bottom of their hearts. The protagonist hesitated. .
At this time, another flying knight came to report that the leaf-cutting ant reinforcements had joined the fire ant army, and the protagonist gave up the plan to notify them.
But the protagonist never expected that the fire ant army would actually achieve an epic victory. After dusk, the Flying Knight cannot take off. At dusk, the reinforcements of leaf-cutting ants have not yet been wiped out. The protagonist only knows that the two armies are fighting fiercely.
So this morning, when the protagonist received the latest intelligence and found that the battlefield yesterday was littered with corpses, and that the red fire ant army had surrounded the remaining leaf-cutting ant army, he was also shocked.
He hoped that both the fire ant country and the leafcutter ant country would suffer losses. When the time came, he would take the opportunity to ask for hematite to be included in the territory, and then launch an attack on the red fire ant country and expand its territory. This is the protagonist's wishful thinking.
But now, the fire ant army is likely to achieve a great victory and destroy the balance between the two countries.
In the relationship between the Three Kingdoms, once the balance is broken, there will be a chain reaction, just like how Wei and Jin finally unified the country at the end of the Three Kingdoms.
The protagonist decides to at least preserve the remaining strength of the leaf-cutter ant army so that they can continue to contain the main force of the red fire ant army. Otherwise, if the 400,000 red fire ant army turns around and attacks the God Envoy King's army, it will be difficult for me to withstand it. The best result is to lose almost all the new territory and continue to shrink back to [New Yang City]. This is not good!
So the protagonist asked "Xiaohua", who was relatively familiar with the leaf-cutting ants, as a messenger to persuade the surrounded leaf-cutting ant army to break out.
At this time, the red fire ant army has strengthened the encirclement network and built a small honeycomb-like above-ground fortress with many entrances and exits at regular intervals to station troops and assist in defense. Especially in the west between the leaf-cutting ant army and the mainland, the fortress group is even denser. At the same time, the Red Fire Ant Army also mobilized 100,000 troops to form a mobile unit to support the battlefield at any time.
At this time, the fire ant army began to rely on the honeycomb fortress and launch a comprehensive attack from all directions.
When the "little flower" was led by a flying knight and flew to the leaf-cutting ant army's station, the red fire ant army had already launched an attack. The extremely nervous leaf-cutting ant army grinned at the "little flower" in the air.
Fortunately, a female leafcutter ant finally knew that this was a fly from the Angel King's army, so the "little flower" dared to land and was led into the underground nest.
"Little Flower" met with the commander of the leaf-cutter ant army and provided him with the information about yesterday's battle situation and the current battle situation that the God Envoy King's army had.
Only then did the leaf-cutter ant army realize that the reinforcements had been completely wiped out. After discussion yesterday, they were optimistic that 100,000 to 200,000 reinforcements had been divided and returned to the mainland.
The leaf-cutter ant army finally realized that they were now in a dilemma without reinforcements.
"Little Flower" put forward the protagonist's breakout proposal, in which the company had planned a specific route: go northwest to bypass the western fortress group of the red fire ant army, and then turn due west. You can take a shorter route back to the mainland.
However, the leaf-cutter ant army rejected this suggestion even though they knew they were surrounded. They said that the last order they received from the female ant conference was to stick to their new territory.
