The fire ant army is progressing extremely smoothly on the frontal battlefield. But for the slaves in the rear who worked hard to forage for food and transport military rations to the front line, this period was very difficult.
Unlike the leafcutter ant nation, which can produce sufficient fungal food, the elite warriors of the fire ant clan are good at fighting, but they don't care about foraging at all. Even when they eat, they have to be fed mouth-to-mouth by slaves, otherwise they won't be able to do it at all. eat.
When the besieged leafcutter ant army was anxious because they only had half a month of food left, the red fire ant army opposite them had even less food, with only three days left, but they were still launching an offensive.
In order to ensure the food supply and the feeding of red imported fire ants for the hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line, the vast number of slaves in the red fire ant country took on this arduous task almost day and night.
The target of the Angel King's attack this time is a group of slave troops of the Red Fire Ant Army who are driving "food" to the front line.
The food was dozens of giant millipedes. Millipedes, also called millipedes, are common insects and one of the few domesticated and raised insects of red imported fire ants.
To be precise, millipedes were actually domesticated by burrowing ants, and red imported fire ants don't care about anything other than fighting.
Back then, as the burrowing ants were conquered and reduced to vassals, and some became slaves, the technology of domesticating and raising millipedes was brought into the red fire ant country by the burrowing ant slaves.
The undomesticated millipede has its own trick to deal with ant hunting. The glands on the side of its body can spray an irritating venom or poisonous mist. It has a peculiar smell and toxicity, which is enough to prevent ants from approaching, and then Escape.
However, these glands of domesticated millipedes have been destroyed since childhood, turning them into big fat insects that are ready to be slaughtered when they grow up.
The protagonist learned this information from "Old Heart".
Dozens of millipedes, that's a lot of meat, and only a thousand or so burrowing ants with low combat effectiveness were escorted. The escort route was not far from the western territory of the Angel King's legion. This was simply delicious food delivered to your door.
The protagonist immediately raised a legion, led by the centipede python, and accompanied by two thousand worker ants, preparing to drive the millipede back. If the millipedes cannot be driven back to the nest, just kill them, cut them up, and bring back the meat.
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This small battle was lackluster. The Divine Envoy King's army effortlessly eliminated the burrowing ant slaves driving the escorting millipedes, gathered up all the millipedes that escaped during the battle, and drove them back to their territory.
These millipedes were well trained by the burrowing ants and had fixed neural responses. The worker ants soon knew how to use stings to drive them in the direction they wanted.
A total of 68 millipedes were driven back to the territory of the Angel King's Legion. The protagonist left 4 millipedes as seeds for the ants in the pig farm to study how to raise them.
These millipedes have similar feeding habits to mealworms, so you can also consider raising them in underground farms. It's just that although millipedes are large and meaty, they don't taste good. They have a strong earthy smell and are not very popular.
Later, the God Envoy King Corps gave up the plan of raising millipedes for meat, because the meat of mealworms was much more delicious! However, the millipede eggs that were laid only once a year became a delicacy, so the Angel King's army still kept a small amount of millipedes.
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The military operation of the God's Envoy King Corps to capture Ma Lu aroused great vigilance among the red fire ant army.
At present, the red fire ant army is stepping up its attack on the trapped leaf-cutter ant army. However, starting from the third day of the general offensive, the offensive of the already exhausted red fire ant army has gradually slowed down.
The main reason that caused the fire ant army to reduce the intensity of its attack was that the elite soldiers of the fire ant tribe were exhausted after fighting for many days in a row. The remaining main reason was the lack of military rations.
Previously, the Red Fire Ant Nation had devoted all its efforts to collect the rations for the army to launch a full-scale attack. So far, these rations have been almost consumed.
Although food from the rear continues to be transported, it is not even enough to meet the daily needs of the front line - the fighting on the front line is intense, and the slave auxiliaries have no time to forage on their own. Everything depends on supply from the rear, and the logistics pressure is huge.
The batch of millipedes robbed by the God Envoy King's army was the largest batch of meat supplied to the front line by the Red Fire Ant Kingdom recently. Originally, considering that fresh meat was inconvenient to transport and prone to spoilage, the live insects were driven away directly to the front line. As a result, the God Envoy was given the advantage. King's Army.
This makes the fire ants very angry.
What happened next made the red fire ant country even more furious.
In the next three days, the Angel King's army successively raided many sub-nests in the Red Fire Ant Kingdom and captured two of them.
In addition, the three vassal states of burrowing ants and black brown ants adjacent to the territory of the original forest ants were also wiped out by the Angel King's army, and their territories were occupied by the Angel King's army.
Although there are also burrowing ants and black brown ant queens in the red fire ant country, the direct losses caused by losing vassals are not large, mainly due to the reduction of part of the tribute income and soldier resources.
But when had the unruly red fire ant country been slapped in the face by an enemy country like this?
In order to retaliate, the Red Fire Ant Nation formed another army, consisting of 3,000 Red Fire Ant warriors and 8,000 slave auxiliary soldiers, following the route of the previous time. , go straight to [Xinyang City].
On their marching route, they will also pass by two newly built auxiliary nests of the Divine Envoy King Legion. In order to protect these auxiliary nests, the protagonist does not plan to continue fighting in [New Yang City] Cage City!
After several months of expansion and training, today's Angel King's legion is no longer what it used to be. The protagonist has drawn all the troops, including the 101st legion composed of vassal warriors, to participate in the battle. This actual battle serves as a starting point for some new legions. training subjects.
The Red Fire Ant Army had no secrets under the Flying Knight's reconnaissance. The Angel King's Army was ambushing in a depression. After all the enemy troops entered, they quickly occupied the surrounding high ground and trapped the enemy troops.
The red fire ant army tried to break through, but was repelled by the tank troops with ballistae and charges. Then the God's Angel King's army used long-range firepower to weaken the enemy army, and then launched a general attack.
The red fire ant army was completely wiped out, and only a few dozen of the defeated soldiers were deliberately released to report the news.
The Angel King's army recently defeated the red fire ant army in two consecutive field battles, finally avenging the previous siege.
However, the protagonist also knows that this is because the fire ant country has to concentrate on dealing with the leaf-cutting ant army and is unable to send its main force.
At present, the overall strength of the Angel King's Legion is far inferior to that of the Red Fire Ant Nation. If the Red Fire Ant Nation cannot be greatly weakened by the leaf-cutter ant army in this war, the Angel King's Legion will never have peace in the future.
In particular, there is actually a rift between the Angel King's Legion and the Leaf Cutter Ant Nation. Once the Leaf Cutter Ant Nation finds out that the Angel King's Legion has lied to them, the current pitiful amount of iron ore imports will be reduced to zero. .
The Legion of the God Envoy King has no allies in this new continent and can only rely on itself!
