On October 6, the weather was fine, at the western border of the red imported fire ant country.
This is a barren wilderness. The wild ground is full of small and large stones, and various plants survive tenaciously in the cracks between the stones.
Any place with dense vegetation must have a relatively thick soil layer. In most places, the vegetation is barely surviving. Their root systems are deeply rooted and they strive to draw some water from deep underground.
It is now the golden autumn, and the weeds are gradually showing signs of withering. The grass seeds on the grass have long been mature. Some are plump and have fallen to the ground and are collected by foraging ants. Some are as thin and dry as the soil under the roots of weeds.
The densely packed ant nest entrances and exits on the ground that were originally covered by vegetation have now become unblockable as the vegetation has withered. A large number of ants are busy on the open ground during the day.
With a large number of weeds dying, this period, until autumn, is the time when ants need to be busy collecting food for winter.
But at the same time, this is also a time of war.
Most of these ants on the ground are soldiers who are about to attack in the next military operation.
Many ants have the habit of launching large-scale offensives against their enemies in autumn. If they win, they can seize the enemy's territory and store food, and spend the winter more comfortably. Even if the battle is defeated, as long as you don't lose too much territory, it will be relatively conducive to surviving the winter - the warriors who died in the battle do not need to consume precious food reserves in the winter, and other ants can have enough food to survive!
This is just a microcosm of the cruel side of the ant world. The ruling classes of various ant forces are well aware of this and are not surprised by it.
Forces like the God's Envoy King's Legion that don't worry about storing food in winter are rare.
The country of red fire ants also faces food shortages every winter, so it has become a routine to launch an offensive every autumn. Last year, the Red Fire Ant Nation's autumn offensive was successful and they once captured the hematite mine. Among the spoils they obtained, they included hematite particles that were eventually purchased by the Angel King's army.
This year, the red fire ant army has assembled a 300,000-strong army for the autumn offensive, including 150,000 native soldiers and 150,000 auxiliary troops.
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Centipede led a small team of Divine Envoy King warriors from the base, walked on the ground for about a meal, and arrived at the lair where the supreme commanders of the sovereign state were located.
Now 300,000 troops are gathered together, and the nests stationed are spread out over dozens of square meters of ground, and the underground nests are even more densely packed and criss-crossed.
Among them, the Red Fire Ant Nation's own army and slave auxiliary troops were stationed in the center, while the Centipede Task Force of the God's Envoy Army and several other vassal countries' troops were stationed on the periphery.
Today, the elders of the Fire Ant Army sent messengers to ask the commanders of the vassal countries to come to discuss matters.
But in fact, in addition to the Angel King's army, the troops of other vassal countries are also commanded by male ant commanders sent by the red fire ant country. Therefore, apart from the red fire ant male ants, there is only one foreigner, Centipede, attending this meeting. Ant.
Currently, the Red Fire Ant Nation and the Angel King Legion have reached a nominal master-slave relationship, but not all Red Fire Ant males are satisfied with the current bilateral relationship.
Since arriving here yesterday, Centipede has felt the hostility towards it from some male red imported fire ants. Some fire ant troops closely monitored their troops and even prohibited the God Envoy King warriors from walking further away from their nests.
Today Centipede was ordered to attend the meeting, and no fire ant dared to stop him. However, several red fire ant male commanders who were traveling with him took the initiative to distance themselves from Centipede, and some even opened their mouths at Centipede. Jaw, making threatening movements.
Centipede ignored this. The Divine Envoy King received a report from Flying Knight on the matter yesterday. Feixin ordered Centipede not to make extraneous matters and compromise a little more when necessary. Although the centipede was impatient with the fire ants' actions, it did not dare to disobey the Divine Envoy King's order and could only hold back its anger.
At today's meeting, it turned out that the elders of the red imported fire ants had no good intentions. They assigned military tasks and ordered all armies to launch an attack tomorrow.
According to the plan, tomorrow's offensive of the red fire ant army will be divided into three groups: left, center and right. Among them, the middle cluster has the strongest military strength, with 120,000 soldiers, including a large number of fire ant warriors; the left and right clusters have 90,000 soldiers each, and are slightly weaker.
The plan of the red fire ant army is to launch a frontal attack with the center swarm against the 300,000 leaf-cutter ant army deployed on the border. At the same time, the left and right swarms will make circuitous movements, striving to surround and eat the last main force of the leaf-cutter ant army in front of them.
This outflanking tactic is a tried and tested method of the Red Fire Ant Army.
The reason why Centipede felt that the elders of the red fire ants were uneasy was because they actually arranged for the Centipede Task Force to attack as the vanguard of the middle cluster.
The Centipede Task Force only has 2 legions of 5,000 warriors. Although it serves as the vanguard force, there are also about 3,000 forest ant warriors and 1,296 fire ant warriors to assist, but on the opposite side is a leaf-cutter ant army of 300,000 hedgehogs gathered in one place. Understand that your troops are cannon fodder.
For example, the forest ant troops, who were also cannon fodder, became slaves of the red fire ant country after their country was conquered by the Angel King's army. Moreover, since there is no queen ant, these forest ant warriors cannot be supplemented. Therefore, the fire ant elders sent out these "excess" forest ants to serve as pioneers.
As for the 1,296 red fire ant warriors, they are in charge of supervising the team, so they cannot be expected to be helpful.
The organization of the Red Fire Ant Army is different from that of the Angel King Legion. They also have squads and legions equivalent to the Angel King Legion, but each squad has only 1 commander and 35 warriors, and each legion has 36 There are 1,296 ants in the legion. This strange number is naturally due to the hexadecimal mathematics of the red fire ant country.
Centipede had no say in the military meeting, so he was forced to accept the order and returned to the station.
Although the Divine Envoy Army had previously won the command of its own army in the contract, it still had to obey the command of the overlord in terms of overall strategy. This time, the Red Fire Ant Nation used this trick to stumble the God Envoy King's army.
When the protagonist learned about this situation, he was a little stunned. He did not expect that the elders of the red fire ants were so talented in politics. The current trick seems very primitive and simple, but the legion of the God Envoy King can only be mute. Eating Coptis chinensis makes you feel unspeakably miserable...
He could only ask the Flying Knight to tell Centipede to act according to the situation, not to fight a tough battle, to work hard to preserve his strength, and to break out to the southwest if necessary.
The battlefield between the red fire ant army and the leaf-cutter ant army is to the southwest, about a day's walk away from the [Hematite City] currently controlled by the Angel King's army. There are 6 main army armies and tank assault brigade stationed here, and they can go out to support the Centipede at any time. Task Force.
If the Fire Ant Nation really wants to kill the Centipede Task Force, the God Envoy King Army will not sit still and wait for death!
