The centipede task force searched and advanced for a while. Suddenly, another forest ant messenger from the front came hurriedly to report that they had found traces of the enemy, and then continued to run to the rear to report the news to the larger army.
After receiving the report, the Centipede task force still moved forward unhurriedly, and did not rush to rescue immediately. They even ignored the anger in the eyes of the red fire ant supervisory team.
But soon, Centipede was glad that he obeyed the God Envoy King's pre-battle instructions and rushed over without any hesitation, because another urgent report came from the front - the forest ant troops had encountered an ambush and were in the middle of a bitter battle.
The forest ants had been moving in dispersed search formations, searching together in trees and on the ground.
Wood ants are originally better at fighting in trees. They used to cooperate with fire ants on the ground by marching on trees.
But this time they took on the dangerous forward mission because they could no longer replenish their numbers. Under the command of the red fire ant commander sent, most of the forest ants moved on the ground, and only a small part searched in the trees.
Compared with the ground, the three-dimensional world on the tree requires a larger search area, but only a few forest ants perform the task. Therefore, as the team of forest ants on the ground gradually advances, the forest ants in the trees slowly lag behind and are pulled farther and farther away, and the troops above and below the trees are disconnected.
On the ground, the red imported fire ant commander who was not familiar with the fighting methods of forest ants did not notice this hidden danger. If the forest ants had their own vassal states before, there would be some experienced forest ant males to assist the airborne red fire ants in commanding. Officer, help him solve problems and make up for loopholes.
But after the last battle, the forest ants were wiped out, and most of the experienced commanders who participated in the war also died on the battlefield with the troops. The current forest ant army even lacks male ants to serve as squad commanders, and even more Not to mention assigning staff to assist the male red imported fire ants.
The fire ant commander could only command self-righteously and deploy his troops according to the way of the fire ant army, without knowing that he was stepping into a trap.
When the forest ants discovered a line of defense arranged by the forest ants in front, they immediately gathered the scattered troops, sent messengers to the rear, and then took the initiative to launch an attack from the ground in the way that the fire ant warriors were good at.
At this time, the red imported fire ant commander did not know the specific number of the leaf-cutter ant army on the opposite side. Judging from the length of the front line discovered by the scouts, it seemed that it was not too many. Using the red imported fire ant's algorithm, it was about 6 to the 5th power. number of enemies, that is, about 8,000 enemy troops.
If the enemy has this small strength, the vanguard troops will dare to go up and entangle the enemy, and wait for the rear troops to come up to support and then eat this enemy force. This is the usual fighting method of the fire ant army.
The leaf-cutting ant army on the opposite side has been holding on to the ground position between a few trees. It has no intention of moving and seems to be ordered to block the attack.
When the forest ant army basically gathered to launch an attack and became entangled with the leaf-cutting ants on the ground, a sudden change occurred.
Suddenly, countless leaf-cutting ants fell from the sky, and they were all powerful and powerful large leaf-cutting ants and agile and fierce small leaf-cutting ants.
These leaf-cutting ants were lying in wait on the branches above their heads. After jumping down, they immediately surrounded more than two thousand leaf-cutting ant warriors. The battle on the ground turned into a melee. The number of forest ants was too small and they were immediately at a disadvantage.
At this time, the fire ant commander realized that the covering troops in the trees had not kept up with the larger troops and failed to detect the ambush in advance.
Fortunately, there were about a thousand fire ant warriors not far behind who were supervising the battle team. They stabilized the rear of the forest ant troops in time, covered some messengers to warn the rear, and then joined the battle group to temporarily stabilize the battle situation, allowing the forest ant troops to It won't collapse.
The Centipede task force arrived at the battlefield leisurely. Fortunately, they were walking slowly. If they had walked forward, they would have been ambushed!
Including the ambush troops, the leaf-cutter ant army on the opposite side now numbered in the tens of thousands. Facing two to three thousand wood ants and fire ants, they had a huge numerical advantage. However, when 5,000 Angel King warriors from two legions arrived, The numerical advantage of the leaf-cutting ant army is not obvious.
As the friendly forces were fighting together, Task Force Centipede did not use long-range firepower to cover the enemy first. Instead, they directly formed a tight horizontal formation and advanced forward with a thick density of ten rows.
The leafcutter ant warriors also lost their formation in the melee. Facing the dense formation of the God Envoy King warriors who were armed to the teeth, a single leafcutter ant warrior was completely powerless. Even the large leafcutter ants could not shake the military formation.
Some leafcutter ant squads climbed up nearby trees under the leadership of the commander, repeating their old tricks and trying to "airdrop" to the rear of the centiper task force. However, the military formation of ten platoons was very thick, and commanders such as Centipede also had guards around them. The few enemy airborne troops could not achieve a breakthrough like they had just done against the forest ants.
With the support of the task force, the fire ant army finally began to turn the tide of the battle. As more and more troops arrived to join the battle, the leaf-cutter ant army was surrounded on the ground.
These leaf-cutter ants began to defend themselves around a tree, constantly shrinking the defense line and moving their troops up the tree, preparing to change the battlefield to the tree and facilitate breakout and retreat.
But not long after, large groups of fire ants and black and brown ants also arrived and began to block every road in the tree. Despite having a numerical advantage, the armies of the ants and the black-brown ants finally did not collapse at the first touch, and they made a great contribution to the complete annihilation of this army of leaf-cutting ants.
The Red Fire Ant Army achieved a small victory, and the Centipede Task Force also used its outstanding performance in the battle to change the Red Fire Ant Army's attitude towards it.
Unlike other optimistic fire ant males, Centipede, who has received a complete military education from the Angel King's Legion, is wondering, where is the enemy's main force?
Although the scale of the battle just now was small, it was quite noisy. There was no reason why the main force of the leaf-cutter ant army didn't know that there was a war going on here.
But the main force of the leaf-cutter ant army never showed up.
Centipede asked a messenger to go to the commander of the red fire ant army with his questions, but before he could get a reply, he received an order to continue marching.
The fire ant army also seemed to have discovered the problem of the missing main force of the leaf-cutting ant army. This time, it dispersed a large number of slave auxiliary soldiers and vassal country troops into a semicircle and searched in different directions.
The search direction of the Centiper Task Force is northwest.
If we continued deeper into the woods in this direction, we would be far away from [Hematite City] in the southwest, but Centipede had no ability to resist and was forced to lead the troops and set off.
Just after the war, the task force received a small amount of food supplies from the burrowing ants in the rear, which were grass seeds and nut pellets that were common in autumn.
Centipede, who was used to eating cooked food, barely took a bite of chestnut pellets and began to miss the barbecue and cooked food of his country.
After a battle, some of the ordinary soldiers were already hungry, but they took the opportunity to eat. Anyway, they didn't have cooked food and meat all the time in China, so such food was not bad.
The centipede task force, which was full of food and drink, began to search and advance northwest.
