On May 21st, as dusk approached, the God Envoy King's army joined the battlefield, and the battle evolved into a battle between three parties, four armies, and seven ant tribes.
At the same time, this is also a battle in which all participating parties have their own agendas.
The leaf-cutter ant army wants to capture [Slipperstone City] and open the way to [Hive City]; the red fire ant army wants to defend its homeland to the death; and the God-Envoy King army also has its own plans.
After the Divine Envoy King's Army conquered [Hive City] and got in touch with the leaf-cutting ant army and reached an intention to coordinate operations, they left [Hive City] on May 17 and headed west.
Their initial idea was to use the power of the leafcutter ant army to completely defeat the red fire ant kingdom. Otherwise, the military power of the God Envoy King's army alone would still be insufficient to face the desperate counterattack of the red fire ant army to regain the main nest.
However, after the leaf-cutting ant army learned that its main target [Hive City] had changed hands, it did not wait for the friendly forces to arrive before launching a general attack as suggested by the Angel King's army. Instead, it rushed to launch a decisive battle. This went against the protagonist. Unexpected.
During the communication between the Angel King's Legion and the Leaf-Cutter Ant Army, although the two parties only reached a cooperation intention, there were no mandatory terms, and even the Leaf-Cutter Ant Army did not agree to the protagonist's request for [Hive City] to belong to the Leaf-Cutter Ant Army after the war. , obviously with ulterior motives.
However, after the protagonist's evaluation, he felt that with the current strength of the leaf-cutter ant army, they were not very confident in going deep into the red fire ant country for a decisive battle. They also needed the assistance of the God Envoy King's army, so as long as the God's Envoy King's army performed better on the battlefield , you have the ability to bargain, and you can realize your strategic plan as much as possible.
But he did not expect that the country of Leafcutter Ant was not completely monolithic. There were also conservatives and radicals. The conservatives had a better view of the Divine Envoy King Legion and advocated attracting the Divine Envoy King Legion to join the Ancient God Heritage Conference.
However, the radicals are still worried about the fact that the God's Envoy King's Legion has "lied" before, and they cannot be said to be very friendly towards the God's Envoy King's Legion. The leadership of this leaf-cutter ant expeditionary force is dominated by radicals.
When the protagonist learned on May 19 that the leaf-cutter ant army had launched a campaign in [Slippery Rock City], he was also very surprised.
At this time, the Angel King's army was still a day and a half away from the battlefield, so they had no choice but to speed up towards [Slippery Rock City].
On the way, the Angel King's Legion also encountered heavy rain. Fortunately, there were not many troops on the expedition. Although the thunderstorm came quickly and unexpectedly, the Angel King's Legion still found a shelter of suitable size in time, and the loss was not great.
On the 20th, the Angel King's army arrived near the battlefield in the afternoon, hid itself, and did not immediately join the battle.
At that time, the leaf-cutter ant army and the red fire ant army were in a stalemate. The reserve force of the red fire ant army had not yet entered the battle. The leaf-cutter ant army also had reserve troops that had not yet participated in the war. Neither side had suffered a defeat. The protagonist decided to stay put and just sent The Flying Knights are constantly scouting.
In fact, the protagonist also has resentment in his heart. The leaf-cutter ant army did not jointly launch a military operation as intended. The information packets sent back through the flying knights are also full of unruly emotions, and there are even attempts to covet the ownership of [Hive City].
Although they are both civilized ants, the protagonist has a good impression of the leaf-cutter ants, but he must put the interests of the God Envoy King's army first.
With mixed emotions, the protagonist decided to sit back and watch the fight between tigers for the time being. It would be best to weaken the strength of both sides at the same time, so that the Army of the God Envoy King can obtain the most advantageous position after the war. Therefore, the army must join the battlefield at the most critical moment. .
So on the 21st, the leaf-cutter ant army discovered that the flying knight who had been hovering in the air had disappeared. That was when the flying knight rushed back to report the latest situation on the battlefield, and it was also a precursor to the Angel King's army entering the battlefield.
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Just like the arrival of the fire ant reinforcements before, it broke the deadlock on the left battlefield and defeated the left wing of the leaf-cutter ant army.
The arrival of the God Envoy King's army also broke the deadlock on the right battlefield and defeated the red fire ant army's left wing.
Subsequently, the Angel King's legions joined forces with the right wing of the leaf-cutter ant army to pursue the red fire ant army and march towards the middle.
At the same time, the Angel King Army sent ten teams to form a special force. Under the guidance of the Flying Knight, they directly attacked the main formation of the Red Fire Ant Army.
When the fire ant army moved from the left to the middle, they ignored the main formation of the leaf-cutter ants and the defeated troops of the fleeing formation. They liked to eliminate the enemy's effective forces through outflanking, and had little interest in taking down the enemy's command system.
But the Divine Envoy King Legion has always liked this tactic of capturing thieves and capturing kings.
The red fire ant army's main formation was also empty. When they learned that the enemy was attacking, they could only gather about two hundred ants, most of which were slave auxiliaries. They were led by two junior male ant commanders to stop the attack, but How can one resist the special forces of the God's Envoy King Corps who are armed to the teeth?
Seeing that the situation is not good, other male ants will move away with the slave ants serving around them.
Although red fire ant workers are hard-working and excellent soldiers, the male ant class is also very "corrupted". When most male ants go to the battlefield, they are surrounded by at least two or three slave ants to serve them personally.
Some senior male ants had to be carried by a few slave ants while marching, and their physical strength had long since deteriorated. At this time, they wanted to escape, but they couldn't escape quickly, so they could only hurriedly summon nearby troops to come for reinforcements.
Many fire ant troops on the front line who were fighting had no idea that their formation had been forced to move. When they needed new orders and sent messengers to the formation, they came to nothing.
Under the threat of the Angel King's special forces, the command system of the Red Fire Ant Army failed.
Even so, the frontline fire ant army still performed very tenaciously.
The Angel King's army and the leaf-cutting ant army that had stabilized continued to fight hard until two or three hours after dark, and they finally won the victory. It was not a decisive victory.
Most of the 180,000-strong fire ant army was destroyed, and a small number of the remaining troops retreated to [Slippery Rock City] Cage City to defend themselves. Another force of about 50,000 ants—mainly the reinforcements arriving today—protected the troops who moved to the left. Command, retreat to the north.
Only about 150,000 of the 360,000 leaf-cutting ant army remained after the war. After gathering the various armies, they did not pursue the red fire ant army that fled north, but instead surrounded [Slippery Rock City] overnight.
The Angel King's Army suffered losses as high as 2,000 in this battle. Among them, the Rangers encountered a desperate interception by the Red Fire Ant Army and suffered heavy losses and were forced to give up the pursuit.
This time, the battle of [Slippery Rock City], which lasted for three days from May 19, finally came to an end.
Although the remnants of the red fire ant army have withdrawn, they have lost their main nest and suffered heavy losses to their main force, and they are unable to recover.
The next day, the leaf-cutting ant army captured [Slippery Rock City], and the massacre of the city gave off a bad breath.
The Divine Envoy King's Legion chose to station alone outside the city and began negotiations with the leaf-cutting ants on post-war issues!
