In the past few days, the harassment of [Pioneer City] by different tribes has greatly interfered with the local post-disaster reconstruction and normal production activities.
Although there are 2nd Army, 4th Army, 8th Army and 9th Army stationed in [Pioneer City], there are 4 legions with tens of thousands of soldiers, which looks like a lot of troops.
But facing attacks that may appear from all directions at any time, these forces are not enough to defend every part of the territory spread out within a half-day's walk.
The Army of the God's Envoy King is like the Japs occupying the county town. Once they leave the county town, they will immediately fall into the vast sea of guerrilla warfare.
Even if the flying knights in the air increase the frequency of patrols, they will report the enemy in a timely manner once they discover enemy traces to save the use of troops. But the opponent quickly learned the lesson and knew how to approach quietly under the cover of vegetation. Such small-scale attacks are still impossible to prevent!
In half a month, [Pioneer City] lost thousands of ant colonies, thousands of aphids, and some food. In exchange, it only killed tens of thousands of enemies.
The Ant Alliance is not like the starving indigenous ant tribe, which is so hungry that they regard the corpses as food. Such military operations will not benefit scientific research. The captured enemy corpses can at most be used as feed to feed mealworms, but even mealworms do not like it. When given the choice, they prefer tender, fresh food to smelly carcasses.
However, the ant colonies and materials damaged in the war were all real, especially the aphids, which had no ability to protect themselves. They were grazing outside in large groups. Once captured by the enemy, it would be a heavy loss.
The Ant Alliance built the area around Pioneer City as a pasture base. There were quite a lot of aphids raised here. After a short period of development, the honeydew produced here accounted for one-twentieth of the national output.
Now that Ant Alliance's foreign trade needs a lot of honeydew, now that part of the output is affected, they can only spend more gold to make up for the excess.
Finally, the unbearable God Envoy King's army received the protagonist's order and launched a counterattack against the surrounding indigenous ant tribes.
On October 11, [Pioneer City] left the 9th Legion of the fourth-generation male ant commander "Nai" stationed there, the 2nd Legion commanded by "Rambotu II", and the 2nd Legion commanded by "Rambofo III". The 4th Army Corps and the 8th Army Corps commanded by "E" were divided into three groups and launched a sweep.
Today, the fourth-generation male ants of the Ant Alliance have grown into the backbone of legion-level commanders. Most of the legion leaders are male ants of this generation, and only a few legions are commanded by fifth-generation male ants.
The four garrison commanders of [Pioneer City] are all fourth-generation male ants. Only the best among the fourth-generation male ants are lucky enough to be given the title of "So-and-So II" or "So-and-So III". It is considered a great honor to be given a name with the prefix "Rambo".
The meaning of this prefix is very clear to educated male ants. It is to commemorate the ancestors of male ants who have used this name and made outstanding contributions in the history of the Ant Alliance!
The three remaining male ants, the spade elephant, the armored ant, and the centipede python, were also promised that after their deaths, their names would be used as prefixes for their descendants, which moved the three of them very much.
Other sacrificed second and third generation male ants, as long as they have made significant contributions, except for traitors like Flying Eagle, will also be retained as prefixes!
Naming has become an important tradition in the Ant Alliance, and it is also a ritual that male ants must perform after receiving education, symbolizing that they are ready to graduate and serve, similar to a coming-of-age ceremony.
Naming is no longer a special recognition of meritorious male ants. All male ants, queen ants, great worker ants, magical worker ants and magical soldier ants can have names. It’s just that there are so many names to choose from, and a lot of the protagonist’s brain cells are exhausted every year.
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The three armies set out from [Pioneer City] and attacked in three directions: east, south, and west. Each of the 3,000 engineers accompanying the army served as a transport team to transport food and supplies, preparing to launch a five-day mopping up operation.
The vast majority of the indigenous ant tribes were unable to fight back when faced with the attack of an entire legion of the Divine Envoy King warriors, and collapsed at the first touch.
Occasionally, some tribes are relatively powerful and organize thousands of warriors to resist, but they are no match for the Divine Envoy King's army.
There was only one Argentine ant tribe alliance, which was actually an alliance composed of more than a dozen of the same ant tribe. It mobilized tens of thousands of coalition troops, making it difficult for the second army in front of them to win.
The two sides fought for two consecutive days. On the second day, the Second Army received the assistance of the mysterious ball bomb dropped by the Flying Knight, and finally broke through the front line of these tiny Argentine ant warriors, who were only the size of big-headed ant workers.
The 2nd Legion lost more than 300 soldiers and killed more than 4,000 Argentine ants, forcing other Argentine ants to flee. The other party directly gave up their station and fled far away.
Most of the indigenous ant tribes are not as large as the Argentine Ant Tribe Alliance. Faced with the counterattack of the Angel King's army, some were wiped out, while others were very flexible and fled to avoid fighting and continue to look for the next target to plunder.
Generally speaking, during this five-day sweep, the Divine Envoy King's army did not gain much. Even if they broke through several ant nests, the seizures were completely insufficient to meet the expenses of the military operation.
The biggest result of this military operation was the establishment of an ant-free zone with a radius of about a day's walk around [Tianhuang City], which temporarily protected the security of [Tianhuang City's territory].
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Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Just more than half a month later, at the end of October, some indigenous ants returned to the ant-free area outside [Pioneer City], peeking into the territory of the Ant Alliance with a sly look.
Moreover, this time the indigenous ants came back together unexpectedly, and rarely fought with each other. The protagonist would not believe it if there was no inside story.
It turned out that after being driven away from the vicinity of [Pioneer City], a large number of indigenous ant tribes could only continue to rob each other, and there was simply not enough food to support so many tribes and ant colonies.
These tribes all traveled back and forth within two or three days, and their food reserves were not enough to support their long-distance migration to find a suitable wintering ground.
Finally, the ant-free area near [Pioneer City], which has been free of ants for more than half a month, has the most abundant food resources.
Some of the surviving tribes that had been forced to retreat before and had tasted the benefits of plundering the Ant Alliance also publicized their gains there to the more friendly tribes.
Although there is little contact between the indigenous ants most of the time, war and conquest are the main themes of diplomacy. But there are also some tribes in this area that have relatively stable relationships with each other, and there are even simple barter exchanges.
Relying on such a primitive relationship network, after more than half a month, almost all the indigenous tribes knew that [Pioneer City] was a plump prey.
There is no need for these tribes to join forces and form alliances, they are all coming back under the pressure of hunger!
