The leaf-cutting ant country's border guards suffered a disastrous defeat. Only a small part of the troops sent out escaped. The 100,000 border guards now have less than 50,000 left.
The leaf-cutting ant army that lost more than half could only huddle in the largest nest in the north [North Pine City]. The red fire ant army divided its forces and quickly conquered a large number of secondary nests that lacked defense, and then began to concentrate its forces to besiege [North Pine City].
[North Pine City] has a difficult terrain, consisting of tree nests on several tall pine trees and underground nests. There are criss-crossing tree roads between it and other surrounding trees.
The current army of red fire ants, except for a small number of belly-lifting ant warriors with weak combat effectiveness, other ants are not suitable for tree fighting and can only attack from the ground alone.
The leaf-cutting ant army relies on transportation in the trees to still obtain some external resources. It is also connected to its secondary nest that has not yet fallen. It also maneuvers to the rear of the besieging red fire ant army from time to time to attack.
The two armies carried out brutal encirclement and counter-encirclement operations in [Beisong City]. The leaf-cutting ant army was not in danger of being lost for the time being, but overall it was at a disadvantage. Three-quarters of the northern border was lost - except for [Beisong City] In addition, only a few remote nests that have not been affected by the war are still under control.
When the Red Fire Ant Army besieged [North Pine City], the transport team of the Pavement Ant Empire Army, after generally preventing the robberies of the indigenous silver ants, still successfully guaranteed the transportation intensity of the front line.
A large amount of grain was transported hundreds of miles to the south of the gravel land, and was hoarded in the northernmost nest of the former red fire ant country, which was later transformed by the leaf-cutter ants, and is now retaken by the red fire ant army [North Birch City] stand up.
[Beihua City] has been greatly expanded, especially the underground nest part, which has been built and reinforced according to the tradition of the Pavement Ant Empire. In the future, it will become the most important material storage and transfer center with the mainland.
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The frontline was defeated, and the critical military situation in [North Pine City] was conveyed back to [Holy Tree City]. The Leafcutter Ant Kingdom immediately held a female ant conference and a queen ant conference to discuss countermeasures.
After defeating the red fire ant army last year and wiping out the once-popular red fire ant country, the leafcutter ant country is a bit arrogant.
Although there are various unfavorable factors that have led to the slow development of new territories in the north, the leafcutter ant nation has not yet adapted to the transition from conqueror to owner, and has not tried to take more and more proactive measures to strengthen its presence in the new territory. This is undoubtedly partly responsible.
After the Ant Nation destroyed the Red Fire Ant Nation, although it did not make great efforts to develop the newly occupied land, even so, the development of the new territory was stronger than that of the Leafcutter Ant Nation.
Now, the leaf-cutter ant nation, which has lost its chance, is undoubtedly paying the price belatedly.
The leafcutter ant nation is naturally unwilling to give up its newly acquired territory. Now, after a winter and a spring of recuperation, its homeland has generally recovered from the unprecedented consumption of last year's war, and once again has more troops and more food.
The leaf-cutting ant nation quickly assembled an army of 500,000 people on the mainland, preparing to go to [North Pine City] to relieve the siege. However, taking into account the long-distance logistics supply along the way, the female ant conference carefully calculated and reported to the queen ant conference very pessimistic data.
The female ants believe that when the army arrives near [Beisong City], only one-fifth of the warriors will be able to fight, and the other ants must serve as logistics troops to ensure the transportation of food and grass, and will not be able to participate in the battle.
This was the same ratio last year when the leaf-cutter ant army conquered the northern border. However, at that time the leaf-cutter ant army came with the momentum of victory, while the red fire ant army had already exhausted its efforts. This situation would not have a decisive impact on the battle situation.
Now that the offensive and defensive momentum has been reversed, every soldier in the leaf-cutting ant army is valuable, and the 80% auxiliary ratio is really difficult for the queen ants to accept.
In the end, the leaf-cutting ant army decided to send reinforcements. At the same time, they sent messengers and issued a "request for help" to all civilized ant tribes.
"Ask for help" is a signal for help that every civilized ant tribe can send out. It is usually used when encountering an invasion by hostile forces such as barbaric ants and feeling that it is facing a major threat. At that time, other civilized ant tribes in the area will provide support to the best of their ability.
The Ant Alliance was the closest and the first to respond to the "order for assistance", stating that it would send 100,000 soldiers to assist in the battle, including about 50,000 regular troops and 50,000 transport teams.
Because the Ant Alliance was concerned about the feelings of the Leafcutter Ant Nation, it had not allowed flying knights to travel through the Leafcutter Ant Nation to conduct reconnaissance in the north. All information relied on sharing information from the Leafcutter Ant Nation.
After learning that the northern border of the Leaf Cutter Ant Nation had fallen into a passive position and was issuing a "Request for Assistance" and trying to send reinforcements, only then could flying knights be sent into the territory of the Leaf Cutter Ant Nation according to the authority granted by the "Request for Assistance".
The flying knights quickly detected a lot of information, and for the time being did not encounter the enemy's "mosquito" air force, and successfully returned to life.
The protagonist then sends a messenger, suggesting that the leaf-cutter ant country give up part of its northern territory close to the enemy, retreat to the second line, and strengthen the walls to clear the country, so as to weaken the combat power of the enemy troops coming from afar.
However, the leaf-cutter ant army rejected this suggestion. They still pinned their hopes on victory on the frontal battlefield and did not want to give up [North Pine City] and its 50,000 defenders.
Moreover, the issuance of the "Request for Assistance" also gave the leaf-cutter ant country greater confidence.
This was a rare "order for help" in this region in the past century, and all ethnic groups who received the order responded.
Among them, the Ant Control Alliance is the closest and can dispatch 100,000 troops to support Wai. The other two ant tribes that are closer: the black fire ant tribe and the Sanshi flat-headed ant tribe have both agreed to send a small number of elite troops to join the war.
The other distant ant tribes have also promised to provide some material support, and the transport teams of the hairy forest ants and bullet ants will fully assist in the transportation of soldiers and materials.
With the pledge of support from its allies, the Leafcutter Ant Nation immediately came out of the haze of the early defeat, regained its fighting spirit, and felt that there was still hope of victory in a head-on battle.
At least for now, they only have a small army of red fire ants in front of them. The imperial army of pavement ants has not yet been officially dispatched. The departure of a million-strong army cannot be prepared in a short time.
On April 25, the leaf-cutting ant reinforcements set off from [Holy Tree City] and set off for reinforcements in the northern border.
On April 26, after receiving the reply from the leaf-cutter ant army, the Angel King's army also set off from the mainland and entered the territory of the leaf-cutter ant country, moving closer to the assembly point agreed with the leaf-cutter ant army.
On April 27, [North Pine City] encountered a new round of fierce attacks. Several tree nests on the periphery were captured, losing contact with the outside world and in danger.
On April 28, after the leaf-cutter ant army and the Angel King army merged, they accelerated towards the north.
On April 29, some troops of the Pavement Ant Empire Army arrived in [Beihua City] and began to officially intervene in this war.
