The news that the leaf cutter ant army and the God Envoy King army were joining forces to move north was soon known to the Pavement Ant Empire Army.
The "wisdom king" of the red imported fire ant country deployed a large number of hidden sentries last year, which have penetrated the territory of the old red imported fire ant country that the leaf-cutting ants occupied. There are secret bases of red imported fire ants everywhere.
On the march, the leaf-cutter ant army and the Angel King army had almost no secrets. Every two or three hours they advanced, they would encounter enemies who hurriedly emerged from secret posts and rushed north to report news.
These secret whistle fights are very secretive and would be difficult to detect unless the enemy appears himself.
Although the Divine Envoy Army sent out flying knights and hunter ant scouts to expel and kill these red fire ant secret sentries, they were still unable to prevent them. Some secret sentries successfully escaped and reported their general information to the red fire ant army, which was then reported to the pavement ant empire. military.
At this time, the pavement ant imperial army had tens of thousands of troops arriving in [Northern Pine City]. They took over the siege of [Northern Pine City] from the red fire ant army, leaving the red fire ant army to withdraw to fight the incoming leaf-cutter ant army and the gods. Envoy King's Legion.
This is clearly treating the red fire ant army as coolies and cannon fodder. The victory in [Beisong City] will be taken by the suzerain country, and the red fire ant army can only chew a hard nut.
However, if the red fire ant army does not rely on the suzerain country, it will not be able to restore the country on its own. It can only swallow this bitter drink and obey orders.
At this time, the coalition forces of the leaf-cutting ant army and the Angel King's army were advancing side by side, one on the left and the other on the right. The vanguard was only more than a day's journey away from [North Pine City].
The troops of the God's Envoy King's legion have all gathered together and have not dispersed. Although they are in a marching column, because the number of soldiers is not large, they can be converted into a battle formation at any time.
However, the leaf-cutter ant army only has 50,000 vanguards advancing hand in hand with the Angel King's army. The other troops are still far behind. Some are transporting supplies and grain, some are clearing out hidden sentries along the way, and some are lazing at the auxiliary nests they pass by. Collect food.
Among them, the leaf-cutter ant troop at the rear was a full two days' journey from the vanguard. The entire leaf-cutting ant army is like a long earthworm that has been broken into several sections, and the head and tail cannot be taken care of.
This is not because the leaf-cutter ant army is not familiar with military affairs. They also advanced in groups at the beginning, and their speed was very slow.
After reuniting with the God Envoy King's army led by the protagonist, the protagonist feels that troops are too fast to wait so long. He suggests that the leaf cutter ant army send out capable forces to go north quickly with the God Envoy King's army, without having to wait for the large army to advance slowly.
Seeing the protagonist's recommendation, the leaf-cutting ant army finally agreed to send an army of 50,000 to go first.
The Pavement Ant Imperial Army did not expect the Leaf-Cutter Ant Army and the Divine Envoy King Army to arrive so quickly. Many secret sentries of the Red Fire Ant had just sent the information. The enemy army had already appeared a day away. This information was not even received by the secret sentry in time. Delivered.
If the Leaf Cutter Ant Army and the Angel King Army continue to advance at this speed, the red fire ant army responsible for blocking will be attacked before they are in position, and the situation will be very favorable to the Leaf Cutter Ant Army and the Angel King Army.
But the weather did not go as planned. Just the day before the battle broke out, a continuous spring rain suddenly began to rain for half a day and a whole night.
The spring rain is not as sudden as the summer rainstorm. The ants noticed the change in air pressure and the gathering of clouds in the sky.
The leaf-cutting ant army and the Angel King army both stopped their march in an emergency and split up to find shelter.
The leaf-cutter ant army found a tree hole in a nearby tree to hide, while the Angel King army used its expertise in construction to dig a temporary underground camp on a high ground, and both weathered the rain unharmed.
However, their whereabouts were exposed.
The nearby red fire ant secret sentries discovered them, and dozens of burrowing ants and Japanese black brown ant slave ants braved the drizzle and sent the general back at the cost of 70% of the loss.
After the weather cleared, when the leaf-cutter ant army and the Angel King army went on the road again, they soon encountered a blocking position constructed by the red fire ant army that was rushing in!
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This is a muddy shoal that was not there yesterday.
Yesterday's rain started in the afternoon and continued until early this morning. The rain was not violent. It accumulated for a long time, but the total amount was not small.
The abundant water, which cannot be absorbed by the large amount of soil, collects in the low-lying areas and forms a pool in this ditch.
When the sun came out, the pool quickly dried up and turned into a swamp. The swamp was quite large and blocked the northward path of the leaf-cutter ant army and the Angel King's army.
What's even worse is that the red fire ant army has rushed to the other side of the swamp to set up defenses.
The protagonist goes to the front line to inspect. The red fire ant army on the opposite side formed a formation behind the swamp, trying to block our army by taking advantage of the geographical location.
The results reported by the flying knight were not very good. The swamp was hundreds of meters wide, and the terrain further away was complicated and not suitable for going around.
On the contrary, the swamp here is the narrowest and relatively dry.
This means that unless the leaf-cutting ant army and the Angel King army are willing to give up the advantage of the surprise attack and wait patiently for the swamp to dry up, they will also allow the enemy to continue to besiege [North Pine City] and build blocking positions.
Otherwise, they would have no choice but to forcefully break through the enemy's quagmire defenses.
Spring mud, a very beautiful word in poetry, has become the biggest enemy of the Divine Envoy King's army at this time.
There are relatively dry places in the swamp. If you lay dry gravel or fallen branches and leaves, it will only take half a day to pave a road large enough to accommodate the passage of an army. Even the beetles can just wade through the mud without any problem.
But when enemy forces were entrenched on the other side, breaking through the mire was more than just an engineering problem.
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After communicating with the top female ant commander of the vanguard of the leaf-cutter ant army, the two armies decided to split up and rush across immediately.
Both armies began to collect some useful supplies nearby: hay, gravel, broken plant leaves, and wooden sticks. These things were piled in the mire and gradually paved into a road that continued to the north.
There are two roads paved by the leaf-cutter ant army, each of which can accommodate 3 ants in parallel, while the roads paved by the God Envoy King army are more and wider, with three roads, each of which can accommodate 5 ants in parallel.
At present, the roads of the leaf-cutter ant army are extending faster. Although the warriors of the God's Envoy King are better at construction, they are lagging far behind because the total project volume is several times that of the leaf-cutter ant army.
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At this time, on the opposite side, the red fire ant army was ready.
They are old natives. They knew that once it rained, this place would become an excellent blocking location and would be difficult to bypass, so they rushed here to set up defenses.
Sure enough, the situation is now on their side.
The red fire ant army arranged in a traditional formation on a favorable hillside and watched coldly as the leaf-cutting ant army and the angel king army struggled to construct in the swamp.
The red fire ant army still divides the front-line troops into three formations, left, center and right. Each formation has about 20,000 soldiers, of which the elite soldiers of the red fire ant tribe account for about a quarter. There are still more than 10,000 soldiers serving as the reserve team of the second formation, arranged behind the first formation of the central army.
In addition, there are thousands of slave ant scouts patrolling the battlefield.
