In the next few days, while the Pavement Ant Imperial Army was besieging [Panxia City], the rest of the troops who could not participate in the siege due to terrain reasons mobilized in large numbers to sweep around, trying to find the enemy army that killed the Marquis in a sneak attack.
This enemy force has launched several attacks in the past few days, mostly at night. Each time they left after a fight, killing thousands of Imperial soldiers in total, but they were never caught. .
Pavement ant empires, like most ants, are not used to being active at night. However, in order to deal with the increasingly frequent enemy night attacks, additional sentries had to be sent and night patrol forces had to be formed.
The regiments of "White Point" and "White Belly", together with another regiment in the same camp, were also organized into a mobile unit one night and set out to patrol nearby, but they suffered enough.
That night was the darkest moonlit night in recent days. The ants could barely see anything less than half a meter away. They could only rely on their tentacles to tap the ground and follow the pheromones left by the scouts.
The scout troops could not see clearly either. They were slowly groping forward with their tentacles, and all the ants seemed to have become blind.
Often, large troops would walk too fast along the pheromones, and suddenly bump into the scouts in front who were still hesitantly exploring the ground.
Such patrols and searches obviously have no effect. They just allow the pavement ant warriors to run around at night and occasionally encounter nocturnal insects, which inevitably leads to further losses.
That day, far away from the "White Point" patrol area, a small camp was attacked again. More than 3,000 soldiers from three legions were wiped out. This was the biggest loss for the Imperial Army in recent days, second only to the Marquis. Kill that night.
"White Point" returned to the camp after dawn and was surprised when he heard the news. How could the enemy accurately avoid our patrols and launch accurate attacks in such a dark night? ?
"White spot" they can't understand, and they don't know at all. In fact, the ant commanders in the Angel King's army have the night vision ability inherited from the Angel King. As long as ordinary soldiers follow the commander's instructions, they can Being able to stand in a deserted land among thousands of enemy troops, the night is no different from the day in the eyes of the Divine Envoy King's army.
Nowadays, the Pavement Ant Empire Army is frightened when they disperse at night. Due to terrain restrictions and the need for peripheral security and defense, it is impossible to gather all the camps together. There will always be a flaw that can be caught by the God Envoy King Army!
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Being attacked one after another, Duke Pavement Ant of the Southern Expedition was very angry, but he was helpless. No matter how he deployed his defenses, it seemed difficult to stop the elusive enemy.
The Pavement Ant Imperial Army believed in the concept of "offense is defense". At this time, the Duke placed his hope that an offensive could reverse the decline of the past few nights.
At this time, [Panxia City] is still as solid as a rock. Tens of thousands of Pavement Ant Empire troops are attacking in turns day after day. The terrain of the battlefield is rugged. No matter how many troops there are, they cannot invest at the same time. As a result, they have not been able to break through until now. The outer defensive line of the city wall.
The Duke knew that the war could not continue in such a stalemate. [Panxia City] was like a snail with a hard shell. It was too difficult to fight hard. He had to find the entrance to the snail shell. There was only a thin layer of wax shell there at most. It was easy to defeat it. Can be exposed!
So a group of troops was organized and ordered to march into the enemy's territory. The order they received was to capture and sweep all enemy nests along the way and isolate [Panxia City].
The Pavement Ant Duke felt that it was impossible for every nest in the enemy's territory to be run like a snail shell [Pinellia City]. In this way, the rear might be the "snail shell entrance" to the enemy's country.
In addition, the Duke also suspected that the enemy troops who attacked at night were dispatched from the rear at night every day. If we could attack instead of defend and force this enemy army to come to an upright decisive battle, our army would be able to solve the dilemma of not being able to rest at night.
The more important reason is that the Duke received information about the Western Expeditionary Army attacking the Leafcutter Ant Country. They had already won a battle, invaded the enemy country's forest hinterland, and occupied many nests.
The Duke doesn't want to be compared to another Duke!
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The Pavement Ant Imperial Army divided into 6 special forces to go south. Each special force has a size of about 30 legions, with approximately 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers, each led by a count.
The roundabout troops belonging to the "White Point" and "White Belly" legions serve as the front line of one of the special forces attacking the hinterland of the Ant Alliance.
This former army, under the command of the Viscount, the boss of "White Point", has a lot of strength, with 7 to 8,000 soldiers in 6 legions, and more than 4,000 silver ants. Before setting off for the expedition, more than 200 Aiman ants came to report. They were sent by the superiors to assist in the battle.
The various legions and vassal warriors came out of their respective lairs and assembled in the open field.
Then the Viscount led 4 legions in the lead, with the Silver Ant troops and the Aiman Ant troops in the middle. Some Silver Ants were sent to the front to cooperate with the Pavement Ants' work of scouting soldiers.
The regiments of "White Point" and "White Belly" were placed at the rear and were responsible for preventing vassals.
Each army was allocated about two full meals of food. According to the logistics supply practices of the Pavement Ant Empire Army, these foods are enough for 4 to 6 days. The mission time of the Rangers is not specified, and they cannot be counted on when going deep into enemy territory. The rear is supplied on time. If they cannot make ends meet, the Rangers will have no choice but to abandon the mission and return to the starting point.
The Rangers set off one after another, and the "White Dots" followed the headquarters and moved forward.
Because the terrain on the highlands on both sides of the valley road was complex and unsuitable for large troops to march, the Rangers walked through the valley road in sequence, and after bypassing the [Panellia City] standing on the hill at a corner of the valley road, they then went deep into the enemy territory.
When passing by [Panxia City], "White Point" curiously looked at the ant nest located on a high hill with towering ant mounds as he walked. He watched countless Imperial Army soldier ants cling to the city wall and fall off one by one. Come down.
"White Point" thought to himself: Why is this lair so difficult to defeat? Next time I have to ask "White Belly" why [Beisong City] is so dangerous and difficult to attack! ?
After bypassing [Banxia City], there seemed to be no obstacles in front of them to prevent the Pavement Ant Imperial Army from continuing southward.
The valley road gradually becomes wider and wider, while the height of the hillsides on both sides gradually decreases. The vegetation nearby began to become more sparse, with few trees and shrubs scattered in twos and threes.
The Pavement Ant Imperial Army likes such an open space, where they can freely deploy their troops to fight, instead of being blocked by [Panellia City] in the valley road and unable to deploy their troops.
The special team that "White Point" belonged to searched in the southwest direction. Around afternoon, a silver ant scout came back with the body of an enemy worker ant in his mouth. Apparently there should be an enemy nest nearby.
The army immediately rushed towards the possible direction, but unexpectedly encountered...
