The original overall defense plan formulated by the Divine Envoy King's Army was to lure the enemy deep into the area, lengthen the enemy's supply line, and then engage the enemy in one area.
This plan was to prepare for the situation where the Ant Emperor did not attack the Leaf Cutter Ant Nation, but instead tried its best to regain the homeland of the Red Fire Ant Nation. In that case, the Ant Alliance would have to face millions of enemy troops alone.
Now, the Ant Emperor's army is divided into two groups, and the defense pressure of the Ant Alliance has been greatly reduced. The protagonist has adjusted his plan and is preparing to block the enemy in one area.
After all, if the original plan is implemented, there will still be certain risks. Although the enemy will definitely attack this nest with special significance, it is after all the former main nest of the red fire ant country.
But in this way, the battlefield is too close to the core hinterland of the Ant Alliance, and the enemy can easily divide its troops and enter the mainland to wreak havoc, causing huge losses to the Ant Alliance.
However, in addition to having special significance as a place that the enemy must attack, the local terrain also determines that there are no other nests that the enemy must attack. The Legion of the God Envoy King cannot deploy defenses everywhere, and is forced to choose a decisive battle.
And if the focus of defense is moved forward, many problems can be solved.
It is located next to a vital valley road. If the enemy does not capture this place, the safety of logistics and transportation will not be guaranteed, or it will have to be detoured to other roads for many days. This is unacceptable to the enemy.
Therefore, for the sake of logistical security, even if it is only located on the high ground next to the valley road, and the valley road is not directly cut into two sections, the enemy cannot tolerate being in the hands of the Divine Envoy King's army, which can threaten its own logistics line at any time. If you can storm here, you can continue to advance.
Moreover, it is far away from the core territory of the Ant Alliance. If the enemy does not capture it, at most it will send small troops to the rear to sweep at a certain distance, which cannot threaten the mainland of the Ant Alliance.
Finally, its own defensive capabilities are also good. This nest is located on a mound with an altitude of at least several meters. It is surrounded by sparse vegetation and has a good shooting range. It turns out that this is an important nest of the red fire ant country, with a large honeycomb-style ant mound.
The Divine Envoy King's Legion did not spend much effort to transform this place into a fortress with the style of the Ant Alliance. Just because of the terrain, this lair has no trenches.
Judging from the terrain, the area is not large, and the huge structures are underground. The enemy cannot invest too many troops in besieging this place, which makes it more difficult for the enemy to attack the city.
The shallow underground layer is a rock layer, and the underground structure of the nest consists of tortuous passages that penetrate deep into the soil from natural stone crevices, and then expand in all directions. Even if the enemy wants to dig directly into the hole to attack, it will be difficult.
The plan made by the protagonist is to build a strong fortification that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Five legions are stationed here, accounting for a quarter of the entire northern line of the Divine Messenger King’s legion. The food and grass stockpiled are enough for a year. , mysterious liquid explosives, iron artillery shells and other materials are also very abundant, enough to cope with many battles.
This place will become a huge grindstone, withstanding the enemy's attack. At the same time, three legions of guerrilla troops will attack in turn, constantly consuming the enemy's strength and morale, allowing the protagonist's back-up plan to be launched at the right time!
The protagonist also made a plan for the situation where the Ant Emperor used special forces to directly attack the rear areas, but what he thought was that the enemy would at most penetrate deep into the rear areas with small and fast troops such as silver ants, and the plan also targeted quick action. The silver ant army attacks.
Planting Jindiluo near each nest is the protagonist's defense measure against the silver ant army.
After the protagonist met Jin Diluo in Kaichun, he went back and mentioned the matter to Xiao Mi II. Within the Ministry of Science and Technology, there is a department that studies plants and fungi such as fluorescent bacteria, and it was this department that finally developed the result of using the extract of fluorescent bacteria as a mysterious liquid explosive. Scientific researchers were very interested in Jindiluo and began to study this carnivorous plant.
Although the mature body of Jindiluo is dangerous, research has found that the larvae of this plant do not have sticky tentacles and are not aggressive, but are very tenacious and can be transplanted. Its seeds will set seeds and germinate three seasons a year, have a high survival rate, and can easily reproduce in large numbers.
The Ministry of Science and Technology had previously been inspired by the practice of ant lion burrows surrounding the nests of red imported fire ants, and proposed the idea of using Jindiluo as part of the defense system around the nests.
This war just gave Jin Diluo a chance to play. The protagonist orders the transportation team to transport a large number of Jindiluo seeds and seedlings to the north, and plant them densely around each nest. This kind of vegetation is suitable for dealing with the silver ants that come and go without a trace.
However, this Jindiluo defense line is not suitable for dealing with the enemy's army, and the protagonist did not expect that the size of the special forces dispatched by the Ant Emperor to pave the way would be as high as tens of thousands.
Apart from the small amount of food they carry, these Rangers basically cannot count on logistical supplies in the future. They are completely alone. This kind of attack is so crazy that it exceeds the imagination of the protagonist.
In fact, the nests in the northern border of the Ant Alliance have very few ant colonies and little food. It has been operated as land that can be abandoned at any time.
But the Pavement Ant Emperor ** didn't know this. When they attacked the territory of the leaf-cutter ant country before, they seized a lot of food from other places, even if it was dried fungi, food that pavement ants don't often eat. To satisfy their hunger, they have achieved a certain level of supporting war with war.
Their attack on the Rangers in the rear this time was also based on the idea of fighting to support war.
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The "White Point" troops entered the battle, and the enemy's workers built an earthen wall behind the Jindiluo Passage and resisted tenaciously.
The narrow exit once limited the attack of the emperor, but the pavement ants had a numerical advantage. Even if the big-headed ants were tenacious, they were too few in number and had no soldier ants, so they gradually fell into a disadvantage.
When the battle ended before dusk, hundreds of enemy corpses lay on the ground, but there was not a single corpse in the lair because all the enemies were engaged in the battle on the ground.
The Viscount was very dissatisfied. There was no queen ant in this nest, and the enemies were all worker ants. There was only one old male ant, and the food captured was very little, not enough for the entire army of ants to eat.
But in order to capture this nest, the emperor and the vassal troops died nearly a thousand soldiers, including the silver ants who died on Jindiluo. It was really a Pyrrhic victory.
The enemy has been clinging to the narrow passage. The weapons on their jaws are very sharp and can easily kill our soldiers.
The Viscount and "White Point" were both looking at the iron jaw knife on the jaw of the big-headed ant corpse with their tentacles.
