This is the edge of a forest. You can see a forest-grass transition zone between tall tree communities and low grassland, as well as sparse weeds, low shrubs and young trees growing together.
At this time, this forest-grass transition zone and the part extending to the forest were covered in a dense black.
From the ground, to the trunk, to almost every branch and leaf, there were either densely packed ants in the middle of the fight or densely packed corpses of ants that had died in the fighting.
This is a decisive battle between two ant armies with a total of millions, and it is unfolding on the edge of this forest!
This is the third time that the Leaf Cutting Army has organized a large-scale army to face the offensive of the Pavement Ant Emperor!
In the first two battles, the leaf-cutter ant army failed successively and had to withdraw from the territory it originally occupied in the original red fire ant country, losing dozens of nests. This time, the war has burned to the edge of the forest, the core blessed land of the Leafcutter Ant Kingdom.
However, the Leafcutter Ant Nation was not without gains. The first batch of Western Expedition troops that paved the way for the Ant Emperor's invasion suffered heavy losses in successive battles. Especially after the battle moved into the woods, their casualties skyrocketed. The huge battle damage forced the Ant Emperor's offensive to be suspended for a week, and the attack was not continued until the second batch of reinforcements arrived.
At this time, the Leafcutter Ant Nation had devoted all its efforts to assemble a huge army, almost exhausting the last reserves of the country and the assistance of its allies, and then assembled an army of 600,000.
The forces of both sides are evenly matched, but the King Pavement Ants are very elite. Unlike the leafcutter ant army, which is already filled with a large number of medium-sized worker ants, many of the more combat-savvy large and small worker ants have just emerged from pupae, and there are very few elite veterans.
Therefore, not long after the battle started, the leaf-cutter ant army lost the forest-grass transition zone at the edge of the forest and was forced to retreat into the forest.
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In the sky, dozens of star beetles, the "holy beast" of the leaf-cutter ant kingdom, flew among the trees in the forest, landing on the ground from time to time to assist the ground troops in repelling the assaults of a group of enemy troops.
These star beetles have thick carapace and have elite leaf-cutting ant veterans on their backs. Once engaged, they will jump down to fight together. The "holy beasts" cooperate with the accompanying infantry in a tacit understanding, as if they are no worse than the infantry and tanks of the God Emissary King's army.
These star beetles are like fire brigade, appearing frequently in the most critical areas, stabilizing the defense line like a needle in the sea.
A group of "mosquitoes" came quietly. They flew among the trees and used the cover of the trees to get close to the star beetles. Leaf-cutting ant warriors kept coming from the trees to ambush the flying "mosquitoes", causing them considerable losses, but the "mosquitoes" refused to leave.
They immediately sped up after discovering the star beetle, and soon came into contact with the star long beetle that was caught off guard by the leafcutter ant army. They swarmed around and hugged each other to bite them.
The leaf-cutting ant warriors on the star beetle were all quickly killed due to the huge numerical disadvantage. The out-of-control star beetle was defeated by the attacking and biting "mosquitoes", and fled one after another. Some fell directly to the ground, and soon The pavement ant emperors swarmed over and cut the huge insect into pieces.
The "mosquitoes" successfully drove away the star beetles that had driven back the leaf-cutting ant army. The leaf-cutting ant army on the ground had no support. Facing the aggressive pavement ant emperors, they had no choice but to retreat step by step, gradually retreating into the trees. superior.
But after the leaf-cutting ant army gave up the ground battlefield, it was able to breathe.
The Pavement Ant Emperor is not good at tree fighting, and is even more confused about the intricate three-dimensional traffic network formed between the branches. The leafcutter ant warriors began to maneuver flexibly among the trees, sometimes descending to the ground to attack a small army of pavement ants, sometimes moving from a heavily besieged tree without any casualties, and sometimes moving from a hidden road. Go to the rear of the Pavement Ant Emperor and cut off the retreat.
The only ones who can compete with or even outperform the leaf-cutting ant army in the trees are the yellow ant warriors who are vassals of the pavement ant empire. Other tree-dwelling ants such as ant ants have meager combat capabilities.
In previous battles, the yellow ant's tree-fighting prowess completely overwhelmed the leaf-cutter ants, but their numbers were too small. After repeated battles, there was not even one left in a hundred, and now it is difficult for them to take on a major role.
There are no new Yellow Ant warriors in the second batch of armies that Pave the Ant Emperor invaded. The total number of Yellow Ant vassals is too small. After the first supply of more than 10,000 soldiers, they are already exhausted. Bones, providing more troops in a short time.
The battle has reached a stalemate, with the pavement ant emperor controlling the ground and the leaf-cutter ant army controlling the trees. Neither side can do anything to the other for the time being, but neither side is willing to give up the battle.
The "mosquitoes" are now more dominant in the air, but the leaf-cutter ant warriors frequently jump and attack in the air, killing a large number of "mosquitoes", forcing the "mosquito" troops to eventually evacuate. The surviving "holy beast" stars The beetle took the opportunity to return to the battlefield.
The stalemate reached night, and the two armies were unable to do anything to each other for the time being, so they had to withdraw their troops and return to their camps.
The next day, the star beetles of the leafcutter ant army discovered a new situation during aerial reconnaissance - the enemy was destroying saplings in the places they occupied.
The pavement ant emperor has almost completely controlled the forest-grass transition zone, but it occupies very little space in the woods. Their destructive actions are mainly carried out in the forest-grass transition zone.
These pavement ants and client ants crawled over almost every young tree sapling, biting off the few leaves from the roots one by one, and then peeled off the bark of the trunk from the waist up. This damaged sapling, which had lost its leaves and had its bark peeled off, had no chance of survival and would die completely in a few days or ten.
The method of destroying saplings adopted by Emperor Pavilion Ant came from the advice of the "King of Wisdom". At this time, the "King of Wisdom" is following a red fire ant army and fighting under the Western Expeditionary Army of the Pavement Ant Empire.
In the past, the red fire ant country and the leaf-cutting ant country were at war all the year round. Every time the leaf-cutter ant country conquered a place, they would actively sow tree seeds and plant saplings, while the red fire ant army would destroy the saplings every time they occupied a place.
This tactic is basically ineffective against grown trees, but it is very lethal to saplings. In less than half a day, hundreds of saplings had been brutally murdered and were left alive.
This angered the leaf-cutting ant army, which regarded itself as the "Tree God Heritage" and "Guardian of the Forest". After both the "Queen Ant Conference" and the "Female Ant Conference" passed resolutions in a populist atmosphere, the leaf-cutting ant army launched launched a massive counterattack.
Hundreds of thousands of leaf-cutting ant soldiers launched a counterattack from the trees and on the ground at the same time, rushing straight out of the forest, vowing to regain the forest-grass transition zone and save the saplings that had been harmed.
This is truly a disastrous military operation!
