Starting from September 1st, in response to the constant harassment of the Angel King's army, the Pavement Ant Empire Army began to take countermeasures.
The reconnaissance flying knight reported that the enemy began to build military camps along the main transportation routes at approximately every 50-69 meters. These military camps are all underground caves, and hundreds of pavement ant troops are stationed in each one.
In addition, the enemy's green infantry troops and vassal ant troops such as silver ants, Erichman ants, yellow ants, and red fire ants began to dispatch frequently.
The enemy built garrison points very close to each other on the logistics route. This tactic was also used in offensive and defensive battles. At that time, it did make the plan of the Divine Envoy Army to cut off the enemy's supply line fail.
There are garrisons in these garrison points, and the distance is very close. Once the enemy's transport team is attacked, they can quickly get some support. The Divine Envoy King's legions did not dare to fight. If they were really held back by the enemy, and they waited until a large enemy force arrived to surround them, then something serious would happen.
However, now this tactic has little effect on the harassment battle of the God Envoy King's Army. In the past, the God's Envoy King's Army dispatched infantry to harass. Even if they were hunting sickle ant scouts, they would have no speed advantage over the pavement ant warriors. That’s why I’m afraid of being dragged down and unable to get rid of it.
Now the God Envoy King's army uses air force bombing troops and fly tiger knights. One can fly in the air without being threatened by the enemy's army, and the other is very fast and can ambush and run away. In addition to the silver ants, even the green step armor will chase the enemy. Not on.
On the contrary, the information about the enemy's frequent dispatches of large numbers of small-scale troops attracted the protagonist's attention even more.
Most of these enemy troops are in groups of hundreds or thousands. Some of them are wandering around the periphery of the camps to make up for the large number of blind spots between the camps and prevent the Fly Tiger Knights from sneaking in; others are patrolling near the supply lines to cover the logistics troops; and there are Some unknown orders were received, and the approaching peripheral defense lines launched harassing attacks.
The Angel King's Legion relied on the completed defense facilities to repel several enemy attacks. However, during two raids by the silver ants of the green beetle, some construction worker ants had no time to retreat and hundreds of them were killed.
Both sides suffered losses, and small-scale battles became more frequent. Later, as the enemy harassed the outer perimeter with more and more battles, the defense line could only be completed in a hurry. The planned irrigation trench was not built, and it was just a dry trench. The fortress, city walls, and towers were all completed.
Faced with the continuous attacks by the Pavement Ant Imperial Army, the Fly Tiger Knights had to stop the harassment on September 3. The task of slowly blocking the enemy's logistics fell entirely on the Giant Dragonfly Bombing Force.
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, this is one of the six outer fortresses.
Surrounded by these six fortresses, they are arranged in a shape of about three-fifths of a circle, with an average distance of about 40 degrees and more than 3 meters apart. It is a basketball-sized fortress, and its names are from east to west.
Among them, the enemy camp facing the north-west direction has faced the most intensive enemy attacks in recent days and has the highest level of combat readiness.
At noon that day, following the warning from the aerial reconnaissance flying knight, the 22nd Army Corps stationed here hurriedly entered the position and began a new round of battle.
This time it was the enemy's silver ant troops that attacked. They were very fast and were the main force in harassment battles. The enemy's Green Infantry Troops had been dispatched several times before, but in the past two days they had appeared less and less.
The silver ant troops moved quickly and did not come directly towards the fortress. After several days of continuous fire reconnaissance, they also knew that the defense here was strong.
Their goal is the city wall without ants! ! !
Although the Ant Alliance has built a tower every half meter on the outer city wall, and plans to place 2 artillery groups and 2 squads on it, it is not in place yet. After all, the newly formed artillery group has not been trained yet. Pulling him up was just a way to die, and the Pavement Ant Imperial Army didn't launch a large-scale attack, so there was still time.
Therefore, at this time, all the city wall areas were unguarded.
The last time the Silver Ant troops failed to attack the fortress, they accidentally broke into the city wall and killed many worker ant queens from the Ant Alliance. They then used their speed advantage to evacuate while being pursued by the Angel King's army.
This time, after tasting the sweetness, they plan to repeat the same trick!
But how could the God Envoy King Army not learn a lesson!
When they discovered that the enemy troops were moving quickly towards the city wall, the troops on both sides began to fire cannons. Each fortress has 12 guns. The 12 gun groups do not belong to the garrisoned corps, but receive unified command.
At this time, two-thirds of the artillery can overlap and shoot in the direction of the silver ants' advance. The crossfire of 16 artillery pieces, calculated in advance, exploded among the ranks of silver ants, and the ejected iron bullets plowed several trenches of flesh and blood into the enemy troops.
In one round of shooting, more than fifty Silver Ant troops were killed or injured.
But the silver ants were too fast. After one round of shooting, there were still more than two hundred silver ants quickly crossing the trench and scaling the city wall.
Even if the artillery range of the God Envoy King Army has been increased to 4 meters, there is only one chance to shoot when facing the extremely fast silver ants. The silver ants have already arrived inside. In order to prevent accidental damage, the artillery can only be turned off.
But as soon as the silver ant troops climbed down the city wall, they found that there were suddenly a bunch of thorns in front of them than last time.
These are dry thorny plants that are piled behind the city wall to form a long fence, with entrances and exits about every one or two meters. It is obviously a newly deployed defense method after the last attack on the Ant Alliance.
The thorns are intertwined together like a barbed wire fence, and even ants are unwilling to crawl on these thorny hay.
Thorns restricted the advance route of the silver ant troops, and they could only choose the nearest opening to get out. But as soon as I looked out, I found that there were already 50 God Envoy King troops blocking the gap behind me.
These are the patrol teams inside the city wall. After receiving the warning from the flying knight, they each blocked a thorn exit.
The sneak attack turned into a strong attack, and the silver ants had no choice but to attack directly.
A small group of the Divine Envoy King Legion is no match for more than two hundred silver ants. These silver ants can use their speed and strength to easily tear apart the line of the God's Envoy King's warriors. The God's Envoy King's warriors who cannot fight in formation are difficult to defeat even if they are armed to the teeth.
However, the silver ant troops were not proud for long. More and more reinforcements from the God Envoy King's Legion arrived, and the silver ant troops were still unable to break through this small opening.
By the time the Silver Ants wanted to retreat, the God Envoy King warriors had already come around from behind. The Silver Ant troops finally got rid of them and endured another round of artillery fire before escaping.
But then, they had to face the pursuit of the Flying Knights and the Fly-Tiger Knights, and not even one of them escaped in the end!
