Aiman ants form a formation of large ants and advance horizontally along the city wall. Its thick carapace makes this army look like a Macedonian phalanx, almost indestructible in frontal combat.
The Divine Envoy King's army had not many troops deployed on the city wall. I thought the enemy would focus on besieging the fortress, but unexpectedly, this Ai's ant army took another route.
There were only two small teams of Angel King warriors guarding the towers between the city walls. The walls of the towers did not provide much additional cover, and they soon became unable to withstand the attack of the Aiman ants. The two towers fell successively, and the defenders and artillery The whole group was wiped out.
When the Aiman ants arrived at the nearest tower, the fortress hurriedly sent out three teams to assist in the defense.
There are also defensive fortifications between the fortress itself and the city wall. The fortress wall is four or five centimeters higher than the outer city wall. But it is obviously unwise to abandon an outer tower rashly, not to mention that there is an important iron cannon on it. The fortress defenders and the Ai Shiman ant army fought fiercely in front of the last tower.
The hard formation formed by the Aiman ants was even more indestructible than the formation of the fully armored Big-headed Ant Soldier Ants. The warriors of the Divine Envoy King who were accustomed to fighting in formations suffered a lot in front of this formation.
The defenders could only rely on one millet cannon in the tower and two millet cannons and one mung bean cannon in the fortress to cover and fire here, which somewhat shook the Ai Shiman ants' formation.
After the artillery fire defeated the small ants in the rear group of the Ai's ants, the large Ai's ants in front were unable to support themselves and finally retreated.
With the withdrawal of the Aiman ants, the vassal troops of the Pavement Ant Empire Army have retreated one after another, but the war is not over yet.
The Pavement Ant Imperial Army's own troops apparently felt that the vassal had greatly weakened the defenders, so they came out in full force at this time.
Together with the troops that came to join later, there were hundreds of thousands of pavement ants approaching in a formation that was more than 10 meters long and 5 meters thick. Like the shadow cast by dark clouds on the ground, a large number of enemy troops rushed towards the Divine Envoy King's army in a dark and heavy manner, and the shadow enveloped the entire defense line.
Before the defenders had time to take a breath from the previous battle, they ushered in a second wave of enemy troops. Subsequently, in addition to He and Qin, the other four fortresses were attacked successively.
There were so many enemy troops that they not only divided up large groups of troops to besiege the four fortresses, but other troops also swarmed up the city walls.
One after another, the towers guarded by the warriors of the Divine Envoy King fell after they ran out of ammunition, food, and exhaustion. Soon, only 6 fortresses in the first line of defense were still under the control of the defenders.
The Imperial Army of Pavement Ants and their vassal warriors began to attack Kazuya at the top like a flood. There were also many enemy ants that swarmed into the city wall, destroyed the thorn barriers, and then launched an attack.
Fortunately, although the enemy's ants are overwhelmingly numerous, the warriors of the God's Envoy King have fought against the paving ants in their homeland and know the strengths and weaknesses of each other. Although some of the elite troops of the Pavement Ant warriors in front of them were equipped with cicada shell armor, their individual combat effectiveness and siege tactics were not essentially different from those of the Pavement Ant barbarian army.
The warriors of the Divine Envoy King are relatively more adaptable to the attacks of the pavement ant warriors than they are to the red imported fire ants, Erichman ants or yellow ants.
But there are too many enemy troops. The number of enemy troops currently participating in the battle is four to five times that of the defenders. There are still more enemy troops who are unable to participate in the battle due to the narrow terrain. Especially He, who is facing the enemy camp, is besieged by enemy ants that are more than ten times the number of defenders.
During the battle, the Pavement Ant warriors relied on their numbers, especially, to attack repeatedly and use ant sea tactics to consume the strength of the defenders. At one point, they broke into the interior and destroyed three gun emplacements before being driven away by the last reserves of the 22nd Army. Went back.
The battle ended in the evening, when the Pavement Ant Imperial Army finally withdrew. The ground inside and outside the city wall was covered with thick piles of corpses of soldiers from both armies, and the color of the ground seemed to have been changed by the corpses.
The Angel King's legion then adjusted its defensive deployment overnight, and the garrison that suffered heavy casualties was replaced by a new legion, and the withdrawn legion returned to rest and recuperate.
Although all the city wall towers fell during the day and all the artillery crews were killed, fortunately the enemy did not destroy the iron cannon. Even if they wanted to destroy it, there was nothing they could do with this lump of iron.
The soldiers of the God's Messenger King withdrew the artillery on these weakly defended towers and six fortresses overnight, completely abandoning the defense on the city wall.
After all, this city wall defense was originally planned to be used together with the moat for the best effect. Now the moat is only a dry trench, and the defensive power is greatly reduced. It is no longer worth spending troops to defend it.
The worker ant troops went out to clean up the corpses all night, but they only cleared the corpses inside the city wall and outside the ditch. There were too many corpses and it was too late to bury them and place them.
In addition, the ants had to continue digging and transporting hematite at night. During the day, enemy troops entered the mining area, and production could not be carried out, so they had to work overnight to supplement production capacity.
After some statistics, today's casualty report of the Divine Envoy King's legion was also reported to the protagonist. On the first day of the war, the defenders, who totaled 20 legions and 52,000 soldiers, suffered more than 4,000 battle losses, equivalent to the loss of one and a half legions.
Although the enemy suffered greater losses, with as many as 20,000 to 30,000 casualties, many wounded soldiers struggled to survive until the defenders cleared the battlefield before being killed by last-minute blows.
But the protagonist is still not happy about this result!
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The next day, the enemy attacked again, also dispatching the Qing Infantry Army and the Air Force.
The Flying Knights lived up to expectations and protected their air superiority, and then the Giant Dragonfly bombing force, which had retreated, launched an air attack on the enemy's Green Infantry.
However, the overwhelming number of Ant Pavement Ant Imperial Army, using the Green Infantry Armor troops as their arrows, destroyed the city wall after a long-lasting attack. The defenders were forced into street fighting. After a heroic resistance, the entire army was annihilated and fell.
That night, when the enemy troops withdrew, they left behind more than 2,000 elite armored pavement ant warriors guarding the almost ruined area.
The Angel King's army launched a night attack, completely annihilated the enemy army, and recaptured the fortress. After evaluation, it was determined that the fortress could no longer be repaired in a short period of time and had to be abandoned. Only a few recaptured iron cannons were transported back.
However, after an inventory, two mung bean cannons and three millet cannons were missing.
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On September 8, the Western Expeditionary Army of the Pavement Ant Empire continued its offensive, and on the same day, its Southern Expeditionary Army also began to attack.
The war between the Ant Alliance and the Pavement Ant Empire is heating up!
