At this time, the battlefield was in another scene.
It seems that the enemy's Southern Expeditionary Army has a shadow over the desperate attack last time. This time, the enemy's willingness to attack the fortress group they faced was not high.
After sending out Green Infantry Troops and a large number of infantry to besiege for many days to no avail, the enemy changed their tactics. Unlike the battlefield on the Western Front, the two armies fought for every inch of land for every fortification, every stronghold, and every fortress.
The main force of the Pavement Ant Imperial Army stayed to contain them, while more than 100,000 infantry and fast-moving Silver Ant troops bypassed and harassed the Guangda area to the south and east of the Black Forest.
Many places in this area are the core hinterland of the Ant Alliance and an important food production area. Although there is no heavy industry, it is still very important. The enemy troops ravaged here for several days, and their frontline even approached the canal to the north of the main nest, and the distance was already within easy reach...
The defenders had to send troops south to support, and some troops stationed in He and He also participated in the encirclement and suppression. After several battles, many enemy infantry were eliminated, but there was no good way to deal with the fast-moving silver ants.
As a last resort, the protagonist took advantage of the night to send out most of the Fly Tiger Knight troops and the stationed tank troops, and ordered the defenders to actively cut off the enemy's supply lines, thus containing the enemy's invasion.
Almost all the enemy infantry was wiped out, and the Silver Ant troops also suffered heavy losses. The remaining troops retreated to the camp in the north.
After that, the battlefield on the eastern front temporarily stabilized. The enemy continued to attack very weakly and did not attack in a roundabout way, but it also did not withdraw.
After successive battles on the Eastern Front battlefield, the Ant Alliance also suffered heavy losses. In addition to the tens of thousands of troops who participated in the battle, a large number of territories north of the main nest were almost razed to the ground: many small and medium-sized sub-nests fell, resulting in 30,000 casualties. A lot of food was lost, and thousands of aphid herds were plundered and killed.
In order to avoid repeating the same mistake, the protagonist had to gradually evacuate the ant colonies and supplies close to the war zone to the south bank of Qinghe River.
It now appears that before the south bank can provide stable output and the transport team can provide sufficient transport capacity across the river, the territorial output on the north bank of the Qinghe River has been reduced by one-third, and the war potential of the Divine Envoy King's Army has also been greatly reduced.
The situation is developing more and more in a direction that is not conducive to the Legion of God's Envoy King!
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September 18th.
After holding on for two days, all the ground fortifications of the fortress were lost for the first time.
After covering the artillery crew and dragging all the artillery pieces underground, the defenders decisively withdrew into the third line of defense underground. According to the experience of the defense war, this line of defense is the strongest.
The defenders no longer dared to abandon their artillery and retreat. Observations of many days of fighting showed that the enemy was consciously collecting the weapons and equipment of the Angel King's warriors, including artillery, jaw knives and iron armor.
The first enemy force that broke into the underground of the fortress shocked the front-line commanders of the Angel King's army - the soldiers of this pavement ant army were wearing armor as large as the size of the armor, and had hoods on their jaws. Wearing an iron jaw knife that is also one size larger.
The equipment they were equipped with was clearly that of the warriors of the God Envoy King.
After defeating this enemy force, the protagonist heard the news and came over for inspection. After discussions with senior commanders and combined with previous intelligence, the protagonist estimated that the enemy soldiers were consciously peeling off the bodies of the God-Emissary King soldiers who died in the battle and could not be recaptured. Armor weapons.
This incident greatly improved the protagonist's threat assessment of the enemy. An enemy who is good at learning is the most terrifying.
Fortunately, most of the weapons and equipment of the fallen warriors of the Envoy King were recovered, and the enemy captured only a limited amount. Like this underground assault, the enemy ants only formed a small group of more than a hundred fully armed troops. , other enemy ants are still naked or poorly equipped with cicada shell armor.
But if the artillery is captured by the enemy and learns to use it, the threat will be great!
At present, in the continuous battles, at least 20 artillery pieces of the God's Envoy Army have been missing. Fortunately, not much ammunition has been lost. Manipulating artillery is also a technical job. If the enemy manipulates the artillery and ammunition on their own without guidance, the possibility of self-explosion is much greater than the possibility of learning!
The protagonist can only comfort himself in this way!
But no matter what, the Legion of the God Envoy King has gradually fallen into a disadvantage on both battlefields, and this disadvantage will only worsen as time goes by.
It is already autumn. Once winter arrives, the mobility of the Angel King's legions will be limited to 0, and the canal transportation lines they rely on will be interrupted. Even at that time, it was still possible to rely on the pavement ants under his command to transport supplies, but the transportation volume was obviously very small.
The enemy's hundreds of thousands of pavement ants can continue to attack. Even if the defenders persist until winter, can they last until spring without supplies?
Time, this time is not on the side of the Divine Envoy King’s Legion!
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I can't remember how many times it was. Faced with the dissuasion of many of his generals, the protagonist once again refused the request to move to the rear.
He said he would continue to stay and fight with the frontline soldiers.
That night, he led the guardsmen out of the lair, inspiring his soldiers to fight bravely, recapture the fortress's ground fortifications, and redefine it.
Later, the protagonist summons "Little Flower" and asks her to go to the Leafcutter Ant Kingdom to request military assistance.
During the half-month period when the Angel King's army was fighting fiercely with the enemy, some reinforcements from allies had arrived by airlift, and the first batch of walnut fleets also arrived in the Leaf-Cutter Ant Nation and the Ant Alliance Nation.
So far, the Leaf-Cutter Ant Nation and the Divine Envoy King's Legion have each received thousands of reinforcements, but neither has put them into battle.
After a month of rest, the Leafcutter Ant Nation has now recovered its military strength. The protagonist suggests that they send out troops to jointly fight the enemy outside.
The Legion of the Divine Envoy King is already in a very difficult situation, and the allies cannot just sit idly by and ignore it!
The Leafcutter Ant Nation refused to send troops at first. Their military strength was indeed far from what it was before the war, and most of the support troops promised by the allies of the various civilization ants had not yet arrived. Just relying on a bunch of new recruits that they barely added, the leaf-cutter ant army itself was not sure of winning.
But the protagonist asked "Little Flower" to tell them that if the Leaf-Cutter Ant Nation refused to send troops, the Ant Alliance Nation would consider withdrawing its entire army to the south bank of the Qinghe River. By then, the Ant Alliance Nation would have lost a large area of territory, but it would be able to preserve the tribe. As for where the leaf-cutter ant country will go, and whether it can defend the sacred tree, you can decide for yourself!
Under this threat, the leaf-cutter ant nation finally promised to send out "6 times 3 times" warriors for support after discussion at the queen ant conference. This group of troops can be commanded by the Legion of God's Envoy King.
