This chapter was posted this morning and was swallowed, so I rewrote it...
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The Divine Envoy King's Legion gained command of these 140,000 leaf-cutting ant troops only on the surface, and not without any cost.
The Leafcutter Ant Kingdom has also equipped this army with a queen ant and 4 female ants as commanders. The Angel King Army cannot directly intervene in the command and can only issue orders. This army is still commanded by the leafcutter ant commander. .
In addition to bearing the material consumption of these allied forces, the Ant Alliance Nation also had to provide a large sum of grain and some honeydew to the Leafcutter Ant Nation, which was short of supplies, in exchange for sending troops.
However, the protagonist believed that the investment was worth it and advocated for the "deal" to be approved. Even at the various ethnic gatherings, most of the representatives expressed opposition, the protagonist still insisted on going his own way with the authority of the God Envoy King.
The protagonist's considerations are reasonable. In his opinion, no matter how bad the performance of these leaf-cutter ant armies is on the battlefield, as long as they appear on the battlefield, they will be a great encouragement to the Angel King's army.
What the protagonist is most worried about now is the mentality of the young male ants in the Angel King's army.
Among the current Divine Envoy King's legion, the oldest legion commander was also born after leaving his homeland. More than half of the legion commanders were newcomers in the past two years, and the time to climb to this position was also very short. As for the grassroots squad leaders, half a year of military service is considered seniority!
This is a young force and one that lacks experience!
It can even be said that most of the soldiers of the Divine Envoy King's army lacked the "military soul", which was the steel military soul that came from the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood, fighting against the most vicious enemies.
In his hometown, the protagonist has a group of "old partners" with him. Together they fought against the pavement ant barbarians and also participated in the civil war in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom. They were not timid in the face of overwhelming destroyers. Each of them was experienced in hundreds of battles and was indomitable. .
Under the leadership of veterans, the young male ant commanders at that time could quickly adapt to the harsh battlefield environment after entering the army, and quickly became tenacious. The protagonist seldom worried that his subordinates would one day be timid in battle.
But when the Legion of the God Envoy King left its homeland due to accidental factors, there were not many veterans following the protagonist, only Jianniu and the others.
Now that Jianiu and the others have left the military, their words and deeds are very limited, and the younger generation of commanders lack inheritance. If there is still time, the protagonist is also confident that he can rebuild his "military soul" through victory after victory.
But now, the Legion of the God's Envoy is facing an enemy no less than the Destroyer - the Pavement Ant Empire. Most young generals face fierce and deadly battles as soon as they debut. What they see is the Legion of the God's Envoy step by step. Back away. This has a huge impact on their confidence.
Victory can shape the soul of the army!
Right now, the Angel King's Army has no hope of winning this war. The protagonist's strategy is to delay until the Allies gather, or even until next spring, and then use the supply of the new territory on the south bank of the Qinghe River to fight a war. Total War.
Before that, he had noticed that the fear in the hearts of many young generals was slowly growing, and he needed to use external forces to protect these male ants from being crushed by the pressure.
As long as the allies can show up, especially the army of more than 100,000 leaf-cutting ants, their appearance can tell those young commanders in adversity - we are not fighting alone, we have allies!
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September 20th.
Today is a good day. The warm sunshine once again lifts the veil of morning fog. The golden luster wakes up all living beings and beats the drumbeat of battle.
In the forest in the distance, densely packed pavement ant imperial troops appeared with the rising sun, as dark as the night last night.
It seems that today is another fierce battle!
The protagonist suddenly hopes that there will be an autumn rain. The miserable autumn rain will silence both armies, and the Divine Envoy King's army can get some precious breathing time, instead of having to fight on the fortifications that were barely repaired overnight.
But he was afraid of Qiu Yu.
One autumn rain and another cold. Each autumn rain brings late autumn and early winter closer and closer. That is the season of enemy ants, not the legion of the God's Envoy King.
Moreover, as autumn deepens, the time that the worker ants who dig iron ore at night and rush to transport supplies along the canal becomes shorter and shorter, which also has a big impact on the long-term operation of the Angel King's army. Negative impact.
By this time, the enemy troops had already assembled.
They even camped near the ruins of six lost fortresses at one time, and could launch an offensive early every morning instead of having to walk for half an hour like now.
However, the endless night attacks by the Angel King's army made the enemy choose to retreat, but their camp was much closer than at the beginning of the battle.
Countless Pavement Ant Imperial Army soldiers, mixed with vassal warriors and Green Armored Armor, came like a tide, and then split up in front of the [Hematite City] that stood alone like a reef, and quickly surrounded this isolated city.
The enemy troops were so numerous and densely packed that the protagonist thought that if a mouse tried to run out of [Hematite City] at this time, he would probably die on the way.
This is a desperate siege, but the protagonist still has hope!
The reinforcements from the Leafcutter Ant Nation have not arrived so quickly, and today the warriors of the God Envoy King are still fighting alone. The two armies immediately entered into a fierce close combat. Only the occasional explosions of artillery fire were left on the silent battlefield, reminding them that a battle was taking place here.
But after a while, a huge "buzzing" sound came from the southeast, breaking the battlefield that seemed dead most of the time.
The already experienced commanders of the Pavement Ant Empire Army immediately recognized that the sound did not belong to a "mosquito" or a flying knight, but to a giant dragonfly!
Some commanders who had witnessed the bombing and friendly troops struggling and being burned in the sea of fire were very anxious, but the empire's strict military discipline and the densely packed friendly troops all around made it impossible for them to escape with their troops.
They could only pray that the sea of fire would not explode on their heads this time. After all, the giant dragonfly bombing troops could not carry much ammunition each time.
The Giant Dragonfly bombing force now sorties out once a day, and the bomb load each time is about 60% of what it used to do once in two days. The rear ammunition workshop has gradually been able to provide more and more aerial bombs!
This group of giant dragonflies lingered in the airspace controlled by the Flying Knights and were not in a hurry to drop bombs. They only bombed when they were most needed, usually to let the defenders breathe or to cover their retreat underground.
But today, as a messenger flying knight landed on the back of the leading giant dragonfly, the mission of the bombing force changed.
The entire bombing force and most of the combat flying knights were ordered to assemble and fly toward the north, leaving only less than a hundred combat flying knights guarding the airspace of [Hematite City].
The air force heading north is ordered to carry out a "decapitation operation"!
