After using the "aircraft landing" tactic for the first time and sending an elite squad to successfully destroy 6 lost artillery pieces, the protagonist was not careless. The price he paid for his previous carelessness was not unbearable.
The protagonist is always on guard. Now he seems to be losing more and more of his original humanity and personality, becoming more and more like the "God Envoy King" called in the ants' tentacles!
The protagonist calmly analyzed: the artillery pieces lost by the Divine Envoy King's Army were far more than 6, as many as 20. It is not yet known whether the remaining artillery pieces have been captured by the enemy, or whether these artillery pieces are intact. Everything needs to be considered from a worst-case perspective!
The Flying Knights went out for long hours every day to conduct reconnaissance, trying to find the whereabouts of the lost artillery, but found nothing.
In the past few days, the Pavement Ant Imperial Army's offensive has basically stopped. It seems that the loss of their top commander has had a big impact on their command system. However, hundreds of thousands of pavement ant imperial troops still surrounded [Red Iron City], declaring that this war is far from over.
Taking advantage of this period of time, the Angel King's Legion obtained supplies from the canal day and night - the enemy did not block this area, and also lit fires in the cold to dig for hematite at night. The worker ants also repaired the ground fortifications of [Hematite City] again and prepared for a long-term battle.
This time, the protagonist asked the [Hematite City] defenders to be prepared to fight in the cage city throughout the winter. After all, the pavement ants can continue to attack in the winter.
For this reason, [Hematite City] has once again strengthened the construction of underground fortifications. The above-ground fortifications will be of no use after autumn. The underground fortifications are the main battlefield for winter defense.
In order to prevent unexpected events, the protagonist even ordered the worker ant construction team in [Hematite City] to dig a long tunnel to the east. He requested that it be extended at least 50 meters away, preferably directly to the nearest secondary nest, so as to avoid the encirclement and scout detection range of the Pavement Ant Empire.
Once this retreat route is built, even if they do not reach the nearby sub-nest, the isolated [Hematite City] defenders will be able to receive supplies from time to time from some pavement ant transport teams during the winter.
The protagonist also asked nearby sub-nests to dig tunnels simultaneously, preferably connecting the city from [Hematie City] to [Beilan City] across the river from [February Orchid City].
In this way, even if they encounter the worst situation, the defenders of [Hematite City] can retreat along the underground transportation lines, so as not to make the same mistake as the defenders of [Banxia City].
Speaking of [Panxia City], the protagonist then remembered that the messenger who came from the main nest [Xinyang City] two days ago for a routine report said that the previously injured and comatose magic soldier ant "Blackberry" had woken up. She was the commander of the team that led dozens of Angel King warriors to escape from the long-distance pursuit by the Pavement Ant Empire Army.
The protagonist's thinking went astray, but he came back to his senses. The underground transportation network between nests he conceived was inspired by the subway. He estimated that the construction volume of this strategic project is huge. The distance between each nest exceeds tens of meters, and many of them are more than a hundred meters. With the construction capabilities of ants, without the support of mechanical equipment such as shield machines, It's almost like Yu Old Man Moves Mountains.
The protagonist decided to implement the first phase of the project first, that is, the underground passage from [Hematite City] to the first sub-nest in the east. He planned to send construction teams to start work from both sides at the same time, and allowed the use of a number of mysterious liquid explosive reserves to strive for the entrance. It was completed around winter.
For this reason, a large number of experienced workers from the Engineering Department were gradually transferred from other projects to participate in this "strategic project"!
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In late September, not only did the war in [Hematite City] temporarily cease, and it was no longer noisy and bloody as before, but even the war on the [Hive City] battlefield also changed dramatically.
The Southern Expeditionary Army of the Pavement Ant Empire that attacked [Hive City] did not have a strong will to attack the city. After the strategy of detouring to the rear of [Hive City] failed, they have been besieging the city and maintaining a low-intensity offensive. Until now, they have not even built a perimeter. The fortress was not captured, which shows his low will to fight. You know, the Pavement Ant Empire's Western Expeditionary Army completely destroyed all the peripheral fortifications of [Hematite City] in just a few days!
This kind of attack by the enemy seems to be just doing an errand, and they have lost their fighting spirit from top to bottom.
As time goes by, there have been several autumn rains in recent days. The vassal ants are not willing to brave the cold weather to attack. Without the cannon fodder, the pavement ants themselves are even more lazy. The war here in [Hive City] has also entered a calm state. stage.
But the good times didn't last long. On September 25, the defenders of [Beehive City] suddenly learned that a peripheral fortress had fallen.
It was the red fire ant army that captured this small fortress. Recently, more than 100,000 red fire ant troops have arrived from the north and joined the battlefield. However, this information was not taken seriously by the defenders before.
The red fire ant army showed a strong will to fight, which was in sharp contrast to other enemy forces who were just trying to fight - after all, [Hive City] was their former main nest.
The newly restored red fire ant nation has been working hard in the past few months. While dealing with the endless greedy food requirements of the pavement ant imperial army, it has tightened its stomach to save food rations. In the past few months, it has actually been in the restored territory. An army of more than 100,000 people was assembled in order to regain the former main nest.
This is an amazing feat!
After receiving permission from the Pavement Ant Imperial Army to attack, the fire ant army rushed straight into a peripheral fortress as if they had eaten belladonna and were not afraid of death.
There are not many defenders in this fortress. The low-intensity battles in the past few days have made them a little slack. Unfortunately, the fortress's artillery is somewhat rusty due to the continuous rain. Last night, nearly half of the defenders pushed multiple artillery pieces back to [The Beehive] City] went for maintenance.
At this time, the fortress only had half of the defenders and lacked firepower. After resisting for about half a day, it fell.
[Beehive City] The defenders were very surprised, but they reacted randomly, and in accordance with the plan that night, they organized death squads to counterattack overnight, preparing to retake the fortress.
This time-tested night attack tactic actually failed this time. The fire ant soldiers were very tenacious. In addition, the internal structure of the captured small fortress was still intact, with complete fortifications and fierce street fighting. It was difficult to rush in at once.
At dawn, the death squads had to retreat to prevent being caught and eaten by the enemy.
Afterwards, the [Hive City] defenders were worried about a large-scale enemy attack, so they strengthened the defense of the home nest and the remaining fortresses outside.
But what was even more unexpected was that the enemy movements detected by the Flying Knights today were not a massive attack, but that the main force of the Pavement Ant Empire was retreating north.
The enemy army only left more than 100,000 red fire ant troops here to continue the attack, and the rest of the troops were setting off in a long marching formation, quickly moving away from [Hive City]!
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