The Pavement Ant Empire's Southern Expeditionary Army withdrew from [Hive City]. Although a portion of the red fire ant army remained, the local military pressure was still greatly reduced.
No matter how strong the fighting will is, the fire ant army only has a total strength of hundreds of thousands. Except for taking an advantage in the early stage, the God Envoy King's army later adapted and easily blocked the enemy's offensive with its fortifications and long-range.
At the beginning, the Red Fire Ant Kingdom was much stronger than the newly arrived God Envoy King's army, and it was not able to conquer [Xin Yang City]. Now that the strength and weakness of both sides have reversed, it is even more important.
In a night attack three days later, the Angel King's army used blasting tactics to regain the fortress that had been lost for many days. They repaired it overnight and repelled the counterattack of the red fire ant army the next day.
Subsequently, the fire ant army's offensive for several days finally fell into decline, and [Hive City] once again entered a stable period.
On the side of [Red Iron City], upon hearing the news that the enemy troops were withdrawing to the north, the protagonist and a group of army commanders, together with several local staff officers from the Military Staff Office (all disabled and retired male ants and magic soldier ants) ), were meeting together to study the enemy's motives.
Now the protagonist has begun to no longer do everything himself. He is also gradually cultivating the autonomy of his subordinate generals, and at the same time training the abilities of the staff officers who have not yet formed a staff consciousness.
According to the reconnaissance information provided by the Flying Knight, the Pavement Ant Empire army retreating north is still moving due north, which is the direction of the recently restored Red Fire Ant Kingdom.
Regarding the purpose of the enemy's march northward, there is currently insufficient information, and the participants' opinions are divided.
Some ants thought that the enemy was short of food, so they went north back to the territory of the red imported fire ant country to eat. Their reason is that the enemy's southern expedition did not focus on attacking fortresses before, but instead went back to our country to plunder, probably because of insufficient military rations. After the Envoy King's Army defeated the enemy's roundabout force, the enemy had been stationed for many days. The Flying Knights detected that the enemy's food transport team was very small and the supply line was too long. It was estimated that it was not enough to support hundreds of thousands of enemy troops. the time consumption.
Another group of ants believed that the enemy army was going to turn west from the territory of the red fire ant country and join the Western Expeditionary Army that was besieging [Red Iron City]. They also have evidence: the previously captured Duke of the Pavement Ant Empire Army has confessed. The enemy army has dispatched a total of two Dukes this time. Now there is no Duke in charge of the Western Expedition Army. The Marquises below have not obeyed anyone and have not moved for many days. . It is entirely possible for the Pavement Ant Imperial Army to ask the Duke of the Southern Expeditionary Army, who is currently leading the troops, to come over with his troops to straighten out the command relationship and resume the offensive. If the duke is transferred from the mainland, it will take too long and is unrealistic.
The protagonist did not make any speech. He was very pleased. He felt that the generals and staff members who participated in the meeting had grown up a lot. They knew how to analyze rationally and the conclusions they gave were well-founded.
After the meeting, the protagonist ordered the Flying Knights to continue to increase their investigation efforts. At the same time, [Hematite City] should be prepared to best meet the main force of the enemy forces that have gathered together.
In the following days, the reconnaissance flying knights went deep into the local territory many times, and several of their knights were damaged due to encounters with "mosquitoes".
But they did get important information - the Pavement Ant Empire army briefly stayed in the territory of the Red Fire Ant Nation, received a batch of food and grass from the Pavement Ant Empire itself, plus some supplies provided by the Red Fire Ant Nation, and then turned to the west. go ahead.
In the previous meeting, the two speculations made by the generals and staff of the Divine Envoy King's Army were reasonable. The enemy was short of food and planned to turn westward to join the Western Expeditionary Army.
In this way, [Hive City] battlefield will not have much pressure, but [Hematite City] defense line will encounter unprecedented severe challenges! ! !
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September 29, 80 meters south of [Hematite Castle].
This place is still within the scope of the sacred tree forest of the leaf-cutter ant clan. The ant alliance has a small-scale secondary nest here, located in the tree, and there is a tree passage connecting it to the territory of the leaf-cutting ant nation on the other side of the stream.
The pasture temporarily provided by the leafcutter ant country to the ant federation is on the other side of the stream, and now tens of thousands of aphids and scale insects are sucking the last few mouthfuls of plant juices before winter.
Usually, this nest is only occasionally visited by dung beetles loaded with honeydew snail shells - most of the honeydew produced in the pasture opposite is directly provided to the leafcutter ant country, and a small amount is transported back to the mainland.
But today, the place is extremely lively - countless leaf-cutting ants are arriving here in a steady stream.
Even the Divine Envoy King even came to this sub-nest in person to meet with the recently arrived leafcutter ant queen.
Today is the day when the 140,000 leaf-cutting ant army arrives as scheduled and joins the battle order of the Divine Envoy King's army.
The leaf-cutter ant army is passing through rope bridges and branches on the narrow trees to this side of the stream, and then descending to the ground to gather.
The protagonist inspected for a while and asked the already prepared worker ants of the Ant Alliance to help provide food. Then he entered the nest and went to the banquet with the senior officers of the leaf-cutter ant army.
The richness of the banquet in the Ant Alliance is unimaginable to the leaf-cutting ants. Even the queens and females of leafcutter ants, their daily food is not much different from that of worker ants. They all eat fresh fungi or dried fungi, but they only have a certain amount of honeydew to enjoy.
Today, in addition to a large amount of honeydew, the food served by the protagonist is several grilled or stewed meats, all with delicious spices, as well as boiled grass seed porridge, sweet fruits, and leaf-cutting ants. I'm so full of food that I still don't want to stop.
Food is always the most touching thing.
After the meal, the protagonist asked Qie Yejun to carry out combat missions with the Divine Envoy King's Legion starting tomorrow.
The leaf-cutting ant army came this time to assist in the battle, and it was appropriate for them to accept the command of the Angel King's army. But the protagonist is afraid that the other party will not listen to the instructions and will not move when commanding, so he first gives his commander a delicious meal to convince him.
The leaf-cutting ants are not as deliberately conserving their strength as the protagonist thought, or maybe the protagonist's food plan worked. The other party simply agreed, but asked that the leaf-cutting ant warriors be fed first - these leaf-cutting ants are all I came here after a long journey hungry.
The protagonist naturally had no objection. He had seen that these reinforcements were generally hungry and had already asked the worker ants to distribute food.
The next day, the leaf-cutter ant army did not go to [Red Iron City]. Instead, following the orders of the Divine Envoy King's army, they arrived at [February Orchid City] along the south bank of the canal under the guidance of a guide, and then crossed the river to [February Orchid City] on the other side of the river. Beilan City] fortress.
In this fortress, 20 legions of Angel King warriors have been assembled, as well as more than 2,000 black fire ants, army ants and other civilized ant allies who arrived by water and air.
Of course, the largest number is the leaf-cutting ant army, and they are also the last to arrive.
The nearly 200,000 troops assembled in [Beilan City] are about to participate in the largest counterattack launched by the Ant Alliance since this war!
