What will happen when the two enemy forces join together? No matter how much the protagonist tries to calculate, he feels invincible.
It was already very difficult for the Western Expeditionary Army to fight against the Pavement Ant Imperial Army alone. The outer defense line had already been lost and they could only rely on the city to defend it. And as time goes by, the closer to winter, the more the combat effectiveness of the Divine Envoy King's army is weakened, and the situation is already very dangerous.
Not long ago, the Divine Envoy King's army finally managed to exploit a loophole and captured the enemy's duke with a "beheading" tactic, leaving the enemy army temporarily leaderless and giving them a few days of breathing space.
Unexpectedly, a bigger crisis would follow!
Now, there are about 400,000 enemy troops outside, and the enemy troops coming to join are also more than 400,000. The two enemies add up to nearly 900,000 people. This is no longer something the defenders can fight!
The top priority is not to allow the enemy forces to merge smoothly!
The protagonist then made up his mind and took the initiative to fight back. Only by defeating the enemy forces one by one, or at least severely weakening them, can we continue to hold on.
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This is a long and narrow ravine, about 20 meters long, about 1 meter wide, and about 0.5 meters deep. It seems to be a natural channel washed out by previous floods.
This is also the only place where the logistics supply lines of the Pavement Ant Empire army go to the battlefield. The natural terrain is as flat and straight as a highway. Several transport teams pass through here every day.
The bottom of the gully has sparse vegetation and flat terrain, making it a natural ambush location!
At this time, hundreds of hunter ant scouts were in the grass at the top of both sides of the ravine, using pheromones to mark the roots of the weeds and the bottom of the rocks.
In order to maintain concealment, the Flying Knight did not participate in this operation. All reconnaissance and guidance operations relied on the Sickle Ant Hunter scouts on the ground.
The ant-hunting scouts lived up to expectations and successfully sneaked in early without alerting the enemy. The enemy ants also seem to have neglected their vigilance. This place is far away from the battlefield and the border of the Ant Alliance. It has always been safe before, except for the occasional flying knight, so the enemy rarely even patrols here.
The scouts quickly reached this place. This was the place that the Flying Knight had discovered long ago during the investigation, and it was also the ambush location chosen by the protagonist himself.
The movement of large enemy troops is generally consistent with the route of the transport team and must pass through this ditch.
Whenever a convoy of the Pavement Ant Imperial Army passes by at the bottom of the ravine, the Hunter Ant scouts will temporarily hibernate to prevent their actions from disturbing the enemy troops and arousing alertness.
Occasionally, during scouting activities, gravel would be knocked down the cliff of the ravine, and the commander leading the team would become nervous.
But fortunately, after the scouts completed all the markings along the way, the enemy's transport team passed by twice without being disturbed.
Everything seems to be going well.
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September 29, late afternoon.
The 200,000 troops gathered outside the fortress set off one after another, with a group of Angel King warriors separated by a group of leaf-cutting ants or other ant allies, forming a long marching column and quickly heading north.
Along the way, under the leadership of the guide, the troops quickly hurried on their way along the pheromones left by the ant scouts. On both sides of the marching team, ant scouts were roaming, forming a warning net to prevent them from being discovered by enemy reconnaissance troops that suddenly appeared and ruining all their previous efforts.
The Flying Knights still did not participate in the operation, but were ready to respond at any time.
It was already autumn, it was not even 6 o'clock yet, and the sky was already darkening rapidly.
The afterglow of the setting sun in the west illuminates the fish-scale clouds golden, while darkness has rushed in from the east, casting a haze over the earth.
By this time, the enemy's activities have almost stopped. The pavement ants and their vassals outdoors have begun to return to their nests to prepare for the night. It seems that the actions of the Angel King's army will not be discovered by the enemy ants.
The warriors of the Divine Envoy King and their allies, who were preparing for a surprise attack and ambush, were still on their way carrying a large amount of supplies.
The warriors of the God Envoy King have long been accustomed to marching and fighting at night in training and actual combat, but the leaf cutter ants and other allied warriors of the ant tribe are not used to it. If the marching team had not been mixed and there were scouts and guides leading the way, many of these Allied soldiers would have gotten lost, or even turned around and fled because of fear of the night.
At around 9 o'clock in the evening, the long-distance coalition forces finally arrived at the gully area and quickly followed the pheromone guidance to occupy the highlands on both sides of the ravine.
At this time, the leafcutter ants and other allied ant tribes were allowed to camp and rest. They dug holes in the ground and hid in them quickly. Even the leaf-cutting ant army, which didn't like nesting underground, was afraid of the night and hastily dug out countless small underground camps to spend the night separately.
But the soldiers of the God's Envoy King could not rest yet. They did not even bother to dig a camp, but instead set up an ambush position first.
Under the soft moonlight, tens of thousands of God's Envoy King warriors descended along the steep cliff to the bottom of the ravine and began to arrange the battlefield.
I saw them digging small holes along straight lines on both sides of the flat ground at the bottom of the ravine, then burying explosives made from fluorescent bacteria extract, and then arranging long lines for detonation on them, and all the The bomb craters were all connected in series, and the ignition lines were extended over the ravine. Just in case, two sets of detonating wires were arranged.
The bomb craters were covered with millet-sized gravel to increase the lethality of the explosion.
In order to arrange this ambush, the Angel King's army emptied almost 90% of the bomb reserves in stock. Even a large number of previously unused mysterious balls seized from the Destroyer's body were transported this time to serve as bombs to supplement the explosion. Insufficient amount of ammunition.
There are two explosion positions, arranged one behind the other along the ravine. Each section is 3 meters long, and explosives are arranged on both sides. The distance between the front and rear sections is also about 3 meters. This arrangement can ensure that the enemy's marching column is covered from head to tail, causing maximum damage and confusion.
If it weren't for the lack of ammunition, the protagonist would have wanted to stuff a bomb into the middle, so that the enemy ants would have nowhere to hide.
It was about midnight when we were busy, and the temperature at night in autumn was already very low, only about ten degrees. Many of the warriors of the God's Envoy King who had finished their work were already freezing and their movements were sluggish.
At this time, they helped each other and supported each other back to the top of the ravine. But they can't rest yet. They still have to dig a good camp so that they can safely spend the colder late night and dawn, recharge their batteries and prepare for the next day's battle!
