If it were an ordinary head-to-head battle, and the 200,000-strong God Envoy King Army and the leaf-cutter ant coalition rushed forward, they would face resistance twice as many as their own. Even if they had the advantage of terrain and formation, it would still be a victory or defeat. In an unknown and fierce battle, the possibility of losing is even greater.
If the enemy's top commander is "decapitated" in advance and then launched a general attack, the attacker will have a greater advantage. But this only makes it impossible for the enemy to carry out macro-control. All ordinary enemy soldiers will still instinctively fight to the end and will never flee. The attacker can only rely on macro advantages to gradually divide and eat the enemy. It will be a long and exhausting tug-of-war.
But, today is different!
The ordinary soldiers who had just suffered a series of explosions from the Pavement Ant Army thought it was a natural disaster rather than an enemy attack. Just like pouring rain, wildfire, or hail, the ants never think that they can resist the power of heaven and earth, and they are all frightened and panicked.
Even though some lower-level commanders had noticed something, and even observed the incoming coalition forces, and began to work hard to gather their subordinates, but at the moment when the overall situation collapsed, individual stubbornness had little effect.
The frightened ant colony ran around like frightened galloping horses, and was as unpredictable as headless flies. They were no longer well-trained warriors who regarded death as home, but became slaves of fear and captives of instinct. They were not simple. You can soothe yourself with pheromones or friction sounds!
When the coalition forces rushed down, they encountered a scattered enemy army, with no effective resistance organized at all.
Both the warriors of the God Envoy King and the leaf-cutter ant warriors have fought against the enemy many times. They were a little cautious at first when encountering the enemy. After they broke in with ease like big jaws biting through insect eggs, they were quickly killed. Eyes, a one-sided massacre unfolded.
The enemy army was unorganized and had no resistance. This battle was one-sided. The ant colonies were being squeezed more and more densely, making it more and more difficult for the enemy army to escape and evade. A large number of soldiers were captured without any help. They fell down in batches, and even the fastest silver ants and the largest Erichman ants could not escape the fate of being slaughtered.
It was like floods breaking away the sand and wildfires burning dead grass. In just half a day, when the sun rose to noon, as many as 200,000 corpses lay on the battlefield. Most of them belonged to pavement ants and their auxiliary ants.
The enemy troops were not completely helpless. Some small groups of troops were temporarily organized by the commanders in an attempt to form formations to resist.
But the protagonist stands at a high place, watching like a wolf and an eagle. Whenever he sees the enemy's resistance gathering to a certain scale, he will send out the "Roll II" tank troops.
Artillery fire, supplemented by beetle assault, collision and trampling, the enemy's hastily gathered resistance forces shattered one by one like foam in the sun.
Later, flying knight troops from the main nest and from the main nest also arrived in the morning to protect this airspace according to the scheduled plan.
However, the expected enemy "mosquito" troops did not come at all. Perhaps they did not even know that a brutal massacre was taking place here. The sky here completely belonged to the Angel King's army!
The flying knights had no target, and later they even spontaneously joined the ground battle. Whenever they saw a small group of enemies who were resisting, they would dive and drop bombs to help the army defeat the enemy ants. After running out of fire bombs, the flying knights even used lances to continue fighting.
This was not a battle, but a massacre, a long massacre, a massive massacre.
Under the continuous offensive of the coalition forces, the once powerful Western Expeditionary Army of the Pavement Ant Empire has never been able to recover from the shadow of the serial explosions, and has never been able to gather a large-scale force. It is like having its wings and limbs chewed off. The prey can only passively meet the fate of death.
I have to say that this time, good luck, or the divine favor, was on the side of the Divine Envoy King's legion.
After the war, from a few male ant prisoners, the protagonist learned that the enemy's supreme commander, the Duke, died in the explosion. Many marquis and counts also died at the same time. The Pavement Ant Empire lost a large number of senior commanders.
This may be related to the fact that these male ants are twice as big and taller than the worker ants. They are bigger targets and are more likely to be hit in the rain of gravel that flies around like cannonballs during the explosion!
No wonder the Pavement Ant Imperial Army has not been able to completely recover from the first to the last, nearly ten hours!
Around three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the battle just ended. Except for a few enemy commanders who were wounded and captured, the rest of the enemy troops lay dead at the bottom of the ravine, completely covering the ravine like a black carpet.
Four hundred thousand Pavement Ant Imperial Army, all of them! military! cover! without!
Not even a single enemy ant was able to escape. The coalition forces blocked the openings at both ends of the ravine and deployed troops on the high ground, like the densest net, catching all the enemy forces in one go.
This is an extremely brilliant battle.
But after the war, the coalition forces only hurriedly carried out their injured soldiers from the battlefield where corpses were strewn, and prepared for evacuation for treatment. As for the corpses of the soldiers on both sides, there was no time to dispose of them.
Fortunately, there were not many casualties on the coalition side. They only lost a few thousand soldiers in total. The casualties were half and half, and they were all lost when encountering enemy forces that were stubbornly resisting. Such a battle-loss ratio is simply unimaginable.
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The protagonist stands on the top of a tall ravine cliff, with guardsmen guarding him, watching groups of coalition troops passing by under his feet.
The soldiers stepped on the corpses all over the ground and were exhausted. Some soldiers even had their jaws cut open, exposing the gums and jaws underneath, but they were all in high spirits.
At the front, some soldiers in charge of logistics distributed the food carried by the army to the passing soldiers. The hungry soldiers ate while walking and took the time to replenish their physical strength.
The task the protagonist has just given is very strict, requiring him to use the last few hours to cover a long distance before sunset today. Then ask to arrive nearby tomorrow afternoon.
After a hearty victory, there was no celebration banquet, no commendation or promotion. The protagonist simply praised the commanders of each army, then promised the friendly commanders to provide additional honeydew as a reward, and immediately commanded the army to turn west.
According to the previous battle plan, if the enemy's Southern Expeditionary Army was eliminated or defeated, the coalition forces would pursue the victory and quickly move westward to attack the enemy's Western Expeditionary Army, which was composed of five groups of ants.
To eliminate the enemy's Southern Expedition Army, we rely on blasting and ambushes. As for how to eliminate the enemy's Western Expedition Army, which lacks command but is still powerful, the protagonist has a plan before.
Now, what is needed is to seize time, rush to the battlefield and seize key areas before the enemy reacts.
