Night falls and the cold sets in.
In this mid-autumn season, it is obviously quite hot at noon, but once the sun's light fades, the temperature drops rapidly at night.
Behind the Angel King's army and the coalition forces, the worker ants lit the fuel piles that had been prepared one after another. The small fires provided rare heat to warm the soldiers in the cold night.
At this time, the pavement ants who were still in the puddles in the depression were in a world of ice and fire compared to their enemy ants who were enjoying the warmth.
The already desolate stagnant water became even more freezing cold after nightfall. Soon, even if a large number of ants fell into the water, they would become stiff and unable to struggle, and they could only wait for death to come.
Some ants instinctively stepped on the "raft" composed of densely packed corpses, barely escaping from the cold water. They were attracted by the fire and crawled toward the shore, seeking a chance of survival.
The guarding warriors, leaf-cutting ants or other ants would not pity these enemy ants who fell into the water. At this time, they were in groups of more than a dozen, holding long wooden sticks in their mouths, and stabbed the enemy ants that came over one by one. go back.
If this happens three times, even the strongest ant, after being stabbed into the water several times, will no longer be able to struggle to climb up, and quietly become a member of the thick floating corpse.
They held on until nearly midnight, and the coalition forces thwarted the escape of thousands of enemy ants. When the fire was about to burn out and there was no longer enough fuel to replenish nearby, the protagonist saw that there were not many ants in the enemy army and they were still trying to escape, so he ordered the army to retreat to the camp left by the Pavement Ant Empire Army to rest.
The army is dispersedly stationed, and the enemy camp is large enough to accommodate 500,000 ants. It is not a problem to accommodate the less than 200,000 coalition troops.
Although the camp was very disorderly planned and even covered with ant droppings, it did not look like a tidy ant nest at all. Perhaps the enemy thought this was just a temporary garrison and did not deliberately maintain the environment.
But after all, the underground camp was much warmer and more comfortable than the outside. Even without a fire, the temperature could be maintained at 20 degrees. The soldiers who had been tired for a day stretched their bodies, enjoyed the abundant food captured in the camp, and then took a nap to rest.
The commanders did not pay attention to the soldiers eating the seized materials that should be confiscated. After a day of fighting, they could not care less about serving the public.
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In the early morning of the next day, when the sun had just risen and it was still freezing cold outside, the protagonist couldn't wait to put on a thick ant felt and went to the top of the camp to look out.
In the morning light, what came into view was an extremely shocking and tragic scene. The tragedy even exceeded the protagonist's expectations.
The depression, which is dozens of square meters full of water, has been filled with water. If the protagonist had not ordered the construction team to use gravel and sand to plug the gap last night, the water would have reached the foot of the camp. .
At this time, almost all the puddles were covered with densely packed black corpses, and only a few waters revealed the yellow and turbid color of the puddles themselves.
The muddy yellow water and countless black corpses glowed with the brilliant light of death facing the rising sun.
On the water bank, there were some scattered corpses scattered radially within half a meter around the puddle. Those were the enemy ants that crawled out of the pile of floating corpses after the coalition forces withdrew last night. They struggled to escape, but the water droplets on their bodies took away their last body temperature and vitality in the cold night.
There may be a few lucky enemy ants that survived last night's low temperature of only ten degrees, but it is estimated that only one in ten thousand will survive. It is unclear whether they can escape back to their home country. There is no threat.
Except for a few that escaped, there were also some enemy ants that gathered on several unsubmerged highlands, rocks and plants in the puddle, but the total number was only a few thousand.
They huddled together to keep warm, which was safer than those of their own race who fled through the water.
Most of the 490,000 Pavement Ant Imperial Army soldiers and vassal warriors had fallen dead in the puddles at this moment.
When the sun got warmer and the coalition troops regrouped, they discovered that the enemy army had been completely wiped out.
It was clear that yesterday the enemy was passive but still fighting tenaciously, but today the situation of the battle suddenly changed. A huge sense of shock lingered in the hearts of the soldiers of the Divine Envoy King's legion, especially the leaf cutter ants and other allied commanders.
It is estimated that it will take a few days for the water to recede naturally. The flying knights launched a round of bombing on the surviving enemy ants climbing high. The artillery unit also received the ammunition that had just been replenished from the rear and began training like shooting at fixed targets. , seems to have no intention of leaving alive.
The main force of the coalition forces can already leave here to perform new tasks. The war here is basically over, and the main force of the enemy army has disappeared!
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In the ravine ambush battle and the Battle of the Flooded Seventh Army in the North, in these two battles, the coalition forces wiped out nearly a million enemy troops in one fell swoop. Their own losses were only 20,000 to 30,000. Their morale was greatly boosted and the situation of the war was reversed.
On the third day after the Seventh Army was flooded, the water basically receded. The defenders launched a final attack. The enemy survivors who were already hungry and cold were almost unable to resist. The two marquis, 11 earls, and hundreds of viscounts who were still alive were The baron and more than two thousand pavement ant warriors were captured.
At this time, the main force of the coalition forces had already set off to perform new tasks.
According to the new agreement reached between the Ant Alliance and the Leafcutter Ant Nation on the second day after the Battle of the Flooded Seven Armies: the Ant Alliance handed over hundreds of captured Pavement Ant Dukes and other nobles below to the Leafcutter Ant Nation, and captured The enemy's rations were divided equally between the two countries, while the Leafcutter Ant Nation continued to hand over the command of the 140,000 reinforcements it had previously sent to the Divine Envoy King's Army.
Subsequently, the Legion of the God Envoy King and the coalition forces of various ethnic groups under his command quickly returned to the area, defeated the red fire ant army surrounding the place, and annihilated half of the enemy troops. However, this battle failed to achieve total annihilation due to insufficient firepower and the enemy's timely retreat.
Subsequently, the God's Envoy King's army moved all the way north to regain the lost territory. By October 9, it was restored, basically regaining all the territory lost during this war.
At the same time, the leafcutter ant army also seized the opportunity and used the captured pavement ant imperial army rations to organize an army of 300,000 new recruits to fight back, regaining a large area of lost territory and training the army.
On October 10, the Angel King's army and the leaf-cutting ant army approached the temporary main nest of the restored red fire ant kingdom from the south and west.
As for the Red Fire Ant Nation, they urgently recruited the "wisdom elders" who had been idle for a long time as commanders to command and defend the less than 100,000 troops assembled.
The "Wisdom Elder" was very difficult to deal with. He repeatedly sent out surprise troops to attack the coalition flanks. However, under the fierce offensive of the coalition forces, he was forced to abandon all peripheral sub-nests on the 13th and had to stick to the inside!
