April 22nd.
At this time, the earth is already in a prosperous spring scene, with peanut trees and grass growing and insects flying around. On the ground, from time to time there were disturbed insects flying, jumping or crawling, escaping one after another.
This is not a common sight. Only great threats will make all bugs avoid it. Because, on the ground at this moment, a coalition of more than 100,000 civilized ants were marching among the wildly growing vegetation.
This army has an orderly and orderly division of labor. In the long marching column, the scout troops, forward troops, center troops, flank covering troops, rear guard troops, and baggage troops were all clearly distinguished.
Except for the two wing cover troops composed of other ant tribes, this army is basically all leaf-cutting ants. Large, medium and small leaf-cutting ants are mixed together, bustling, like a stream of water flowing to the north.
A male ant of the marching ants was in the team, thinking as he walked: If this is a hunting march of his own tribe, he must have gained a lot along the way!
But they were not hunting at this time, and they had to endure poor food. This made the young male army ant a little dissatisfied.
What dissatisfied him, and even more ants, was not just the bad food.
In the afternoon of this day, the advancing coalition forces encountered a surprise attack by the red fire ant army.
Although there are flying knights from the King of Divine Envoys in the sky coming to deal with it from time to time, the flying knights spend most of their time covering the Northern Expedition of the King of Divine Envoys, which is about a day away. They seldom visit the coalition forces and fail to advance in advance. warning of the attack.
Moreover, fire ants and slave ants were well hidden among the shrubs and were not discovered by the small leafcutter ant scouts who hurriedly crawled by.
When thousands of fire ants and slave ants suddenly appeared on the flanks of the coalition's march, the thin marching formation was unable to withstand it.
The central army of the leaf-cutter ant army was cut off by Lan Yao, and a large number of leaf-cutter ants died in the rebellion. The leaf-cutter ant army was unable to organize a resistance for a while, and was even approached by the enemy where the three queen ant commanders were. Array.
Fortunately, the army ants and the thin-legged ants from both wings arrived. Although there were only a few hundred soldiers each, their hard work finally stabilized the leaf-cutting ant army that was stunned by the surprise attack.
When the leaf-cutting ant army came to their senses and began to entangle and prepare to surround the attacking enemy, the red fire ant army decisively left hundreds of slave ants behind, and the main force quickly escaped with the help of their familiarity with the terrain.
The coalition forces were unable to pursue them, and they had suffered a surprise attack just now and suffered unclear losses. They had to reorganize their troops, send additional scouts, and change one column into two before continuing to advance.
This small defeat also made other tribes very dissatisfied with the leafcutter ant army's reconnaissance work. The leafcutter ant queen and female ants finally managed to appease the allies.
In the evening of that day, the coalition forces discovered a secondary nest of the red fire ant kingdom and immediately attacked it.
There were only a thousand enemy ants in the sub-nest, of which only a few dozen were red imported fire ants, which were quickly consumed.
However, the coalition forces were not able to seize much food. The granary of this sub-nest was almost empty. The food stored in the nest was not enough for the coalition forces to fill an ant mouth, and no fat ant eggs, ant pupae and queen ants were captured.
The coalition forces only harvested thousands of ant corpses, and had no choice but to continue to eat these ant corpses. Since the Ant Alliance warned that eating corpses, especially expired corpses, would easily lead to ant plague, the coalition has tried its best to eat the ant corpses while they are fresh.
The small amount of precious dried mushrooms, dried meat and other food carried by the baggage troops are strategic reserves when necessary and will not be used for the time being.
In the next two days, the coalition forces encountered many surprise attacks during their march. Fortunately, after taking precautions, they did not suffer losses most of the time. They even caused considerable damage to the enemy forces, which temporarily bridged the dissent among the coalition forces.
The coalition forces captured two more red fire ant auxiliary nests along the way, but still not much was captured, not even enough to support daily consumption. The coalition forces had to stay longer every day and sent out food collection teams to search for food resources near the base to survive.
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While the coalition forces were in a bit of a quandary due to rations, one day's journey to the southeast, the Angel King's Army had sufficient logistics.
They also encountered a surprise attack. Fortunately, the flying knights warned them, and the individual combat effectiveness of the Angel King's warriors was considerable. The red fire ant army failed to gain any advantage and later gave up.
On the way, the Divine Envoy King's army also occupied several auxiliary nests, but they did not settle in any of them. Because of the fear of the ant plague, the Divine Envoy King's army built their own temporary camp to spend the night every day, unlike the coalition forces who directly stationed in the occupied auxiliary nest.
Although the God's Envoy King's Legion only dispatched 10 legions with less than 30,000 troops this time, there are more than 50,000 workers in the logistics supply. They continue to send military rations to the north every day, and there is a place every two or three hours along the way. A small number of troops were stationed at the grain depot for turnover.
However, the protagonist currently has no idea of helping the coalition forces at the same time.
On the one hand, the coalition forces did not ask for help regarding the military ration problem, and they were not at the end of their rope, so the United States had no need to take action.
On the other hand, there are some recent developments within the coalition that make the protagonist very dissatisfied.
After the coalition forces moved from the north, the black fire ants attacked the ant coalition on multiple occasions.
In particular, it was clearly the Black Fire Ant clan who refused to allow the Angel King's Legion to enter the vicinity and join the coalition forces, but the representatives of the Black Fire Ants publicized it everywhere as saying that the Angel King's Legion refused to fight with other ant clans and failed to fulfill their responsibilities as allies.
The protagonist also sent "Little Flowers" to actively meet with representatives of various races to carry out their own propaganda and refute the nonsense of the black fire ants.
However, as a result of several recent incidents, the conflict between the United Ant Nation and the Black Fire Ant Nation has become increasingly public.
At present, the three tribes that clearly support the black fire ant tribe are harvest ants, sharp-tailed ants, and thin-legged ants. The only one that is more inclined to the angel king army is the hairy forest ant family. The leaf-cutting ant tribe is in the middle as the guardian of the "holy tree". Mediation, the Bullet Ant clan is also enthusiastic about mediating, and other clans seem to be incompatible with each other.
The protagonist is not someone who is easily bullied. Faced with the aggressive yet childish verbal attacks from Black Fire Ant, he is planning a slightly insidious counterattack...
At this time, the black fire ant representatives who were jumping up and down did not realize this yet!
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Soon, a God-given opportunity is placed in front of the protagonist!
On April 25, the coalition forces heading north were approaching, but that day, they encountered a large-scale raid.
Tens of thousands of red fire ant troops attacked the advancing rear column of the coalition forces. The rear column of the coalition forces carrying precious supplies was almost defeated, and a large amount of food was robbed.
In this raid, the coalition forces performed poorly, and the performance of the black fire ants was equally poor. Although it was only average, the protagonist had found an opportunity to make a big fuss!
