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Every time the coalition forces attack the nests defended by the fire ants, it is often very difficult.
It would be fine if the Red Fire Ant Army was willing to fight outdoors. That would be what the coalition would be most happy to see. The coalition forces with superior strength can greatly consume the strength of the Red Fire Ant defenders in field battles and greatly reduce the difficulty of siege.
In the past, when the fire ant kingdom was strong, they were often willing to fight in the field. However, the leaf-cutter ant army was not always able to get benefits from enemy ants in every field battle.
But once the red fire ant army defends the nest with all its strength, and the force is not very thin, the siege becomes a nightmare.
Although the entrances and exits of the fire ants' nests are densely packed like honeycombs, they seem easy to attack and difficult to defend. But the inside of the nest is extremely complicated, like a Minos labyrinth.
There are a lot of forked roads here, and many of them lead to dead ends only after walking for a long time. The attacker's forces were greatly dispersed by the three-dimensional maze, and only one-tenth of the troops could find the real path. However, the defenders were able to concentrate their forces and set up defenses at necessary locations, making up for the disadvantage in strength and even being able to defend themselves locally. Beat more and beat less.
When the "Wisdom Elder" was in charge of city defense, he especially liked the battle in the cage city, which was his specialty.
Whenever this happens, the coalition forces must figure out the route bit by bit and advance bit by bit in a long, complicated, bloody, and continuous attrition. Every step forward is almost saved by relying on corpses.
The same is true for this attack. Every inch of road leads to corpses. Today's siege battle has entered the fourth day. Even if the coalition forces are fighting with all their strength, and the God's Envoy King's Army even contributed a large amount of explosives carried with the army to open the way, the coalition forces have only been able to open the way. We have just occupied the ground part of this lair. We have only occupied the first peripheral position, but we have not yet conquered the enemy's second line of defense.
Moreover, the losses of the coalition forces themselves were not small. In addition to the losses caused by the siege, the coalition forces also suffered a premeditated raid, which even caused heavy losses to the Divine Envoy King's army.
On May 9th, the weather was fine.
On that day, the main force of the Angel King's legion was fighting underground in the lair along with some of the coalition forces. The six artillery squads accompanying the army were left on the ground because they were unable to participate in street fighting. At that time, they were surrounded by an army of leaf-cutter ants and an army of sharp-tailed ants.
At this time, a Pavement Ant Empire army quietly approached the coalition's lax ground forces without anyone noticing.
This Pavement Ant Empire army did not come from the Pavement Ant Empire for long-distance support, otherwise it would have been discovered long ago. They were the garrison that was originally stationed in the country. Later, according to the agreement reached between the country and the vassal of the Red Fire Ant Country, the army was ordered to be dispatched by the "wisdom elders".
When the fire ant family left their original tree nest and built a new fire ant-style underground nest nearby, the pavement ant imperial army was left in the old tree nest to lurk.
The coalition forces that besieged the New Earth Nest were stationed near the battlefield. They did not search the seemingly abandoned old nest, nor did they find the Pavement Ant Imperial Army that had been hiding.
These pavement ants were prohibited by the imperial military order and did not step out of the tree nest. The disappearance of a few coalition ants that wandered to the tree nest for food was regarded as normal loss and did not attract the attention of the coalition leaders.
According to the "wisdom elder"'s plan in advance, this paving ant imperial army lurked until the fifth day and launched a counterattack on time at noon.
According to the plan, the red fire ant defenders inside and the local support troops of the pavement ant empire that should arrive on this day will launch counterattacks from three directions at the same time.
However, today only two directions launched attacks as scheduled, which made the "Wisdom Elder"'s long-planned counterattack fall short!
The Imperial Army of Pavement Ants marched along the path in the trees that had been marked with pheromones in advance. The dense needles of the pine trees hid their whereabouts. The Flying Knights of the Angel King's Legion were mainly on guard and reconnaissance on the outside, and did not pay attention to the patrols inside. .
When thousands of pavement ant imperial troops suddenly fell from three pine trees, the coalition forces were caught off guard and fell into chaos.
Unfortunately, the artillery unit of the Divine Envoy Army was in the midst of the attack. As the surrounding leafcutter ant and sharp-tailed ant warriors retreated one after another, the artillery warriors suffered heavy losses in order to protect the cannon.
At this time underground, fire ants and slave ants also launched a large-scale counterattack almost at the same time. The coalition forces that were on the offensive were stunned. Fortunately, the underground troops were all elite, and they fought and retreated to consolidate the defense line.
Some small teams that were lost in dead ends were unlucky. They were outnumbered and wiped out by the fire ant army.
However, the red fire ant army in the underground ultimately failed to drive the coalition forces out of the underground. The narrow underground environment in turn restricted the defenders' counterattack this time, forcing them to lose a large amount of their strength to achieve their goal.
If the "Wise Elder"'s plan is successfully implemented, then the loss of the fire ant army will be worthwhile. They have restrained a large number of elite troops of the coalition as planned.
However, because the crucial third force did not arrive on the battlefield, the coalition forces on the ground were not defeated.
Although the losses were considerable, the Pavement Ant Imperial Army only had a few thousand troops and attacked from one direction. There were 70,000 to 80,000 coalition forces on the ground. Even if they were partially defeated, they quickly recovered.
Among the three armies counterattack planned by the "Wise Elder", the third leg has the largest number of troops. Previously, the Pavement Ant Empire Army promised to send no less than 280,000 soldiers, and the total strength is twice that of the coalition forces.
The thousands of pavement ant imperial troops originally hidden in the tree nest were dispensable. Even if they were discovered and eliminated in advance, it would not affect the entire battle situation.
But now, there is only this small-scale pavement ant imperial army fighting alone on the ground. Even if their combat power is stronger than the main leaf-cutting ant warriors of the coalition, they are quickly surrounded and can no longer escape.
The red fire ant army underground is still fighting hard. They don't know the situation on the ground. They just follow the orders and fight back at any cost, hoping to contain more elite coalition forces.
But after fighting to the death for a whole day, the "wisdom elder" never waited for the news that the coalition forces were attacked from two sides and collapsed, and he realized that something was wrong.
Although he didn't understand where the plan went wrong, he had to make amends. The already exhausted red fire ant army was ordered to leave a few troops behind and began to disengage and retreat.
Today, the fire ant army lost tens of thousands of troops, accounting for a quarter of the entire army, and many of the rest were injured. The "wisdom elder" had no choice but to let the troops abandon the second line of defense and let the defenders set up defenses at the third line of defense.
And here, there is the secret weapon of the fire ant army, which can buy some time for the defenders!
