Moving the ant lions underground is a new tactic of the "wise elders".
It has been a long time since the coalition forces encountered an ant lion trap from the fire ant country. It has been so long that many young commanders of the leafcutter ant army only knew about this thing from the information packages provided by the elders, and had never personally experienced the terror of ant lions. .
When the red fire ant nation was jointly defeated by the ant federation and the leafcutter ant nation, and they fled northward in a hurry to the territory of the suzerain nation, they didn't even bother to carry the ant lion eggs. When they returned to the country in [Liuyi City], they were faced with the greedy and endless material requirements of the overlord's expeditionary force at that time, and there was no spare energy to re-cultivate the "Guardian Divine Insects".
It was not until they moved to [Beisong City] that the "Wisdom Elder" obtained the strong support of the suzerain through diplomatic means and the right to use the materials hoarded locally, that the Red Fire Ant Country got rid of the long-term poverty since its restoration.
Against this background, fire ants finally have the energy to take their slave ants and search for wild antlion eggs in their territory.
However, until the coalition launched another attack, the Red Fire Ant Nation had only collected more than 10 usable ant lions, which was completely insufficient to build a trap group outside the city.
Moreover, the Ant United Nations had a way to restrain the ant lion trap in the first place. The "wisdom elders" who experienced the fall of [Hive City] understand this. After much thought, he ingeniously invented the tactic of moving the ant lion trap indoors.
These ant lion traps are located at key nodes in front of the third line of defense of the fire ant defenders, and the nest chambers are enlarged to facilitate the ant lions digging the traps. No matter which direction the attacking coalition forces come from, they must pass through these traps before they can directly attack the defenders' defense lines.
These ant lion traps are the secret weapon to delay the coalition's attack!
When the frontline reconnaissance troops encountered traps one after another, some soldiers accidentally fell into the trap and were quickly killed by the ant lions who had been hungry for a long time.
After some reinforcements arrived, coalition soldiers began to use local materials to try to fill the ant lion's pit with sand.
The Angel King Legion once used beetles on the ground to attack ant lion traps. The beetles were not afraid of ant lions, but the narrow underground passages could not allow the beetles to get in. This tactic did not work.
The Angel King's army also used fire attack tactics to restrain the ant lions, but this tactic required the preparation of supplies in advance and was not used in this temporary encounter.
Only the most primitive hole-filling tactics are available, but they are not effective in execution.
The ant lions will actively throw away the fallen sand and gravel. The ants responsible for filling the pits brave the rain of earth and stones to construct, but the speed of filling the pits often cannot keep up with the speed of the ant lions.
The red fire ant army on the back line of defense also attacked from time to time. They followed the familiar pheromone route and bypassed the narrow path that was passable at the edge of the trap, and raided and massacred the coalition soldiers filling the pit.
The coalition force, which was dominated by leaf-cutting ant warriors, suffered some losses in front of the traps, leaving hundreds of corpses behind, and failed to break through even one ant lion trap.
But at this moment, a warning suddenly sounded on the ground!
The coalition forces had to retreat to the ground urgently!
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Yesterday, the three-way joint counterattack planned by the "Wisdom Elder" for a long time failed because the most important reinforcements did not arrive on time.
The reason why his plan failed was due to insufficient planning and communication errors between different ant tribes.
At that time, the three armies agreed to launch a counterattack at the same time in three days. The red fire ant army stationed in [North Pine City] and the pavement ant imperial army stationed in the old nest received the messenger notification as scheduled and arrived to join the battle as scheduled.
Only the troops departing from the Pavement Ant Empire did not show up that day.
Because the most important troops received the news from the messenger from [Beisongcheng] at a distant station one day late. The date of the decisive battle they calculated based on this was one full day later than the other two armies...
The shortcomings of ants not having a calendar are fully exposed at this time.
In fact, it is not easy for such mistakes to occur between the Pavement Ant Empire or any national army. They can clearly express the concept of time to each other without a calendar. However, there are always various misunderstandings in the cross-racial exchanges between the red fire ant country and the sovereign country, which ultimately led to the emergence of this misunderstanding with serious consequences.
On May 10th, around ninety o'clock in the morning, the flying knights in the sky discovered the main force of the Pavement Ant Imperial Army, which had arrived all day late.
Nearly 300,000 enemy troops passed through the dry sandy land in the north like a black torrent. Hundreds of green infantry armor were covering both sides of the team, and there were hundreds of "mosquitoes" in the air.
They traveled lightly and traveled from the distant border of the empire. It only took them one day and one night to cross the harsh gravel fields, just to reach the battlefield on time.
However, they have missed their best opportunity after all!
After receiving an emergency report from the ground, the coalition troops who were entangled in the ant lion trap underground quickly evacuated and returned to the ground to form formations with other troops to guard against enemy attacks.
The early warning of the flying knights is crucial. At this time, the large number of Pavement Ant Empire troops are still half a day away from here, and the commanders of the coalition forces still have time to discuss countermeasures.
There was a heated debate in the short military meeting. "Gun II", the representative of the Divine Envoy King's legion, advocated the battle and even suggested a light attack on the enemy troops that were still on the march and had not launched yet, so as to defeat the long-distance and unprepared enemy troops while waiting for work.
However, the commander of the leaf-cutter ant army advocated caution. He was even worried about the enemy's attack from both the ground and underground. He advocated withdrawing the camp and choosing a time and place to fight the enemy again.
The two sides advocated a conflict. In the end, because the coalition forces were nominally commanded by the Leafcutter Ant Army, which sent the largest number of troops, the coalition forces decided to wait until the enemy came for a decisive battle, but did not evacuate the outskirts of [North Pine City].
The Pavement Ant Imperial Army came from afar and did not see the planned three-way attack. Although they were puzzled, they did not rush to launch an attack and set up camp about an hour away from the coalition camp.
The coalition's battle plan is that the sharp-tailed ant army with weak combat effectiveness will strengthen some Sanshi flat-headed ant warriors and be responsible for building a defense line underground in the [North Pine City] in the occupied area, just to block the attack of the red fire ant army.
The main force of the coalition is less than half of the Pavement Ant Empire Army, but fortunately, the consecutive victories last year and this year have given the coalition a clear psychological advantage. They are ready to spread out their formations and engage in a decisive battle with the enemy head-on.
This time the enemy is a good target for training, and the protagonist who received the report also thinks so. The main force of the Pavement Ant Empire has been restrained by unknown forces. This time, the troops they sent are no longer desperate millions, and there are no other difficult vassal ant tribes accompanying the army. Even the Green Walkers and Mosquitoes are not much.
The coalition forces and the enemy forces basically have a 50-50 winning rate! The protagonist made some calculations, and then ordered 12 artillery groups to be airlifted to the front line for support before nightfall!
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