May 15th, outside [Beisong City].
This is the season of spring, with green grass and leaves covering the earth, creating a lush green background. Many early-blooming flowers have faded, but late-blooming flowers are still in full bloom, decorating the background. Colorful.
The clear blue sky, thick white clouds, and rich green earth are like the most beautiful scenery unfolding.
This is also a time when food resources are abundant in the wild. All the creatures that have survived the harsh winter or are born in this new spring are feasting on their own food to reserve energy for the next survival and reproduction.
But in such a good season, there are hundreds of thousands of ants who are not working, not foraging, and even hungry, doing things that other insects think are meaningless...
Since the Angel King's army temporarily retreated half a day's journey away, and stated that it would not participate in the war for the time being or even planned to withdraw its troops, the coalition forces of the Northern Expedition have lost their will to fight in the field with the Pavement Ant Imperial Army.
On the 11th, when the Pavement Ant Imperial Army, which was short of food, formed their formation again, they were shocked to find that there was no movement on the opposite side, and there was no formation to fight.
The Pavement Ant Empire Army didn't know why. Of course they didn't know about the various discords and disturbances within the civilized ant clan.
Since the Pavement Ant Imperial Army lacked food and grass, they were eager to defeat the civilized ant coalition in front of them, so they had to at least open up contact with [Beisong City]. After completing their formation, they approached the coalition's camp.
At this time, the coalition forces had built a continuous circle of underground camps outside [Beisong City]. Although it was not far underground, the advantage was that the surface area was large enough to surround all the entrances and exits of [Beisong City].
At this time, the coalition forces stayed underground according to their respective garrison positions and refused to go out to fight in the field.
After the Pavement Ant Imperial Army approached the camp, they could only disperse their troops and attack underground along the hundreds of entrances and exits in an attempt to open a gap.
It was also a mistake. Even if the coalition camp was not as complex and solid as a regular nest, underground street fighting could always offset the attacker's strength advantage. In addition, the camp is very large, and more than 200,000 pavement ants cannot completely block the camp. The coalition forces can also come out from time to time to harass the entrances and exits that are not attacked.
After the Pavement Ant Imperial Army attacked for a long time with no results, they did not dare to let the underground coalition forces charge directly into [Beisong City] because they saw the coalition forces at the entrance to [Beisong City].
After the attack failed, the Pavement Ant Imperial Army had to withdraw in the afternoon and began to search for food on the spot to fill the stomachs of the hungry warriors.
The same was true for the next two days. The Pavement Ant Imperial Army could only launch an offensive for half a day. For the remaining half of the day, they had to retreat to their own camp and disperse to forage in order to ensure that the army would not collapse due to lack of food.
It is not easy to feed an army of more than 200,000 people, not to mention that the coalition forces are also competing for food resources nearby, and small-scale conflicts often break out between the two sides.
These small-scale battles that break out to snatch precious food are often more brutal than the large-scale battles in the morning, with a higher proportion of casualties.
As of today, the food resources near [Beisong City] have been exhausted by nearly 400,000 ants on both sides. The Pavement Ant Imperial Army feels that it can no longer wait!
Under the ground, the red fire ant army in [Beisong City] has been trying to break out these days, and even approached the ground several times. In the end, it was suppressed by the deployment of troops by the coalition forces.
Although the coalition forces have an advantage based on the camp, they also feel that food reserves are declining rapidly, and many parts of the camp have been seriously damaged in the past few days of fighting. The senior leaders of the coalition forces are also eager to defeat the Pavement Ant Imperial Army in a decisive battle, and then take advantage of the situation to capture the already exhausted [Kitasatsu City].
When the Ant Alliance achieved the desired results at the Civilized Ant Tribe Conference, and when the Angel King Legion officially launched an attack on [New Qingqiu City], 10 legions of the Angel King Legion soldiers returned to the camp at dusk. Join the main force of the coalition forces.
The strengthened coalition commanders, after deliberating all night, decided to go out to camp the next day to fight in the field in order to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!
So, on May 15th, in the north of [Beisong City], a decisive battle between about 100,000 civilized ant coalition forces and more than 200,000 pavement ant imperial forces officially broke out!
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A gust of wind blew by, and the ground that had been ravaged by the ants for many days and was barren of grass suddenly flew up with sand and rocks, shrouding the fighting ants in a yellow mist.
This place was originally a piece of land with tender grass. For many days, the ants who were short of food did not even let go of the grass roots and leaves here, and took them all away. Ants don't like to eat grass, and they are not picky eaters even when they have nothing to eat.
This also exposed a small piece of bare yellow land lacking vegetation coverage, and now it became a red battlefield filled with blood.
God seemed unwilling to see the bloodshed today. When the flying sand and rocks failed to stop the killing among the ants, and when the yellow dust dispersed, raindrops suddenly fell from the half-overcast sky.
This is the unique fine rain in spring, which quickly moistens the surface soil and gives various vegetation a layer of green enamel.
But the rain was still not enough to interrupt this decisive battle. Countless ants were rolling, biting, and killing on the muddy ground. Their carapace, whether black, red, or yellow, was covered with spring mud, and the muddy water was dripping with it. The heat in the ant's body can be taken away, but the savage desire to kill cannot be taken away!
This sudden spring rain caused a lot of trouble to the King of Gods Corps fighting on the right wing of the coalition forces - their artillery support was gone, and the artillery troops had to push the artillery back to the camp underground to take shelter from the rain.
However, the Angel King's army still gained an advantage on the right wing, and the more than 50,000 paving ant imperial troops on the opposite side were constantly suppressed.
In the spring rain, all armies have the problem of inconvenient deployment. At this time, the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road. The troops with the most combat effectiveness have the greatest advantage on the battlefield.
On the side of the Pavement Ant Imperial Army, the troops were all fixed in their respective fighting positions in the mud. Because the messengers could not convey new military orders in time, they could only fight to the death on the spot.
Only the green beetles were not afraid of the shallow mud on the ground. As a mobile unit directly under the supreme commander, the green beetles moved back and forth on the battlefield, trying to find fighter opportunities.
It was similar on the coalition side. Most of the troops could not be mobilized. They just stood still and fought to the death with the troops on the opposite side.
In the middle of the battle, the coalition's left wing was at a disadvantage and was retreating; the center troops withstood the onslaught of the paving ant army; and the Angel King's army on the right wing was making strides and had forced back the enemy in front of them.
It seemed that even if the fine spring rain drowned some ants that fell into the quagmire, it could not stop the war.
In the afternoon, the continuous spring rain suddenly intensified, mixed with large raindrops. Ants of all races finally had no difficulty staying outdoors anymore, and each had to go back to their camps to take shelter from the rain!
