The termite clan, as a degenerate ant clan that was beaten by ants in this world dominated by ant civilization, suddenly appeared in this area, which really caused a burst of surprise!
But that's all. For countless years, there have been news of termites appearing from time to time in nearby contact tree areas, near or far. It's nothing new.
The termite colonies that appear sporadicly are insignificant. Generally, the local civilized ant colony is enough to suppress them, but it does not arouse enough vigilance.
The black fire ant clan sent troops to stop this termite invasion. After analyzing the corpses they brought back, it was confirmed that these termites were not the bloodthirsty parasitized termites in history. After receiving the information, the various clans paid attention to this termite invasion. will be significantly reduced.
The Black Fire Ant Country has rented a migratory caravan of bullet ants to conduct aerial reconnaissance of the invading termites. It is confirmed that approximately 500,000 to 600,000 termites have entered the territory of the Black Fire Ant Country and have occupied several weakly defended buildings. The nest serves as a base.
The black fire ant nation has stated that it does not need the support of other ant tribes. Their black fire ant tribe, including their vassals, has a total ant population that is more than 10 times that of the invading termites, and they have been fighting local battles for many years. The black fire ant army has enough The confidence to repel the invaders.
In view of this, other civilized ant tribes did not pay too much attention to it. Anyway, it was just a small incident that affected the tribe.
Even the meeting of the civilized ant tribe was not held this time, which made the leaf-cutting ant tribe feel relieved. The host always found it troublesome to hold meetings.
Only a small number of ant tribes routinely mocked the sharp-tailed ant tribe, which relied on exploiting termite slaves as its economic basis, and laughed at them for fearing that one day they would be overthrown by termite slaves who became bloodthirsty. The sharp-tailed ants ignored these accusations as usual.
The protagonist doesn't care about these scoldings. He is vigorously promoting the reform of his country's deputy nest governance system and material rationing, vigorously developing the south bank of the Qinghe River, and has no intention of paying attention to the Black Fire Ant Country, which he has no dealings with.
Another benefit brought about by the termite invasion is that the Black Fire Ant Nation was originally very dissatisfied with the Ant United Nation's repellent pesticides that suddenly appeared on the market and quickly stole customers from it, and even threatened the Ant Federation by various means. The country and other civilized ants with purchasing needs want to keep this extra money.
Now they can't take care of this. The output of their own mite repellent agents has also been greatly reduced due to the adjustment of production focus during the war. Ant Alliance's cheap agents took the opportunity to continue to expand their market share.
The weather is still humid now, and although there is no large-scale outbreak of ant mites like before, there are sporadic occurrences in the nests of various tribes, so there is always a need for mite repellent.
As time went by, the Ant Alliance took the opportunity to use new products to exchange for a large amount of food, important flying beasts, specialties of various ethnic groups, etc.
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Black Fire Ant Country, Western Region.
There is a black fire ant nest near the hilly area. It is located at the intersection of multiple ant trails leading to the fallen hilly area. The terrain is flat and open.
An army of about 200,000 black fire ants is gathering here, using this sub-nest as the axis to build a line of defense to resist further invasion of termites.
Because the termite invasion happened in a hurry, the black fire ant country, which has dominated the local area for many years, has not faced a large-scale war for a long time, so the large-scale mobilization this time was not fast.
The Black Fire Ant Nation originally planned to mobilize 400,000 troops to fight. At this time, it had been a full week since the termite invasion. Only 200,000 troops from the western region hurriedly gathered and established a defense line, while troops from other parts of the country had not yet completed their recruitment. It will take another 3-10 days to arrive on the battlefield.
The result of such procrastination is that the invasive termites have completely occupied the rolling hilly area in the far west of the Western Territory. All the more than 20 sub-nests inside have been destroyed, and more than 100,000 termites have died.
Now, the invasive termites, which have rested for two or three days, are trying to rush down the hills and into the heart of the fertile plains occupied by the black fire ant kingdom.
The most suitable path for the invading termites to advance is the strategic location where the black fire ant army is currently defending.
So the vanguard of the invading termites and the 200,000 black fire ant army faced off here, and many small-scale battles broke out.
The invading termite clan has come a long way and lacks supplies along the way. Even if many black fire ant clan's secondary nests are occupied at this time, the logistics supply will remain at a very dangerous level. They are eager to attack to feed war.
Because the termites' food is lignin, there are few trees and shrubs in the hilly areas they occupy, which is not enough for them to stay for a long time. The termites do not eat the captured ant food at all.
In the hinterland of the black fire ant country not far away, there is the forest that the termites need. The termites are not aware of this, and they just move forward based on instinct.
The black fire ant army's logistics line has just been established at this time, and there is not much food stored on the front line. A certain leader, the top commander on the front line, is also trying to eliminate the invading termites once and for all through a decisive battle.
So, when the invading termites quickly assembled an army of 300,000 people to launch an attack, the black fire ant army on the front line went out to fight without waiting for the reinforcements from the rear to arrive!
Today is June 20th!
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This is a meadow in midsummer. Because it is adjacent to hills and hills, the soil layer here is also thin. There are only scattered trees and shrubs dotted here. The entire space of thousands of square meters is occupied by tall and short weeds.
Leaving this barren grassland, you can head east into the mainland of the black fire ant country, which is densely covered with forests, shrubs and fertile black soil meadows.
A decisive battle breaks out here to determine whether the invading termites can continue to penetrate deeper and whether the black fire ants can block the enemy ants from the hinterland.
In this battle, the formations of both sides appeared disorganized. The most suitable place for a grand legion's decisive battle is a gravel wilderness washed by vegetation. Although it is barren, the grass is not low, and the terrain has become rugged due to the vegetation, so it is not the most suitable battlefield.
But both warring parties had no choice but to let the dense herbaceous vegetation divide their troops into pieces and reluctantly form formations to fight.
The invading termite army launched a roughly cone-shaped formation to attack the black fire ant army that was roughly lined up in a line.
Due to the obstacles of plants, when the two sides' battle lines moved and came into contact, they had already become intertwined, with protrusions everywhere. It often happened that troops from both sides inexplicably entered the opponent's formation while moving.
Although the number of the black fire ant army is small, the national strength lies here. Each of its warriors is well-nourished, has shiny carapace, muscular body, and powerful jaws. Although the individual combat effectiveness is not that of the red fire ant, it is not weaker either.
In particular, their stings will cause the enemy ants to suffer burning pain all over their bodies, and can quickly cause the enemy ants to lose their fighting ability or even die.
