The leaves are green, the grass is green, the sky is clear, and the clouds are white. This is a good weather.
It had not been long since the sun had set, but the sky was still pretty, and a ray of sunset was slowly rising over the western sky.
According to usual habits, at this time, the worker ants in each nest who have gone out to forage should return home and prepare to spend the night safely in the nest.
But Flying Eagle still doesn’t know where to spend the night today!
He was trudging along with the remnants of the 6,000-strong Northern Expedition Army on the still relatively humid land. All the soldiers were covered with dirt and grass leaves, and they looked so miserable.
It seems that these fleeing ants almost form two words - "tired" and "miserable"...
Compared with ordinary warriors, Flying Eagle is even worse - one of his mid-foots has been broken, and only a little bit of carapace and skin is still attached to his body, and he has to stagger around with the remaining five jointed limbs.
From time to time, the injured joint would hit the ground or an obstacle, and a heartbreaking pain would hit him. But the hawk did not dare to stop and deal with it for a moment. The invading termites were chasing after it. If it stopped, it would be waiting for death!
At this time, only a few guards were still accompanying Flying Eagle. The large army seemed to be deliberately avoiding the nominal supreme commander. One after another defeated teams passed by him, but they continued to move forward without stopping, one after another. There were no messengers sent just to send greetings.
Flying Eagle was very frustrated and didn't quite understand how a good situation suddenly turned into this. The respect he finally gained through a victory was wasted with a defeat the next day.
But he did not stop at all, until it was already dusk and the pursuers had not yet appeared, he used a short rest time to let the guards around him completely bite off the limb that could not be saved and threw it away. In this wilderness.
Another ten minutes passed, and the rear troops had just left Tingying. Tingying caught a team leader and interrogated him, only to learn that he had not seen the termites for an hour.
This made Tingying relax. It seemed that the pursuers had finally given up!
Now, the pain in the joints and limbs that was originally aching seemed to be even more painful. He could only move slowly, and soon even the rear troops surpassed him.
After nightfall, Tingying and his party arrived at today's temporary location belatedly.
Even without him as the supreme commander, the regiments of the Northern Expeditionary Army still went according to plan. After arriving at this hillock at dusk, they felt that the terrain was suitable and began to camp for the night.
Tingying and the guards randomly found a hole in the ground and crawled in. Several team captains inside seemed to be deliberately avoiding it. Tingying ignored the theory and found a relatively dry ground to lie down on his own.
There are only a few soldier ant guards who are loyal. They follow Flying Eagle all the way and do not understand the intrigues among the male ants. They just loyally accompany the only male ant around them.
But Flying Eagle also knows that these soldier ants will obey any male ant. They have no independent opinions and are not really loyal to themselves. They are just loyal to the Northern Expedition Army and can be loyal to any of the male ants.
At this time, Xiaoying finally felt that he was alone.
Obviously, the senior brother, the king, has several loyal disciples around him, and the public security king has also been supported by most of the army commanders. Why do I have nothing!
Flying Eagle is very unwilling!
But these few soldier ants are now Flying Eagle's only support. After a big defeat, he seemed to have completely lost control of the army. From the legion commander to the squad leader, everyone was no longer willing to obey his orders.
The hungry Flying Eagle had nothing to eat, and the entire army did not carry anything to help themselves during the rout.
The eagle could only drink the turbid muddy water brought by the soldier ants to quench its thirst. At this time, he finally regained some strength. Then, he reviewed everything that happened today in his mind.
This is a good habit that he has always maintained. Whether it is success or failure, Flying Eagle can find lessons from the retrospective review.
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This morning, the battle was going well.
As the vanguard, the Northern Expeditionary Army took the lead in fighting the military formation just laid out by the invading termites. The Black Fire Ant Army also joined the battle group soon after.
As the Flying Eagle predicted, the invading termites must fight in formations to cover their bodies, which are much more fragile than those of ants.
Both the Northern Expeditionary Army and the Black Fire Ant Soldiers received orders to use all their strength to make a detour to the side and rear of the invading termite army's formation, using a chaotic melee.
Even if the termites form a circle, it is useless. The soldiers of the Northern Expedition, led by the male ants, the team commander, will climb the grass blades and then jump into the interior of the termite circle.
Although the black fire ant army did not do this, they also learned to attack one corner of the circle and feign attacks in other places, thus breaking through one termite circle after another.
Once the circular formation of invading termites encounters a central bloom or is partially destroyed, it will immediately collapse, and the termites that resist sporadically will be quickly suppressed.
Under the new tactics of the Northern Expeditionary Army and the Black Fire Ant Army, the invading termites suffered heavy casualties, leaving tens of thousands of corpses in one morning.
As the army of invading termites retreated under pressure, more than 100,000 termites retreated to their unfinished nests at noon. The remaining ones had no time to return to their nests, so they retreated westward.
The Northern Expeditionary Army originally wanted to pursue the fleeing invading termite army first, and then turn around to deal with the enemy ants that had entered the nest and defended it.
However, orders from the Black Fire Ant Army soon came, and Flying Eagle had no choice but to turn around with his troops and follow the suzerain to attack the enemy's nest first.
The black fire ant clan cannot tolerate other ant clans or termite clans building nests on their own land. This is their bottom line.
This siege battle became intense from the beginning, and the black fire ant warriors joined the battle with unprecedented fighting enthusiasm. However, the invading termites did not have to worry about being attacked from behind in the narrow underground passage, and quickly organized a resistance.
Flying Eagle led the Northern Expeditionary Army and launched an attack from somewhere alone. Even underground, Flying Eagle decisively dispatched a large number of small teams to try to make a detour through the criss-crossing passages.
Most of the passages are guarded by invasive termites, and there are indeed a small number of roads that are not fortified. This may be because the nest has just been established and the defenders are not familiar with the terrain.
Because the termite nest has not yet been completed, the attacker can even enter some exposed nest cells from the periphery, thereby reaching the flanks and rear of the defenders.
In half the afternoon, the Northern Expeditionary Army captured many nests, and the progress seemed to be going smoothly.
But just when the flying eagle was complacent, heaven and hell had changed in an instant - the two legions staying outdoors reported urgently:
A large group of invasive termites suddenly came from the west, numbering two to three hundred thousand in number!
Then there was another report: The black fire ant clan in the sovereign country has begun to evacuate!
Flying Eagle did not receive the evacuation order from the sovereign state at all. At this time, three of his legions had already penetrated deep into the termite nest, and many teams were sent out to make detours, making it impossible to contact him in a short period of time!
