Black Fire Ant Country, Main Nest [Black Fire City].
After many days of gathering, nearly 500,000 troops of all ethnic groups have gathered in this huge lair. Such a huge military force even made the originally spacious nest become crowded, and had to dig out nests and garrison points around it.
Deep underground in the nest, in a larger nest room, the country's highest authority, the King's Council, was discussing counterattacks.
With the fall of the fortress at the western end of the Northern Territory, the parasitic army is now moving deeper into the Northern Territory every day, frantically massacring the people of the Black Fire Ant Kingdom, and poisoning every piece of land that the parasitic fungus has crawled over.
In the southern border, with the help of a dry barren beach terrain, the few defenders in the southern border are still resisting, temporarily preventing the fallen ants from entering the southern border. However, without support, it is obvious that the southern border defenders cannot resist for long.
To the west of the main nest [Black Fire City], the tentacles of the fallen ants are slowly overcoming the dry areas therein and are about to extend towards [Black Fire City].
There have been sporadic light rains in the past two days, which has caused many relatively dry lands to become moist again after a winter. This is good news for the parasitic fungi that love moisture. For the black fire ant country, it is adding insult to injury, forcing them to Must fight.
The Black Fire Ant Army has assembled a huge military force, and through the resolution of the Civilized Ant Tribe Conference, each tribe has also agreed to provide food and supplies, so that the Black Fire Ant Army can use the inventory with confidence. Once the objective conditions are met, they are also preparing for the first phase. counterattack.
But on the direction of sending troops, the opinions within the King's Council were not consistent.
According to the reconnaissance of the Black Fire Ant Scouts and the reconnaissance report of the Flying Knights of the God Envoy King Legion obtained through diplomatic channels (most of the ants have no concept of airspace, so the Flying Knights can fly over the Black Fire Ant Country without hindrance, but the ants have no control over the territory. Very obsessive):
Currently, there are about 300,000 parasitic ants and thousands of parasitic beasts in the north, attacking cities and plundering territory. On the west side of the southern border, there are 200,000 parasitic ants and thousands of parasitic beasts struggling with the defenders.
Most of the Western Territory has been completely occupied by the parasitic army, and the few secondary nests that have not been affected by the war have also been cut off from the main nest, falling into a situation where they are fighting on their own. Since most of the parasitic ants and parasitic war beasts in the Western Territory are hidden in nests or hiding places, the exact number is unknown, but the scale is definitely not small.
In addition, the flying knights also discovered that a large number of parasites were continuously pouring out of the valley during the day, as if there was an endless army of parasites on the other side of the valley.
In the past few days, the flying parasite beast began to focus on attacking the flying knight under the control of its brain.
However, facing the combat flying knights riding armored bee mounts and equipped with fire bomb slings, spider silk bombs, lances and aerial scrapers, the parasitic wasps, parasitic damselflies, and even parasitic dragonflies that attacked scattered failed to please.
Today's flying knight's combat effectiveness is far stronger than what the parasitic brain thought. However, the first stage of the parasitic army's aerial countermeasures ended in failure.
However, as the parasitic brain adjusted in time, more and more flying parasitic beasts attacked, and at most there were hundreds of them in groups. Although the flying knights of the God's Envoy King's Legion also acted as a team, they did not dare to risk fighting. Gradually being squeezed out of the airspace in the western border of the Black Fire Ant Kingdom - Zhu Jue did not intend to let the flying knights go head-to-head for the time being.
Return to the meeting of kings in the Black Fire Ant Kingdom. According to the available information, some kings in the king's meeting, led by "Flying Eagle", advocated the elimination of the fallen ants in the north first. This enemy army is currently causing the greatest harm to the black fire ant country and has forced several of the largest ants in the north to do so. The coal lairs in the area collapsed or stopped working. Without coal, the country would lack the means to pay for grain and crow wine from the Ant Alliance, and its economy would be further in trouble.
A few kings advocated destroying the parasitic ants in the southern border first, which is the weakest enemy force, so that the soldiers of the army can adapt to the enemy's tactics and boost the morale of the grassroots commanders.
But more opinions are to go straight to Huanglong, use a large army to attack the western border, cut off the connection between the fallen ants' homeland and this invading army, and end the war with a decisive victory in the battle. This is a radical plan, but if successful, it can be solved once and for all, which is in line with the straight-forward nature of the black fire ants.
The "Flying Eagle" faction felt that this was too risky, and the radical faction was not convinced by the "Flying Eagle" faction's prudent suggestion after the envoy king suffered a series of losses against the Ant Alliance last year, resulting in a loss of prestige.
The two sides are arguing endlessly, and it is related to the military and national plans. The King's Conference cannot simply suppress the minority with the majority. What's more, the radical faction does not occupy an absolute majority. There are also many supporters of the "Flying Eagle" faction and the Southward faction...
After all, the meeting needed a result. When "Flying Eagle" cleverly proposed the division of troops, it got compromises from all factions, and finally made "Flying Eagle" feel that it had regained its damaged majesty and achieved part of its expected goals.
It is undoubtedly not a good idea to divide the troops when the strength of the black fire ant army is not superior to the number of the parasitic army. However, the kings of the Black Fire Ant Kingdom all have a kind of mysterious self-confidence. They believe that the Black Fire Ant warriors of their tribe are invincible and can offset their numerical disadvantage with their combat power, so they do not take this war taboo seriously.
Fortunately, they were not blindly arrogant. Based on the calculations and arrangements of some veteran generals, they finally decided to march westward with a main force of 400,000. Half of the westward marching army were elite warriors from the Black Fire Ant clan. The man who commanded the westward marching army was Veteran "Black Coal" and 5 kings.
In this way, the strength of the westward marching army is still very strong. Based on the experience of the previous "Battle on the Rock Face", the male black fire ants concluded that even if they failed to win, they would not suffer heavy losses.
The armies going north and south each have about 50,000 troops, and there are only about 10,000 warriors of this tribe. The rest are vassal warriors or slave ants. They are more intended to contain the enemy. The King's Council does not expect these two groups to achieve a decisive victory. .
The person who commanded the army on the south road was "Hei Tan", an experienced ant from the Ant Alliance. He was the commander of the army originally stationed at the border between the Black Fire Ant Nation and the Ant Alliance. Under his leadership, the crow wine between the garrison and the Ant Alliance at that time was The slave trade was carried out smoothly.
"Flying Eagle" personally asked for orders to command the army heading north. This was a decentralization in terms of his status as the Divine Envoy King, but because of his alien status, it was impossible to command the army heading west. In the end, the King's Conference agreed.
"Flying Eagle" was interested in making great achievements. He ordered the "Stubborn King" to command all 7 legions brought from the remaining territories of the Northern Expedition Army to join his command. Two of the legions were elite leather armored troops.
These 10,000 big-headed ant warriors from the Bei Zheng Army are the source of "Flying Eagle's" confidence. In his opinion, they are much more useful than those black fire ant warriors who like to fight alone.
On April 3, the three-pronged black fire ant army officially set off, and the troops were divided into three groups to embark on the journey.
