The Angel King Legion fought this air battle as an exercise. It was the first time for many Flying Knight units to fight parasitic flying insects. Only a few veterans had participated in the reconnaissance encounter on the north bank of Black Creek. The recruits needed to adapt to this new opponent. Play styles and master the practical use of new weapons.
Therefore, the main force of the combat flying knights was used, and the reconnaissance flying knights also sent countless soldiers to participate in the battle. As for the parasitic flying insects, they suffered losses under anti-aircraft fire and lost their fighting spirit.
Comparing the two, one was ebbing and the other was ebbing, and the air battle turned into a one-sided pursuit.
On the ground, a large number of infantry in the fortress group also emerged from the gaps or secret doors in the air defense net. They worked in small groups to touch up the parasitic flying insects that had fallen to the ground and were not dead. The focus was to kill the parasitic bacteria that were spreading. .
The bodies of the killed flying insects were carried back to replenish military rations, and the heads, carapace, and organs of some flying insects were also used for other purposes.
As the air combat battlefield moves northward, many parasitic flying insects fall into the water or the north bank. There is no other way. The ants cannot enter the water and do not want to risk entering the north bank.
The reconnaissance flying knights have discovered that there are a large number of fast troops of the parasitic army on the north bank of Black Creek. It is unwise to venture into the north bank.
If it weren't for the firm opposition of the Black Fire Ant Nation, Zhu Jue would have planned to temporarily remove the rope bridge to prevent the parasitic army from crossing the bridge directly.
The Black Fire Ant Nation still has hope of regaining [Black Fire City] and other places with the help of coalition forces. At the same time, there are still a few ethnic groups on the north bank of the Black Creek on their way to the south bank - they are all remote sub-nests that had not had time to retreat before. The ant colony, and the second batch of remnant soldiers who were carrying supplies from the main nest [Black Fire City] were scattered by the parasitic army.
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The disagreement on the rope bridge was just one of countless internal disagreements faced by the Civilized Ant Alliance.
After Zhu Jue finally gained nominal command of the coalition and recognized himself as the supreme commander of the coalition, every day he came to the front line, he basically had to deal with such differences, appease the emotions of various ethnic groups, and implement the planned strategy. At the same time, we must also maintain the unity of the coalition forces.
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South bank of Black Creek, Central Fortress, underground meeting room.
This dark, small nest room is the seat of the highest command authority of the hundreds of thousands of civilized ant coalition forces.
Commanders from all races formed a joint meeting here, including six commanders from the Ant Alliance (Zhu Jue, Gun II, Lambo Wan II, Lambo Tu II, Lambo Rui II, Lambo Fo III), the three commanders of the Black Fire Ant Kingdom (King "Black Tan", King "Black Slag", and Big Brother King), the three commanders of the Leaf Cutter Ant Kingdom (Queen "Ye Zhang" and "Ye Gui" "leaf willow"). As well as one commander from each of the six tribes of army ants, Sand's flat-headed ants, bullet ants, sharp-tailed ants, thin-legged ants, and completely different blind leaf-cutting ants that have arrived.
The number of commanders from each tribe participating in the highest command is determined based on the number of troops promised. Among them, the Ant United Nation has the largest number of troops and the most seats. The Black Fire Ant Nation and the Leaf-Cutter Ant Nation have both invested about 200,000 troops, followed closely by the number of seats. The other tribes have less than 10,000 troops, each with only one seat.
The reason why the reinforcements from the six tribes of Sand's Flat-headed Ants, Bullet Ants, Sharp-tailed Ants, Thin-legged Ants, and All-Different Blind Leaf-cutting Ants came so quickly this time was because they directly transferred people from the colonies near [Liuyi City] force. After one or two years of development, these colonies in the Gongwei Sacred Tree area are small in area and have few ant colonies, but they can still be supported by thousands of soldiers. From the colony to the war zone, the land journey only takes more than a week.
There are currently 18 commanders in the joint meeting. In the future, after the reinforcements of hairy forest ants and honeypot ants arrive, 2 additional commanders will join the joint meeting.
The reinforcements of the Maulin ant clan and the honeypot ant clan have to gather from the distant mainland, and it will take about a month to reach the war zone. However, the number of their troops is not large, and it does not affect the overall situation.
The Maolin ant clan has not acquired a colony near [Liuyi City] before. After acquiring the colony, the honeypot ants voluntarily gave up last year because their territory was too small, too far away, and difficult to manage. They sold the land to the army ants. Except for some nobles who returned to the mainland by air, the thousands of ant colonies were sold as slaves. The Ant Alliance also bought some. These honeypot ant slaves can be used as living honey. Dew, crow honey, crow wine storage.
At this time, 18 commanders gathered in the joint conference room to discuss today's issues.
The conference room had not even bothered to plant fluorescent fungi. It was completely dark. Zhu Jue's night vision was not affected. Other ants were also accustomed to using their antennae instead of eyes, so it did not affect the meeting.
The ground is covered with pebbles, and the nearby Black Creek is rich in white pebbles that can transmit antennae signals. Therefore, Zhu Jue had a sudden idea to connect white pebbles together and spread them out from the joint meeting room, leading to several important positions in the fortress and adjacent fortresses in several straight lines.
This is the original wired telegraph, which can transmit important instructions from the joint conference room to the front line, and is very useful for commanding battles.
However, the signal of this kind of cobblestone telegraph is seriously attenuated, and the signal cannot be received basically 2-3 meters away. But Zhu Jue had an original idea. He sent a small team of ants every 1 meter to guard the cobblestone telegraph line and resend the received information to the next station in a relay manner.
Zhu Jue has even begun to plan to build a cobblestone telegraph network throughout the country by using this method and improving technology.
War is a catalyst for technology, and this is a good example.
At this time, the contents of the discussion within the joint meeting were not allowed to be circulated outside, so the ant telegraph operators at the first three stations were ordered not to send any messages.
At the meeting, it was mainly the commander of the Black Fire Ant Kingdom who conveyed the instructions of the Black Fire Ant Kingdom King's meeting on behalf of King "Black Tan", hoping that the coalition forces could march north and regain the fallen Black Fire Ant Kingdom's homeland as soon as possible.
Zhu Jue refused directly. As the supreme commander of the coalition forces, he had this power.
What he considered was that the parasitic army on the north bank of the Qinghe River was very large. Although the coalition forces were also large in number, there were many recruits from the Divine Envoy King's Army and they still needed to be trained. Most of the main force of the Black Fire Ant Army had survived after several battles, so it would take time. Restore combat strength; the leaf-cutter ant army is not strong in ground combat, and the other armies are not large in number and have not even arrived yet, so they cannot be counted on.
Of course, Zhu Jue also plans to take this opportunity to integrate the coalition forces and establish his own status with the Ant Alliance. This cannot be stated clearly.
Therefore, he advocated relying on the Black Creek Defense Line to hold on first, and then go north for a decisive battle after the power of the parasitic army was consumed and the internal integration of the coalition forces was completed.
This made the Black Fire Ant Nation very dissatisfied, and Zhu Jue had to choose to appease him for the sake of the overall situation.
