The next day, the march continued very smoothly, and the parasites still did not organize any resistance or launch a counterattack.
However, according to the flying knight's observation, there are more and more parasites operating near the army. This is a signal that the parasites are not willing to leave just like this, and perhaps their attack will come at any time.
On that day, the civilized ant tribe's coalition forces were stationed in three camps at the front and back. Each camp was at the horns of each other. When they set up camp, they were ready to fight at any time.
At night, it is still relatively warm at this time of the season in early autumn. Some nocturnal insects are singing tirelessly. In the last days of their lives, they try to attract a mate through their beautiful singing voices and pass on their genes.
The moonlight hangs down to the ground like the softest and whitest ant silk cloth. Under the moonlight, a small group of ants are moving quickly on insect beasts.
This is a night attack team composed of a mixture of tank troops and elite infantry units, including 12 medium-sized dung beetle mounts, as well as dozens of tankers and infantry warriors.
They were following the order of the God Envoy King to prepare for a night raid on a small nest inhabited by parasitic organisms that the Flying Knights had scouted during the day.
For two consecutive days, the parasitic creatures showed no resistance, which made Zhu Jue suspicious. During the day, he sent some fast troops to try to attack the parasitic beasts moving around the Northern Expedition of the civilized ant army. However, the other party was very vigilant. Once the intention was discovered, will withdraw.
This made Zhu Jue's results very limited, and he couldn't get much useful information from the few killed corpses, which made Zhu Jue even more confused.
In his impression, parasitic organisms do not seem to be such a tolerant and dormant race. Creatures infected by parasitic bacteria are always bloodthirsty and aggressive. When did they start to have the patience to hide and seek?
If the commander of the parasitic organisms is "Gun", then if "Gun" doesn't want to conflict with himself, why not let these parasitic organisms escape far away, and still have to play hide and seek with him along the way? If "Gun" is hostile to Zhu Jue himself and the civilized ant alliance, then what is he planning?
With such doubts, Zhu Jue ordered the scout troops and the rapid mobile troops to increase the intensity of the investigation, and even with the assistance of the air transport troops, they went to some places controlled by parasites that were half a day's walk away from the army for raids.
However, the results were still very limited. Faced with the elusive warriors of the Envoy King, the parasites had a very simple response. If they could escape, they would run away. If they could not escape, they would hide in nests or other places that were easy to defend and difficult to attack.
There are not many warriors of the God Envoy King who are guerrillas everywhere, and they do not intend to attack by force. They just test the parasites' resistance intentions and troop distribution, and retreat decisively after having a general understanding.
So Zhu Jue sent out a night attack force. After a small-scale fierce battle, they killed more than 10 parasitic ants and 2 parasitic beasts. They found some information, but it lacked value and still could not judge the intentions of the parasitic bacteria. .
Seemingly aware of Zhu Jue's intentions, on the third day, September 26, when the civilized ant coalition was approaching [Black Fire City], the resistance of the parasitic organisms began to appear, and became more and more determined.
On a soil ridge, thousands of parasitic ants and insect beasts are occupying the highest point of the soil ridge, condescendingly resisting the attack of the civilized ant coalition.
The tank troops of the God's Envoy Legion, who acted as the vanguard, launched a frontal assault. Due to the terrain, the upward firing effect of the tank guns was not good. Either they could not reach the enemy bacteria on the high soil ridges, or the cannonballs were blocked by the rugged terrain. .
Large and medium-sized tanks that directly impacted were easily attacked by condescending parasites using mycelium ejection to attack tank soldiers. After some failed attempts, "Gun II" damaged several tank soldiers and a beetle, and had to Order the troops to retreat.
At this time, after hearing the news, the black fire ant army and the marching ant army came hand in hand to move on the flanks. The leader was really the black fire ant male "Black Charcoal" king.
Seeing that [Black Fire City] was already in sight at this time, King "Heitan" was eager to fight, and without further discussion with "Gun II", he commanded his troops to directly go into battle. Upon seeing this, the army of the army ants followed closely behind.
Inspired by the male ant commander, the black fire ant army was very brave. They braved the parasitic mycelium and large and small gravels dropped by the parasites like raindrops, and rushed to the bottom of the soil ridge.
Then, headed by the Black Fire Ant warriors, followed by the vassals and slave warriors of various races in the Black Fire Ant country, they began to climb up and feint to attack.
The rugged soil ridges are not easy to climb. Sometimes, even if you are not attacked, if you accidentally step on the loose soil halfway through the climb, the whole ant will fall down together with the rolling sand. You are not lucky. Good chance of getting hurt.
Coupled with the stubborn resistance of the parasitic organisms, countless hyphae shuttled on the cliffs of the soil ridges like spiritual snakes, trying to sneak into the bodies of the black fire ant army soldiers and infect them. Countless rolling stones and sand hit the climbing civilized ant warriors, knocking them down.
The attack of the black fire ant army did not go smoothly at first, until King "Black Charcoal" became angry and almost threw all the troops at hand. Countless ants swarmed up like a sea of ants covering the ground, and the black tide went against the gravity of the earth towards the soil ridges. Top extension.
At the same time, "Gun II" also mobilized tank troops to detour from both wings, climb over the low parts of the ridge, and launch a pincer attack from the side, thus breaking through the parasite's ridge defense line in one fell swoop.
In fact, this is also the result of the parasitic organisms voluntarily giving up. When the civilized ant coalition rushed forward, there were very few parasitic ants and insect beasts left behind. After the battle, the corpses were counted and it was found that there were less than a thousand dead and other parasitic organisms had evacuated.
At the same time, the flying knights also discovered that a large number of parasites in [Black Fire City] were evacuating, migrating to the east in a crowded and panicky manner.
Upon learning of this situation, the vanguard of the civilized ant coalition that had just broken through the ridge accelerated their speed and headed straight towards [Black Fire City]. In the afternoon, when they arrived outside [Black Fire City], there was no trace of parasitic activity nearby.
Subsequently, a mixed force composed of soldiers from the Black Fire Ant Nation, the Marching Ant Nation, and the Ant Alliance Nation carefully explored the underground of [Black Fire City] and quickly found out that the city had been emptied of bacteria and there was no danger.
King "Black Tan" immediately led his own army into the city, symbolizing that the Black Fire Ant Kingdom had regained its old capital. The Angel King's army and the leaf-cutter ant army knew better than to join in the fun and camped outside the city to prevent the enemy bacteria from killing them.
In this way, [Black Fire City], a nest with important symbolic significance, was opened without blood on the third day of the Northern Expedition. Zhu Jue's first stage Northern Expedition goal was easily achieved!
