From the Thin-footed Ant Kingdom, Zhu Jue settled in a nest near the "Bad Land of Stone Crevices". He used this as a base to receive supplies, hoard food, train the Angel King's army and honeypot ant warriors, and build a defense system.
The Thin Foot Ant Nation is also happy to have allies to help them partially share the pressure of the war. They not only let it go, but also provide support.
Nowadays, the Destroyers are frequently mobilized within the territory of the original Sharp-tailed Ant Kingdom, and they are planning to head east into the Thin-legged Ant Kingdom. The main force of the Thin-footed Ant Clan is also stationed in the west. The troops in the north are quite empty, which is when Zhu Jue's troops are needed to help.
Therefore, Zhu Jue won the command of the northern border. In addition to his own troops, there were about 20,000 small-footed ant warriors in various nests in the northern border, and they were also under his control. However, the troops of these thin-footed ants have their own male ants as military leaders, and Zhu Jue cannot interfere too much.
The Thin-footed Ant Country also generously provided a large amount of food and grass for Zhu Jue's troops. Together with the inventory in the north, it is enough to support the troops under his current command for two months. The Bullet Ants and other tribes from the neighboring Thin-footed Ant Country are also coming to the army. Material support is mobilized here, so there is no need to worry about food issues for the time being.
What we need to worry about most is the enemy! In the north, opposite the big stone gap, the Destroyer is destroying the remaining resistance forces of the honeypot ant kingdom with overwhelming momentum. The war situation is getting worse. Every day, hundreds or thousands of honeypot ants come around from both ends of the big stone gap to defect. They have lost their faith in their homeland.
Zhu Jue took them all under his command. After training, these soldiers were all valuable. With the information from the escapees and the investigation of the Flying Knight, Zhu Jue had a clearer idea of the movements of the Destroyer in the North.
After comprehensive analysis of all kinds of intelligence, Zhu Jue predicted that in less than half a month, the Destroyers would be able to mobilize their troops to launch an attack on the northern border of the Thin-footed Ant Nation, leaving Zhu Jue a very short time to prepare for the war.
In addition to constantly transporting weapons and equipment to arm the honeypot ant warriors and conducting intensive training, Zhu Jue also began to implement the defense method that he and the Divine Envoy King's Legion were good at - building a fortress defense system.
Civil construction is the strength of the Divine Envoy Army. Pavement ants, fire ants, and parasites have all suffered losses from the Divine Envoy King's fortifications. The Divine Envoy King's Army already has a complete theoretical and practical system for the construction of fortifications. In the past, the defense system built with civil fortifications in the homeland was also the best choice to deal with the invincible Destroyer in the field.
This time, there is a large stone gap as a natural moat, which is very beneficial for building a defense system. The big stone crack is more difficult to cross than the stream. Zhu Jue plans to build a fortress at the two ends of the big stone crack to the south to guard the only way for the Destroyer to invade!
Each fortress can accommodate more than 100,000 ants and a large amount of supplies. Part of the defensive areas of these fortresses are covered by large stone gaps, and only three sides need to face the enemy. Both fortresses are in the typical style of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, with towering ant mounds, continuous city walls and protruding forts. The overall look is exactly the same as the original defense system of [New Yang City].
However, in order to deal with the Destroyer, these two fortresses have also been improved.
On the one hand, in these two fortresses, the thickness of both the city walls and the shells of the ant mounds has been greatly increased to enhance defense and restrain the Destroyer's burrowing attacks. Even if you can't stop the attack of self-destructing units like the White Belly Destroyer in the end, you can try to hold on for a longer time, so as not to be helpless in the face of the enemy's siege like in your homeland.
At the same time, both fortresses have three ant mounds, which are distributed in the shape of "pin". The ant mounds are relatively high and have a large number of shooting openings. The number of artillery brought by the Angel King's Legion was limited, and they were all light artillery such as millet cannons. The artillery transportation was very inconvenient. This was obviously unacceptable to a "late-stage patient with phobia of insufficient firepower" like Zhu Jue. Zhu Jue seized the time to collect materials and made a batch of crossbows locally in the country of Xizuzijieyi as a supplement. The artillery and ballistae in these three ant mounds are enough to cover a large area around them without blind spots in a relatively safe situation.
In the end, Zhu Jue still didn't feel that these two fortresses could completely block the large number of Destroyers on the ground, so there were also complex defenses under the fortresses.
These fortifications are an improvement on the underground defense methods used in their homeland. They are still mainly composed of preset battlefield nests. In these long and narrow nests, the Destroyer will encounter a triple counterattack of artillery, ballistae and ant soldiers. It's hard to break through.
To this end, Zhu Jue has reserved spacious express passages directly to the underground in the three ant mounds. Once the ground is about to be lost, all the heavy weapons in the three ant mounds can be quickly and safely transferred underground, with presets everywhere. The battle continues on the battlefield.
In addition to these two fortresses, Zhu Jue is also building a third fortress about a day's journey south in the center of the big rock crevice, where the army is currently stationed.
The elusive Destroyer has indeed left a shadow on the protagonist. Any place that is regarded as a natural chasm has the possibility of being breached. Therefore, Zhu Jue built this fortress not only as a backup for the two fortresses on the front line, but also as a precautionary insurance. .
Zhu Jue is planning to personally take charge of this third fortress, but this fortress is still under construction, and most of the construction power has been invested in the construction of the first two fortresses.
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In early May, when Zhu Jue's stone seam area defense system was gradually taking shape, the Destroyer on the opposite side had completely pacified the honeypot ant country and was resting. The two sides maintained the last calm before the war.
In the western border of the Thin-legged Ant Kingdom, the Destroyers have entered the buffer zone between the territories of the original Sharp-legged Ant Kingdom and the Thin-legged Ant Kingdom, massacred the local indigenous ants, and frequently launched exploratory attacks against the Thin-legged Ant Kingdom. Small-scale attacks.
Some indigenous ant tribes could not resist the destroyers and were unwilling to be destroyed, so they defected to the Thin-footed Ant Kingdom and prepared to continue resisting as vassals.
While the Thin-footed Ant Nation is gathering these small forces, it is resolutely pushing back the Destroyer's temptations. It seems that it has a plan to defend the country from its enemies.
However, Zhu Jue knew that this was only the case on the surface. He flew over the Western Territory several times and met with the top military leader of the Thin-footed Ant Army who was responsible for the war in the Western Territory. The other party said that the thin-footed ant warriors come and go like the wind, and will not stick to one place, but will destroy these little devil ants on the move!
Zhu Jue just realized that in the battlefield of the Black Fire Ant Kingdom, he had problems with the use of the Thin-footed Ants and Sharp-tailed Ant warriors, and did not take advantage of their mobile combat capabilities. No wonder the military leaders of the Thin-footed Ants and Army Ants have always criticized their command...
