When Zhu Jue led the coalition of civilized ants and the Destroyers to fight fiercely on the northern battlefield of the Thin-footed Ant Nation, the war on the western front battlefield of the Thin-legged Ant Nation also reignited.
On June 7, the Destroyer Legion on the Western Front, which had been dormant for a long time after the heavy rain, made a comeback and launched a massive attack on the defense line of the Thin-footed Ant Nation.
Although the main force of the Thin-footed Ant Clan has experienced a round of defeats and breakouts, its strength still exists. After intense domestic reinforcements, the number of troops is still 600,000.
But this time there were as many as 100,000 Destroyers, attacking the city and plundering the territory all the way, so arrogantly.
"Longhorn", the senior military leader of the Thin-footed Ant Nation, has previous experience in fighting the Destroyer and knows that when facing the Destroyer, he must avoid being overmatched. Therefore, he has been using maneuvers to avoid the decisive battle with the Destroyer's main force, and at the same time constantly Try to mobilize the Destroyers to spread out, and then look for opportunities to engage in small-scale annihilation battles.
This tactic of "Long Horn" is similar to Zhu Jue's strategy on the northern front. Both are effective strategies that the weak side has to resort to. Although it is difficult to win quickly, it is not easy to be defeated by the enemy in one fell swoop. .
On the northern front, Zhu Jue insisted on implementing the principle of mobile defense. Although the [West Stone Castle] underground battlefield was fiercely fought for many days, and many preset battlefield nests suffered heavy losses when the White Belly Destroyer frequently self-destructed, it still firmly withstood the Destroyer's offensive and contained a large number of Destroyer. Zhu Jue also took the opportunity to command the coalition of civilized ant tribes. He continuously attacked and created fighter opportunities. He successively eliminated 20,000 to 30,000 Destroyers, accounting for about half of the invaders. The dawn of victory could already be seen.
On the western front, the Thin-footed Ant Army also achieved several small-scale victories under the leadership of "Long Horn", wiping out more than ten thousand Destroyers. There were also several failed battles, and they failed to encircle and annihilate them but suffered losses instead.
Seeing that the main force of the Thin-footed Ant Army was still unable to win and continued to lose cities and territory, the senior officials of the Thin-footed Ant Nation finally could not remain calm.
On June 10, the Thin-footed Ant Clan appointed a senior military leader, "Broken Horn", to join the army. "Broken Horn" was more senior than "Long Horn", so he obtained the actual command of the army as usual.
At this time, a unit of the Thin-footed Ant Army, under the command of "Long Horn", surrounded a group of about 4,000 Destroyers and was in the midst of a fierce battle.
"Broken Horn" was overjoyed after hearing the news, and ordered all the poisons in the army's inventory to weaken the enemy. He also distributed more than 80% of the stimulants to each army, commanding the army to go out in multiple directions and fight separately, vowing to annihilate this destroyer. .
Finally, after half a day of fierce fighting, the Thin-footed Ant Army surrounded and annihilated the destroyers at a great cost, and then hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield. Because on the other side, the Destroyer reinforcements have arrived, and the blocking force of the Thin-footed Ant Army has suffered heavy losses.
Even the elite "Wind Samurai" was thrown into this blockade by "Broken Horn" and resisted the Destroyer's offensive, losing more than half of them in one battle.
In the end, the main force of the Thin-footed Ant Army successfully evacuated. In this battle, they suffered more than 20,000 casualties (mainly casualties of the blocking troops) and eliminated about 5,000 Destroyers (including killing a few Destroyer reinforcements).
Although the losses were relatively large, this battle was also the most glorious battle for the Xiaozujie Ant Army in recent times. "Broken Horn" reported this victory to the main nest. The Thin-footed Ant Army has rarely achieved such a "big victory" since the beginning of the war. The senior leaders in the main nest took the initiative to ignore the huge casualties on their side. Anyway, on the inside In battle, replenishing troops is not a problem, so everyone has a high fighting spirit.
"Broken Horn" also gained great prestige in the army. He acted arbitrarily and ignored "Long Horn"'s persuasion, and decided to take advantage of the victory to attack and fight the Destroyer to the death.
Of course, "Horn" is not that conceited. He also realized the Destroyer's stubbornness from previous battles. So he took advantage of his status and prestige to move almost all the last stocks of poisons, stimulants and tonics from the main nest to the front line, and continued to recruit strong men from various places, even the troops that had previously reinforced Zhu Jue's troops on the northern front. was transferred back.
But at the same time, "Broken Horn" sent Zhu Jue's flying knights who were supporting the Thin-footed Ant Army back to the northern front, saying that they were helping Zhu Jue in the battle. But "Long Horn" secretly sent an envoy to apologize, saying that "Broken Horn" was a very conservative general and did not like foreign troops like the Flying Knights "sneaking and hiding in the sky" to provide "invincible thin-footed ant warriors" Useless assistance”. Zhu Jue was angry and helpless, so he had to withdraw the flying knight.
After intensive preparations, by June 11, "Broken Horn" had gathered more than 800,000 troops under his command. With sufficient food and all the remaining medicines in the country, the arrow was ready and had to be fired.
On June 12, "Broken Horn" ordered an all-out attack. The Thin-footed Ant warriors who had taken stimulants early in the morning, with reddish compound eyes, launched a menacing multi-line attack, launching an all-out attack on the Destroyer.
The Thin-footed Ant Army is divided into five groups:
The first route is located on the northernmost side, with about 140,000 troops. It is responsible for long-distance detours, outflanking and cutting off the retreat of the main force of the Destroyer.
The second road is to the south of the first road, with about 93,000 troops. It is responsible for covering the left and right armies and containing the Destroyer's partial divisions along the way.
The third line is the main force, with more than 300,000 troops. It has concentrated elite troops including "Wind Warriors" and is equipped with all poisons. It plans to attack frontally and eliminate the main force of the Destroyer.
The fourth route is south of the third route, with a strength of about 93,000. It is also responsible for covering the approaching army and containing the Destroyer's partial division.
The fifth route, like the first route, is an outflanking force with a strength of about 140,000. The two troops will each seize an important position and completely cut off the Destroyer's retreat.
The Destroyers faced by the Thin-footed Ant Army currently have more than 90,000 troops. Except for a main force of about 40,000 Destroyers entrenched in the original camp of the main force of the Thin-legged Ant Army, the other Destroyers are scattered into three groups. Four thousand troops are attacking separately.
The combat plan of "Broken Horn" is to use the first and fifth routes to complete the strategic encirclement, use the second and fourth routes to contain and destroy the Destroyers scattered along the way, and use the main force to destroy the main force of Destroyers first, and then Turn around and kill the remaining Destroyers.
However, when the Thin-footed Ant Army launched in large numbers and entered the detection range of the Destroyer's radar, the scattered troops of the Destroyer had desperately moved closer to the main force, and at the same time the main force set off to move north.
And all this, because there was no aerial reconnaissance, although the ground scouts sent back a small amount of information, "Broken Horn" did not pay attention, and his main force went in the wrong direction.
It was not until dusk that day that more than 60,000 Destroyers suddenly encountered the Second Route Army of the Thin-footed Ant Army. The Second Route Army, which was caught off guard, was instantly dispersed and fell into a great crisis.
The messenger hurriedly dispatched by the Second Route Army found the "broken corner" to warn of the danger at night. Only then did "Broken Horn" realize that the changes in the battle situation had exceeded his expectations!
