In early July, the third transport team sent by the Marching Ant Nation failed to arrive at the territory of the Thin-footed Ant Nation as scheduled.
The previous two batches of army ant transport teams were very punctual. After unloading most of the food and supplies at the main nest of the Thin-foot Ant Kingdom [Xizu City], they then escorted the remaining supplies to the northern defense line while directly supplying Zhu Jue. At the same time, he joined Zhu Jue's command on the spot.
This time, the army ant transport team did not arrive in time, leaving the northern garrison facing a shortage of food. Zhu Jue could only ask the messenger to borrow some food from [Xizu City] to tide over the difficulties temporarily.
The flying knights sent out to investigate found the army ant transport team at the southern border of the Thin-footed Ant Kingdom. This transport team seemed to have just experienced a battle. The workers had lost a lot of the food and straw bags they carried on their backs. Many of the escorting soldiers were injured, and the overall size had shrunk significantly.
The Xiaozujie Ant Kingdom hurriedly sent a force to respond and escorted the transportation team into the country.
Zhu Jue hurriedly flew to [Xizu City], and together with the leaders of the Xizujie Ant Kingdom, met with the deputy commander of this transportation team. As for the commander, he was killed during the escort...
After further understanding, it turned out that the army ant transport team encountered a sneak attack by indigenous ants on the way!
What came was a group of Yi big-headed ants, which looked very similar to Zhu Jue's broad-knotted big-headed ants. When thousands of Yi big-headed ants soldiers and workers attacked, the male army ants with good eyesight thought they were coming at first. The responding civilized ant coalition troops did not take precautions.
It wasn't until the unsuspecting convoy smelled an unfamiliar smell on the opponent's body that a brief but fierce conflict broke out. The army ant transport team woke up from a dream. However, it was too late to change into a combat formation and was quickly captured during the surprise attack. Break up the formation.
The army ants have always been proud, and the first thing they think of when facing an attack is to fight back. However, the attacking Yi big-headed ants were very cunning and had clear goals. After breaking up the transport team, they focused on encircling and annihilating several groups of army ants that fought back, and then stole a large amount of supplies and corpses and fled.
Even the commander of the transportation team with a violent personality was brutally surrounded and killed when he led a small number of large worker ants to fight back.
If it weren't for the fact that Yi Big-headed Ant was mainly looking for money and robbed some of the supplies before withdrawing, instead of killing all the transport team, the transport team would have suffered even greater losses. But in fact, with the troops invested by the Yi Big-headed Ant natives, it is difficult to completely annihilate the Marching Ant transport team, which is not weak in combat effectiveness and has comparable strength. If the stalemate continues, it will only be a lose-lose situation.
The army ant transport team was led by the deputy commander. He was more cautious and did not rush for revenge. He immediately sent a messenger to his country and then continued to move forward. But due to instinct and habit, he did not ask for help from the closer Thin-footed Ant Nation.
The transport team lost a lot of supplies and worker ants who acted as packers, and many ants were injured, making the team's progress slow. One day later, I encountered another attack by the big-headed ant. Fortunately, I was on guard this time and the enemy did not succeed. The transport team finally reached its destination.
In fact, when the first two batches of transportation teams performed their missions, they also encountered ants from indigenous tribes. However, most of the indigenous tribes did not have many ant colonies. When they saw the huge transportation teams, they wanted to go around. The occasional fights were also some visual problems. Unsatisfactory native ants strayed in and were killed.
Some indigenous ant tribes are even worried that the transport team will be destroyed on the wrong way, and immediately guard the entrance and exit of the nest after discovering the transport team. This is the first time I have seen a tribe like Yi Big Head Ant that can gather thousands of troops and launch a surprise attack!
This year's weather is also to blame. It is generally dry. The occasional rainfall can cause floods in an instant. Most of the ant forces are having a hard time.
This is the case for the Yi Big Head Ant Aboriginal Tribe. As a new force that has just been established for two years, their clan's combat effectiveness is the strongest among the nearby tribes. In the good year of the previous year, they saved tens of thousands of ant households, but this year But it was extremely difficult. They have never experienced being swept away by army ants in the plow garden, so they took the risk and made trouble on Tai Sui's head!
"Broken Horn" and other leaders of the Thin-footed Ant Clan, as well as Zhu Jue, were furious after hearing the news. As the most powerful force in the region, the Civilized Ant Tribe has never suffered such a provocation. When the civilized ants fought fiercely with the destroyers, they had not protected these indigenous ants, but now they were bullied by a group of indigenous ants.
The flying knights soon brought back the information package from the Marching Ant Kingdom. The "Kings" of the "King Court" of the Marching Ant Kingdom have decided to launch a small-scale retaliatory action against the northern border, investing tens of thousands of troops, vowing to All native ant tribes near the convoy route are to be eliminated.
The Thin Foot Ant Nation also expressed its intention to send troops to help in the war. Zhu Jue saw this and the Destroyer showed no signs of advancing for the time being, so he agreed to send troops to retaliate and said that he would mobilize some civilized ant coalition troops from the northern front to participate in the war.
The fate of many indigenous ant tribes was decided in this way. Even if most of them did not offend the civilized ant tribe, under the joint attack on the Yi big-headed ants, these indigenous tribes disappeared one after another like the fallen leaves in autumn.
The Marching Ant Army, the Thin-footed Ant Army and Zhu Jue's troops began to sweep from the north and south. Under the guidance of the flying knights and scouts, they locked the camps of the indigenous tribes one after another and launched rounds of brutal massacres. war.
No one thinks that these implicated indigenous tribes are innocent. The Destroyer has once again told everyone that in this ant world, weakness is the original sin, and the law of the jungle is the unchanging truth.
Perhaps these newly born indigenous tribes in recent years may not have the opportunity to develop into a powerful existence like a marching ant nation or a paving ant empire in the future, but history has no assumptions, and they have died today!
After annihilating the indigenous tribes along the way and successfully wiping out the Yi big-headed ant tribe, Zhu Jue suggested that the dispatched troops build small-scale strongholds along the transportation team to cover subsequent transportation before withdrawing.
These small strongholds do not need to be built as large and strong as fortresses to defend against the Destroyer. They can simply be an underground lair plus some facilities on the ground. The construction is simple and the amount of work is not large.
Each stronghold is half a day's walk away from each other. The interior is enough to accommodate an entire transport team composed of thousands of ants and the supplies they carry, while the usual garrison only has a hundred or so.
With the cover of these dense strongholds and the elimination of the indigenous ant tribes, the transport team is unlikely to encounter crises again and has a place to rest every night to avoid unnecessary losses due to weather and other reasons.
As for these strongholds playing an important role in the future that even Zhu Jue did not expect, it will be more than two months later!
