August 5th, haze.
After retreating into the [Hou Shibao] fortress, Zhu Jue, "Changjiao" and other senior commanders were working hard to reorganize the team.
But this is not an easy task. As many as hundreds of thousands of soldiers need to rest, supply, restore or reorganize, and the existence of the Destroyer is like this mist that never dissipates.
But more difficult than reorganizing the army is how to defend against the Destroyer in the future.
There were as many as a million Destroyers. Although Zhu Jue had a quick glance and his estimate was not accurate enough, it would not be too far off. Such a powerful force of destroyers made the civilized ant tribe lose their fighting spirit.
Facing hundreds of thousands of Destroyers, the civilized ant coalition made every possible effort to annihilate half of them, and then suffered a defeat in heavy rain and thick fog.
Facing millions of Destroyers, with an absolute disadvantage in terms of quantity and quality of troops, even Zhu Jue could not see the hope of victory!
Fortunately, after the Destroyer conquered the [West Stone Castle] fortress, there was no sign of the Destroyer moving for the time being. He stayed in place and waited for something. The flying knights, who barely took off in the hazy weather, brought back this information after conducting low-altitude reconnaissance and paying the price of three of their knights being shot down by the Potbelly Destroyer.
Zhu Jue sent a messenger today to order the defenders of another fortress [Dongshibao] to abandon this stronghold, carry weapons and supplies, and evacuate from long-distance underground passages and the ground.
After the fall of the [West Stone Fort] Fortress, the Destroyers were able to break through the natural barrier of the big stone seam. The [East Stone Fort] fortress guarding the passage on the other side of the big stone seam had lost its strategic significance, and there was no need to garrison troops to defend it. Zhu Jue only left scattered small strongholds in the wild as early warning, and gathered the elite main force in the [Hou Shibao] fortress.
[Hou Shibao] Fortress is the last of the three fortresses that control the Big Stone Seam area. It is also the largest one and the one with the most abundant material reserves, but it is not the strongest city defense.
In addition to the army being retrained, the original defenders of this fortress and the troops withdrawn from the [East Stone Fort] Fortress are urgently building additional ground and underground defenses. Even though Zhu Jue clearly knew that if as many as a million Destroyers surrounded the [Hou Shibao] fortress, no matter how sophisticated the defense system was, they would not be able to withstand it, but the renovations were still going on, as if this could allow the civilized ant tribe coalition to There is something to do so you don’t get overwhelmed by the overwhelming pressure.
Zhu Jue had an urgent discussion with "Long Horn" and informed him of the information he had seen. He pessimistically expressed that with the power of the Xiaozujie Ant Nation and the local coalition forces, it was absolutely impossible to withstand so many destroyers, and suggested that "Long Horn" "Work with yourself to convince the top leaders of the Thin Foot Ant Nation that they should start preparing to evacuate now.
Zhu Jue's suggestion is that the coalition of civilized ants and the Thin-legged Ant Nation should leave a small number of diversionary troops to contain the speed of the Destroyer's attack, while the Thin-legged Ant Nation should take advantage of this period to destroy as many ant colonies as possible. and supplies, heading south through a series of strongholds controlled by the Civilized Ant Alliance, the entire clan evacuated, and finally arrived in the Marching Ant Kingdom.
The land of the marching ants is vast and the ants are sparse, enough to accommodate the arrival of tens of millions of tiny-legged ants.
If the Destroyer continues to move south, then the Marching Ant Nation will be the next battlefield to resist the Destroyer's invasion. Only the Marching Ant Nation, which is the largest among the civilized ant tribes in the region, can provide enough troops and materials to resist the many invaders. Destroyer of millions.
The leader of the male ants "Changjiao" was wiser, and he was persuaded by Zhu Jue. However, the joint suggestions of Zhu Jue and "Changjiao" were not adopted by the senior leaders of the Xizhujieyi Kingdom.
The excited senior leaders of the Thin-footed Ant Nation, faced with the news of the invasion of up to a million Destroyers, only excitedly expressed their desire to die together, but could not come up with a practical defense plan.
Zhu Jue thought with some irony that if he continued to fight, he might not even have the chance to destroy the Xizhijie Ant Kingdom!
Seeing that the senior leaders of the Thin Foot Ant Nation were still obsessed with it, Zhu Jue was already preparing to withdraw to the Marching Ant Nation. He sent a flying courier to get in touch with the senior officials of the Marching Ant Kingdom and got their permission.
Subsequently, the civilized ant coalition forces left the [Hou Shibao] fortress on their own, taking a large amount of belongings with them and moving to the rear for 2 days. In the [Hou Shibao] fortress, some of the defenders were left to continue to defend. The "Long Horn"'s thin-footed ant army also stayed here without receiving orders from the main nest.
On August 7, a large group of Destroyers finally launched an attack on the [Hou Shibao] Fortress. At the same time, tens of thousands of Destroyer armies, as many as dozens, swept towards the northern fortresses of the Thin-footed Ant Kingdom!
After receiving the report, the top leaders of the Thin Foot Ant Nation initially blamed the civilized ant coalition and the country's main force for being unable to withstand the Destroyer. They also planned to assemble all the forces in and around the main nest to fight the Destroyer to the death!
But "Longhorn" had already led his troops to leave the [Back Stone Castle] ahead of schedule, avoiding the Destroyer's siege and refusing to return to die.
The last straw for the beetles was on August 8th. Another large group of Destroyers appeared in the Western Region, numbering hundreds of thousands. The troops were divided into three groups and launched an attack!
The thin-footed ant army left behind to guard the western fortress group was seriously under-strength and unable to withstand it. They were driven in by three groups of destroyers that day, losing one-third of the fortress and defenders.
At this rate, within three days, the main nest of the Thin-footed Ant Kingdom will be attacked by the Destroyer!
At this time, the top leaders of the Thin-footed Ant Nation finally saw the situation clearly, and the respected "Long Horn" personally returned to the main nest to take charge. Finally, the Thin-legged Ant Nation decided to withdraw the whole family to the territory of the Marching Ant Nation.
But at this time, large areas of the northern and western territories of the Thin-footed Ant Kingdom had already fallen into flames of war. The evacuation order issued by the main nest overnight only reached some of the sub-nests. Only one-third of the nests and half of the ant colonies were mobilized to evacuate. .
On August 9, the evacuation team that set off from the main nest of the Thin-footed Ant Kingdom stretched to the southeast with no end in sight. And throughout the hinterland of the Thin-footed Ant Kingdom, countless slender ant streams are gradually flowing in.
The civilized ant coalition force led by Zhu Jue himself and the main force of the thin-footed ant army led by "Long Horn" also went south to join the evacuation team.
The scale of this evacuation was so large that even if half of the ant colonies were abandoned, there would still be seven to eight million ants that would need to be organized and coordinated. But this evacuation was so hasty that, except for necessary food and very precious materials, the Xizhijie Ant Kingdom abandoned almost all of its belongings.
The coalition forces of Zhu Jue and the Civilized Ant Tribe were not much better. They had lost all their heavy weapons during the previous retreat. At this time, except for each ant carrying 6 days of food rations, the rest of the food and baggage were all left at the [Hou Shibao] fortress.
