The northern border of the new territory occupied by the leafcutter ant kingdom.
At this time, the autumn wind began to pick up, and some early withered leaves slowly fell. The grass was still dark green, but it could not hide the growing scorch marks on many grass tips.
The sun is still bright, shining through the blue sky and white clouds, shining on the earth. Under the shadows of trees, in the gaps in the grass, on fallen leaves and soil, large groups of ants are heading in the direction of the sun.
This is the Pavement Ant Empire Army, numbering in the millions.
Yesterday, in the first wave of their offensive, they crossed the desert like a divine force descending from heaven, suddenly appeared in the leaf-cutter ant country, and quickly captured the leaf-cutter ant country's heavily guarded border town [Beisong City]. Then without stopping, the army marched straight in the south-west direction, heading towards [Liu San City] where many civilized ant colonies were located.
The leafcutter ant country's defense deployment on the northeastern border was heavy in the front and light in the back. [North Pine City], where the heavy troops were gathered, fell in a short period of time, leaving a large area of territory with almost no ability to resist. The Pavement Ant Imperial Army was able to advance wildly. When Zhu Jue received the report on the first day, the Pavement Ant Imperial Army was still only 2 days away from [Liu San City] on the third day of [Beisong City].
[Liu San City] is an area where many civilized ant tribes’ colonies or territories are concentrated. The sharp-tailed ant tribe and the honeypot ant tribe, which have just fallen under the Destroyer’s offensive, only have this small territory left, but they are about to be wiped out. disaster.
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His eyes returned to the bustling Pavement Ant Imperial Army.
What kind of army of Pavement Ant Empire is this! ?
I saw that most of the army were short and dark pavement ants. A few fast-moving silver ants were spreading out to form a scout net around the army. The assault force composed of large groups of infantry armor was dispersed into several clusters and was in the process of maneuvering. .
In addition to the largest number of pavement ants, you can also see warriors from the vassal ant tribe or slave ant tribe such as corn sweaters, forest ants, and Erichman ants. However, the number and proportion of the groups are compared to those of the pavement ants during the first southern expedition. The Ant Empire's army is much smaller. It is obvious that many vassals and slaves of the Ant Empire were destroyed in previous wars.
If you take a closer look at the main force of the Pavement Ant Warriors, you can also see the difference. The proportion of these pavement ant warriors wearing armor has been greatly reduced. The golden cicada armor and silver cicada armor of the high-ranking nobles have not changed much. You can easily distinguish these shining generals in the sun.
But most of the ordinary warriors of the Pavement Ant Empire no longer wear leather armor like leather cloaks, but go into battle naked. Most of the team officers also had leather armor, some of which were dyed dark red with ocher as usual, while others were of the original color, and the original color leather armor should have been the equipment of ordinary soldiers.
From the downgrading and shortage of equipment, it can be inferred that the recent situation of the pavement ant empire is not good. If you look closely, you can actually find that there are many strange-looking individuals among these pavement ants.
These pavement ants can only barely identify their genus, but they look all kinds of strange and ugly: some have cracked carapace, and bulging tumors grow out of the body, exposed to the air; some have six limbs Different lengths, but still moving quickly, a pair of severed limbs suddenly turned into sharp blades; some had big bellies, and pus continued to flow from the gaps in the carapace...
The proportion of such ants is not low. About one-tenth of the pavement ants have various deformed forms, ranging from commanders to ordinary soldiers.
The mosquitoes that originally helped the Pavement Ant Imperial Army control the sky were extremely rare. There were only small groups scattered here and there, and the total number was no more than a thousand.
What on earth has happened to the Pavement Ant Empire! ? Only then will it become what it is today! ?
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Time goes back to 2 months ago...
The Pavement Ant Empire, which has been fighting the Destroyer for more than a year, has suffered heavy losses!
In four large-scale battles, the Pavement Ant Imperial Army invested a total of tens of millions of troops, but they could only retreat step by step under the overwhelming pressure of the Destroyer. More than half of the country was lost, and hundreds of millions of ant colonies were destroyed.
This is not to say that the Pavement Ant Empire is at a disadvantage in its resistance. In terms of the war with the Destroyer, they are already the ant clan with the most determined resistance and the most brilliant results in the nearby area.
Although tens of millions of troops were lost, the Pavement Ant Imperial Army also wiped out millions of Destroyers. Especially at a certain time last summer, relying on the supply of a large number of raw and cooked nests in the core hinterland, the Pavement Ant Imperial Army actually disintegrated a determined offensive launched by millions of Destroyers at the cost of hundreds of thousands of daily battle losses. At one point, they counterattacked back to the Alfalfa Hills and recovered a large area of lost territory.
However, with the arrival of winter, the war situation deteriorated rapidly, beyond the imagination of the "Three Kings" and "Six Kings" of the Pavement Ant Empire.
Pavement ant warriors can move cautiously outdoors when the weather is good in winter, but they are "pseudo-winter ants" at best. Destroyers that are not affected by winter weather and temperatures are the real kings of winter.
As many as a million Destroyers were attacking cities and plundering lands throughout the winter. The Pavement Ant Imperial Army, which had dispersed to survive the winter, was unable to muster resistance. Each nest fell, one army after another was annihilated, and several duchies were even destroyed. Completely slaughtered.
When spring arrived the next year, the Pavement Ant Imperial Army suddenly discovered that they had lost more than half of their military strength at once, and the remaining troops had to continue fighting against the superior enemy forces despite the lack of food in the spring. Under internal and external difficulties, they could only retreat. Step back.
The chain reaction caused by the great defeat in winter caused the Pavement Ant Imperial Army to retreat to the territories directly under the "Three Kings" and "Six Kings" near the main nest this summer, and started a war in this most core area. A tragic and tragic defense battle.
In the end, after more than two months of defensive battles, the Destroyer's offensive was temporarily defeated, but it did not lose its combat effectiveness. Hundreds of thousands of Destroyers temporarily left the hard nut that was the Pavement Ant Empire and moved to fight in other directions. This was the direct reason why a large number of Destroyer reinforcements suddenly appeared on the battlefield of the Thin Foot Ant Empire.
However, the area near the main nest, the most important part of the Pavement Ant Empire, has been reduced to red soil, and the existing ant colonies and strength are less than one-tenth of what they were in their heyday.
The "Three Kings" and "Six Kings", as well as the remaining dukes, marquis and other high-ranking nobles met many times and all pessimistically believed that the Pavement Ant Empire could no longer withstand the Destroyer's next offensive of the same scale. The great Pavement Ants The Empire must find another way out as soon as possible!
In the end, the pavement ant empire, unable to regain its lost territory to the north, turned its compound eyes to the south. Even if there was a failure in the southern expedition, the Pavement Ant Empire believed that the ants in the south were easier to deal with than the Destroyers, and the fertile land in the south was more suitable for survival and reproduction than the lost land in the north that had been reduced to scorched earth.
As many as millions of remaining pavement ants, except for nearly half of the citizens who stayed behind, the rest, after a short period of preparation, embarked on the road to the south!
