In order to appease the sharp-tailed ants and other tribes who felt that they were about to suffer another catastrophe, and to demonstrate his responsibility as the supreme commander of the civilized ant alliance, Zhu Jue met with the leaders of each tribe and promised to protect the nests and appease them. Nobles of all races need not flee.
After a day and night of emergency construction, more than 10 small fortresses built by strong men from all ethnic groups were completed in the afternoon of the next day. Basically, there is a fortress on the ground in every ant territory or colony. In addition, there are also some in some dangerous places and important roads. The fortress is guarded.
These small fortresses were completed not long ago, and even the ant concrete has not completely dried. The underground parts are either unfinished or the old nests are used. Obviously, it is not a good idea to defend the city in such a small fortress. It is simply not enough to stop the millions of Pavement Ant Imperial Army with the city defense.
These fortresses were mostly built for other ant tribes to show their stance and express the coalition's determination to protect the safety of all tribes.
Zhu Jue did not deploy heavy troops in these fortresses. The fortresses in each tribe's territory or colony were only guarded by worker ants of each tribe, and the number of troops in other fortresses was only three to five hundred.
Zhu Jue gathered all the more than 70,000 troops currently on hand to prepare for mobile defensive warfare.
After all, this time the opponent, the Pa Dao Ant Empire Army, is not a destroyer. The God Envoy King Army and the Civilized Ant Tribe Alliance did not suffer in the field battle. Especially in this war, the total force that the Wen Ant Alliance can mobilize in the follow-up is larger than the invading Pa Dao Ant Tribe. There are even more Dao Ant Empire troops.
This is one of the rare wars in recent years where Zhu Jue's side has the upper hand. In the past, any hostile forces faced by the Divine Envoy King's Army were much stronger than his own. They had to rely on tactics, city defense and armaments at a disadvantage. To offset the advantages, you must rack your brains in order to win.
Thanks to the expansion and development of the territory of the Ant Alliance and the support of the ant clans of various civilizations, Zhu Jue was planned to command as many as 1.1 million troops in this war, including 300,000 warriors of the Divine Envoy King. If the war goes unfavorably, a second mobilization can be carried out to continue recruiting hundreds of thousands of reinforcements, so that Zhu Jue does not have to worry about insufficient troops.
It's just that we are in the early stages of the war, and the war machines of the Ant Alliance and other allies have just started. It will take time to mobilize troops and allocate materials. Zhu Jue can only control the number of troops in a short period of time.
This is also the most dangerous stage of the war. If we cannot use the existing forces on hand to contain the offensive of the Pavement Ant Imperial Army, even if we can reverse the situation in the future, it will cause a huge blow to Zhu Jue's prestige and let the Sharp-tailed Ants , honeypot ants, thin-footed ants and other tribes lost their confidence and support for Zhu Jue.
Based on this, Zhu Jue worked hard to protect him!
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For Zhu Jue, the good news is that the front lines of the Pavement Ant Imperial Army have dispersed.
After easily breaking through the leafcutter ant kingdom's first line of defense, facing the vast tracts of land to the north and east that lacked defense and were even vast and sparse, the pavement ant imperial army was able to occupy large areas of territory with almost no effort.
The nests and mouths of leafcutter ants are mostly scattered in shrubs and trees, and are basically abandoned in the grassy wilderness. However, most of the Pavement Ant Empire and its vassals and slave ant clans like flat land. They invade as a whole clan with the purpose of obtaining living space. At this time, they see a large area of undeveloped land, and they can't bear to live there.
As a result, a large number of old and weak members of the invading pavement ant imperial army were dispersed and placed in newly built sub-nests. Soon more than 70 new nests were established, and as many as 300,000 ants transformed their swords into plowshares. , put into work.
As a result, the number of troops that the Pavement Ant Imperial Army can use for combat has been reduced sharply to 700,000. In addition to the attack route, the troops are also divided into many places. Zhu Jue only needs to face more than 200,000 enemy troops, and from aerial reconnaissance Look, the elite only make up half. This gave Zhu Jue more confidence to win this defense battle.
Facing the incoming enemy troops, Zhu Jue was constantly blocking, mobilizing and weakening them.
A large group of flying knights, consisting of 100 teams, had maneuvered from the mainland of the Ant Alliance. They had already moved to the northernmost part of the Ant Alliance territory on the north bank of the Qinghe River. It only took 2-3 hours after taking off to reach the sky for support.
Although most of these flying knights are second-line troops, their mounts are mainly flies and bees, unlike the elite troops who have been equipped with Hu Feng mounts. But this air force kept attacking, almost continuously dropping explosive bombs and incendiary bombs on the heads of the advancing Pavement Ant Imperial Army.
In the marching column of the Pavement Ant Imperial Army, explosions were heard one after another, or sparks bloomed. Although there were not many casualties, the continuous blows still disturbed the Pavement Ant Imperial Army. The speed was also greatly slowed down, and the route was even changed frequently.
In the last invasion, the "Mosquito" troops of the Pavement Ant Empire were able to suppress the Flying Knights with their numerical superiority. However, this time they were quickly defeated in the air battle and lost their air superiority. The consequence of losing air superiority is that the flying knights can launch ground attacks unscrupulously.
If the Giant Dragonfly's bomber unit had not been deployed part-time for transportation, the aerial bombardment of the God's Envoy Army could have achieved greater results.
On September 13th, the Pavement Ant Imperial Army only walked one-third of the usual distance during the continuous air raids. They were forced to camp and hide underground before reaching the outside.
That day, only some of the fastest silver ants and green beetles, a forward force, reached the edge. Zhu Jue personally commanded the army and set up camp outside the city with the newly built fortress behind him.
Seeing the dense formation of the Civilized Ant Alliance, the vanguard troops of the Pavement Ant Empire launched a tentative attack.
Under the sun, silver ants with silver luster and green beetles with copper-green luster were arranged in a scattered formation, rushing forward at extremely fast speeds. The Angel King's legion was ready, the artillery took the lead in counterattack, and the infantry formed a dense square formation to prepare to meet the enemy.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the cannons were fired, dozens of ants from the Pavement Ant Imperial Army, which had been showing off their power just now, were knocked to the ground. The enemy troops retreated like a tide, obviously not wanting to fight to the death.
Afterwards, the forwards of the Pavement Ant Imperial Army retreated more than ten meters and set up camp to wait for backup.
This day's bombing and small-scale fighting announced the official start of the offensive and defensive war.
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On September 13th, Zhu Jue received reinforcements from two Divine Angel King infantry regiments through high-frequency airlifts. The total force under his command reached 80,000, of which there were four Divine Angel King regiments with a total of 10,000 soldiers.
Time is on Zhu Jue's side at this time, and his strength is growing rapidly every day.
But Zhu Jue did not relax his vigilance. At night, he was still mobilizing troops and generals, aiming directly at...this place...
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