When Zhu Jue flew to [Hope City] in the Marching Army Ant Kingdom war zone, the local war situation was no longer optimistic.
"Gun II" handed over the command of the troops to Zhu Jue. At this time, the civilized ant coalition forces assembled in [Hope City] have been replenished and suffered recent battle losses. There are currently about 120,000 soldiers, and their strength has not reached Zhu Jue's. Jue's expectation, but already has the strength to fight the Destroyer.
Among them, the King of Divine Envoys has about 8 legions with 20,000 infantry, as well as infantry soldiers, tank soldiers, fly-tiger knights, airborne troops and flying knights. In addition, there are 20,000 fine-footed warrior ants, 10,000 honeypot ant warriors, 20,000 army ant warriors, 10,000 black fire ant warriors, 2,000 bullet ant warriors, 10,000 harvest ant warriors, 10,000 Santoni flat-head ant warriors, 3,000 all-different blind leaf-cutting ant warriors, 5,000 stone desert ant empire warriors, and 2,000 thief ant knights.
Except for the Divine Envoy King's Army, the Thin-footed Ants, and the Honey Pot Ants who had followed Zhu Jue in the battlefield of the Thin-footed Ant Kingdom, most of the other troops had not arrived long ago and were not familiar with the coalition's command system, and their cooperation was not enough. Tacit understanding also requires training and actual combat.
This is also the reason why "Gun II" has never dared to engage in large-scale battles with the Destroyer before. Otherwise, he would have taken the initiative long ago because he inherited the name and temper of "Gun".
Fortunately, the previous successive scout battles and an annihilation battle had gradually begun to squeeze the coalition forces together.
Zhu Jue was quite surprised when he took office. Even as the supreme commander of the civilized ant alliance, he rarely had such a large number of troops under his command. Before his arrival, "Gun II" had worked hard just to coordinate and organize the troops of various ethnic groups, and it had achieved results. Zhu Jue rewarded him for this.
At this time, on the battlefield, the army of marching ants on the left and right wings had blocked the outflanking of the Destroyer, giving Zhu Jue's troops no worries for the time being.
After eliminating the threat from the fifth fortress in the middle, the Destroyer in the middle has approached [Hope City] again. After a brutal scouting battle, the coalition forces were unable to prevent the Destroyers from approaching the assembly area. From aerial reconnaissance, it seemed that the Radar Destroyers were already deliberately approaching the location of [Hope City] and seemed to be aware of the presence of the coalition forces.
The biggest threat comes from a place about 3 days away. The Flying Knight has made a major discovery that shocked the ants!
Zhu Jue stared at the information packet in his mind. In the picture, on the ant track, a huge, ugly, obscene, and evil creature was staggering forward. It seemed to be an orange crab-like creature.
This "orange crab" does not walk sideways. Its eight legs alternately walk straight like a spider. A large group of destroyers centers on the "orange crab" and keeps going back and forth, showing the unusual relationship between the two.
More importantly, the flying knights discovered the scene where the Destroyer was feeding corpses to the "Orange Crab", and the scene where ant egg-like objects fell from the holes on the Orange Crab's back that would make even the mildest trypophobia patient tremble.
Those gray-white ant egg-like objects quickly cracked, and individual destroyers emerged. In just a few minutes, the carapace dried and hardened, turning into adult destroyers.
This "orange crab" is the source of the birth of the Destroyer. No wonder Zhu Jue never discovered that there were queens, young ants, and pupae in the Destroyer colony. It turned out that they did not reproduce like normal ants at all, but were born from orange crabs and hatched directly from eggs into adult ants.
As a result, the Destroyer's obsession with collecting corpses in wars has a new explanation. Not only may the Destroyer feed on corpses, but the corpses are also nourishment for "orange crabs", which can continuously produce new Destroyers. .
Compared with the replenishment of ordinary ant clan, it requires an ant egg to hatch into young ants, then pupate and break out of pupae. The cycle lasts from one to several months, and it also requires a lot of ant power to take care of. The reproduction method of the Inexhaustible Destroyer is more efficient. The eggs do not need to be taken care of. Once they are laid, they can hatch into adults immediately...
Zhu Jue shuddered. No wonder every time he fought with the Destroyer, he always felt that the Destroyer would never be able to kill them all, or even kill more and more. The opponent can feed the war with war, and use the corpses to snowball the army expansion. It is simply a dimensionality reduction attack. How can ordinary ants withstand it? ?
Fortunately, the root cause was finally discovered today, and Zhu Jue immediately had a countermeasure in his mind: on the one hand, in future battles, we must focus on preventing the Destroyers from obtaining corpses, or at least interfere with them to prevent the number of Destroyers from snowballing; on the other hand, these "oranges" "Crab" can be the top priority target!
With the Orange Crabs hiding behind safety, they are covered by large armies of Pavement Ants on all sides, including many Radar Destroyers monitoring the battlefield. It is unrealistic to attack the "Orange Crab" from the ground - too few troops are difficult to win, too many troops are easy to be discovered, and even if Zhu Jue personally leads the team, there is no guarantee of victory.
The only way to attack is from the air where the Destroyer cannot reach!
Zhu Jue immediately summoned the flying knights, airborne troops and the thief ant troops commanded by "Madman" to discuss the air attack.
"Madman" heard that he had to rely on air power this time, and immediately waved his tentacles as violently as weeds in a typhoon, excitedly asking for a fight.
After Zhu Jue appeased him, he quickly determined the combat plan with the senior commanders and implemented it the next day to annihilate the source of the Destroyer as soon as possible!
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The next day, September 29, the well-prepared civilized ant coalition air forces took off one after another from the air force base located behind [Hope City].
First, the reconnaissance flying knight riding a fly went to lock the target location and established a large-scale reconnaissance circle in the air.
Then the dragonfly carrying the airborne troops took off smoothly. In addition to the driver ants, the platform on the dragonfly's back was crowded with airborne troops.
These paratroopers are turtles and ants in black. They have long strips of explosives tied under their chests and abdomens. They lower their heads and use their jaws to pierce the ant glue outer membrane of the explosives. They will soon self-destruct, which is very lethal! The black turtle ant airborne troops are Zhu Jue's secret weapon. They have been trained for a long time. So far, there are only more than 3,000 qualified airborne self-destruction troops. In this battle, about 700 were sent...
In addition, there are 300 Sanshi flat-headed ant warriors. They will also self-destruct. The damage mainly comes from the corrosive liquid after self-destruction. They can cooperate with the black turtle ants in combat.
The ones taking off later are the combat flying knights responsible for aerial escort, one-third are wasp flying knights, and the rest are bee flying knights. There is a distance between the two to prevent the wasps from instinctively wanting to hunt the bees...
Zhu Jue would like to equip all the combat flying knights with Wasp mounts, but the cost of raising Wasp mounts is too high. Currently, he can only give priority to elite troops and deploy them in important battle zones.
The giant migratory locusts of the thief ant clan commanded by "Madman" finally took off. They are the reserve force in the air and also shoulder an important mission!
