The "Orange Crab" was dead, but the equally ugly and ferocious Destroyer army still existed. The Destroyer troops quickly learned the news through some kind of contact method that ants didn't understand well.
Then, the angry and crazy Destroyer began the most violent revenge. The Destroyer troops were divided into multiple groups and launched a massive attack on all fronts. There was no obvious strategic intention. This was pure venting of anger!
On the center line, facing the fierce attack of the Destroyer, Zhu Jue chose to avoid the edge temporarily, leaving 40,000 troops to garrison [Hope City], while the main force retreated to the rear 2 days away.
[Hope City] has become one of the most fortified cities on the front line after reinforcements in recent days. Especially after absorbing the successful experience of the Fifth Fortress, the outer walls of the ant mound were thickened with local specialty shale gravel mixed with ant concrete, making the fortress more defensive against the White Belly Destroyer's blasting attacks. .
In the past, the fortresses of the Divine Envoy King's Legion used ant concrete as the main building material. This material is similar to ceramics, hard but fragile, and has major flaws. Before the appearance of the White-bellied Destroyer, this flaw was not obvious. After all, self-destruction is not a way of fighting for ants. Even the self-destruction of the Sand's flat-headed ant mainly relies on corrosive mucus to kill, rather than relying on the power of the explosion itself. Ordinary ant concrete fortresses are enough to block the jaws of enemy ants from digging, forcing them to attack only along door openings and passages.
But after the Destroyers used self-destruction tactics on a large scale to attack the enemy, not even the big banyan tree could withstand it, let alone the small ant mound. The Divine Envoy King's army had to set up underground positions to hold on, but in this way it would easily give away control of the ground.
Now that there is a stone fortress, the Divine Envoy King's army finally has a basis for ground defense!
Unfortunately, stone fortresses are difficult to fully promote. Gravel resources are not available everywhere. Whole stones are more common, but the ants cannot mine and process them. With the transportation capabilities of ants, it is a laborious and inefficient project to collect gravel on a large scale and transport it to construction sites. Unlike ants, concrete can be sourced locally. Therefore, even the Legion of the God Envoy King with high construction craftsmanship rarely used stone to build ant mounds before.
But in the [Hope City] area, due to geographical and climatic reasons, weathered shale gravel can be seen everywhere. The size and weight of the unique flaky gravel are just right for a few ants to work together, without taking up precious animal power. This made it possible to build large-scale stone masonry buildings in the area.
[Hope City] The fortress has never been stronger, allowing more than 100,000 Destroyers to attack it for many days, but to no avail. This fortress is different from the fifth fortress. It guards the main road, is huge in scale, and has abundant firepower. It is difficult for the destroyers to bypass it. Instead, stimulated by the death of the "Orange Crab", they desperately attack the city, leaving corpses everywhere.
Zhu Jue took the opportunity to deploy his troops and generals to avoid the Radar Destroyer's eyes and ears through deception and ambush warfare, and eliminate the small groups of enemy troops that penetrated deep into [Hope City]. At the same time, they continue to use air superiority to attack the rear of the Destroyer and assassinate the Radar Destroyer.
The "madman" headquarters who was ordered to perform a special mission has not yet sent back any news. Now that the weather is getting colder, the flying movements of giant locusts are also easily affected. They are not like in the summer when they can easily travel hundreds of kilometers in a few days. This makes Zhu Jue Somewhat worried.
The "Madman" was ordered to go deep into the territory of the original Thin Foot Ant Nation and other places that had been controlled by the Destroyer to search for information about "Orange Crabs" or other valuable targets.
Zhu Jue had a premonition that there must be more than one "Orange Crab". This most depraved creature is the key to the birth of the Destroyer. If a large number of "Orange Crabs" can be killed, the Destroyer without supplements will eventually be like a sourceless one. Water can be slowly destroyed.
Zhu Jue felt that he had found a new way to restrain the Destroyer - just like the "stealing" tactic in real-time strategy games, giving priority to destroying the opponent's production capacity!
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On the battlefield of the Marching Ant Kingdom, the Army Ants on the left and right wings also suffered the fierce revenge of the Destroyer.
Although Zhu Jue informed his allies about the air attack on the "Orange Crab", the "King Khans" of the army of army ants obviously did not realize how fierce the Destroyer's counterattack would be.
After the Destroyers gathered together and attacked across the board, the army of marching ants could not reach them for a while and retreated one after another - this is why Zhu Jue had to lead his army to retreat simultaneously, otherwise the civilized ant coalition might be trapped in [Hope City] Cut off contact with the outside world.
On the way to retreat, corpses of the marching ants were strewn across the field. Destroyers could emerge from every nook and cranny or from the shadows at any time and anywhere, relying on their individual strength to kill the ants in the disintegrating army of marching ants!
The army of marching ants retreated for three days before they stabilized their position with the support of the second-line troops and assembled the defeated army. The army of army ants that had slowed down could not bear such a defeat, and quickly formed a counterattack with a force three times that of the Destroyer.
At this time, the Destroyer's repeated attacks were at the end of their efforts, and the two sides fought everywhere on a long front.
The battle between the Destroyer and the Army Ants is lackluster from the battle to the tactical level, and is closer to the battle of the barbaric ancestors of the ant civilization, except that the scale is surprisingly large.
The main battlefields on both wings covered thousands of square meters of land, and the battle lines on both sides were intertwined and even completely merged into one. All organizations seemed to no longer exist, and each unit and each soldier could only rely on themselves.
There are also dozens of secondary battlefields, large and small, scattered across the vast land.
The battle that covered the ground could last for seven or eight hours every day during the day. At dusk, the two armies would abandon their corpses and seriously injured people and retreat, until they fought again after sunrise the next day.
The fierce battle continued for another three days. The Destroyers continued to receive reinforcements from the rear. The Marching Ant Nation also responded tit-for-tat, recruiting millions of new troops to the battlefield.
In the end, the army of army ants achieved a strategic "victory", relying on its strong force to block the Destroyer's ferocious and arrogant offensive, forcing it back into the forest and swamp areas.
However, from a tactical point of view, the Army Ant Warriors were not good at fighting formations, and they were killed a lot by the Destroyers who were better at chaos and chaos. The number of casualties reached one million, which was four to five times the Destroyer's battle losses.
Zhu Jue did not expect the army of marching ants to be so fierce. He was used to being dragged down by his allies, and was even prepared to be forced to abandon the lonely [Hope City] and build a new stronghold in the rear.
Although the army of marching ants suffered heavy losses, their strong fighting spirit still left a deep impression on Zhu Jue. Zhu Jue immediately ordered tens of thousands of spare jaw knives and armor sets to be mobilized from the local arsenal of the Ant Alliance, and presented them to the ally, the Marching Ant Clan, to help them arm an elite force.
