As the saying goes, it cannot last long. Although the Destroyer's revenge war was in full swing at the beginning, it was too violent and lacked planning, and was contained on several battlefields. The Destroyer is not omnipotent, and must also abide by the law of conservation of energy. After many days of fighting, its momentum plummeted, and it took the initiative to choose to retreat.
The Destroyers temporarily retreated to the territory of the Thin-foot Ant Nation and withdrew from all the territories occupied by this invasion. The Civilized Ant Alliance took the opportunity to regain the Fifth Fortress and other severely damaged fortresses. The Marching Ant Nation also pushed forward the defense line. Go to the original border and disperse and station on the spot.
At this point, the civilized ant tribe has won its first march to defend the ant country!
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In late October, Zhu Jue quietly left the front line of the Marching Ant Kingdom and spent two days flying back to the Ant Alliance [Xinyang City].
The weather is already in late autumn at this time, and the daytime temperature is still more than ten degrees. When the sun is still good, the insects can take the opportunity to replenish heat and carry out activities. But when the chill hits the ants at night, it's already the season of "autumn wind chilling", and you can see lives exhausted everywhere.
The autumn wind is like a knife, and the land is desolate and desolate. Pieces of foxtail grass are lying down. After the seeds fall, these most tenacious weeds cannot stand upright in the wind and bow their heads to autumn. But as soon as the next spring comes, new foxtail grass will quickly break out of the map, grow straight into the sky, and raise the spikes proudly!
Zhu Jue returned anxiously after receiving a piece of intelligence from the Ant United Kingdom, and personally interrogated the prisoners to verify the intelligence.
This intelligence verified the reliability of this important intelligence by analyzing the confessions of prisoners of the Pavement Ant Empire and aerial reconnaissance!
The three Pavement Ant Grand Dukes were the prisoners who knew the most about this information, and they did not cooperate with the interrogation at first. However, the interrogating male ants of the Ant Alliance were not in a hurry. They fed the three delicious food and drinks, and also provided a large amount of crow wine, until the other party suddenly became addicted and suddenly cut off the confession. At this time, the Pavement Ant Grand Duke couldn't stand it anymore, and his limbs twitched, His mouth was watering, and he had to confess everything for the sake of dripping crow wine!
It turns out that the Pavement Ant Empire's large-scale southward invasion was an impromptu plan - the Pavement Ant Empire's homeland was attacked by the Destroyer, and more than half of its territory was lost. The ants lost their colonies and participated in the war, so they needed new living space.
The "Three Emperors" and "Six Emperors" of the Pavement Ant Empire once pessimistically predicted that this winter, the destroyers would become even more rampant and their country would be completely destroyed.
How to save the pavement ant empire is a difficult problem faced by all the pavement ant nobles. Finally, a reckless plan was put forward, and was quickly recognized by most of the nobles - that is, to invade the relatively weak civilized ant countries from the south, seize the territory as a new habitat for the paving ant empire, and leave the already destroyed ant countries. A homeland ravaged by the Destroyer.
What is lost from the Destroyer can be compensated from the civilized ant countries in the south. This is the motive of the Pavement Ant Empire's southern invasion!
Moreover, the Pavement Ant Empire was obviously discouraged by the war with the Destroyer, and this plan turned out to be all-or-nothing. In addition to the first batch of millions of troops, regardless of victory or defeat, the pavement ant empire will integrate two-thirds of the ant colony and move south to the newly occupied land before winter to avoid the unstoppable front of the Destroyer in winter. ! The remaining one-third of the colony was abandoned and used to delay the Destroyer's offensive.
The Pavement Ant Empire feels that the dry wasteland outside the country's southern border may make the Destroyer give up its passage, so that the security of the new territory can be guaranteed. Even if the Destroyer follows, the powerful Pavement Ant Imperial Army cannot defeat the Destroyer. How can it defeat other ant tribes? You can go all the way south until you find a safe land to live in!
The investigation of the Flying Knights also found that nearly a million Pavement Ants and their vassals have crossed the Silver Ant Wasteland one after another, carrying supplies into [North Pine City] [North Birch City] and other occupied areas that are still controlled by the Pavement Ant Imperial Army. Although Most of them are not soldiers, which greatly enhances the strength of the local Pavement Ant clan.
Millions of migrating pavement ants are expected to arrive before winter officially begins in November. The pavement ants can be active in winter, so even after winter, there will be pavement ants going south one after another!
So far, after the defense battle of [Liu San City], although the civilized ant alliance has recovered some of the lost land, the remaining troops of the Pavement Ant Empire have resisted tenaciously and received support, and two-thirds of the lost land is still recovered. Under the control of the Pavement Ant Empire.
If these lost territories can be filled with ant colonies after a whole winter of migration, the Pavement Ant Empire can use it as a base to expand its invasion of civilized ant countries after the spring of next year.
Zhu Jue felt that the situation was extremely serious! The coalition of civilized ant tribes in this region has lost the territory of three ant nations. Currently, the marching ant nations in the northwest are engaged in a fierce battle with the destroyers. Now, as the threat from the Pavement Ant Empire increases, the core hinterland of the civilized ant tribe in this region is also facing threats. Even if the Pavement Ant Empire can be defeated, the Destroyers that follow will directly threaten the colonies of various races in [Liu San City], which is the last territory of the Three Kingdoms such as the Thin-footed Ants! The Destroyer can also directly invade places such as [Holy Tree City] in the Leaf-cutting Ant Kingdom and [Xinyang City] in the Ant United Kingdom...
The civilized ant coalition is now in a state of being attacked from both sides. Its territory and troops are still very scattered, making it difficult to completely integrate them!
For this plan, Zhu Jue sent an envoy to urge the leaf cutter ant army to march as soon as possible, hoping to regain more lost territory before the pavement ant empire fully occupied the ant mouth, and compress the pavement ant empire's living space.
However, the leafcutter ant army is in a difficult situation. Most of the lost land that has not yet been recovered is wilderness. When the leafcutter ant army, which is not good at ground combat, fights the Pavement Ant Empire defenders on this terrain, the advantage in military strength is offset by the disadvantage in combat effectiveness. , currently we mainly rely on thousands of specialized soldier ants to attack the enemy, and the weather has turned cold, which is not suitable for fighting, so the progress is really slow.
Zhu Jue's reinforcements from the Divine Envoy Army lost nearly half of them during the battle of [Liu San City]. They are still resting and recuperating and have not yet participated in the battle to regain the lost territory. After hearing the news, Zhu Jue had to put several replenished legions back into the battlefield.
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The house leaked and it rained all night. Two days later, bad news came from the hairy forest ants!
In addition to the homeland, the hairy forest ants have colonies in several other transportation arteries or resource production areas, which are connected by air transportation. Five days ago, news of the three colonies of the Maulin ant clan on the north bank of Qinghe River disappeared one after another. According to aerial reconnaissance, it was found that all three colonies were captured by the Destroyer who suddenly appeared!
And these three colonies are all located east and north of the Ant Alliance. The closest one is only a 10-day walk from the border of the Ant Alliance!
It seems that the civilized ants are about to face a strategically difficult situation where they are attacked from three sides!
