Zhu Jue led the fleet back from victory. At the pier, three giant bamboo ships were moored one after another and tied to the shore with cables.
This is an inlet located on the river bank, sunken into the middle of the river bank, so the water surface is smooth. There are some calamus in the middle of the inlet, leaving a wide enough water area for boats to park.
As the giant ship stabilized, the sailors eagerly climbed down the cables, as if they were on a tree. After the sturdy pedals were swung from the side of the ship to the ground, the sailors and gunners, mainly from the Big-headed Ant tribe, just got off the ship to rest.
Zhu Jue got off the ship very early. He neither climbed the cable nor waited for the pedals to be set up. Instead, he used his privileges and got off the ship on the flying mount specially brought to pick him up.
Returning to the familiar nest room under the military camp, Zhu Jue summoned "Lambo Rui II", who also disembarked early, and his steps were still a little shaky when he got into the hole. It seems that it takes a lot of hard work for an army general to switch to the navy.
Zhu Jue gave "Lambo Rui II" careful instructions, then completely handed over the new force of the Navy to him, and at the same time assigned some tasks.
"Lambori II" took the order and left. Today he has gained something by watching Zhu Jue command the fleet, but how to command according to changes still requires accumulating experience in actual combat. According to Zhu Jue's plan, the fleet will attack every seven days to kill the Destroyer as much as possible. The Destroyer lacks water control means and poses a limited threat to the fleet, so it can be used as a training ground for "Lambory II".
At present, the fleet cannot maintain the frequency of daily sorties. Not only the sailors and artillery need to rest, but the warships and weapons also need regular maintenance, especially the large amount of ammunition consumed in each battle, which needs to be rotated hundreds of miles from the mainland of the Ant Alliance by land and water. Transported. If it weren't for the fact that the battlefield was not far from the southern border of the Ant Alliance at this time, the traffic conditions in the Black Fire Ant Kingdom were good, and the rotating transport team was also powerful, the limitation of ammunition reserves alone would be enough to make the fleet a display.
The fleet achieved a good result today, but Zhu Jue also knew that the Destroyers were far from being broken. They were crossing the river and gathering day after day, gathering more and more every minute and second. As the assembled Destroyer forces become larger and larger, the coming offensive will become increasingly fierce.
At this point, Zhu Jue must stay and guard the "Great Wall Defense Line". The significance of this line of defense is self-evident.
During this period, the defense line has also been continuously strengthened.
The marching ant nation guarding the northern flank of the defense line has no way out today. After learning that the Destroyer was about to launch an attack, they put almost all the remaining strong men into defense, and urgently gave birth to new recruits, mobilizing a total of about one million troops.
The marching ant nation has paid a huge price for this. Even if it has been receiving assistance from its allies, its food reserves have remained at a very dangerous level, only enough for one month. Moreover, because most of the hunting grounds have been lost, only the old and the weak are left engaged in production. , so we have been unable to make ends meet, and our food reserves are still being consumed rapidly.
But the army ants have made a desperate move. If they cannot win this defensive battle, then no matter how much food they have in the country, it will be meaningless!
If the Destroyer cannot be defeated in a month, what awaits the alliance between the army ants and the civilized ants is failure or even destruction!
Guarding the southern flank of the defense line is the civilized ant coalition led by Zhu Jue himself. This time, the coalition's strength has increased significantly compared to the past.
In addition to the field infantry corps, which has a total strength of 40 legions and 100,000 soldiers after reinforcements came from the Ant United Kingdom, there are also 3 tank corps, a large number of artillery squads, 40 flying knight squads, and a fleet.
In addition, there are about 10,000 honeypot ants, thin-legged ants, Japanese black ants, and black-headed sour ant warriors who have survived the previous battles, and they are mixed into four legions. The reinforcements from the Bullet Ant, Thieving Ant, and Stone Desert Archback Ant Empire still retain a certain strength and continue to fight under Zhu Jue's command.
The Black Fire Ant Nation has recently mobilized a total of 200 legions and 500,000 troops under the initiative of the "Black Charcoal King" to come for support, becoming the largest new force under Zhu Jue's command.
In this way, the total strength of Zhu Jue's troops reached more than 600,000, which would not be as stretched as in previous battles.
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As of July 25, the enemy army, which had crossed the river and assembled as many as one million Destroyers, still had not launched an attack.
Countless Destroyers are still rushing to the war zone from different directions, waiting to pass through the pontoon bridge. There are no less than 500,000 Destroyers stranded on the other side of the river. Zhu Jue didn't know how many troops the Destroyer planned to invest in this offensive. The Destroyer seemed to never lack reinforcements and didn't care about casualties.
The civilized ant coalition did not sit still and wait for death. The navy troops attacked regularly, destroying the pontoon and killing the destroyers. In order to make up for the fleet's lower attack frequency, the Dragonfly bombing force departing from the mainland of the Ant Alliance is based in [Western City] and conducts one round of bombing every day.
The Destroyer, however, remained motionless despite fleet bombardment and air force bombing. They just gather in groups and do not build nests. They temporarily hide in the ruins of nests left by army ants, or in tree holes, stone crevices, or even hide in the open air in a slightly leeward place - and these open-air destroyers are ants. The easiest target for the federal air force to attack.
The increasing number of Destroyers all the time puts Zhu Jue under increasing pressure. He would rather the Destroyers launch an attack now rather than continue to accumulate seemingly endless troops and silently exert pressure.
The tremendous pressure has brought the "King Khans" of the Marching Ant Kingdom to the point of collapse. The Marching Ant Army has repeatedly tried to take the initiative and eat some of the Destroyers who gathered just 2 days away, but they were severely punished by Zhu Jue. Stopped - with the current strength of the army of marching ants, it is okay to fight a defensive battle. If they go to the field to encounter the Destroyer, they are just seeking death. The loss of troops will shake the defense line, and the gain outweighs the gain.
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On the evening of July 25th, Zhu Jue had an intuition. He immediately left the camp where the ants were densely populated. Without any guards, he rode a fly mount to a patch of grass alone and got into the shadow under the grass blades.
Not long after, a big-headed ant covered with parasitic mycelium also came out. It did not show any hostility or move too much. It only interacted with Zhu Jue's tentacles for a few seconds and then hurriedly turned and left.
At this time, Zhu Jue seemed to feel a lot more relaxed, and turned around and returned to the military camp. His brief disappearance did not arouse any suspicion.
At the same time, about a week away from the "Great Wall of Hong Kong Defense Line" in the northwest, on the ground at dusk, a large and dense swarm of mixed troops of ants and insects were camping!
