The failure of the operation to save the Sun God artifact was beyond Zhu Jue's expectation.
A secret operation that the Destroyers did not take precautions against, with the cover of night and the input of elite forces such as male ants, flying knights, and ants that operate the sun's artifacts. In the end, the success fell short due to the accidental appearance of the Destroyer's night troops. The Legion of the Divine Envoy King even paid the price of the sacrifice of the Divine Male Ant.
In all the previous battles, there were very few casualties among the male ant class.
News came back that the negative impact of the failure of this operation was not just the failure of the operation itself. Even if Zhu Jue immediately found the Stone Desert Archback Ant clan and said that he would organize a second operation, he would not give up until he regained the Sun God artifact. He was just trying to make up for the losses, and his reputation, which was already in jeopardy due to repeated defeats, finally fell to the bottom.
The Maolin ant clan seized the opportunity, jumped up and down and immediately held the latest civilized ant clan conference. Then, at the conference, with the number of 300,000 troops recruited by their clan on the eastern front, they overwhelmed the God Envoy King's army and hurriedly gathered in the east. The 200,000 troops, in accordance with the agreement of the last conference, successfully elected the commander of this tribe, "Crystal", as the supreme commander of the Eastern Front of the Civilized Ant Tribe Allied Forces.
Zhu Jue wanted to resist, but he reluctantly restrained himself under the general trend, but he was unwilling to do so in his heart. As a result, Zhu Jue's title automatically became the supreme commander of the Western Front of the Civilized Ant Alliance.
Even, according to the secret report of the Black Fire Ant Kingdom, there are male hairy forest ants riding on the dragonflies of the caravan to persuade the Black Fire Ant clan to oppose Zhu Jue's command and compete for the title of supreme commander of the Western Front.
You must know that among the current coalition forces on the Western Front, apart from the disabled Marching Ant Army and other units, the largest numbers are the Angel King Army and the Black Fire Ant Army. The Black Fire Ant Army is indeed qualified to elect an ant candidate. Come and compete with Zhu Jue. The intentions of the Maolin ants made Zhu Jue extremely angry.
Fortunately, since the "Flying Eagle Incident", the supreme leader of the Black Fire Ant Nation, "King Black Carbon", has always received strong support from the Ant Alliance. He bowed to Zhu Jue and did not show any signs of rebellion or disobedience. With some ideas, he even came to tell Zhu Jue frankly in person.
When Zhu Jue heard the news, he almost wanted to flip the table. When there were powerful enemies outside, civilized ant tribes were still in constant civil strife. Even though the internal fighting among ants was natural, the conspiracy to hold back was more important than in human history. For example, China's Nanming period was much better, and the actual damage was not particularly bad, but this feeling of constraints still really made Zhu Jue hate it, and he felt unprecedented restraint and even humiliation.
In such a depressing atmosphere, Zhu Jue had to pay more attention to the second rescue operation of the Japanese artifact. Although he did not personally go into battle this time, he was the best from the commander to the troops.
This time the operation was still launched at night. Zhu Jue and other ant leaders did not see him off in person. The operation started in secret, and the process went as smoothly as expected. It can only be said that the failure of the last operation was too unlucky.
Without alerting the Destroyer, all the parts of the Sun God artifact were shipped back the next day, but the news of the operation was still not made public.
It was not until a few days later that the stone desert ants completed the repair of the Sun God artifact, and then the work shed for repairing the artifact was opened in full view of the public, and the Sun God artifact was once again revealed in front of the army.
Even the top brass of the Stone Desert Archipelago Ant Empire, who already knew that the Sun God Artifact had been successfully recovered, were elated when they saw the restored artifact bathing in the sunlight and the huge lens shining brightly.
Although the other coalition ants could not feel the same way, their morale was boosted. The previous gloom was swept away, as if they suddenly encountered a warm bonfire in the bleak autumn wind.
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The ultimate success of the operation to save the Sun God artifact slightly stabilized Zhu Jue's reputation and status.
Coincidentally, after taking a rest, the Destroyer resumed its offensive against the civilized ant coalition. The Civilized Ant Tribe Assembly now realized that only Zhu Jue could command a million-level army to fight against the Destroyer, and immediately began to pay attention to Zhu Jue again, as if the previous discord had never happened!
This time, the Destroyer's military target was not aimed at the newly built border defense line of the Black Fire Ant Nation, but was committed to consolidating the newly occupied land, focusing on clearing out the base areas behind enemy lines established by the civilized ant coalition forces.
When the civilized ant coalition evacuated hastily from the marching ant country, the action was very chaotic. A large number of coalition soldiers were separated, and the majority of them were marching ants, numbering as high as 600,000 to 700,000.
These troops were later cut off by the Destroyer and had to stay where they were. Depending on the terrain, they established many large and small bases behind enemy lines. The small ones only had a few hundred ants lingering, and the large ones gathered hundreds of thousands of people to occupy the nests. Be the king.
The civilized ant coalition has contacted most of the base areas through air transportation. These base areas took advantage of the favorable conditions of the Destroyer's scattered forces to take root and develop in the local area, and contained many Destroyers.
Although the Destroyers used troops everywhere and wiped out some small and medium-sized base areas, some base areas still grew and grew, even contiguously forming three large base area groups with a total population of more than 100,000. These large base areas have reestablished their ruling order according to the male ant hierarchy, and have even resumed production on a certain scale within the base areas.
Even though the local Destroyers, who were already exhausted and victorious, were still unable to eliminate all base areas, they were gradually restricted to the vicinity of the main transportation lines. This was the main reason why the Destroyers ceased operations in the past two months.
This time, the local destroyers received another batch of reinforcements, and with the new force hatched by the local orange crabs, they finally organized an army of up to 400,000 people. They divided into multiple groups and attacked these colonies with great force. I want to complete my achievements in one battle.
Through aerial reconnaissance, Zhu Jue had roughly judged the Destroyer's intentions before the war broke out. He could not sit back and watch the base areas behind enemy lines be destroyed. Without the containment of these base areas, millions of Destroyers would directly attack the Black Fire Ant Nation's border defenses.
In addition, although the base areas behind enemy lines are mostly formed by Marching Ant warriors, the Marching Ant Kingdom does not have air power. These base areas mostly rely on the air power of the Angel King's legion to maintain communications and supply necessary supplies.
During this period of time, Zhu Jue did not sit back and watch the Destroyer mobilize his troops and do nothing. He had basically controlled the high-level officials of these bases through subtle means. Although the other party had not surrendered yet, they were still following the instructions.
So before the war broke out, Zhu Jue urgently deployed a large amount of supplies by air to supply the base area, and at the same time ordered the Divine Envoy King's Army to take the initiative to attack to cooperate with the base area's counter-encirclement and suppression!
