Seeing that their position was shaken, the Maolin ant warriors had no choice but to be ordered to cover the retreat of the noble commanders, while at the same time sending out a steady stream of warriors to resist the enemy's heroic advance.
All of a sudden, the entire rear army was stirred into chaos by corn ants that were less than one-tenth of their size.
Fortunately, the front line of the Maolin Ant Army had gained an advantage at this time. In addition to sending some troops back to support the rear formation, the commander of the front army assembled most of the troops and fought evenly with the larger number of corn ants.
Especially after the technical troops of the former army received the order, they used poisonous smoke pupa sacs on the left and right wings at the same time.
Even the corn ants' resistance to pyrethrum could not withstand such a high concentration of poisonous smoke. However, the hairy forest ant expeditionary force detachment was well prepared and invested only a small number of troops on both wings. Only less than half of the opponent's warriors fell. In the poisonous smoke. After the poisonous smoke cleared, the former army commander committed his reserves and launched a decisive blow from both wings.
The main force of the corn ant tribe was quickly outflanked by the hairy forest ant expeditionary force, and then was surrounded. Although the corn ant army had more troops, after being surrounded, the troops on the inside were tightly clamped and could hardly move. Only the outer troops were eliminated bit by bit by the well-equipped slave warriors of the ant expeditionary force.
However, the elite corn ant warriors who were smeared with white flower pyrethrum extract were not able to completely disperse the massive ant army, nor were they able to disrupt its command system. The forest ant slaves who were rescued continued to attack. After being held back by life-for-life, he was unable to save his life. When the extraction liquid applied on him expired, he could only suffer in the battlefield.
The overall situation on the battlefield has been decided, and the hairy forest ant expeditionary force detachment has firmly controlled the situation. Once this effective force on the ground is eliminated, the remaining corn hairy ants will be the turtles in the urn. Even if they are trapped in the nest with that little force, it will be of no use.
The hairy forest ants are about to completely control this small forest and have a firm foothold in the Eastern Highlands!
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The attack on the corn ant tribe is of great significance, but although the number of troops invested by the hairy forest ant expeditionary force in this battle is elite, the number is not large.
The largest detachment dispatched by the Hairy Forest Ant Expeditionary Force in recent days was deployed to another battlefield today.
This battlefield was relatively far away from where the expeditionary force settled, and it took the detachment two days of trekking to arrive. There is a force of thousands of Destroyers stationed here, which was discovered by the Giant Dragonfly Flight Team during their reconnaissance. It is the largest force of Destroyers within a three-day radius and is also the target of greatest concern to the expeditionary force.
After all, the Maulin ant expeditionary army came to the Eastern Highlands not because of the barren land and products here. It was just a matter of convenience to eliminate the indigenous ants, defeat the destroyers here, and eliminate their influence on the mainland of the Maulin ant country. The purpose of the Maolin ant clan is to eliminate threats and improve their status within the civilized ant clan.
As it happens, the Destroyer army on the Eastern Highlands is very scattered, which makes the Maolin Ant Expeditionary Force have the idea of defeating them one by one.
In fact, when they first entered the Eastern Highlands, the Destroyers also fought with tens of thousands of corps. However, they found that when facing small and medium-sized indigenous tribes as targets, such large corps appeared to be over-strength and inefficient.
For those indigenous troops who do not have the ability to resist, even sending out only a few hundred Destroyers is enough to wipe them out. As for the indigenous tribes who are good at using white-flowered pyrethrum, no matter how much troops the destroyers invest, it is often difficult to eliminate them.
Therefore, the Radar Destroyers who commanded these Destroyer Legions later dispersed their troops and launched a large-scale but small-scale offensive against the indigenous tribes, which achieved good results.
The difference between Destroyers commanded by Radar Destroyers and those simple Destroyer armies is that they are more cunning and cunning. No, the dispersed team of destroyers began to use all their strength to wipe out the ant tribes who did not know how to use the white-flowered pyrethrum. At the same time, they also deliberately destroyed the white-flowered pyrethrum plants in the controlled areas.
In this way, maybe within two or three years, the white-flowered pyrethrum in the eastern highlands will gradually be cleared away, and the ant tribes that rely on the protection of white-flowered pyrethrum will no longer be able to find shelter!
However, the arrival of the Maulin Ant Expeditionary Force has brought variables to the Destroyer's strategy. After initially establishing a foothold, the Maolin Ant Expeditionary Force couldn't wait to cause trouble for the Destroyer!
The nobles of the Maulin ants generally overestimate their own strength and underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Destroyer. This is also a mistake that many ants make at the beginning. Fortunately, with the tragic experiences of the civilized ant allies as a warning, the Maolin ant nobles' understanding was not too outrageous.
Therefore, in this battle, the Maolin Ant Expeditionary Force invested more than 30,000 troops, and the ratio of the forces of the two sides was as large as twenty to one. It seemed that even a pile of Maolin Ants and slave warriors could kill this destroyer.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
There is no radar destroyer among this group of destroyers, so naturally they don't realize that they are surrounded. Under the command of the Giant Dragonfly Flying Team, the Maulin Ant Expeditionary Force easily completed the encirclement on the periphery, and finally several troops attacked inward in a centripetal offensive.
More than a thousand Destroyers had just wiped out a local tribe yesterday and had not left their lair today. They woke up from a dream only when they were attacked and hurriedly organized resistance underground.
The Maolin ant army attacked resolutely and had a huge advantage in strength. They quickly broke through the entrance defense line of the Destroyer camp and broke into the depths of the underground to start street fighting.
However, after the Destroyers reacted, they broke out with terrible fighting power in the street fighting. The Hairy Forest Ant Expeditionary Army successively invested half of its troops in attacking in turns. After a day, it was difficult to make progress after occupying the upper half of the camp.
The stalemate lasted until night, and the Maulin ant expeditionary force was forced to withdraw and camped nearby to rest and recuperate, leaving only a small number of security forces behind. The tactical philosophy of the Maolin ants is still stuck in the traditional era of not fighting after dark. But the Destroyer didn't know much about martial arts. When he saw the pressure was relieved, he immediately launched a counterattack.
Caught off guard, the guard force of the Maulin Ant Expeditionary Force was easily defeated. Almost all the Destroyers rushed to the ground and penetrated one camp after another. It wasn't until the commander of the Maulin Ant Expeditionary Force reacted and hurriedly summoned the entire army to press on that the Destroyer, who was under increased pressure, gave up the attack.
But this group of destroyers did not return to the camp to continue the defense. Instead, they broke out of the formation and walked away.
In this battle, more than 500 of the more than 1,600 Destroyers successfully escaped. However, the 40,000-strong army of the Maulin Expeditionary Force suffered more than 5,000 casualties. Even though the proportion of wounded soldiers was high, due to the backward treatment methods of the Maulin ants, most of these wounded soldiers would not be able to continue serving as soldiers in the future.
The Maulin Ant Expedition occupied an abandoned Destroyer camp and immediately relayed the good news from the air to the main nest.
But the Destroyer they let go will bring about a storm!
