In sharp contrast to the civilized ants on the western front who were rejoicing about the restoration of their country, the atmosphere in the Maolin ant country on the eastern front was extremely tense at this time, as if the entire clan was on a hot pot.
In order to conquer the highlands eastward, the Maolin Ant Kingdom has successively invested its most elite troops, including a large number of its own warriors with the strongest combat effectiveness. For the Maolin ant clan, whose overall martial virtue is not very strong, the success or failure of this move is greatly related to the rise and fall of the nation. However, the Maulin Ants still did not pay too much attention to the temple before the war and continued their rough strategic style. Therefore, this reckless expedition has now fallen into trouble, which will not surprise Zhu Jue.
The strategy of the Maulin ant expeditionary force is unclear. It seems to be to expand territory. However, the dry highland environment is not suitable for the life of the Maulin ants. The Maulin ant country has never sent worker ants to the highlands to build new homes. If it is to eliminate the local indigenous ants, it will weaken the potential resistance to the destroyers.
Against such a background of unclear goals, in the battle between the seven tribes in the water source area, the Maolin ant expeditionary force first won and then lost. Although they suppressed the local indigenous ants at first, they later became more and more wandering barbarians. The ants join the war, and the Maolin ant expeditionary force is dragged into the whirlpool. The Destroyer, who finally arrived, was like a hidden fly tiger, appearing after Ji Xiaofeng caught its prey, and became the biggest winner at once.
The remaining Maolin ant expeditionary force retreated to the previously occupied strongholds and were no longer able to attack. No matter what orders they had received before, they were in vain and could only stand still and wait for reinforcements.
After sending several more reinforcements to the Maolin Ant Kingdom, the unwilling expeditionary force once again tried to counterattack a water source. This time it was not as good as last time. In less than half a day, he was pushed back by the Destroyer who stayed behind. That is to say, those wandering savage ants have been very restless recently, which has involved a lot of the Destroyer's energy, so that the Hairy Forest Ant Expeditionary Force once again successfully retreated and preserved some of its vitality.
This time, the Maulin ant commanders finally learned the lesson and stopped attacking, and the Maulin ants were also discussing the appropriateness of withdrawing their troops.
However, in the end, the senior leaders of the Maulin Ants ordered the expeditionary force to hold on because they had to prioritize the security of the Maulin Ant Nation's homeland. Once the Destroyer has established a firm foothold on the eastern highlands and rushes down from a high position, the territory of the Hairy Forest Ants will be the first to bear the brunt.
At this time, the Hairy Forest Ant clan has decided to strengthen defenses in the country, and this will take time. Although the expeditionary force is important, it cannot be compared with the homeland. If we keep the homeland, we can continuously accumulate supplies through trade and gain continuous strength. The slave warriors can persist in resisting!
The ants do not want to live like their allies who have lost their homeland.
As a result, the expeditionary force became abandoned. They were ordered to defend their highland strongholds to serve as buffer zones and cordons for the mainland. Among the outstanding generals who led the expeditionary force, the most prominent group had already received approval and abandoned the army and fled back to the country, while the rest also became abandoned sons.
The top commander in charge of the army now, "Shui Sheng", could not even enter the top 20 rankings of commanders before, and had no experience in commanding an army independently. In the end, he had to take orders in the face of danger. It is really ironic.
"Aquatic" is already the member with the highest appearance rate among the Maolin ant nobles. This time he "shoulders a heavy responsibility" again, and he is also a member of the domestic bully who came out of a deputy nest with no foundation.
"Aquatic" is now facing a very bad situation. It has less than 50,000 troops under its command. Among them, there are only 10,000 elites from the Maolin ant clan. Only 10,000 of the 40,000 slave warriors have combat effectiveness. A week ago, this army still had a size of 80,000, and the last 30,000 elites had just been transferred back to the country for defense.
The reinforcements from the Divine Envoy King's Legion led by "Dong Mao" originally arrived, but after being stationed for a week, they also received Zhu Jue's order to withdraw yesterday. They were quite polite. They helped build a large number of fortifications before and left some weapons to the Maolin Ant Army.
In addition to insufficient troops, the biggest difficulty faced by "Shui Sheng" is poor command. Due to battle losses and callbacks, the army commanders and squad leaders under his command are now generally short of 50% to 60% strength. Especially for the Maolin ant's own army, only one of the four legions has a legion commander in office, and there is a shortage of 70% of the team captains. The only ones left behind are commanders who came from the deputy nest or are older. "Shui Sheng" had to urgently promote the oldest team leader to be the temporary army leader, and merged the three teams into one to barely fill the gap.
As for the reorganization of the slave corps, which also lacked a commander, "Aquatic" was no longer able to take care of it, and simply delegated power to the leaders of the slave ant tribes to solve the problem themselves.
Although he has become an outcast, "Shui Sheng" still does not want to sit still and wait for death, and is still actively arranging defenses. Under his leadership, the morale of the expedition commanders barely recovered.
In addition to taking over the defense fortifications left by the Angel King's army, "Aquatic" also directed the slave ants with low combat effectiveness to build some imitation fortifications. The few supplies were given priority to the troops with the strongest combat effectiveness, while the 30,000 slave ants responsible for the construction also had to undertake the dangerous work of collecting and preparing white-flowered pyrethrum.
In previous battles, the white-flowered pyrethrum weapon has proven to be effective against destroyers. However, due to its limited production and strict conditions for use, this weapon can only play a supporting role on large-scale battlefields. However, "Aquatic" has not given up this weapon and is stepping up its preparation and stockpiling.
In order to maximize the power of this weapon, inspired by the self-destruction tactics of flat-headed ants, he also dispatched a group of slave ants to train in suicide tactics carrying poison weapons.
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Although "Aquatic" is still struggling hard, the ant tribes of various civilizations have long ignored him and the 50,000 ants under his command. Even in the Maolin Ant Kingdom, except for some middle-level logistics officers who are still sending meager supplies on a regular basis, even the nobles have almost forgotten these fellows!
On April 14, after the Destroyers basically eliminated the savage ants nearby and launched the first wave of attacks on the "Aquatic" department, the "Aquatic" also sent an urgent report back to the country and humbly asked for some support, perhaps in the hope that Although he was taken away for the sake of military exploits, these information packages were still ignored by the country.
The last unit of the Maulin Ant Expeditionary Force resisted for two weeks and sent back the last military report at the end of April. By this time, "Aquatic" and the last few thousand soldiers were trapped underground. With the ground lost and air communications unable to reach the ground, no ant knows the final outcome of "Aquatic Life", but they can all guess the outcome.
The mainland of the Maolin Ant Kingdom was finally almost directly exposed to the jaws and stings of the Destroyer!
