Fast forward one month later.
On the border of the Maolin Ant Kingdom, in [Liu'an City], from the drunken lives and dreams of many noble Maolin Ants, there is no sense of tension about the impending war.
The nobles of the hairy forest ants drink fermented alcoholic beverages mixed with crow honey here day after day. Some of them drink alone, but many drink in groups. Those who drink with their tentacles intersecting do not know what they are communicating, and even occupy the place. Some small conference rooms drink alcohol to facilitate group chats, and the drunkenness is as ugly as that of humans.
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These drunken ants do not know that they are about to die. They spend half of the day sleeping after being drunk, and their waking hours are also consumed in drinking. They are in a state of confusion 24 hours a day.
High up in the nest, almost every bedroom is filled with the smell of rotten drinks and the smell of ant glands. The slave ants can only brave the stench and clean it repeatedly, but they can't clean it completely. However, it still does not affect the nobles' lives. Alcohol addiction.
These hairy forest ant nobles have left almost all affairs to a very small number of nobles who still stick to their duties, and a small number of slave ant clerks. This important nest is in such a chaotic atmosphere at the top. , to welcome the upcoming decisive battle!
More than two months have passed since the hairy forest ant expeditionary force retreated from the Eastern Highlands. Although the destroyers on the highlands still have no good way to protect themselves with the large number of scattered indigenous ants relying on the mist of white-flowered pyrethrum, but then As the most powerful forces collapsed or collapsed or shrunk under the Destroyer's key blows, it was difficult for other indigenous ant tribes to play a role in containing the Destroyer's westward advance.
After the Destroyers established a series of strongholds and formed a communication line across the Eastern Highlands, they no longer paid attention to the troublesome indigenous tribes in the area. They gathered their armies and followed the retreat route of the Hairy Forest Ant Expeditionary Force to kill in the area. . This is the target that attracts them the most!
As a result, the Sacred Tree area where the Ant Alliance is located has the Destroyer's fronts in three directions: east, north, and west, leaving only the southern part safe for the time being. The Destroyers in the North have not yet gone south. The Destroyers on the Western Front have just retreated. The Destroyers on the Eastern Front have already arrived one after another, leaving the Civilized Ant Alliance struggling to cope!
Fortunately, the hairy forest ants have taken precautions and have already fortified all 72 nests on the eastern border by squeezing a large number of slaves, and are also strengthening nests in other places. Even if more than 100,000 slaves die from exhaustion, they will not hesitate!
And [Liu'an City] was the first to be built among many fortresses. Because it was located on a major transportation route, it was an important commercial and trade stronghold, and it was large in scale, so it became the top priority of the eastern fortress group.
In this fortress-like water nest, the Maolin Ant Nation has stationed 30,000 native warriors and 100,000 slave warriors. It not only hopes that these troops can stick to the nest, but also hopes to use it as a base to support other nests. Fortify an area and use tactics that combine lair defense and flexible reinforcements to attack to block the Destroyer's invasion.
At the beginning, the hairy forest ant nobles in [Willowbank City] were not so decadent, and all of them were still very motivated. But within 2 days, the vanguard of about 50,000 Destroyers that arrived quickly captured three small water nests, and also severely damaged a reinforcement force of 60,000 warriors sent by [Willow Coast City]. Less than one-tenth escaped.
This completely destroyed the courage of the nobles of [Willowbank City], and they no longer dared to attack. They could only sit back and watch as the Destroyers ate up the isolated outer fortresses one after another.
Most of these captured fortresses were small in size and had few garrisons. They could not stop the invaders for a long time. However, their rapid fall still showed that the Maolin ant clan seriously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Destroyer, and also made the Maolin ant army Once again, they recognized the reality that they could not match them in the field.
In order to protect the eastern border, the main nest of the Maolin Ant Kingdom urgently dispatched a large number of reinforcements to [Liu'an City], restoring the military strength here to more than 100,000. With the recruitment of ordinary ant citizens and slaves, it will have a combat strength of 300,000.
After the main nest envoys witnessed the frightened scene of the local hair forest ant nobles, in order to boost their morale, the main nest allocated a large amount of precious crow honey and fermented drinks. These luxury foods are rarely produced in the hair forest ant country. , most of the exports from the Ant Alliance are valuable.
Unexpectedly, after getting these delicacies to boost morale, the hairy forest ant nobles of [Willowbank City] soon invented the method of drinking mixed drinks, and they became even more drunk and dreamy. Most of them just wanted to live happily in the city before they died. Be at ease and ignore military affairs.
Different from the system of the Ant Alliance, the aristocratic class of the Maolin Ant Country is extremely powerful. The main nest cannot punish and remove local nobles from each nest at will. Therefore, the main nest has no good way to deal with this now. It can only hope that things will happen. When the time comes, these hairy forest ant nobles can cheer up and fight off powerful enemies.
At the same time, the main nest also began to gradually allow the nobles of the main nest line in the reinforcements to directly control the local military administration. At the same time, an important nest with strong control behind the eastern border was deployed for defense as a second line of defense...
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This day is the weekly water god sacrificial day.
"Jug" got up early, and after assigning tasks to the slave ant clerk as usual, he walked to the altar.
He is one of the few native-born nobles in Willowbank City who has not lost their fight. Together with the remaining dozens of sober native nobles and hundreds of main nest nobles, he has supported this crumbling nest.
As for "Jug", they were not polite, and took the opportunity to quickly seize all the most important military power. For example, "Jug", who was originally just an ordinary legion commander, is now the commander of six legions, with great power.
It's just that "Jug" himself knows the weakness of the army. Except for the five slave legions under his command, the combat effectiveness is as usual. The only legion of his own clan seriously lacks the grassroots commander of the squad leader. After all, most of the nobles have no interest in military affairs, and a few Awakeners have also filled the positions from legion commander to captain. Now many squad captain positions can only be filled by inexperienced new male ants, or even be left vacant.
The only ones with relatively complete combat capabilities are those legions that provide reinforcements to the main nest.
Even so, "Jug" doesn't want those fellow nobles in this nest to wake up. After all, in the aristocratic system based on seniority, there are too few opportunities to rise to the top unless the war is won with the current structure. Gain enough prestige, otherwise those drunkards will come back and easily rely on tradition to regain political power and military power.
For this reason, "Jug" conspired with other beneficiaries. Recently, even the important water god priests stopped notifying the drunkards and allowed them to rot bit by bit with crow honey and alcohol in the dark lair and palace!
