There are about 2,000 Destroyers approaching. These Destroyers are divided into three groups. The largest group has less than 1,000 Destroyers, and the other two groups have a crowd of five or six hundred. The three groups are very close to each other, following the pheromone. Guidance, we are getting closer and closer to [Liu'an City].
These Destroyers are sentry troops on the outskirts of the army.
Now the Destroyers rushing down from the Eastern Highlands have been assembled, with a total number of up to 200,000. Since there are no particularly large and strong strongholds on the border of the Maolin Ant Kingdom, the Destroyers do not need to invest too much force in those small and medium-sized nests, and the battlefield cannot accommodate too many Destroyers. Generally, every time a Destroyer finds a nest, only 51,000 troops are left to attack, while the rest of the troops continue to advance.
In this way, the troops will continue to be divided, and the troops after seizing the city will not only leave a few occupation and clearing out the remaining troops, but also step up to chase the larger troops, entering and exiting. As a result, the current main force of Destroyers still has 100,000 people.
They also seemed to have realized through a series of battles that the local ant tribe had weak resistance in the field, so they withdrew the forward troops and only sent a large number of small troops of 5,111 to patrol the front periphery. Once a threat or stronghold was discovered, they summoned the large army. Troops went to strike. This increases the speed at which they attack the city.
At present, "Rhinestone" has brought out 30,000 elite soldiers, intending to eat these three Destroyer Sentinels at the same time, avenging the previous loss of troops and territory, and also making a good start for the subsequent defensive battle.
However, it is extremely difficult to eat an established unit of Destroyers in one go, especially the Hairy Forest Ant officers. They all know that those radar Destroyers with abnormally long tentacles can detect swarms of ants at a relatively long distance. If you want to achieve success in this first battle, you must first conceal the movement of the army, otherwise you will frighten the enemy.
Therefore, based on the experience learned from the Angel King's Legion and the lessons learned with blood in the Battle of the Eastern Highlands, "Rhinestone" dispersed the troops into large groups or small groups to maneuver, with a short distance between each other, and between each legion. Spaced out. These troops will not regroup until the battle begins!
In the face of a powerful enemy, military strategists all know the difficulty of regrouping the scattered troops at the right time and immediately entering into battle. Even if the location and time are agreed in advance, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and there is no way that the battle situation will develop completely according to the plan. . "Rhinestone" also knows this, so he has brought out so many troops and has reserved reserve forces to prevent accidents.
In addition, the biggest advantage of the hairy forest ants fighting in the local area is that they are familiar with the terrain!
As expected by "Rhinestone", the three Destroyer sentinels separated at the five Pyracantha plants, because the ant path there changed from one to three. This is an intersection that is similar to a cross, and ants come and go all year round. The pheromones are fresh and strong, and from time to time, worker ants that have not received the news pass by.
As expected, the Destroyer chose to divide his forces to explore in three directions at the same time, instead of gathering together again. Rhinestone deployed military forces in front of the three roads. Three elite troops of 10,000 hairy forest ants each besiege less than 1,000 destroyers. The difficulty will be much lower than that of a force of 30,000 hairy forest ants besieging 2,000 destroyers. This is also the experience gained from the painful experience in the past.
According to "Rhinestone"'s plan, the three Destroyer troops should enter the ambush circle at the same time and be besieged, unable to respond to each other. The two groups of the Maolin ant army with greater strength can support the middle group with less advantage after victory, eventually annihilating the enemy.
But the first variable made the "Rhinestone" synchronized attack plan invalid.
Fearing that the Destroyer would discover clues, this force did not notify the normal working ants and slaves outside before taking action, and the nobles did not care about the life or death of the ant slaves. Some ants fled in panic as expected, making the Destroyer more convinced to move towards the encirclement.
But it was precisely a group of hundreds of yellow ant slaves responsible for hunting that were caught off guard by the Destroyer and forced to flee to a lonely tree. This sentinel force of more than 600 Destroyers immediately stopped and attacked with all their strength, while the yellow ant slaves on the tree knew they had no way to escape but resisted tenaciously, actually holding the Destroyers back for a while.
By the time this group of destroyers is back on the road, the battle between the other two groups has already begun!
In order to covertly engage the enemy, in the ambush circle arranged by "Rhinestone", not only the troops are widely dispersed in small and large groups, but also the front and rear depths are large. Such an encirclement has many flaws. If the Destroyer is willing to concentrate its forces to break out in one direction, then Mao The forest ant army is determined to be irresistible.
"Rhinestone"'s plan is to use the most capable troops to hold off the enemy at all costs, and then the follow-up troops will continue to pour in like adding water drop by drop to a clay pot, eventually completely encircling and trapping the Destroyer. The elite warriors of the Maolin Ant clan cannot be wasted in the first wave of fatal offensives, so this task is naturally assigned to the slave troops who specialize in dirty work.
The slave troops who took the lead in the battle were all experienced warriors. The ones attacking in the middle ambush circle were the ant slave warriors provided by the friendly barbarian ants from another sacred tree area in the south, while the east road were red fire ant slave warriors, all of them Mao. The slave combat force that Forest Ant officers trust most.
When the two groups of destroyers saw only 200 fire ants and 600 fire ants coming respectively, they did not doubt that they were there. Instead, they rushed forward in a rush, wanting to vent their desire to kill. These two groups of elite slave soldiers supported the annihilation of the entire army for a while, but they also held back the Destroyer. Subsequently, the second and third formations... countless troops came in, and the well-armed Maolin ant troops also entered the battle, and were defeated. The Destroyers who surrounded the three levels inside and outside were unable to escape.
The battle lasted for a while. Although the Maolin Ant Army suffered heavy losses, the two groups of Destroyers also suffered a lot of casualties and lost the ability to break out. They would be exhausted in two or three hours.
However, the radar destroyers in the Destroyer Sentinel Force, which had been delayed by the yellow ant slaves, detected the assembled ants after the other two battles started, and immediately turned around and rushed towards the nearest battlefield in the middle.
The western front troops of the Maolin Ant Army, which were originally preparing to ambush this destroyer, were still waiting for the battle, unaware that the target had been moved. This is also the shortcoming of the Maolin Ant Army's habit of ignoring reconnaissance communications. Otherwise, it would not be obvious that there are many flying mounts in the nest. At this time, there is no air force in the sky above the battlefield to assist.
In the middle of the battlefield, another group of Destroyers suddenly came and almost caused "Rhinestone" Jiao, who was personally commanding here, to panic. Fortunately, he sent a strong reserve team and finally blocked it. Then the messengers who set out urgently also hurriedly summoned the Western Front troops to come for reinforcements.
The initiative on the battlefield is still with the Maolin Ant Army!
