Having lost the opportunity for a sneak attack, in the next two days, this swarm of approximately 70,000 Destroyers could only attack the lair where the "Water Spirit" was located, and divide their forces to attack other fortified camps. This was the primary goal. Forced choice after being unable to complete.
The lair where the "Water Spirit" is located is not as strong as [Willowbank City], and its scale is much smaller, but it has sufficient troops. If it is a conventional war, the Destroyer can win by exhausting its supplies for a long time, or paying a heavy price It can also be captured by force at a huge cost. But this place is not something that the Destroyers can conquer in a short period of time, and at every critical moment, the defenders will always resort to poison weapons. Shrouded in white poisonous mist, the Destroyer army can only suspend its offensive and suffer repeated setbacks under the fortified city.
The main task of the Destroyer Force, which was divided into four parts, was to divide the three nests in the Maolin Ant Army camp and clear out the Maolin Ant Army scattered in the underground temporary camps between the nests. These Maolin ant armies are basically slave armies, and the camps are poorly constructed. It takes almost no effort for the Destroyer to break through these camps head-on, but it takes a lot of time to clear out each nest one by one.
But time is not on the Destroyer's side.
The next day, a reinforcement force of the Maulin ants arrived for reinforcements. The Destroyer army had to fight repeatedly with the counterattacking Maulin ant army in some areas that had already been captured. They became entangled and it was difficult to continue to press forward.
On the third day, two armies of Maulin ants arrived at the same time, and under the guidance of flying troops, they attacked the Destroyer's flanks. This flanking attack is a strategy summarized by the commander of the hairy forest ants from past wars - in terms of tactical flexibility, the hairy forest ants that are good at trade are much more agile than the old and rigid big-headed ants. This flexibility is also reflected in other aspects.
The Radar Destroyers sensed that they were being outflanked, so they reduced their forces, but they also lost the initiative on the battlefield. They were surrounded by three sides, but they did not choose to leave.
By the time the last few groups of Maolin ants arrived, the Destroyer had completely lost the chance to retreat, explaining what it meant to sit back and wait for death. At this time, the radar destroyers had just awakened from a dream and organized several waves of breakouts. However, the intercepted Maolin ant army used poison weapons to repel them. Under the ring of "death wall" composed of white poisonous smoke, no destroyers could Dare to get into it.
At this time, the Destroyers, who still had 60,000 troops, were completely surrounded by an army of Maolin ants that was eight times their size. If it were a normal battlefield, the Destroyer with extraordinary combat power would still be sure of victory. After all, not all of the army of hairy forest ants are elites who can fight hard. The Destroyer is best at using the radar Destroyer's reconnaissance to find flaws and defeat them first. Those weaker troops will then engage in a reverse rolling bead curtain to achieve victory with less.
It's a pity that this time the hairy forest ant army did not respect martial ethics and mixed the poison warriors of the newly conquered Eastern Highlands vassal ant tribe into the vanguard army. Once they could not hold on, they would release poisonous smoke composed of white flower pyrethrum. Under such an unreasonable style of play, the Destroyer's advantage in melee combat could not be used. Instead, it was forced back step by step by the poisonous smoke, and the interior gradually became crowded.
Both the Northern Route Army and the Southern Route Army carried a large number of white-flowered pyrethrum poison weapons. The amount was so large that it almost emptied the current inventory of the Maolin Ant Nation.
The previous failed strategy of the Maolin Ant Kingdom in the Eastern Highlands was not meaningless. The expeditionary force conquered and surrendered several indigenous tribes along the way. Some of the queen ants of these indigenous tribes were sent back to their homeland, and the technology of manufacturing and using poison weapons was also mastered.
Before the Destroyers rushed down from the Eastern Highlands to invade, the Maolin Ant Kingdom had already used the white-flowered pyrethrum in stock to work overtime to produce this strategic weapon, and the queen ants of the vassal tribes in the Eastern Highlands had also been laying eggs and exploding troops.
When the Destroyers invaded, the Maolin Ant Kingdom held back its troops for a long time, and also planned to continue to accumulate poison weapons and explode poison soldiers. Even an important town like [Willowbank City] did not receive even a single bit of support from poison weapons. The Maolin Ant Nation would rather pay the price of hundreds of nests falling and millions of ant colonies dying, but it must insist on using this strategic killer weapon at the most appropriate time!
The air caravans of the Maolin Ant Kingdom are still flying intensively to the eastern highlands to purchase white-flowered pyrethrum from surviving trading partners, and even fly slaves there to collect, ensuring the continued production of the main nest workshop.
Now this batch of weapons that have been accumulated for a long time has finally appeared on the battlefield!
Afterwards, even Zhu Jue had to admire: Maolin Ant Nation is an ant tribe that dares to place bets and trust in new things.
This may be related to their racial talents that are good at doing business. The hairy forest ant nobles who travel north and south with flying caravans are always exposed to all kinds of strange products, technologies, and ideas from different ant civilizations, and then choose the good ones and absorb them.
Just like the technique of domesticating flying insects by the hairy forest ants was learned from other ant clans, the use of gold as the general equivalent also came from the needs of trade and sudden inspiration, not to mention that almost every hairy forest ant nest has preserved and passed down There are some unique customs of the original local indigenous ants, such as [Liu'an City] eating larvae as a delicacy. After coming into contact with the Ant Alliance, technologies such as aerial reconnaissance, bombing, and shipbuilding were successively mastered by this ant tribe that was good at absorbing innovation.
Let your eyes return to the battlefield.
As the Destroyers were pressed more and more tightly, they could no longer retreat to avoid the approaching poisonous smoke. Moreover, due to the crowding and entanglement of each other, the troops on the inside were unable to move, while the troops on the outside were enveloped in the poisonous smoke. It was shattered bit by bit under the bite of the Maolin ant army.
"Water Spirit" appeared at a high place on the battlefield of the decisive battle. When he saw this scene, he knew that the Destroyers were helpless. Their command had failed and they had lost their mobility. Even if the individual Destroyers were still fierce, they would still be dead. The futile struggle before.
Although there were several groups of peripheral Destroyers trying to break through with poisonous smoke under the command of the nearby Radar Destroyer, they were still unable to make a comeback. Such scattered breakout actions just confirmed the judgment of the "Water Spirit" and proved the strength of the Destroyer army. Unified command has failed.
The final battle of annihilation lasted for another three days. In order to save poison weapons and reduce the losses of poisonous ants, the Maolin ant army also had to engage in hand-to-hand combat, bit by bit tearing apart the Destroyer formation that was as tight and tenacious as a snail shell. They would only do so when the deadlock couldn't be broken. A small release of toxic smoke.
Fortunately, the Destroyer was exhausted, and because of the continuous cloudy sky above the battlefield, it could not get energy replenishment, so it could only be like a prey waiting to be slaughtered, allowing the hunter to cut its body apart.
The destruction of this Destroyer, and the victory of the Southern Route Army against the Destroyer in person 10 days later, not only changed the battlefield situation, but also made the Civilized Ant Alliance extremely excited!
