After realizing that they were surrounded, the Destroyer army did not move anymore and stopped on the ground covered by ferns and short grass. The Destroyer rear troops that originally resisted the Northern Route Army also gradually withdrew under the setting sun and moved closer to the main force.
Scouts in the air circled to monitor the enemy and constantly reported military information. After learning of this situation, neither the South Route Army nor the North Route Army rushed to take over the battle. As it got late, the encircling army of hairy forest ants shrank the encirclement to reduce the width of the front. Stop about 2 hours away.
Subsequently, the frontline woolly forest ant armies on the north, east, and south fronts began to dig holes separately in units of legions, brigades, and squads. While building camps, they also built a simple defense line to prevent the besieged Destroyer from breaking out at night. Being caught off guard.
This first line of defense mainly plays a containment and buffering role, while the reserve teams behind are digging holes to set up camps, or climbing trees to set up camps, looking for a place to rest. These new forces can come out of the camp at any time to fill the gap, which is the key to preventing a breakout. strength.
After arranging the defense for the night, "Shui Xing" and "Shui Jing" communicated several times through messengers to confirm that there were no omissions. At this time, the sky turned completely dark, all air forces returned, and the commanders of the two armies had to end the exchange.
"Shui Xing"'s suppressed fatigue for the whole day suddenly burst out. Excessive mental exertion made him so dizzy that he could hardly walk. The guards and attendants around him followed him and watched him take a few steps. After taking a nap, I woke up a little and continued walking, preparing to rest in a temporary tree hole tent. Before he fell asleep completely, he once again warned his adjutants and attendants that they would wake him up immediately if there was any fighting at night.
However, he slept peacefully until dawn, and no messengers with urgent military information came to disturb his sleep. Therefore, even if he woke up several times during his sleep, after asking if everything was okay, "Shui Xing" did not leave the tree hole until daylight. Bright.
As the sky grew brighter again, the messengers from various units came together as a routine and reported that no one was attacked anywhere. "Shui Xing" still doesn't know if the North Route Army encountered an enemy breakout at night, but if the war is urgent, "Shui Xing" will definitely send messengers to come on foot overnight to ask for help, so even if a war breaks out last night, it should be OK control. When the air force arrives, we can resume contact with the Northern Route Army and find out what happened.
"Shui Xing" thought like this, and the experience of "Shui Jing" of the North Route Army last night was exactly the same as his thoughts this morning. Neither commander knew that something big had happened.
The flying force arrived, reported to the two commanders, and while investigating the Destroyer's military formation, established an air communication line between the two armies.
At the beginning of the aerial reconnaissance, no abnormality was found. Both "Shui Jing" and "Shui Xing" had already begun to mobilize their troops, preparing to move the front line forward and officially start a fight with the enemy. At this time, a locust rider hurriedly landed on the tree. The male ant rider jumped down personally and ran to warn him in a panic!
Aerial reconnaissance found that the number of Destroyers hidden under the vegetation seemed to be much smaller than it seemed before dusk yesterday. However, due to the interference of the vegetation, and the aerial commander mistakenly believed that the Destroyers had also burrowed to rest, there was no cause for concern at first. Pay attention to.
It wasn't until not long after that that a group of air troops that had just flown from [Willowbank City] discovered something. They drew circles in the air to indicate that enemy troops were found in the west. Only then did the air reconnaissance troops that rushed over discover a scene that surprised them!
It turned out that the Destroyers did not really set up camp last night, but left a rear force behind. Under the command of the Radar Destroyers, the entire army moved westward. Since there was no aerial reconnaissance at night, and no ground reconnaissance was sent out, the ant army was completely kept in the dark.
The middle and high-level commanders of the Maolin Ant Army did not expect that the Destroyers would move in this direction. This is the water area where [Willowbank City] is located, although half of the pontoon bridges left by the Destroyer army when they attacked the city are still intact. It was intact, but it was absolutely impossible to conquer this fortified city that had held firm for many days overnight. Therefore, the army of hairy forest ants only blocked the entire land and did not block the water.
Perhaps in the minds of the male ants, as the darlings of the water god, their clan did not have to worry about the water surface at all, which led to their major negligence.
The Destroyer army did not really go to attack [Willowbank City] overnight. Instead, they approached the tree nest along the corpse pontoon, boarded the embankment, and then moved along the embankment until they turned to the southwest. The pontoon bridge was rebuilt - a pontoon bridge with a width of only 3 decimeters quickly extended to the lake shore.
The defenders of [Willowbank City] also did not leave a warning outside the nest last night, but even if they discovered it, it would be of no avail. It was difficult to wade into the water to warn them at night, and they were unable to stop the Destroyer from breaking through.
The shore where the Destroyer army landed has bypassed the first line of defense of the South Route Army. Although there are several reserve camps of the Maolin Ant Army nearby, the Destroyer did not attack them, but penetrated through the camps. Pass the past and head directly further west.
This army has a large number of radar destroyers, and the more radar destroyers there are, the more complex the wireless neural network it forms can think. With this move, the Destroyer army not only completely got rid of the unfavorable situation of being surrounded, but also completely threw off the pursuers and advanced towards the hinterland of the Maolin Ant Kingdom. It was an excellent strategy.
These destroyers have no logistical constraints and are extremely fast. Even the aerial reconnaissance force reported anxiously without even counting the Destroyer's targets and breakout troops. By the time "Shui Xing" learned about it, the rear group of the Destroyer's breakout force was already far away from the closest troop camp of the South Route Army. 3 hours away.
"Shui Xing" was in a hurry, and hurriedly ordered the flying courier to fly to report the "Shui Jing" further away, and asked the Northern Route Army to stay first to deal with the unknown number of Destroyers who were still in the same place. When the situation became clear, additional forces would be sent for reinforcements. He himself issued hundreds of military orders, asking all the southern route troops to immediately break up their camps and pursue them. They did not even wait to assemble, but set off one after another, marching in files, following the Destroyer in pursuit.
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In addition, because "Shui Xing" knew that a second batch of mobilized reinforcements was on the way in the direction of the Destroyer, so although he was anxious, he was not too disorganized. He also sent a messenger to inform the commander of the reinforcements to stop them. The army of destroyers marching westward.
The reinforcements amount to hundreds of thousands, no less than the troops of the North and South Routes, and they are not expected to defeat the enemy. As long as they can hold back the main force of the Destroyers for half a day and a day, and wait for the elite armies of the North and South Routes to follow, they can still annihilate this intrusive lone army. It’s just a different battlefield!
