The first light of dawn appeared, three days away from the main nest of the Maulin ant kingdom, there was a continuous ridge of soil. An army of 200,000 hairy forest ants has already formed a defense line here along the top of the ridge, more than 100 meters long and 1 decimeter wide.
These fortified Maolin ant troops are the front line of reinforcements departing from the main nest. Hundreds of thousands of reinforcements were originally planned to be thrown into the battlefield of [Liu'an City], and after joining the northern and southern armies, they would use their absolute superiority to chip away at the power of this destroyer, and achieve a great victory.
But as the Destroyers crossed the water at night to break through, the original battlefield layout of the Maolin ant clan was completely left behind the Destroyer army. Now this army has a heavy responsibility. They must hold on to the defense line and block the Destroyer's offensive. Only when the northern and southern armies arrive for reinforcements can they achieve the campaign goal of annihilating the enemy.
The battlefield chosen by the army of hairy forest ants has certain terrain advantages: the half-meter-high earth ridge may have been washed away by a flash flood, and under the earth ridge is a flood channel more than ten meters wide. Although there is no accumulation at this time, However, due to several recent rainfalls, the ground is relatively wet and muddy, with large and small puddles and mud pits. The salt-alkali crystals that were originally seen everywhere have temporarily dissolved. Most plants cannot survive on such saline-alkali land, and there is only sparse vegetation that does not block the view. If the Destroyer enters this depression, it will have to brave the mud and move forward, where all movements can be seen at a glance. Then it will have to climb the ridge on its back, and then encounter a counterattack from the defenders who are waiting for work.
Therefore, this ridge has become a location that the army of hairy forest ants must guard and is the easiest to defend.
The Destroyers have not yet arrived at the battlefield, but they are not far away. Among the lush grass and sparse trees on the other side of the floodway, the Destroyer army is rapidly attacking in an arrow-shaped formation, with aerial warning locust messengers following closely. The forward position is getting closer and closer, and every short period of time there will be a warning circle.
The Maolin ant reinforcements are taking the time to rest. Although they received the flight report yesterday and accepted a new blocking mission. But what's more terrible is that these reinforcements do not have a supreme commander. They were originally planned to arrive in a marching column and be controlled by "Shui Jing" and "Shui Xing" respectively after arriving at the battlefield. Therefore, it does not matter if they do not have a supreme commander.
But now faced with a new mission and lacking unified command, the army commanders had to stop and send messengers to communicate with each other for a long time. In the end, if they had not reached a decision in a hurry when they saw that it was too late, they would have been arguing all night.
According to the urgent deployment, the 200,000 troops in the front line of reinforcements marched overnight to seize this ridge. The deployment was completed at dawn, but they consumed a lot of energy and had to rest on the spot; there were still 400,000 troops in the rear group in scattered columns. Scattered on the 2-day journey, we are working hard to gather together and prepare to support the Tuchang battlefield in batches after the assembly is completed.
Because the destroyers arrived so quickly, the 200,000-haired forest ant army on the ridge only rested in a hurry for a few hours. They didn't even have time to build a camp and nest. The migratory messengers had already warned several times. After the reinforcements have been assembled, it is estimated that it will be at least a day before the first batch of troops enter the battle.
During this day, the defense line on the soil ridge must be defended. And one day later, not only the rear reinforcements can arrive, but the South Route Army personally commanded by "Shui Xing" can also come to join the battle, and the battlefield situation will be greatly improved.
Previously, when "Shui Xing" hurriedly ordered his Southern Route Army to pursue, the vanguard was only half a day away from the Destroyer's rear column. However, because the South Route Army rushed to catch up without waiting for assembly, the troops were forced to disperse, and a group of thousands of Destroyers behind them took the opportunity to counterattack. Several vanguard legions retreated. Although the losses were not too large, they were only If you can stop and regroup, don’t dare to chase.
"Shui Xing" was also worried about another counterattack, so he asked the fast-moving troops to stop and assemble for a while. In addition, the transfer of military rations from nearby areas was delayed due to the transfer of battlefields, and another batch of military rations was waiting to arrive. After coming and going, the South Route Army was now more than a day behind the Destroyer.
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In the morning, the sun was half-high in the east. As the locust messengers were already hovering on the opposite side of the flood control area, it meant that the Destroyer had arrived on the battlefield.
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Across the flood control area and covered by vegetation on the opposite side, the Destroyer's military formation cannot yet be clearly observed. But it was obvious that the Destroyer stayed in place for a moment, and then there was a burst of grass blades swaying, and large groups of pitch-black Destroyers poured into the flood control area like black springs gushing out from the ground.
On the ridge, the commanders, captains, and squad leaders of each army watched helplessly as tens of thousands of Destroyers rushed into the depression in a triangular formation, and a steady stream of Destroyers continued to pour out. These destroyers tried their best to avoid large and small water on the muddy land and move through relatively dry ground. Therefore, the strict formation soon turned into a group of staggered columns.
The Destroyer's offensive was only seven or eight meters wide in front, facing the middle section of the defenders' defense line. It seemed to be a breakthrough in the middle. Seeing this, on the soil ridge defense line, the Maolin ant army on both wings moved from the outside to the inside. One by one, the legions began to break away from the two wings and detour from the rear, trying to strengthen the depth of the center.
This is also an expedient solution devised by the commanders of each corps in the absence of unified command. Each corps commander chooses his or her own corps' course of action based on the battlefield situation. Because the qualifications of these legion commanders are too close to each other, it is impossible to choose a temporary commander who can convince the public, so they can only make do with it.
But as a result, the poorly commanded Maolin Ant Army soon encountered fatal changes in the battle situation, and it was difficult for them to respond in time.
As the two wings of the Maolin Ant Army mobilized on their own, the right wing moved much faster than the left wing. Soon the 20-meter-long front line of the right wing was converted into the rear depth of the center, while the left wing at this time only reduced the 10-meter front line. Width, it seems from the air that the defenders' formation has become shorter and thicker, and the defenders' formation has moved a certain distance northward on the ridge.
Such formation changes were clearly visible under the observation of the radar destroyers at such a close distance. Then, the destroyers, which had already passed three-quarters of the distance of the flood channel, began to be turned by remote control commands, and collectively moved towards the left front. , that is, to attack the right wing of the shortened Maulin ant garrison.
Such changes caused chaos in the actions of the various legions of the Maolin Ant defenders. The legions on the right chose to stop one after another, but the legions that had moved away did not know and could not rush back in time. Some legions on the left and center chose to wait and see what happened, while other legions thought of going around from the rear to strengthen the right wing, and then Collided with some legions that had been moving in the rear direction.
Before the battle started, the Maolin ant army was already in chaos on the ridge!
