Early that morning, the forward troops of the Destroyer army set off one after another from a nest they captured yesterday. Under aerial reconnaissance, their direction of action was as expected and had no choice, and they were forced to move northwest. Not far behind the vanguard, the main force of the Destroyer was quickly following along the opened and widened military road. Thumbs up
The domestic waters of the hairy forest ants are dotted all over the country, and many nests are built along the water. There is a huge water density near the main nest ring with the densest ant colonies. In addition, due to summer rainfall, a large number of seasonal floodways have turned into streams or muddy swamps, with waterways crisscrossing them, turning a large number of originally passable roads into temporary desolations.
Only those terrains accessible in all seasons can accommodate the actions of this army of destroyers. These roads are also the communication lines of the Maolin Ant Kingdom during the rainy season. After all, the communication and transportation between the nests cannot rely entirely on air transportation. There are long-lasting pheromones guiding the ant tunnels during the rainy season, and their maps are also remembered in the minds of high-ranking nobles.
Last night, "Shui Xing" had already made a decision based on the map and military information. He dispatched two nearest backup troops overnight to fortify a nest that must pass through the ant path during the rainy season. This lair is only 3 days away from the main lair, making it the best place to intercept the Destroyer army. If the Destroyer breaks through the defense line again, there will be only one last place to block the way forward, and behind it is a fertile and smooth road to the main nest circle.
"Shui Xing" doesn't dare to place bets on the final line of defense. This lair still has the original fortifications and terrain to rely on. Although its defense is far worse than [Willowbank City], it is still better than in the wide and flat area. Intercepting the Destroyer on dry land is easy.
An army of 40,000 forest ants took the lead in settling into this medium-sized nest. This is a nest built on an old mountain peach tree. It faces a small pool to the north, a seasonal shallow wetland to the south, and a winding road bridge. Stretching from east to west, with a length of more than 20 meters, this [Taojiao City] is located at the approximate midpoint of the land bridge.
The ground where [Taojiao City] is located is now a nearly circular landmass with a diameter of about 4 meters, and there are no strong fortifications to rely on. Therefore, after the reinforcements of the Maolin Ant Army joined the local garrison, they pushed the defense line forward and prepared to guard the narrowest pass in the land bridge, which was less than 1 meter.
At this time, the vanguard of the Destroyer Army was only half a day away from here. The Maolin Ant Army urgently deployed defenses here and used their special skills to build fortifications. Thumbs up
The hairy forest ants are also master builders in the ant civilization, which can be seen from their tree nests of various shapes and the vast dam projects of the water fortress. This time, "Shui Xing" did not let them build a dam. Instead, they did the opposite and dug a trench on the pass to connect the waters on both sides, equivalent to a canal.
Of course "Water Apricot" knows that the Destroyer can cross water, but crossing water is always more difficult than launching an attack on flat ground. There is no danger to defend on the land bridge, and the Maolin Ant Army is relatively good at using the protection of water, so digging canals is not a problem. Ways of ways. Moreover, this line of defense does not need to be defended for a long time like [Willow Coast City]. It only needs to defend the enemy for two or three days until reinforcements arrive.
The Destroyer can only choose this narrow road to move forward. If he chooses to go south or north to take a detour, it will take an extra two or three days, and there are also terrains that are difficult to overcome along the way. "Shui Xing" believes that the Destroyer will not make this choice!
Based on the terrain of this battlefield, "Shui Xing" formulated a new combat plan. The reinforcements he mobilized, totaling 100,000 troops, arrived at [Taojiao City] before the war began to hold the defense line. The other armies would be divided into two groups, taking a long way around the battlefield waters outside the detection range of the radar destroyer and appearing at the rear of the battlefield. Thicken the defense line and outflank it from the water. He personally commanded an army to approach the Destroyer from behind and fight a decisive battle in this area surrounded by water on both sides.
To this end, he strengthened all the air forces he could mobilize to the defenders. At the same time, he asked for help from the main nest and requested to mobilize the newly built fleet, and urged the Northern Route Army under "Shui Jing" to come to join the battle - for some reason , the North Route Army slowed down and was already 4 days away.
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The vanguard of the Destroyers arrived on the battlefield as scheduled, with only a few thousand troops. Thumbs up
As it gets closer and closer to the core of Maolin Ant Kingdom's rule, the water network becomes more dense, which makes the march of the Destroyer army encounter many difficulties. Even if the Radar Destroyer repeatedly restrained them, they could not maintain the previous generally united formation.
After days of rapid marching, the troops were continuously stretched under the squeeze of water and terrain. The leading troops were separated from the main force by more than half a day's journey, while the rear troops were even a day away.
On the land bridge, after emergency construction by the Maolin ant army, a canal about 4 decimeters wide has been dug. The cross section is semicircular and the deepest part is only 0.5 decimeters. Before the Destroyer arrived, the canal was open to water at both ends. Due to the terrain, the water flow continued from north to south from the north pool into the south wetland. The water flow was not too fast but not too slow.
This vanguard of the Destroyers tentatively built a narrow physical pontoon bridge in an attempt to cross the river to seize the beach. However, the current was a bit fast, and the half-built pontoon bridge was continuously washed southward, and soon became tilted to 45 degrees. But the Destroyer did not give up, and still stubbornly extended the pontoon until it was washed back to the east bank by the current, forming an arch bridge shape extending from end to end to the middle of the bank. Seeing that there was no hope of crossing the river, the Destroyers who formed the pontoon bridge were forced to disband. The living Destroyers struggled to crawl back to the ground to dry themselves, while the drowned ones were washed away.
This vanguard of the Destroyers is still unwilling to give up. It seems that they just tested out that the water on the shore is shallow, no more than the natural water surface. So these destroyers carried stones, gravel, grass and trees everywhere, trying to build an earth bridge across the river. In this way, the defenders of the Hairy Forest Ants could not stop them. They could only continue to dig wider canals here and compete with the Destroyers in terms of construction speed.
At the beginning, the number of Destroyers was small and the construction was not fast. However, the slaves of the Maolin Ant Army only needed to dig on the other side of the opponent's construction surface, but instead continued to widen the water surface area.
But at dusk, an army of hairy forest ants arrived and began filling in the entire stretch of the canal. Even though the hairy forest ant army began to dig across the board, the destroyers were individually powerful. The amount of landfill that a single ant brought back at one time was far more than what slaves of all races of hairy forest ants could dig out at the same time. Therefore, the surface of the canal was one millimeter at a time. shortening.
At the same time, something happened that made the defenders feel threatened and unable to focus on construction. While filling the canal, tens of thousands of Destroyers also got into the water and built three pontoons at the same time to seize the beach. Thumbs up
The Maulin ant defenders had no choice but to withdraw part of the construction troops and form a formation on the west bank of the canal to meet the enemy!
