The brutal battle lasted for six full days. Even though the Destroyer was surrounded and resisted by a fortified city, it unleashed extremely strong fighting power and toughness, and once forced the Maolin Ant clan into a state of embarrassment.
The outer defense line of the main nest of the Maulin ants was broken on the third day. After that, the Destroyer's troops continued to penetrate deep into the nest. At one time, a small group of troops approached the elders' meeting room and dormitory. Even the crucial temple enshrining the water god's talisman was attacked by the Destroyer and was only saved by the desperate defense of the temple defenders and reinforcements at all costs.
During the temple defense battle, a scene appeared that the hairy forest ants thought was a miracle - on the fourth day, when the temple's defense line was in dilapidated condition and was about to be broken, the sky suddenly changed, and just a few minutes later it started to rain heavily. The army of hairy forest ants and destroyers outside the nest were warned by the change in air pressure, and they gave up fighting and climbed to high places to hide from the rain. The Destroyers who had already entered the vicinity of the temple were repelled because they lost their backup.
The water god controls rain, and the Maolin ant clan firmly believes that this is the water god showing his magical power. After this brief heavy rain, the Destroyer army also lost its final attack power. They were already exhausted and lost many radar destroyers in the sudden heavy rain. Both their command ability and physical strength reached the limit. As a result, the Destroyers were gradually driven back from the occupied nest, and the encirclement outside the nest was continuously tightened, until the entire army was wiped out two days later.
The Maolin ant clan was grateful for the protection of the Water God. Afterwards, the elders announced that the main nest had been renamed. The new city name means "the nest protected by the water god's rainstorm power" in the ants' brain language, and is referred to as "Shenyu City".
The thrilling battle of the Destroyer's invasion of the Maolin Ant Kingdom ended here. The Destroyer's army of hundreds of thousands was wiped out. The Maolin Ant clan and its allies mobilized nearly 2 million ants to fight or transport, at the cost of 600,000 military and civilian casualties. However, Achieved final victory and strategic advantage.
After this battle, although the Destroyers still had a few troops on the periphery, they no longer posed a threat to the homeland of the Maulin Ants. Encouraged by the victory, the Maolin ant elders decided to make another expedition to the Eastern Highlands, reorganizing the post-war army into an elite army of 360,000 people, with the "Water Essence" elder commander and "Rhinestone" reserve elder who had outstanding achievements in the battle as deputy deputies. The handsome and "Shui Nao" senior nobles are the vanguard officers. In addition, there is a larger number of logistics troops, centrally commanded by the nobles "Cress" and "Jug" of [Willowbank City], with [Willowbank City] as the base, and constantly forward the mobilized materials to support the war.
The preparations for such a large-scale expedition cannot be completed overnight, and the troops will not be dispatched until August at the earliest.
Before that, the Maolin Ant Kingdom must work hard to restore the main nest area and the many nest cities on the eastern border that were in disarray due to military disasters, rebuild and repair the dilapidated nests, move the ant colonies in, select ruling nobles, There are so many things going on that there is no need to describe them all here.
In terms of diplomacy, although the Maolin ant clan gained a greater say in the civilized ant clan after their great victory, their secret association with the ant clan was also exposed and was frequently questioned by other ant clans with the help of the Ant Alliance. On the contrary, It was a mess.
In addition to the need to repay the aid provided by the United Nations, provide compensation and rewards to allies participating in the war, and prepare for the expedition, the current economic pressure on the Mao Lin Country is very high, and the Mao Lin merchants, who are known for their wealth, have to Relying on the trade and support of its allies, it did not dare to be too presumptuous in diplomatic situations, especially the United States, which was a big creditor and trading partner.
"Dong Mao", the governor of the Eastern Territory of the Ant Alliance, came to [Shenyu City] again after the war to linger. Although he could not contact Zhu Jue for the time being, he was as smart as he knew that when the God Envoy King came back, he would definitely deal with the Destroyer. I am interested in the changes in the army, so I stay here to find answers.
But so far, he has not gained anything. Although he looks for opportunities to wander around the city every day, he has gone almost everywhere except the queen ant palace and other forbidden places, and has not found any abnormalities. Instead, he has aroused the suspicion of the nobles of the Maulin ants. Fortunately, he Despite his high status, the ants also lacked counter-espionage awareness, so no ants questioned or interfered with him.
One day, "Dong Mao" even went to the site where the Mao forest ants started to build their warehouses to visit and observe. He was amazed by the spectacular scene.
It turns out that the hairy forest ants have always been wealthy through their monopoly on trade, and often have a large amount of savings that cannot be used at the time. Except for the part left in the warehouse in the main nest, once the accumulation exceeds a certain amount, a warehouse will be built near the main nest to be sealed. A total of three giant warehouses for this purpose have been built in history, but the hairy forest ants have not yet opened any of them.
Today, due to economic pressure, the elders of the Maolin Ants announced for the first time that after a symbolic sacrifice to the Water God, the Water God allowed the opening of a position.
The opened warehouse is the oldest one. It is built in the tree hole of a tree next to the main nest. It is piled from a low point above the ground to the top of the main trunk, with a height of 2 meters. The internal scale is comparable to that of a large or medium-sized auxiliary building. nest. The entrances to the densely packed cavities built during the initial transportation were blocked by stones and clay. After they were gradually opened, a musty smell that had been sealed for countless years spread out, making the "Eastern Mao" and the nobles of Maolin ants all come together. Qi retreated.
However, the slave ants were forced to get in and carry it after the concentration of the mold fog decreased. Soon a large amount of materials were moved out. Gradually, corpses that died of suffocation were also carried out. The materials were piled on the ground in categories, and then were moved by other slaves. The ants moved to the main nest warehouse, which was about to bottom out. The corpses were dumped directly in slave graveyards.
Among the supplies that were moved out, although the food was all dried meat and thick honey with a long shelf life, because I didn’t expect it to take so long to be unsealed, all the dried meat shrank into a horrible black ant droppings shape that I dare not swallow. In the jar of honey There was only a small amount of sticky supplies left, all of them useless. On the other hand, the gold and crystal clear stones of various colors have not changed at all. They are so golden and shiny that they are loved by ants. I think even the nobles of barbaric ants will like these things.
These gold and jade will be paid to the Ant Alliance, and at the same time used as hard currency to continue to purchase urgently needed supplies from allies in the region and distant trading partners. "Dong Mao" has been authorized by the God Envoy King before and agreed to accept gold as a means of payment and export grain, crow honey, etc. to him.
As for jade of various colors, the hairy forest ants can use it to exchange for the raw materials of white-flowered pyrethrum poison weapons from the eastern highlands, where the tribal ants on the barren land are very fond of these things. "Dong Mao" also likes it very much. If you can stick a piece of red jade above the single eye in the middle of the forehead, it will definitely be very majestic and beautiful. But he did not have the authorization from the God Envoy King and did not dare to make any arbitrary decisions.
And the divine envoy Wang Zhujue was having a headache in a distant place.
