At this time, the time has come to the end of September this year, and nearly a month has passed since the vigorous oath of the Western Expedition.
This month, the northern and southern armies of the Western Expeditionary Army have achieved overwhelming momentum. They have achieved the first phase of the campaign goals ahead of schedule and have reached the farthest target point of this phase of the expedition. They have also reached the maximum distance that the current logistics can support. After each left a certain amount of troops to fortify on the spot, both the northern and southern armies sent their main forces back. The time was ripe, ready to eat the largest group of destroyers in the rear.
Today, there are more than 300,000 Destroyers gathered in the hills at the junction of the original Marching Ant Country and the Black Fire Ant Country. They basically include all the active forces of the Destroyers in a large area. No matter how far away the Destroyers are, they will never choose to join here again. , because it is beyond the communication range of the Radar Destroyer.
As long as this destroyer is eaten, the first stage of the Western Expedition will end successfully, and the Western Expedition Army will successfully regain a large area of lost territory. Restoration construction will then begin, logistics transportation lines will be improved, and supplies will be stockpiled for the second phase of the war. This is a story later.
Back on the battlefield, after the main forces of the northern and southern armies returned to their divisions, they had completely surrounded this group of destroyers the day before yesterday and suppressed them in a long and narrow hill area. The general offensive was about to be launched.
The total offensive force assembled by the Western Expeditionary Army has a strength of 900,000. It has three times the strength advantage, and has mastery of the air. It also has absolute firepower advantage and is sure to win. There was no need for Zhu Jue to go to the front line in person, but he still temporarily left his station to command and supervise the war nearby. It is true that this battle can be won with the help of the God Envoy King's army alone, but Zhu Jue hopes to magnify the significance of this battle. For this reason, he mobilized almost all the allies from all races in the Western Expedition Army to the battlefield, and even The scattered Einsatzgruppe were also called up.
Zhu Jue hopes to involve all allies in this battle and break the psychological disadvantage of the civilized ant coalition against the Destroyer through a personal and heart-pounding victory.
Previously, due to the defeat too quickly and miserably in the face of the Destroyer's crisis of annihilation, whether it was the so-called brave army ants, the thin-legged ants, or the mediocre sharp-tailed ants, honeypot ants and other tribes, they were all destroyed. Under the attack of the enemy, he was reduced to an existence like the five scum of the war, and the confidence of many allied nobles also collapsed. Before the launch of this Western Expedition, the theory of failure was always popular at the Civilized Ant Tribe Conference. It was because of Zhu Jue's persistence and his brilliant results in the battle of the Great Wall Defense Line that he blocked the minds of these opponents and allowed the Western Expedition to proceed smoothly.
However, victory in the defensive battle alone was not enough to completely break the myth that the Destroyer was invincible in the hearts of the allies, not to mention that most of the allies did not participate in that battle or were just soy sauce. This time Zhu Jue hoped that they would personally win the offensive victory to build confidence.
It is true that a fearful ally that has suffered repeated failures will help Zhu Jue control it, but being too fearful and cowardly will actually hinder the civilized ant alliance. Zhu Jue is trying to control this speed.
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On October 1, the general offensive was officially launched.
The area controlled by the Destroyer is roughly an oval hill that is long and narrow from north to south and narrow from east to west. The height of the hill is only a few dozen meters. It is not a natural danger that is difficult to climb even for ants, but it is already on this vast plain. A rare location.
There is an old ant nest on the top of the mountain roughly in the middle, which belongs to a certain indigenous ant. It is currently the headquarters of all radar destroyers and has gathered the largest number of destroyers. Since the size of the ant nest cannot accommodate all the Destroyers, there are still hundreds of thousands of Destroyers scattered in caves, tree holes, stone crevices, etc. from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside. These scattered Destroyers do not have radar Destroyers nearby to command them. Once If they are divided, they will fall into the disadvantageous situation of fighting on their own.
Therefore, in this battle, the troops of the Western Expedition were divided into four groups, launching simultaneous attacks from the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest. The battle plan was to first separate and eliminate the scattered Destroyers from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, and then launch the final attack on the nest near the top of the mountain. Among them, the black fire ant army is on the east road, the sharp-tailed ant army and leaf-cutter ant army are on the north road, the thin-legged ant army, the blind leaf-cutting ant army and the stony desert humpback ant army are on the west road, and the sharp-tailed ant army is on the west road. , honeypot ant army, harvest ant army, Sanshi flat-headed ant army and bullet ant army are on the South Road, with about 150,000 troops invested in the front line. The Divine Envoy King's Corps participated in the battle in all four directions, mainly responsible for fire cover and serving as a reserve force, and also invested 100,000 troops.
After the battle started, the civilized ant tribe in the air was dominated by the God Envoy King Air Force and supplemented by the Thief Ant Air Force.
The air power soon completely occupied the sky. In the past few days, there were sporadic flying destroyers that tried to fight back, but they had been exhausted. Today, not even a single flying destroyer could be seen in the sky.
Thanks to careful pre-war reconnaissance, the attacking coalition commander used the map information package in his mind to find the Destroyer's hiding spots one by one, and divided them up and eliminated them with absolutely superior troops and firepower. If the battlefield situation changes and there is no way to escape aerial reconnaissance, the flying knight will promptly report the military situation by flying or simply landing directly.
On the North Road, at the beginning, the Black Fire Ant soldiers faced the ferocious Destroyer alone for the first time, and they seemed to lack confidence. No matter how much the king in the rear sweep formation urged, the kings on the front line and their direct troops were always slow to form the formation. Move, lest you accidentally be counter-killed by a small number of Destroyers on the opposite side.
But in front of the first cave, the Destroyer who rushed out ferociously was shot by the artillerymen with close support from the Angel King's Legion using light guns and mung bean cannons carried by small beetles, as well as dive bombing by the flying knights in the air. , the originally dense formation became extremely sparse, and less than a quarter of the hundreds of Destroyers made it to the melee stage.
Those on the front line of the Black Fire Ant Army are the elite "Leather Armor Army". The leather armor made of tanned cicada belly skin is so tough that even the jaws of the Destroyer can't easily pierce it. With the support of the Ant Alliance, The Leather Army soldiers also use iron jaw knives, which can effectively kill the Destroyer in hand-to-hand combat.
With the absolute advantage of troops, this group of destroyers was quickly killed. Although the black fire ant army still paid a one-to-one exchange ratio in the hand-to-hand combat, the king and the kings who commanded it were still very excited. They automatically ignored the artillery support from the God Envoy King's army, feeling that their own army had actually defeated the Destroyer independently, and their confidence instantly increased.
The same scene also appeared on other battlefields. With the support of the God's Envoy King's legions regardless of consumption, the peripheral Destroyer strongholds that were fighting on their own were pulled out one by one, and the confidence of the commanders of each race also increased. Improved little by little.
After the first day of fighting, all the Destroyer outposts at the foot of the mountain had been uprooted, and about 50,000 Destroyers were wiped out. The civilized ant coalition lost more than 20,000 troops and wasted ammunition.
