Chapter 181: Battle of [Slippery Rock City] (6)
With the assistance of Xingtianniu's reconnaissance intelligence, today's Leaf Cutting Ant Army's offensive is finally clear, and the command is more organized.
This time, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army divided the remaining troops into two lines, each line of more than 100,000 soldiers, of which the first line launched the attack, the first line still launched an attack from three directions at the same time, and the second line served as a reserve.
The two-line arrangement can avoid the words of a crowd. The battlefield is overcrowded.
This time, the focus of the attack of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army shifted to the middle lane, where the largest number of offensive troops were arranged, and all 12 Star Bulls on the first line were also placed in this direction.
After two days, the muddy situation on the middle road was greatly improved by the high summer temperatures, the mud pool area was greatly reduced, most of the ground had been dried, and at least a layer of hard mud shell sealed the silt underneath.
Although the offensive route in the middle lane needs to face stone wall obstacles, the antlion trap behind the middle lane is the least and thinnest, and the leaf-cutting ant army, from the commander to the warrior, no longer wants to face a dense and large area of traps!
They prefer to choose the middle lane with unfavorable terrain as the main direction of attack, which shows how deeply impressed the antlion has left on them.
After the Leaf Cutting Ant Army launched an attack, the troops on both wings became more cautious, and under the deliberate control of the grassroots commanders, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army on both wings was not in a hurry to break through, but stuck to the enemy army in front of them and prevented them from reinforcing the middle lane.
In the middle of the battlefield, the dust is flying and the corpses are everywhere, but it is a different bloody scene.
The leaf-cutting ant army was well prepared for this offensive, and specially collected a lot of grass and branches from near the camp and carried them to the battlefield.
When the ground was muddy, they spread thin branches and blades of grass on them, and then continued their march unhindered.
After dodging the long-range attack of the bellied ants on the cliff wall, and entering the shooting blind spot under the cliff, some of the leaf-cutting ant warriors directly climbed the rock wall to attack.
More leaf-cutting ant warriors were busy lifting the thick branches that had been carried up the cliff slanting upwards, intending to use them as ladders.
These "ladders" of branches vary in length, some can only stand to two-thirds of the height of the cliff, or even only half of the waist, and cannot climb directly to the top, but at least allow the leafcutter warriors to save a lot of effort and time in climbing.
Leafcutter warriors, who are adept at climbing trees, climb these branches as if they were walking on the ground, much easier than climbing a smooth, near-vertical cliff.
More branches could be built directly to the top of the cliff that was not very high, and as soon as it was built, a large number of leaf-cutting ant warriors immediately followed the pole and quickly attacked the top of the cliff.
The Red Fire Ant Army on the top of the cliff was originally defending against danger and taking advantage of it. The Leaf Cutting Ant Army used the cloud ladder to greatly wipe out the enemy's geographical advantage.
The leaf-cutting ant army continued to rush up along the tree branches and ladders, and in the red fire ant army, the red fire ant warriors mixed with the slave auxiliaries also rushed to the cliff to organize resistance.
Under the heroic counterattack of the defenders, the corpses of leafcutter ants continued to fall from the top of the cliff or from the branches, and some leafcutter ant warriors even bit the enemy, jumped hard, and fell down the cliff with the enemy warriors, and then continued to bite and die in the corpse pile at the bottom of the cliff.
The Red Fire Ant Army also managed to overturn a few branches, but to no avail, and the Leaf Cutter Ant Army was able to quickly re-establish the fallen branches.
The bottom of the cliff was soon densely covered with corpses, and in an instant, a thick layer of half a centimeter was piled up, and the corpses and wreckage on both sides continued to fall like snowflakes, as if they would soon form a corpse slope under the cliff that went straight to the top of the cliff!
Some ants that were not yet dead also fell into the pile of corpses, still struggling, but soon more ants fell and completely covered the living ants in the blink of an eye. The vast majority of injured ants could hardly struggle out of the thickening mountain of corpses with their own strength, and could only suffocate inside.
War is so brutal that individual lives are so small that they seem to be non-existent.
Although the cliff still limits the strength of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army, but relying on a steady stream of soldiers to continue to rush up, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army has paid a lot of price, and finally occupied one foothold after another on the top of the cliff.
The defense line of the Red Fire Ant Army in the middle lane is tight, and with the Leaf Cutting Ant Army's Holy Beast Star Heavenly Bull also flapping its wings and flying up the cliff to attack, the defense line of the Red Fire Ant Army is in danger of collapsing at any time.
The defenders' defenses in the center were extremely tight, while the troops on both flanks were intact, but the commander of the Red Fire Ant Army did not choose to draw troops from both flanks to support.
The Red Fire Ant Army in the middle of the lane, with slave auxiliaries, entangled the leaf-cutting ant army that had completely occupied the edge of the cliff, and even the cowardly belly ants and Japanese black brown ant warriors had to fight to the death because of the existence of the Red Fire Ant Supervisor team.
The Red Fire Ant Army organized the elite warriors of its own clan to form a death squad, and after fighting out the 5 Holy Beast Star Heavenly Bulls, they finally ran out of sharpness.
Seeing that the defenders in the middle had almost shed their last drop of blood, and the defense line was crumbling, the supreme commanders of the Red Fire Ant Army finally mobilized their reserves.
The more than 20,000 local troops standing by outside [Slippery Rock City] at the rear of the front immediately accelerated into the battlefield.
Their arrival stabilized the central defense line that was about to collapse, and also allowed the front-line troops of the Red Fire Ants, which had lost their formation and fought separately, to regroup.
At this time, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army's offensive had declined, obviously with a huge advantage in strength, and the Star Sky Bull was helping to fight, but this time the Leaf Cutting Ant Army failed to even break through to the trap area.
Of course, the traps of the Red Fire Ant Army are mainly arranged on the two wings, and there are few traps behind the cliff, and the defenders are not at ease to rely on the trap to resist the attack of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army, so they put into the reserve in advance, which is also a big reason.
At this time, not only was the offensive exhausted, but even the Xingtian Bull died and fled, and only 4 were left to cooperate with the battle, and they were all wounded.
When the Red Fire Ant reinforcements came in full swing, some of the Leafcutter Ant squad commanders turned around and ran, retreating with the surrounding troops, completely shaking the front of the Leafcutter Ant Army.
Seeing that this offensive, the leaf-cutting ant army is about to retreat again.
But this time, the Leaf Cutter Ant Army received a strict order from the Queen Ant Assembly in [Sacred Tree City], and they didn't dare to give up halfway.
As a result, the leaf-cutting ant army put its third line of troops into the battlefield, and more than 100,000 fresh troops slaughtered the left, center, and right roads like a tsunami, and they were still the main attack in the middle.
The last 10 intact Star Bulls were also sent to the middle lane by the Leaf Cutting Ant Army, and they were bound to penetrate here.
The Leaf Cutting Ant Army no longer has any reserves available, and the Red Fire Ant Army has no reserves, and both sides have invested all their strength.
The bets are all placed, the winning dice are dropped, they are spinning, and when the dice stop, the winner will be decided!