Chapter 222: The First Wave (5)
Faced with a tactic that was very different from that of the Public Security Legion and the Western Legion, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army was obviously very unaccustomed to the razor tactics of the Divine Envoy King Legion, and they seemed unable to find a way to deal with it in a short period of time, after all, it took them more than half a year to formulate the existing tactics.
The reason why the paver ants were able to develop such a targeted tactic is also thanks to a group of their neighbors, the all-heteroblind leaf-cutting ants.
Like the big-headed ant, the paver ant likes to live in the plain area with abundant products, and with its huge scale, the paver ant with low single combat effectiveness has become the overlord of this plain area on the north bank of the river.
But in some nearby hills and mountains, there are still other ant races that live. Just like the hilly area on the south bank of the river has a colony of hunting sickle fierce ants.
Among them, on the east side of the area where the paving ants live, about a day's journey from the opposite bank of the "Waterfront City", in a small valley near the big river, there lives a group of completely heteroblind leafcutter ants.
The all-heteroblind leaf-cutting ant, formerly known as the all-heterogeneous giant head ant, is a kind of ant with a high degree of evolution and a very clear division of labor. The genus Acetogenus, Hymenoptera, Antidae, Subfamily Leafcutter, Leafcutter Antidae, Leafcutter Ant. Known as the "Asian marching ants", they can reach hundreds of thousands of mature colonies and have hundreds of queens.
The body color of the all-heteroblind leafcutter ant is dark chestnut brown, and the individuals of their race have the following characteristics: they have one eye, the queen is larger, has a special large soldier ant, and there is a huge disparity in size between the worker ant and the soldier ant.
There are many types of occupational ants in the total heteroblind leafcutter ant, and there are specific evolved soldier ants like the big-headed ant. There is also a great deal of variation in body size between different soldier ants.
The body length of the worker ants is generally 3.0-5.0 mm, the body length of the soldier ants is between 5.0-15.0 mm, and the body length of the queen ant is larger, with 17.0-20.0 mm.
In terms of combat methods, the all-heteroblind leaf-cutting ant is as fierce and unruly as the paving ant and the big-headed ant, without formic acid and stinging, and uses the big jaw as the main weapon, thanks to the size of the body, its bite force is more powerful.
The population size of these all-heteroblind leafcutter ants is not as large as the usual colony, and they have a nest in the valley with a population of about 10,000 individuals, which is a great disadvantage compared to the paver ants, even compared to other nearby races.
The size of this is closely related to where they come from and the environment in which they live.
These all-heteroblind leafcutter ants are outsiders. According to the recollection of the paver ant kings, these completely heteroblind leaf-cutting ants were brought in from the downstream of the river after a flood a few years ago. There were only a few hundred of them at the time, huddled in a floating mass of hay, probably victims of the flood.
They landed on the territory of the Paving Ant Country, and were soon discovered by their masters, and a conflict broke out between the two sides. Eventually, the dragon was unable to suppress the head snake, and the all-heteroblind leaf-cutting ants were driven out of the paving ant's territory along the riverbank and took refuge in a nearby valley to settle.
However, the paving ant warriors also have a deep understanding of the combat effectiveness of these completely heteroblind leaf-cutting ants - in the battle, the paving ant army suffered a lot of losses, and the huge special soldier ants with the cooperation of their companions can even calmly face the siege of dozens of times the paving ant warriors. It was only by virtue of the numerical superiority that the Paving Ant Army drove these drifters away.
Later, because the paver ants did not covet the valley area beyond the national border, the two sides were finally able to coexist peacefully.
However, these all-heteroblind leafcutter ants do not seem to have taken advantage of this respite to expand their populations. The reason for this may be that the valley near the river is too humid for the completely heteroblind leafcutter ants that prefer dryness. And there are some other races of ants in the surrounding area that break out wars with them from time to time, which also hinders their development.
In the view of the paving ant king, the all-blind leaf-cutting ants, like their old enemies, the big-headed ants, in addition to the worker ants, have huge soldier ants, and the tactics of the two are also very similar, both use the personal martial arts of the soldier ants to form a local advantage.
Therefore, at the suggestion of the lucky king, who had fled back from the south bank of the river, the Paving Ant Army began to assemble an army and constantly crossed the border to harass the all-blind leaf-cutting ants, using them as tactical sparring partners.
The innocent all-heteroblind leafcutter ants suddenly find that their small territory is no longer peaceful and secure, and there are paving ant warriors active almost every day. Out of the mentality of defending their homeland, the all-blind leaf-cutting ant warriors fought back, and the scale of the battle between the two sides gradually expanded from a gladiatorial battle between several ants to a battle at the level of several squads.
This is deliberately done by the Paving Ant Army, and several squads commanded by the Paving Ant King or even the Great King fought against the all-blind leaf-cutting ant warriors, constantly finding ways to restrain more soldier ants.
Therefore, when there are no or very few soldier ants in the team of all-heteroblind leafcutters, the Paving Ant Army will avoid fighting. However, when it is discovered that the enemy has a large number of special soldier ants, the paving ant army will pounce on them regardless of casualties.
Due to the strength of the soldier ants of the all-heteroblind leaf-cutting ants, in front of them, the paving ant warriors are as small as dwarfs. Therefore, in skirmishes, the paving ant army, which did not have much numerical superiority, suffered heavy losses.
The commanders of the paving ants did not care at all about the casualties of the soldiers, and these losses were quickly replenished by the queens. Through continuous actual combat, the various tactics and strategies conceived by the paving ant king and the kings to deal with the soldier ants have been practiced and adjusted according to the actual effect.
With the continuous actual combat, the Paving Ant Army finally found that as long as the soldiers were squeezed into the larger enemy soldiers' lines, the integrity of the enemy's formation could be destroyed, so as to divide the enemy little by little and form a local numerical advantage.
This is especially effective when dealing with the total heteroblind leafcutter ants, because the soldier ants of the all-heteroblind leafcutter ants tend to be larger, and the gap between the two soldiers is also large, enough for a large number of petite paving ant warriors to squeeze in to complete the division and encirclement.
This set of tactics was gradually perfected, and then the Paving Ant Army continued to let the main army that received the tactics information package invade the territory of the all-heteroblind leafcutter ants for training.
In the day-to-day training, the Paving Ant Army lost tens of thousands of soldiers, while the loss of the Completely Blind Leaf Cutting Ant Army was much smaller.
But the paving ant nation has millions of citizens, and the total heteroblind leafcutter ant colony is far less numerous and war-like. In the end, these innocent and bullied all-heteroblind leafcutter ants could not bear the losses day after day, and one day they fled far away, which ended the trial of the paving ant army.
At present, there is no tribe of all-heteroblind leaf-cutting ants for the Paving Ant Army to practice, and the time and climate do not support them to find new training objects.
Looks like they won't be able to find a way to restrain the Divine Envoy King's legions in this winter expedition?