On the west side of the territory of the Red Fire Ant Country, about 3 days away from the forest where the Leaf Cutter Ant Country is located, and exactly 3 days away from the main nest of the Red Fire Ant Country [Hive City], there is a nest of considerable size.

There is a talc mine near this nest, and the red fire ants occasionally collect some talcum powder to use as a special medicine for certain diseases, so this nest is called [Talc City]!

[Talc City] is an important stronghold of the Red Fire Ant Country to defend against the invasion of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, and the landmarks here have some messy stones, and the terrain is relatively rugged, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

At the same time, [Talc City] is also a meeting point near several ant paths, especially on the most convenient road from the leaf-cutting ant country to the main nest [Hive City].

As long as the Red Fire Ant Army holds this place, the main nest of the Red Fire Ant Country [Hive City] can ensure safety, although there are other ant paths that can be detoured, but the large army of leaf-cutting ants will never dare to make the decision to bypass this [Talc City], which means exposing their vulnerable supply lines to the threat of the Red Fire Ant Army, which is an act of seeking death.

And once [Talc City] is lost, the main nest [Hive City] will be unsafe to defend before, and it will be directly exposed to the enemy's front.

Therefore, it has become a battleground for both sides.

The defensive position chosen by the Red Fire Ant Army is just outside [Talcum City], and the terrain here is conducive to defense.

And the army of leaf-cutting ants also rushed here after forcing back more than 40,000 red fire ant troops in the border area. The last time the Leaf Cutter Army attacked [Hive City] in history, the Leaf Cutter Army knew that this was a hub that had to be taken.

It's just that in the war in history, the Red Fire Ant Army did not deploy defenses here, and the Leaf Cutter Army easily occupied this place and expanded it into a transit station.

Today's [Slippery Rock City] is much more fortified than the last time it was easily occupied by the Leaf Cutter Army. Obviously, time has passed, and the Red Fire Ant Army has also learned the lessons of that war.

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The sky is blue and the sun is shining.

It was a good day for the decisive battle, warm and dry.

On the ground, talc and some conglomerate are scattered around, creating a rugged terrain in which vegetation grows tenaciously.

[Talc City] is located in a slightly higher place, backed by a huge rock, more than ten meters in front of it, a stone wall about half a meter high horizontally, about 50 meters long, slowly hanging down into the flat ground.

The position of the army of red fire ants is arranged on this stone wall. Some of the surrounding vegetation that was not conducive to defense had been cleared in advance, providing a good view for the defenders.

When the scouts of the Red Fire Ant Army reported that the Leaf Cutting Ant Army had arrived outside [Talc City], the Red Fire Ant Army quickly dispatched their entire army and set up a formation outside the city.

Although the terrain near [Talc City] is easy to defend and difficult to attack, its interior is built in stone crevices, and the scale is not large, which is not convenient for all the defenders to fight and maneuver inside. In addition, the army of red fire ants did not have much food, and it was difficult to hold the city for a long time, so they simply chose to fight outside the city, preparing to repel the enemy in one go.

Outside the city, the army of red fire ants is arranged in a horizontal formation, and the central legion relies on the stone wall to defend, for more than 7,000 elite soldiers of the red fire ant clan, and about 20,000 slaves ambush soldiers, the front is relatively thin.

There are no stone walls to rely on on the left and right wings of the Red Fire Ant Army, and the length of the front is only more than 20 meters, so the formation is more abundant, with more than 15,000 elite soldiers of the Red Fire Ant clan on each wing, as well as more than 30,000 slave ambush soldiers to assist.

It can be seen that the formation of the Red Fire Ant Army is strong on both wings and weak in the middle, relying on the terrain in the middle to withstand the leaf-cutting ant army, and the two wings can wait for the opportunity to defeat the enemy in front of them, and then switch from defense to attack and outflank.

This is an offensive and defensive formation, which is very in line with the Red Fire Ant Army's tactics of flanking and outflanking.

In contrast, the army of leafcutter ants leaving the woods is less disciplined.

In the woods, the Leaf Cutter Army can play a perfect tree-ground synergy tactic. But on this rocky ground battlefield, after the army of leafcutter ants arrived in a marching array, they switched formations from a safe distance and laid out a very conventional formation.

The Leafcutter Ant Army has a numerical advantage, but it has no idea of outflanking at all, and instead piles all the troops on the front.

Because there are too many leaf-cutting ant troops, a single formation cannot accommodate all the troops, so the leaf-cutting ant army is divided into three lines of 360,000 troops before and after, and there are more than 100,000 troops on each line, and there is no main attack to assist, all of them are the main attack.

And the 30 most important Holy Beast Star Celestial Beans of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army were arranged in the position of the main formation on the third layer, and it seemed that they did not intend to be sent to the battlefield easily.

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At around 10 o'clock in the morning, the leaf-cutting ant army, which had completed the change of formation, began to attack.

As the heralds arrived at each unit in turn to announce the order, more than 100,000 troops on the front line of the leaf-cutting ant army attacked in turn, pressing forward with a jagged front that roughly protruded from the middle and the two flanks later.

Although the charge of the leaf-cutting ant army did not have the shouts of the mountains and tsunamis, the countless arthropods stepped on the ground, fallen leaves, and moss, and still made a terrifying dense "rustle" sound, and this silent charge was no weaker than the shock of the neighing of people and horses.

Countless ants ran, and some of the dwarf vegetation was knocked down.

Due to the influence of obstacles such as stones and vegetation on the road, the front of the leaf-cutting ant army became more and more fragmented when charging.

But this does not affect the fighting spirit of the leaf-cutter ant warriors, the large leaf-cutter ants and the small leaf-cutter ant warriors are mixed together, and they are all full of murderous intent.

Soon, the most advanced leafcutter ant troops had reached the bottom of the stone wall, and their intelligence did not know that there was such terrain on the enemy's defensive line, and they only discovered it when they got closer. But the leafcutter warrior climbs the rock walls as easily as a tree, and they don't stop them from climbing upwards, except for a few places with slippery moss.

The stone wall is not expected to stop the enemy from climbing.

When the first group of leaf-cutter ant warriors climbed to the top of the stone wall in a fierce manner, the red fire ant warriors and slave ambushers who were waiting for the battle could easily kill or push down the leaf-cutter ants that climbed up most of the time.

The leaf-cutting ants that climbed up, the body could not fully climb to the top platform, half-hung in the air and had nowhere to borrow strength, and the strength could not be exerted two or three percent, and the six limbs had to overcome gravity at the same time, but also to deal with the push and shove of the enemy, and at the same time, the big jaws had to be bitten, so it was naturally difficult to match the red fire ant army that was waiting for work.

When the Divine Envoy King's legion was in his homeland, he also used similar terrain to defend, and the side that occupied the high ground usually had a great advantage.

The presence of a stone wall on the front counteracts the momentum of the charging leaf-cutting ant army, forcing it to expend time and stamina on terrain that is unfavorable for attack.

At this time, on the flat ground on both wings, the army of leaf-cutting ants finally came into contact with the Red Fire Ant Army, and the two armies clashed fiercely!