Chapter 239: The Battle of June Three (1)
On June 3rd, the Leaf-Cutting Ant Army attacked from various nests in all directions at the same time, and the Divine Envoy King's army also fulfilled its promise to support, and the Paving Ant Emperor immediately divided his troops to fight.
A battle broke out in which the three sides invested a total of more than one million troops. Because this battle was fought in multiple locations at the same time, it was named "June 3rd Battle" based on the date of the day!
Before this battle, the main force of the leaf-cutting ant army was not assembled, but scattered in as many as dozens of nests, some of which had tens of thousands of troops, and some of which were only stationed in thousands.
This was determined by the previous deployment of the leafcutter ant army, because the central region was not dangerous to defend, located in a flat and wide plain area, and the defense line was set up very long, divided into scattered defense nodes.
The Leaf Cutter Army is scattered in these nodes, some nodes have more troops, playing a supporting and supporting role, and some have fewer garrisons and are only auxiliary defense points.
Previously, the Paving Ant Emperor and the Red Fire Ant Army came from afar, and after defeating the first counterattack of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army, they immediately surrounded one of the nests and were stepping up the siege. At the same time, after the Paving Ant Emperor scouts reconnoitred the nearby terrain, they also began to divide their troops to attack a number of nearby nests and occupied two of them.
Before the start of the battle, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army was relatively scattered, while the Paving Ant Emperor was relatively concentrated. Therefore, the primary goal of the leafcutter ant army in each nest is to concentrate in the central area.
The Paving Ant Emperor has already arrived on the battlefield with thousands of "mosquitoes" and basically controlled the air supremacy, and the flying knights of the Divine Envoy King Legion can only look at the empty space to complete the reconnaissance mission, and the few Star Sky Bulls of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army do not dare to take off at all.
The Paving Ant Emperor, who has air supremacy, can grasp the dynamics on the battlefield, but their judgment has been wrong.
Because of the backwardness of the means of communication, the scattered leaf-cutting ant army only agreed to send troops at the same time on June 3, assemble in the center, and then pounce on the enemy's main force to start a decisive battle.
But on this day, the departure time of the troops of each nest is different, and a large nest in the north is ready to send troops not long after dawn, about six o'clock and less than seven o'clock, which drives other nests around to respond, and soon gathers an army of more than 100,000 to advance to the south-east.
After receiving the information of the "mosquitoes" and scouts, the Paving Ant Emperor thought that it was the main force of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army, and immediately sent 300,000 troops to the north, leaving the other half of the troops in place to continue the siege of the previous target nest.
The nests in the central and southern parts of the Leaf Cutter Army did not know that the troops in the north had set off so early, this line of defense was a kilometer long, and the communication on the ground would be relatively slow, and it was only at about eight o'clock that the Leaf Cutter Army in the central and southern parts began to assemble one after another. Among them, the southern leaf-cutting ant army sent troops earlier than the central one.
At about half past eight in the morning, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army and the Paving Ant Emperor had already begun to fight in many places, and the battlefield situation was extremely complicated
To the north, more than 100,000 leaf-cutting ant army has encountered 300,000 paving ant emperors, the two sides are fighting, the leaf-cutting ant army is at a disadvantage, forced to push into a nearby forest, the paving ant emperor pursues it, and the leaf-cutting ant army is three-dimensional in the woods, giving full play to the advantages of tree warfare, so that the paving ant emperor can not defeat them for a while.
In the middle, more than 200,000 leaf-cutting ant army and more than 100,000 paving ant emperor are confronting, the leaf-cutting ant army has just come out of the nest to set up the formation, the paving ant emperor has sent troops to the north and south before the two directions, at this time the strength is insufficient, from the siege decisively withdrew, the two armies are arrayed on an unknown flat land, about to fight a decisive battle.
In the south, more than 200,000 leaf-cutting ant troops and more than 100,000 paving ant emperors have started a fight, and the paving ant emperors occupy a continuous mound, preventing the leaf-cutting ant army from approaching the central battlefield.
In addition to the three main battlefields, there are more than a dozen large and small battlefields in the entire war zone, and they are basically some small nests of leaf-cutting ant army after setting off, and in the future, they have time to merge with the large army, and they encounter the paving ant emperor.
On the side of the Paving Ant Emperor, the forces of many vassal ant clans were scattered to plunder the spoils of war, and many did not participate in the battle in the northern, central, and southern regions, but instead collided with the scattered small units of the leaf-cutting ant army, and launched many small-scale battles with no low intensity.
The whole war zone is in chaos!
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Because of today's large-scale attack by the Leaf Cutting Ant Army, which attracted a high frequency of patrol sorties by the "mosquito" troops of the Paving Ant Emperor, the flying knights of the Divine Envoy King Legion were forced to give up reconnaissance to the north, and could only ensure the reconnaissance and transmission of information in the southern part.
The Legion of the Divine Envoy was ready to attack, and after the Flying Knight reported that the nearby southern lair had been dispatched, the Legion of the Divine Envoy also rushed out of the fortress.
First of all, the flying knights collectively flew from the air force to the fly, and they circled over the army, protecting the local airspace.
Then there are the tank troops, with huge spade armor shining with silver and iron armor looking extremely powerful.
The stag armor is the mount of the assault force, and in order to strengthen the defense, the whole body is covered with special iron armor. This kind of iron armor is made of large and small pieces of iron glued to the substrate of ant silk cloth, and the substrate is fixed on the back of the stag armor with ant silk rope. There is also a huge platform saddle on the back of the stag armor, which not only plays the role of fixing the iron armor, but also can accommodate up to a dozen soldiers to command and fight on it.
As a fire support "tank", the double-pronged rhino beetle does not wear a defensive but cumbersome iron armor, but carries a larger platform with a millet cannon mounted on it, and a special gun crew to operate.
The Divine Envoy King warriors also rushed to the ground from multiple entrances and exits, and the sun was very good today, shining down, and the Divine Envoy King Warriors were all covered with iron armor like lenses.
These iron armor is well maintained, it was rainy a while ago, and there is no rust on the armor, and the ant warriors cherish the iron armor as if they were their own carapace, and often lick and clean it, so that the iron armor always keeps the light at all.
Today, because it takes a long march of one mile to reach the battlefield, and the air is not very safe, the protagonist does not fly on "Little Black" or walk, but sits on the back of a two-pronged rhinoceros beetle. The cannons of this two-pronged rhinoceros beetle had a previous malfunction that was difficult to repair, so it had to be removed and became the protagonist's command mount.
The Praetorian Guards surround the protagonist's mount, and the protagonist bids farewell to the commander of the 5th Legion who remains in the fortress and sets out with the army.
After walking for about half an hour, the scout reported that there was a skirmish ahead, and a small group of leaf-cutting ants were being chased and killed, and the enemy was not paving ants or red fire ants, but a group of stout and swollen ants that they had never seen before!
The protagonist orders the 16th Legion, which is closest to that direction, to go up and meet the friendly forces.
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