Chapter 240: The Battle of June Three (2)
By the time the 16th Army arrived, hundreds of leaf-cutting ants had already been overtaken by the enemy.
Some of the mid-worker ants stood outside, holding plant fragments, stones, and even the corpses of their companions as shields in front of them, forming a ring formation, barely resisting the enemy's attacks, but it seemed that they couldn't support it for long.
The remaining middle and small worker ants were trembling in the array, and even the small leaf-cutting ants, which had always been brave, had no will to fight at this time and did not dare to resist.
This routed army has lost its commander and the most elite of the Great Worker Ants, and it has become what it is now.
And what surrounded these hundreds of leaf-cutting ants was just a few hundred red ants with bristles.
Among these ants, the largest is larger than the medium leaf cutter ant, but it is certainly much smaller than the large leaf cutter ant, the largest ant is only about 30 or so, and there are more than 80 small ant warriors.
The body, limbs, and antennae of this ant appear to be very thick, and they are much thicker than other ants.
The antennae on their heads, with a distinct ring-like structure, are also covered with bristles, and at first glance, they look like two black, hairy maggots lying on their heads, and the characteristics are very distinct.
These ants are the Ehrlich ant, whose Latin name is Nomamyrmexesenbeckii, is a very powerful character in the genus Ant, and the nemesis of the leafcutter ant family!
I saw that the large warriors among these diffuse ants relied on their size advantage, repeatedly rushed through the "shield array" of the leaf-cutting ants, grabbed a leaf-cutting ant with a thick jaw and dragged it out, and the medium-sized Ich's ant immediately pounced, arched its abdomen, and pierced the sharp and sharp sting needle, and soon the leaf-cutting ant died motionlessly.
Seeing that the friendly forces were in danger, the 16th Legion hurriedly stepped forward to save the defeated army of leaf-cutting ants.
At first, when the Hunter Scythe Ant Scout Warriors rushed up, the Ichsmann ants rushed up to resist, but after seeing the large army of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, these Ichsler's Ants immediately withdrew very smartly and suffered no losses.
In a short battle, the Scythe Ant Scout Warrior, who has always been the crown of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, did not get a favor from the Ich's Ant, and the fully armored Hunter's Sickle Ant Scout died 4, referring to the death of 1 big Ich's ant and 2 medium Ich's Ant, which is a small defeat...
After rescuing the leafcutter ants, the protagonist learns some information from the rout:
These routs belonged to a nearby nest, and some 3,000 warriors attacked, but without merging into any large force, they encountered about six or seven hundred Ehrlich's ants.
After the battle between the two armies, the Leafcutter Ant Army is accustomed to being at the forefront with large soldiers, and they are accustomed to relying on the tactics of relying on the large Leafcutter ants to find an opportunity to drag the enemy into or lift them into the line in a stalemate, and then the small leafcutter ants will rush up and dismember the opponent.
However, this tactic has been completely restrained in the Albert's manchulature, although the large warrior of the Ehrlich's ant's size is not as large as the large leaf-cutting ant, but the carapace is hard, and the leaf-cutter ant's large jaws are difficult to "decapitate" even if the neck is clamped. The strength of the Aelich ant is no less impressive, and it is difficult for the large leafcutter ant to drag it out, so it can only occasionally lift the other to kill it.
The large leafcutter ant was soon killed and injured under the sting needle of the other party, and the large worker ant "T" was lost, and the small leafcutter ant responsible for the output and the auxiliary leafcutter ant had no intention of fighting and fled in all directions.
The commander of this rout army had already died, but fortunately, there were not many Ai Worm ants chasing them, so they persevered until the Divine Envoy King Legion came to save them. As for the rest of the rout, they don't know where they fled to.
The protagonist lets the leafcutter warrior follow him, and he doesn't have time to save the other defeated troops who are being hunted down, and directs his soldiers to continue to advance north, towards the planned decisive battle.
At this time, the Divine Envoy King Legion did not grasp the overall situation of the battlefield, and did not know that the main force of the Paving Ant Empire Army was in the north, and not in the central battlefield where the messenger of the Leafcutter Ant Army asked them to rush.
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Along the way, the Divine Envoy King Legion defeated a number of small troops of the Paving Ant Imperial Army, these troops were as few as a few hundred, as many as a few thousand, most of them were not paving ant troops, but a mess of various ant clans, most of which were not strong in combat, far less impressive than the Ai Worm Ant left on the protagonist.
The protagonist passed by the battlefield where the Aelich ant defeated the Leaf Cutter Ant Army, and saw the corpses on the ground, but after careful identification, the ratio of the corpses of the Ehrlich Ant and the Leaf Cutter Ant was as high as 1:20, that is, in a frontal battle, to kill an Ehrlich Ant, the Leaf Cleaver Ant had to take the lives of more than 20 soldiers, most of whom were still elite workers. This is still the exchange ratio of frontal combat, and when the elite of the leaf-cutting ant army is exhausted and defeated, the exchange ratio will increase significantly.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, the scouts of the Divine Envoy King's legion were the first to discover the battlefield in the south, and the whole army turned to support it.
At this time, the Divine Envoy King's legion had completely lost air supremacy, and from time to time there were large groups of "mosquitoes" flying over the battlefield, and there were as few as one or two hundred, and the flying knights had already retreated to the place of departure.
Fortunately, this group of "mosquitoes" is not very interested in the enemy troops on the ground, and only occasionally lands to attack some conspicuous leafcutter ant commanders, and other times just hovers at low altitudes.
The artillery and tank guns of the Divine Envoy King's army fired several times in the air, but they lost the good luck of most of the month ago, and the air defense effect was not good, and only a few "mosquitoes" were killed, and the "mosquito" swarm did not care about this loss.
After the Divine Envoy King's army arrived in the southern theater of operations, it decided the direction of the battle with a hammer.
This was originally the Leaf-Cutting Ant Army, but the Paving Ant Empire Army had a geographical advantage, and it was deployed on an almost vertical mound, repeatedly forcing back this Leaf-cutting Ant Army that was trying to approach the central battlefield.
There were also more than 10,000 leaf-cutting ant warriors who arrived at the same time as the Divine Envoy King Legion, all of whom were rescued by the Divine Envoy King Legion along the way, or saw scattered troops who took the initiative to come closer.
There are 200,000 people on the coalition side, and there are new forces to join, and the Paving Ant Empire Army has been fighting for a long time, exhausted, and there are less than 100,000 troops left.
The Divine Envoy King's Legion supported the Leaf Cutting Ant Army with artillery fire to break through a section of the mound, and the tank troops and the infantry of the Divine Envoy King's Legion made a detour back to the flank, finally defeating the Paving Ant Imperial Army, forcing it to leave behind the rearguard and withdraw from the blocking position.
Through this battle, the protagonist also has an objective evaluation of the combat power of the Paving Ant Imperial Army: their equipment and fighting spirit are stronger than the original Paving Ant Barbarian Army, but due to their limited strength, the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers is limited.
It's just that the reason why the Paving Ant Imperial Army is terrifying is not because of the strength of individual soldiers, but because of its huge number and the effective command of million-level troops, it is the most terrifying.
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