Chapter 114: The Battle of the Ages (2)

There are about 400,000 reinforcements from the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, which is all their mobile forces on the front line, divided into multiple columns, and marched east with a long snake formation about 1-2 meters wide and up to 100 meters long, to support the garrison of the new territory that is fighting with the Red Fire Ant Army.

This large leaf-cutting ant army was unguarded, and their commander believed that the main force of the Red Fire Ant Army was engaged in a fierce battle with the defenders of the new territory in the east, and had previously repelled a small partial division of the Red Fire Ant Army, and the Red Fire Ant Army should not have a large force on the left.

As for the Leafcutter Army's path, there were small groups of troops stationed at intervals to protect the lines of communication, and although they spotted some Red Fire Ant Scouts - which is normal in wartime - they did not find any information about the presence of large enemy forces.

Therefore, the leaf-cutting ant army is just burying its head in the road, and there are only a small number of troops on the flank.

If the Leaf Cutter Army had Flying Knights, they wouldn't be so optimistic.

From the air, in the north and south directions, the army of red fire ants is already rushing like a red tide, about to slap on the thin embankment formed by the leafcutter ants.

The two units of the Red Fire Ant Army, north and south, were separated by a continuous position in the middle of the leaf-cutting ant army in a line, and it was inconvenient for them to communicate information.

However, after the scouts of the two clusters found traces of the leaf-cutting ant army, the two clusters in the north and south began to act as planned, showing good execution.

The scouts of the cluster to the north sent back information earlier, and they left earlier. The cluster in the south was about half an hour behind the north because the scouts discovered the information late.

Both clusters were originally 150,000 fighters, but now the third cluster in the south has more than 200,000. This is because the remnants of the second group that had broken up last night, led by the surviving Red Fire Ant Commander, came to get closer.

The current marching formation of the leaf-cutting ant army is very long, and it is difficult to take care of the end of the end, and the best tactic of the Red Fire Ant Army should be to divide and surround them in several columns and eliminate them in turn.

However, the Red Fire Ant Army does not understand this tactic, and knows that ambushes and surprise attacks are already the ceiling of the Red Fire Ant Army's art of war.

When the 150,000 troops of the fourth group of the Red Fire Ant Army suddenly appeared to the north of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army, the number of flank covering troops of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army was too small, and they did not hurriedly warn until the enemy army arrived, but it was too late.

The Red Fire Ant Army quickly routed the small number of flank covering troops of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army, and the front line was in an irregular straight line, and it slammed into the column of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army's marching army.

The Leaf Cutting Ant Army also immediately adjusted to meet the battle, but because they were in the marching army, it was difficult for them to change their formation for a while, and at the beginning, they were basically small units fighting separately under the leadership of their respective commanders.

Among the leaf-cutting ant warriors, except for the large leaf-cutting ants with a low proportion of red fire ant warriors, the small leaf-cutting ants with the largest number are not the opponents of red fire ants, and they need to rely on size and numerical advantages to compete.

In the midst of the chaos, many of the large and small soldiers of the leaf-cutting ant army were disjointed during the march, and they could only go up hard.

The raid of the Red Fire Ant Army caused a lot of casualties to the Leaf Cutting Ant Army for a while, but with a numerical advantage of nearly three times, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army survived the initial panic.

Countless rushing heralds passed the orders of the highest female ant commander of this unit to the male ant commanders in the middle and lower ranks, and the long snake of the leaf-cutting ant army began to writhe, its head and tail extended out, and it used a longer formation to begin to encircle the red fire ant army in the north in reverse.

If the battle continues like this, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army will rely on its numerical superiority to completely surround and eat the main force of the Red Fire Ant Army.

But half an hour later, the situation changed.

The larger Red Fire Ant Army from the south arrived on the battlefield, and the Red Fire Ant Army finally had a numerical advantage, and the balance of battle began to tilt.

What's worse is that the Leaf Cutter Ant Army did not anticipate that there would be an enemy behind them, and they all fought to the north, leaving the weakest troops with their baggage and their supreme commander's own position to the south.

The first wave of attacks from the third group of the Red Fire Ant Army rushed into the headquarters of the Supreme Commander of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army, killing the young female ant and the dozen or so elderly male ant staff officers around her.

Having lost their unified command, the Leafcutter Ant Army is once again in a situation of fighting on its own, and this time, their chain of command cannot be restored.

The battle situation changed abruptly, and the farthest leaf-cutting ant army did not know that the headquarters had been taken by Lian Guo, but still faithfully carried out the previous orders and completed the encirclement of the fourth cluster of the Red Fire Ant Army.

But only a few minutes later, in the middle of the battlefield, the Red Fire Ant Army attacked from the north and south, eliminating the leaf-cutting ant army in the middle lane, and opening up the connection between the two groups.

The sun had reached the west, and now, the battlefield had become a situation in which the Red Fire Ant Army was in the middle, and the remnants of the Leafcutter Ant Army were on the east and west.

The Leafcutter Army in the west is larger, numbering about 200,000 people, while the Leafcutter Ant Army in the east has about 100,000 warriors.

The Red Fire Ant Army knew the principle of concentrating troops, and they let the slave auxiliaries go to the east to contain another Leafcutter Ant Army, and the main force of the whole army surrounded the Leafcutter Ant Army in the west.

The battle was extremely tragic, and the leaf-cutting ant army, which had no way to retreat, resisted desperately, but the leaf-cutting ant army, which had no numerical superiority, no individual combat superiority, and had lost its command, had already been unable to escape.

When night fell, under the moonlight, there were already corpses everywhere, and the Red Fire Ant Army had slaughtered all 200,000 leaf-cutting ant troops, and their killing efficiency was high, which can be seen.

Subsequently, the Red Fire Ant Army did not return to the nest, but continued to maneuver eastward under the moonlight, preparing to eliminate the remaining leaf-cutting ant army overnight.

The leafcutter army in the east, which was originally less stressed, has re-elected a new commander and rebuilt the command structure, but they do not know what will happen to the other troops.

The two sides continued to fight under the moonlight, and the leaf-cutting ant army finally felt the pressure increasing, and after not getting the news of the main force for a long time, they also became suspicious.

Finally, the Leafcutter Ant Army chose to retreat, and under the cover of night, the Red Fire Ant Army did not complete the encirclement in time, and was broken through to the east by the remnants of 50,000 leafcutter ants and fled into a new territory.

There are still 300,000 elite guards of the Red Fire Ant Army, and after the Red Fire Ant Army pursues for a while, they can only give up the pursuit of victory.

This great battle, which lasted from the morning to the first half of the night, finally came to an end. At the cost of 100,000 casualties, the Red Fire Ant Army wiped out 350,000 leaf-cutting ant troops.

Now with 400,000 against 350,000, the Red Fire Ant Army occupies a slight numerical advantage and also grasps the initiative on the battlefield.

The remaining 350,000 troops of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army had already learned the information that the reinforcements might be defeated, but before they could react, after sunrise the next day, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army found that they had been surrounded!