Chapter 106: The Crisis of the Northern Expeditionary Army
By the day the protagonist arrives at Waterfront City, the situation on the north bank of the river has been turned upside down.
The storm is changing suddenly, the blizzard is coming, and no force can be immune!
Although the weather is getting cooler in autumn, the fire of war brought by the mysterious ants is getting hotter and hotter, igniting everything and destroying everything.
The chill of late autumn slowed down almost all the ants, and their combat effectiveness decreased, but it did not cause any negative impact on the mysterious ants.
Last week, the main force of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, which was surrounded by the original eastern nest and now the new main nest, finally collapsed under the continuous onslaught of the mysterious ants, and lost all the secondary nests they controlled in the vicinity except for the new main nest.
Now, there are less than 100,000 remnants of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army trapped in the new main nest, in a desperate situation, and its destruction is only a matter of time.
But the paving ant barbarian country still showed its tenacious side, after losing contact with the new main nest for more than half a month, the remaining secondary nest of the paving ant barbarian country was put into the command of the western nest, and a new king meeting was formed here, and a new legion was formed to continue to resist the attack of the mysterious ants.
The western nest is already the third ruling center established by the Paving Ant Barbarian Nation in the past year. At the same time, it is also the last nest of the paving ant barbarian country.
At present, the territory and comprehensive strength that the Western Wing Nest can control is less than one-third of the period when the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom won the victory, but they are already the last hope of the Paving Ant Barbarian State to resist foreign invasion. Once defeated, even if the paving ant barbarian country dies like a hundred-legged insect without stiffening, it will no longer have the power to return to heaven.
After basically eliminating the main force of the paving ant barbarian army that divided the eastern nest, the mysterious ants, in addition to the remnant pave ant defenders who were still besieging the eastern nest, sent a force of more than 10,000 to attack the territory of the Great King's Conference faction along the road of the last invasion.
Almost exactly like the script of the last invasion, the mysterious ant army has breached several secondary nests and approached the [bridgehead].
In fact, after the forces of the Great King's Council faction finally expelled the mysterious ant troops, although they recovered the sub-nests that had fallen before, they were not able to restore the production capacity of these sub-nests at all, and they did not station too many defenders here.
The few secondary nests before the [bridgehead] are more of an early warning and buffer.
After the battle with the mysterious ants, the males of the King's Council faction planned in advance how to deal with the next war.
Based on the success of their last battle, they pinned their hopes on the fortified fortifications of the [Bridgehead] to defend and counterattack, which was designed by the protagonist himself to resist a large number of enemy sieges with a small number of troops.
Last time, the army of the Great King's Council faction relied on the city defenses here to hold back the enemy for several days, creating conditions for the army to assemble for a counteroffensive.
But this time, the males of the Great King's Conference faction miscalculated, and this time the mysterious ant army came in more numbers and menacing.
The previous sub-nests of the [bridgehead] as a buffer fell one after another in just a day or two, and the defenders of the [bridgehead] were drawn into the battle almost immediately after receiving the alarm, and there was no chance to strengthen the defenses at all.
Moreover, the mysterious ants seem to have a strong learning ability, and they have clearly learned the lessons of the defeat of the last battle, and when attacking the [bridgehead], they not only attack the fortified front of the [bridgehead], but also climb the linden tree where the [bridgehead] is located from other trees, and then condescendingly swoop from the trunk to the [bridgehead] at the base of the tree, breaking through its outer defense line in one fell swoop.
After the battle turned into a street battle in the nest, the fate of the fall of [Bridgehead] was inevitable.
The main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army, which had been assembled in the southern part of the former Paved Ant Barbarian Country and the main nest of the current Great King Conference faction, had completed the assembly and preparation for the expedition as quickly as possible.
But when this large army had just set out and had not yet reached the front line [of the bridgehead], news of its fall was received.
Under the central command of the public security king, the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army hurriedly entered the nearby [Target A] to hold on.
As expected by the Public Security King, the army of mysterious ants came very quickly, and they did not rest at all after conquering the [bridgehead], and continued to invade westward without stopping.
[Target A] bore the brunt of the attack, and if the Northern Expeditionary Army did not enter the lair in time, it was likely to have been routed in the field.
After all, this time the Northern Expeditionary Army did not have a superiority of several times over the enemy. Moreover, in the last battle, the elite troops of the Northern Expeditionary Army suffered heavy losses, and although they were replenished to a certain extent, it was impossible for the combat effectiveness to be restored so quickly.
Although the city defense facilities of [Target A] are far weaker than those of [Bridgehead], after all, there is a nest to rely on, and the number of main forces of the Northern Expeditionary Army is also superior.
Defense alone is not enough to defeat the enemy, the main nest of the King's Council faction is drinking to quench the thirst of the mobilization of the combat potential of the whole territory, except for a small number of old, weak and sick ants left behind in each side nest to continue to be responsible for collecting grain, almost all the rest of the soldier ants and worker ants are recruited as warriors and logistics transporters.
A steady stream of ants converged from the nearby secondary nest to the main nest, and after reorganization, the second group of reinforcements consisting of 41 legions, led by the elder brother King, rushed to [Target A] to support the defenders.
These two waves of reinforcements add up to 100,000 people, which is already the limit of what the entire King Conference faction can mobilize now, and the King Conference faction can't even provide logistical support for this army for a long time. Anyway, when the time comes, most of the warriors in this army will be sacrificed.
The 2nd Support Army, which had infused all the hopes of the King's Council faction, finally broke through a corner of [Target A] encirclement network and joined the defenders at great cost.
Subsequently, the two armies joined forces, intending to take advantage of the fact that a corner of the enemy's defense network was crushed, and the army was scattered and surrounded and did not gather, so as to take the enemy by surprise.
Unexpectedly, the mysterious ants fought extremely tenacious, and their combat effectiveness was also very strong, and only at the cost of hundreds of mysterious ants fighting to the death, they bought time for the main force to assemble.
The counterattack of the assembled mysterious ants was like a fire, like a mountain collapse, swept into the wind, and like a raging water, and quickly defeated the Northern Expeditionary Army.
The Northern Expeditionary Army, defeated!
The forces of the King's Council faction were immediately plunged into a great crisis, and they no longer had the ability to raise a force strong enough to defend against the enemy!