Chapter 181: Reinforcements
The fighting was unusually fierce and unusually cruel.
The battle between the ants is a silent silent movie, so many ants crowded together, silent biting and killing, it looks extremely terrifying.
A small leaf-cutting ant, with a broken tentacle and a blind compound eye, dragged a broken middle limb and staggered forward in the chaotic battlefield, embarrassed and hideous.
Beside her, there are already intertwined battle lines, leaf-cutting ants, red fire ants, belly-lifting ants, burrowing ants, and a very small number of Japanese black brown ants that play soy sauce, either to catch and kill, or to surround with more and less, no ant can be alone, killing the enemy or being killed by the enemy, is their only choice.
Healthy ants are constantly becoming disabled, fresh lives are turning into dead souls, and there are constantly empty land piled with corpses.
The leaf-cutting ant had been badly injured, but she had no intention of retreating, dragging her tired and scarred body in search of her next opponent.
A cowering belly-raising ant that didn't join the battle appeared in front of her, and she dragged herself to meet it, even if the opponent was strong and intact, and was a circle larger than her own size, the small leafcutter ant warrior still had no fear in her mind.
This leaf-cutting ant may know that he can't beat the other party, but he still firmly steps forward to meet the inevitable fate of the warrior.
But the belly-raising ant was actually timid, her formic acid had long been used up, hand-to-hand combat was not what she was good at, she didn't like hand-to-hand combat.
The bellied ant turned back and fled, but encountered a red fire ant warrior, the red fire ant stung the belly of the bell-raising ant fiercely, and the force was so fierce that it bit through the carapace and shed blood.
The belly ant was injured and painful, and she was even more afraid of the red fire ant, so she had to reflexively bite the small leaf-cutting ant that was also injured, and tried to earn a chance to live.
The small leafcutter ants are more seriously injured and suffer from their size, but they have already seen death as home. The bellied ants were originally cowardly, but after they struggled and suffered losses one after another, they were also ruthless.
On the dense battlefield, such a small battle that happened locally ended in the end with both sides coming to an end.
But the commanders of both sides would not notice this scene, the flying knights in the sky would not notice this scene, and even the other ants around the two dead people would not have time to pay attention to this scene.
The loss of two lives is only a tiny number among the countless dead and wounded on both sides.
Ants still spare their lives, but war never spares lives!
In order to defend [Talc City], and even more to cover the main nest [Hive City] in the rear, the commander of the Red Fire Ant Army ordered his subordinates to fight to the death and not retreat, building one defense line after another in the sea of corpse mountains and blood to resist the repeated charges of the Leafcutter Ant Army.
Because of the strict orders of the main nest [Holy Tree City], and for the sake of this supreme martial art, the commander of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army also ordered his troops to constantly attack, attack, and attack again, never retreat, and never give up the victory that was about to come to his mouth.
When he went, he returned to Chang'an alone
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came to the battlefield, but no one returned
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The Leaf-Cutting Ant Army relied on its numerical superiority and pressed forward step by step, and the Red Fire Ant Army repelled attacks again and again, and had to retreat and rearm step by step because the battlefield was full of corpses and had no time to clean up.
On the battlefield in the middle lane, as the third line of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army arrived on the battlefield, the battle broke out from the edge of the cliff again, and the battle line moved all the way to [Talc City], and finally entered the trap area.
The Red Fire Ant Army once again dragged out the ants except the queen ant, whether they were old, weak, sick or disabled, from [Talc City], and formed the last support force and rushed to the battlefield.
Relying on the support of the Antlion Trap and the old, weak, sick and disabled reinforcements, the Red Fire Ant Army once again stabilized the defensive line in the trap area, and the numerical superiority of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army and the help of the Star Sky Bull were still not enough to ensure that they immediately broke through this last position.
However, the Red Fire Ant Army's mid-lane position is still precarious, and the Leaf Cutting Ant Army cannot invest too many troops at one time due to the width of the battlefield, so they still have a new force behind the front. The Red Fire Ant Army had no more support.
As a result, the left and right wings, which had been inactive, finally received new instructions.
The Red Fire Ant Army on the left and right flanks did not come to support the middle lane, but to counterattack on the spot, and they actually wanted to break through and return to the rear of the leaf-cutting ant army and outflank the enemy army in the middle lane, and they had a great appetite.
The number of troops on the two wings of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army is not large, and the number of Red Fire Ant Army in front of them is comparable, but the combat effectiveness is very different.
All of a sudden, the situation on the battlefield on both flanks took a sharp turn for the worse, and the Red Fire Ant Army, which had been recuperating for a long time, was like entering a no-man's land.
The commander of the leaf-cutting ant army had no reinforcements on hand to send to the two wings, so he could only let the wounded Xingtian Niu who was resting in the rear go up to support, and the middle lane troops also divided part of their forces to rush over, and at the same time strictly ordered the troops on both wings to defend to death.
The Red Fire Ant Army attacked the two wings, and the leaf-cutting ant army on both wings also attacked fiercely and resisted to the death.
The leaf-cutting ant army stormed the middle lane, and the red fire ant army carried it at any cost.
In the end, the Red Fire Ant Army had to transfer a group of troops from both flanks to support the crumbling mid-lane troops, weakening the offensive on both flanks.
After the Red Fire Ant Army moved, it was difficult for them to break through the two flanks of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army, and the Leaf Cutting Ant Army's offensive in the middle was also exhausted.
The two sides were caught in an awkward balance, neither could defeat the other, and neither dared to withdraw so as not to collapse the front.
This is a tough battle, but also a bad battle, a dull battle, at this time the long front, the left, center, and right battlefields, everywhere is a quagmire-like battle situation.
The commander of the Leafcutter Ant Army is extremely eager for reinforcements to arrive immediately, and in today's battle situation, only the addition of external forces can break the balance and make a breakthrough.
Although the Leaf Cutting Ant Army had agreed to join forces with the Divine Envoy King Legion before, the commander still didn't look down on this ally in his heart. When they launched an attack on [Slippery Rock City], they did not wait for the arrival of the Divine Envoy King's army to attack from both sides, as agreed, but attacked in advance.
Even, the commanders of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army before didn't care where the Divine Envoy King Legion had arrived.
But after these two days, it's time for the Divine Envoy King's legion to arrive!
The female commanders of the leaf-cutting ants looked to the east in anticipation.
At the same time, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army also sent a Star Bull messenger to order troops about a day or two away from the rear to rush to support.
The new reinforcements sent by [Sacred Tree City] are still on the way, and the distant water can't quench the thirst of the near. However, the Leaf Cutter Ant Army still has a force of tens of thousands left in the original border area.
After repelling but not defeating the border defenders of the Red Fire Ant Country, this force stayed behind to search for and contain the enemy force.
Now that there are not so many things to take care of, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army urgently needs all the forces that can be reinforced.
On the other side, the Red Fire Ant Army is also close to running out of oil, and they are also waiting for reinforcements.
And their reinforcements have always been in touch with this side of the battlefield!