Chapter 108: Northern War (8)
In early autumn, the grass and trees are still verdant, but the heavy grass seeds have begun to quietly bear on the ears.
The air from the north began to gradually drive away the warm air currents from the south, and the breeze blew a little cooler. The ears of grass are swaying in the wind, and the slender stems are like waists, swaying in an alluring arc.
At this time, under the beautiful scenery of this land, a great war is about to break out.
The King of Public Security stood at the top of the low hill, and a flying knight landed on the ground and accompanied him.
From their point of view, what they could see was not only the churning grass waves in front of them, but also the swaying grass branches beneath them.
Just opposite them, in the dense grass, countless swarthy ants began to emerge, quickly covering the surface with color.
When the ants came to the open field under the low hills, they paused briefly and began to adjust their somewhat messy formation.
When their formation was once again complete, a large army of swarthy paving ant barbarians rolled forward like a black carpet, and rushed forward like a dark tide.
On the low hills, the big-headed ant kingdom army, which is almost the same color as the ground, is lined up in a circular formation and is waiting for it.
The black tide soon hit the earthy yellow waterfront, and the tide and the earth bank fiercely competed for space, sometimes the tide flooded the waterfront, and sometimes the waterfront drove the tide back.
In this back-and-forth struggle, corpses and wreckage were soon left behind.
Faced with the most elite cluster in the Northern Expeditionary Army, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army on the north bank of the Great River was in trouble.
Although the Floating Leaf King had previously reported to the King Meeting of the Lord Nest of the Paving Ant Barbarians on the new unique tactics of the Big-headed Ants, and trained several legions to use restrained tactics.
However, those legions were destroyed when they attacked the "bridgehead" where the Divine Envoy King's legions were stationed.
And with the surrender of the Floating Leaf King to the protagonist, in the entire Paving Ant Barbarian Country, there is no king who knows the big-headed ant so well, is familiar with its tactics, and understands its combat power.
Now, most of the legions of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army are quite unaccustomed to the opponent's tactics of gathering the soldiers and ants when they first face the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army.
In all fairness, the combat power of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army warriors is comparable to that of the Worker Ant Warriors of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army, and when these two types of warriors face each other, the battlefield often falls into a long stalemate.
And when the paved ant barbarian army barely managed to make a breakthrough on the stalemate front by virtue of its numerical superiority, those damn soldier ants would always arrive in time.
They are strong and can always easily kill the barbarian warriors who break through and close the gap.
And what bothered the squad commander of the grassroots paving ant barbarian army the most was that these concentrated soldier ants would definitely not leave the cover of the formation.
They never take the initiative to pursue the barbarian warriors of the paving ants who are defeated in front of them, and even when some of the clever paver ant commanders use feints to induce the enemy to pursue, they are unmoved. This leaves the pride ants with nowhere to go.
In this way, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army would not be able to annihilate the elite force of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, a cluster of Northern Expeditionary Forces, in a short period of time.
And under the reinforcement of this army of ant elite soldiers, the positions of the troops under the command of the king of public security were impregnable, and the tidal offensive of the paving ant barbarian army was smashed and returned again and again.
The sun is already three-quarters of the way through the sky, and the sunlight is tilting and decaying at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Both warring sides know that daylight hours are running out. In particular, there is not much time left for the Paving Ant Barbarian Army.
This time, the paving ant barbarian army finally became ruthless, and the entire army swarmed up. This time, instead of trying to find the weak link in the position of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army through low-intensity testing, they launched a full-front onslaught. This time, if the Paving Ant Barbarian Army can't achieve any more results, they will have to admit today's defeat.
The west wind was fierce, the wind was howling, the blood on the ground gradually stained the clouds in the southwest, and the death under the reflected red dust also made the sun hide its body in fear.
In the end, the paving ant barbarian army was still unwilling to retreat.
The public security king stood on a high place, directing the troops to conduct a short pursuit.
Today's battle was finally won, albeit only a really.
On the side of the big-headed ant kingdom army, one percent of the casualties reached one, and another two percent were wounded. However, most of the wounded were able to continue their service after a short period of recuperation.
Even warriors who lack arms and legs are not uncommon among the general big-headed ant kingdom legions, and as long as they do not die, they must continue to fight until the end of this war.
On the side of the paving ant barbarian army, the losses are greater.
The heaviest loss was the abandonment of many wounded people who had difficulty moving when the Paving Ant Barbarian Army retreated.
While pursuing, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army wantonly slaughtered these scattered and powerless wounded.
In this way, the paving ant barbarian warriors who can escape are either healthy or slightly injured and do not affect their movements, and the seriously injured are equal to death.
In the end, in the pursuit, the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army killed no fewer enemies than they did on the battlefield.
After a brief pursuit, the police lord gathered his army again, and they had achieved their goal.
According to the report of the Flying Knight, the army of paving ant barbarians on the front line has removed the encirclement of the deputy nest and the headquarters of General D King D, and has begun to retreat in advance.
This victory of the army of the King of Public Security forced the army of paving ants to return to the starting base in a large circle, and they had to go on the road in advance to get back before dark.
In this way, the Ministry of Public Security actually played a role in encircling Wei and saving Zhao.
After confirming that the enemy army had made a detour and returned and had no intention of attacking, the public security king began to command the troops to clean up the battlefield.
All but the scouts on the perimeter began to sweep the battlefield, clamping the bodies of both sides to their jaws, and if the corpses were mutilated, they would pick up their torsos or heads and abandon the arthropods.
The corpses of these soldiers on both sides can also be used as food, and these corpses are particularly important when the big-headed ant kingdom army is now short of food, perhaps this is the key to the support of defensive operations in the future.
And not every battle has the opportunity to collect these corpses as military rations, and the defeated side is in a hurry to retreat to preserve the living forces, and it is too late to clean up the battlefield.
In this battle, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army won a small victory, but the commanders on the front line have deeply realized the strength of the enemy army and are not optimistic about the future direction of the war.
At this time, the steady commander must think of ways to increase the strength of the second party little by little, and he must not be sloppy in the slightest.