Chapter 269: Battle of "Hunting Ground City" (1)
After receiving the information that the remaining sixteen sub-nests of the Old-fashioned King's Army were gathering reinforcements, Roll immediately paid attention to it, and the male ant commanders of the "Hunting Ground City" advance base held a meeting to discuss how to meet this enemy army.
Reinforcements alone are not terrible, these reinforcements from the enemy's rear auxiliary nest must have been improvised patchwork, and the warriors are all ants with broken hearts and mature adults, or the old, weak, sick and disabled who have not been drafted before, and the quality is poor. It's not like those enemies in the "Hunting Ground City" who have already experienced the baptism of several battles, and they are a little weaker in terms of combat skills, organization, and experience.
The enemy forces in the "hunting ground city" alone are not terrible, the entrance and exit of this nest is not large, and it is backed by a small mound of dirt accumulated at the root of a pile of bushes. As long as the Divine Envoy King's legion sends part of its forces to form an encirclement and block the vicinity of the entrance, it can trap the enemy underground without the need for a head-on battle.
But if two groups of enemies appear at the same time, the Divine Envoy King's army, which only has four legions, will be difficult to take care of both the end and the end, and it is easy to lose sight of one or the other.
At the meeting, Rambovan and other males believed that the enemy army would not coordinate the battle, because although the enemy reinforcements knew that the "Hunting Ground City" was in danger, they did not receive information about the arrival of reinforcements in the "Hunting Ground City". Our army can be broken individually.
Lan Bofei was more pessimistic, he thought that in a day or two at most, the enemy army in "Hunting Ground City" would have to counterattack because of lack of food, and if the enemy's reinforcements arrived at this time, our army would be vulnerable to the enemy.
At the same time, Rambo Fei also blamed the leader of the flying knights, the Flying. In the past, when the enemy broke through and generated a large number of routs, it was the flying knights who were responsible for guiding the scouts to chase when they used the bushes behind the entrance and exit as a cover to escape.
However, the Flying Knights had apparently missed several enemy routs, and by the time they found out, they were already beyond the range of the nearest Scout Team of the Divine Messenger King's Legion.
The Flyhawk was also furious, saying that because of the formation of the new legion, six of the nine generals under his command were withdrawn, and now that his command ability was affected, he could not be blamed.
In fact, the original subordinates suddenly became equal to themselves, and not all ants were selfless and selfless. An individual as intelligent as a male ant will also have other thoughts.
The Fly Eagle is originally a utilitarian kind of male ant, and his goal has always been to become a king, so he has always worked very hard.
Although the protagonist has given him the treatment of a legion commander, the Flying Knights do not have a legion, and the Flying Eagle still aspires to be the supreme commander of a full infantry legion like Roll and Rambo Fly.
Before, when the Divine Envoy King Legion only had six legions, the commanders were all male ants of the same generation as the Divine Envoy King, and they were older than the Flyhawk, and he didn't think there was anything yet. However, the commanders of the newly formed legions are all their own subordinates, which makes the Flyhawk a big gap, although the protagonist does not notice this.
At this time, he also supports Rambofei's opinion, as an older male, he bluntly believes that it is the responsibility of the Flyhawk, and announces a three-day suspension of his honeydew as a punishment.
This is a common minor punishment for errant males in the ant world, and the Fly Eagle does not send any more messages, as if acquiescing in the accusation and punishment of him, and the matter seems to end here.
Next, the top brass of the army continued to discuss the tactics of the battle.
- I'm the dividing line -
On April 17th, on the ninth day of the lockdown of the "Hunting Ground City", the long-awaited reinforcements of the defenders of the lonely city arrived.
The Flying Knights of the Legion of the Divine Envoy have spotted the enemy as they assembled, and they have reported urgently.
Today's commanders of the Flying Knights are the Flyhawk and the Locust Jackal, who have returned important military information in time.
Roll sent Rambovan's Third Legion and Rambosser's Sixth Legion to meet the attack, while the remaining troops monitored the "Hunting Ground City" and prevented the city's defenders from breaking through.
In fact, since the last time they tried to break through and failed in a skirmish, the "Hunting Ground City" has been surprisingly calm in the past two days, which has made the commanders of the Divine Angel King's legion a little unvigilant.
However, not long after the two legions of Rambovan and Rambosser set off, there was an abnormality in the "Hunting Ground City", and a large number of ants began to pour out of the ground.
This is clearly no coincidence.
The Old-fashioned King planted a large number of messengers carrying distress packets in the last breakout force. The order conveyed by these couriers was to agree that reinforcements and defenders would launch a counterattack together this morning.
When the old-fashioned king calculated that the time was about the same according to the biological clock, he sent a large number of troops to participate in the counterattack. And this is the most vulnerable opportunity when the Divine Envoy King's army has already divided its troops.
Lan Bofei immediately led the Second Army to encircle according to the predetermined plan, seized the periphery of the entrance and exit of the "Hunting Ground City", and arranged a circular defensive position.
At the beginning, the razor tactics of the Divine Envoy King Army also played a great role, and the old-fashioned King Army that poured out one after another broke their heads in front of the defense line, and the dead and wounded pillows.
Soon, however, as the corpses rapidly multiplied, Rambofei's Second Legion had to retreat to avoid the mountains of corpses to maintain the defensive line. But this increases the length of the front and weakens the thickness.
The soldiers of the Old-fashioned King's Army, who came out of the ground, completely ignored the corpses of their companions everywhere on the roadside on the ground, crawled over them, and continued to join the battle.
The old-fashioned army has informed all the males that they are running out of food, and they know that if they don't win, they will starve to death.
Once the males have a strong belief in fighting, the ant warriors under their command will be extremely brave, and even if they lack command in battle, they can burst out with terrifying combat effectiveness.
This is exactly the truth of the art of war that "the mourning soldiers will win", "the poor will not chase", "the trapped beasts are still fighting", and "fighting against the water", the more an army reaches the end of the road, the more it will have a firm will to fight, and produce strong energy. Good commanders will "fight their backs" to take advantage of this combat power, and their opponents will have to weigh how to deal with it. If it is dealt with properly, it is the Han army that won a decisive victory in the "siege of Xia", and if it is not dealt with properly, it is the Qin army that was killed by Xiang Yu after "breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat".
They didn't have this kind of military literacy, and they didn't realize that the old-fashioned king's army would launch such a fierce counterattack.
Under the pressure of the enemy's continuous outpouring and the fact that the dead bodies were all over the ground and had no time to clear them, Rambo Fei's Second Army had already suffered a lot of losses in the last battle, and there were many new soldiers, and they gradually couldn't withstand the pressure.
Rambo Fei hurriedly asked Roll for help, and Roll had to prepare to use the Beetle Legion's reserves.