Chapter 176: The course of the battle changed by a thunderstorm
Soon after the battle in the middle lane began, the left and right wings of the Leaf Cutter Ant Army also collided with the Red Fire Ant Army's position.
Compared to the defensive positions in the center, the Red Fire Ant Army on the left and right flanks lacked cover on the front, but there were many messy rubbles on the sides, which could limit the movement of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army. Although the leaf-cutting ant army has no intention of maneuvering and detouring farther away to outflank it.
The two sides were head-to-head, and the Red Fire Ant Army on both wings was stronger and the formation was thicker, and the Leaf Cutting Ant Army found that the two wings were hard carapaces and were not easy to gnaw.
The Leaf Cutter Ant Army is a mix of large leaf cutter warriors and small leaf cutter warriors, and the large leaf cutter warriors are responsible for confronting the enemy head-on when the battle line is entangled, using their size and strength to withstand the enemy army.
The small leafcutter ant is fierce and flexible, and is good at grasping the fighter created by the large leafcutter ant to destroy the enemy who was dragged out of the enemy formation by the large leafcutter ant in time.
On the side of the Red Fire Ant Army, the auxiliary soldiers with burrowing ants as the main ant, Japanese black brown ants and belly ants as supplements are placed in the middle of the two wings.
The burrowing ant warriors are no match for the leafcutter ants, but with the long-range shooting support of the belly ants and the assistance of the Japanese black brown ants, although they have suffered considerable losses and the battle line is retreating, they are not worried about collapse for the time being.
The warriors of the Red Fire Ant clan are arranged on both wings, and like the overall arrangement of this battle, the positions on the left and right wings themselves are also weak in the middle and strong on both sides.
The leaf-cutting ant army that fought against the red fire ant warriors on both sides was not a fierce and abnormal red fire ant opponent, and was gradually suppressed.
By the time the two armies had been engaged for about half an hour, thousands of corpses had been piled up on the ground, and both sides were efficiently demonstrating their killing methods, fighting and moving the corpses out of the way.
The battlefield was soaked with blood, stumps were scattered everywhere, and the half-dead wounded soldiers wailed wordlessly!
At this time, in the middle of the battlefield, the leaf-cutting ant army was limited by the stone wall obstacles, and it was difficult to advance an inch, and the leaf-cutting ant warriors finally gained a valuable foothold on the stone wall every time, but they did not have time to consolidate and expand, and were repelled by the elite death squads of the defenders.
The fighting on the left and right flanks was more intense, and the Red Fire Ants cleared the nearby ground before the military, which was more open and more suitable for fighting and killing. The vast majority of casualties on both sides were on both flanks.
The leaf-cutting ant army is just like the calculation of the Red Fire Ant Army, the middle lane gradually presses the Red Fire Ant Army's slave auxiliaries to retreat, but the two sides are pushed back by the Red Fire Ants, and a large force is about to be surrounded and cut off from the rear army.
The military ability of the Red Fire Ant clan is not only reflected in the strong individual combat effectiveness, but also in the tried and tested flank outflanking tactics when dealing with other ants.
But this time, the Red Fire Ant Army failed to outflank the tens of thousands of leaf-cutting ant army in front of them, and an accident interrupted the battle.
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The warriors on both sides, the ants of the four ant clans, suddenly slowed down in unison, even if the enemy was present, the desire to fight was reduced.
The ants' antennae are sensitive, and the changes in air pressure and humidity, as well as the distinctive smell of the midsummer thunderstorm before the sudden outbreak, make the ants fearful.
Except for the part of the ants that had already been entangled and could not be separated, the other ants began to retreat spontaneously to the rear.
The commanders on both sides did not stop their men from retreating spontaneously, and hastily retreated, and the fighting between the two armies came to an abrupt end, leaving only blood, corpses, and wounded soldiers.
There are also a few ants that have already killed red eyes or antennae wounds, and are still fighting in place without self.
A few seriously injured ants crawled backwards dragging their torn abdomen, and even the ants, which were only half of their bodies and two arthropods, were struggling to retreat, trying to survive the impending natural disaster.
The army of red fire ants hurriedly but orderly retreated into [Talc City], although the city was narrow and crowded, it was still possible to let many warriors squeeze to take shelter from the rain.
Leafcutter ants have no nests to rely on, so they instinctively climb trees spontaneously, and high-status females and males hide in the holes they find, or are protected and hidden under the leaves.
Some leafcutter ants began to urgently transform the leaves, pulling several leaves together and tying them with extracted fibers to make temporary spherical shelters.
Most leafcutter ants don't have time to do this, or can't find a suitable site, so they can only huddle under the wide leaves and resign themselves to fate.
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Thick clouds drifted in the distance, obscuring the sun, thunder rumbled, and the world was dark, as if it had suddenly fallen from noon to night.
This is a summer thunderstorm, a natural disaster that all living beings fear.
The sound of insects stopped abruptly, and all life was busy dodging, and only the terrible sound of wind and fierce thunder remained in the whole heaven and earth.
It seemed that in an instant, the raindrops the size of soybeans fell suddenly without warning. This is not a lingering rain that gradually grows from small to large like the spring rain, but a heavy rain that shows extremely lethality at the beginning, like a curtain that instantly envelops the heavens and the earth.
The leaves crackled and the blades of grass were bent over and could not stand up, the rain flowed down the rocks and the ground, and soon gathered in the low-lying places, and the pools that quickly appeared were flooded with hemispherical bubbles that would soon burst and float above the water under the torrential rain.
On the battlefield where the battle was still fierce just now, the blood was quickly diluted and washed away by the rain, and the few ants that did not withdraw were attacked by the raindrops the size of beans without shielding.
A small leaf-cutter ant bites the belly of a belly-lifting ant, and it does not let go. But the bombardment of a drop of rain forced them to separate, and the bellied ants were wrapped in a drop of water, struggling to break free, but more and more water streams converged, and the droplets turned into puddles, and the bellied ants were quickly drowned.
The leaf-cutting ant was blown away by falling raindrops, fortunately not injured for the time being, and she suddenly woke up when her antennae were injured, and hurriedly ran to the rear.
Along the way, she overtook several of her slower-moving kindred, passing countless corpses, which were bombarded with raindrops, and ants and corpses flew everywhere, like an absurd magical drama scene.
In the end, the little leafcutter ant still did not escape, and her tentacles were injured, like a blind person, stumbling and running, but she was still pushed by the raindrops, and the water flowed happily to the low-lying ground, and the power of the flood made her powerless to resist, and she was quickly submerged.
There was also water intake in [Talc City], and the ants inside had to move and work hard to fight the flood.
The leaf-cutting ants on the trees were even more miserable, the leaves crackled and shook violently by the rain, and some leaf-cutting ants that did not grasp it were thrown away and entered the rainy world of nine deaths.
Even a whole leaf, a whole branch was destroyed and shot down by the heavy rain, and thousands of ants immediately lost their cover and suffered heavy losses under the rain!