Chapter 100: April Fool's Day Offensive (6)
As dusk came, another attack by the Red Fire Ant Army was repulsed, and they finally retreated to the underground camp after their momentum had been suppressed. The weary defenders were finally able to leave the walls and return to the underground lair to recuperate.
In [Xinyang City], groups of logistics teams composed of worker ants entered the battlefield to clean up, and they collected thousands of corpses, most of them were from the enemy, and a few were from the Divine Envoy King's legion.
After a full day of fierce fighting today, the 4th, 5th, and 6th Legions, which had been fighting on the front line for a long time, were very exhausted and had lost a lot of troops, many of whom had died after exhausting their physical strength in the afternoon battle.
It can't be blamed that the protagonist always doesn't care about changing the front-line troops or not putting in the reserves, the enemy's offensive has been going on, there is no rotation time at all, and the rotation against the enemy's attack is simply self-defeating.
Fortunately, today's bloody battle is finally over, but tomorrow, the same tragic battle will continue.
Although the Divine Envoy King Legion has killed a lot of people, it also has hidden dangers of its own - in [Xinyang City], there are not even enough healthy soldier ants to fill the shortfall now, and it will take nearly a month for the new generation of soldier ants to break through and become adults.
The protagonist can only rest the three legions the next day, and let the other legions rotate the next day.
That night, the Divine Envoy King Legion tried to organize a night attack again, because the 6 Big-Headed Ant Legions all had combat missions or were tired, and the protagonist took the 7th Legion to the night attack.
It's just that the 7th Legion is relatively rusty in doing this, and the protagonist needs to be indirectly commanded by the commanders of other vassal ant clans, so tonight's night attack is very slow.
The red fire ants, which had lost some of the previous night, also strengthened their vigilance, and the Divine Ant ants found that there were sentinels guarding all the entrances and exits of the enemy camp.
In the end, for the sake of safety, the night attack came to an end, and not a single wisp of poisonous smoke could drift into the enemy camp.
The protagonist and the night raid team abandon the combustion chamber and flue that they have just dug and retreat to [Xinyang City].
After going back, the protagonist also learned a lesson, so that the other vassal ant clans were disbanded, leaving only a few paving ant squads led by "Floating Leaf II", and let them train the technical actions of night attack smoke attack on the peninsula, and these paving ant warriors will be specialized night attack troops in the future!
- I'm the dividing line -
As the sun rises, the protagonist sees the sky and the earth unfold in a completely different color than yesterday.
It was white, white like snow, light white, and annoying white.
There is a very tall poplar tree in the area where [Xinyangcheng] is located, there are many poplars in the Black Forest to the north, and there are poplars and willows in the Golden Beach Forest to the east.
Such a dense willow, in this April, suddenly burst out a large number of poplar catkins and catkins.
The sun has been warm recently, and the wind is blowing again today, which is a good time for the willows to thrive and spread their leaves.
So, after a night, the heavens and the earth were suddenly filled with countless floating and swimming flying flotsam, one after another, like goose feathers and snow in the white-haired wind, flying, circling, chasing, and landing.
Humans must hate this kind of weather, but for ants, this kind of weather doesn't matter, after all, no matter how light and small, the fly flotsam can't get into the compound eyes and bloads of ants, and it can't make ants allergic.
But today's Red Fire Ant Army is particularly annoyed by these uninvited catkins.
The depression to the north of [Xinyangcheng] is a naturally formed lowland, which just blocks the front of [Xinyangcheng] almost completely, like a moat.
The Red Fire Ant Army usually didn't care about this huge stretch of trench, the depression was only three or four decimeters deep, and the slope on the north and south sides was gentle, not enough to stop them.
But today, the few weeds in the saline soil of the hollows, the dry rhizomes of the weeds of the dead years, the small raised stones half-buried in the soil, all these little obstacles, together form a stretching web.
The fluffy flocculated in front of these obstacles, stopped, and then the fluffy floc grabbed more of its companions passing by, and countless flocculents began to spread like snow.
When the Red Fire Ant Army began to line up, they were shocked to find that a large piece of flying flotsam had accumulated on the back side of the hollow, blocking almost all the way forward in the hollow!
These flying flocculents are dense like webs in the hollows, and the white soft fibers inside are intertwined with each other, although they are not as sticky as spider webs, but any ant who dares to trek through them will definitely be completely trapped by the criss-crossing fibers.
The sudden April Flying, like God helping the Divine Envoy King Army, blocked more than ninety percent of the enemy's attack front. Moreover, countless flying flakes are still continuing to strengthen this blockade net one after another!
Although the Red Fire Ant Army has a big head, it is not without a way to deal with it, and the attack team of 10,000 ants they sent today is divided into two parts in the sky full of flocculents, passing through the places on both sides of the depression near the river beach where there is no accumulation of flying flotsam, and coming to the south side of the depression to assemble.
And there are countless slave auxiliaries, under the order of the red fire ants, go down to the hollows and use their big jaws to clean up the flying flotsam little by little.
In these flying flotsam, there are actually poplar and willow seeds, and if they are taken out, they can also be used as military rations, so such a move by the Red Fire Ant Army can kill two birds with one stone, but the pace of attack must be slowed down.
On the defender's side, in fact, they were also affected by the flying flotsam, but they were much better off than the enemy.
During this time, the wind is mostly southerly, and sometimes the wind direction changes briefly. [Xinyang City] is mainly the towering city wall inside and outside the accumulation of flying flotsam, of which the south wall is the most, and the north wall also has but much less.
The Divine Envoy King's legion also began to deal with the flying flotsam on the south wall early in the morning, otherwise the ants' way to defend the wall would be blocked.
Compared to the slave auxiliaries of the Red Fire Ant Army, who rely entirely on big jaws and brute force to understand the stupid methods of flying flotsam, the protagonist commands the Divine Envoy King Legion with much more ingenuity and efficiency.
The warriors of the Divine Envoy King's legion and the auxiliary worker ants brought a drop of water from the underground water intake by the river or the nest and sprinkled it on the flying flotsam, and the originally fluffy flying flotsam immediately shrunk into a ball, and the ants could calmly separate the flying flotsam and move it away, and it was easy to find the seeds inside. These flying seeds were brought back to the nest as food for [Xinyang City].
And as the flying flotsam on the south wall quickly disappeared, the defenders also successfully set up a position on the wall before the enemy could attack.
The flying floc on the north side of the city wall, the army of the god envoy king has not been cleaned up, and these flying floc piled in the corner of the wall, although there are not many, but they are also a big obstacle when the enemy attacks!
God bless the Divine Envoy King Legion, the protagonist has never liked those ubiquitous flying flotsam so much as he does today!