Chapter 158: The Northern Battlefield Before Winter (2)
The next day, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army changed their tactics.
It can only be said that changes are forced, and at the same time, the cooperation of objective conditions is also needed. In the past, whether it was the paving ant barbarian army or the big-headed ant kingdom army, it was very rare to be able to respond at such a fast speed, often insisting on the inherent style of play, meeting heads and breaking the bloodstream, and then it took maybe a year or two to adjust through self-adaptation.
But as the frequency of wars in the ant world becomes higher and higher, whether it is the paving ant barbarian country or the big-headed ant kingdom, they need to adapt to this normality, and those who can't adapt will lose their hegemony in the fierce competition and decline.
Therefore, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, which has more enemies, was more fickle than the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army in the past, so that it can adapt to the environment of enemies on all sides and maintain its hegemony. After perceiving the new station of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army, they worked out a tactic after only half a year. This is not only because of the personal genius of the Floating Leaf King, but also because the needs of the whole reality give birth to geniuses.
There is such a variable as the protagonist in the army of the big-headed ant kingdom, and many commanders have also gained a new understanding of war tactics, even if it is just a clumsy imitation like a baby, it has also brought the vitality of change to the army.
In this way, the two strongest races, the two most fickle armies, on both sides of the river, fought to the death around a small side nest.
As the weather cools, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army must race against time. The next morning, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army began to build pontoon bridges to cross the stream at four different locations at the same time.
If it had been placed half a month ago, even if the Paving Ant Barbarian Army had such a plan, it would not have been able to implement it.
At that time, the surface of the stream was still relatively wide, the flow rate of the stream was relatively fast, there were few suitable places to build bridges, and there were not many dead branches and leaves that could be used to build pontoon bridges.
Now, after a few late autumn gales, the ground is covered with dead branches and leaves, which are excellent building materials. The narrowing and slowering of the stream also makes the original moat stream almost everywhere, and it is no longer a daunting path.
So, early this morning, in the strong smell warning of the sentinels and the rapid friction warning, the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the big-headed ant kingdom who rushed out of the shore to divide their nests found that in addition to the enemy in front of them, there were more enemies nearby who were building pontoon bridges.
The four pontoon bridges were separated from each other by a short distance, and they all extended beyond the middle line of the stream, and the second pontoon bridge to the east was being built at the fastest pace, already approaching the shore.
The poor eyesight of the sentinels in charge of the guard made it only then that they noticed the enemy's movements.
The Split Hive warriors were immediately assembled under the command of the males, who had better eyesight, and they immediately understood the enemy's intentions, and judged that with the existing strength of the Split Nest, they could not defend the crossing of the river in all directions, nor could they hold back the enemy on their own as they had done yesterday.
As a result, the herald was urgently dispatched to the "Target Ding" nest ** to ask for help.
And the kings of the nest divided into the nest commanded the only legion at hand and laid the first line of defense.
The first pontoon bridge soon approached the shore. This time, the paving ants learned the lesson of the previous day and arranged a lot of fighters in the front of the pontoon, and they were not afraid of death to fight with the big-headed ant warriors standing on the shore biting the big jaws, and even after biting the enemy, they took the initiative to jump into the cold stream and let the current drag themselves and the enemy away at the same time.
Under the cover of such a brave offensive by the paver ant barbarian army, the remaining paver ant worker ants took the opportunity to build the first branch from the pontoon bridge to the opposite bank. Subsequently, the branch was firmly bitten by several worker ants, and their limbs were connected, and their bodies were tightly attached to the other building materials of the pontoon.
A small group of paving ant warriors immediately crawled from the branches to the shore, and the brave "Xiandeng" was quickly surrounded and killed by the big-headed ant warriors, but a steady stream of paving ant warriors were attacking through this narrow road to avoid the water-filled pontoon battlefield.
The Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army also immediately commanded a counterattack, trying to contain the enemy forces on the branches while trying to push them off the shore. But to push the branches, in fact, is to push the entire floating pontoon, a task that a few ants simply cannot accomplish.
Just when the first pontoon bridge was in full swing, the second pontoon bridge was about to land on the right side of the position of the big-headed ant kingdom army.
The commander of the first line of big-headed ants had to send valuable reserves to intercept it, and could not commit to the counterattack of the first pontoon bridge.
With the fierce battle at the head of the two pontoon bridges, the troops of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army on the front line were overstretched, and they could only support each other.
As the third and fourth pontoon bridges also appeared on the shore, the Paving Ant Army began to gather all their forces, preparing to take advantage of the situation to cross the stream in one go, drag the battle into large-scale hand-to-hand combat, and take a fierce breath of the evil spirit of this time.
And the reinforcements of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army finally appeared on the battlefield. The experience of the first day of combat made them realize that if they wanted to defend for a longer time, they had to stop the enemy on the banks of the stream, so as not to turn the battle into a rotten battle of mutual attrition.
As a result, the big-headed ant kingdom army did not hesitate to compete with the paving ant barbarian army for the bridgehead, and the paving ant barbarian army due to the limited ability of the pontoon bridge to pass, even if the pontoon bridge has been set up on the opposite bank, it is difficult to form a force advantage to open the gap.
For a time, around the bridgehead of the four pontoon bridges, the sky was dark for the two sides to fight.
A flying knight flies by, and he controls the altitude to a decimeter or two above the ground, and observes the battlefield up close, ready to go back and report the battle to the protagonist.
In his eyes, a black-brown torrent gathered on the north bank, then split into four ways and crossed the water, colliding with a large yellow-brown phalanx on the south bank of the stream.
And in the stream, there were a large number of black and yellow figures, all of which were corpses that had fallen into the water, and even living warriors from both sides.
The two sides fought fiercely around the bridgehead. But the final battle did not last long.
As the worker ants acting as nails and ropes on the first pontoon bridge froze, the first pontoon slowly broke, and a large number of branches and leaves scattered, leaving many of the paving ant warriors who were passing through the pontoon overboard.
The lucky one grabbed the floating building material, was carried downstream by the current, and then crashed into the second pontoon, which was destroyed by the force of the impact, followed by the third. Only the fourth pontoon bridge in the far reaches is still in normal use, but it is clear that with the transportation of troops from only one pontoon bridge, it is no longer able to break through the defensive line.
So, the paving ant barbarian army called in the gold, and a large number of soldiers roared away, and then worked the shore to rescue their comrades who had fallen into the water and collect recyclable building materials.
On the other side, the army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom killed the enemies who drifted to this side, and scooped up the corpses to be used as future military rations.
The next day's fighting ended.