Chapter 174: Changeable Tactics
On the third day, the Red Ant Army captured six more cities of the Huns.
In just three days, the Red Ant Army relied on the powerful air force, the Scarab bomber, to capture 14 cities of the Huns.
Seeing that the Red Ant Army was like a bamboo, it wantonly encroached on the territory of the Hun ants, and the Hun Ant Federation was in an uproar and hurriedly discussed countermeasures.
The commanders of the Hun ant army on the front line also racked their brains and tried their best, and finally they decided to adopt the latest tactics of "tunnel warfare" to deal with the large-scale attack of the red ant army.
The specific method is that when the Scarab bombers of the Red Ant Army Air Force bombed indiscriminately, all the Hun ants hid in the tunnel;
And when the ground troops of the Red Ant Army came up after the Scarab bomber bombed, the Hun ants came out of the tunnel and attacked the ground troops of the Red Ant Army with its big mouth of two full moon scimitars like elephants.
On the fourth day, Huai Yam's Red Ant Army finally suffered its first defeat since the start of the war, and it was a rout on all fronts.
As soon as it was dawn the next day, the Scarab planes first went to bomb the enemy city-state according to the tactics of the previous day, but when they flew over the enemy castle, they did not find the enemy situation, and they felt that something was wrong.
Did the enemy run away or hide?
After searching around the city-state again, I didn't find the shadow of the Hun ants.
With a stomach full of questions, the Scarab bomber went back unhappy.
Half an hour later, when the ground troops of the Red Ant Army swaggered to the gate of the enemy city-state, ready to attack and destroy the remnants of the enemy, suddenly, a large army of Hun ants came out of the tunnels in all directions, and violently strangled the infantry ants of the Red Ant Army with their unique full moon scimitar-like mouths, which were twice as large as the Red Ant Army.
The Red Ant Army was stunned by the sudden and rapid blow of the Hun ants, and immediately panicked and made a mess.
In less than half an hour, Huai Yam's Red Ant Army couldn't parry, they threw off their armor and fled for their lives.
The Hun ant army pursued the victory and pursued fiercely.
Fortunately, in the end, the Red Ant Army sent Scarab bombers to bomb the enemy's large army indiscriminately, which stopped the pursuit of the Hun ants.
Despite this, the ground forces of the Red Ant Army still suffered more than 100,000 casualties.
The latest tactics of the Hun ants, "tunnel warfare", have achieved extraordinary results, and the whole army of the Huns ants is jubilant and happy.
In the face of the enemy's latest and most effective tactics, Huai Yam, the leader of the Red Ant Army, presided over an emergency military enlargement meeting.
At the meeting, everyone spoke enthusiastically, expressed their different views and opinions, and finally unified their thinking and worked out a set of new tactics for dealing with the enemy's "tunnel warfare."
On the morning of this day, the Red Ant Army slowly advanced forward from three rows of assault ants in the front, followed by two rows of artillery ants ready to fire formic acid bombs at the enemy at any time, and about 100 meters behind the entire team was a row of Scarab planes that flew and stopped, and about 100 meters behind this row of Scarab planes was another row of Scarab planes that flew and stopped.
About 200 metres after that, there were teams in the same order, following the team in front of them.
There are four groups of teams arranged in this way, and they are steadily advancing forward in the way of "steady and steady step by step".
The commander-in-chief of the Hun ants, who was hiding at the entrance of the tunnel to observe, looked at the dense Red Ant Army that slowly advanced from a distance with this new tactic that had never been seen before, and his heart suddenly became heavy, and he didn't know how to deal with it.
It hurriedly discussed countermeasures with several senior counselors around him, but the senior counselors couldn't think of any good way for the time being, and finally the commander-in-chief of the Hun ants had to order all the Hun ants to hide in the tunnel, hang up the anti-battle card, and avoid fighting.
When the Red Ant Army's brigade advanced to the gate of the enemy castle, they found that the enemy had all hid in the tunnels.
At this time, the main force of the enemy army is still there, and it is absolutely impossible to rush into the tunnels to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, otherwise you will suffer a big loss.
In the face of this new situation, the generals of the Red Ant Army also had a big headache, and they also held meetings to study countermeasures.
In the end, Huai Yam combined everyone's opinions and decided to temporarily abandon the Xiongnu and Ant city-states, and transfer the main force to the nearby ravine to ambush.
The Scarab Flying Unit was divided into parts, and the independent flying brigades of 100 were used to search for enemy targets (including warehouses, grain transport teams, and troop assembly areas, etc.), and bombed those that could be bombed, and if there were too many enemies who were not suitable for bombing, they would notify other independent flying brigades to bomb together.
Soon, in less than half an hour, the Red Ant Army's team was completely evacuated, and there was not a single soldier left.
When the Hun ants climbed out of the tunnel to see, even half of the Red Ant Army was gone.
The commander-in-chief of the Hun ants was confused, and hurriedly sent scouts to look around, but naturally there was nothing.
The commander suddenly became suspicious, and could not help but ponder: What does the enemy mean by this?
Didn't you want to lure us out of the city so that we could annihilate them in one fell swoop?
Definitely. So it ordered the Hun ants to continue to hide in the tunnels and not come out.
At this time, the Red Ant Army's brigade was ambushing on both sides of the valley to continue to rest, while the Scarab bombers were attacking everywhere to find various valuable targets for the Hun ants to bomb.
The latest tactics of the Red Ant Army made the Hun ants very passive and suffered heavy losses, so that they did not dare to come out during the day.
It has had a great impact on their daily lives.
However, if this goes on for a long time, it will also be very detrimental to the Red Ant Army.
Because the Red Ant Army does not have much food and grass, it will soon be exhausted, and it will have to retreat at that time.
Faced with this embarrassing dilemma, the leaders of the Red Ant Army had to discuss a good plan again.
In order to solve the problem of shortage of grain and grass, they decided to adopt the strategy of "fighting to feed the war", and put the main direction of attack on the largest granary town of the Hun ants and the second largest city-state of the enemy, the city-state of Chadiansi (nicknamed "almost dead"), and attacked with all their might, and tried to take it in one fell swoop.