Chapter 177: Termites send troops
It's a pity that Huai Yam is still in the dark now?
I thought it was a fire from heaven, and it was Heaven to punish it for its overly radical behavior and make it restrain somewhat.
It is precisely because of its misjudgment that it neglects to take precautions, which leads to even greater disasters.
Since it conquered a city-state, it almost completely destroyed the tunnels in the castle, and although it had to do so, the consequence was that there were no tunnels to live in.
Although it is still autumn and the weather is not too cold, it is easy to catch fire in autumn, and its troops live in the field and are easily attacked by fire.
Unfortunately, Huai Yam and its generals did not think of this.
Termites are the smartest of the ants, because they know how to use fire early on, and they know when it works best.
Now Huai Yam scattered its troops in more than a dozen city-states, each with a minimum of tens of thousands or more than a hundred thousand defenders, and a few hundred or thousands of Scarab fighters.
It had made up its mind to garrison, and sent messengers on Scarab planes to report to the Queen of Gold and Silver Ants, requesting reinforcements to come and assist in the defense.
In addition, it would be advisable to move a large number of new inhabitants to settle in order to rule the occupied territories.
When the queen received the report, she was overjoyed, and not only praised him for his outstanding exploits, but also fulfilled all of his requirements.
This time, she also had to "drive the expedition in person" and personally lead 800,000 reinforcements to help.
In addition, administrative officials at all levels are responsible for relocating as many households as possible to the occupied areas, and at least three million resident ants must be ensured.
At the same time, the queen also went to the Commander-in-Chief Cordyceps and Queen Saffron to trumpet and exaggerate their exploits and ask for troops to be sent to support.
Cordyceps Sinensis was very surprised and angry when she found out, it was very stupid and dangerous for her to act without saying hello, she really didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick, she was too arrogant and arrogant, thinking that there were a few flying insects that could run rampant in the world.
Then, Cordyceps and Saffron discussed and decided not to send troops to support for the time being, and waited to see what happened.
The messenger soon returned on the Scarab plane and reported to Huai Yam that the queen of gold and silver ants would soon come with a million troops to reinforce and relocate three million inhabitants.
After hearing this encouraging good news, Huai Yam was even more confident and full of ambition. Naturally, he didn't pay so much attention to defensive guarding.
Late that night, suddenly, the perimeter of the Red Ant Garrison barracks was full of fires, thick smoke billowed out, and the fire spread everywhere, and soon burned into the barracks.
Crying and screaming suddenly erupted in the barracks, and the officers and men were terrified, rushing from place to place, panicking.
Within half an hour, all the officers and soldiers who were surrounded by the fire were burned alive.
On this night, almost all the city-state barracks occupied by the Red Ant Army were burned, and more than 80% of the occupying troops were burned to death or choked to death by thick smoke, and the rest escaped this huge catastrophe because they slept in the castle tunnels that were not completely destroyed in the Xiongnu Ant Kyoto that night.
Of course, Huai Yam and a group of high-ranking generals were lucky enough to escape this catastrophe.
At the same time, because the Scarab plane stopped in the center of the barracks, except for a very small number who were choked by the smoke of the fire and burned to death, the vast majority took off in time and fled without major losses.
In fact, the Termite Federation originally did not want to meddle in the war between the Red Ant Kingdom and the Hun ants, and wanted to "sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight".
But unexpectedly, the Red Ant Army was so powerful that even the Termite Federation, which was the neighbor of the Hun ants, felt more and more pressure, plus the Hun Ant King personally came to ask for help, and promised to dedicate more than a dozen border castles as a reward for rescue, and these dozen castles are exactly what the Termite Federation has coveted for a long time.
In the end, the king of the Termite Federation nodded and agreed to send troops to help his brother and neighbor defend against foreign invasion.
Therefore, the two devastating actions of "burning the canyon" and "burning the company camp" that brought devastating blows to the Red Ant Army were carried out by the "arsonists" - the Termite Army.
Why do termite troops use fire like humans?
It turns out that a few decades ago, the termite tribe produced a great "inventor" named Worship Fire (nicknamed "not in vain"), and in a very fortuitous incident, he grabbed a small pebble with one of his front paws and struck a rock that was huge for him, and hit a few sparks.
It thought it was funny, so it continued to beat, and hit more sparks, and it happened to be a hot day, and under the sun, there happened to be a small hay beside it, and it was touched by a spark and caught fire.
In order to prove that Mars can ignite fires, this clever termite repeated many similar experiments and finally succeeded.
In the end, it has dozens of ants responsible for moving a small bluestone several times the size of an ant's body, and another ant can move one or two small pebbles the size of an ant's head, and then it can set fire anywhere and create a fire.
At this point, it named itself "Worship Fire", which means to worship fire, and it also means "not living in vain".
Although it worshiped fire and invented fire, it did not know how to extinguish fire, let alone how to control the size of the fire.
Its only achievement in this life was the invention of fire, nothing more.
Because termites only invented fire, they can neither extinguish fires nor control fire like humans.
Therefore, they naturally do not eat barbecue and cooked food, and there is no big progress.
And their ability to know how to attack the enemy with fire is already quite a remarkable achievement, and they can not only ambush the enemy with fire during the day, but also use the night as cover to pile up flammable materials such as hay around the enemy camp in advance and then burn it, which can be said to be amazingly high IQ!
It really deserves to be the smartest ant nation! It seems that their commander is not simple, and it may be regarded as a "smart star".
Huai Yam has met a strong opponent this time.