Chapter 175: Conquering the Fortress
A few days later, an all-out assault on the city-state of Chadians (colloquially known as "Nearly Death") began.
Huai Yam commanded the Red Ant Army to divide into three routes, with 500,000 main forces in the middle and 300,000 on the left and right, attacking the city-state in all directions.
The day before, thousands of Scarab planes had begun carpet bombing the city-state.
Today, 3,000 Scarab planes are still sent as air cover troops to fly towards the city-state that "almost died".
The Huns did not anticipate in advance that the inland city-states far from the front line would be attacked, and suffered heavy losses due to lax defenses. Most of the defending forces have lost their combat effectiveness.
Now the Huns in the city-state are stepping up to repair the fortifications in order to hold on and wait for reinforcements.
But at this time, the reinforcements of the Hun ants were beaten by the beetle bombers and did not dare to take the lead.
What's more, Huai Yam also "almost died" around the city-state, arranging two armies on the left and right, just for "encircling the point and sending reinforcements".
The central army is responsible for attacking the castle in the center of the enemy army.
The battle against the "almost dead" city-state was raging.
Originally, the city-state had as many as 1.5 million defenders and more than a dozen lines of defense, which can be described as "impregnable".
Unexpectedly, yesterday it was bombed by a group of thousands of huge Scarab bombers, and the losses were huge, and now only more than 300,000 remnants of the defeated army are left to hold here.
The dawn sky gradually changed from the white of the fish belly to light blue, and continued to fade, almost blue-white, hazy, as if separated by a layer of blue mist.
In the early morning of this day, another 3,000 Scarab planes flew in the sky, bombarding the thirteen defensive positions on the periphery of the "almost dead" castle in a torrential rain. The vast majority of the 200,000 or so garrison armies of the Huns were wiped out, and now only 50,000 or 60,000 remnants of the enemy were left to make their final struggle.
A Red Ant Commander raised a tentacle and emitted a scent:
Attack!
Soon the smell of war roared over tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of erected tentacles.
The Hun ant defenders clung to the ground with their claws and lay on the ground to meet the enemy's attack.
Dozens of legions of Red Ant Corps rushed forward. The Stormtrooper Ants galloped forward, the Artillery Ants followed suit, and the Fighting Ants ran with their heads held high so that their long lipsticks would not interfere with each other.
The small infantry, stepping on the bodies of the large infantry, using them as rolling blankets, walked faster. In front of so many people, the ground shook.
After a while, the two armies met in close combat, and the front row of the big jaws of the Red Ant Army Charge Ants were intertwined with the front row of the enemy Hun Ants.
At the beginning, because the number of Red Ant Army Charger ants rushing to the enemy's defense line was not too large, they were quickly eliminated by the strong large-mouthed pliers of the Hun ants.
However, as the artillery ants of the Red Ant Army rushed up to fire formic acid bombs at the Hun ants, and the fighting ants arrived in time to join the battle group, the Hun ants quickly couldn't parry and quickly retreated to the second line of defense.
Immediately afterwards, the second line of defense was easily breached.
And so, it didn't take long, the third, the fourth, the fifth...... Until the thirteenth line of defense was breached.
The entire fortifications of the outer fortifications of the castle of the Hun ant defenders fell in one day.
At night, the Red Ant Army stopped their attack, and they surrounded the three outer layers of the "almost dead" castle.
Since there are still 70,000 or 80,000 enemy troops in the castle, and this castle is the largest granary of the Hun Ant Federation, the enemy army can defend it for several years without any problem.
It seems that it is impossible to storm by force, only outwitted.
How to outwit?
This is the most troublesome problem in front of the Red Ant Army at present, not to mention that the grain and grass brought by the Red Ant Army with the army this time can not last for a few days.
Huai Yam convened a meeting with everyone, worked together, and used their brains to find a way.
As the saying goes: three stinkers make one Zhuge Liang.
In the end, everyone finally came up with a good solution, which is to let thousands of sapper ants who are good at digging land on the top of the "almost dead" castle on the Scarab plane, dig up the entire top of the castle to expose the enemy's tunnel, and then let the artillery ants throw formic acid bombs from above to attack the enemy condescendingly, and then let the fighting ants completely destroy the remnants of the enemy.
Once you've completely eliminated this layer of enemies, do the same thing again.
In this way, destroying the enemy from top to bottom, layer by layer, although it is more troublesome, can minimize casualties, and the certainty of success is greater.
Early the next morning, the arduous battle for the castle began.
First, hundreds of Scarab planes bombed hundreds of enemy sentries on top of the castle, knocking out the enemy's eyes.
Then, thousands of red ants, military engineer ants, and thousands of scarab planes landed on top of the castle that "almost died".
When the sapper ants came off the scarab's back, they used their big hoe-like teeth to dig desperately and pull the loose soil from the top of the castle to the bottom of the castle with as much ease as digging on the top of the mountain.
At the same time as the construction of the sapper ants, dozens of scarab planes flew around and patrolled over the castle from time to time to prevent enemy counterattacks and damage to the construction of the sapper ants, and to provide them with air protection.
In less than an hour, thousands of sapper ants used their sharp teeth to rip off the top of the castle, revealing the first layer of tunnels that crisscrossed it. Many Hun ants rushed out and bit each other with these digging sapper ants, fighting fiercely.
The Scarab planes flying in the air wanted to join the battle, but because the enemy and the enemy were mixed up, it was difficult to bombard, so they could only help.
Immediately, the battle situation reached the forward command of the Red Ant Army, and the commander hurriedly dispatched the sturdy fighting ants to take the Scarab fighter to go up for reinforcements.
After a while, thousands of fighting ants landed on the top of the castle in a scarab plane, and at this time, only a few hundred sapper ants were still fighting against several times the number of enemy ants, and the rest had already died.
Soon after the fighting ants came up, the situation was reversed.
At the same time, the Scarab fighters also took the opportunity to fire artillery at places with more enemy troops, and it didn't take long for all the enemy troops who rushed up to be wiped out.
A Scarab fighter immediately notified the forward command and requested that new sapper ants be sent to replenish the supply of troops.