Hundreds of millions of man-eating ants traverse the primeval jungles of North Africa, frantically nibbling on the animals and plants they encounter, and many heavily armed German soldiers have turned into skeletons! Not even hair left. The commander of the army, General Hime, watched in horror at this horrific scene and loudly ordered the soldiers to fire at the crazy ant colony! Suddenly, machine guns, grenades, and flamethrowers shot together at the snakes that overwhelmed the ground.
At this time, the soldiers' desperate and miserable cries for help, and the wailing sounded throughout the originally silent jungle.
A large number of ants were killed, but their numbers were too large, and they rushed to these German soldiers who had nowhere to escape.
They had never encountered such a difficult "enemy": a sea of knives and fire, a rain of bullets, never retreating, and snatching these German soldiers who had strayed into the army of ants.
Soon, General Hime and his soldiers were exhausted by the countless ants and were powerless to resist. Not long after, this German marshal Rommel sent out to prepare for a surprise attack on the British army, and the elite division of 1800 people who had high hopes of saving the defeat disappeared into a huge ant colony, and none of them survived, and the whole army was destroyed!
This is a miracle in the history of human warfare: these ants rewrote the history of North Africa in World War II. If it weren't for them, perhaps it would not have been Rommel the Desert Fox who lost the battle, but the British general Montgomery.
This happened in North Africa during World War II. The Combined American and British Forces, led by British Commander Montgomery, launched a counterattack against the Famous German General Rommel the Fox of the Desert. Faced with an Allied army several times larger in numbers and equipment, Rommel was undaunted. While retreating in an orderly manner, he sent an elite force of about 1,800 men to prepare a surprise attack back to the Rear of the British Army in the hope of reversing the unfavorable situation.
Led by General Hime, the thousand-man force traveled a long distance, preparing to cross the pristine jungles of Africa and reach the rear of the British army. After they entered the jungle, they maintained wireless contact with Rommel every day. But three days later, the contact suddenly disappeared and disappeared. Anxious, Rommel hurriedly dispatched a search force to search for the missing Hime. When the searchers reached a lake in the middle of the jungle, they were stunned by the scene before them: they saw large swaths of skeletons scattered in the open space by the lake, empty dry food bags, army signs, German guns and ammunition, glasses, watches, clothes and a large number of ants! After counting, a total of 1764 skeletons were found, which was exactly the number of troops led by General Hime...
What the hell is going on? It's horrible. What happened to General Sim?! No one knows what's going on here.
That's right, they encountered the African Black Palate Ant! A terrifying carnivorous ant, larger than ordinary ants, the size of a thumb, extremely ferocious, also known as a marching ant. Outbreaks occur almost every three years or so, and hundreds of millions of ants act collectively, sweeping away everything edible they encounter. No matter how fierce the animal, let alone the plant, it is difficult to escape its hands. The place where the pieces of armor were left, and there was desolation. The hapless Hime just happened to encounter the explosion of marching ants, and although they were well-equipped and well-trained, they had no chance or possibility of escape in front of hundreds of millions of black palate ants.
What is even more abominable is that these carnivorous ants also secrete poisonous ant acid, and once bitten, they will soon lose their resistance due to anesthesia, thus completely losing the possibility of escaping to survive. It is no wonder that Sim's army of a thousand people has not survived.
Imagine if Hime had managed to reach his destination and made a detour against the Allies, would there have been another example in military history of winning more with less? Rommel, the lone of the desert, is also bound to create another miracle. If we want to defeat this famous German general who can fight well and is respected by both the enemy and us, it really must be timed.
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