Chapter 62: Encountering the Enemy
The expeditionary force of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom hunted as they went, but still maintained a fast marching speed.
The protagonist's Divine Envoy King's army also captured a lot on the road, and an earthworm that happened to escape from the ground became everyone's rations. Of course, the protagonist still can't eat these meats. He lay leisurely on the silk bed carried by the two soldier ants, watching his subordinates feast, at least he didn't feel any discomfort watching other ants eat meat.
Due to the time it took to hunt the tumbling earthworm, the public security corps had already rushed from the back of the protagonist to the front.
After noon, the expeditionary force had arrived at the second nest of the front. This secondary nest is not large, only thirty kings with more than a thousand ants are stationed, and the only queen ant moved from the main nest after the beginning of spring. But there was a lot of food in this secondary nest, and every idle nest was piled up, which was brought from the main nest and the neighboring secondary nests after the beginning of spring to support the attack on the paving ant barbarians.
The army stops at this sub-nest (the protagonist is named "Grain City"), and the worker ants in "Grain City" take the initiative to run to the legion and ask if they need to be fed one by one, and some ants who have not harvested well on the way open their bellies and eat a meal. Subsequently, the expeditionary force continued to advance in the direction of due north under the guidance of the forward.
The public security legion stayed in the "Grain City" for a long time, and the protagonist didn't rush to set off when he saw this. He saw that the messengers in the public security corps kept going in and out of the auxiliary nest, as if they were communicating something, so he sent a worker ant to inquire.
After a while, the worker ants replied that the public security had communicated with the king of the sub-nest and learned the following information: since the beginning of spring, after the ice broke in the river, the paving ant barbarians routinely stopped attacking the sub-nest, but the worker ants who went out to search for food in the sub-nest could still encounter the members of the paving ant barbarians in a farther area, and there were sporadic skirmishes between the two sides, each with minor casualties.
The Public Security Legion was launched, and the Divine Envoy King's Legion followed. The protagonist keeps sending messengers to ask questions of his own interest. After all, he is still a rookie on the battlefield and has his own worries. If he is still a human body, then he doesn't pay attention to such a group of ants at all, and he can at least run if he can't beat it.
The police patiently answered the protagonist's question, and the protagonist was relieved.
These paving ant barbarians also don't have much tactical literacy, and every year when they are defending, each side nest fights on its own and does not support each other. And not only did they not use street fighting to delay in the nest because of the disadvantage of their troops, but they fought with the expeditionary force of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom in the wild. The superior army of big-headed ants is generally able to win at a certain cost, and then they are cleared of the remnants of the paving ant barbarians in the secondary nest. Due to the complexity and narrowness of the underground passages of the secondary nest, these few stubbornly guarded paving ant barbarians can cause more trouble than the barbarians who go out to fight. But usually in the summer, the whole counterattack will be over.
The protagonist now understands that these ants, whether they are big-headed ants or paving ants, tactical awareness and micro-manipulation are scum-like existences. If Nima is put into the real-time strategy game, it is equivalent to the players on both sides of the team are all framed and then A's passes, and no other operations are required at all. It's simply a way of playing in the Red Alert era, where whoever has the most soldiers can win. In winter, the paving ant resources are more and more soldiers, and the adaptability is good, and A can capture several bases of big-headed ants in the past. After the beginning of spring, it was reversed, and the sub-base and the main base captured by the paving ants were isolated, and the big-headed ants brought their soldiers over to regain the lost territory. The two players, you come and go, and you never get tired of it, frame each other, frame A, frame A, A for hundreds of years. Thinking about the protagonist, he wants to hide his face and run away.
Around 3 p.m. (the time the protagonist estimates based on the height of the sun), the protagonist notices that the legion in front of him has stopped moving, and there is some unusual movement. He hurriedly sent a messenger to ask the police what was going on. The police replied that the vanguard should have encountered the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, and the follow-up legions should form a formation and encircle the enemy in a long line.
Well, sure enough, it is a box-by-A operation, after the troops in groups are engaged on the front line, the follow-up forces will automatically open the front line because they cannot meet the enemy.
The protagonist also commands his Divine Envoy King Legion to follow the Public Security Legion to the west, and after advancing for a while, there are no other friendly troops in front of and behind the protagonist, and the friendly legions on the left and right are lined up, with the Public Security Legion on the right. From the sky, the single line formed by this big-headed ant expeditionary force is about fifty meters long, roughly in a curve with two sides protruding in the middle and a little back, once any point of this line touches the enemy, then the line of the superior big-headed ant army will extend and encircle the opponent.
The main character's Divine Envoy King's legion has not yet encountered the enemy head-on, and the army is slowly advancing at a slower pace than a march. The protagonist notices that during the march, the army's supposedly smooth front is uneven due to the inconsistent pace of the various legions.
The vanguard legion that had previously engaged the enemy was only a handful of paving ants, worker ants or scouts of the barbarian army in search of food. These scattered soldiers were no match for the army of big-headed ants formed in formation, and they were either quickly surrounded or quickly slipped away with nimble legs. In this way, the Paving Ant Barbarian army will also soon know that the enemy army is approaching.
These scattered enemy forces are just the right place for the protagonist to practice his skills. Although the ants' vision on the ground is affected by the grass and undulating terrain, he is still able to spot enemies before they are spotted by paver ants. Then he sent the information package of the tactics he had developed to Mulan, and they were responsible for implementing them.
This tactic is extremely simple, just get stuck at the edge of the opponent's field of vision to outflank and then rush up. This is the head-stealing tactic of the officer, sniper, and long-range artillery used by the protagonist in his previous life when playing the real-time strategy game "Forever Raid".
What is the edge of the ant's field of vision? After the protagonist's observation in the ant nest, the worker ants and soldier ants of the big-headed ants can see things at a distance of about one meter, but they can't see many things clearly at this distance. The sensitive sensing distance for moving objects is three decimeters, and if you need to accurately judge the identity of the other party, you often need to get closer to within one decimeter, and even need the help of antennae.
Therefore, the protagonist draws the terrain in his line of sight into the information packet, accurately specifying the position of the opponent, and Mulan can rely on the aid of vision to accurately locate the enemy when they are close to three decimeters, and then outflank them at a distance of two decimeters. At this time, the paver ants were still curious about the Mulan moving two decimeters away, and they were about to come over to verify it, when they were attacked.
None of the scattered paving ants in front of the protagonist escaped. But the other legions are catching fish one after another. The fleeing scouts made a noise as they raced towards the secondary nest, and although the sound could only travel a short distance, the other paver ants who were foraging outside heard the same warning sound. Soon, all the paving ants on the ground heard the warning and knew the news of the enemy invasion, and they quickly assembled at the hole of the occupied secondary nest, ready to cover the main force to leave the nest, so as to fight the big-headed ant expeditionary force on the ground to the death.