Take the first anti-encirclement war as an example, the protagonist captured a sub-nest in this war, and the total amount of food captured was enough for 10,000 people to eat for one month, that is, enough for 150,000 troops to eat for two days.

However, this sub-nest was an exception, because this sub-nest was the logistics base of the first encirclement and suppression of the Paving Ant Army at that time, and needed to supply the entire army of military rations, so before the war, the flying knights found that this sub-nest showed signs of receiving a large amount of foreign food.

If it is an ordinary secondary nest, it is optimistically estimated that the grain reserve is only half of this secondary nest. In other words, the food captured by capturing these ordinary secondary nests is only enough to support the consumption of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom for one day.

Theoretically, the Northern Expeditionary Army must conquer a secondary nest of paving ant kingdoms every day to ensure that the capture is equal to the consumption.

However, this is almost an impossible task, in one day, you have to march on the road, but also to fight, and if there is a little problem in any link, there is no guarantee that the goal can be completed within the specified time.

To put it simply, as long as the enemy sticks to the underground of the lair, he can hold on for a while with a small number of troops.

Moreover, the proximity of the Paving Ant Nation to the southern border, although its strength is relatively weak, is due to a variety of reasons. For example, the main forces of the Paving Ant Country have combat missions in other directions, and the south has always been safe and negligent in prevention, etc.

But the appearance of the Divine Envoy King Legion has already reminded the Paving Ant Nation that the south may not be very stable.

The main nest of the Paving Ant Country can draw 10,000 mobile troops to deal with the small number of defenders in the "bridgehead", and with their background, it is not difficult to organize forces to resist or even counterattack after discovering the appearance of enemy armies in the south.

In other words, for the Northern Expeditionary Force of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, the most advantageous fighter is only the first few days, and they can quickly capture several paving ant sub-nests that have not been warned in the form of surprise attacks.

As long as the Paving Ant Country reacts, the Northern Expedition will become more and more difficult.

At that time, the Northern Expeditionary Army may not be able to expand its gains. Failure to conquer a new secondary nest means losing a source of captured food.

And the food provided by the native and protagonist of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom can only support the consumption of the army in five or six days of combat on the north bank of the Great River. Once the grain stocks bottomed out, the consequences would be catastrophic for the Northern Expeditionary Army, which was isolated in the north of the river.

Of course, at that time, the Northern Expeditionary Army will also be able to collect food on the occupied sub-nest, and even eat the corpses of both the enemy and us as a last resort. But that's all an expedient measure when there is no way, and in the long run it still can't supply the army for consumption.

Ants seem to have been too dismissive of logistics, whether it's big-headed ants or paver ants.

If you want to say that the ants don't understand logistics at all, that's not right, the king meeting of the big-headed ant kingdom will specially arrange the centralized transfer and supply of military food before the war, which seems to be very experienced.

However, in terms of the amount of military rations provided, it seems that both paving ants and big-headed ants generally only provide the army with a share of less than one month.

The Paving Ant Army is like this every year during the southern expedition, so that after the beginning of spring, the Paving Ant Army is forced to stay in place and start foraging everywhere. Once the battle starts, the corpses of both sides on the battlefield have to be taken away for military rations.

The same is true for the Big-headed Ant Army, the Great King Council was obviously able to calculate the astronomical food consumption of such a large-scale army, but he was still optimistic that the problem could be solved by relying on the enemy's food.

But the protagonist has to think about it.

As long as the river is crossed, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom is the knife and shield in the hands of the protagonist.

As a knife, the Northern Expeditionary Army will plunge into the southern hinterland of the Paving Ant Country, bleeding this powerful enemy.

As a shield, there was the Northern Expeditionary Army in the front, and the "bridgehead" to hold the ferry, while the strength and attention of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom were turned to the north. At this time, the protagonist's two territories, one south and one north, can accelerate development without restrictions.

However, this knife must not be broken too quickly, and this shield must be able to hold on as long as possible.

With the pitiful stock of military rations calculated on a daily basis in the current Northern Expeditionary Army, it is obviously not up to the requirements of the protagonist.

But how can we get more food?

It's hard to tap the potential inside the kingdom. In normal times, these armies are scattered in the main nest and more than a hundred secondary nests, so there is no need to worry about food at all.

Because military operations consume much more calories than ordinary activities, individual warriors consume far more food than ordinary ants.

In addition, these fighters could not produce food at all, except for capture, on the battlefield, and on their own territory they were ordinary laborers who performed foraging work.

The consumption has increased, but the number of ants foraging has decreased, and the consumption of resources for the entire Big-headed Ant Kingdom by supplying such an army has squeezed the kingdom's territory to the extreme.

The secondary nests are now able to provide very little surplus food, and the main nest has a batch of mealworms given by the protagonist to be raised, but due to the lack of technology in the main nest, the production is very small, which is a drop in the bucket for the whole situation.

On the side of the big-headed ant kingdom, it is almost impossible to provide too many resources for the Northern Expeditionary Army.

The protagonist is also unable to provide much of a resource, although the territory under the protagonist's governance is very rich, and the food produced by the farms and farms has greatly exceeded the consumption of the existing ant population.

But this kind of affluence is relative to the tens of thousands of ant mouths in the protagonist's territory, once the consumption of the 150,000 army is to be independently supplied, the protagonist will immediately have to enter the destitute clan.

Moreover, the resources of the protagonist are the basis for expanding the antmouth and expanding the power in the future, and without resources, all plans are illusory.

The Northern Expeditionary Army is just a tool for the protagonist, but now it seems that this too huge tool has a faint tendency to kidnap the protagonist.

Sitting back and watching them die, it will not be possible to achieve the protagonist's goal, and even let the paving ant country no longer contain it, and the protagonist will have to give up Hebei and retreat to Henan.

Supporting the Northern Expeditionary Army, it is beyond the protagonist's ability to bear it. In the long run, not only will the protagonist slowly lose blood, but his own power will not be able to take the opportunity to expand.

The originally designed plan for the big-headed ant kingdom and the paving ant kingdom to contain each other and lose blood together, but now even the protagonist himself is at risk of being weakened, and it can only be said that everything in the world is running, and not one person can control the direction.

The world is safe and secure!

The protagonist forces himself to calm down, and there is no way out, and he needs to find a way to break the game.

After careful analysis, the biggest difficulty now lies in the shortage of food. And the shortage of food is caused by too many troops, so it is necessary to reduce the number of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

But is the Council of Kings of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom willing to overturn the decision and reduce the number of troops?