Chapter 186: Reforming the Ruling System and the Establishment of the Army (1)
Rewind to the end of May.
After the Divine Envoy King's Legion returns to [Hive City], the protagonist flies back to [Xinyang City] first, leaving the spade elephant and a large army to garrison the local area.
In the following period, Shovel Elephant, together with other commanders, divided his forces to attack the land of the Red Fire Ant Country, and finally occupied about two-fifths of the land of the Red Fire Ant Country's old territory.
For a few days after the protagonist returned to [Xinyang City], he still felt a little strange - the powerful Red Fire Ant Kingdom was about to perish like this.
Perhaps, the leaders of the Leafcutter Ant Country are also surprised, the Red Fire Ant Country and them have been old enemies for hundreds of years, and once they were destroyed, the Leafcutter Ant Country felt even more deeply.
After careful analysis, the protagonist concludes that the ruling system of the Red Fire Ant Country is the fundamental reason for its rise and fall and demise.
The ruling group of the Red Fire Ant Nation is the Red Fire Ant family, and they do not have a large ant population, only a small fraction compared to the many slave ants that are ruled.
The red fire ant warriors who were raised trained and fought every day, did not have to worry about production, and even had slaves to serve them when they ate and, so their combat effectiveness was naturally very strong, and they had the basis for establishing a military dictatorship notice.
However, this ruling system is a serious separation between the ruler and the ruled, in order to maintain their brutal rule, the red fire ant clan can only concentrate their elite forces in the main nest and a few important secondary nests in various places, and most of the rest of the secondary nests have only dozens or hundreds of red fire ants.
This method of concentrating troops allows the Red Fire Ant Kingdom to quickly deploy troops to deal with it, whether it is facing an invasion of foreign enemies or an occasional slave ant rebellion.
But the disadvantage is that once it encounters a major military defeat, it is difficult to recover in a short period of time, and most of the secondary nests are almost undefended.
Recently, the Divine Envoy King's army has been attacking the city and plundering the land, and basically only a few old, weak, sick and disabled red fire ants left in the secondary nest have been eliminated, and the rest of the slave ants have surrendered.
The elite red fire ants in these secondary nests have been drawn to fight and will never come back. And the slave ants felt that they were just changing masters, and had no desire to resist.
Only a few leaders of the slave ant clan, who were vigorously encircled by the Red Fire Ant Clan, made a few futile resistances.
It can be seen that the ruling system of the Red Fire Ant Country is based on the strong military strength of its own race, and the rule over the vast majority of the auxiliary nests and slave ants is very weak. Once the military power of the Red Fire Ant Nation declines, its demise is a natural thing.
The protagonist reflects on the Legion of the Divine Envoy King on the ruling system.
After capturing [Hive City], carving up the territory of the Red Fire Ant Country, and even subduing a few more vassals of the Red Fire Ant Country, there are now eight ant clans within the Divine Envoy King Legion:
Big-headed ants (broad-knotted big-headed ants), paver ants (meadow paving ants), hunting sickle ants, leaf-cutter ants (baric-cut leaf ants), belly-raising ants, red forest ants, Japanese black brown ants, burrowing ants.
Similar to the Red Fire Ant Country, the Divine Envoy King Legion also has the big-headed ant as the ruling class, and the other ant clans occupy the position of being ruled.
The ruling system of the Divine Envoy King Legion is more stable and efficient in comparison, the ruled ant clan is not very exploited, and its supreme ruler is also vigorously encircled, and directly obeys the orders of the Divine Envoy Wang Ben Ant.
Outside of the big-headed ants, the vast majority of ordinary male and female ants do not feel like slaves, but feel like they are in a united empire.
Although the core ruling class of the ant tribe lives in [Hive City], and most of them live in secondary nests and mixed nests, they have relatively independent living areas from each other, and they also avoid the contradiction of being completely mixed.
However, underneath the apparent harmony, there is a similarity to that of the Red Fire Ant Nation - the rule of the Divine Envoy King Legion is also based on the military superiority of the Big-Headed Ant Clan.
Once the big-headed ant clan loses power, the protagonist himself doesn't feel that just by virtue of his prestige, he can make other ant clans bow down!
If you are not of my race, your heart will be different, which is especially true for the ant race.
The national system of the multi-ant clan created by the protagonist is something that has never been seen in this ant world, and it is completely different from the slavery system like the Red Fire Ant Country, he has no experience to learn from, he can only walk on a single-plank bridge, while groping, while moving forward, afraid of falling into the abyss at any time...
The protagonist is determined to continue to carry out reforms within the Divine Envoy King to ensure the strength and stability of the regime. While making full use of the strengths of each ant clan to prosper the economy, it is also necessary to take measures to continue to improve the current ruling system.
Militarily, the protagonist decides to continue to adhere to the national policy of focusing on big-headed ants, and must ensure the absolute superiority of the main ant clan in terms of military strength.
Originally, the protagonist also brought back a batch of red fire ant eggs, wanting to subdue this ant clan and use its strong ant warriors as a supplement to military strength. However, the small number of red fire ant ants hatched by experiments are lazy and unruly on weekdays, and they need to be served by other ants.
Now the protagonist is worried that they will shake the military superiority of the big-headed ants, so they simply reluctantly destroy all these red fire ants and ant eggs.
In order to limit the military strength of the other ant tribes, the protagonist also decided to disband the 101st Legion composed of non-big-headed ant warriors, except for the big-headed ants, the rest of the ant tribes are not allowed to establish legion-level troops, only the formation of squads or brigades, and join the legion of the big-headed ants as support at any time according to the needs of the war.,Accept the command of the big-headed ants.。
This is similar to how each legion had 2 Scythe Ant Scout Squads before, but it is no longer a fixed formation.
According to the characteristics of each ant clan, the number of ant populations and combat effectiveness, and also based on the current economic strength, the protagonist decided to expand and adapt the military strength of the Divine Envoy King Legion to the following levels this year:
30 Big-headed Ant Brigades (60 Hunting Scythe Ant Squads), 1 Tank Legion (3 Tank Assault Brigades and 2 Fire Support Brigades), 1 Flying Knight Brigade (10 Fly Flying Knight Squads), 15 Paving Ant Brigades, 2 Leaf-cutting Ant Brigades, 2 Belly-Lifting Ant Brigades, 5 Red Forest Ant Brigades, 2 Burrowing Ant Brigades, and 1 Japanese Black Brown Ant Brigade.
Among them, the tank corps, according to the different ways of fighting, is divided into tank assault brigades and fire support brigades.
The mounts of the tank assault brigade are large stag armor, double-pronged rhino beetles, etc., they are fully armored, and there are small-caliber guns on the back platform, which can shoot while assaulting, similar to tanks.
The fire support brigade is mainly a medium beetle, which marches with medium-caliber mung bean cannons, and when fighting, they unload the guns to build fire support positions, and do not participate in the assault themselves, similar to towed artillery.