Chapter 247: The Battle of "Waterfront City" (1)

For a race to be able to grow and develop to a scale equivalent to the current big-headed ant kingdom, it is obviously not enough to rely on blood alone.

Just like the ants in the human world, once the population spreads through the queen ant or the group, it may remain peaceful at the beginning because of the similarity of the breath, but it is impossible to obey the command of the family, but it is independent. When the time is extended, even if several ant nests that were originally the same ancestor will eventually turn against each other as the smell changes.

But in this world, a large kingdom can control dozens or hundreds of side nests, which is contrary to common sense.

But if you think about the human world, isn't the scale of civilization changing a little bit from small to large?

The earliest primitive human races, from clans to clans, were limited in scale, and they were also united by blood. Later, tribes and chiefdoms across blood relations appeared, and eventually became city-states and empires.

Such an organization that crosses blood ties must have a ruling basis, whether it is military conquest and suppression, or the consistency of religious beliefs or cultural thoughts, especially the latter, which is the foundation of a country's long-term stability. Whether it is Christianity, Christianity, or the cultural outlook of China, they are all full of vitality to shape a kingdom or dynasty with orderly inheritance.

The protagonist hadn't thought deeply about what the basis for the existence of such a huge ant kingdom as the big-headed ant kingdom was before, but from this vice-nest that stuck to the last soldier, the protagonist finally understood.

The idea of a ruling core such as the Council of Kings and the identity of the ants with their own class is the foundation of this kingdom's strength, expansion, and cohesion.

And the Queen Ant Legacy faction also has its own leadership core and beliefs, that is, the Queen Ant and Queen Ant ruling tradition.

Only his own Divine Envoy King Legion, although he takes himself as the absolute core, is still lacking in ideology and belief.

The protagonist only vaguely understands this before, and uses his own way as God's spokesman to gain the loyalty of his subordinates. This is a primitive religion-like belief, but it is not yet religious or cultural.

It seems that there is still a long way to go in the ideological construction in the future, and if the protagonist really has the idea of making his subordinates swear allegiance to the death, it will not be easy to have so many male ants questioning the decision against him before.

After thinking about some of the deepest things behind it, the protagonist has to start laying out the reality first.

The second nest halfway from "Qingqiu City" to "Waterfront City" has become a "dead city", but it is obviously impossible for the protagonist to give up this transportation hub, and he plans to transfer a queen ant and 2,000 worker ants from the main nest to live here and rebuild this nest.

As for the army under the commander of the roll, the protagonist also sent a messenger to reprimand his commander-in-chief for his unfavorable response, and at the same time commended some commanders and warriors for their bravery in battle, rewarding a part of the high-class food.

Through such clear rewards and punishments, he urged the army to open up the connection between "Qingqiu City" and "Waterfront City" as soon as possible.

It's not unreasonable for the protagonist to be so anxious, these days, there are flying knights in "Waterfront City" every day.

It has been reported that the ants under the command of the old-fashioned king on the outskirts of the "Waterfront City" have become more and more frequent, and some ants foraging for food have been caught and never returned.

Rambo Fei organized a part of the army to try to drive out the invading old-fashioned kings, but the opponent's scattered organization and flexible behavior made the gods make the king's army exhausted.

After the Flying Knights discovered that the old-fashioned royal army from the "Hunting Ground City" was massively assembling on the outskirts of the "Waterfront City", Rambofei's legion had no choice but to abandon the other side of the wooden bridge and defend the wooden bridge and rocky island with all their might.

The protagonist realizes that "Waterfront City" is about to face a fierce battle, and although he is not worried about the combat effectiveness of the defenders, he is short of supplies in the city and urgently needs foreign help.

- I'm the dividing line -

After the old-fashioned king was convinced that his side was exposed, he immediately organized a meeting of the king with only more than 20 members to discuss. At the insistence of the old-fashioned king, who was familiar with the combat power of the Divine Envoy King's legion, this mini-king meeting ordered the immediate launch of a military operation against the "Waterfront City".

At this time, the old-fashioned king did not know that there was a field army of the Divine Envoy King stationed in the "Linshui City", and he took it for granted that the main minions of the evil Divine Envoy King were still in the "Qingqiu City", and the garrison of the "Linshui City" was very weak, so he could take the opportunity to capture this place, and then find a way to contact the Northern Expeditionary Army that was close at hand.

Under this speculation, the old-fashioned king was in a hurry to mobilize all his forces to attack quickly.

The troops now gathered in the "Hunting Ground City" are full of ten legions, which is a large number. However, there is a serious shortage of commanders, although the corps commanders are all ready, but basically have no combat experience, and the best is to organize large-scale hunts for many years.

There is a shortage of more than 80 percent of the number of grass-roots commanders, and some grass-roots commanders have to command 10 squads at the same time.

Although the shortage of commanders and lack of experience will greatly affect the combat effectiveness of the troops, the old-fashioned king has no choice, he feels that he does not have time to wait for a new batch of male ants to reach adulthood and marry and fly, he also feels that relying on the numerical advantage, even if the loss is large, he can capture the weakly defended "Waterfront City".

There is another reason why the old-fashioned king is so anxious, that is, he perceives that his side is at a disadvantage in long-term battles.

According to the tradition of the big-headed ant kingdom, before the arrival of winter, many queen ants of the secondary nest will go to the main nest to spend the winter.

This is because some secondary nests are either too small in size and have harsh winter conditions, which can easily cause the death of a frail queen. Either it is close to the big river and is easy to be conquered by the south-invading paving ant barbarian army in winter.

Only some secondary nests that are safe, affluent, comfortable, or important are allowed to keep the queen during the winter months.

This leads to the fact that after the beginning of spring, more than half of the worker ants in the whole big-headed ant kingdom are concentrated in the main nest and are taken over by the protagonist. Even if the protagonist later lets go of some of the queens of the queen inheritance faction, he still has a huge team of nearly 100 queens.

And among the seventeen secondary nests controlled by the old-fashioned king, there are only five queens.

In the cognition of ants, if there is abundant food, the number of queen ants is equivalent to the ability to replenish soldiers, which determines the ability to fight for a long time.

Fearing that he would be at a disadvantage in the long-term battle, the old-fashioned king could only give it a go.

Just like in World War II, after realizing that it was a matter of time before the United States entered the war, Isoroku Yamamoto, who was familiar with the huge gap between Japan and the United States in terms of long-term combat capabilities, would take the risk of attacking Pearl Harbor in order to control the initiative and form an early advantage.

At this moment, for both sides, a major battle around the "Waterfront City" is inevitable.