Chapter 207: Dispute
Sun Tzu said: All the methods of using military will be ordered by the king, and the army will gather the people. There is no land to give, the land is combined, the Jedi is not left, the land is encircled, and the land is killed. ”
It means that if it is a Jedi, the army should not stay, and if it is a dead place from which it cannot escape, it can only fight to the death.
And the ants are not willing to give up even this terrain that is particularly unfavorable for defense, and even have to send the most elite troops there, which in the eyes of the protagonist is a complete waste of valuable elite troops.
Topographically, the situation of the original "Waterfront City" was not so bad, the island was surrounded by water, and only a natural wooden bridge connected to the river bank in the south, as long as heavy troops were placed on this only passage, ordinary ant armies would have to pay a lot of money to pass. If the Divine Envoy King's legion is stationed here, I believe that the damage can be increased.
But when the river freezes in winter, the situation changes, and the water on all sides immediately becomes enemy on all sides, and the original moat becomes a thoroughfare, and the attacker now has an advantage.
The defenders were unable to compare with the attacking side in three aspects: the enemy was more adapted to operating in the winter climate, there were no terrain obstacles in attacking the "Waterfront City", there were many of them and they were easy to replenish, while the defenders were still frozen in the city, they were surrounded by water and had no danger to defend, and they were alone and had no support outside. The two sides will decide on the merits and inferiors.
In this case, generally speaking, if you go here to station, how do you look at it, there is a lifeless adventure, if the protagonist doesn't know that the kings are just stupid and not bad, it is inevitable that he will feel that this is deliberately consuming his strength.
If it's just for the Divine Envoy King's Legion to garrison the most dangerous sub-nest, then forget it, the protagonist believes that with his leadership and the combat effectiveness of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, after some careful planning and preparation, there is still a way to firmly hold this stronghold.
The crux of the matter is that the King's Council forbids the Kings from being in danger to command the front line, so that the Divine Envoy King's legion can only fight under the leadership of the individual squad commanders, and Roll will lead the entire legion as a temporary commander.
Although Roll is his cronies and has won deep trust, the protagonist is still not at ease with him in the cold season to control the fate of the entire army, Roll is impatient and impatient, once there is a command error, it will inevitably cause heavy losses to the army or even the annihilation of the whole army. The protagonist will never tolerate such a level of loss from a painstakingly trained legion.
So the protagonist immediately spoke out against it, considering the character of the ants, it is not good for him to directly ask to give up such a Jedi as "Waterfront City", after all, once the kings feel that he, the god envoy king, is cowardly and cowardly, then it will be a major blow to his prestige, and what plan he wants to advance in the future will inevitably be resisted.
Here's what the protagonist says:
First, he was willing to send more soldiers to the front line of the winter defense, not just one legion, but three legions.
In this way, the scale of the "waterfront city" is too small, after all, it is a secondary nest built on a banyan tree, and the room for expansion is limited, and the groundwater level is too high to dig into the ground.
Therefore, the protagonist suggests that the three Divine Envoy King legions be transferred to an expandable sub-nest on the south bank of the river.
Second, the protagonist thinks that he must personally go to the front line to lead the legion, which is what a brave commander should do, let ordinary kings and soldiers under his command fight bloody battles, but they are hiding in a safe rear and hibernate peacefully, which is not the work of warriors.
After a brief exchange at the King's Conference, it was believed that the Divine Envoy King was indeed courageous, but there was a certain reason for the thousands of years of kingdoms to be arranged in this way, and it would take a lot of time and resources to cultivate a qualified king, and it could not be easily lost like ordinary kings and warriors. So even though some of the brave and fearless kings echo the protagonist's statement that the king should also be on the front line to fight, most of the kings prefer to abide by tradition.
As for the proposal to have the Divine Envoy King's legion stationed in other sub-nests, it was also rejected by the King's Council, they thought that it was possible for the protagonist to say that the Divine Envoy King's legion could send three legions, but it was likely to drain the worker ants and soldier ants in "Dongyang City" - after all, they didn't think that any secondary nest had such a large scale and resources to support three legions of pure soldier ants.
Therefore, the King Council believed that even if the three legions cobbled together had more soldiers, their combat effectiveness would not be very strong, and they would consume a lot of materials and affect the development of "Dongyang City", which was not advisable.
The protagonist is very annoyed, and he is not afraid of war and wants to preserve his strength, he obviously wants to help the kingdom achieve better results, and in the coming year, he even wants to take the initiative to find a way to cross the river to attack the hinterland of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army. As a result, the King's Council rejected both of the protagonist's proposals, which clearly drove the God's King Legion to a dead end.
The protagonist immediately speaks politely, he doesn't want to use the "divine decree" anymore, but only uses anger to accuse the stubborn and conservative kings.
This kind of blatant accusation of the Great King is rare in the history of the Ant Kingdom, and one of the parties is also the Divine Envoy King with outstanding prestige and brilliant achievements. For a while, many of the participants were very stunned. In their opinion, they just adopted what they thought was the safest and most reasonable tactic based on their past experience, and they were accused of "stupidity" and "cowardice" by the "Divine King".
This kind of direct accusation is unique in the history of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom and in the history of the Great King's Conference, and the accuser is not an ordinary king, but a divine envoy king who is regarded as the incarnation of the "God of War", and the scope of the matter belongs to the field of war, which has to make all the kings present attach great importance to it!
It is also true that some of the kings who had previously taken the lead in opposing the protagonist's opinion and believed that they should continue to formulate a defense plan according to the traditional principle could not refute the accusation that the protagonist would defend every year, but lose the city and land every year.
So, even if they still feel the need to stick to tradition, they are stumbling under the protagonist's real-life responsibilities.
The protagonist can't help but become more and more impassioned, and the dissatisfaction with the serious conservative atmosphere of the big-headed ant kingdom since the crossing stirs in the protagonist's chest, making him not vomit and unhappy. At this time, he no longer cares about other people's opinions and the possible consequences, just like a person who has to vent emotionally.
Originally, there were several kings who tried to refute the protagonist's statement, but in terms of lip service, they were not at all the opponents of the protagonist who had been baptized by the socialist market economy and spiritual civilization for a long time.
Soon, as the voice of the last person trying to speak is drowned out, only the protagonist's verbal signal is transmitted throughout the cobblestone floor......