Chapter 100: Pacifying the Southern Hills (2)
The reorganization of the legion of the Divine Envoy King, and even deeper military reform, have long been included in the protagonist's plan.
Although the current military strength of the Divine Envoy King Legion is relatively strong, it is no longer enough to meet the needs of the north and south directions, and it has also exposed some shortcomings in actual combat, so reform is imperative.
The Divine Legion currently consists of four field legions (main legions) and three garrison legions.
Among them, the commander of the 1st Corps is Roll, the commander of the 2nd Corps is Lambover, the commander of the 3rd Corps is Rambovan, and the commander of the 4th Corps is Rambotu. Commander of the "Dongyang City" Garrison Corps Rambery, "Linshui City" Garrison Commander Da Rong, and "Bridgehead" Garrison Commander Rambose.
The establishment of the field corps and the garrison corps is basically the same. Each legion consists of thirty squads, each of which has fifty Big-Headed Ant Warriors.
It's just that the quality of the field corps is higher, while the quality of the garrison corps is slightly lower.
After all, the field corps has to undertake field combat missions, so it is the main force of the first rank. The garrison corps is only responsible for the defense of the local territory and serves as a reserve for the field legion.
In addition to the field corps and garrison corps, there were also a number of garrison units composed of mildly disabled retired veterans in the small fortresses scattered in various places, which were not incorporated into the corps.
Whether it is a field legion, a garrison corps or a garrison squad, from the commander to the warrior, it is composed of big-headed ants.
The big-headed ant clan is still the most important force under the protagonist's command, and the protagonist's current body is the big-headed ant. As the protagonist's "clan", the big-headed ant monopolizes almost all important positions and power within the protagonist's forces, especially the military department.
Although the big-headed ant family has special soldier ants, they are stronger than paving ants in terms of individual combat effectiveness, and at the same time, they are as good at arranging into dense formations as paving ants.
Therefore, the big-headed ant army, which has a relatively balanced advantage in quantity and quality, can generally perform well in all kinds of wars, and gradually gain the hegemony of the big HN.
But big-headed ants also have a lot of disadvantages.
The individual combat effectiveness of the big-headed ant soldier ant is only at the middle and lower level of all ants, and it has neither a huge body, nor an agile skill, nor a keen eyesight, and it is not assisted by stings, acid or venom like some ant species.
Except for the big jaws, the only thing the big-headed ant soldier ant has is a tight formation and united tactics.
Therefore, in head-to-head battles, disciplined big-headed ants and paving ants are often able to defeat those ants that are individually strong but lack organization. However, in small-scale scout warfare that requires a solo fight, the performance of big-headed ants and paving ants is far inferior to that of hunting sickle ants.
Now, the protagonist has three races under his command: big-headed ants, paving ants, and hunting sickle ants, and he has the basis to make full use of the specialties of different ants to reorganize the army.
According to the protagonist's vision, each field legion still maintains thirty combat squads, and each squad is still composed of fifty big-headed ant soldiers and ant warriors.
In addition, two scout squads were added to each field legion, and each scout squad was composed of fifty scythe-hunting ant warriors, who were responsible for reconnaissance, perimeter cover, raiding and other tasks.
In addition, with the expansion of the territory and the increase in production, the protagonist has the confidence to build two more field legions. He was ready to transfer Lambray and Lambasser from the garrison to become commanders of the newly created Fifth and Sixth Legions.
The position of commander of the "Dongyang Castle" and "Bridgehead" garrison corps will be transferred to Zhu Zi and Da Rong, who are in charge of local administration, and the position of commander of the "Linshui City" garrison corps held by Da Rong will be transferred to Hu Zi.
The establishment of the garrison corps remains unchanged for the time being, but the newly formed "Southern City" garrison corps is formed, with the floating leaf king of the paving ants as the leader and Gardenia as the deputy commander.
This garrison corps is quite special, out of the thirty combat squads, only ten combat squads are composed of big-headed ant soldiers, and are directly commanded by the deputy commander of the gardenia. The other twenty battle squads are made up of selected paving ant warriors, under the direct command of the Floating Leaf Legion.
This garrison corps of big-headed ants and paving ants is the protagonist's attempt to incorporate paving ants into the military establishment, and it is also a reuse of the floating leaf king, and it is also the embodiment of the idea of balancing the forces of various ethnic groups in the army.
The protagonist's idea of military reform will be implemented one after another for a period of time to come.
Among them, the formation of the "Southern City" garrison corps is relatively fast, but the progress of equipping the field corps with the Scythe Hunting Ant Scout Team is slow, because it will take some time for the eggs, larvae and chrysalis of the Scythe Hunting Ants captured from the Southern Hills War to raise them to adulthood and train them to become qualified warriors.
At present, only the First Legion has taken the lead in staffing enough Scythe Hunter Scout Warriors, while the other three Legions have not yet completed the reform.
The progress of the new formation of the Fifth and Sixth Legions is not as fast as expected, after a year of fighting in the north and south, the source of qualified big-headed ant soldiers and ant warriors in the original territory has been on the verge of exhaustion, and the queen ants are still needed to speed up production.
But it also takes months for new fighters to give birth, raise and break their pupae to adulthood, as well as to train afterwards. Therefore, in the short term, the 5th and 6th Army Corps will not be able to form combat effectiveness.
After the war in the southern hills, a large area of the Sickle Hunter Ant tribe had been swept away.
However, due to the limited strength of the Divine Envoy King's legion and the inconvenient transportation in the hilly areas, the protagonist has no way to bring all the newly conquered territories under his jurisdiction.
In the end, after the discussion of the protagonist's high-level leaders, it was decided to expand the three fortresses on the outskirts of the original "Southern City" into three official nests, and named them "Nanfeng Castle", "Nanhua Castle", and "Nanjin Castle" respectively according to the first tree near the nest.
The inhabitants of these three new towns are planned to be a mix of big-headed ants and paving ants as an attempt to integrate different races.
As for the hunting sickle ants, due to the small number of them, coupled with the fact that they have just been ambushed and their loyalty has yet to be tested, they are all concentrated in the "Southern City".
In the valley and hilly heights near the three new lairs, a number of small forts were built with some garrisons to serve as the first line of defense for the southern territory.
As for the other newly conquered regions, they could only be abandoned for the time being. Perhaps it won't be long before the Sickle Hunter Ant Tribe gets married next spring at the latest, and these borderlands that have been cleared will become the territory of the Native Ant-Hunting Tribe, and there will be another war with the Divine Messenger Legion.
But the protagonist has no better way, he does not have enough troops and time to get caught up in a long-term law and order war in the south, because the situation of the war on the Great HB Shore has changed significantly.