Based on a deep understanding of the weaknesses of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, the protagonist has long realized that the Northern Expeditionary Army can easily get into trouble and has prepared for it.

While the protagonist leads the main force of the Divine Envoy King's army south and begins to attack the southern hilly region, there is still a flying knight unit stationed in the "bridgehead", shouldering the task of reconnaissance and communication. They will be the eyes and ears of the protagonist.

According to the reconnaissance report of the flying knights, the day after the protagonist led his army south, the side nest of the Paving Ant Country near the area captured by the expeditionary force of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom was strengthened by a variety of reinforcements.

These reinforcements were not numbered, and each lair was reinforced by hundreds of warriors. The protagonist judges that these reinforcements may be from other temporarily safe secondary nests, rather than the return of the main army on the front line.

These reinforcements could not reverse the current predicament of the Paving Ant Barbarians on the battlefield of the Great HB Shore, but the sub-nest that had been reinforced had more troops, and therefore had a firmer confidence in resisting.

Sure enough, next, the offensive of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom had to gradually slow down under the increasingly strong resistance and enter a stalemate.

As the battle line was gradually stabilized, the paving ant barbarians, who were large in land and abundant in numbers, began to invest more troops in this area.

More and more reinforcements appeared in the sight of the flying knights, and these reinforcements came in groups of three or five, the most of which were hundreds of warriors, and the few were only a few dozen warriors.

They quickly converged along the ant path on the territory of the Paving Ant Country, and then dispersed again into the ant nest on the front line.

These reinforcements also appear to have been drawn from the main nest and other secondary nests, including old and disabled warriors, as well as warriors whose carapace was still very light in color, apparently just breaking out of the pupa and becoming adults.

These warriors are not drafted into battle at normal times. Their presence also means that the Paving Ant Barbarians are indeed stretched thin in this area.

However, although their combat effectiveness is not strong, in the offensive and defensive battles of the nest **, they can still effectively delay the pace of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.

After receiving the battle reports sent back by the flying knights every day, the protagonist suddenly has a very familiar feeling.

In World War II, at the beginning of the Barbarossa Plan, the elite units of the German army made such great strides into the territory of the Soviet Union, and it went extremely smoothly. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, relied on a large amount of bloodshed and sacrifices, and threw a large number of recruits into the defense regardless of casualties, to stabilize the battle line.

However, in World War II, the German army annihilated a large number of the Soviet army's living forces in the early stage of the war, causing great difficulties for the Soviet army after that, and it was not until a few years later that it lost the initiative on the battlefield.

However, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom has not been able to eliminate too many Paving Ant Barbarian Army, so it seems that once the main force of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army is transferred to the counteroffensive, the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom's Expeditionary Force will face a more severe situation than the German army on the Eastern Front.

The Soviet army struggled to support itself on the Eastern Front, and finally waited for the elite troops transferred back from the Far East. And are the paving ant barbarians also waiting for their main force to be drawn back from other battlefields?

At least for now, the results of the Flying Knight's reconnaissance show that the main force of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army has not yet appeared, where are they at the moment? When will it suddenly appear and deal a fatal blow to the Northern Expeditionary Army?

However, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom was a little stronger than the German army on the Eastern Front of World War II.

That is, although the German army had the RB as a nominal ally, this ally was frightened after the Nomenkan and never dared to go to war with the Soviet Union. Seeing through this, the Soviet army was able to calmly transfer Zhukov and the elite troops of the Far East to the front line of the war against Germany.

But the enemies that the paving ant barbarians have to face, in addition to the sudden attack of the big-headed ant kingdom Northern Expeditionary Army, according to the protagonist's last in-depth investigation of the paving ant kingdom and the results of questioning the floating leaf king, I know that in the far north, the paving ant kingdom has to deal with the invasion of a huge ant every year, which is the enemy that the paving ant kingdom is most afraid of.

On the eastern border of the Paving Ant Country, indigenous ants such as RB black brown ants and black-headed sour ants are also constantly harassing the border.

Therefore, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army cannot devote all its forces to the battlefield of the Great HB Bank.

This is an advantage that the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom can take advantage of.

Unfortunately, in addition to the protagonist who has relatively comprehensive information, the vast majority of the kings of the Northern Expeditionary Army can not see the entire battle situation clearly, but also immerse themselves in the previous victory, greatly underestimating the strength of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army.

They did not take any measures to deal with the counterattack of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, nor did they think about how to take advantage of the weakness of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army's multi-front combat and tight strength and time to carry out a protracted battle.

What makes the protagonist feel speechless is that as the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom newly conquers more and more lands, their battle line is getting longer and longer.

In addition to the two clusters of the Southern Corps, which are still roughly grouped, the twenty legions under the command of General A King have long been scattered in different nests as garrisons, or as baggage teams between the nests, and the formation is almost non-existent.

Even the Northern Corps, which was originally twisted into a fist, turned into five or six small groups to act separately after the battle line was opened.

General King C and General D each have only ten legions around them, and the rest of the legions are either three or five together, either foraging for food on their own at a nest conquered somewhere, or attacking a small lair belonging to the Paving Ant Barbarian on their own, but the progress is slow.

In fact, this can't be blamed on these kings, they don't know that the more concentrated the troops, the greater the chance of victory, but there are too many restrictions on objective conditions.

The main strategic goal of the Southern Corps was the paving ant nests along the river, which were relatively dense and had abundant food on the riverbank, so they had much less difficulty in military rations.

The Northern Corps went deep inland, and there was a shortage of food, and once the capture of the nest was insufficient, it would not be able to support the next move of the corps.

Dispersed into small units, although the attack efficiency is lower, but the difficulty of foraging is also greatly reduced.

These small units can spend days near the captured lair to find enough ration on their own before moving on to the next target, saving the commanders the trouble of reconciling food.

Even if foraging does not go well, it is much less difficult to transport rations to a small army in the rear than to supply a large army.

However, in this practice of dispersing and allocating troops, what we are most afraid of is being attacked by the enemy's large corps. Due to the backwardness of the means of communication, the scattered troops could not be regrouped in a short period of time.

And the more you worry about something, the more you come, and it didn't take long for the flying knights to hurriedly warn the protagonist far south.