With the official launch of the army of the Paving Ant Emperor, the army of millions of people was busy.

This large corps is not as convenient as a small army, and the organization and dispatch alone is enough for those inexperienced commanders to collapse.

But the Paving Ant Emperor seemed to be very orderly, and their troops were mobilized in an orderly manner, performing their duties in an orderly manner.

The first batch of troops to go south was the Fu of the Red Fire Ant Clan, who, as the direct beneficiaries of the restoration of the old land, were also the natives of that war zone, and were familiar with the terrain, so they naturally took on the important task of pioneering.

Following the vanguard of the Red Fire Ant Army, it was not the main combat force, but the secondary formation force, which was dominated by a large number of auxiliary troops.

On the one hand, the troops of the second formation should ensure the logistical transportation of the forward troops, and the other important task is to establish a number of logistics transfer points on the desolate and gravel land that cannot be replenished, and to establish a logistics support line for the large army.

Without such a lifeline that could continuously transport supplies from the empire to the war zone, it would be almost impossible to pave the Ant Emperor's million-strong army.

This lifeline is composed of transport nodes and transport teams, each transport node, that is, the transfer center, is guarded by troops, and each transport team must also be equipped with escorts, which is required by the mature military system of the Paving Ant Emperor.

According to the plan of this southern expedition, the arrangement of the paving ant emperor is

First, the Red Fire Ant Army will move south, cross the gravel ground, find out the enemy's layout through outpost battles, and if you can't directly break through the enemy's defenses, establish an advance base and wait for the support of a large army.

The troops of the second formation have set up logistics transportation lines and supply and transfer points, improved the logistics support network, and transported grain and straw ahead of schedule.

Only then did the main force pull out, quickly passing through the sand, breaking through the enemy's border defenses, and quickly penetrating into the homeland of the Red Fire Ant Country.

Finally, in a suitable place in the enemy's territory, force the enemy's main force to fight a decisive battle, and immediately after victory, pursue with the main force, capture all the enemy's important lairs, and occupy other lairs with vassal states and auxiliary troops, and lay the victory in one fell swoop.

As their opponents, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army has also begun to prepare for battle, but judging from the strength of the book alone, they are not the opponent of the Paving Ant Emperor.

After occupying the northern part of the Red Fire Ant Country's homeland last year, most of the leaf-cutting ant warriors have returned to their nests, leaving only a small number of troops to garrison and develop in the local area.

It is not to blame that the Leaf Cutting Ant Country does not pay attention to border defense, but their national strength has been exhausted in last year's war, and it is difficult to continue to supply hundreds of thousands of ants from afar for a long time with their local strength.

The newly occupied land of the leafcutter ant country has few forests to support a large-scale fungal cultivation industry, and this industry also needs to be built from scratch, and all food supplies are dependent on the local land supply at the beginning.

The hundreds of thousands of ants mobilized by the Leaf-cutting Ant Country at the beginning, but later, as the battle site became farther and farther away from the mainland, eighty percent of the troops were transferred to be responsible for logistics and supply, and even a large number of Holy Beast Star Heavenly Bulls were sold to the Ant Alliance in exchange for food, and the national strength has been squeezed to the extreme.

Although the development of the northern region has achieved initial results this year, several new secondary nests have a relatively stable fungal cultivation industry, which can provide some grain and grass on the spot, but it can only support about 100,000 ants for a long time.

At this time, although the front-line troops of the Leafcutter Ant Country have begun to prepare for war, and the Leafcutter Ant Country is also transporting and hoarding materials from the mainland to the front line for a long distance, they have only gathered 100,000 troops on the front line, together with the local non-warrior ant population, there are already 150,000 leafcutter ants near the border line, which is more than half of the local supply capacity.

If there are more garrisons, the logistics supply will be unbearable, and the deployment of 100,000 troops on the border by the Leaf Cutting Ant Army is already the current maximum mobilization capacity of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country.

For the leaf-cutting ant country, long-distance logistics supply is not a long-term solution, a long-distance transport team, from the leaf cutter ant country to the front line, the road is smooth and has to walk for 5 days, relying on the ants themselves to carry the materials, on the way to eat nearly half of the food, only half can be transported to the front line. The logistical support capability has strictly restricted the deployment of the leaf-cutting ant army.

The Paving Ant Empire is much more mature in comparison, and by setting up transfer points and arranging special transport teams, it can quickly relay the grain to the side of the large army, and the loss is much smaller.

And the logistics and transportation capacity of the ant alliance country has reached a higher level in comparison.

On the one hand, the Ant Alliance takes the route of elite soldiers, unlike other ant tribes, most of whom are all soldiers, under the premise of ensuring the same combat effectiveness, the number of troops that need to be mobilized can be less, and the logistical pressure is naturally less.

In addition, the Ant Empire has a more mature logistics system, which is even stronger than the Paving Ant Empire.

Under the Ant Joint Affairs Department, there is the establishment of a logistics department, and the Ministry of Transport also has to provide support for military operations in wartime, and the organizational structure has attached great importance to logistics.

If you are fighting in the territory of the Ant Alliance, relying on the canal network that has begun to take shape, the Divine Envoy King Legion can easily, quickly and with low loss to obtain supplies.

Even if it is far away from the canal, the Divine Messenger King's legion can be supported by convoys, which include ant power convoys, beetle animal convoys, and even flying caravans that can temporarily provide rapid supplies, and have strong logistical supply capabilities.

When the Paving Ant Emperor went south, the Divine Envoy King Legion had already assembled 16 reorganized legions to assemble in the north, as well as 1 tank legion and 3 flying knight squads, totaling more than 45,000 warriors, 70 large and medium-sized beetles, and 150 flies.

Both sides of this war are ready for war, and the flames of war are about to be rekindled.

And the winner or loser of this war, in addition to the trend of frontal combat between the two sides, is the most important lifeline of logistics support.

Which side can better protect the lifeline, which side will have more advantage.

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April 19th, the third day of the Paving Ant Emperor's southward journey.

The vanguard Red Fire Ant Army has crossed the gravel field into their former homeland, and has set up camp to attack a leaf-cutting ant army's nest.

The 100,000 border guards of the leaf-cutting ant country have also been assembled to confront the 80,000 paving ant army.

At this time, it has been able to reflect the serious lack of border defense strength of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army, and their current military strength, that is, barely competing with the Red Fire Ant Army, has no chance to block the attack of the upcoming main force of the Paving Ant Emperor.

But the main force of the Paving Ant Emperor has not yet moved at this time, and their logistical supply lines along the way are under construction, and they have encountered some trouble.

Although the indigenous ants on the gravel land have received a lot of food from the Paving Ant Empire through trade, this does not mean that they will not be tempted when they see more food in front of them!

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