After the army was stationed, a dozen or so temporary camps were built, and on average, one or two legions had to dig a camp to settle in.

It is not impossible to camp together, but the construction progress will be very slow, and it is inconvenient for the army to enter and exit, so it is better to disperse.

With so many camps spread out in an area the size of a ping-pong table, the muck dug out of the ground has been piled up into a number of small cone-shaped ant mounds, which look like a group of pyramids from a distance, which is quite spectacular!

The protagonist spends the night in a comfortable nest in the secondary nest, with a mattress made of ant silk. At the end of the day, he was tired enough.

Sure enough, the most difficult job of a commander is not to command the battle, but to take care of the food, drink, sleep and stability of an army.

The Divine Envoy King Legion had never dispatched such a large number of troops at the same time before, and it did not have the corresponding experience in overall planning and scheduling.

In the past, the size of the troops was small, and they could march wherever they wanted, spend the night in the nearby sub-nest, or dig a small temporary camp.

The demand for food is not very large, and most of the time it is possible to cope with it by using the food supplied by the nearby secondary nest or relying on hunting.

But when the army is large, the difficulty of dispatching and supplying increases exponentially.

Only then did the protagonist remember that when the big-headed ant kingdom dispatched tens of thousands of troops to the north to regain lost territory, it specially hoarded a large amount of grain and grass in advance in the nest [Grain Straw City] near the front line, which was obviously experienced.

Moreover, if the battle does not go well during the day, the army will also retreat to [Grain Straw City] or other nests to rest. When food is scarce, the various legions will spontaneously hunt to replenish it.

These are obviously the lessons learned by the armies of the old Big-Headed Ant Kingdom during the long war.

It's just that in the army of the Divine Envoy King, even the protagonist does not inherit much military experience from the old big-headed ant kingdom, and can only rely on himself to figure out how to command and protect a large army.

I'm the dividing line

Early the next morning, the protagonist asks the worker ants stationed in the sub-nest to go out with food stockpiles and deliver food to the nearby temporary camps to replenish the energy of the already hungry warriors.

But emptying the little nest's stock of food would only fill the stomachs of half of the already hungry warriors.

The protagonist had to postpone his departure for half a day, organize his subordinates to hunt on a large scale in the nearby grass and bushes, capture some thin meatless prey that has just survived the winter and the cold of spring, dig out some germinating eggs that are overwintering, find some shoots and flowers that can be used, and then transfer a batch of food from a nearby nest to deal with it.

The protagonist originally planned that the army could hold out to [Sitong City] with the food they ate at the time of departure, and then the grain transport team of the main nest would arrive, and the soldiers would be able to enter the decisive battle in good condition after they had eaten and drunk.

But when it was time to pull out, it was in a hurry, and it was not well cared for, and a third of the regiment did not eat, relying on the accumulated energy to get here.

The army was also marching much slower than expected, and after wasting half a day foraging for food today, the place where the army camped at night was still half the way to the target.

According to the report of the flying knight, the southern route army commanded by Lan Bofei is not much better, and Lan Bofei, who also lacks command experience, is also troubled by a bunch of affairs.

But fortunately, the grain stock in [Dongyang City] was sufficient, and there was no large-scale consumption In the war after the beginning of spring, the Southern Route Army was at least well fed and drunk.

Before the protagonist goes to night, the Flying Knights urge the grain transport team of the main nest [Qingqiu City] to set off on time tomorrow and carry more food.

The protagonist also understands that it is necessary for the army to build a grain platform close to [Sitong City], otherwise once the battle with the destroyer becomes a stalemate, I am afraid that the army will be weakened a lot by starvation.

"The soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first", the protagonist deeply understands the meaning of this sentence, the previous experience of commanding a 10,000-scale army is no longer suitable for commanding an army of more than 50,000.

I'm the dividing line

After nightfall, the protagonist is awakened by the alarm, and he is startled in a daze, thinking that he has been attacked by the Destroyer at night.

After asking about the situation, he knew that it was a false alarm.

It turned out that there were hungry centipedes that had fainted and attacked the makeshift camp on the outskirts.

This centipede is not as big as the centipede that the protagonist first encounters on the way to the main nest, and it does not spray poisonous mist, and is quickly subdued and killed, but it also disturbs the resting army.

The commander of the male ants who gave the warning at the beginning did not explain the details of the enemy attack, and the heralds brought the panic to the various camps, and many large troops rushed to the ground, and after a while of the cool night breeze, they learned that the alarm was lifted and they went back to rest.

The protagonist is annoyed and reprimands the male ant commander for the indiscriminate warning at first.

The most feared thing for the ancient armies in the human world was the camp roar at night, also known as the bombing of the camp.

Originally, the barracks were crowded with people, the living space was small, and the whole group was under great mental pressure due to training or enmity, and was on the verge of collapse. Therefore, on a silent and dark night, when a soldier shouts due to a nightmare, or when there are some warning signals that are true or false, it often triggers a chain reaction among others, causing the whole group to fall into a state of hysteria, or even cannibalism, and in the group consciousness, a large army may inexplicably collapse in panic.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a camp roar in the war with Xiqiang; Until the period of the Liberation War, a modern army of tens of thousands of people would kill each other and collapse due to the roar of the battalion.

Therefore, in the ancient military camp, the camp rules were strict, and it was an authentic place to kill, and the traditional Chinese military regulations had the so-called "17 prohibitions and 54 beheadings", which was to rely on military discipline to avoid the occurrence of "camp roar".

Now it seems that this is also the case with the ant army, and if the news is not clear, it will throw the entire army into chaos.

If it is an old unit that the protagonist has been training for a long time, this situation will definitely not occur, but these new legions are not trained and inexperienced, and it is inevitable that all kinds of unexpected problems will arise.

Just commanding this army for two days, and not really fighting, makes the protagonist exhausted.

The next day, the protagonist postpones his departure and asks the commanders of the legions to come to the protagonist's place for a meeting.

The soldiers of the army temporarily found scattered white pebbles from the vicinity and set up a simple conference room, where the protagonist conveyed orders to the commanders of the various regiments, requiring each unit to do the following:

1. Resolutely obey the instructions of the protagonist, and do not act without receiving new instructions.

The protagonist focuses on criticizing the legions that privately lead hunting on the march.

Second, the transmission and reporting of military information should be detailed, and it must be reported to the protagonist, and it must not be conveyed privately.

This is the trick that the protagonist came up with to try to avoid a repeat of the negative impact of the inaccurate information that was spread to the various legions last night.

3. Commanders must strengthen the restraint on the soldiers under their command.