When the protagonist wakes up the next day, he feels that the air is still damp, and the air pressure and humidity indicate that the rain has not stopped. The protagonist sends scouts to find out the situation, and sure enough, the rain is still pouring down.

In this kind of weather, it is impossible to go out, let alone march and fight. The expeditionary force could only continue to wait in a cramped underground. The wait was another day, and it was not until near dusk that afternoon that the rain began to stop. But it was already getting dark, and the army would not be ready at this time. In this way, a torrential rain bought the army of paving ants for two days.

It wasn't until dawn again, after a whole day and two nights of suffocation underground, that the expeditionary force finally crawled out of the ground and embarked on the journey again.

Although the enemy had a brief respite, the Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force had also been recuperating for two days, and the achievements and prestige of the Divine Envoy King had now spread throughout the army, which made them feel greatly encouraged. The morale of the king is equal to the morale of the entire squad, and the morale of the king is about equal to the morale of the entire legion. Therefore, the morale of the entire expeditionary force is now extremely high, and the whole army wants to see the prestige of the Divine Envoy King again.

The protagonist has not been idle for the past two days, and in addition to eating, drinking, and Lazar during these days, he is constantly refining his tactics. The current field tactics are enough in the eyes of the protagonist, but it is not enough to have field tactics, how to fight after the expeditionary force attacks the secondary nest of the paving ant barbarian army in the future?

You must know that the underground passages of the secondary nest are narrow and intricate, and the different nest chambers, passages, etc., constitute a labyrinth. In such an environment, it is impossible for large corps to fight in arrays, and it can only be a battle between small groups of troops, nest by nest, and battle for hole by hole. In this environment, the superiority of troops can not be well played, and a small number of enemies can effectively block the actions of the attacker as long as they can hold a few important nodes.

Even in the human world, street fighting is a top-level military problem, and it is not a well-equipped or experienced military problem that can be won without losing, as far away as the defeat of the German elite 6th Army at Stalingrad in World War II, and even caused a reversal of the situation on the Eastern Front; Nearby, there are US special forces bloodbathing the streets of Mogadishu, staging a Black Hawk Fall.

Sun Tzu said in the Art of War: "Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles; Knowing oneself without knowing the other, one wins and one loses; I don't know who I am, I don't know myself, I will die in every battle. The protagonist seriously analyzes the respective strengths and weaknesses of the enemy and us in the sub-nest underground street battle.

The advantages of the Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force are:

First, the troops are abundant, and there are 120,000 soldiers in the fifty legions that have already participated in the battle, and the same number of soldiers from fifty legions will arrive in the second line. Far more than the 100,000 troops in the enemy's secondary nest.

The second is that the grain is sufficient, the accumulation of hundreds of years in the Big-headed Ant Empire, and the grain collected by countless sub-nests can be transported to the front line to support this war, and the grain in the grain city alone is enough to support the current army for a whole year, enough to support the consumption of long-term battles. After the Paving Ant Barbarian Army conquered this sub-nest last winter, it did not capture much grain, and although it worked hard to collect it after the beginning of spring, the final accumulated grain could only sustain the consumption of the existing 100,000 army for a month. If the paving ant queen is full of steam to produce eggs, the consumption of newborn ants will once again reduce the time that the grain can support, and even if the barbarian army continues to use the corpses that can be collected as food, it is far from enough. In the reconquista wars of previous years, the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force often relied on logistical superiority to consume the other side.

The third is that the individual combat effectiveness is strong, and the soldier ants in the big-headed ant army have the absolute upper hand in this kind of skirmish battle when they face the worker ants of the paving ant barbarian army in the narrow underground passage. Due to the terrain limitations, the barbarian army could not use the wolf pack tactics of dealing with the big-headed ants on the ground, so they could only continue to use their ants to fill the claws of the big-headed ants.

Of course, the above advantages of the Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force do not include the biggest variable of the protagonist.

And the Paving Ant Barbarian Army also has their advantages:

First, the defending side has a natural geographical advantage. The tunnel inside the sub-nest is like a labyrinth, and the paving ant barbarian ants have become familiar with the road after a few months of occupation, and although the big-headed ant kingdom is the original owner of the sub-nest, there are no ants familiar with its internal terrain in the big-headed ant expeditionary force, after all, the original defenders have all been killed when the sub-nest was lost last winter. In addition, there is only one entrance and exit for the secondary nest, and although the defenders are outnumbered, this numerical disadvantage is somewhat offset when they only need to defend a very small number of tunnels.

Second, the paving ant queen can give birth to a steady stream of new warriors. The queen of the big-headed ant kingdom is small in number, and each one is very valuable, so there is no queen in all military secondary nests that may be attacked in winter, or there are queens in spring, summer and autumn and migrate back to the main nest in winter. The fecundity of the paver ant is amazing, and the queen ant is not scarce, even if it is the front-line secondary nest that will be counterattacked after the beginning of spring every year, a certain number of queen ants will be arranged. There are now ten queens in the secondary nest, and as long as the food is sufficient, they can give birth to 6,000 eggs a day, and after half a month, these eggs will eventually turn from larvae and pupae into adult warriors, which can greatly supplement the loss in the war.

The protagonist has no patience to win through the time-consuming attrition tactics used by the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom in the past, and if a quick battle is needed, the protagonist has to come up with a way to give full play to the strengths of the Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force while restraining the advantages of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army.

And one of the advantages of the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force is not needed, that is, there is plenty of grain. If you fight quickly, you should be able to get a batch of supplies that the enemy will have to consume in the future.

After two days of thinking, the protagonist already has a rough plan. But in the first stage, it is still necessary to consume as much of the enemy's living forces as possible in the ground campaign. The more enemies consumed, the weaker the enemy's resistance in future underground street battles.

In the process of advancing towards the enemy's secondary nest, the protagonist constantly sends heralds to communicate with the public security and Western kings in front and behind, and perfect the details of their two legions' plan to cooperate with themselves.

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After a half-day march, the expeditionary force finally reached the enemy's secondary nest again, and as last time, the vanguard army encountered the enemy's scout worker ants, and some of the escaped paving ant scouts set off an alarm, which quickly alarmed all the enemies on the ground. These paver ants retreated to the entrance of the nest and spontaneously formed a formation to resist the first attack of the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force.

The Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force did not approach this time, but slowly unfolded according to the plan formulated by the protagonist in advance.

"Come out, your main force should come out next!" The protagonist thinks to himself, in order to destroy the enemy more. This time, he was going to give the Paving Ant Barbarian Army plenty of time to expand the defensive circle. In this way, there will be more than 20 regiments on both sides of the front line.

"The more legions that are put into the front line, the better!" The protagonist thinks to himself, "Come on, brutes, and let me see how many rounds you can withstand my attacks!" ”