Chapter 303: Preparing for Each (1)
Rambovan won a crushing battle, and the significance of this victory was not to kill, although the army of the Divine Angel King also killed and wounded many people, but it did not completely annihilate the enemy army.
After Rambo Wan Mingjin collected his troops, the Flying Knight detected that the enemy had regrouped in the sub-nest near the garrison of Rambo Wan's department, which was also their starting base in the morning, and the rout army returned on their own, gathering considerable strength again.
According to estimates, the enemy army has lost nearly half of its strength, but it still retains enough strength to threaten, and although it is unable to attack, it will be difficult for the Divine Envoy King's army to eat it in one go.
The next day, Rambovan tried to attack the enemy, and in his mind, it was best for the enemy to go out into the field, so that he could defeat the enemy again and take advantage of the situation to capture the enemy's assembly area and annihilate the enemy.
However, the enemy seemed to realize the gap between the two sides in yesterday's crisp defeat, and did not do what Rambovan wanted, but chose to hold on underground, Rambovan personally commanded the 3rd Army Corps to enter the underground street battle, although there were many casualties at the end of the day, but the overall progress was slow.
In the afternoon, when the Divine Envoy King's army retreated, Rambovan had already given up on his attempt to completely destroy the enemy through the siege - this withdrawal meant that the progress of the day's street fighting was in vain, and some of the underground lair captured that day had to be abandoned, and the enemy army reoccupied the place, and was able to deploy defenses here the next day.
According to the number of casualties, Rambovan estimated that it would take nearly half a month for his three legions to completely annihilate this enemy army, and the Divine Envoy King obviously did not like his subordinates to fight such a time-consuming and laborious battle.
Fortunately, through yesterday's big victory, Rambovan has completed the goal of dragging down the enemy army set by the Divine Envoy King ahead of schedule, and the enemy army is now unable to shrink and tremble every day, and has no ambition to continue to march towards the main nest "Qingqiu City". The protagonist's strategic request for the Rambovan department has been realized.
When the protagonist learned the battle report on the afternoon of the day of the battle, he didn't expect Rambovan to win so neatly, it seems that the rating of the combat effectiveness of the Queen Ant Inheritance faction army has to be lowered by one notch, and the command ability and combat effectiveness of the Queen Ant Inheritance faction army are simply the lowest level in the army of the big-headed ant kingdom, which is similar to the garrison army convened by the neutral sub-nest ruling male ants themselves.
However, the Queen Ant Inheritance faction will not be broken by this defeat, they control one-third of the territory of the old big-headed ant kingdom, and the ant mouth under their command is roughly estimated to have nearly 200,000 people, if they are desperate to pull out all the soldier ants and worker ants, they can easily organize an army of more than 100,000.
Although it is unknown how many queens there are in the queen ant inheritance faction, if fifty queens are counted according to conservative estimates, all queens can produce 2,500 ant eggs per day without losing their bodies, and if a dog jumps over the wall, it can reach a speed of 10,000 ant eggs per day.
These eggs can reach adulthood in a month, and become a living force that can be immediately put into battle after being trained in the packet. The replenishment speed of 10,000 enemy soldiers per day is enough to drag the Divine Envoy King's legion into a long-term war of hard attrition, which is the last thing the protagonist wants to see.
Of course, this is an estimate of the war potential of the Queen Ant Inheritance faction under the best of conditions, and in fact it is difficult to achieve this level of mobilization. Not to mention that the queen ant can't produce 200 eggs a day at the cost of overdrawing her body for a long time, even if it really has such a high yield, it is difficult for the territory of the queen ant inheritance faction to provide a large number of newborn ants with the food they need.
10,000 warriors a day, less than a month to double the ant population controlled in the territory of the queen ant inheritance faction, not counting the losses caused by the war to crowd out the working ant population, just the addition of ants is enough to deplete the small reserves of each ant nest, causing the granary to make ends meet.
The upper limit of the nest is always controlled by the production of food, the production of higher food limits the growth of the number of male ants, and the production of ordinary food limits the growth of the number of soldier ants and worker ants.
In addition to the planting and breeding industries already in the territory of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, the food production efficiency has been greatly improved, and other large-headed ant nests still have to rely on traditional gathering and hunting methods to obtain food, and in terms of the productivity level of obtaining food, these ants are not significantly different from those in the protagonist's original world.
- I'm the dividing line -
The Divine Messenger King's legions are assembling in batches, and the other ten legions are assembled in two places, except for two legions left behind as reserves.
In addition to Rambovan's 3rd Legion, the 10th Legion of the Armored Bull and the 11th Legion of the Manticore, the 9th Legion of the Stag Elephant and the 12th Legion of the Spider Wolf also came here and came under the unified command of Rambovan.
Among the remaining seven legions, except for Rambose's 6th Legion, which guarded "Waterfront City", and Rambotu's 4th Legion, which had just finished fighting against parasitic ants, was resting, the other legions gathered in the main nest "Qingqiu City", ready to enter the battle as the second echelon.
The reason why the troops under his command are divided into two echelons is because the territory of the Divine Envoy King's legion and the territory of the Queen Ant Inheritance faction are intertwined, and the border line is too long, and they may face war everywhere.
However, because the Divine Envoy King Legion was expanding too rapidly, there was a lack of a sufficient number of male ants scattered and stationed in various secondary nests, and some secondary nests had to be abandoned.
The only sub-nests that have officially ruled have just been newly annexed for a long time, and many places have not yet formed their own garrisons, and once faced with a military conflict on the whole front, these sub-nests lack the power to protect themselves, and are bound to need timely support from the main force.
- I'm the dividing line -
Just when the protagonist is worried that the enemy will attack everywhere and scatter to attack his weakly defended secondary nest, the battle report of the previous two days also caused an uproar within the Queen Ant Legacy faction.
It took two days for the news of the defeat on the front line to reach the "real Lord's Lair", and the Queen Ant Inheritance faction, which could only rely on messengers to deliver messages on foot, was obviously a big step behind the Divine Envoy King Legion with flying knights in terms of intelligence transmission efficiency.
The news of the defeat gave the queen ants who had just taken power a head start, they didn't think that they might be defeated, but according to the war report, they had high hopes for the assembly of troops with certain military experience in all the territories, which can be described as the current essence of the queen ant's inheritance faction army, only facing the enemy with only three legions (the ants judge the number of enemy legions according to the formation of the legions, and they can't detect the difference in the number of legions between the two sides), obviously there is a five- or six-fold advantage in numbers, but they are easily defeated, There is no way to fight back.
The atmosphere of the "true main nest" is solemn, and the queen ant and the male ants attached to the queen must take countermeasures.