Chapter 163: The End of the Barbarian Kingdom (1)
On the side of the Divine Envoy King's legion, since the temperature cooled down into winter, it has not encountered a large-scale invasion by the Destroyer.
On the other side, in the western territory of the Paving Ant Barbarian Nation, the clouds of war are always thick, and even if there is an occasional sunshine, it is only a flash in the pan.
It was also invaded by the Destroyer before winter, and unlike the Divine Envoy King Legion who held the [bridgehead] and thwarted the Destroyer's attack, before the great cooldown, the old land of the Paving Ant Barbarian had lost several secondary nests one after another, and the western nest had become a target.
In the territory of the Paving Ant Barbarian Country, the remaining part of the secondary nest is currently barely unified by the original Paving Ant Barbarian Western Branch, and after losing contact with the second king meeting reorganized by the eastern branch of the nest, the kings of the western branch of the nest reorganized the Great King Conference for the first time, shouldering the task of commanding the national forces to resist the destroyer.
However, the current situation is very critical, and the Third King Conference has only combined the strength of dozens of nests near the western nests, and there are a large number of secondary nests that are lost but still controlled by paving ants, which are widely distributed in the original territory of the old pave ant barbarians, in the southeast and northwest.
Even in the northern part of the barbarian kingdom, which first fell to the hands of the Destroyer, there are still secondary nests that have survived. They are often located in the middle of nowhere, and the Destroyers do not know whether they have not discovered them or have not felt the need to conquer them for the time being, allowing them to survive.
More surviving sub-nests were scattered in the east, south, west, and middle of the basin on the north bank of the Great River, and were neither conquered nor contacted by the new Council of the Third King.
The Destroyers obviously have a clear strategy, they do not sweep the scattered secondary nests, but constantly organize the main force to eliminate the main force of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, and consciously eliminate the most organized resistance.
Therefore, in the war of the destroyer's invasion of the paving ant barbarian country, they gave priority to killing the main nest of the paving ant barbarian country directly from the north, and after repeated battles, the main nest was conquered in one fell swoop, so that the paving ant barbarian country lost its unified command, bringing a series of chaos.
After the Eastern Nest of the Paving Ant Barbarians established the Second King's Council, the Destroyer concentrated its main forces to attack here, and successfully divided the connection between the new main nest and most of the territory, so that the new main nest lost its strategic depth and economic basis for resistance, and finally succeeded in defeating the Eastern Nest and the Second King's Council in the fall in a war of attrition.
Now, the Destroyer is pointing at the Third King Council of the Western Nest, which is also the last nest of the once powerful Paving Ant Barbarian and the once famous Paving Ant Barbarian Army.
In just one year, the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom and the Paving Ant Barbarian Army have been successively seized by the Destroyer and the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom to take away the northern nest, the southern nest, the main nest and the eastern nest.
The western nest is already the last hope of the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom and the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, and once it is lost, it will also mean the complete end of the organized resistance on the north bank of the Great River.
Even if there are still a large number of secondary nests in the Paving Ant Barbarian Country that have not been conquered, they are already a plate of scattered sand, and there is no center that can knead the scattered forces together.
The fate of the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom and the Paving Ant Barbarian Army both focus on the large nest of the Western Branch.
While the Destroyer intensified its siege of the Second Great King's Council of the Eastern Nest, the Third King's Council of the Western Nest was temporarily in a safe environment, and they quickly formed an army of more than 200,000 legions of up to 100 legions using the resources of dozens of secondary nests under their effective control.
This is the essence of a country with a vast territory and rich resources, and when the protagonist originally planned the northern expedition, the greatest difficulty was also here, and if he could not achieve a quick victory, he would be dragged into a war of attrition by the enemy's strong national strength.
That is, the destroyers slaughtered countless cities along the way, and quickly broke down the many resistances of the paving ant barbarians with an efficiency rarely seen in the world, so that they did not fall into the quagmire.
The Destroyers want to take a straight line and attack the western nest directly from the east before cooling down.
They had already conquered three secondary nests, and along the ant path of the old paved ant barbarians, they were still six secondary nests away from the western nests.
If it weren't for the sudden change in weather, how could the destroyers have been able to attack the western part of the nest city in a week.
The sudden drop in temperature and snow made the Destroyers afraid to shake the edge of nature, so they had to turn around in advance and return to the safety of the shelter to rest.
The third king of the western nest has learned the latest military information from the ants who escaped from the sub-nest.
These ants usually find that their nest has been attacked when they return from foraging, and they cleverly flee all the way west along the ant path to join the nearest secondary nest.
And the male ants who received the secondary nest of these fugitive ants immediately sent a messenger to deliver the military information.
The Western Nest has gathered more than 200,000 troops and hoarded a large amount of food, all of which are the result of the Western Tribe's best ability to draw blood from the territory it can control.
The Council of the Third King also recognized that the enemy's goal was the western nest, and that the final victory could only be achieved by guarding the western nest.
Therefore, the fate of the other secondary nests does not matter, all their available ant populations, food and other resources must be pooled to the western nest.
It doesn't matter if these secondary nests are thus completely incapable of resisting invasions, or even if there is not enough food to survive the winter.
When the heavy snow suddenly fell, a large number of convoys of paving ant barbarians were still gathering from all over the country to split their nests to the west, and the heavy snow hindered their transportation, and also caused some ants who could not avoid it to freeze to death on the way.
It can be said that the arrival of winter not only gave the paving ant barbarians a chance to breathe, but also made their preparations more difficult.
The clouds of war will only be temporarily stopped by the north wind, but they will not be able to dissipate.
When the two waves of cold air that followed finally stopped, the clouds cleared, and the sunlight returned to the earth, the army of the Destroyers was dispatched again while the protagonist was experimenting with the Mystic Orb in [Waterfront City].
This time, the Destroyers gathered more strength, and the same force that had been blocked by the Divine King's legion also joined the Western Expeditionary Army, so they did not go to the [bridgehead] to harass again.
Combined with the other gathered troops, the Destroyer's army this time was more than 20,000 people, and it was an extremely powerful force, as unstoppable as a cold front in winter.
In the winter, even the Destroyers who were able to move outdoors were much slower, and they could only advance at the rate of one secondary nest a day or two secondary nests in three days, and it would take them eight days to reach the western branch of the Paving Ant Barbarian Nation, where the Third King Conference was located.
The Destroyers then surrounded the massive nest built in a mess of rock, blocking the way for paving ants to gather here.