Chapter 302: Defeat Battle
It was the first time that Rambovan had commanded more than one legion, but he was not at all uncomfortable or timid, and the following command and arrangements reflected his bravery (or recklessness?) as always. Style.
Ants also have different personalities, especially in some males. For example, Rambo is meticulous, Rambo is brave, and Rambo is cautious. The protagonist also assigns the males their work according to their personality traits.
Rambovan does not report to the protagonist how he will delay the enemy's attack, and the protagonist gives him an order to let him do it.
Although the overall strength of the enemy, the Queen Ant Inheritance faction, is very strong, controlling one-third of the territory of the old big-headed ant kingdom, and has begun to mobilize on a large scale.
But the enemy's military weakness has been confirmed in many ways, whether it was the skirmishes in the past for the neutral sub-nest or the first regular battle that broke out yesterday.
This may be the reason why the Queen Ant Inheritance faction has revived the Queen Ant's ruling tradition and subverted the old military system to a large extent.
Although the queen ants do not lead the army to fight, and still hand over the command of the army to the male ants, there are no senior male ants who are good at military in the queen inheritance faction. The eldest king had never commanded an army, and the other older males had the best command of the garrison of the secondary nest.
Many of the other males are either new generations or just ordinary vice-nest dominating males, lacking military experience, unlike kings and reserve commanders who have a large number of military promotions like the old kings' councils.
The male ants lack military experience and command ability, and the most direct consequence is that the troops under their command cannot exert their full combat effectiveness, so they appear weak and can be bullied.
It was from the information brought back by the manticore that Rambovan felt that the enemy was not terrible even if he had a numerical advantage, so he was confident that he would win the battle.
- I'm the dividing line -
In the middle of the old territory of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, on a sparsely vegetated gravel land left after the pond dried up, the Divine Envoy King's army set up a formation in a sparsely vegetated open field with little gravel.
The location of the decisive battle chosen by Rambovan is not far from the ant road, and the big-headed ant warriors under his command have marked the sign leading from the ant road with fresh pheromones, believing that the enemy scouts will not miss this, and any ant commander knows how to judge the movement of the enemy army from pheromones, and it is impossible to turn a blind eye to the pheromones deliberately left by the Divine Envoy King Legion.
On the preset battlefield, the three legions under the command of Rambovan were lined up in a horizontal formation, Rambovan's 3rd Legion was in the center, the 10th Legion of Jianiu was on the left, and the 11th Legion of the Manticore was on the right.
Rambovan didn't even leave a legion as a general reserve, on the one hand, because of the lack of troops, and on the other hand, Rambovan didn't think that the general reserve would be used in the war.
After about an hour, the Flying Knights and the Hunter Ant Scouts reported one after another, and the enemy had already left the ant path and rushed to the battlefield along the pheromones arranged by the Divine Envoy King's warriors.
The enemy had apparently discovered the Legion of the Divine King, and the abundance of fresh pheromones meant that there were a large number of enemies at the end of the path marked by these pheromones. But their commander didn't think that this was an intentional act by the Divine King's legion.
Tens of thousands of queen ant inheritance faction warriors turned a corner on the ant path, and a black tide of ants soon appeared in Rambowan's field of vision.
When the enemy came to the battlefield, there were more and more enemy scouts, and the scythe and ant scouts of the Divine Envoy King Legion were no longer enough to cover the battlefield, and the enemy finally discovered the location of the main force of the Divine Envoy King Legion.
Subsequently, the enemy began to convert the marching column into a horizontal formation in a step-by-step manner, making adjustments before the attack, but this conversion took time.
Rambovan didn't give the enemy time to change formations, and he didn't like to wait.
So, Rambovan gave the order for the whole army to attack, and the command was transmitted to the surrounding ants through smells and friction sounds, and then spread in circles. The Courier, on the other hand, relays the same command to other legions and squads that are more distant.
The attack of the Divine Envoy King's legion began, and they quickly advanced layer by layer.
The scout warriors on the periphery of the Queen Ant's Legacy faction were taken aback by the sudden attack, and they tried to cover the main force behind them that had not yet completed the formation, but were quickly defeated by the Divine Envoy King warriors, who had the dual advantage of numbers and equipment.
The Queen Ant's Legacy faction had only two legions entering the open field, and had just completed the formation change, and was immediately attacked head-on by Rambovan's 3rd Legion and the Manticore's 11th Legion.
The sudden blow threw the two not elite legions into chaos. Since the number of warriors in one legion of the Divine Envoy King is almost twice that of the traditional legion of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, the Legacy Faction Army of the Queen Ant is equivalent to encountering twice as many enemy raids.
The 10th Legion of Jianiu was even smoother, they directly cut into the ranks of the Queen Ant's Inheritance faction army that had not yet entered the battlefield and were still in the marching ranks, and directly cut off the enemy's marching ranks.
After Rambovan and the Manticore quickly routed the enemy in front of them, they learned that the beetle ox had rushed along the enemy's marching column, like a praying mantis into a mealworm heap, or a dragonfly flying into a mosquito pillar, and the enemy who had not had time to prepare for battle was defeated all the way without resistance.
The enemy was routed almost as fast as their messengers could report, and many of the legions in the rear were drawn into battle before they realized that the enemy had appeared, and the orders of the legion commander were too late to be delivered, and the squads were quickly routed in separate battles.
By the time Rambovan and Manticore's forces caught up with the Armored Bull's forces, half of the enemy legions had already been routed.
However, in fact, the enemy's losses were not too heavy, and most of the legions were only routed and not destroyed.
However, at this time, the rout of the Queen Ant Inheritance faction army almost became the vanguard of the Divine Envoy King's army, and they retreated wildly along the way along the hormone when they came, disrupting the formation and command system of the rear troops, making it more difficult for the friendly forces in the rear to organize resistance.
When the day turned to the southwest, it was past noon, and the more than 20,000 troops assembled by the queen ant inheritance faction for the first time had completely lost their command, and the ant road between their starting base and the battlefield was full of scattered troops, and the commander no longer knew how many of his troops there were, and where they were scattered, and ordinary soldiers could not find the commander, and all the ants were fleeing for their lives by instinct.
Rambovan's forces had clearly won a crushing battle, but the enemy had been routed too quickly, the flight was too scattered, and the gravel area was so well connected that they were not able to encircle and destroy the enemy in large numbers.
Many enemies were eventually able to take a detour and flee back to their territory, and after regrouping, they had the strength to fight.