Chapter 313: Straight to the Yellow Dragon (5)

After being unable to go out to lead the battle, the protagonist quickly adapts to the new identity of the left-behind chief, managing the affairs of the territory while trying to do a good job in the logistics supply and troop replenishment of the army.

The contest between evenly matched factions such as the Divine Envoy King's Legion and the Queen Ant Inheritance faction is all about national strength and logistics, and more specifically, the ability to replenish troops and materials.

Therefore, when Chu and Han were fighting, the contribution of Xiao He, who was in charge of the rear, was inconspicuous in the history of the war, but it was extremely crucial, and finally ranked as the "Three Masters of the Early Han Dynasty" along with Zhang Liang, who was strategizing, and Han Xin, who won thousands of miles. Because it was he who gave Liu Bang the capital to defeat and fight repeatedly, so that in the end, the overlord of Chu won all battles but finally Wujiang killed himself.

At present, the Divine Envoy King Legion is far stronger than the enemy at least in terms of combat effectiveness, and the battle loss ratio is also very good, so there is not much need for troop replenishment, but there is still a great demand for logistics, especially food replenishment.

- I'm the dividing line -

The next day, the Divine King's legion continued its march, and now they had to pick up the pace.

After conquering three secondary nests in a row, the planned plan of the rolling army is halfway completed, but now is not the time to relax, on the contrary, the most tense period has arrived.

In yesterday's battle, after the field battle, there were still a large number of defeated enemy remnants scattered in the sea of swirling flowers. Some enemies tried to return to the lair but were intercepted, and there must have been enemy routs who tried to make their way to other secondary lairs after not being able to return to the lair. These remnants will leak the news that the Legion of the Divine Emissary is raiding the "true Lord's Lair".

Yesterday, the Flying Knights and the Hunting Scythe Ants had been trying to contain the rout, but the terrain in the Sea of Swirling Flowers was complex, and the ant path could lead to many places, so it was almost impossible to completely prevent the news from leaking.

Now, the Divine Legion must race against the clock and must complete the mission before the enemy fully reacts.

The main worry of the rolling army is that the main force of the enemy army facing Rambovan is going south, and the supply lines of their own troops are very fragile, once they face the enemy army, it is difficult to confront each other for a long time, and it is bound to retreat to a suitable secondary nest, so that the plan to conquer the "real secondary nest" to directly smash the Yellow Dragon and capture the thief and capture the king will completely fail, and the two sides will return to the situation of a war of attrition again.

According to estimates, it will take two days for the enemy's messenger to reach the central region of the old territory of the kingdom where the army is located, one day for the enemy to complete the preparations, three days for the south, and about six days for the Divine Messenger King's legion, which is theoretically enough to complete the mission.

But any theory will be different from the actual situation, the previous surprise attack by the enemy in the sea of swirling flowers is an example, the future of this world can never be predicted, once predicted, it will affect the future, the world line is like a quantum theory.

- I'm the dividing line -

The Flying Knights continued to be dispatched at full capacity, some of them had to cooperate with the actions of Rambovan and Roll's army, and the other part was dispatched from "Qingqiu City", closely monitoring the movements of the "True Main Lair" and the main enemy army.

Due to the distance between the latter two targets, the flying knights can only go in shifts, with a window period of surveillance.

The team of flying knights, which originally had fifty members, is now only thirty or so due to various losses, and it is difficult to meet the increasing demand, especially after the Divine Envoy King's legion has become extremely dependent on aerial vision.

Fortunately, the domestication of bees in Dongyang City has been successful, and those bees who have lived underground since childhood and have been in close contact with ants have come to regard ants as companions. And because of the genetic similarity, ants and bees can communicate much more easily through their antennae than with flies.

Now, the first batch of 100 large worker ant flying knights are already being trained, and all this, the original male ant riders do not know.

- I'm the dividing line -

On the fourth day after their departure, on May 3, the rolling army conquered the fourth nest as scheduled.

But the next day, the army had to rest for the day.

The battle was not fierce that day, but there were still very few captures to fill the troops. In addition, most of the troops did not eat on May 2, and if this continues tomorrow, most of the ants will be exhausted by hunger.

Since the third secondary nest was not captured, the male ants who stayed in the local area had to wait for the assigned ants from the first two secondary nests before the nest could resume production and take on the logistics of the army.

The existence of this empty nest also greatly affected the logistics and transshipment efficiency of the army, rolling on the morning of May 2, a messenger was sent to urge the grain transport team to set off to keep up, but this transport team from the second sub-nest was also trapped in the complex terrain of the swirling flower sea on the one hand, and on the other hand, there was a lack of replacement team in the third sub-nest, so it had to stop and rest for a while.

In short, on May 3, the army was not able to be fed.

In order to nourish his strength, wait for the grain, and avoid fighting hungry, he had to stay for a day.

According to estimates, they only have five days left, and there are two secondary nests in front of them, as well as the final target, the "real main nest".

- I'm the dividing line -

On 5 May, the Divine Messenger King's legion attacked the fifth target nest at noon.

Judging from the fact that the enemy's nest had been prepared for a long time and had gathered two or three thousand troops for a field battle, the enemy had obviously learned the news that the Divine Envoy King's army was coming, and sure enough, there was still a broken enemy army that escaped from the battle of the Swirling Flower Sea.

This is also expected by the Divine Envoy King Legion, the protagonist has communicated this very likely situation through the Flying Knight and Roll, and Roll is also mentally prepared.

It was a bad decision for the Queen Legacy faction to fight the Divine Emissary Legion in the field, which would only lead to their defeat faster.

In the afternoon, the Divine Envoy King's legion completely wiped out the enemy and occupied the lair. The Divine Envoy King's legion did not capture a single ant in this sub-nest, nor did they seize any stockpiles, which was more of a headache than the news of the enemy.

If the ants are not captured, the ants must be deployed from the rear to station, which will also affect the logistics transfer effect, after all, each secondary nest is responsible for transporting the materials of this section of the nest's territory, and the way of handing over to the front and rear is the most efficient.

The inability to capture enough military rations made the army have to rely on supplies from the rear, which has extremely high requirements for the transportation efficiency of the auxiliary nest along the way.

The two are influencing each other, and now the result of this influence is to slow down the progress of the rolling army.

The protagonist has already transported the second batch of military rations from "Dongyang City" to "Sitong City", but there is still a small half of the first batch of supplies in "Sitong City" that cannot be transported, and most of the other materials are piled up in the first and second conquered sub-nests, and the current military rations that are directly transported to the rolling army are only a small part.