According to the plan of previous years, the big-headed ant kingdom will transport the queen, eggs, larvae and pupae, as well as food and other materials in the secondary nest that may be attacked, back to the main nest, or transport it to the relatively safe secondary nest located in the rear. Then mobilize a portion of the forces from the main nest to assist in the defense of the secondary nest.

Each side nest will receive roughly ten to twenty squads of reinforcements. This reinforcement is very important.

Generally, the scale of the secondary nest is not large, and the addition of one or two thousand troops has basically reached the limit of the secondary nest, and a huge secondary nest like "Dongyang City" is unique.

Of course, the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom can choose to increase the size of the secondary nest so that it can accommodate more defenders.

However, even if there are more defenders, in the season of winter, which is extremely unsuitable for the action of big-headed ants, they simply shrink into the slightly warmer underground and use semi-frozen warriors to passively defend, and no amount of troops can resist the continuous attrition of the paving ant barbarian army.

After all, the defenders were still scattered across several secondary nests, isolated from each other and unable to support them. The enemy, on the other hand, was free to assemble his forces and choose the target of attack at will, and was far more flexible than the defenders in winter.

Moreover, if the scale of the secondary nest construction is large, once it is lost, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army can station more troops in it. If the secondary nest is very small, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army can only garrison a small number of troops, and it will be easier to recover these secondary nests in the spring of the next year.

One might wonder if the Paving Ant Barbarian Army couldn't have expanded it to garrison more troops for defense after it had captured the Vice-Nest?

At least not in winter. In winter, the soil is extremely hard to froze, and the ants' small bodies are basically powerless in the face of the hard frozen soil, and even if they put in a lot of labor, it is difficult to achieve obvious results.

Therefore, throughout the winter, even the paving ant barbarians who can move freely in the wild during the day are not willing to spend too much ant power on projects that do half the effort.

Only after the weather warms up in the beginning of spring, especially after the first rainfall, the soil is soft and suitable for construction projects. However, at this time, it often means that the counterattack of the big-headed ant kingdom is about to begin.

Therefore, around the beginning of spring, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army will determine their defensive strategy based on the results of the winter battle.

If the Paving Ant Barbarian Army did not make good progress in the winter, and only conquered the secondary nests along the Great River, and did not penetrate deep inland. They would take advantage of the fact that the river ice was not thawing to withdraw the main force to the north bank, leaving only part of the defensive forces in the south bank of the auxiliary nest, hoping that they would survive the whole year, so that there would be a bridgehead for the attack next year. However, this situation has never occurred in hundreds of years, and often before the summer is over, the secondary nest occupied by the last paving ant barbarian army will be recovered by the big-headed ant kingdom army.

But if the Paving Ant Barbarian Army goes well and goes deep into the secondary nest in the hinterland of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, their main force will often not have time to withdraw in time, at this time, they will expand the size of the last occupied secondary nest as soon as possible after the beginning of spring, and then station the main force in it, waiting for the decisive battle with the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army. Just like they did this spring.

In the past, in the face of the auxiliary nest guarded by the main force of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, and in the face of the geographical advantage of the defenders, even if the soldiers of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army had strong individual combat effectiveness, they had to consume a large number of troops to conquer it.

However, this year, under the leadership of the Divine Envoy King, the army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom won very easily, which also made the kings of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom have great hopes for this winter's defensive battle - there will be very few secondary nests lost this year.

Before the start of winter, most of the food stored in each secondary nest that may be attacked will be transported back to the main nest or to the rear safe secondary nest, leaving only enough food for the defenders to support until the beginning of spring. In this way, once the war is not going well, the enemy will not be able to obtain sufficient provisions, and must travel thousands of miles to bring military rations from the country.

After the beginning of spring, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army also had to send out valuable ant power to forage for food, slowing down the progress of building defense facilities. Sometimes, even if the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army does not go well, it can often rely on its logistical advantage to drag the enemy down.

Due to everyone's confidence, this winter, the King's Council is still discussing the defense of the secondary nest as usual.

The protagonist has a bold idea to give up a large number of secondary nests, forcing the Paving Ant Barbarian Army to send more troops to the "conquered" secondary nests on the south bank of the river.

In this way, after the beginning of spring, there will be a lot of paving ants trapped on the south bank of the river. And according to the habit of the paving ant barbarians, not only male ants and worker ants, but they will even send the queen ant.

When the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army counterattacks after the beginning of spring, the protagonist believes that with the assistance of the Divine Envoy King Army, no amount of Paving Ant Barbarian Army will be able to resist the offensive. The more paver ants that die on the south bank of the river, the faster their strength will be lost.

In the summer, by building a pontoon bridge using wood and leaves, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army will be able to burn the flames of war into the enemy's territory, and in the winter, the Paving Ant Barbarians, who have suffered huge losses, will have no time to recuperate, and they will inevitably be unable to resist the attack of the elite Big-headed Ant Army.

However, the protagonist did not dare to announce this plan. You know, the big-headed ants have fully inherited their ancestors' aggressive genes, and any member who dares to speak out about retreating will be seen as an outlier and a coward, even if it's just a plan to lure the enemy deeper. Even if the protagonist is a divine envoy king, he does not dare to go against the will of the people, otherwise the prestige he has accumulated with great difficulty may be greatly damaged.

When discussing the topic of winter defense, in the first half of the discussion, it is basically a rule, requiring each secondary nest to transfer how many ants and supplies are required, etc., and the protagonist can't interject, and there is no need to give any opinions - after hundreds of years of war, the big-headed ants have found a set of effective experience.

However, when the second stage discusses which troops to send to garrison the Vice-Nest, the plan discussed by the kings makes the protagonist unable to sit still, and he must stand up.

Because, the king's meeting actually discussed that they would send the strongest combat units to disperse to each sub-nest and station. These include: the Public Security Legion, the Western Legion, the Divine Envoy King Legion stationed in Dongyang City, and several other legions.

Because the Divine Envoy King's Legion showed extremely strong combat effectiveness in the previous reconquest battle, they were also assigned to the most difficult and dangerous "Waterfront City" that fell first every year.

It was one of the last nests of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom in the Reconquista, built on a banyan tree on a small island in the middle of a large river, and was only connected to the land by a natural bridge made of rotten wood.

Surrounded by water on three sides and close to the north bank of the river, the defenders often fall within a few weeks of each winter.