Chapter 200: Counteroffensive Plan
The current investigation is the result of that.
According to the current intelligence, the focus of the enemy's attack is to the southern [Sitong City] generation, where the war is raging, and the enemy in front of the [Trench City] where the protagonist is sitting has been greatly reduced.
The protagonist decides to leave [Trench City] today and return to [Qingqiu Castle] to sit in the town and command in the center, so as to facilitate the support and planning of the battle of [Sitong City], and also take into account the defense of [Trench City].
At present, the troops stationed in [Trench City] are enough to deal with the 2,000 enemies in front of you, and you don't need the protagonist to defend it yourself.
On the battlefield of the [bridgehead] on the north bank of the river, the number of enemies is not large, and the [bridgehead] is a fortress that has been painstakingly operated for a long time, and there is no danger at present.
What the protagonist cares about more is the whereabouts of the main enemy force that disappeared in the west of [Trench City].
The number of enemies that have disappeared is not just five thousand, minus two thousand, equals three thousand.
The Flying Knights had confirmed that the Destroyer had abandoned crossing the river, and that there was no sign of the Destroyer on the broken river. But before the Divine Envoy King's legion blew up the ice, there were still thousands of destroyers who had successfully crossed the river, the exact number was unknown, but it was definitely not a few.
At present, these destroyers who have just crossed the river are no longer there, and there is no trace of them in the key reconnaissance area of the flying knights.
It is possible for these two groups of enemies to merge, and the number will be at least more than 3,000, and this large group of enemies is enough to change the local situation, and then affect the overall battle situation, and their whereabouts are the most concerned about the protagonist.
Maybe the enemy is rushing to the battlefield of [Sitong City]? The Flying Knights found that the number of enemies in the vicinity of [Sitong City] was a little more than previously detected and estimated, and [Spiral Flower City] was constantly being invaded and exited.
It would be nice if the enemy really had a clear destination, and the main character's biggest fear was not being able to grasp the enemy's movements, which is a problem that all commanders need to face.
Previously, the protagonist relied on flying knight scouting, just like playing a real-time strategy game with a full-map golden finger, and was always aware of the movements of a large group of enemies, which is not used to the problem that most commanders often face and need to judge the enemy's target.
The protagonist can only ask the flying knights to increase their reconnaissance. However, at present, the two squads of flying knights in [Qingqiu City] have long been overloaded, and they need to take into account the reconnaissance of multiple targets, so they can naturally only focus on the reconnaissance of large targets such as [Sitong City] and [Zhixicheng], and it is impossible to achieve a large-scale search in a wide area.
The protagonist currently has three waves of flying knights:
One of them is the Fly Rider Unit, which is currently stationed in [Waterfront City], consisting of male ants, with 2 squads of 100 Flying Knights. This unit is the oldest of the Flying Knights, but due to the rebellion of the Flyhawks, and the fact that the Fly Mounts are light but very delicate and lack the ability to defend themselves, they are not taken seriously now, and are only responsible for reconnaissance work on the north bank of [Waterfront City], [Bridgehead], and the north bank of the Great River. But the task is also heavy, and there is no way to reinforce the south bank area.
The Bee Flying Knight Unit stationed in [Qingqiu City] is composed of male ants and has 2 squads of 109 Flying Knights. This unit was formed only last year, participated in military operations against the swamp area, and is now the most relied on Flying Knight unit of the protagonist, responsible for reconnaissance work in most areas of the south bank.
The last unit of Flying Knights stationed in [Great Lakes City] is made up of large worker ants, and the mounts are bees, which were also formed last year.
The protagonist formed this army with the aim of weakening the absolute control of the male ant class over the Flying Knights, but this force was naturally discriminated against by the male ant class. It just so happens that the male ant bee flying knights complain about the work of pulling fiber and dragging walnut boats back and forth in the swamp area, and the protagonist naturally lets the big worker ant fly knights take over the work, while taking care of the reconnaissance of the swamp area.
These big worker ant flying knights are obviously not suitable for being transferred to the main battlefield, otherwise it is easy to backfire and cause conflicts with male ants.
In other words, the flying knight force at hand of the protagonist is divided into three units, each with its own independent area of responsibility, coupled with the class conflict, in addition to the protagonist ordering to speed up the formation of the third male ant bee flying knight team, it can only be supplemented by the hunting sickle ant scouts to increase the intensity of ground reconnaissance.
I'm the dividing line
The current pattern on the south bank of the Great River is a confrontation between the Destroyer and the Divine Envoy King Legion.
Although the Destroyers have already captured one-third of the Divine Envoy King's territory in terms of area, in terms of the number of nests, ant mouths, and war potential, the Divine Envoy Legion has lost at most one-tenth to one-eighth of its strength.
This is because the core of the territory of the old big-headed ant kingdom inherited by the Divine Envoy King's legion lies in an area near the main nest [Qingqiu City], which roughly extends to [Grain Straw City] in the north, [Sitong City] in the south, [Trench City] in the west, and about a day and a half away from the main nest in the east.
This small area is densely packed with about 200 nests, and the ants can meet a small nest with a few thousand ants in about ten minutes and a large secondary nest with tens of thousands of ants in half an hour.
These nests are very close to the main nest [Qingqiu City], similar to the large metropolitan area of the human world. Previously, before the Divine Envoy King Legion entered the main nest [Qingqiu City], this core area had already shown signs of overdevelopment, and the vegetation appeared to be withered, which showed the density of ant mouths. With the promotion of mealworm farming and crop cultivation, the region's food production has increased dramatically and its position has become more and more important.
In addition, there are only more than 100 nests in all other areas of the territory, which mainly play the role of developing special resources (salt mines, etc.) and holding strategic places.
It can be said that the area with the main nest [Qingqiu City] as the core is the essence of the entire territory, and it is also the key to the ability of the Divine King Legion to support the long-term war.
At present, the vast majority of this core area has not been poisoned by the destroyer, so the protagonist will desperately defend important places such as [Trench City] and [Sitong City] to ensure the safety of the core area.
The protagonist's brewing counteroffensive plan has been in full swing, the original plan was to expand the army to 100 corps after the beginning of spring, and now the formation of 90 corps has been basically completed, although the copper weapons are not yet fully equipped, but the well-trained new troops have been a great help.
The vast majority of these newly formed units were also concentrated in the core area, and the rest were mainly in the vicinity of [Dongyang City].
According to the protagonist's plan, the new and old troops will form two groups, one south and one north, and the northern army will be commanded by the protagonist himself and will be responsible for annihilating the main force of the enemy army. And the southern group of the [Dongyangcheng] generation will cooperate in the battle.