Chapter Eighty-Eight: Triumph
There is no big-headed ant who cares about this paving ant king who fell to the surface of the river like a lost dog, and there are countless people like him who have fallen into the water, and most of them will struggle to suffocate in the water. This news was not reported to the kings who were holding a meeting to celebrate the achievement, but was completely ignored.
After the canopy clearance operation is over, this year's counteroffensive war of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom can finally be declared a complete victory.
The whole war only took about half a month, and it ended without even waiting for the second batch of army reinforcements from the main nest. After paying the price of more than 10,000 casualties, the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force regained all six secondary nests and annihilated nearly 200,000 paving ant barbarian troops.
In previous years of reconquest wars, the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force had to lose more than 100,000 soldiers, and it took three or two months to achieve the same result.
And this year, due to the intervention of the Divine Envoy King, the battle mode between ants that has not changed for hundreds of years has suddenly encountered a subversive change. In addition to the Divine Legion, the Public Security Legion and the Western Legion also mastered an effective tactic, while the kings of the other legions, and even the enemy, after witnessing the new tactics, also had their own thoughts.
Every military reform in the human world brings a new bloody wind, the cavalry obsolete the chariot, the bow and arrow obsolete the sling, and the skirmish line replaces the line of shooting. So what changes will the ants' tactical innovations bring to the world?
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Forty legions rested in the "Waterfront City" for two days. In the past two days, each legion has selected the old soldier ants and worker ants in the ranks, and a total of tens of thousands of old soldiers will be left behind as the defenders of the "Waterfront City" to resist the fierce attack of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army across the frozen river this winter.
These veterans have passed the most vigorous youth of their lives, and they will devote the rest of their lives to fighting the enemy. The lucky old pawn may pass away peacefully one afternoon, while the rest of the warriors will be the Horse Leather Shroud.
This is also the most economical form of defense devised by the ants, with the old and dying ants defending their homes at the front and the young and strong ants building up strength in the rear. Year after year, over and over again.
The protagonist's divine envoy Wang also picked out nearly 200 old pawns to stay, and the protagonist was quite reluctant at first, but after asking the public security to understand, he knew that these old pawns had little time left, so he decided to follow the tradition and let them stay.
This brings the protagonist to an important question. The lifespan of ants is relatively short, like the worker ants and soldier ants of the big-headed ants in this world, they generally only live for 2-4 years, so the worker ants and soldier ants over the age of two are considered old soldiers.
After observation, the protagonist finds that these worker ants and soldier ants are too busy, even if they don't have a job, they keep walking back and forth, so that they can't maintain adequate rest, and they just take two naps a day and pass it perfunctorily.
This is a factor that makes ants prone to death from overwork, and the protagonist has begun to force his men to sleep deeply every night, but it is not yet clear how effective it will be.
After leaving the old pawn and a few old kings to guard the border city, the remaining forty legions finally set out and embarked on the journey back to the main nest.
A messenger had already set out before, and rushed back to the main nest without stopping along the way. The support units sent by the various secondary nests that had already assembled in the main nest were supposed to set off, but due to the timely good news from the front line, these troops disbanded on the spot and went home.
There were 1,600 warriors in the Divine Messenger King's legion when they set out, and when they returned, there were only about 1,300 left. More than 200 of them remained in the "Waterfront City", and nearly 100 soldiers were either killed in the previous battles or died of illness and old age on the way.
The Divine Envoy King Legion also brought back dozens of paving ant eggs that the protagonist had retained, which were important props for the protagonist's next experiment.
The Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force walked for three days before returning to the main nest. All the kings and kings of the main nest lined up outside the hill castle to meet the triumphant army.
The ritual of the ants is very simple, the king and the king briefly exchange condolences with each other and their companions, and the other worker ants and soldier ants disband themselves and return to the main nest.
Later, the main nest held a meeting of the Five Hundred Kings again, and the protagonist was also invited to attend as the Divine Envoy King. At the venue, the protagonist finally saw the elder brother again, and he accompanied the eldest Wang into the venue.
Since the kings have not yet arrived and the meeting has not yet begun, the protagonist simply runs to greet the senior brother. The emotions transmitted back by the senior brother were with a hint of respect, and there was no longer the attitude of equal communication before, which made the protagonist a little uncomfortable, but there was no way, this is the reality, even in the ant world.
The senior brother served as a squad commander in the Public Security Corps, and was later entrusted with the important task of commanding the soldier ant commando, and he also made great contributions in this counteroffensive war.
The protagonist communicates with the elder brother about what he saw and heard during the war, praising him for his exploits. This finally aroused his emotions, and the senior brother let go of that restraint and discussed tactics with the protagonist enthusiastically. In his opinion, the tactics developed by the Divine Envoy King were something he had never learned before, and they were an eye-opener for him.
Seeing the elder brother who is obsessed with tactical research, the protagonist suddenly feels that his personality and hobbies are not suitable as the successor of the oldest king. The eldest king needs a king who can stay in the main nest for the rest of his life without going out, while the elder brother prefers the errand of charging into battle.
After a period of communication, all the kings entered the venue, and the king's meeting began.
The elder brother steps aside, and the protagonist returns to the cobblestones, touching the antennae to the stone face.
This meeting of the kings is long and boring in the eyes of the protagonists, and all the kings who participated in the war in turn compiled an information package of what they saw and heard during the war, and all the kings shared it. And there is a lot of one-sided and similar content in these information packets.
But all the kings read every information package with relish, and for the entire big-headed ant kingdom, the kings who are meeting now are the most intelligent group in the country. Based on the content reflected in the packet, these kings will distill important lessons that can be passed on to future generations.
Of course, since the lives and wars of ants have not changed much for thousands of years, the experience that can be passed down is rarely updated.
But this year is different, and thanks to the appearance of the Divine Messenger King, this war alone has left a lot of valuable wealth to the entire kingdom: concentrated tactics of soldier ants, night raids, earth work, water attacks, and so on.
These new tactics are instilled in the minds of each king through information packets, and it remains to be seen how they will understand and use them.
It wasn't until midnight that the lengthy meeting ended. Before the end of the meeting, the protagonist suddenly says that he needs to return to "Dongyang City" with the Divine Envoy King's legion.
Immediately there was an uproar through the cobblestones.