Chapter 265: Fighting without food
After taking care of the aftermath of the Rambo Buddha and instructing the nursery worker ants to take care of the ants named Rambo Buddha II that have not yet hatched, the protagonist once again puts his focus back on the current "world situation".
At present, the focus of the Divine Envoy King's battle is the offensive against the Old-fashioned King.
According to the report of the flying knights who returned from "Waterfront City", the rolling legion launched the first attack on "Hunting Ground City" today, and the progress was not very smooth.
After the old-fashioned king led the remnants of his army back to the "Hunting Ground City", he had already realized that the attack of the Divine King's army was imminent.
But fortunately, the old-fashioned king still brought back nearly 20,000 warriors, these warriors have fought with the minions of the god envoy king, and with combat experience, they are no longer comparable to those new recruits at the beginning, which is the biggest reliance of the old-fashioned king at present.
And after the old-fashioned king halved the strength of the army, the original heavy logistical pressure has disappeared.
He still has a steady stream of support from the "Hunting Ground City" and the seventeen secondary nests behind it, which can provide a steady replenishment of troops, and thousands of new warriors are sent to the "Hunting Ground City" every day.
All of this strengthened the old-fashioned king's determination to stick to the "hunting ground city".
After two field defeats outside "Qingqiu City" and "Hunting Ground City", the old-fashioned king has lost hope in defeating the minions of the evil Divine Envoy King in the field.
In particular, the minions of the Divine Envoy King, who buzzed and rode flies, and the minions of the Divine Envoy King, who rode a giant beetle and could throw stones, kept him helpless during the battle.
So the old-fashioned king decided to stick to the nest, as long as it was an underground battle, those flies, beetles, and stones that could attack from a distance would not work.
As long as he can defeat the enemy in defense, the old-fashioned king has the confidence to re-assemble his forces to launch a counterattack. He had already learned from the sub-nests in various places that the Divine Envoy King only controlled a few places such as the main nest, and the total number of troops would not be too much.
In just a few days of respite, the old-fashioned king gave full play to the ability he had honed in his work, and tried his best to squeeze the sub-nests in various places, hoarding a large amount of collected grain into the "hunting ground city", and expanding the nest.
When the Divine Envoy King's army launched an attack on the "Hunting Ground City", they had to fight street battles little by little.
Although the "Hunting Ground City" is still a traditional big-headed ant nest, and the structure is not too complicated, the number of defenders is more than the attackers, and the scale of underground battles is limited, and the Divine Envoy King's army kills and wounds more than 1,000 enemy soldiers in a day.
In the afternoon, when the Divine Envoy King's army was forced to withdraw to the "Waterfront City" for the night, the old-fashioned king was able to get reinforcements from the seventeen sub-nests temporarily assembled near the lair in time.
After only two days of attack, Lan Bofei realized that something was not right, and he discussed it with Roll, Lan Bowan and others, and had to throw this thorny problem to the protagonist.
The protagonist is a little impressed by the opponent of the old-fashioned king.
The other party's birth in the country of the big-headed ant king can be described as "root and seedling", and he is a successful person in marriage, starting directly from the most important warehouse manager, and was soon promoted to the king. It is equivalent to a "scholar" type character.
And the current battle with him, Roll, Rambo Fei, etc., have not even caught up with the marriage flying, and compared with the old-fashioned king of "Xueba", he is a high school dropout.
Although this "scholar" had behaved very ordinarily in the field battle outside "Qingqiu City" before, he was beaten up by a group of "high school dropouts". However, his qualities are reflected in a series of events that follow, and he has grown up very quickly, and now he can cause enough trouble for the protagonist.
The protagonist is currently lacking in skills, and he must personally sit in the main nest "Qingqiu City" that he has just conquered in order to suppress the opposition forces in the main nest - although the male ants of the opposition have been cleared, the queen ants who show a posture of obedience are not reassuring, and the large number of worker ants and soldier ants in the original main nest may also be bewitched by the rival faction at any time.
He also didn't want to command a large army remotely, and this kind of command that could not be physically present on the battlefield would often have the opposite effect, which Song Taizong and Chang Kaishen gave a negative example.
For example, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty sent 200,000 troops to the north in 986 A.D. in three ways to try to recover the sixteen states of Youyun. This was the final failure of the Yongxi Northern Expedition, and it was also the last large-scale external initiative of the Song Dynasty.
For such an important military operation, as a result, Song Taizong did not appoint a commander, but personally commanded remotely in the capital Kaifeng. Whether the Northern Expeditionary Army was attacking, defending, or retreating, it had to wait for the emperor's order thousands of miles away, and the initiative of the front-line commander was gone. The Liao army was Yelu Xiuge as the main commander, commanding the army to defend and counterattack, and the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Dynasty and the Liao Shengzong were in the rear, so as to lure the enemy deep and wait for the Song army to defeat it when the support was not continued. Song Taizong's remote-controlled command is rare in the world, and the failure of the Northern Expedition is inevitable.
As for Chang Kaishen, there are often a series of honey operations, which make many corps that were originally safe or have escaped from danger enter the Jedi one after another, achieving the reputation of "transportation captain". For fear that this article will be crabbed, it is inconvenient to expand it here......
The protagonist was a military nerd during his lifetime and is familiar with the drawbacks of this kind of remote command. So he just gave his own advice to the commander of this army.
He suggested that the army should not rush to attack the "Hunting Ground City" head-on, but build a base on the main road near the "Hunting Ground City", garrison the army, stock up on food, and avoid traveling long distances every day to fight.
Then use the base to cut off the reinforcements and material channels of the "Hunting Ground City", and with the tens of thousands of defenders of the "Hunting Ground City", its food inventory is bound to be unable to support it for too long.
If there are more troops at hand, the protagonist wants Roll to send a partial division to sweep the remaining sixteen defense-empty sub-nests controlled by the old-fashioned king, but now Roll has more than 10,000 soldiers in four legions, and it is really difficult to divide the troops in the face of more than twice the strength of the enemy army.
However, as long as you follow the protagonist's suggestion, it will be the turn of the old-fashioned king to be in a hurry. He will definitely not be able to continue to shrink, but urgently needs to fight back to open up the grain route, otherwise he will be trapped and killed little by little.
Whether it was Cao Cao burning the grain and grass of Yuan Shao's army in the Battle of Guandu and finally defeating a stronger enemy, or Liu Bei confronting Cao Cao across the water in Hanzhong, taking advantage of the shorter logistics channel, and finally forcing Cao's army to avenge Xiahou Yuan without a fight, are all different manifestations of this model.
Now, the protagonist wants to give the old-fashioned king of "Xueba" a taste of the excellent experience of mankind during thousands of years of war.