Chapter 8: Breakthrough (4)
It is not easier to change the stereotypes of some kings than to win the battle directly. The protagonist has been through it before. Thinking of this, the protagonist is a little discouraged.
If conditions permit, the easiest way is to send one or two legions of divine envoys.
However, the protagonist obviously doesn't want to take a fire for the big-headed ant kingdom.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Divine Envoy King Legion is obvious to all, and many legions have fought together with the Divine Envoy King Legion in the last Reconquest War, only a few legions have taken the initiative to contact, understand and learn the tactics of the Divine Envoy King Legion.
The other legions seemed to turn a blind eye to this, and the kings continued to use the ancient methods of warfare that had been handed down from those of their ancestors. But in their eyes, this method of warfare is tradition and honor.
In the final analysis, it is because the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army does not have an urgent need for military reform.
With the strong individual combat power of the soldier ants in the army of the big-headed ant kingdom, when facing the paving ant barbarian army, he can always achieve a good exchange ratio.
Although the paving ant barbarian army also has corresponding tactics, it is good at using troops to give priority to dividing and encircling the soldiers in front of the breakthrough.
But these tactics require a lot of paving ant barbarian warriors' lives.
In most cases, the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom army was always able to defeat the Paving Ant Barbarian army, so they had no urgent need to reform their military tactics.
Although the Paving Ant Barbarian Army has suffered large losses in each battle, they can fully afford this kind of loss because of the vast territory of the Paving Ant Barbarian and the large number of ant mouths. Therefore, they did not have the urgent need for military reform in the first place.
But the change happened last year.
In last year's Reconquista War, the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Expeditionary Force, assisted by the Divine Envoy King, was overwhelmed all the way, and soon reached the last stronghold of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, "Linshui City".
For the first time, the paving ant barbarian defenders in Waterfront City have seen the new tactics of elite troops such as the Divine Envoy King Legion and the Public Security Legion.
As it happens, one of the lucky kings escaped the chase and returned to the north bank of the river with the help of falling leaves, bringing crucial information back to the main nest of the paver ants.
The information brought back by this king shook the entire paving ant kingdom, to be precise, the kings of all paving ant barbarians.
According to the intelligence, the king organized troops to fight with the elite troops of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army twice, but they were defeated in a very short time.
According to the assessment of the meeting of the Paving Ant Barbarian King, they believe that there is no problem with the command of this king, and the king and his legions are also known for their bravery and good fighting.
There is only one conclusion - the combat effectiveness of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army has far exceeded the average combat effectiveness of the Paving Ant Legion.
According to the description of the surviving king, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army is to concentrate all the soldiers in the legion, and then form a little breakthrough on the battle line, and then completely sweep the entire front.
Although it may seem like a very simple tactic, it is very effective in real combat.
Since the surviving king had encountered the Public Security Legion and the Western Legion in both engagements, the information she brought back made the Paving Ant Barbarians mistakenly believe that the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army had generally popularized this tactic.
Figuring out the tactics of the enemy army, in order to deal with the "major threat" in the military, the wisdom of the entire paving ant barbarian was mobilized, and the male ants began to constantly discuss how to crack this tactic.
The wisdom of the male ants is not low, coupled with its huge number, under the severe military pressure of the outside world, in the end, the paving ant barbarian army developed the current set of tactics: using the small size of the paving ant warriors, forcibly squeezed into the middle of the big-headed ant soldiers, to achieve another form of division and encirclement.
Therefore, this method of warfare is actually a variant of the original tactic of prioritizing division and extermination.
It's just that the original tactic is relatively passive, and it needs to be used when the big-headed ant soldiers and ants break out of the line after attacking. Now it is the paving ant warriors who take the initiative to divide and outflank.
This set of tactics also achieved good results in the end, although this effect was also discounted, and the performance in the face of the public security army was not as good as expected, but in the face of the big-headed ant army that still used the old tactics, it could reap miraculous results.
This time, the military pressure came to the side of the big-headed ant kingdom.
Although the pressure on the battlefield has been felt, many kings are not aware of the need for tactical innovation.
After all, now there is only a stalemate on the battlefield, and there is no defeat yet, and with the tactical advice of the protagonist, the kings once again see the hope of victory.
Although the protagonist constantly emphasizes the necessity and difficulty of containing the frontal battlefield for more than three days, it obviously fails to impress most of the kings.
The protagonist is also helpless, these kings are nominally equal to themselves, although the prestige of the gods makes the king higher, but there is no way to order them. It's like being in your own territory and the Divine Envoy King Legion, and you are absolutely the same.
The protagonist can only compile the tactics of the public security corps in his memory into an information package and send it to all the kings. As for whether or not to learn to adopt, it's up to them.
The protagonist believes that when the situation on the battlefield deteriorates, the kings will remember this tactic. It's just that in this way, thousands of brave soldiers will inevitably be sacrificed.
As a backhand, the protagonist also needs to think of a way to let the big-headed ant kingdom army continue to complete the containment task and hold back the main force of the paving ant barbarian army when it is on the verge of defeat on the frontal battlefield.
After the meeting of the kings, the protagonist finds a king.
This king has also fought side by side with the protagonist, and like the public security king and the Western king, he belongs to a very small number of reformers who firmly support the protagonist.
His troops also adopted a new tactic similar to that of the Public Security Corps. However, his legion had suffered heavy losses in the previous day's battles to close the gap, and now had less than a thousand troops. Therefore, he was not transferred to the division.
This king has very little seniority, and he is the latest batch of young kings to be promoted. The protagonist only remembered his supporter and admirer before, and didn't even name him.
But now, throughout the army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, the protagonist can only ask for his help.
In order to facilitate the score, the protagonist decides to call him "Good King".
Because in the face of the protagonist's intention, the good king agreed without saying a word, and commanded the legion to immediately start working according to the protagonist's request, so that the protagonist especially wanted to send him a "good guy card".
The protagonist's request is simple - the legions under the command of the good guys will hurry up these days and build a fortress near the temporary camp.
In this way, in the event of a defeat on the frontal battlefield, the defeated army can still rely on the fortress to continue fighting, which can play a diversion role on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also preserve more vital forces by virtue of its geographical advantages.