Chapter 154: Geography and Harmony
Following in the footsteps of some of the parasitic ants who fled back to report the news, the entire enemy nest finally learned that the Divine Envoy King's legion had reappeared.
Countless parasitic ants that were foraging in the valley spontaneously assembled and approached the hills without waiting for follow-up troops.
On the hillside on the opposite side of the hill, a large number of parasitic ant ants and worker ants began to emerge from the new parasitic ant nests under the cracks in the stones.
The protagonist descends to Rambovan, the commander of the Third Legion, and delivers orders to him. Subsequently, the Third Army broke away from contact with the sporadic parasitic ants in an orderly manner and quickly retreated.
The soldiers of the Third Legion climbed over the trench next to the stump fortress, the bottom of which was now filled with foul-smelling sludge and fresh ant droppings from the stakes.
After returning to the top of the stump, the 1st Legion in charge of the garrison handed over the defenses to the 3rd Legion, and the 1st Legion retreated back into the fortress to rest.
The melee squads of the Third Legion climbed the platform of the ramparts, while the ranged squads stood by on the second line, surrounded by clay shells from the fortress.
At first, only sporadic parasitic ants followed the scent to the bottom of the fortress, then crossed the trench and began to climb the near-vertical bark and attack upward.
The well-prepared defenders easily crushed the tentative offensive of a small number of enemies.
Soon, however, more and more parasitic ants gathered as they heard the news, and more and more areas of the city wall were attacked.
The 1st Legion, which had been temporarily resting, also came out of the fortress and filled the undefended wall to the north of the fortress.
As the density of enemies increased, a large number of enemy troops gathered under the fortress. So the ranged troops began to attack, and twelve long-range squads began to throw pottery shells in different directions, according to the commander's orders. Most of the fire was concentrated in the direction from which the enemy came from to the south, where the enemy density was also the highest.
Countless pottery bombs have caused great casualties among the parasitic ants, especially the silk thread parasites.
The parasitic ants, who were far away, could not understand where the blow from the sky was coming from, and began to run in all directions in a frenzy.
Since there were no large workers in the first wave of spontaneous attacks, there was no commander to suppress the parasitic ants while they were running wildly.
Although most of the frightened parasitic ants later returned to the attacking team, it also temporarily relieved the pressure on the first line of the fortress's defense.
As the number of enemies grew, the entire walls of the fortress began to come under attack. Fortunately, the silk parasites were trapped in the trenches, and only the parasitic ants climbed the walls and attacked.
The razor tactics of the Divine Envoy King's Legion are still sharp, and even the Third Legion, which is participating in the Great War for the first time, is able to skillfully use the simple actions repeated countless times in training in the war: the first line of containment - the second line of advance - top-down assassination.
Countless parasitic ants climbed the city wall and stayed for a second or two before turning into a headless corpse or with a twisted neck, and falling back into the trench from a high stump.
However, as the battle progressed, the parasitic ants climbed the walls from the ground like an endless end, and some casualties began to appear among the Divine Envoy King's legions.
These casualties are nothing compared to the heavy losses of the parasitic ants, and the exchange ratio between the two sides has reached an astonishing one to one hundred.
This disparity in exchange ratio is not a reflection of the real combat effectiveness of the two sides. If you let a soldier ant warrior of the Divine Envoy King Legion go head-to-head with a parasitic soldier ant, then it will definitely be the Divine Envoy King Legion warrior who loses, after all, the parasitic ant has more strength, and there is an elusive silk thread parasitic fungus to cooperate.
But combat is not a fight, and it is not a competition for individual martial arts.
"Mencius: Gongsun Chouxia" said: "The time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people." "Sun Bin Art of War: Moon War" said: "The time, the place, and the people, the three are not allowed, although there is a victory." He pointed out three factors that determine the outcome of a war: time, place, and people.
As far as this war between the Divine Envoy King Legion and the parasitic ants is concerned, in terms of time, neither side can take advantage of the other.
In terms of geographical advantages, parasitic ants were originally superior. According to common sense, the Divine Envoy King Legion who came all the way from "Dongyang City" fought away from home, and it took a long journey to transport the wounded, replenish troops, and transport supplies.
Zheng Guanying's "Prosperous Age: Implorable Famine" said: "Thousands of miles of food, soldiers are hungry, although there are elite soldiers and famous generals, how can they not drink or eat." "Let's just talk about the disadvantages of the guest army that fights long distances.
Now it's the other way around. After the Divine Envoy King Legion completed the miracle of the "Night City", it became that the Divine Envoy King Legion could rely on a strongly defended and well-stocked fortress to defend it, while the parasitic ants had to besiege it on all sides, and due to the short battle line, the parasitic ant army could not exert its absolute superiority in strength.
In terms of people and people, the Divine Envoy King Legion also has an absolute advantage.
Even if the parasitic ants are strong in individual combat, they are also assisted by the terrifying silk thread parasitic bacteria. But, as mentioned earlier, combat is not a fight, and it does not rely on individual bravery.
The Divine Envoy King's legion was tightly organized, tightly formed, and tactically proper, which made their overall combat effectiveness extremely terrifying.
Napoleon once commented on the French cavalry and the Egyptian Mamluk cavalry: 2 Mamluk cavalry can definitely win 3 French cavalry; 100 French cavalry were evenly matched with 100 Mamluk cavalry; Most of the 300 French cavalry were able to defeat 300 Mamluk cavalry; 1,000 French cavalry can always defeat 1,500 Mamluk cavalry.
It is said that formations and tactics can suppress individual martial arts.
Therefore, the time, place, and people, the Divine Envoy King Legion, which occupies two advantages, can achieve such an amazing exchange ratio in the fortress defense battle.
The parasitic ant warriors who came to attack spontaneously without a unified command were quickly wiped out layer by layer by the razor tactics of the Divine Envoy King's legion, leaving behind corpses and wounded soldiers and parasites that were still breathing.
The Divine Envoy King's Legion also paid the price of dozens of warrior casualties, but this loss did not affect the overall combat effectiveness of the First Legion and the Third Legion.
After the parasitic ants were wiped out, the pressure of defense did not disappear.
The protagonist looks solemnly at the bottom of the fortress, where there are tightly formed and densely packed enemy troops.
These enemy forces formed small phalanxes, and every thirty small phalanxes were arranged in a six-by-five fashion. There were seven of these large phalanxes, which formed a circle around each other.
This is a parasitic ant unit with a unified command, and the establishment of their legions and squads is the same as that of the Big-headed Ant Empire, counting that there are a total of seven legions here and more than 10,000 enemy soldiers.
The protagonist has a serious expression, and when the first attempt to conquer the Parasitic Ant Nest failed, the Divine Envoy King Legion was forced to retreat under the attack of the first wave of the Parasitic Ant Army before it could even wait to engage this army.
Now, for the first time, the Legion of the Divine Messenger King will face the main army of this parasitic ant.