Chapter 3: The Stalemate of War (3)
The protagonist will of course be familiar with all this. After the first wave of the Winter Castle defenses, many Legionnaires reported this tactic to the protagonists.
At that time, during the battle, the Divine Envoy King's legion was shocked to find that the opponents in front of them were not in a tight formation as usual, and then waited for the front row to be killed and the back row to make up for it.
On the contrary, the worker ants who rushed to the front among the paving ant barbarian warriors were not in a hurry to fight with the Great Jaw of the Divine Envoy King Warrior, but ignored the attack of the Divine Envoy King Warrior and tried their best to squeeze their bodies into the defense line of the Divine Envoy King Legion.
The paving ant barbarian warriors in the second row attacked the Divine Envoy King warriors through the gap squeezed out of the front row.
Due to the instinct of the ants, the Divine Angel King warriors in the first row will respond to the enemy attacking them first, which means that the warriors in the first row are mostly dealing with the second row of the enemy.
Under normal circumstances, the enemy's first platoon was able to rely on the cover of his companions in the second row, and use his petite stature, which was much smaller than the big-headed ant soldier ant, to successfully squeeze into the originally tight defense line of the Divine Envoy King Legion, thus tearing open the gap.
If this tactic is successfully executed, the consequence is that the defense line painstakingly built by the Divine Envoy King's legion will be quickly broken through and divided, and the Divine Envoy King's warriors will have to fight in a melee with far more opponents than their own.
However, fortunately, at that time, the defensive battle was carried out on the preset battlefield in the nest **, and the space was not conducive to the development of the paving ant barbarian army. The second row of soldiers of the Divine Messenger King Legion was still firmly executing the razor tactics, climbing the backs of their teammates in the front row with a fixed frequency, and then condescendingly severing the necks of the enemies in front of them.
Unlike the first row of Divine Envoy King warriors who prioritize counterattacking the enemy in the second row, these Divine Envoy King warriors who perform the decapitation action will naturally attack the nearest enemy in front of them.
Therefore, most of the paving ant barbarian warriors who tried to squeeze their bodies into the defense line of the Divine Envoy King Legion died from this attack, and the few fish that slipped through the net were quickly killed by the nearby Divine Envoy King warriors who came back to their senses.
In the end, the new tactics of this paving ant legion did not cause much trouble to the Divine Envoy King legion. The Divine Envoy King's legion also held on to the "Waterfront City" without much loss.
But in the current war, there is no doubt that the new tactics of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army have a broader stage, and then it will be the turn of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army to have a headache.
According to the description of the public security king, the protagonist gradually came to the conclusion that the army of the paving ant barbarians stationed in the lost sub-nest in front of him was at least 80,000 troops.
Based on the previous information, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army crossed the Henan Expedition this winter with about 100,000 troops, and in the "Linshui City", the Public Security Corps and the Western Legion Station, this Paving Ant Barbarian Army has experienced hard battles, and if it is not replenished, the final strength will definitely be less than the initial number.
Now, with such a large number of enemy troops in front of this fallen sub-nest, there are two possibilities.
First, the enemy army did not disperse its forces, but placed the main forces here, preparing to fight the big-headed ant kingdom army here, and there were only a small number of garrisons in the other two lost sub-nests.
Second, the enemy army was supported by local reinforcements on the north bank of the Great River in winter, so that the total number of enemy troops would exceed 100,000.
If it is the second case, then it will be very bad for the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army, and with the current military strength, there is almost no hope of victory.
Moreover, the increase in the Paving Ant Barbarian Army also reflects the strong national strength and mobilization power of the Paving Ant Barbarian. You know, the protagonist's last reconnaissance found that the Paving Ant Barbarian Army was dealing with the war in three directions at the same time: the war between the south and the big-headed ant kingdom, the expedition deep into the dense forest in the north, and the defensive war against the indigenous ants in the east.
Considering that there has never been such a troop increase in history, if the enemy army increases this time, it may also mean a change in the strategic focus of the entire Paving Ant Barbarian Nation - they may eventually get tired of the war with the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army year after year, and begin to devote more resources and troops to prepare to solve this scourge.
But the protagonist is still inclined to the first possibility. This is based on logistical considerations.
The paving ant barbarians do have a vast territory and many ant mouths, and they can easily pull up a reinforcement army of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.
But with so many troops, the daily food needs is also a large amount, considering that this year's situation is not good, there is not much military food left in the secondary nest of the lost big-headed ant kingdom, and after the beginning of spring, the river thaws, and the transportation line from the north has also been interrupted.
In the end, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army of the Southern Expedition could only raise military rations on the spot while fighting, and it was obviously unrealistic to feed too many troops, and too many troops would aggravate the consumption of food stocks in the camp, which was not conducive to long-term combat.
On the battlefield, every day before the end of the battle at dusk, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army is actively carrying the corpses of the enemy and our soldiers back to the nest, obviously collecting usable food, which can also prove that the enemy army is not enough food.
The protagonist gave his guess to the public security king, and the public security king also agreed. However, even if there are only 80,000 enemy troops in front of the fallen sub-nest, it is difficult to get benefits with the strength of this big-headed ant kingdom army, and now they can only wait for reinforcements from the main nest.
The Public Security King also urges the protagonist to send reinforcements again, and the Divine Envoy King's legion is more likely to break the current deadlock than other ordinary legions.
The protagonist did not answer, with the current scale of the battle between the two sides, the thousands of troops of one or two god envoy king legions are not enough, maybe it can play the role of a sharp knife for a partial breakthrough at that time, but the losses are bound to be heavy.
The protagonist's current mentality does not regard him as a loyal servant of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, and of course he is unwilling to lose the legion he has worked so hard to build here.
But this big-headed ant kingdom army is still useful to the protagonist, only by ending the reconquest war as soon as possible, the main force of the big-headed ant kingdom army can move north, contain the paving ant barbarian army, and leave time for the protagonist to develop.
Otherwise, both the "bridgehead" and the "waterfront city" will be under the shadow of war at all times.
So, the protagonist tells the police king that he will conduct a tactical reconnaissance and then develop a suitable plan.
Bidding farewell to the king of public security, the protagonist rode Xiaoqing II into the air, crossed the battlefield in the middle of fierce battles, and flew north.
The battlefield below him is extremely tragic, and countless big-headed ant warriors and paving ant barbarian warriors use the most primitive weapon - big jaws to fight fiercely.
This primitive weapon is just as efficient, littered with broken dead bodies and wounded soldiers who have been mutilated but are still alive.
The protagonist ignores this, and his destination is not the battlefield itself, but the wider world behind it.