Chapter 244: The Conquest of the Wa Kingdom
In fact, the Red Ant Army has not yet launched all the trebuchets, and only about half of them have been used in this campaign, with the rest used as a backup and the rest for the rest of the campaign.
Next, the army of the Red Ant Empire was divided into two routes, one with an army of seven million to attack the Blue Ant Country, and one with an army of eight million to attack the Yue Monkey Ant Country, leaving five million troops to garrison the empire itself.
The army attacking the Ulan Empire was led by "Su Ye", and there were 4,000 Scarab fighters led by Banlangen to cover the air, mainly to deal with the stinkbug "bombers" that the enemy might have, in addition, there were 100,000 large trebuchets and 400,000 medium trebuchets.
The army attacking the country of the monkey ants was personally led by the commander-in-chief "Cordyceps", and only 1,000 Scarab fighters were responsible for air cover, because the enemy army did not have stink bug "bombers" and other fighters. In addition, there are 100,000 large trebuchets and 500,000 medium-sized trebuchets.
The third queen of Su personally sat on the territory of the Red Ant Empire, with an army of five million, 100,000 large trebuchets and 400,000 medium-sized trebuchets, 1,000 Scarab fighters, in addition, there are about four or five hundred captured Scarab fighters of the former White-Hungarian Army, which have now been incorporated into the battle sequence of the Red Ant Army Air Force.
In addition, more than 230 million ants will return to their homes one after another, and the remaining 30 million red ants are newborns born in recent months by the queens of the former city-states (ninety-three in total, and the rest are either sick or too old to have children).
The army led by "Su Ye" to attack the Blue Empire went very smoothly.
This is mainly due to the fact that the country has lost two major wars in a row in recent months, and its vitality has been greatly damaged, and it has long lost the ability to resist effectively. Even if you want to fight to the end, it seems that now is not the time. In other words, we cannot resist head-on, and we can only find time to fight guerrillas.
The "Cordyceps" of the army responsible for attacking the Yue Monkey Ant Country was not as lucky as "Su Ye", either the grain and grass were intercepted halfway, or the enemy attacked the military depot at night and lost a lot of trebuchets, or was blocked by the enemy in the military stronghold and resisted desperately, or was attacked by the enemy at night and lost countless spears and sticks.
In a word, the commander-in-chief "Cordyceps" was overwhelmed and miserable by this group of monkey ants.
It seems that the Yue Monkey Ant Country not only did not suffer any loss in its own military strength, but also gradually strengthened itself through this despicable means that could not be put on the table, constantly consuming the strength of the Red Ant Army.
No, through more than half a month of night stealing, they actually obtained a large number of new weapons - the trebuchets and spears and clubs of the Red Ant Army, which can already be used to equip a strong enough force, and now they only need to go through a period of training.
And with these stolen weapons and equipment, they can also be imitated, after all, this thing is too easy to imitate, as long as it is not an idiot, anyone just needs to take a look, and it will be.
In this way, the "fashionable wind" of this new weapon blown by the Red Ant Empire soon spread throughout the princely ant countries, and all countries rushed to follow suit, lest they fall behind and suffer losses. The Red Ant Empire's strong military lead was soon gone.
However, the clever "Su Ye" knew that the longer the war dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be to the Red Ant Army, so he adopted various means to divide the various strata of the Japanese Blue Country, and to deal with the stubborn enemy army, he adopted means such as storming, besieging, inducing surrender and inspiring; For wealthy businessmen and the middle and upper classes, tricks such as coercion, seduction, and coercion were used.
In short, "Su Ye's" approach has achieved great results, and now many enemy troops have surrendered, and many wealthy businessmen and many high-ranking officials are willing to cooperate, and he has even formed several puppet army units to assist him in maintaining daily law and order.
From this point of view, "Su Ye" is really a rare talent, whether it is fighting or management, he is a good hand.
On the contrary, the situation in the commander-in-chief is not optimistic at all, but tends to deteriorate even more, and now that winter is approaching, the grain and grass of the army have been repeatedly intercepted by the enemy, and now the shortage of food in the troops is gradually becoming serious, and the morale is getting lower and lower, and there is a feeling of war weariness.
In short, the situation here is very bad for "Cordyceps", and in the end, he hesitated again and again and decided to withdraw his troops, in order to avoid greater losses for his troops, he was willing to bear the responsibility for the failure of this attack on the country of monkeys and ants.
At the beginning of November, the commander-in-chief "Cordyceps" returned with a large army in vain, marking the end of the military campaign against the country of Vietnamese monkeys and ants.
Queen Su San did not blame "Cordyceps", and did not even say a word of euphemistic criticism, after all, this operation did not suffer any major losses, but only asked "Cordyceps" to come back to assist her in rebuilding the Red Ant Empire, and "Cordyceps" naturally agreed.
In this way, "Cordyceps" suddenly changed from a marshal commanding the war on the front line to a superintendent of collecting grain and grass, building the royal palace and barracks, and various fortifications.
Then, "Su Ye", a rising star, did a good job in the country of blue ants, and all the work was effectively carried out.
Now more and more enemy troops have surrendered to him, and more and more wealthy businessmen and people of all walks of life have cooperated with him.
Why didn't the Ulans resist like the Yue Monkey Ant Country? Won't the tactics of the last time against the "not wake-up" White-Hungarian coalition not work this time?
Here, there are many reasons.
First of all, "Su Ye" is different from "didn't wake up", he understands military affairs, understands terrain and landforms, and knows where the enemy army may have ambushes, where to go, and where not to go;
Second, it attaches great importance to grain and grass, and guards it very strictly, making it difficult for the enemy to take advantage of this loophole;
Third, the methods of dealing with the enemy are very flexible and changeable, and he will treat them separately according to the actual situation, and will never engage in one-size-fits-all;
Fourth, the troops he led were all red ant troops, unlike the "unawakened" white-hungarian and Vietnamese coalition army, which was difficult to manage, and finally escaped halfway through the monkey ant country, causing the morale of the coalition army to plummet, and finally the whole army surrendered without a fight.
Fifth, he was good at winning the hearts of the people, and he did everything possible to tempt and divide the enemy army, all strata, and wealthy businessmen, so as to achieve the goal of disintegrating the enemy army.
Sixth, since the last two wars have been defeated, the morale of the Ant Nation has reached a level that cannot be lower, and the new army has suffered heavy losses, and now the entire army of the Ant Nation is less than two percent before the two defeats, in the case of absolute disadvantage in numbers, weapons and morale, who still has the heart to make senseless sacrifices?
Seventh, the country of blue ants has always been a country short of food, this year there are frequent wars, two defeats and lost a large number of laborers, no one to collect grain and grass, now winter is approaching, the country is about to enter the famine in advance, people are about to starve to death, who will go to war, even if you want to fight, you can't walk.
In short, now that the time, place and people are on the side of "Su Ye", it is difficult for him to succeed.