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The kings of the reserve team of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army near the entrance of the secondary nest cave have already learned from the remnants of the defeated soldiers that the battle line was quickly broken through. Although they could not understand why this war situation occurred, they still took a series of countermeasures based on instinct.
The entire sub-nest of pavement ants has about 100,000 worker ants. This is also the sub-nest with the largest number of the six sub-nests captured on the south bank of the river. When the barbarian army of pavement ants attacks in winter, these thirty or so legions serve as The forward ones hit the farthest sub-nest here. After the river melted in spring, the forward troops also switched to defense on the spot. The defenders of the other five sub-nests are much smaller, ranging from four or five legions to ten legions. If this sub-nest falls now, the remaining paving ant barbarian army will be unable to resist the attack of the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force.
According to past experience, it often takes weeks or even months to conquer a secondary nest guarded by so many paving ant barbarian troops. Just like before, the big-headed ant army advanced one decimeter an hour. This is the normal speed. However, when encountering some heavy rains or food shortages, or when the pavement ant barbarian army launches a violent counterattack, it may have to start all over again. Beaten.
The kings of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army never expected that there were thirty legions of 60,000 troops on the ground, with twenty legions guarding the outermost perimeter. They only spent half the afternoon and most of the night, and even the next day Before dawn, three legions collapsed, and a large hole was breached in the defense line.
There is no unified supreme commander among the legions of the Pavement Ant Barbarians. However, after the reserves sent messengers to inform all the legion kings on the ground of the latest battle situation, these experienced commanders still relied on experience and instinct. Under the joint influence of others, they made what they thought was the right response.
First of all, the three legions in the reserve team quickly made up for the breached gap. Together with the Angel King Legion, the Public Security Legion and the Western Legion (the legion to the left of the protagonist's Angel King Legion, it is exactly to the west of the protagonist. The protagonist That’s how it was named) stalemate.
The other seventeen legions, after leaving a small number of rear troops, retreated half a meter on their own, so that the new front line was connected to the front line after the breakthrough of the God Envoy King legion, and the front line was leveled. After that, the Paidao Ant Barbarian Army was no longer in danger of being flanked. Due to the shortening of the front line, there were only sixteen legions left in the front line of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army, and eleven legions in the reserve. The remaining one legion was destroyed, and two legions were severely damaged. The remnants of these three legions All the troops were withdrawn to the auxiliary nest.
The pavement ant barbarian army is not worried about such a huge loss of troops. Ten queens have been relocated to the sub-nest they occupy. As long as the food supply is ensured, these queens can produce thousands of eggs every day. The eggs will last more than ten days. It can complete the process from egg to larvae to pupa, and finally emerge from the pupa to become an adult, becoming a new pavement ant warrior. This replenishment speed is also an important reason why the pavement ants can persist for a long time. Fortunately, the sub-nests captured by the pavement ants in winter usually do not store much food, and they were attacked before spring could collect enough food. Therefore, the Big-headed Ant expedition in previous years would only be consumed by the barbarian army of pavement ants after they ran out of food. Also able to win.
However, the current problem of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army is that no matter how fast it is replenished, it cannot cope with the losses suffered by the Divine Envoy King's army, which can be called a massacre.
After the Western Legion and the Public Security Legion catch up, the protagonist is no longer threatened by enemies on the side, and can focus on frontal attacks again.
The protagonist's earliest tactic was to take advantage of the lethality of this tactic and attack Huanglong directly into the sub-nest. However, this would inevitably lead to a heavy siege, and the maze-like narrow passages underground in the sub-nest were not conducive to the implementation of this tactic. What's even more terrible is that the protagonist has no guarantee that the friendly forces will understand the protagonist's intentions and cooperate with them to provide support. The later revised tactic was to divide the troops after a breakthrough to help the friendly forces on both sides achieve a breakthrough, rely on the friendly forces to cover the flanks, and steadily advance towards the entrance of the secondary nest step by step.
But now, after discovering that the lethality of this tactic far exceeded even the protagonist's most optimistic expectations, the protagonist changed his style of play again. Because Mao Zedong said: "Don't fight for the gains and losses of a city or a place, but take the elimination of the enemy's effective strength as the combat goal."
After the protagonist put eight new teams on the front line, he did not order them to advance. Instead, he waited for the troops of the paving ant barbarian army to come up, and then used tactics again, and the soldier ants completed the killing. After wiping out the enemy's forces, the first line of worker ants moved forward slightly and passed over the large bodies of pavement ants so as not to affect the frontal battle. Subsequent worker ants would drag these corpses away and throw them away. Then continue to wait for the second wave of enemies to come and die.
In this monotonous and efficient manner, the God Envoy King's army maintained a speed of wiping out two or three waves of enemy troops per minute. There were about four to five hundred paving ants. After four or five minutes, more than half of the paving ant army in front was lost and forced to hand over. battlefield. In just a few minutes of handover time, the protagonist did not let the troops pursue, but also performed a rotation between the front line and the reserve team. Then, when facing another wave of enemy attacks, the enemy army suffered heavy losses and retreated within four to five minutes.
By the end of the fight, the protagonist was numb. Under the moonlight, the corpses of pavement ants that had been moved to the rear of the army by the worker ants were piled up into a small hill like a palace. But their subordinates, Gun and the others, were getting more and more excited. They were overjoyed to have achieved such an epic victory for the first time on the battlefield.
The protagonist doesn't know whether he has defeated the seventh or eighth legion on the opposite side. The opponent's reserve team is almost out of use. The crippled legion fled into the secondary nest, and then several full legions came out. He came out of the deputy nest, preparing to continue to use numbers to delay the time for the front to be penetrated. But this is exactly what the protagonist wants. What the protagonist wants now is to kill as many of the effective forces of the ant barbarian army as possible, rather than simply breaking through the position.
The only thing that worries the protagonist is the physical strength of his subordinate ants. Although ants are famous for their long endurance, the protagonist's army strictly followed the protagonist's requirements and had a long sleep the day before. Today, they also hunted earthworms to fill their stomachs, so their physical reserves are relatively rich. But they can't withstand a whole night of high-intensity fighting. Among other things, the accumulating lactic acid will make it increasingly difficult for these ants to move. After seeing that the rotation of the reserve team could not completely eliminate the loss of physical strength of his subordinates, the protagonist decisively sent a messenger to request to take over the position.
Nowadays, none of the veteran protagonists in the legion can bear to lose.
Soon, after the replacement legion arrived, the protagonist decisively gave the order to retreat. The legionnaires also consciously separated to the left and right to avoid the friendly formations. The protagonist doesn't even need to keep the rear troops, because another enemy legion has just been defeated, and the newly replaced enemy legion has not yet entered the position.
Returning to the rear assembly area, the protagonist recalled the devastating battle just now that seemed like cheating, and couldn't help but giggle in his heart.
"I am the King of Gods, the king who will lead you to victory!"
