When the protagonist woke up the next day, he felt that the air was still moist, and the air pressure and humidity indicated that the heavy rain had not stopped yet. The protagonist sent a scout to investigate the situation, and sure enough, the heavy rain was still pouring down.
In this kind of weather, it is impossible to go out, let alone march and fight. The expeditionary force could only continue to crowd in the narrow underground and wait. This wait lasted all day, and it was not until dusk approached that afternoon that the rain gradually stopped. But it was almost dark, and the army would not leave at this time. In this way, a heavy rain bought the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army two days.
Until dawn again, after a whole day and two nights of suffocating underground, the expeditionary force finally crawled out of the ground and embarked on the journey again.
Although the enemy got a brief respite, the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force also recuperated for two days. In addition, the achievements and reputation of the Divine Envoy King had now spread to the entire army, making them very encouraged. . The morale of the general is equal to the morale of the entire squad among ants, and the morale of the king is approximately equal to the morale of the entire legion. Therefore, the morale of the entire expeditionary force is extremely high now, and the entire army wants to see the majesty of the Divine Envoy King again.
The protagonist has not been idle these two days. In addition to eating and drinking, he has been constantly improving his tactics during these days. The current field tactics seem to be sufficient for the protagonist, but field tactics alone are not enough. How will the expeditionary army attack the sub-nest of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army in the future?
You must know that the underground passage of the sub-nest is narrow and intricate, with different nest chambers, passages, etc. forming a maze. In this environment, it is impossible for large corps to form an array to fight. It can only be a small group of troops fighting from nest to nest and fighting for each hole. In this environment, the advantage of military strength cannot be fully utilized. As long as a small number of enemies can guard a few important nodes, they can effectively block the attacker's actions.
Even in the human world, street fighting is a top military problem. Well-equipped or rich experience does not guarantee victory. As far back as World War II, the elite 6th Army of the German Army was defeated in Stalingrad, which even caused The situation on the Eastern Front has reversed; recently, the US special forces were bloodying the streets of Mogadishu, staging a Black Hawk Down.
Sun Tzu said in The Art of War: "If you know yourself and the enemy, you will be safe in a hundred battles; if you don't know the enemy but know yourself, you will win every time; if you don't know the enemy and don't know yourself, you will be in danger in every battle." The protagonist carefully analyzed the characteristics of the enemy and ourselves in the underground street battle in the sub-nest. Advantages and disadvantages.
The advantages of the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force are:
First, it has strong military strength. The fifty legions currently participating in the war have 120,000 soldiers, and the same number of soldiers from fifty legions will arrive on the second line. Far more than the enemy's 100,000 troops in the secondary nest.
Second, there is sufficient food. The Big-headed Ant Empire has accumulated hundreds of years of accumulation. The food collected by countless sub-hives can be transported to the front line to support this war. The food stored in Liangmo City alone is enough to support the current army for a whole year. , enough to support the consumption of long-term operations. After the pavement ant barbarian army captured this sub-nest last winter, they did not seize much food. Although they worked hard to collect it after the spring, the food accumulated in the end could only sustain the consumption of the current army of 100,000 for one month. If the pavement ant queen produces eggs at full capacity, the consumption of new ants will once again reduce the time that the food can be sustained. Even if the barbarian army continues to use the collected corpses as food, it will not be enough. In the recapture wars of previous years, the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force often relied on its logistical advantages to kill the opponent.
Third, individual soldiers have strong combat effectiveness. When the soldier ants in the big-headed ant army faced the worker ants of the upper bunk barbarian army in the narrow underground passage, they had the absolute upper hand in this small-scale battle. Due to terrain restrictions, the barbarian army was unable to use the wolf pack tactics used to deal with the big-headed ant soldiers on the ground. They could only use ant lives to fill the big claws of the big-headed ant soldiers.
Of course, the above advantages of the Big-headed Ant Expedition do not include the biggest variable, the protagonist.
The Pavement Ant Barbarian Army also has their advantages:
One is the natural geographical advantage of the defending side. The tunnels inside the sub-nest are like a maze. The pavement ant barbarian ants have become familiar with the roads after several months of occupation. Although the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is the original owner of the sub-nest, there are no members of the Big-headed Ant expeditionary army who are familiar with its internal terrain. Ants, after all, all the original defenders had been killed when the secondary nest was lost last winter. In addition, the secondary nest has only one entrance and exit. Although the defenders are at a numerical disadvantage, this numerical disadvantage is offset to a certain extent when they only need to defend very few tunnels.
Second, the pavement ant queen can continuously give birth to new warriors. The number of queens in the big-headed ant kingdom is small, and each one is very valuable. Therefore, queens will not be placed in any military sub-nests that may be attacked in winter, or there will be queens in spring, summer and autumn and they will migrate back in winter. Main nest. The reproductive capacity of pavement ants is amazing, and queens are not in short supply. Even the frontline sub-nests that are counterattacked every spring will have a certain number of queens. There are now ten queen ants in the secondary nest. As long as there is enough food, they can lay six thousand eggs every day. After half a month, these eggs will eventually transform from larvae and pupae into adult warriors, which can greatly replenish the losses in the war. .
The protagonist does not have the patience to win through the long-term attrition tactics used by the Big-headed Ant Kingdom in the past. If a quick victory is needed, the protagonist must find a way to give full play to the strengths of the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force while restraining the pavement ant barbarians. military advantage.
One of the advantages of the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force is that the protagonist cannot use it, and that is sufficient food. If we fight quickly, we should be able to obtain a batch of supplies that the enemy will not have time to consume in the future.
After two days of thinking, the protagonist already has a rough plan. However, in the first stage, it is still necessary to consume as much of the enemy's physical strength as possible in the ground battle. The more enemies are consumed, the weaker the enemy's resistance will be in future underground street battles.
In the process of advancing to the enemy's sub-nest, the protagonist continued to send messengers to communicate with the public security and the King of the West, etc., to perfect the details of their two legions' plan to cooperate with him.
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After a long march, the expeditionary force finally arrived at the enemy's sub-nest again. Just like last time, the vanguard army encountered the enemy's scout worker ants. Some of the pavement ant scouts who had escaped raised an alarm, which quickly alerted everyone present. Enemies on the ground. These pavement ant workers retreated to the nest entrance and spontaneously formed a formation to resist the first attack of the big-headed ant expeditionary force.
Uncharacteristically, the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force did not approach close enough this time, but slowly launched according to the protagonist's pre-planned plan.
"Come out, your main force will come out next!" the protagonist thought to himself, in order to eliminate more enemies. This time he planned to give the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army enough time to expand the defensive circle. In this way, the number of legions that the two sides will fight on the first line will be more than 20 each.
"The more legions that are on the front line, the better!" the protagonist thought: "Come on, barbarians, let me see how many rounds of my attacks you can withstand!"
