After receiving the news, the protagonist immediately crossed the river and rushed back to "Linshui City", and the returning messenger was already waiting for him in the lair.
These are the two messengers sent by the protagonist to the west. Their destination is the deputy nest guarded by the King of Public Security and the King of the West. Both of these places are also along the river bank and are in vulnerable areas.
The two messengers were traveling together. Logically speaking, their destinations were different and they should not return at the same time.
There is also a group of couriers sent to the southwest, which is the second line of defense positions. There has been no response from these couriers yet.
With curiosity and confusion, the protagonist immediately received the information packets from the two messengers.
But after reading this information, the protagonist's face didn't look good.
The two messengers met a messenger sent by the King of Public Security on the way, and then under his guidance they arrived at the deputy nest where the King of Public Security was located.
Here, the King of Public Security received them personally.
It is understood that this secondary nest suffered heavy losses during the winter. They were not attacked during the early stages of winter, but soon they were besieged by an army of pavement ants.
According to time estimates, the time they were attacked coincided with the main force of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army withdrawing from the north bank of "Linshui City".
The protagonist's previous guess was correct: after "Linshui City" hit a wall, the pavement ant barbarians changed their attack target.
At the beginning of the defensive war, the Public Security Corps still followed the tactics established in the autumn: put the enemy into the nest, and in a relatively open area, use the unique tactics of the Public Security Corps to kill the enemy as much as possible.
But this time the tactics were restrained by the enemy. The Public Security Corps hoped to focus on using soldier ants to break through the enemy and then form an encirclement and annihilation. However, the enemy's soldiers were able to squeeze into the formation and successfully cut off the connection between the soldier ants - this is exactly the enemy tactic the protagonist encountered during the defense battle of "Linshui City".
Although I don’t know why the enemy developed this tactic in a short period of time. It should be that the new tactics of the Public Security Army and the Western Army were leaked during the Reconquest War last spring. However, this tactic did make the Big-Headed Ants other than the Angel King’s Army The army has a headache.
Fortunately, the enemy had just arrived, and for some reason they did not devote all their troops at the beginning. A small number of the vanguard troops were still repelled. This also provided valuable time for the Public Security Corps to adjust their defense plan.
In fact, the reason why the enemy did not invest all their troops was very simple: after they traveled a long distance, the large army was busy setting up a temporary base to spend the night.
After realizing that the established tactics were very ineffective against the enemy, the Public Security King decisively asked the troops to restart the use of blocking tactics, using narrow entrances and passages to delay the enemy's offensive.
This change was crucial. The enemy was unable to completely capture the secondary nest guarded by the Public Security Corps throughout the winter.
However, the Public Security Corps suffered heavy losses. Almost half of its troops were killed, and the remaining half suffered from deep or shallow injuries.
This is because although the Public Security Corps has adopted a blocking tactic, the temperature of the nests shallow away from the entrance and exit is too low, and the troops stationed here will soon be frozen and move slowly. When engaging the enemy in close combat, these semi-frozen heads will The ant warriors are no match for the lively ant barbarian warriors.
Therefore, the main battlefield of both sides is often placed in the middle and lower levels of the nest, and the defenders must deal with enemies appearing from all directions in the intricate nest every day.
If the police chief hadn't been a veteran on the battlefield and was able to command and respond well, this lair might have been captured.
After the enemy made progress every day, they had to retreat to the temporary base to rest at night, which also gave the defenders a chance to breathe. The defenders could rest at night, repair their nests, and readjust their defense deployment.
This cruel meat grinder-like offensive and defensive battle lasted until the end of winter. In the end, the enemy withdrew to the north bank of the river while the river ice had not melted. The Public Security Corps finally won the winter defensive battle with great difficulty.
After the beginning of spring, the King of Public Security also sent messengers to the surrounding areas.
The messenger sent to the deputy nest where the King of the West was located was the first to bring back bad news. Since there was only half a day's journey between the two places, the King of Public Security received a reply in the afternoon of the day he sent the messenger.
According to the messenger's report, he found traces of a large number of pavement ant barbarian warriors near the sub-nest. He hurriedly got rid of the enemies he encountered and escaped back.
There are still enemy activities around this auxiliary nest after the beginning of spring. According to the experience of the Public Security King, it has obviously been lost. Otherwise, if the enemy does not have a suitable stronghold, they will retreat to their territory just like the enemies who besiege the Public Security Corps station.
When the sub-nest was lost, the Western King and the Western Legion stationed there were obviously in danger. In the winter, they had no chance of breaking out. Once defeated by the enemy, the whole army can only be annihilated. According to past experience, neither the Pavement Ant Barbarians nor the Big-headed Ant Kingdom will accept each other's prisoners.
The messenger heading east met the messenger sent by the protagonist halfway, and brought the two messengers to the King of Public Security.
The Public Security King forwarded the information he knew to the "Linshui City" courier, and the courier returned home. The messenger who originally planned to go to the Western King's residence no longer had the need to move on, so he also returned.
The protagonist's face is very bad, if his face can still be seen in his current body.
The King of the West is likely to have died in the battle, and although the King of Public Security, King of the West and the protagonist have not known each other for a long time, they all have a friendship that they fought side by side on the battlefield. At the king's meeting, the two kings almost unconditionally supported the protagonist's various proposals, and they can be said to be loyal fans of the protagonist.
Now, he died, died in this cold winter, died under the enemy's front.
He wouldn't have died. If the protagonist hadn't proposed at the meeting of kings that the kings should personally guard the front line, the Western King would not have gone to the dangerous sub-nest that was eventually captured. If it weren't for the fact that "Linshui City" was rebuilt by the protagonist to be too easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army would not have changed its goal to attack the Western King's residence.
But without if, the King of the West would have died like this, and his bones would not have been recovered, and may have even become the enemy's rations - in the cold and food-starved winter, ants often feed on the corpses of both the enemy and ourselves. If Even if "Linshui City" had abundant food, this scene would have happened under the eyes of the protagonist.
The protagonist felt a trace of remorse. Although he felt that what he did was not wrong, it indirectly led to the death of the Western King.
Blood debts must be repaid with blood, this is the belief that emerges from the heart of the protagonist. Although even without this bad news, the protagonist does not intend to let go of the old enemy of the pavement ant barbarians. And the current news only made him more determined.
Revenge, but what should be the next step?
