The Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army did not form a siege on the fallen sub-nest, but instead fought a straight-line battle with the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army, which illustrates a problem - in terms of military strength, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army did not have the advantage as expected.
Sure enough, after meeting the King of Public Security, the protagonist's guess was confirmed.
At that time, the Public Security Corps was repairing in the rear as a member of the army reserve.
According to the police chief, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's army arrived near the sub-nest three days ago and was quickly discovered by the scouts of the Pavement Ant Barbarians.
Subsequently, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army deployed its front line step by step, advancing all the way to the station of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army.
As expected, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army poured out a large number of troops from the fallen sub-nest and built a defense line not far from the entrance and exit of the sub-nest.
According to the pre-war assumptions of the King's Council, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's army should have a numerical advantage. Therefore, they only need to continuously send legions to both sides of the front to extend the front. Sooner or later, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army will not have enough troops to deal with it.
At this time, the pavement ant barbarian army could only be forced to form a circular formation to cover the entrance and exit of the sub-nest.
The Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army with a longer front line can complete the encirclement.
The Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army on the periphery has a longer front, and the troops invested within the unit length are also more advantageous. In addition, the Big-headed Ant Soldier Ant's single combat effectiveness is more powerful. In this kind of encirclement battle, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army will Achieve a good exchange ratio, expand the advantage in a snowballing manner, and finally win.
But what the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army did not expect was that no matter how many legions the Kingdom Army sent to both sides, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army could send out the same number of soldiers to deal with it.
When the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army sent a full fifty legions to the battle line, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army also invested thirty legions. Considering that the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army had a larger army, the total force invested by both sides on the front line was the same. Yes, about seventy-five thousand warriors.
Trapped in the auxiliary nest, pavement ant barbarian warriors surged out like an endless stream.
However, the last ten reserve groups of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army no longer dare to invest on the two wings. Otherwise, if the battle line is broken somewhere, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army will not even have the troops to fill the gap.
The battlefield is changing rapidly, and a reserve team must be in hand at any time. This military motto is not only valid for the human world, but also for the commanders of the ant world.
The Big-headed Ant Kingdom's army stopped extending its front, and new legions of pavement ants stopped emerging from the fallen sub-nest.
But in this way, the siege battle expected by the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army did not occur. Instead, the two armies formed a nearly straight line to confront each other. In this way, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's army would not be able to take advantage of the length of the front.
Even the individual combat effectiveness advantage of the Big-headed Ant Soldier Ants was offset by the new tactics of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army.
The Public Security Corps was fighting on the front line at that time. This elite force discovered that the enemy on the opposite side did not fight as before, but tried to take advantage of their small size to squeeze their bodies into the line of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army, thus destroying the original complete line. Then focus on segmenting and besieging a small number of big-headed ant soldier ants.
This kind of tactics makes it very difficult for the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's army to deal with it. After all, except for the God Envoy King's army, no army is composed of pure soldier ants. In these legions, the ratio of soldier ants to worker ants is one to four. The soldier ants are the well-deserved main force, while the worker ants play more of a supporting role.
Except for the public security corps, which uses soldier ants concentratedly, the soldier ants of other legions are evenly distributed on the front. When encountering this tactic, inexperienced worker ants and soldier ants can easily fall into a situation of fighting on their own.
When the elite soldier ants are divided and eliminated, the remaining big-headed worker ants will have no individual combat advantage against the pavement ant barbarian warriors.
The Public Security Legion is one of the very few legions that learns from the Divine Envoy King's Legion. They use the soldier ants together, and the soldier ants can cover each other, avoiding being divided and surrounded.
However, after a whole day of fighting, all legions, including the Public Security Legion, suffered heavy losses.
Each legion has an average of 300 soldier ants and 1,200 worker ants. After a day of fighting, about two hundred soldiers were lost, half of which were soldier ants. If the attack continues like this, within two or three days, the entire army will be wiped out by the soldier ants.
The Public Security Corps fared slightly better and also lost fifty soldiers.
Although the pavement ant barbarian army suffered greater losses, if there were pavement ant queens stationed in the lost sub-nest, their lost worker ants would be quickly replenished.
On the second day, the kings of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army did not find any good way to deal with it, so they just let the troops go into the battlefield.
On this day, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army deployed forty legions on the front line, leaving twenty legions as reserves. On the opposite side, the Pao Dao Ant Barbarian Army also invested a considerable number of troops, and both sides continued to fight for consumption.
It was on this afternoon that the King of Public Security fully realized that this battle would be extremely difficult and sent a messenger to ask for help from the protagonist.
On the third day, the kings of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army made a total calculation and decided to send only twenty legions into the battle, leaving the forty legions that had suffered greater losses to rest in the rear, and at the same time requested the main nest and other sub-nests. Provide reinforcements.
At this time, these kings who were proud and complacent before the war had realized the difficulty of the war situation.
However, contrary to all the king's expectations, the Pavement Ant barbarian army that had fallen into the sub-nest was not as willing to stand firm as in the past.
After discovering that the number of troops invested by the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army was greatly reduced today, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army boldly launched a counterattack, investing the same amount of troops as yesterday, hoping to surround and eat the front-line troops of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army.
When the strengths are basically equal, the encircling party has a front length advantage over the surrounded party, and can also obtain a better battlefield exchange ratio.
After realizing the danger facing the front line, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army had to send the resting legion behind.
In the end, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army failed to form a siege, and the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army failed to make the legions rest.
It is at this time that the protagonist arrives on the battlefield.
After listening to the description of the new tactics of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army by the Public Security King, the protagonist feels very familiar - this is not the first time during the defensive battle of "Linshui City" in winter, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army attacked the Divine Envoy King stationed there. The tactics used by the Legion when launching an attack.
It seems that this new targeted tactic is not only used to deal with the Angel King's army, but the entire Big-headed Ant Kingdom's army is their target.
How could the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army be able to adjust their tactics so quickly?
