Thanks to the way ants use information packets to transmit messages, the protagonist received very detailed information from the flying knight who came to report the news.
Before the protagonist leaves "Linshui City" and goes to the frontal battlefield, the reconnaissance and patrol work in the "Bridgehead" area is arranged.
The patrol work on the ground is mainly left to Lambert's Fourth Legion. Every day, a large number of Angel King Legion soldiers patrol around the nest to guard against potential attacks.
The flying knights are responsible for conducting routine reconnaissance of the adjacent pavement ant barbarian army nest every day, because the military strength of a deputy nest alone cannot pose a threat to the "bridgehead".
If the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army wants to launch a military operation against the "bridgehead", it is bound to mobilize troops and supplies from elsewhere.
Just two days ago, when the protagonist returned to "Dongyang City" from the salt marsh, the flying knight who was conducting routine investigation discovered something strange.
The flying knights who conduct each reconnaissance are in groups of three. In addition to staying near the sub-nest of the pavement ant barbarians for observation, they will also expand the scope and patrol the surrounding areas in depth.
On this day, the flying knight on patrol discovered a long team winding forward in the northwest.
This is a thin black line extending on the ground. Each small section of the line is a black pavement ant worker ant. There are thousands of them. There is no command from the male ants, and they just move forward according to the predetermined instructions.
Judging from the direction of travel, their destination was the sub-nest of the Pavement Ant Barbarians near the "Bridgehead".
Although male ants have better vision than worker ants, they can only see clearly things within a few decimeters. Therefore, in order to obtain more accurate information, a flying knight boldly lowered his height and stopped on a small bush by the roadside.
His appearance did not arouse the vigilance of the pavement ant barbarian team. There were too many flying insects around and the pavement ant worker ants also had poor eyesight.
The flying knight who came to observe closely discovered that this team of pavement ant workers should be a transportation team, and each worker ant had a little food in its jaws.
The flying knight quickly reported this information to the flying knight commander in "Linshui City" - Flying Eagle.
Flying Eagle immediately told Lambo Tu that the two kings together felt that the appearance of the transport team was not normal.
Although there will also be some allocation of materials between the various sub-nests in the ant kingdom, such as transporting food from the food-rich sub-nest to the food-scarce sub-nest, or moving the ant colonies in the resource-poor sub-nest to rich areas.
However, this kind of material allocation is not common and the scale is not large.
This time, the food transported by thousands of pavement ant workers was enough to support an army of about 10,000 people for a short war. Obviously, the pavement ant barbarian sub-nest near the "bridgehead" itself could not digest that much. Lots of food.
Flying Eagle suggests reporting the situation to the protagonist immediately, but Rambotu believes that no definite evidence of enemy troops gathering has been found, and hoarding military rations may be just the preliminary preparations for the enemy's military operations.
At that time, Rambotu thought that the protagonist was still on the front line of the war, and thought that he should inform the protagonist of the matter later to avoid distracting the protagonist on the battlefield.
Lambo Tu persuaded Flying Eagle, so "Linshui City" began to prepare for war, while increasing the intensity of the flying knight's inspections.
Now, at any time during the day, there is a group of flying knights scouting near the sub-nest of the pavement ant barbarians, and a group of monitors is changed every three hours.
The news passed back gradually confirmed that the Pavilion Ant Barbarian Army did have a military plot.
On the second day, a total of two transport teams arrived at the sub-nest of the pavement ant barbarians, and none of the worker ants in these two transport teams left.
Then a third wave of teams arrived.
The third wave of teams is special. They do not carry food, but there are many male ants in the team. It seems that this is the standing guard of the pavement ant king and his kings.
These kings and their escorts, together with the ordinary worker ants from the newly arrived grain transport team, can immediately form a well-organized and powerful army.
Lambert and Flying Eagle made an estimate. Judging from the number of male pavement ants and worker ants that arrived, the enemy could send at least four legions of 10,000 warriors.
Such an army may be considered a very powerful military force on the north bank of the river. There are few ant tribes around the territory of the Pavilion Ant Barbarians that can withstand the attack of such an army.
However, as the military commander of the "bridgehead", Rambotu knew that he was fully capable of holding the fortress independently.
Because the protagonist had made arrangements before, he still asked Flying Eagle to notify the protagonist in time according to the plan.
The flying knight who reported the news rushed to the front battlefield first and found that the protagonist was not here, so he followed the instructions of the good guy king and rushed to "Dongyang City".
After the protagonist learned about the situation, he immediately got up and prepared to return to the north.
But before setting off, the Flying Knight messenger came to report to the protagonist again, and the good guy King sent him an information package.
The protagonist originally planned to return to the frontal battlefield after the incident in "Dongyang City" was over. After all, after so many days, the situation on the frontal battlefield should have undergone a decisive change.
Sure enough, the information sent by the good guy king showed that in the first few days after the protagonist left, the army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom became more and more passive. In the end, after paying a heavy price, they had to retreat to the temporary defense line that the protagonist asked the good guy army to establish.
This line of defense provided the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army with a sufficient geographical advantage. The Pavement Ant Barbarian Army's slight advantage in strength could not be exploited here, and the two sides once again entered into a stalemate tug-of-war.
But soon, the reinforcements from the north completely changed the balance of the battlefield.
This support army is really a partial force sent by the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army before.
Both partial divisions conquered their targets as expected, wiping out the weak Pavement Ant Barbarian Army in the two trapped sub-nests.
Subsequently, the two partial divisions joined together and moved from the north to the south, arriving at the frontal battlefield.
The arrival of this army, as well as the supply of troops and food from the north that had been cut off before, made the kings of the Pavilion Ant Barbarian Army feel something was wrong.
However, at this time, the Pavement Ant King was still desperate to have a showdown with the Big-headed Ant Kingdom army on the ground.
After a battle that lasted throughout the day, from dawn to sunset, the pavement ant barbarian army was finally driven back to their nest.
Although the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's army suffered equally heavy losses, they completed the siege of the nest occupied by the enemy.
Street fighting in the nest, a fierce struggle for every inch, may continue for several days, but the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army has been cut off from all external aid, and failure is only a matter of time.
Perhaps there is no need to wait for the second wave of reinforcements assembled from the main nest to arrive, and the battle will be decided.
