The record of Big HB Bank is not conducive to the change of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Expeditionary Force. This is something that the protagonist expected.
In the spring of this year, the protagonist followed the plan made before winter last year and led his army to use the suspended rope bridge to raid and occupy the "Linshui City".
At this point, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom captured the first stronghold on the Big HB Bank, which also kicked off the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's northern expedition.
After that, the protagonist led the Angel King's army to defeat the first siege by the troops commanded by King Fuye sent by the Pavement Ant Kingdom, and took advantage of the situation to capture the later "Northern Expedition Army Camp" and seize a place for the Northern Expedition Army. Advance to base.
After the meeting of kings decided to formally send troops, the entire Big-headed Ant Kingdom fell into a military frenzy that was about to defeat its thousand-year old enemy.
From the river area in the north to the hilly areas in the south, from the borders near lakeshores, swamps and forests in the east, to the gradually rising mountains in the west, hundreds of sub-nests in the entire Big-headed Ant Kingdom have been mobilized.
Elite warriors from all over the country gathered in the main nest, and the little military rations saved by the various sub-nests were also transported to the main nest.
For this northern expedition, the king's meeting in the main nest of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom decided for the first time to send a hundred legions, a total of 150,000 warriors.
This military strength has almost exhausted all the mobile forces of the entire kingdom. Except for some sub-nests in the border areas that need to deal with indigenous enemies, which still retain defensive forces, only the old and weak are left in the sub-nests in the hinterland. Even the main nest couldn't cobble together another mobile force.
Such a large army requires a hundred kings to command, and almost all the kings with strong military command capabilities came out of the entire king's meeting.
This army crossed the river from the suspended rope bridge of "Linshui City" as planned. It took a whole day and night for all the troops to cross the river.
Subsequently, the Northern Expeditionary Army, under the guidance of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, crossed the "Bridgehead" and arrived at the "Northern Expeditionary Army Camp".
The next day, the Northern Expeditionary Army was divided into three corps to act separately: King Public Security and General B led forty legions to form the Southern Corps; General King C and General D led forty legions to form the Northern Corps; General King A led 20 legions as a mobile corps to stay at the "Northern Expedition Camp" to carry out logistics and transportation work, and was responsible for taking over the defense of the nests captured by the two corps.
The Southern Corps conquered nine lairs including "Target A", "Target C", "Target D" and "Target Self", while the Northern Corps conquered five lairs including "Target B" and "Target E".
Every day, the two corps will use the newly occupied nest as their starting base and continue to attack other targets. They plan to raid and capture as much territory as possible before the pavement ant barbarians react.
Before the protagonist withdrew the Angel King's army from the battlefield on the Big HB shore, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom was unstoppable and invincible.
However, the prerequisite for these victories was that the main force of the Pavement Ant Barbarians was not deployed near the Big HB Bank, and the Big-headed Ant Kingdom took advantage of the surprise attack.
The protagonist is also aware of several major hidden dangers in the Northern Expedition:
First, the strength of the Northern Expeditionary Army was still far inferior to that of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army.
Although the Big-headed Ant Kingdom derogates the Pavement Ant Kingdom as a barbarian, after long-term contact, the protagonist knows that the Pavement Ants also have excellent civilization and strict discipline, and their strength on the Big HB Coast is even far stronger than that of the Big-headed Ants. The big-headed ant kingdom on the shore of HN.
Compared with the Pavement Ant Kingdom, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is just an upstart that has just emerged for hundreds of years, while the Pavement Ant Kingdom is an established power that has dominated for thousands of years.
In fact, the flying knights of the Divine Envoy King's Legion soon began to send back intelligence about the hinterland of the Pavement Ant Barbarians. They observed that the enemy nests near the occupied areas had begun to shrink their troops and strengthen their defenses.
This shows that the pavement ant kingdom has recovered from the initial state of being stunned and has begun to strengthen its defenses. It also means that the army of pavement ants should soon mobilize their forces to seriously deal with the threat from the south.
The second is the discord among the leadership of the Northern Expeditionary Army, especially the disagreement with the Divine Envoy King's Legion.
Although there are one hundred kings in the Northern Expedition Army, the five senior generals, King Gongan, King General A, King General B, King General C and King General D, actually play a decision-making role.
The Northern Corps led by the latter two was not friendly to the Angel King's Corps, and could not listen to the protagonist's suggestions. This led to the protagonist withdrawing the guide from the Northern Corps early, and also caused the Northern Corps to make poor progress due to their unfamiliarity with geography. Far behind the Southern Corps.
For example, after obtaining information on the movements of the pavement ant army, the protagonist shared the information with the kings of the Northern Expedition Army to remind them to pay attention. However, this information attracted limited attention. Most of the kings, especially the kings of the Northern Corps, were overwhelmed by the triumphant victory. In their eyes, the Pavement Ant Barbarians were already vulnerable.
The protagonist can only solemnly remind the police king and the good guy king who are friends with him to pay attention, and he can't help other kings.
Third, the biggest weakness of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's Northern Expedition is the lack of military rations.
There are a full 150,000 troops. Such a large army consumes astronomical amounts of food.
Although the protagonist provided a batch of rations for the Northern Expeditionary Army after they crossed the river (the rations of the Pavement Ant Army captured during the first counter-encirclement and suppression campaign), when this large army set off from the main nest to the "Northern Expeditionary Army Camp" He also carried a batch of food.
However, the food provided by the protagonist is only enough for the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's expeditionary army for two days. With the food successfully delivered from the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's main nest, the Northern Expeditionary Army only has six days' worth of food at the beginning, and the food reserves are at a low level. An extremely dangerous situation.
For this reason, the Northern Expeditionary Army had to speed up its offensive in order to use the capture to "support war with war."
But at first, the strategy didn't go well.
After the first day of the offensive, the grain seized by the Southern Corps and the Northern Corps, including the corpses of the enemy soldiers killed, was not enough to offset the day's consumption, and it was completely a loss-making business.
This forced the southern army to divide into two groups to start the attack the next day. In addition, the harvest later increased slightly, and the initial food crisis was barely overcome.
Before the protagonist left, the Northern Expedition was progressing smoothly and had captured ten enemy nests. The captured grain, together with the stored grain, was enough to support the army for half a month.
However, the strategy of relying on food to support the enemy must be based on continuous offensive. Once the Pavement Ant barbarian army turns to counterattack and the Big-headed Ant Kingdom expeditionary force turns to defense, the opportunity to obtain food will be lost, and the existing food reserves will be slowly depleted.
Therefore, the shadow of lack of military rations always hangs over the head of the Northern Expedition of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.
