Based on a deep understanding of the weaknesses of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's Northern Expeditionary Army, the protagonist has long realized that the Northern Expeditionary Army can easily fall into trouble and has made preparations for this.
As the protagonist leads the main force of the Divine Envoy King's Army southward and begins to attack the southern hilly area, there is still a flying knight force stationed at the "Bridgehead", shouldering the task of reconnaissance and communications. They will be the protagonist’s eyes and ears.
According to the reconnaissance report of the flying knights, on the day after the protagonist led his army south, the sub-nests of the Pavement Ant Kingdom near the area captured by the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's expeditionary force were reinforced by varying amounts of reinforcements.
The number of these reinforcements was small, and each nest was reinforced by hundreds of warriors. The protagonist judges that these reinforcements may be support from other temporarily safe secondary nests, rather than return reinforcements from the main front-line army.
These reinforcements cannot reverse the current predicament of the Pavement Ant Barbarians on the battlefield on the Great HB Bank, but the reinforced Vice Nest has more troops and therefore has stronger confidence in resistance.
Sure enough, next, the offensive of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom had to gradually slow down under the increasingly strong resistance and entered a deadlock.
As the battle line was gradually stabilized, the Pavement Ant Barbarians, who had a vast territory, abundant resources, and a large number of people, began to invest more troops in this area.
More and more reinforcements appeared in the sight of the flying knights. These reinforcements were in groups of three to five. The most were hundreds of soldiers, and the few were only dozens of soldiers.
They quickly converged along the ant trails in the territory of the pavement ant kingdom, and then dispersed again to the ant nests on the front line.
These reinforcements seemed to have been drawn from the main nest and other secondary nests. Among them were old, weak, disabled warriors, as well as warriors whose carapace color was still very light, and who had obviously just emerged from pupa.
These warriors would not be drafted into the battlefield at normal times. Their appearance also means that the Pavement Ant barbarians are indeed stretched thin in this area.
But although their combat effectiveness was not strong, they were still able to effectively delay the Northern Expedition of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom during the offensive and defensive battle at the base of the nest.
After receiving the battle reports from the flying knights every day, the protagonist suddenly felt a very familiar feeling.
During World War II, in the early days of Project Barbarossa, the elite German troops made great strides to invade the Soviet Union, and the progress was extremely smooth. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, relied on massive bloodshed and sacrifice, and threw a large number of new soldiers into the defense regardless of casualties, to stabilize the front.
However, in World War II, the German army annihilated a large number of the Soviet army's effective forces in the early stages of the war, causing great difficulties for the Soviet army later. It was not until a few years later that the Soviet army lost the initiative on the battlefield.
However, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom failed to eliminate too many Pavement Ant Barbarian Army. From this point of view, once the main force of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army turns to counterattack, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's Expeditionary Army will face more challenges than those on the eastern front. An even harsher situation for the Germans.
The Soviet army struggled to hold on on the eastern battlefield, and finally waited for the elite troops transferred back from the Far East. And are the Pavement Ant Barbarians also waiting for their main force to be transferred back from other battlefields?
At least for now, the results of the Flying Knight's reconnaissance show that the main force of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army has not yet appeared. Where are they at this moment? When will it suddenly appear and give the Northern Expedition a fatal blow?
However, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is a little stronger than the German army on the Eastern Front in World War II.
That is, although the German army has a nominal ally in the form of RB, this ally was frightened after Nomenkan and never dared to go to war with the Soviet Union. Seeing through this, the Soviet army was able to calmly transfer Zhukov and the elite Far East troops to the front line of the war against Germany.
But the enemies that the Pavement Ant Barbarians have to face are, in addition to the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom that suddenly launched an attack. According to the last time the protagonist conducted an in-depth investigation into the Pavement Ant Kingdom and inquired about King Fuye, he knows that in the far north, The Pavement Ant Nation has to deal with the invasion of a huge ant every year. This is the most feared enemy of the Pavement Ant Nation.
On the eastern border of the pavement ant country, indigenous ants such as the RB black brown ant and the black-headed sour ant are also constantly harassing the border.
Therefore, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army cannot devote all its forces to the battlefield on the shore of Da HB.
This is the advantage that the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom can take advantage of.
Unfortunately, except for the protagonist who has relatively comprehensive intelligence, most of the kings of the Northern Expedition Army can neither clearly see the entire battle situation, nor are they immersed in previous victories, greatly underestimating the strength of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army.
They did not take any measures to deal with the counterattack of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army, nor did they think about how to take advantage of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army's weakness of multi-line operations, tight strength and time constraints to conduct a protracted battle.
What makes the protagonist speechless is that as the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's Northern Expedition conquers more and more lands, their battle lines are getting longer and longer.
Except for the two clusters of the Southern Corps, which are still roughly united, the twenty legions under the command of King General A have long been scattered in different nests to serve as garrison troops, or as baggage teams between nests, and the organizational structure almost no longer exists.
Even the Northern Corps, which was originally a fist, turned into five or six small groups and acted separately after the battle lines were opened.
King General C and King General D each have only ten legions around them. The remaining legions are organized into groups of three or five, either foraging for food on their own in a captured nest, or attacking alone a small group belonging to the pavement ant barbarian tribe. Lair but progress is slow.
In fact, this cannot be blamed on the short-sightedness of these kings. Don't they know that the more concentrated the troops, the greater the chance of victory. There are really too many restrictions on objective conditions.
The main target of the Southern Corps is the pavement ant nests along the river. These nests are relatively dense and there is abundant food on the river banks. They have much less difficulty in providing military supplies.
The Northern Corps is deep in the interior and lacks food and fodder. Once the nest is conquered, the amount of seizures is insufficient and it will not be able to support the Corps' next action.
Dispersing into small units, although the offensive efficiency is lower, the difficulty of foraging is also greatly reduced.
These small troops can spend several days near the captured lair to find enough rations on their own, and then move on to the next target, saving commanders the trouble of allocating food.
Even if foraging does not go smoothly, transporting rations to a small army from the rear is much less difficult than supplying a large army.
However, the most feared thing about this dispersed deployment of troops is encountering an attack by a large enemy corps. Due to the backward communication methods, the dispersed troops could not regroup in a short period of time.
As the saying goes, the more you worry about something, the more likely it will come. Soon, the flying knights hurriedly alerted the protagonist far to the south.
