After a whole day's fighting, the pavement ant barbarian army suffered heavy losses.
The losses were mainly those of soldiers and food.
In the morning, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army crossed the river as usual to attack "Target Ding" where the Northern Expedition Army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom was stationed. During the crossing of the river and the subsequent battle between the large armies, they suffered heavy losses. But this kind of loss can also be exchanged for the enemy's loss. In the long run, there will be no problem in capturing the heavily guarded "Target D".
However, successive waves of sneak attacks by black-headed stinky ants followed, causing the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army to be attacked from both sides.
In the battle with black-headed acid ants, a large number of soldiers were killed by acid attacks, and many others were injured by acid mist.
Most of the wounded will be disabled as a result. Even after they recover, it will be difficult for them to return to their original combat effectiveness, so they will be removed from the army.
In the ant world, severely disabled ants can only survive by begging. Although they will not starve to death, they can hardly make any contribution to the ant nest.
Therefore, although the battle with the black-headed sour ants resulted in not many direct casualties, only a few thousand soldiers, the tens of thousands of wounded also greatly depleted the effective strength of the pavement ant barbarian army, and even became a nest burden.
On the other hand, there is food loss.
The first tribe of black-headed sour ants carried away a small amount of food during a sneak attack on the base camp. The most serious loss was that after the black-headed ant warriors were blocked in the base camp and unable to escape, everywhere under the base camp became a battlefield, including many granaries.
During the battle, the food in the granary will inevitably be contaminated by acid. Since grains are mainly dried meat and wild grains, which are very dry and easily absorb large amounts of acid mist, grains that are not directly affected by the acid are often contaminated by acid mist.
And these contaminated grains are different from damp grains. As long as the latter is not moldy, it can be eaten after being dried in time. The former is completely inedible. The acid changes the composition of the food and will cause damage to the ants' internal organs after consumption.
You should know that formic acid is formic acid. A certain concentration of formic acid, even if taken by humans, will corrode the mucosa of the oral cavity and digestive tract, cause vomiting, diarrhea, gastrointestinal bleeding, and even death due to acute renal failure or respiratory failure. Ants are obviously not as heavy as humans, and their resistance to toxicity is far weaker. If a trace amount of formic acid enters the digestive system, it will cause fatal damage.
Because of the heavy losses in soldiers and food, and the fact that most of the pontoon materials collected previously were damaged, the top command of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army had to postpone the plan to attack "Target D" after consultation.
The pavement ant barbarian army began to get busy: transporting the wounded back to each sub-nest, recruiting a group of worker ants again to supplement the losses of each legion, sorting, cleaning, and discarding contaminated food, recruiting and replenishing military rations, and collecting dry branches, grass stems, etc. pontoon material.
It seems that within three or four days, the Pavement Ant barbarian army will be unable to launch an attack, which is exactly what the protagonist wants.
In the next few days, the Northern Expeditionary Army stationed in "Target D" was not idle. They repaired the nests damaged in the previous battle and evacuated the seriously injured.
Under the repeated urging of the high-level commanders such as the King of Public Security, the main nest "Qingqiu City" was also scraped three feet away, and finally a wave of reinforcements from four legions was assembled again, carrying food to support.
With the enhancement of "Target D's" defense capabilities, it seems that it will not be trapped in the short term, and the protagonist can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Because at this time, the Legion of the God Envoy King under the protagonist is going through the pain of reform, and there is no spare capacity to go to the north bank of the river to support the Northern Expeditionary Army.
——I am the dividing line——
After pacifying the southern hills, the protagonist has begun to reform the army organization of the Angel King's army.
He reorganized the troops of the Archangel King into field corps, garrison corps and reserve garrison troops. Among them, the field corps is the main standing army; while the garrison corps is stationed in various lairs or fortresses, but its members also have to participate in production and labor on weekdays. The soldiers of the garrison corps are also the source of reserve soldiers for the field corps; the reserve garrison force does not have a unified establishment. Composed of disabled veterans produced in the war, they are a supplementary defense force for the garrison.
After some reorganization, the protagonist already has six field legions with a mobile force of 15,600 soldiers. The commanders of the six legions are: Gun, Rambofo, Rambowan, Rambotu, Ramborui and Rambo. Se.
In addition, there are the "Dongyang City" garrison commanded by Zhuzi, the "Linshui City" garrison commanded by Huzi, the "Bridgehead" garrison commanded by Darong, and the "Southern City" garrison commanded by King Fuye and Gardenia, totaling Four garrison regiments, as well as a reserve force composed of several veterans.
After some reorganization, a large number of new soldiers were added to various regiments that suffered heavy losses in the pacification war in the southern hills. These new soldiers still need to undergo some training before they can become combat effective.
The training of the ants is relatively simple. Just pass the information package on relevant tactics and requirements to the recruits, and then let the recruits continue to understand it during daily training.
What really slows down the progress of the training is the new power that the protagonist is trying to integrate.
For example, the ant hunter has always been the ideal scout warrior in the protagonist's mind. After subduing some ant queens, the protagonist can finally incorporate these ants with excellent eyesight and strong single combat into the army.
The protagonist plans to add two ant-hunting ant scout teams to each field legion. At first, due to insufficient manpower, only the first legion established a hundred ant-hunting ants.
But soon, Gun came to report that it was difficult to direct the hunting sickle ants.
After the protagonist understood the situation, he realized that although ants communicate with each other through consciousness and although different races can communicate smoothly, it is still difficult to compromise on behavioral habits.
Most of the ants that the protagonist first organized into the first legion were the first batch of ant pupae captured. After these ants emerged from their pupae, they were led by a small number of surrendered indigenous ants. They still learned the old tricks of the indigenous tribes. way of doing.
Therefore, this group of ant-hunting warriors were accustomed to the free life and fighting style of small groups, and did not adapt to and resist the strict and strictly organized style of the God's Envoy King's Legion.
The protagonist's initial plan to maintain the style of hunting scythe ants in order to better play his role as a scout could only fail.
The protagonist has to hand over the remaining ant pupae, eggs and young ants to the big-headed ants to be raised by the worker ants, allowing them to live with the young ants of the big-headed ants and change them subtly.
After this group of sickle-hunting ferocious ants reached adulthood, they were added to each legion and integrated very well.
However, it takes time to wait for the young ants to mature, which also greatly slows down the training of the Angel King's army.
