The next day, March 16, 2013, the Divine Envoy King's army marched towards the main nest "Qingqiu City" as scheduled.
The main nest has learned yesterday that the God Envoy King led his army to attack and arrived near the main nest. When the protagonist conquered the last two auxiliary nests along the way, he did not send out troops to block the road. Instead, he allowed some worker ants who were out for food to escape to the main nest on their own because they could not return to the fighting nest.
Although each of these worker ants did not know the specific situation, the combination of information from multiple worker ants, plus other intelligence collected from the main nest during this period, allowed the King's Conference to figure out the protagonist's movements and intentions.
The protagonist also deliberately let these ants run away.
Although by maintaining a stealthy march, the surprise of the attack can be achieved. However, this kind of raid will be very effective when dealing with the secondary nest, but not the main nest.
Each sub-nest is ruled by only one or a few male ants. As long as these commanders are killed in a surprise attack, the remaining ants will soon surrender to the conquerors of the same race.
However, the main nest has a huge underground city with thousands of male ants and hundreds of thousands of ant colonies. The protagonist is not sure that he can kill or control all the male ants in the first wave of raids.
As long as there are fish that slip through the net, these male ants who have already formed a huge hatred with the protagonist will inevitably organize the forces around them to entangle with the Divine Envoy King's Legion, forcing the Divine Envoy King's Legion into street fighting.
Street fighting has always been a nightmare for the superior army and the home field of the inferior army. Here, the advantages of troops and equipment cannot be brought into play. Unless absolutely necessary, the protagonist does not want to plunge the elite into the quagmire of street fighting.
Therefore, the protagonist has already planned to let go of some ants who tipped off the news, so that the king's meeting in the main nest will know that he is coming.
According to the behavior of the ants, the main nest is bound to piece together an army to attack, which contains the last troops and commanders that the main nest can recruit. In the field battle, the protagonist is confident that he can defeat any opponent.
As long as this army is eliminated, the remaining male ants in the main nest will not be able to cause too much trouble, and the overall situation will be decided.
——I am the dividing line——
Half an hour south of the main nest, the ant roads are scattered into several lines, extending to the south, southeast and southwest respectively. This is a road intersection. In the past, there were always messengers or transport teams from various sub-nests passing by. From time to time, ants will stop and smear fresh pheromones on the roadside as fresh road signs.
But today, it was quiet here, with no ants coming and going, only the desolate gravel field on the roadside, and a few newly sprouted grass buds shivering in the cold wind of early spring.
But soon, many ants appeared here.
A large group of ants crowded each other noisily, and entered the gravel land with sparse vegetation from the dense grass and shrubs in the north.
This is an army from the main nest "Qingqiu City", numbering tens of thousands.
Although there are a lot of them, covering the ground, it looks dark from the sky. But the "old-fashioned king" who commanded this army knew that this army was almost a rabble.
The old-fashioned king is a very senior king in the main nest. He also knows the protagonist, but it is not a friendly acquaintance.
As the most senior male ant among the conservatives in the King's Council, the old-fashioned King often criticizes the attack on the God-Emissary King, and can be said to be one of the culprits in the King's Council's eventual enmity with the protagonist.
Although he didn't have much military experience, he didn't get the chance to go to the north bank of the river. But when the enemy army approaches, only a king with his qualifications and prestige, who is dedicated to maintaining the rule of the male ant class and is incompatible with the protagonist, can command this makeshift army.
The tens of thousands of troops were divided into sixteen legions and nearly three hundred squads, and each legion and squad was understaffed. These are troops composed of temporary recruits from various commanders. There are many commanders and few soldiers, so naturally they cannot be full.
However, the morale of this army is very high, or the morale of the commander is very high. After all, they are the army of the main nest. In the past, no secondary nest has ever challenged the authority of the main nest, nor did it have the strength. The size of the main nest is several times or even dozens of times larger than any secondary nest.
These troops from the main nest believe that the unruly and cruel God Envoy King will eventually be defeated by them.
The army set up a battle line on the gravel ground, and most of the captured worker ants and soldier ants were old, weak, sick, or disabled, or the new generation, either with weak fighting ability or lack of actual combat experience. Although the natural organization allows these ants to complete the commander's instructions, they will inevitably crowd each other and appear chaotic.
This is the only way for the Divine Envoy King and his army to go to the main nest. As a king, although he is not good at battle formations, the old-fashioned king still chose this place as the battlefield for the decisive battle.
The gravel ground is relatively flat with sparse vegetation. Ants also like to choose open areas for fighting. After all, their thinking is more two-dimensional. Complex grass and other environments are no less difficult for them than the tropical rainforest battlefield for human armies - it is very difficult there. It is difficult to deploy large forces, so it can only be a paradise for guerrilla warfare.
——I am the dividing line——
About half an hour later, scouts from the God's Envoy King's Legion appeared outside the gravel land.
These scouts soon encountered the scouts of the King's Council Army from the main nest.
Although the scouts of the Divine Envoy King's legion are hunting scythe ants, he grew up in "Southern City" and also has the aura of big-headed ants. The scouts on both sides have the aura of the same species, but the commanders of both sides have ordered that the scent of the other's nest be regarded as a sign of the enemy, so these scouts are also extremely fierce in fighting, just like facing the old enemy of pavement ants.
The scouts of the Divine Envoy King's legion are long, powerful and very agile scythe-hunting ferocious ants. Those soldier ants who came from the main nest as temporary scouts were no match and were forced to retreat to the main formation.
The ant-hunting scouts quickly reached the edge of the King's Council's military formation. After confirming the location and size of the enemy's army with their naked eyes, some of the scouts returned to report the military situation, while others were still cruising around the enemy's army, suppressing the King's Council's army. The scouts cannot go out to spy.
Although the old-fashioned king could not observe the overall situation, he also learned about this situation through reports from messengers. He was dissatisfied with this passive situation and ordered several legions to go out to expel these enemy scouts.
However, the scythe-hunting ants of the Divine Envoy King's Legion did not confront these legions head-on, but flexibly avoided them. The King's Council Army needs to maintain its military formation, so its speed and reaction cannot be compared with these scythe-hunting ants who naturally like to act alone or in small groups.
The King's Council Army did not worry about this for too long. After a while, the ants suddenly withdrew from the battlefield neatly.
But this did not let the old-fashioned king relax. He soon learned that the army of the God Envoy King had entered the scene!
