In the sky, there was a dense buzzing sound of flapping wings, and the old-fashioned king knew that this was the rumored flying knight who could ride flies.
Since the appearance of the Divine Envoy King, more new things have appeared in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom than in the past few hundred years combined, such as flying knights, night attacks, and so on.
The old-fashioned king doesn't like these new things. Hundreds of years of tradition have allowed everyone to live a good life. Why do they have to come up with some new and unpredictable things?
Although conservatives have a natural aversion to new things, the old-fashioned king is not stupid. He also knows that it is these flying knights who are spying on his army, giving the hateful God Envoy King an advantage.
Therefore, rather than not having a flying knight, he hopes that the other party will not have a flying knight.
But this is just a fantasy. On the real battlefield, under the dual guidance of the flying knights and scouts, the Legion of the God Envoy King is entering the battlefield steadily and orderly.
Not counting the peripheral scouts, the Divine Envoy King's Legion only had three legions and 7,500 warriors on the frontal battlefield, which was only slightly more than half the number on the opposite side.
However, these three legions formed an extremely wide and extremely thin front, and it seemed that they could be penetrated by just a single assault.
It’s not without reason that the Divine Envoy King’s army dares to be so confident and entrusted.
The three legions that went into battle were the most elite First, Second and Third Legions. The First Legion, as the beetle legion, was in the middle and was the main assault force, while the Second and Third legions guarded the left and right wings.
Since a small half of the Sixth Legion was deployed to garrison the auxiliary nest, they stayed with the protagonist as a reserve team. The protagonist's main formation was set up on a rock on the edge of the gravel field, where he could overlook the entire battlefield.
The Fourth Army and the Fifth Army had spread far out to the two wings, out of sight of the King's Council Army, and circled back to block their retreat.
This is the embodiment of the advantage of having intelligence and vision. When the scouts of the King's Council Army were suppressed and their eyes were dark except for the military information in front of them, they were completely unaware that they had been surrounded and cut off their retreat.
Under the guidance of the scouts, the three legions of the God Envoy King who were fighting head-on moved to a place about three meters away from the enemy's formation. This is the limit of the field of vision that the male ants can accurately see. Any further away they can only blur it. At a vague glance, you can't see anything even one meter away.
Both big-headed ants and pavement ant armies like to organize their formation half a meter away from the enemy. This makes it easier for commanders to visually understand the enemy's layout and find weaknesses.
The old-fashioned king also saw the approaching legions of the Divine Envoy King, and he also began to send a large number of messengers to order the legions under his command to prepare for war.
From what he could see and what the messenger reported, the old-fashioned king knew that his side had a strength advantage, so the old-fashioned king prepared to spread his wings and surround the enemy with a longer front. According to past actual combat experience, the army that can have a longer front will have an advantage. The old-fashioned king believes that victory belongs to him.
But while the King's Council Army was still communicating with each other and adjusting their formations, the God Envoy King's army had begun to move again.
Thanks to its rich experience and efficient messengers and flying knights, the time it takes for the Divine Envoy King's army to reorganize their formation is only half that of the opponent.
After completing preparations, the Divine Envoy King's Army will naturally not give the opponent too much time to push forward again.
Seeing the enemy troops approaching, some team commanders who had not yet completed their preparations on the front line became anxious and began to urge their subordinates to form formations or move. However, this caused confusion among the worker ants and soldier ants who were not familiar with military formations.
This is the difference between a ragtag army and an elite army, although every ant is a born warrior with the instinct to fight. However, military formations and organizations require learning. Even receiving information packages requires time to become familiar with and master them. These soldiers of the King's Council Army who were temporarily detained have obviously not mastered this yet.
The military formation of the Divine Envoy King's Army quickly advanced one decimeter and then stopped, letting the commander of the King's Council Army on the opposite side breathe a sigh of relief.
What they fear most is that the enemy will launch an attack while their military position is not stable, which will inevitably cause a large number of casualties to their own side at the beginning. However, these male ants feel that their own army is strong, and even if the front line is defeated, they can still fight back with the strength of the reserve team.
Now that the enemy has foolishly stopped attacking, that is of course the best, as it can also reduce our own battle losses.
Especially the front-line team commanders at the grassroots level. If they were attacked just now, many of these male ants would have no choice but to hate the battlefield. Naturally, they hope that the enemy will stay as long as possible. It is best to wait until their own side is sorted out and can take the initiative to attack. .
But these male ants obviously used their own experience to guess the actions of the God's Envoy King's Army. Opponents who had fought against the God's Envoy King's Army knew why the God's Envoy King's Army suddenly stopped.
A dense burst of wind sounded, and a black locust rose from the army formation of the God's Envoy King, almost covering the sky.
These are clay and stone bullets thrown from slings.
The slings of the Divine Envoy Army have always been a weapon that other armies cannot steal, giving the ants that could only fight hand-to-hand the ability to fight at a distance.
Stone bullets are highly destructive and can kill directly if hit on the head or torso, while pottery bullets will break and sputter wherever they hit, causing secondary damage and causing a range of hits.
Under the three rapid fires of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, the line about one decimeter thick in front of the King's Council Army was hit two decimeters away.
Although only a few hundred soldiers died directly, and only over a thousand were injured, the proportion was not high compared to the entire army.
But this blow completely disrupted the first line of the King's Council Army.
The Angel King's army did not rely entirely on long-range firepower, but immediately launched an assault.
Many armies with long-range advantages will become accustomed to relying on firepower and range, thus leaving them vulnerable to defeat.
The proportion of crossbowmen in the Northern Song Dynasty army was as high as 60% to 70%. They could still fight against the Liao and Xixia armies, which were poorly armored and mainly light cavalry. However, during the Jingkang period, they were taught how to behave by the Jurchen infantry and cavalry wearing heavy armor, which was too much. The consequences of relying on long-range strike power.
Coincidentally, hundreds of years later, facing the Jurchen descendants Houjin who were still heavily armored, the Ming army, which already had firearms, failed to gain an advantage. They often collapsed in hand-to-hand combat. The white-armed soldiers dared to fight in close combat. is just an example after all.
Even in the era of World War II and the War of Liberation, troops who dared to carry out bayonet assaults were often able to defeat enemy troops with superior firepower.
"The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a hero!"
The protagonist knows that only an army that dares to fight in close combat can achieve a balance in organization, fighting will, and weapons to avoid shortcomings.
