The dark night is scary and dangerous for diurnal creatures. Thus, the arrival of night ended the day's fierce fighting.
In fact, when the sun sets in the west and the afterglow dims, the two sides have a tacit agreement to gradually disengage and gather their troops on their own.
Rambo Fei led the army to meet at the end of the wooden bridge and did not evacuate in a hurry. This was a prudent approach. He was worried about the enemy's counterattack. This is the main tactic used by the protagonist. In addition, there are night raids, all of which exploit loopholes in the ants' established rules to seek opportunities for combat.
It wasn't until the flying knight supervised the withdrawal of all enemy troops that Rambo Fei urged the troops to return to their lairs on the big banyan tree one after another to rest and eat while counting their losses.
There was a fierce battle today. One squad of the Divine Angel King's Second Army was wiped out except for the commander. Fifteen squads participated in the battle and suffered varying degrees of losses. A total of more than 60 soldiers were killed and more than 20 soldiers were missing. (The missing people basically fell into the river. Regardless of whether they were alive or dead at the time, they all have a narrow escape now. Except for a few lucky ones who climbed up to Yanpan Island, the others are almost equal to death.) More than a hundred soldiers were injured.
In other words, after a day of fierce fighting, about 200 soldiers lost their fighting ability, and the reduction reached 8%. If it weren't for natural barriers like wooden bridges, I believe it would be even more difficult for the defenders.
It is inconvenient to count the enemy's battle losses. According to the estimates of the frontline commander, about one or two thousand enemy troops were killed today. The exchange ratio is not bad, but compared to the overall number of enemy troops, Lan Bofei began to worry that just relying on his own It is difficult for this army to defend "Linshui City" independently.
For most warriors, the night is a time to rest and lick their wounds (one of their only recourses to healing), but Rambofei has to keep busy.
He cooperated with Darong to recruit young and strong soldiers from the "Linshui City" garrison to supplement the squads that were damaged in today's battle. He asked the commanders of these squads to pass tactical information packages to the new recruits and asked them to start training the next day. New recruits - these teams that have already taken turns in the battle will not continue to fight the next day under normal circumstances and will have a day or two to rest.
Before Rambo flew into the battle during the day, he had already sent flying knights to report to the main nest and Gun's legions. The next day, he still had to send the flying knight to report the battle situation. At the same time, he also needed the flying knight to urge Gun's reinforcements to arrive as soon as possible.
The attention turned to the side of the old-fashioned king. In the first day of the battle, the performance of the old-fashioned king's army was remarkable. Although they lost more than two thousand people, they only accounted for about 6% of the number of the army. .
Behind the old-fashioned king's army, there are still queen ants who are stepping up to lay eggs. Different from the elite soldier policy of the Angel King's Army, the old-fashioned King's Army only requires adult worker ants and soldier ants to serve as warriors. However, qualified soldiers of the God's Angel King's Army must spend time to learn and master the tactics in the information package, and also need to pass Accumulate combat experience in actual combat.
Generally speaking, the combat effectiveness of elite soldiers cannot be compared to that of a ragtag group. An elite soldier can easily defeat ten times or even more improvised troops.
But there are exceptions. When a mob can quickly replenish battle losses, has a strong will to fight, and can accumulate experience in actual combat, it is a nightmare for elite troops that are difficult to replenish quickly.
The Ming Dynasty army repeatedly won against the peasant army but finally lost the capital. Senggelinqin's elite Mongolian cavalry was finally surrounded and annihilated by the Nian army, which all confirmed this truth.
Of course, compared to elite troops, the human sea tactic also has its weaknesses, that is, it requires strong logistical support. Supplying 10,000 elite soldiers only requires 10,000 rations of food and grass, but supplying 100,000 ragtag troops that can fight against the elite soldiers requires ten times the amount of rations and grass. This is definitely a logistical nightmare.
The ancient rebel armies basically relied on fighting the autumn wind and capturing the enemy to maintain their logistics. This was their weakness. Once the enemy's walls were fortified and the country cleared, they would quickly run out of ammunition and food.
Although the old-fashioned King's army is now in full swing, there is also a hidden danger - the rear bases of the seventeen sub-nests have been emptied of strong men. Food production has been greatly affected, and the inventory is only enough to support the army for a month.
But after weighing many aspects, the old-fashioned king is not very worried now. After a day of actual combat, he has carefully calculated it.
As a king who once took charge of the main nest's grain depot, he also knew how to rationally and ruthlessly plan the expenditure of military rations. His plan was that as long as "Linshui City" was captured, he could use the captured inventory to support the war - he didn't know that "Linshui City" didn't have a lot of food stocks. When there was a shortage of food, I would often support the main nest in the past.
In addition, the loss of soldiers will gradually reduce the daily military ration expenditure. As a last resort, the corpses of both sides brought back from the battlefield can also be used as military rations - the Northern Expedition Army often does this, and this is also a glorious tradition of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army.
——I am the dividing line——
The battle on the second day started as usual. After the sun rose, the staid king's army set off from the "Hunting Ground City" and then arrived at the battlefield. It ended at dusk and lasted for more than six hours.
Today's fighting was even more brutal than yesterday. The old-fashioned King's Army, which had already accumulated a certain amount of combat experience, was still fearless of death. Their firm belief and determination allowed them to fear no casualties.
The Divine Envoy King's Legion also responded. In order to prevent being chased like yesterday during the rotation, Lamborghini simply added twelve squads to the original four squads on the front line. Each squad's front position was only A third of what it was yesterday and three times as thick.
In this way, in theory, each squad only needs to rotate the first-line fighters internally to persist until the end of the battle, avoiding the terrible dilemma of being chased during squad rotation.
But long-term continuous combat is a nightmare for any squad, especially these squad commanders. They have to direct battles for a long time and are always in a state of high tension and excitement, which takes a huge toll on the body and mind.
By the afternoon, these frontline commanders had expressed their desire to rotate and were exhausted. But Rambo Fei, who was worried about what happened yesterday, refused them and let them stick to it until the end.
After the second day's battle, the battle losses of the Divine Envoy King's legion were only over a hundred, roughly half of the first day's, but they still caused more than two thousand casualties to the enemy.
Lamborghini's response was successful. Of course, after the frontline commanders came back, they immediately consumed high-end food and honeydew without restraint to replenish their physical strength, which also greatly consumed the already small inventory. This can be considered a kind of Take the loss.
Although the battle on the second day was relatively successful, Rambo Fei was still looking forward to reinforcements. The despair of fighting alone will become stronger and stronger as time goes by, and Lamborghini himself is not a strong leader.
But the reinforcements he was eagerly looking forward to, the army commanded by Gun, were also in trouble at this moment.
