However, although he is eager to destroy the Western Alliance, the protagonist also knows that the main army under his command has experienced a battle and still needs time to rest.
The first legion of Gun, the second legion of Rambo Fei, the third legion of Rambo Wan, the fourth legion of Rambo Tu and the fifth legion of Rambo Rui all returned to the main nest "Qingqiu City" to replenish their troops. , will build up strength and prepare for the next battle.
The reason why the protagonist is anxious to destroy the Western Alliance is not because of how big a military threat it is.
The core male ant group of this temporarily formed alliance lacks the prestige and cannot form a cohesive team like the old-fashioned king to confront the Angel King's army head-on and pose a major military threat.
The Western Alliance has always been a small-scale military raid. Although it is annoying to the protagonist, it is not harmful.
After the destruction of the old-fashioned king's power in the Northeast, the failure of the Western Alliance, which lacked foreign aid, was bound to happen sooner or later. They did not have the strength to resist the onslaught of the Divine Envoy King's army.
The protagonist is anxious because according to intelligence, the ant queen inheritance faction in the south has been developing rapidly recently.
They have integrated the entire southwestern and western parts of the kingdom, with disobedient sub-nests overturned and obedient sub-nests taken over by males loyal to the queen. This force rapidly expanded its power by relying on the prestige of the oldest king and his innate righteousness.
There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. The protagonist has already anticipated that there will inevitably be a break between himself and the ant queen's inheritance faction. The difference in philosophy between the two parties is as big as that between himself and the king's conference faction.
Before, I couldn't take any action, so I could only sit back and watch the rapid development of the ant queen's inheritance faction.
But now the resistance forces such as the old-fashioned king have been wiped out. He has firmly controlled the central area near the main nest "Qingqiu City" and the northeastern area around "Hunting Ground City", controlling one-third of the land and the original Big-headed Ant Kingdom. Half of the ant colonies, and there are a large number of neutral sub-nests in the east of the kingdom to expand.
The confrontation between the God Envoy King's forces in the east and the Ant Queen's inheritance faction in the west has taken shape.
Unlike the staid king, the ant queen's inheritance faction is more powerful, and its belief and cohesion are also extremely strong. The protagonist is worried that a future civil war between the two forces that already control large tracts of territory may be protracted and destructive.
This is not in the interests of the protagonist. He naturally wants to control the entire Big-headed Ant Kingdom faster and with less loss, and then he can march to the north bank of the river and completely dominate this mountain basin.
Since the relationship with the ant queen's inheritance faction has not been severed, and the other party still sends messengers to communicate from time to time, the protagonist does not have the extra troops to open a new battlefield for the time being, so the protagonist can only secretly stumble this future opponent.
The most important way is to limit the opponent's expansion speed.
Just as Gun was leading his army in a decisive battle with the staid King's army in the northeastern region, the protagonist also mobilized Lambori's fifth legion and captured the "Malachite City" in the south.
This sub-nest is not only rich in copper ore resources, but is also connected to places such as "New Yancheng", blocking the expansion of the queen's inheritance faction to the southeast, allowing the protagonist time to annex some sub-nests in the south that have not yet surrendered. .
After that, the power of the Queen Ant's inheritance faction turned around and expanded northward. They started from the base camp in the southwest of the kingdom and expanded all the way north to the west and central part of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.
Unlike the protagonist who is unable to subdue other male ants and has to use military means to expand territory, the queen ant inheritance faction has an ancient and traditional righteousness, and governs the sub-nests that fell into confusion and chaos due to the collapse of the main nest "King Conference" Male ants are a good new target to serve, so they can often take over the secondary nest peacefully.
Even if there is an opposing sub-hive whose males are loyal to the male ant ruling class such as the King's Council, the Lao Wang and others will often send "assassins" instead of starting a war.
With the two-pronged approach, the Queen Ant Heritage Faction has become the dominant faction in the west of the kingdom, while in the middle of the kingdom, they each control a portion across the territory of the Western Alliance and the Angel King's Legion.
The last thing the protagonist wants now is for the forces of the queen ant inheritance faction to enter the northwest of the kingdom. It is a fertile land close to the river. Like the northeastern region, the nests are densely populated and the produce is rich. Whoever controls the banks of the river will control the majority. One-third of the ant kingdom's population and production.
In order to prevent the ant queen's inheritance faction from expanding to the northwest along the river, the protagonist must control several sub-nests with intertwined ant paths and important traffic locations. Controlling these sub-nests can cut off the expansion of the queen's inheritance faction.
But to reach these secondary nests, without exception, you need to travel through the territory of the Western Alliance. The plan to eliminate the Western Alliance was put on the agenda.
——I am the dividing line——
While the army is resting, the protagonist and his male ant commanders are studying and evaluating the actual combat effects of new weapons.
After the beginning of spring, in three large-scale operations (attack on "Qingqiu City", attack on the old-fashioned king, and "Qingqiu City" peripheral operations), new weapons such as beetles and gravel jaw knives were put into actual combat on a large scale. The protagonist needs to collect detailed data to Evaluate the actual combat effectiveness and improvement directions of these weapons.
Evaluation data is easy to collect. Each squad commander collects the combat information package of his soldiers, filters out the meaningless parts, integrates it into an information package, and hands it to the legion commander. The legion commander then consolidated the information packages from each team and shared them at today's evaluation meeting.
The first phase is a combat assessment of the beetle.
The only beetle legion is the rolling first legion. Gun himself was very satisfied with the combat effectiveness of the Beetle, although in the first battle, there were still some problems with the tactical connection between the Beetle and the accompanying infantry, which led to them being separated. However, after improving their tactics, the assault power of the Beetle troops in open areas is obvious, and they are the best choice to tear through the enemy's tight defense lines.
Later evaluations of the jaw knife were mixed.
Jaw knives are gravel knives. These stone knives are glued to the jaws of the soldier ants using a mixture of ant glue and plant ingredients.
The jaw knife is far sharper than the chitinous jaws of ants. The warrior king equipped with the jaw knife can easily cut off or pierce the enemy's body, greatly increasing the combat effectiveness of an individual soldier.
However, the gravel knife itself is very brittle, and the thin blade can easily break when the warrior exerts improper force. The broken jaw knife not only cannot be used in combat, but will also affect the subsequent battle.
The most terrible thing is that the warrior of the God's Envoy King cannot remove the broken jaw knife on his own, and the fragments of the jaw knife continue to be firmly stuck to the jaw with glue. It can only be removed after the war, after first moistening the glue with water drops.
This greatly affects the practicality of the jaw knife.
