Shortly after the Manticore's legion withdrew to the nearest sub-nest, in the evening, other nearby troops also came here to join together under the guidance of the flying knights and scouts.
The Queen Ant Heritage Faction Army did not pursue, and they did not have enough time to pursue. It was already the afternoon when the last battle ended. This also allowed the Divine Envoy King's Legion to spend the night safely.
However, this secondary nest is located between the enemy and the main nest "Qingqiu City". Any commander with a right mind knows that this place will soon become a battlefield. No matter what day it is, war is inevitable.
A flying knight has already rushed back to the main nest to report to the protagonist. Before the order from the Divine Envoy King was issued, Rambo Wan, as the oldest commander in the garrison, took command of the entire army. He ordered the troops to prepare for battle in advance. .
Of course, with Rambowan's character, he did not let the troops spend their energy on strengthening the defense of the nest, but let the troops eat and drink enough to recharge their batteries - Rambowan's idea was to fight in the field.
——I am the dividing line——
The protagonist received the report from the flying knight when the sun was about to set.
The protagonist has psychological expectations for the Queen Ant's inheritance faction to become an enemy, and it is even said to be in his plan.
Recently, when competing with the Ant Queen's inheritance faction for a neutral sub-nest, the Envoy King's Legion frequently provoked them with the connivance and even the instruction of the protagonist.
However, the protagonist also overestimated the opponent's ability to endure. The purpose of this provocation was more to compete for new territory than to directly start a war.
If the opponents were the old-fashioned ones in the King's Conference, they might be more tolerant, but the leaders of the ant queen inheritance faction obviously lacked the most basic political quality of "forbearance", and they overturned the table much faster than the protagonist expected.
But this is not entirely a bad thing. In the past, the protagonist's attitude towards the ant queen's inheritance faction was that there would be a battle in the future, but the previous alliance and the opponent's potential strength made him hesitate to make up his mind. Now, the opponent has helped him make up his mind. determination.
When the enemies come to the door, the protagonist no longer has to worry about it. He can concentrate on dealing with them. With the current strength of the God Envoy King's army, it is not difficult to deal with these enemies whose combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the old-fashioned King's army.
It's just that the territory controlled by the enemy is vast and has numerous ant colonies, so it requires psychological preparation for a long-term war.
In addition, the flying knights failed to detect the enemy's gathering in time, which also exposed their current shortcomings.
After the disappearance of Flying Eagle and the massive redeployment of middle-level commanders such as Mandarin Tiger, the Flying Knights have been in a state of shortage.
This also makes it difficult for the Flying Knight troops with increased missions to cover all target areas, and it is easy to miss military information.
The protagonist currently does not want to follow the traditional model of expanding the flying knights by combining male ants with fly mounts.
This is because in the past, the flying knights often opposed the protagonist based on the position of male ants, making him wary of this military group composed of pure male ants.
In addition, the current legion of the God Envoy King is getting bigger and bigger, and male ants are needed in many places. It is not a good choice to occupy a large number of precious male ant quotas in the Flying Knight Army.
You must know that even in the territory controlled by the protagonist, the high-end food that can be produced is limited, and the number of male ants that can be supported is also limited.
In the future, the Flying Knight army will inevitably expand, but it is impossible to organize hundreds or thousands of male ants in it.
The protagonist's plan is to use large worker ants to replace the male ants as members of the Flying Knights. Although the large worker ants are not good at fighting, the male ants are also not good at fighting. The large worker ants have the same IQ and eyesight as the male ants, and they only consume high-end food. Half of a male ant.
Moreover, as a class cultivated by the protagonist, the Big Worker Ants have never been recognized by the mainstream society of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, and only have a place in the Legion of God's Envoy King. This is all thanks to the protagonist's gift, and the interests of their class are firmly bound to the protagonist. body.
But the protagonist also realizes that this move will definitely trigger resistance from the male ant flying knights, and he is waiting for a suitable time.
At the same time, the protagonist also plans to reform the flying knight's mount.
In the past, flying knights tamed flies as mounts, but the domestication rate of flies was low, and they were timid by nature and afraid of fighting.
This leads to the fact that even if the flying knights are equipped with weapons, they rarely fight and can only be used as messengers and messengers.
The protagonist's ideal new flying knight mount is a bee. In the recent operation against the beehive outside "Dongyang City", the God Envoy King's Legion had captured a queen bee and tamed it in the underground hive next to "Dongyang City".
There are currently hundreds of worker bees in this hive. Since they have lived with ants since they were young, they are accustomed to ants and regard them as the same kind.
Moreover, bees are born with the courage to fight for the group, even if they die in battle. They also have bee stings, mandibles and bee venom as weapons, which are much stronger than flies.
The protagonist already has a plan for the future flying knight army, and he is waiting for an opportunity to realize his idea.
But not now. The scale of the upcoming war with the ant queen's inheritance faction would not be comparable to the previous raid on the main nest "Qingqiu City" or the battle against the staid king's army. He did not want to cause any complications.
——I am the dividing line——
The next day, the Divine Envoy King's army was fully mobilized.
The legions of the Divine Envoy King, who were expanding their territory in various places, began to gather towards the main nest. A large amount of supplies were mobilized, and the flying knights took the lead in stationing Rambo Wan's sub-nest.
Rambovan was also officially appointed by the protagonist as the temporary commander of the three legions, responsible for holding back the enemy troops and waiting for the order to assemble the large forces for counterattack.
The protagonist did not issue particularly specific instructions. How to complete the order should be decided by the troop commander himself. The protagonist did not want to engage in remote control.
After waiting for the order, Rambo Wan immediately mobilized the only three legions on hand, and also recruited half of the legion's garrison troops and corresponding supplies from the local sub-nest.
The local flying knights were dispatched and took off under Rambowan's order to detect the enemy's movements.
As expected by the protagonist and Rambo Wan, the main force of the Ant Queen's inheritance faction that has been assembled will naturally not be satisfied with yesterday's small victory.
That morning, the army of the ant queen's inheritance faction came out in full force and marched along the ant road towards the main nest "Qingqiu City".
Judging from the intelligence obtained from aerial reconnaissance, the enemy troops dispatched included more than a dozen legions and more than 20,000 soldiers, which was three times the number of troops under Rambo Wan's command.
The first target ahead of them is the deputy nest guarded by Rambo Wan.
According to the flying knight's report, the enemy army was less than an hour away from here. Rambo Wan immediately ordered three regular legions to go out and form an array, and temporarily recruited garrison troops to guard the nest headquarters as a backup.
Lambo Wan was confidently prepared to defeat three times as many enemy troops in an open and honest field battle.
