Lambowan won a rout. The significance of this victory did not lie in the casualties. Although the Divine Envoy King's army also killed many people, it did not completely annihilate the enemy army.
After Rambo Wanmingjin withdrew his troops, the Flying Knight detected that the enemy had regrouped at the sub-nest near Rambo Wan's headquarters. This was also their starting base in the morning. The defeated troops returned on their own and once again gathered considerable strength.
According to estimates, nearly half of the enemy's army has been lost, but they still retain enough power to pose a threat. Although they are unable to attack, it will be difficult for them to defeat the Divine Envoy King's army in one go if they focus on defending it.
The next day, Rambowan tried to attack the enemy. In his mind, it was best for the enemy to go out to fight in the field, so that he could defeat the enemy again and then take advantage of the situation to capture the enemy's assembly area and annihilate them all.
However, the enemy seemed to be aware of the gap between the two sides in yesterday's fragile defeat. Instead of going as Rambo Wan wanted, they chose to hold on underground. Rambo Wan personally commanded his 3rd Army to engage in underground street fighting. There was a lot of killing, but overall progress was slow.
That afternoon, when the Angel King's army retreated, Rambo Wan had given up his attempt to completely eliminate the enemy through offensive battles - this withdrawal meant that all the progress in the street fighting that day was in vain, and some of the underground lairs occupied that day had to be abandoned. , the enemy reoccupied the area and were able to deploy defenses here the next day.
Based on the number of casualties, Rambo Wan estimated that it would take nearly half a month for the three legions under his command to completely annihilate this enemy force. The God Envoy King obviously did not like his men to fight such a time-consuming and laborious battle.
Fortunately, after yesterday's great victory, Rambo Wan has completed the goal of holding back the enemy army set by the God Envoy King ahead of schedule. The enemy army is now shrinking and shivering every day, and has no choice but to continue to the main nest "Qingqiu City". "The ability to march with ambition. The protagonist's strategic requirements for Rambo Van's headquarters have been realized.
When the protagonist received the battle report in the afternoon of the battle, he did not expect that Rambo Wan would win so cleanly. It seems that the rating of the combat effectiveness of the Queen Ant Heritage Faction Army has to be lowered by one notch. The command ability of the Queen Ant Heritage Faction Army is different from the The combat effectiveness is simply the lowest level among the armies of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, which is about the same as the garrison assembled by the neutral sub-nest ruling male ants themselves.
However, the queen ant inheritance faction will not be devastated by this defeat. They control one-third of the territory of the old big-headed ant kingdom, and it is roughly estimated that there are nearly 200,000 ants under their command. If they are desperate to take all When the soldier ants and worker ants are pulled out, they can easily organize an army of more than 100,000 people.
Although it is unknown how many queens there are in the queen inheritance faction, if there are fifty queens according to conservative estimates, all queens can produce 2,500 ant eggs per day without losing their bodies. If they are desperate, they can produce 10,000 eggs per day. The speed of an ant egg.
These ant eggs can mature in one month and become active forces that can be immediately put into battle after being trained with information packages. The daily replenishment rate of 10,000 enemy soldiers is enough to drag the Angel King's army into a long-term war of attrition. This is what the protagonist least wants to see. .
Of course, this is an estimate of the war potential of the ant queen's inheritance faction under the most ideal conditions. In fact, it is difficult to achieve this level of mobilization. Not to mention that the big-headed ant queen cannot produce two hundred ant eggs a day for a long time at the cost of physical exhaustion. Even if there is such a high output, the territory of the queen's inheritance faction will be difficult to provide the food needed by a large number of newborn ants.
With 10,000 warriors a day, the number of ant colonies controlled by the queen ant inheritance faction will double in less than a month. Not counting the losses caused by the war that crowds out the working ant colonies, just the new ants are enough to exhaust each ant nest. reserves, causing the granary to be unable to make ends meet.
What controls the upper limit of the ant nest is always food production. The production of advanced food limits the growth of the number of male ants, while the production of ordinary food limits the growth of the number of soldier ants and worker ants.
In addition to the planting and breeding industries in the territory of the Angel King Legion, the efficiency of food production has been greatly improved. Other big-headed ant nests still have to rely on traditional gathering and hunting methods to obtain food. In terms of level, there is no significant difference between these ants and those in the protagonist's original world.
——I am the dividing line——
The legions of the King of Gods are gathering in batches. Except for the two legions left as reserve forces among the twelve legions, the other ten legions are gathering in two places.
There are five legions assembled at Rambowan's station. In addition to Rambovan's 3rd legion, Jia Niu's 10th legion and Manticore's 11th legion, which are originally stationed here, Spade Elephant's 9th legion is also stationed here. The Legion and Spider Wolf's 12th Legion also came here, under the unified command of Rambo Wan.
Among the remaining seven legions, except for Ramboser's 6th legion guarding "Linshui City" and Rambotu's 4th legion, which had just finished fighting the parasitic ants and was resting, the other legions gathered in the main nest "Qingqiu City" , as the second echelon, ready to go into battle at any time.
The reason why the troops under his command are divided into two echelons is because the territory of the Divine Envoy King's legion and the territory of the Queen's inheritance faction are intertwined. The boundary line is too long and they may face wars everywhere.
The Divine Envoy King's army was expanding too rapidly and lacked a sufficient number of male ants to disperse and station in various sub-nests, and some sub-nests had to be abandoned.
The only officially-ruled sub-nests have only recently joined, and many places have not yet formed their own garrison forces. Once faced with a full-line military conflict, these sub-nests lack the ability to protect themselves and will inevitably require the timely response of the main force. support.
——I am the dividing line——
Just when the protagonist is worried that the enemy is attacking everywhere and attacking his weakly defended sub-nest, the battle reports from the previous two days have also caused an uproar within the ant queen inheritance faction.
It took two days for the news of the defeat on the front line to be transmitted back to the "real main nest". The ant queen's inheritance faction, which could only rely on messengers to deliver news on foot, was obviously far behind the Emissary King's army with its flying knights in terms of intelligence transmission efficiency.
The news of the defeat gave the ant queens who had just taken power a wake-up call. It was not that they had not thought about the possibility of defeat. However, according to the battle report, they had high hopes and assembled troops with certain military experience in the entire territory. It can be said that they are the inheritance faction of the ant queen. The current elite force of the army only faces enemies with only three legions (the ants judge the number of enemy legions based on the formation of the legions, and cannot detect the difference in the formation of the two legions very well). There are obviously five in number. With a six-fold advantage, he was easily defeated and had no power to fight back.
The atmosphere in the "real main nest" is solemn, and the queen ant and the male ants attached to the queen must take countermeasures.
