After being unable to go out to lead the army in battle, the protagonist quickly adapted to his new identity as the left-behind general manager. While managing various affairs in the territory, he worked hard to provide logistical supplies and replenish troops for the army.
The competition between evenly matched factions, such as the God Envoy King Legion and the Ant Queen Heritage Faction, focuses on national strength and logistics, specifically the ability to replenish troops and supplies.
Therefore, during the conflict between Chu and Han, the contribution of Xiao He, who was in charge of the rear, was not conspicuous in the history of the war, but it was extremely crucial. In the end, he was listed as the "Three Heroes of the Early Han Dynasty" together with Zhang Liang, who strategized, and Han Xin, who won the battle thousands of miles away. Because it was he who gave Liu Bang the capital to fight after repeated defeats, which led to the tragedy that the King of Chu was victorious in all battles but ultimately committed suicide in Wujiang River.
The Legion of the Divine Envoy is currently far stronger than the enemy at least in terms of combat effectiveness, and the battle loss ratio is also very good. Therefore, there is not much need for troop replenishment, but there is still a great need for logistics, especially food replenishment.
——I am the dividing line——
The next day, the Legion of the God Envoy King continued to advance, and now they had to speed up.
After conquering three sub-nests in succession, half of the planned plan of Gun's army has been completed. However, now is not the time to relax. On the contrary, the most tense period has arrived.
In yesterday's battle, after the field battle, there were still a large number of enemy defeated soldiers scattered in the sea of flowers. Some enemies tried to return to their nests but were intercepted, and there must have been enemies whose defeated troops tried to head to other sub-nests after being unable to return to their nests. These remnants will leak the news that the Angel King's army is raiding the "real main nest".
Yesterday, the Flying Knights and the Hunting Ants had been trying to contain the defeated army, but the terrain in the Sea of Flowers was complex, and the ant tunnels could lead to many places, so it was almost impossible to completely prevent the news from leaking.
Now, the Divine Envoy King's legion has no choice but to race against time and must complete its mission before the enemy fully reacts.
What the rolling army is most worried about is that the main enemy force confronting Rambo Wan will move south. The supply line of his own troops is very fragile. Once faced with the enemy's army, it will be difficult to maintain a long-term confrontation. It will inevitably need to retreat to a suitable secondary nest. In this way As soon as the "real sub-nest" was captured, the plan to go straight to Huanglong and capture the thief and the king completely failed, and the two sides would once again return to a war of attrition.
According to estimates, it will take two days for the enemy's messenger to reach the central area of the kingdom's old territory where the army is located, one day for the enemy to complete preparations, and three days to move south. The Angel King's army still has about six days, which is theoretically enough to complete the mission.
However, any theory will be different from the actual situation. The previous attack by the enemy in Xuanhuahuahai is an example. The future of this world can never be predicted. Once predicted, it will affect the future. The world line is like quantum theory.
——I am the dividing line——
The flying knights continued to dispatch at full capacity. Some of them had to cooperate with Rambo Wan and Gun's army operations, while the other part dispatched from "Qingqiu City" to closely monitor the "real main nest" and the actions of the enemy's main force.
Since the latter two targets are too far away, the flying knights can only go there in shifts, with a window period for surveillance in between.
The team of flying knights, which originally had fifty members, now has only more than thirty members left due to various losses. It is no longer able to meet the increasing demand, especially as the Angel King's army has improved its aerial vision. After great dependence.
Fortunately, "Dongyang City" has succeeded in domesticating bees. Those bees that have lived underground and had close contact with ants since childhood have already regarded ants as companions. Due to similar genes, ants and bees communicate much more smoothly through their antennae than they do with flies.
Now, the first batch of one hundred worker ant flying knights are already being trained, and the original male ant knights are not aware of all this.
——I am the dividing line——
On the fourth day after setting off, that is, on May 3, Gun's army captured the fourth sub-nest as scheduled.
But the next day, the army had to rest for a day.
The fighting that day was not fierce, but the capture was still very small, not enough for the troops to fill their stomachs. In addition, most of the troops did not eat on May 2. If the situation continues tomorrow, most of the ants will be weak due to hunger.
Since no ants were captured in the third sub-nest captured, the male ants staying in the local area had to wait for the assigned ants from the first two sub-nests in order to resume production in the nest and assume the logistics tasks of the army.
The existence of this empty nest also greatly affected the logistics transfer efficiency of the army. Early on May 2nd, a messenger was sent to urge the food transportation team to set off to follow. However, this transportation team departed from the second deputy nest. On the one hand, they were trapped in the complicated terrain of the swirling flower sea, and on the other hand, they lacked a replacement team at the third sub-nest, so they had to stop and rest for a while.
In short, on May 3, the army failed to receive food supplies.
In order to recuperate his strength, wait for food, and avoid fighting hungry, Gun had to stay for one day.
According to estimates, they only have five days left, and there are two secondary nests in front of them, as well as the final goal - the "real main nest".
——I am the dividing line——
On May 5, the Angel King's Legion set out again to attack the fifth target sub-nest at noon.
Judging from the fact that the enemy's nest had been well prepared and had assembled two to three thousand troops for field battles, it was obvious that the enemy had already learned about the attack by the God's Envoy King's army. Sure enough, some enemy troops were defeated and escaped from the Battle of the Sea of Flowers. Report the news.
This is also expected by the God Envoy King Legion. The protagonist has communicated with Gun through the Flying Knight about this extremely possible situation, and Gun is also mentally prepared.
It was a wrong decision for the Ant Queen's inheritance faction army to engage in a field battle with the Angel King's army, which would only lead to their defeat faster.
In the afternoon, the Divine Envoy King's army completely eliminated the enemy and occupied the lair. The Divine Envoy King's army did not capture a single ant in this sub-nest, nor did they seize any stored food. This was more troublesome than the enemy knowing the news.
Without captive ants, ants must be deployed from the rear to station, which will also affect the logistics transfer effect. After all, each sub-nest is responsible for transporting materials for this section of the nest's territory. The method of handover with the front and rear is the most efficient.
The inability to seize enough military rations forced the army to rely on supplies from the rear, which placed extremely high requirements on the transportation efficiency of the secondary nests along the way.
The two influence each other, and now the result of this influence is that it will slow down the forward speed of the rolling army.
The protagonist has transported the second batch of military rations from "Dongyang City" to "Sitong City", but there is still a small half of the first batch of supplies in "Sitong City" that has not been shipped out, and most of the other supplies are piled up in the first batch. The first and second sub-nests were captured, and currently only a small part of the rations directly transported to the army.
