I have to say that Lao Wang is very discerning in choosing ant talents.
Back in "Qingqiu City", the successor he chose was the eldest brother. Now the eldest brother has taken over the position of "eldest king" on the land controlled by the Northern Expedition Army on the north bank of the river.
Due to some special reasons, after Darong provided the information, the Northern Expeditionary Army once again learned about the current situation on the south bank of the river. After determining that it would be difficult to cross the river and regain their homeland, the Northern Expeditionary Army had rebuilt the main nest system on the land under actual control, including the Great King's Conference, the Lao Wang, etc.
The eldest brother has begun to fulfill his duties as the oldest king and has performed well. Before taking over as the oldest king, his performance in the army was also remarkable, and he had accumulated merit and was promoted to the king.
The Second Senior Brother, the disciple that the Lao Lao Wang chose for the ant queen inheritance faction he was loyal to in the "real main nest", was also one of the most intelligent ant talents, and the Lao Lao Wang also taught him everything he had.
In order to support the front line, the second senior brother and his troops set off early in the morning and arrived at the target sub-nest in the morning. Then they met with the two local ruling males and obtained the command. Only half a day later, the Divine Envoy King's army arrived at the city.
In the final defense battle of this sub-nest, the second senior brother thought at first that with more than 10,000 soldiers at hand, there would be no problem in holding on.
According to the scouts' inquiries, the number of enemies will not exceed 20,000 (the actual number is just over 10,000), which can be roughly judged from the length of the marching column.
The Lao Wang repeatedly warned not to engage in field battles with the enemy to avoid repeating the mistakes of the previous sub-nest. The second senior brother did not understand at first.
But after the first day of fighting, the second brother discovered that his troops had lost more than 2,000 soldiers in half a day, which was close to one-fifth of his total strength. Only then did we understand Lao Wang’s intentions.
The second senior brother estimated that if the afternoon was consumed at this rate, his army would be exhausted in less than four or five days. Moreover, the battle actually lasted only half a day on the first day. The battles in the following days will last longer and the losses will be greater.
In the evening, the second brother wanted to send a messenger back to the "real main nest" to report the news, but he was shocked to find that the evil angel king's minions had not left, but were digging and building a nest not far from the entrance to the nest.
The scythe-hunting ferocious ant scouts of the Divine Messenger King's Legion were responsible for isolating the traffic of the target's sub-nest. They tried to capture the three messengers who left the nest, but only caught two. The last clever worker ant "swish" He fled back to the underground lair.
Gun learned about the garrison situation in the nest from the captured messenger. He was relatively optimistic. According to the current situation, he was confident that he would capture the sub-nest within three days, and after that, he still had two days. Time to attack the final target - the "real main nest".
The second senior brother was not calm after receiving the report from the escaped messenger. Although he had no previous experience as to why the enemy did not leave at dawn, he once again sent out a large number of scouts and obtained further information at a considerable loss. Finally woke up.
The evil God's King's minions are building a nest next to him.
He also quickly understood that in this way, the evil God Envoy King's minions did not need to spend more than half a day marching between the two auxiliary nests every day, but could devote the entire day to attacking.
This is not good news for the second senior brother who lost nearly one-fifth of his troops in just half a day.
Fortunately, the second senior brother was originally a top student with an active mind, and his master Wang was not a conservative ant who didn't know how to adapt.
When he was in "Qingqiu City", the oldest king had a strong curiosity about the strange practices of the God Envoy King who had a similar status. Although he could not leave the main nest, he learned about the God Envoy King through various channels. There are many novel methods - mainly the tactics used by the protagonist in the first reconquest war.
During the short period of educating the second senior brother, the second senior brother also obtained these information packets recording the behavior of the God Envoy King, and gained some insights.
Facing the menacing evil minions of the Divine Envoy King, the second senior brother felt that he should do something rather than just sit back and wait for death.
——I am the dividing line——
The next day, when the Angel King's army attacked the underground lair, they suddenly discovered that the battlefield had become more "narrow".
This is not an illusion, but the battlefield has indeed become narrower.
Except for the main nest, all nests in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom have only one entrance and one main passage for the purpose of defense. The terrain here is spacious and is the focus of offensive and defensive battles. As long as the main passage can be stably occupied, the Divine Envoy King's army can use razor tactics to continuously kill the enemy here.
But today, the vanguard suddenly discovered that the main passage was blocked by a large amount of "ant concrete", leaving only a small gap roughly equivalent to the width of an ordinary passage.
This is the countermeasure that the Second Senior Brother worked on overnight. This is not actually a measure taken by the Envoy King. In the traditional tactics of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, when faced with extremely powerful enemies, or disasters such as sky fire or floods, there is also a practice of sealing the nest from the inside and waiting for the crisis to pass.
The innovation made by the second senior brother was that he did not simply block the road with dirt and rocks, so that it would not take long for the ants to dig out.
What he chose is a mixture of ant saliva, feces and soil and gravel, which is "ant concrete". After solidifying overnight, these "ant concretes" are very strong. Even if they are not as strong as real concrete, they are still difficult to destroy with the jaws of ants.
Mantis Tiger's 7th Army was responsible for the attack today. The troops on the front line were just immersed in fighting, trying to attack from the narrow main channel, or disperse along the ordinary channel to find new breakthrough points, and did not report the abnormality to the upper level in time.
In fact, the commanders at the grassroots level did not know that there was an abnormality, because apart from the rolling beetle legion, the Angel King's legion usually consisted of four infantry legions taking turns to attack. Mantis Tiger's troops attacked this lair for the first time today. They didn't know that this main passage was unusually "wide" yesterday.
When it was time to withdraw troops in the evening, Lambert noticed that there were far fewer enemy corpses brought to the ground today than yesterday. This was unreasonable, and he noticed the abnormality.
As soon as several legion commanders met and retrieved information packages from the participating troops, they realized something was wrong.
This time Gun was a little dumbfounded. At the end of the day, more than a thousand enemies were wiped out. The "razor tactics" of the God Envoy King's army were constrained by the narrow battlefield, and their power was greatly reduced. This time, he was not confident that he would be able to conquer this place within three days as scheduled.
Lambotu, as the more flexible of the five commanders, proposed that the main channel must be re-expanded in tomorrow's battle!
