Although on every front, the forces possessed by the mysterious ants are at a significant disadvantage compared to the barbarian army of pavement ants.
However, the mysterious ant's combat advantage is too strong, and it has always held the initiative on the battlefield. And no matter how much the frontline troops lose, they can continuously replenish them in the rear. The effect in terms of soldier supply is comparable to that of the Paving Ant Barbarians, or even slightly better.
The pavement ant barbarian country must also take care of production in addition to war, otherwise millions of pavement ants will starve. Therefore, the pavement ant barbarian army cannot devote all its strength to the war, and must retain a large number of worker ants to collect food.
Their economy will also lose blood bit by bit as the area swept by the war expands, weakening their war potential.
The mysterious ants with the initiative have no such concerns. The protagonist still does not understand the economic system of this kind of ants. If the other party really feeds on the captured ant corpses, eggs and pupae, then they naturally hope that the scale of the war will be as large as possible. , it is completely possible to feed war with war. This is the advantage of a relatively backward economic system over advanced people at the war level, just like the nomads in the human world have over agricultural peoples during wars.
On the main nest front, the mysterious ants were unstoppable at first. After conquering seven sub-nests in a row, they once again approached the main nest of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom.
On this front, the mysterious ants have invested approximately more than 10,000 troops, and more than 90% of them are large mysterious ants.
The Paving Ant Barbarian Army concentrated hundreds of thousands of main troops to resist in this area. However, even with such a huge numerical advantage, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army was still repeatedly defeated in field battles.
This time, the flying knights got first-hand battlefield information and handed it over to the protagonist in time.
What the protagonist saw was that although the mysterious ants were obviously at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, they dared to give up their two wings regardless and used a sharp formation to directly break through the middle of the paving ant barbarian army.
The oncoming pavement ant barbarian army could not resist such a swift and violent attack. The big mysterious ant could easily tear apart any defense line in front of it with just its small beetle-like body.
Every time, no matter how thick the formation on the front of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army was, it would be torn apart in a short period of time, and the troops on both wings would not even have time to adjust their formation to return reinforcements.
Subsequently, the escort troops of the commander-in-chief at the rear of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army were raided, and the command system was completely disrupted. The armies with no numerical advantage could only fight independently, unable to respond to each other.
The communication link between the mysterious ants is much closer. Sometimes they gather together to break through the formation of the paving ant army that sticks together, and sometimes they divide into small groups and weave around to seize advantageous terrain and divide and surround the enemy.
Overlooking the battle situation from the air, it feels like seeing the Communist army defeating the Chinese army in the Huaihai Battle in the movie "Armageddon".
What makes the protagonist even more curious is that judging from the information package brought back by the flying knight, there is no messenger in the mysterious ant army to communicate back and forth. I really don’t know how these mysterious ants can do everything without the messenger. There is perfect cooperation among the troops.
You must know that even if the King of Divine Envoys army under the protagonist has a large number of messengers, the flying knights will also play the role of messengers, but it is difficult to control each legion with ease, and it is even more difficult to control the tactical actions of each team. .
But the mysterious ants can even divide into small groups of dozens and still achieve perfect tactical coordination.
This may be the advantage that makes the mysterious ants more fearsome to their enemies than their size and individual combat prowess.
The main force of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army suffered heavy losses after several battles. Even with a steady stream of reinforcements, the battle line was still retreating step by step.
Later, the pavement ant barbarian army no longer dared to engage in field battles with the mysterious ants. Instead, they established underground defense lines in front of the main nest and relied on each sub-nest to resist.
Although in narrow underground street fighting, the mysterious ants have more advantages in size and individual combat effectiveness, the pavement ant warriors can exchange the lives of ordinary soldiers for the casualties of the enemy, instead of most troops losing command inexplicably and fighting each other. Fight until defeated.
After the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army changed their tactics, the casualty ratio between the two sides finally narrowed slightly, but it could not change the strategic disadvantage of retreating step by step.
The mysterious ants, while fighting, continued to transport a large number of captured ant corpses, ant eggs and ant pupae to the rear.
The protagonist once ordered the flying knights to follow the mysterious ant army transporting ant corpses, trying to discover the purpose of the other party's need for these corpses and prove whether it is an ant-eating race.
But the transport team of the mysterious ants did not place these trophies in the secondary nest closer to the front line, but went all the way north. The flying knights followed for several days, and the supplies they carried were almost exhausted before they had to return. In the end, they failed to discover the location where the enemy's corpses were stored and the purpose of their use.
In addition to the main nest battlefield, the second most intense battle is the eastern battlefield.
The mysterious ants launched an attack on the eastern border of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom from the northeast to the southwest from the eastern forest area.
There are three thousand mysterious ants on this front, which is roughly equivalent to the original two legions of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.
The troops deployed by the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army to this front include about thirty or forty legions, about fifty to sixty thousand strong.
The Pavement Ant Barbarian Army's strength ratio advantage on this front was not as great as that on the main nest battlefield. From the beginning, they adopted a strategy of relying on the secondary nest to hold on, and their retreat was slower than on the main nest battlefield.
However, a mere three thousand mysterious ants continued to defeat the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army, which had the advantage of the main nest, and the army was almost approaching the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom entrenched in the [Bridgehead].
The Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is still standing still recently, and is also ignorant of the earth-shaking situation on the north bank of the river.
Recently, due to the fierce war in Hebei, the protagonist rarely dispatches flying knights to detect the movements of the Northern Expeditionary Army. It is best for them to stand still, otherwise they will have to disperse the already weak troops of the Pavilion Ant Barbarian Kingdom.
The last two fronts were lackluster. The number of mysterious ants on each line was only a thousand, and the barbarian army of Pavement Ants that faced them was only about ten thousand.
These two routes were not the key attack routes of the mysterious ants. The defensive paving ant barbarian army fought with the enemy without losing much territory.
But this could not cover up the disadvantageous situation of continuous defeats on the two main battlefields. As the war became increasingly unfavorable, the economy of the Pavilion Ant Barbarian Kingdom was gradually affected.
Although it will not affect the food supply in the short term, in the long run, it will be difficult for the Paving Ant Barbarians to have enough food and soldiers to resist for a long time. They urgently need a huge victory to drive away the enemy, just like last year's Like the main nest defense battle.
