The country of Pavilion Ant Man has a long tradition of all the people serving as soldiers.
Every time there is a war, every pavement ant can immediately transform into a warrior. The male ants serve as commanders, the worker ants serve as ordinary soldiers, and the queen ant is the reproductive person who provides a steady stream of supplements to the front line. In each nest, the entire race operates like a war machine of which all the ants are parts.
Sometimes, even an entire nest located in a war zone will be reorganized into a war machine. For this reason, the daily work of foraging lights is even interrupted, and the food supply completely relies on food reserves and transportation from nests outside the war zone.
This is different from the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, which is also famous for its "all citizens are soldiers". The Big-headed Ant Kingdom always tends to use relatively elite warriors to form legions, while the rest of the ants continue to be responsible for production. It will not produce food and food unless it is absolutely necessary. The worker ants who maintain the nest are also organized into fighting teams.
North and south of the river, these two races with similar but different styles respectively rose to become local overlords, which also proved the power of their respective military systems.
The other races on both sides of the river in the basin are either too small in size and lack potential like the scythe ants, or they lack stable strongholds and territories like the black-headed ants, or they are unable to fight with all the people like the Japanese black ants. In order to arm the entire race, they were eventually marginalized.
At this moment, the series of war preparation measures implemented by Suzaku in [Purple Leaf Licheng] are all mature practices that have paved the way for the Ant Barbarian Kingdom for thousands of years. These practices have also helped this country survive countless crises.
Under the command and operation of Suzaku, all the ants in [Purple Leaf Licheng] were organized into 11 legions, of which only 4 legions were commanded by male ants.
The six sub-nests near [Purple Leaf Li City] also organized all the ant colonies into 29 legions, of which 7 legions were commanded by male ants.
Those legions without the command of male ants are complete cannon fodder. It is difficult for the commander to issue precise instructions to them on the battlefield, but as long as the order is given, these legions without a commander will fight the enemy to the death with their flesh and blood. Fulfill the duty of cannon fodder.
The 11 legions commanded by the male ants are the core force for Suzaku to establish a defense line. These legions were concentrated in [Purple Leaf Licheng] for training. In addition to conventional tactics, Suzaku also learned from his teachers when fighting in the south. Tactics for dealing with big-headed ants are also taught. Maybe these tactics will also be useful against those nasty intruders.
The 29 commanderless legions did not conduct frequent training. Apart from occasional formations and a small amount of training, the ants of these legions still shouldered a large number of chores, including foraging and transporting large amounts of food to [Purple Leaf Licheng].
In Suzaku's defense plan, the seven peripheral auxiliary nests can be abandoned to disperse the enemy's forces and delay the enemy's attack. Only the largest [Purple Leaf Licheng] cannot be given up. This will be the last fortress that must be defended.
The reason why [Purple Leaf Licheng] was chosen as the defense core was not because the terrain here was easy to defend and difficult to attack. In fact, [Purple Leaf Licheng] was located on a plain and was almost undefeable.
However, based on the experience of pavement ants fighting mysterious ant invaders, it is difficult for a nest on a steep terrain to bring much advantage to the defenders, whether it is a nest on a slope or a nest in a pile of rocks. No lair, or lair in the bushes, can stop the enemy.
Based on this experience, Suzaku would rather choose a larger nest as a base, at least it can accommodate more troops and store more food.
Those legions without commanders are stepping up their efforts to repair the defenses of [Purple Leaf Licheng]. A large number of entrances and exits to the nest that were dug for the convenience of entry and exit were filled in, and the base of the nest was expanded to accommodate more troops and the increasing amount of food every day.
The queen ants from nearby nests were also welcomed into [Purple Leaf Licheng]. Here, the queens lost their original separate bedrooms, and several queens were concentrated in one nest room.
The queen ants have no complaints. This is wartime, and their duty is to keep giving birth and lay eggs to provide a steady stream of supplements to the frontline troops. The high fertility rate, all-in-one soldiers, and the ability to fight in winter are the characteristics of the pavement ants. Three trump cards.
Since the other seven secondary nests can eventually be abandoned, Suzaku has no reason to leave the local queen there to die. The queen ant will be a key factor in the long-term persistence of the Suzaku plan.
With Suzaku's own intelligence level, it is actually difficult to arrange this series of defense plans in an orderly manner, even though he is the best disciple of his master and a rare wise man among the male ants. However, the brain capacity of ants determines that their individual intelligence is not high.
But fortunately, behind Suzaku is the male ant class of the entire Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom. The unique group intelligence of ants is that a group of relatively smart male ants gather together to communicate and communicate, which can greatly improve the overall intelligence level. This is A form of collective thinking.
Suzaku's war preparation measures are the successful experiences summed up by generations of male ants in wars. It is also a plan optimized by the male ants in the entire main nest based on this crisis. He and his 10 male ants can also take action at any time according to the situation. Adjustment changes.
In Suzaku's view, he had done all the preparations he could do, but his confidence in completing the mission was not firm.
Because the enemy this time is too powerful.
Suzaku once led an elite army under his command to fight against this enemy, leaving an indelible impression.
That was last year. Suzaku, with his long-trained legion, was transferred from the south to the north of the kingdom to participate in the battle against the humpback ants in the mountainous area.
The Campoback Ant clan is the old enemy of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom. They live in the barren mountainous areas outside the northern border of the kingdom, but they often invade plain areas to plunder.
This is very similar to the hunting ants in the southern territory of the big-headed ant kingdom, but the ants do not have the restraining power of parasitic bacteria, and the size of a single tribe is larger, and can reach thousands of ant colonies.
This makes them a greater threat to the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom than the Scythe Hunting Ants to the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.
Because the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom cannot obtain enough supplies to establish a base in the barren rocky mountainous area, it is difficult for the Campoback Ant tribe to be completely exterminated and has been threatening the north of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom for hundreds of years. Just like China's Central Plains regime, historically it was difficult to control the northern grasslands for a long time, and thus it was constantly invaded.
As a countermeasure, every spring, the pavement ant barbarian kingdom organizes troops to station in the north to resist the ants that have been hungry for a winter and come down the mountain to plunder. Then they will launch a counterattack in the autumn, trying to eliminate as many Trichodon ant tribes as possible to reduce the defense pressure in the coming year.
Suzaku and his army were transferred to the north last spring.
