The protagonist is mentally prepared for such a rejection by the police king. After all, although the plan he proposed seems to be a "win-win", the male ants are originally a group of die-hards, and they often consider not interests, but some weird traditions.
"Tradition" is the banner under which the Great King's Council faction can only unite the ant hearts, but in the eyes of the protagonist, it is also the source of their gradual decay.
Agree or reject, facing the protagonist's proposal, the Beizheng Army trapped in [Target A] actually has two options. Even if their choice probability is 50-50, the possibility of rejection is not low.
However, the protagonist still wants to try harder. He sees that the Public Security King and the Senior Brother King have led their subordinates back to the underground lair, and they seem to not want to have much to do with the protagonist.
The protagonist hurriedly asked the messenger to go over and tried to communicate again.
However, the loyal soldiers of the Northern Expedition stopped the protagonist's messenger and prevented her from getting close to the king. They even pushed and bit the messenger with their bodies and jaws, forcing the messenger to abandon the mission and return.
The protagonist sees all this and has nothing to do. Even the Public Security King and Senior Brother King, who used to have a very friendly relationship, now seem to have lost their room for change when their relationship has reached this point. The other party does not even have a chance to communicate more. No more.
The protagonist had no choice but to lead his men angrily and move towards the [Bridgehead], but returned without success.
——I am the dividing line——
On the way back, the Angel King's army moved along the road they came from, and soon arrived at the grassy area, where they discovered that the corpses of both sides left on the battlefield had disappeared.
The protagonist immediately realizes that mysterious ants have visited this battlefield. After all, according to the intelligence previously detected by the flying knights, the mysterious ants have the habit of collecting the corpses of both the enemy and ourselves after the war. Apart from them, no one will be interested in these ant corpses. , it is impossible for scavenging insects to eat so cleanly in a short period of time.
The protagonist guesses that the mysterious ants feed on ant corpses, so the flying knights have never discovered the supply line of the mysterious ants. This can also explain why mysterious ants are aggressive - they need to constantly attack their enemies to get food.
But this is just the protagonist’s guess.
On the battlefield, the corpses of the mysterious ants have disappeared, and there are fewer buried corpses of the Warriors of the Envoy King. Some corpses that were buried very shallowly or were just hastily covered with soil and gravel were dug out and taken away. , only the ones buried deeper are still safe and sound.
Even the corpses on the ground that had not been restrained before disappeared. Most of the guards around the protagonist were shattered to pieces in the explosion and had no time to bury them.
Thinking that the remains of these loyal and brave subordinates would be eaten by those evil mysterious ants, the protagonist became angry for no reason.
The protagonist did not ask his subordinates to clean the battlefield anymore. There was nothing to clean up. The battlefield cleaned by the mysterious ants was extremely clean, and no corpses could be seen. The protagonist was worried that the enemy would suddenly appear, so he expanded the scouts' warning network a lot, and then returned all the way to the [Bridgehead].
The journey was uneventful, and the Angel King's army returned to [Bridgehead].
Later, the protagonist left Rambotu's 4th Army and Rambofo II's 13th Army to temporarily station here, while Ramboser's 6th Army crossed the river to [Linshui City] to replenish troops and train as soon as possible. Restore combat effectiveness.
——I am the dividing line——
The protagonist did not return to [Linshui City], he still stayed in [Bridgehead] and continued to preside over the expansion of the fortress here.
Half of the legions left here by Rambofer II worked all night, and most of the [bridgehead] defense facilities have been completed.
However, after a battle with the mysterious ants, the protagonist felt that he had to increase his estimate of the enemy's combat effectiveness. The current defense facilities did not seem to be sufficient.
For example, the protective net can effectively isolate the attacks of larger parasitic beasts. However, although the mysterious ants are much larger than ordinary big-headed ants and pavement ants, they are not that big. They can easily get into the protective net. In the holes, the protective net has no effect at all.
The previous plan to install a protective net at the [Bridgehead] was only to protect against fierce insects, not mysterious ants. But after seeing the fierce fighting power of the mysterious ants, the protagonist felt that a protective net as a peripheral defense line was very needed to reduce the pressure on the defenders.
Fortunately, there are a large amount of supplies in [Linshui City]. After the protagonist popularized the weaving craft, practical tools such as ropes were widely used in the territory. Each nest has a certain reserve. Ropes in strategic locations like [Linshui City] There is a lot of stock, with various specifications.
The protagonist is going to deliver some thin but strong ropes with high hemp content the next day, and encrypt them on the basis of the existing protective net to ensure that the mysterious ants cannot get in directly.
During the protagonist's swamp strategy, [Dongyang City] has been working overtime to make ballistae. As the craftsmen under the scientific research team become more and more skilled, the output of ballistae has increased greatly. Currently, there are four in the warehouse. A ballista is available.
The protagonist originally planned to place these four ballistas in [Linshui City]. The big banyan trees could be used to build four condescending forts.
But now [Bridgehead] is the key place to face the threat of mysterious ants. As long as [Bridgehead] is not lost, [Linshui City] will not be in danger.
The protagonist plans to transfer two ballistae to the [Bridgehead], but these ballistae are only useful in autumn. Once winter comes, the ballistae can only be dismantled and hidden in the lair.
Mysterious ants can fight in the wild in winter. Although like pavement ants, these mysterious ants can only move for a short time on sunny winter days, they already have enough advantages.
Once faced with a siege in winter, no matter whether it is protective nets, ballistae, or ant mounds and walls on the ground, they will be useless. The only thing we can rely on is underground fortifications.
The Angel King Legion has some experience in building underground fortifications before. They will build a preset battlefield nest to give full play to the power of razor tactics.
However, the tactics of the mysterious ants are extremely simple and direct, using force to overcome skill, using their advantages in size and strength to break through the formation and drag the battle into a melee.
The armies of big-headed ants and pavement ants, which are used to fighting in arrays, are often at a loss when faced with the invincible array tactics of other ants and fall into a passive position when facing mysterious ants.
The existing underground fortifications in various nests within the territory of the Divine Envoy King's Legion are unable to contain this tactic of the mysterious ants. Even because of the huge advantage of the mysterious ants in individual combat effectiveness, the disadvantages of the defenders in underground street battles are more obvious than in ground battles.
Although the Angel King's Legion has not yet fought a street battle with the mysterious ants, the protagonist has already seen the danger.
Now we can only find ways to restrain the enemy on the underground fortifications.
