At the end of the meeting, representatives of all ethnic groups agreed to work together to conquer it as soon as possible to accommodate the expeditionary forces of all ethnic groups.
The protagonist did not comment on this, and in fact he was quite vocal about it. However, seeing that he did not object, the other representatives assumed that they agreed.
Representatives of all ethnic groups returned to their hometowns in great joy, and at the same time, they were surrounded by a coalition of nearly 500,000 soldiers from the civilized ant tribe.
The red fire ant country is very miserable. Only half a year after its restoration, it has lost almost all of its territory again and is trapped in the ancient city. But for the "wisdom elder", he has grown from a neglected male ant to the most powerful elder in the country.
However, this kind of power is dangerous. This time, surrounded by groups, the fire ant army seems unable to even break out and retreat. Seeing that it is about to be destroyed, what is the use of becoming the supreme leader?
But the protagonist also knows that it is not that easy to conquer the last fortress of the red fire ant country.
The frontline battle reports for the past two days were sent by the Flying Knight, and the protagonist read them all. The enemy resisted very tenaciously and refused to give an inch in the underground street fighting. Moreover, they still seemed to have sufficient troops, and there was no sign of a food crisis.
But the biggest difficulty still lies with the coalition forces, whose morale is not uniform...
Among the coalition forces, the largest number is the leaf-cutter ant army. However, they are mainly new recruits and are not good at underground street fighting. They have failed in many battles.
The surviving 100,000 leafcutter ant army that followed the Angel King's army has now returned to its home country to command. It is the most experienced and elite force in the leafcutter ant country. Not a single soldier of this army went into siege. , but is packing up to return home. The Leafcutter Ant Nation’s intention to preserve its strength is obvious!
The Angel King's legion has the second largest number of troops, but it is also conserving its strength! They were very tired from the previous battles, and the protagonist was already preparing to withdraw half of the army to rest, and the other half of the army did not want to go to the offensive in vain - after all, even if they were defeated, the Ant Alliance would not get any benefits.
As a result, the God Envoy King's Army has been unable to work for days. The most common action every day is to bombard the ant mounds targeted by artillery, blowing up the already honeycomb-shaped ant mounds and making patients with trypophobia even more uncomfortable. The infantry troops are basically just workers!
As for the armies of the Black Fire Ants and other clans, although they can obtain the surrounding land as their territory, so they have a high will to fight, but each clan only has a few hundred or thousands of troops, and they are too weak to influence the situation of the battle.
Under this circumstance, the siege gradually evolved into a protracted war.
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The protagonist returns to a place where he has been away for a long time, still thinking about the war on the front line.
He was the one who instructed the Divine Envoy King's army to do nothing. It was not that he was small or lacked strategic vision. His actions were precisely to prevent the worst case scenario from happening.
From the previously captured Dukes and Marquises of the Pavement Ant Empire, the protagonist has learned that the million-strong army previously sent by the Pavement Ant Empire was just the first batch of troops.
If the other party is willing, they can continue to send a second and third batch of troops of the same size.
This makes the protagonist feel very powerless - he tried his best, relying on a blasting and ambush battle, and an annihilation battle with the help of water attacks, and with the blessing of good luck, he finally defeated a million enemy troops, but he learned that the enemy army He doesn't care about this loss at all, he can still keep fighting!
Nowadays, the only factor that limits the Pavement Ant Empire's one-time investment in strength that the Civilized Ant Alliance can hardly match is logistics! The Pavement Ant Empire Army cannot afford the logistics supply of more than one million troops at once!
But if the battlefield is closer to the homeland of the Pavement Ant Empire, the restrictions they will have will be smaller. The protagonist does not want the next war to take place too close to the north.
But it was impossible for him to convince his allies with such reasons. The top leaders of the leaf cutter ants and other allies were all immersed in the epic reversal. The protagonist's pouring cold water had no effect at all. He gave up after trying it once.
It would be better to deploy troops, let the Allies gain some war experience, and then the United Nations themselves should be prepared for the worst.
The protagonist returns to take charge of the overall situation in order to clean up the mess left by the war while continuing to prepare for the war.
This war caused great damage to the Ant Alliance and really left a big mess.
In this war, the Divine Envoy King's Legion, with a total strength of only more than 100,000, lost nearly one-third of its troops, a quarter of its tanks, half of its flying knights, nearly a hundred artillery pieces, and thousands of artillery pieces. It's not that tragic.
But compared with the economic losses, these losses in troops and materials are relatively easy to make up for.
This war severely damaged the economy of the Ant Alliance.
In terms of food, a large area of land on the north bank of the Qinghe River, the original core territory, was looted by the enemy, many sub-nests were lost, and almost all local industries were destroyed. These losses cannot be compensated by the new territory just captured on the south bank of the Qinghe River.
In particular, the large area of land north of the canal and south of the Black Forest was originally the food production center of the Ant Alliance. It has not yet recovered. The food lost by the Ant Alliance is very considerable and cannot be made up for by war seizures.
Food is the basis of everything. Without food, the protagonist will be unable to replenish the army's battle losses and organize new ant colonies to rebuild the ruins of the war. Especially since winter is coming soon, the Ant Alliance still needs to stockpile a large amount of food necessary for the winter.
Second only to food losses are trade losses.
The Ant United Nations previously earned a large amount of useful resources from trade. But after the war came, on the one hand, the air transport team had to give priority to transporting reinforcements, and the priority of transporting necessary materials for the Ant Alliance was reduced. On the other hand, the Ant Alliance must provide a large amount of its original best-selling product, honeydew, in exchange for reinforcements, and lacks the ability to pay.
The superposition of the two factors has resulted in the fact that the Divine Envoy King's legions are now heavily dependent on imported materials, such as coal, refined salt, giant dragonfly eggs, migratory locust eggs, etc., which are almost exhausted.
Another very significant loss is the loss of material production.
For example, being besieged for a long time, hematite can only be mined secretly at night, and the temperature dropped, resulting in a significant reduction in iron ore production. Because we don’t know how long this situation will last, and the iron ore in stock cannot be completely exhausted, as a result, the blast furnaces of China and Japan have suspended ignition.
As a large number of ant forces are invested in war and logistics, there is a shortage of worker ants for some basic raw materials, resulting in a serious decline in the production of fluorescent bacteria, extracts, ant silk, pottery, etc.
In addition, there are various disadvantages.
What the protagonist has to face now is the mess left by this war. He must first restore the national strength of the Ant Alliance to the pre-war level as soon as possible before he can plan how to deal with the second invasion of the Pavement Ant Empire Army!
