The construction site of the fortress camp found by the protagonist is a tree stump near the top of the hill.
This was originally supposed to be a giant tree, as thick as three people hugging each other. But now this giant tree no longer has a pavilion-like shade, nor a giant pillar-like trunk that stretches from heaven to earth.
Due to years of insect infestation, the inside of this giant tree has been riddled with holes and can no longer bear its own weight.
On some distant day, perhaps during the cold and howling winter winds, the giant tree broke away from its most vulnerable part near the ground, and then the huge trunk rolled down the steep hillside to the foot of the mountain, leaving an empty space. The next tree stump is still standing stubbornly near the top of the mountain.
The broken stumps may have been taller originally, but after wind and rain erosion, the tops of the stumps are now only about half a meter above the ground on average.
The outer bark of the stump is still intact. After all, borers don't like nutritious bark full of lignin.
But the inside of the tree stump was riddled with holes gnawed by larvae such as beetles and silverfish. These gnawed passages extend in all directions and are similar to ant nests. With a little modification, they can be used as campsites, eliminating the need to dig out underground nests.
However, there are too many insect holes in the broken part of the stump that communicate with the outside world, and most of them need to be closed, leaving only a few pathways.
Moreover, the broken part of the tree stump is not a flat surface, but shows an inclined trend, and there are many burrs sticking out abruptly, pointing towards the sky.
This rugged surface is not conducive to the formation of the Divine Envoy King's army, and it is also not conducive to exerting the maximum power of the razor tactics.
Therefore, if you choose this place as your base, you will also need to fill the uneven areas with mud and stones.
The most difficult thing about establishing a garrison fortress under the noses of parasitic ants is how to allocate troops to build a camp while fighting, and complete the project and put it into use in the shortest possible time.
To build a complete fortress from scratch, according to the protagonist's previous experience in building "Dongyang City" and the two southern fortresses, it would take most of the day.
It would also be a good idea to secretly start work at night while the parasitic ants are asleep. However, the construction speed of the ants will also slow down at night, and the nights are short in summer, so it may take more than one night.
And if the remaining wooden piles here are directly used to build a fortress, then the work of digging underground nests, raising earth embankments, and digging trenches can be omitted.
The ants only need to use "concrete" mixed with ant glue and ant excrement to seal the holes on the top of the tree stump, fill in the gaps and leaks on the surrounding bark foundation, and build a defensive belt similar to an earth embankment platform. The construction is not difficult and the project The quantity is greatly reduced.
So in the end, the protagonist chose this natural tree stump as the location to build a fortress camp.
In addition to using this fortress as a camp for troops to rest, launch attacks, and store supplies, the protagonist also plans to lure parasitic ants to climb long distances to the top of the hills to attack the fortress, consuming the enemy's vitality in a more advantageous defensive battle.
After all, in the defensive battle, the God Envoy King's army had an even greater advantage, and the tall straight tree stumps basically eliminated the threat of thread parasites.
When the parasitic ants consume too much strength in the long-term attack, the protagonist can lead his army to quickly attack the enemy's nest and completely eliminate the threat of the parasitic ants.
In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, the protagonist repeatedly called Gun, Lan Bofei and other kings to hold meetings to study the attack plan, and worked together to perfect the details of the plan.
It is rare for the protagonist to include ordinary kings in the formulation of plans in the ant nest. The battle meetings in the main nest are generally limited to discussions between the kings, and the ordinary kings are only responsible for execution.
However, these kings are not inferior to the big king in intelligence. They have fought many times with the protagonist and have rich combat experience. They still provided a lot of effective suggestions to the protagonist, such as: the distribution of the number of construction teams and security forces, the most appropriate level of training for combat, etc.
After the attack plan was finalized, the protagonist waited patiently for another two weeks, and finally waited until all the newly formed troops reached their training goals.
In the past two weeks, the parasitic ants finally found a new attack route. After bypassing the waterhole, they launched multiple attacks on the southern fortress.
The veterans of the First Legion of the Divine Envoy King who were guarding here still easily crushed their offensive.
The newly trained recruits will also rotate to the southern fortress to accumulate practical experience and adapt to defensive operations in combat with small-scale enemy forces.
The pottery bombs produced in "Dongyang City" were continuously moved to the southern fortress, and a large amount of stored grain was also transported.
Only a small part of these rations and ammunition were consumed by the fortress defenders, and most of them were material preparations for the upcoming attack. For this reason, the underground space of the southern fortress was expanded a lot to be able to barely accommodate this batch of supplies.
According to the protagonist's plan, ammunition and rations need to be supplied for at least half a month, so that the attacking troops can have enough time to continuously consume the enemy's strength.
——I am the dividing line——
Finally, the day came for the attack plan to be implemented.
In the afternoon, while the southern fortress was undergoing routine defensive battles, a troop hidden not far away ignored the parasitic ants attacking friendly forces. Under the guidance of the protagonist in the sky, it bypassed the enemy and headed south. .
This army consists of five hundred soldier ants and is escorted by the second legion of the God Envoy King.
After traveling for about two hours, they stopped midway between the southern fortress and the hills.
Subsequently, this group of worker ants quickly began to dig underground nests, while building earth embankments and digging trenches.
This is a material transfer station that will be responsible for transferring ammunition, military rations and new recruits to the front line.
Once the frontline tree stump fortress is put into use, there will be almost no defense pressure here. Therefore, although the transfer station is also built according to the design of the fortress, its scale is much smaller: there is only about three meters in diameter of open space in the earth embankment, and the earth embankment is only one decimeter. High and the trenches are shallow.
This small-scale project was constructed very quickly and was completed before dark.
Subsequently, the second legion of the Divine Messenger King stayed to garrison, and the remaining worker ants returned to the southern fortress under the escort of ten squads of the legion.
Night fell, but the entire "Dongyang City" and the southern fortress were mobilized.
A large number of worker ants are constantly flowing between the three points of "Dongyang City" - the southern fortress - and the transfer station.
The supplies stored in the southern fortress are transported to the transfer station, while the supplies in "Dongyang City" are continuously transported to the vacant warehouse of the southern fortress.
At the same time, the four legions of the Divine Envoy King also began large-scale mobilization.
The war of revenge is about to begin!
