In the next three days, the protagonist has been traveling between "Dongyang City" and "Linshui City", making various preparations and instructions for the next defensive operation.
All preparations for "Dongyang City" are being carried out in an orderly manner. Since the person in charge is clear and has practical experience, the protagonist basically does not need to worry too much:
The 1st, 2nd and 4th legions commanded by Gun, Rambofo and Rambotu have completed the work of eliminating the older soldiers, and the retired veterans have other tasks. All the new young soldier ants added to the legion have been put in place, and now the entire legion is composed of young and strong soldier ants.
The newly joined young soldiers are better because they are healthy, flexible and have strong plasticity. However, without systematic training and actual combat training, commanders can only pass tactical information packages to them first, and then continuously strengthen their technical and tactical levels during training. As for actual combat experience, you can only wait until you go to the battlefield and rely on the old to bring in the new to quickly improve.
Rambowan led the Third Legion to continue to guard the "Stump Fortress". They were not selected for the expedition. For this reason, the kings of the Third Legion sent messengers to complain to the protagonist many times, and the protagonist could only try to appease them.
The current situation in the southern hills is relatively calm. I wonder if they feel the threat of winter. The ants are busy searching for food for the winter and have no intention of provoking any more disputes with the Angel King's army. In addition, the protagonist has always strictly prohibited the Third Legion from actively provoking the Scythe Hunter Ants, which also makes it difficult for the Third Legion to find a training target.
But the Third Army could not sit idle. They devoted all their energy to the project of expanding the "Stump Fortress": digging passages deep into the ground and building a winter camp on the ground floor. Because like "Linshui City", this place also faces the problem of a lack of warmth in a nest in a tree.
In addition to building camps, "Stump Fortress" also needs "Dongyang City" to allocate a large amount of food as winter food storage. Fortunately, "Dongyang City" now has a big business, and it is no problem to support "Linshui City" and "Stump Fortress" at the same time.
Lan Bofei and Lan Borui also completed the preparations for the Dongyang City garrison. This legion has little combat pressure, so it is based on the older veterans who were abolished from other legions and merged with the original Lan Bo. The independent "Dongyang City" garrison commanded by Bo Fei was composed of a large number of young soldier ants recruited. Although overall the combat effectiveness is not as strong as the first to third legions due to the large number of new recruits and soldiers who have never been on the battlefield, it is enough to guard the defense base camp.
Lamborghini's main job is still focused on administrative management and education of young male ants. Lamborghini is usually responsible for the daily training of the legion.
In terms of logistics, Lamborghini and the commander of the expedition regiment were jointly responsible. According to estimates, the total amount of food required to meet the army's four-month expedition requires about a certain amount of vegetarian food and a certain amount of dried meat.
The protagonist went to "Linshui City" to inspect the local granary. This year, because there were more troops stationed than in previous years, the main nest did not transfer a large number of the stored grain here. But even so, since there are only a thousand ants living in this sub-nest, it is not optimistic that the food stored in it will supply four or five times the defenders.
The situation of vegetarian food is relatively good. The stored grass seeds, dried mycelium, hay, etc. are barely enough to feed the three legions and the original defenders for three months. They only need to transfer some more supplies from "Dongyang City".
It is worth mentioning that "Linshui City" has a vegetarian food that is rare elsewhere - banyan tree fruit.
This is the fruit produced by the big banyan tree where "Linshui City" is located. These fruits mature after June, and the output is huge, and the ants are almost inexhaustible. In addition to being eaten fresh, it is also dried in large quantities and used as food storage.
Not only that, although these fruits have a mediocre taste, they still support a large number of other insects except ants, so "Linshui City" can hunt a large number of prey on the big banyan tree. If you don't consider the inconveniences of defense and wintering, this is indeed a rich treasure land.
However, "Linshui City" did not do a good job in preserving the freshness of meat. Except for the prey that was eaten at that time, the other prey was not completely dried. Therefore, the meat granary always had a rotten smell, which made the protagonist who went in to inspect it feel nauseous.
In the end, the protagonist decided to throw away all the rotten and even moldy meat and transport a large amount of dried meat from "Dongyang City" - although the livestock in the farm had stopped moving and breeding in winter, the amount of meat saved this year was The amount of dried meat that came down was astonishing. Even if all the members of "Dongyang City" only ate meat all winter, there would be enough supply.
However, the time and manpower required to transport these supplies give the protagonist a headache.
"Linshui City" is about two days' walk north of "Dongyang City". The big-headed ants, who lack transportation tools, have always relied on the ant sea tactics of worker ants to transport supplies between different nests.
It takes four days for the transport team to make one round trip, and the protagonist estimates that he has to send thousands of worker ants to make three trips to transport all the materials. Considering that winter is approaching and there is only one month left for the ants to move around freely, time is still very tight.
Moreover, troops must be dispatched to escort along the way to avoid losses from attacks by enemies or fierce insects.
Fortunately, there is a secondary nest of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom between the two cities, where the transport team can stay overnight.
Now the first batch of transportation teams is ready to set off, and the first legion is responsible for escorting this batch of transportation teams to "Linshui City". The First Corps would then remain stationed while the convoys returned alone. Without carrying dried meat on their way back, they would be much less attractive to certain predators—no predators would risk attacking swarms of ants just to eat a few ants.
Among the materials being transported, pottery bombs also took up a lot of space. Since it was too wasteful for each worker ant to carry one pottery bomb, the technical team led by the secretary developed a kind of pottery bomb woven from plant fibers under the guidance of the protagonist. Coarse mesh bag, one mesh bag can hold more than a dozen ceramic bombs, which greatly improves transportation efficiency.
After seeing that the mesh bags worked well, the protagonist suggested that they make some mesh bags with smaller meshes to transport grass seeds and other food.
These mesh bags really play a big role, otherwise the ants would have to make seven or eight trips instead of three trips.
But even so, the protagonist is not satisfied with the efficiency of transportation. At this time, he thinks of the giant dung beetle tamed by parasitic ants. If such a dung beetle is used as a beast of burden, one can be worth hundreds of worker ants. .
Generally speaking, the protagonist is quite satisfied with the preparation work of "Dongyang City", but when he saw the situation of "Linshui City", he was speechless.
