revenge! revenge! revenge!
However, even if he is filled with thoughts of revenge, the protagonist knows that he cannot act alone.
The enemy's situation is still relatively unclear, and it is obvious that the Legion of God's Envoy King cannot fight alone. Now, the Divine Envoy King's Legion has a total of four legions and two garrison legions. They are also responsible for the defense of four nests or fortresses, and their strength is already stretched thin.
Therefore, the next step will need to wait until the intelligence is further improved and friendly support is ready.
When formulating the winter defense plan and the spring counterattack plan in the fall, the King's Council had already anticipated that the secondary nest might fall, but the protagonist did not expect that the Western King would die from this.
The planned spring counterattack is divided into two parts. One part is to gather troops to recover the fallen sub-nest on the south bank of the river. This is similar in nature to the recapture wars in previous years.
However, the scale of this year's recapture war may be slightly smaller. At least among the three sub-nests attacked by the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army, only one has fallen! It is not yet known whether there are still lost secondary nests, but the absolute number of lost secondary nests is definitely smaller than in previous years.
This shows that the defense plan supported by the protagonist at the king's meeting has worked, and has also reduced the difficulty of this year's reconquest war.
The second part is the focus. The Big-headed Ant Kingdom will organize an expeditionary force to support and consolidate the "bridgehead" through the suspended rope bridge of "Linshui City", and then use it as a base to launch an attack on the homeland of the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom.
This will be the first time that the Big-headed Ant Kingdom extends its sphere of influence and military front to the north bank of the river.
But before that, the protagonist needs to understand the situation of other sub-nests along the river and in the depth areas, determine which sub-nests have been lost, and get in touch with the commanders of the sub-nests that are still holding on.
The protagonist also needs to get in touch with the main nest and "Dongyang City". Most of the reinforcements (whether it is to recover the sub-nest or counterattack Hebei) and supplies must be provided by the main nest, while "Dongyang City" is responsible for combat methods and logistics. The most important logistical support for the Divine Envoy King Legion, which has completely different needs.
At present, the messenger who went to "Dongyang City" has not returned yet. If the messenger goes well, then the messenger will return within a day or two, and support will arrive soon.
On the other hand, the protagonist has not yet sent a courier to the main nest, so he sent a replacement to make the main nest ready for support as soon as possible.
But according to convention, the main nest has to wait until the annual wedding flight ceremony before sending out the army. It will take about a month, and the main nest army cannot be counted on in the short term.
The protagonist sends a messenger, but first tries to gain some support from other aspects, such as command rights, the ant queen, etc.
——I am the dividing line——
The day after sending the messenger to the main nest, the protagonist felt an abnormal change in the climate.
On the first night, the protagonist living deep in "Linshui City" could hear the howling wind. It seemed that the wind was blowing, and it was quite powerful.
The room temperature of the nest begins to drop significantly. As winter has passed, less fuel is put into the combustion chamber and the flame becomes thinner. Since there is no threat from the enemy for the time being, in order to facilitate the activities of the big-headed ants, the protagonist takes out all the stones that originally blocked the entrances and exits.
Therefore, with the lack of flame heating in "Linshui City" and the cold air coming in through many entrances and exits, the temperature of the nest dropped rapidly, making the protagonist feel a long-lost cold.
The protagonist feels cold, and the other ants are not much better. Everyone squeezed towards the center of the nest and leaned against each other to keep warm. It wasn't until the protagonist ordered more fuel to be put in that the cooling trend of the nest was curbed.
When he woke up early the next morning, the protagonist crawled out of the nest shivering, only to find that the sun was shining brightly outside, but the temperature was very low.
The late spring cold is coming.
Late spring cold refers to the weather phenomenon in which the temperature rises quickly in early spring, but the temperature after the beginning of spring is lower than in normal years.
Late spring cold is a common weather phenomenon. Around March in spring, the mainland is changing from winter monsoon to summer monsoon. During this period, there are often intermittent cold air invasions from the northwest. The cold air moves southward and meets the warm and humid air from the south, forming a Persistent low temperature weather.
In the cold weather of late spring, it is sometimes cloudy and rainy, but it is also often sunny during the day, which makes people feel like "the warm wind makes tourists drunk". However, in the morning and evening, it is cold, making people feel "spring cold".
This late spring cold is not a good thing for ants, and it is even terrible for most insects and plants that have sprouted.
For plants, late spring cold is a very serious meteorological disaster, which will cause continuous freezing damage to vegetation in large areas. Late spring cold often causes seed rot in some plants, and can also affect plant emergence and growth.
Fortunately, this late spring cold occurred relatively early and did not have a particularly great impact on plants. If it occurs after the "Spring Equinox", especially after the Qingming Festival, when the temperature rises significantly, all kinds of plants are full of vitality, and most fruit trees enter the flowering and flowering period, the plants' ability to withstand low temperature and rain is greatly weakened. The late spring cold weather that occurs at this time will cause large areas of rotten seedlings, dead seedlings and low flowering and fruit setting rates. The growth and development of other spring plants will also be seriously affected.
The late spring cold also has a great impact on insects.
Ants also have nests to escape the severe cold, but most insects that have been dormant through the winter or have just hatched in spring are difficult to cope with the sudden cooling.
Since last year was a mild winter, the temperature rose quickly in early spring this year, so many insects started their activities early. When the late spring cold hits, most of the active insects cannot escape the cold air and begin to die in large numbers.
After all, insects are numerous and adaptable, so there will still be many survivors, but the rules of physiological activity of these survivors have also been broken.
Mass die-offs of insects can in turn affect plants. Some plants lack insect vectors that transmit pollen, which affects their fruiting and reproduction; other plants without feeders will grow without restriction.
A large number of insects will die, and the growth of some plants will be restricted. The ants will also have a difficult life. The source of food (whether hunting or gathering) will be greatly reduced, and may even affect the ability of the ant colony to survive the winter.
Not just this year, not just two ant nations. This late spring cold and the far-reaching causes behind it are bound to have a great impact on the entire world...
But the protagonist is not aware of these things that are too long ago. He only knows that due to the bad weather, the messenger he sent out does not know whether he can reach his destination smoothly. On the contrary, the reply and support he expects may also be delayed.
This will have a negative impact on this spring's battle plan.
