Generally speaking, there was not much contact between the Divine Envoy King Legion and the Scythe Hunter Ants before. The former lived on the plains, while the latter lived in the southern hilly areas, and they had not interacted with each other for a long time.
It wasn't until the Angel King's army drove away the parasitic ant forces that they discovered that there were other residents in the newly occupied "Stump Fortress". These scythe-hunting ants were the natives of the hilly areas.
The Scythe Hunting Ants fought against the parasitic ants that were also invading, and then they apparently regarded the Angel King's army as intruders, and the two sides had several small and medium battles.
After realizing that the Angel King's Legion was also not easy to mess with, these scattered indigenous tribes stopped intruding on the "Stump Fortress" and began to avoid the sphere of influence of the Angel King's Legion.
These were all things before last winter. Now that spring has begun, the ants have suddenly broken the balance that was barely maintained between the two sides. Many small tribes have even begun to unite, unite, and gather together, as if they will not tear down the "Stump Fortress". The look of giving up. The thing itself seemed unusual.
After Rambo Wan arrived at the "Stump Fortress", he obviously smelled something unusual and dangerous. He immediately sent a messenger to "Dongyang City" to seek support from Rambo Fei.
His requests for help include: having half of the Fourth Army Corps that stayed in "Dongyang City" for the winter immediately rush back to "Stump Fortress" to assist in the defense, so that the garrison of "Dongyang City" can be ready to respond at any time, and requesting immediate support of a batch of grain. and supplies.
Rambo Fei also realized the seriousness of the situation from this urgent request for help. He had already begun to prepare these supports, but at this time, the protagonist suddenly came back, and everyone immediately found the backbone.
This is the second piece of information, but it gives the protagonist a headache.
After the beginning of spring, apart from a brief period of good weather, bad news follows one after another.
First, the Western Legion's garrison fell, and the Western King was almost certain to be killed, and the elite Western Legion was completely wiped out; then the late spring cold hit, and the entire kingdom fell into depression. There may be famine for the next whole year, and the protagonist's territory is no exception; now , just as they are about to launch force against the pavement ant barbarians, the originally stable "Dongyang City" in the rear area is facing the threat of the sickle-hunting ferocious ant natives. The Angel King's army may be forced to fight on two or even three fronts. The battlefield may include : The "Bridgehead" area on the north bank of the river (Northern Expedition), the lost sub-nest on the south bank of the river (War of Reconquest), and the southern hilly area of "Dongyang City".
There is a high probability of a food failure this year. Under such circumstances, the protagonist cannot expand the army at will like last year. With the existing four legions and two garrison legions of the Divine Envoy King, if you want to defend the existing territory, you have to deal with two and three fronts of operations. Both the troops and supplies are stretched thin.
Nowadays, in the depressed environment, only the breeding farms and farmland in "Dongyang City" can stably provide food. If we want to alleviate the food crisis, expanding the scale of the breeding farms and farmland is a feasible solution.
However, the farm requires ants to collect plant stems and leaves and other feed within the territory, and the activity range of ants in each nest is limited, and there is an upper limit on the feed that can be collected. The same is true for farmland. Not only does it have requirements for soil fertility, but also to facilitate ants' weeding and harvesting, farmland should not be too far away from their nests.
As a result, the scale of the existing breeding farms and farmland in "Dongyang City" is close to the upper limit, and it seems that it is imperative to open a separate base.
Therefore, the protagonist ordered Rambo Fei to prepare a batch of mealworm eggs, fly eggs and grass seeds to be transported to "Linshui City".
"Linshui City" still has space for the construction of breeding farms and farmland, especially the fertile soil and abundant water sources along the river banks, which are very suitable for development into farmland. Once the "Linshui City" has a good harvest, it will be able to provide nearby supplies for conquering Hebei. Now that the protagonist has completely mastered "Linshui City", he can naturally build a lot of construction here.
As for the threats faced by "Stump Fortress", the protagonist cannot take it lightly either. He complies with all of Rambo's requests and allocates one-third of the already insufficient food reserves, allowing Rambo to organize manpower to transport them to "Stump Fortress". ”.
The remaining members of the Fourth Army Corps who were left behind in "Dongyang City" immediately set off to provide support. As a result, there are only garrison regiments left in "Dongyang City" and lack of mobile troops. The protagonist can only authorize Rambo to fly. In case of emergency, he can temporarily recruit each group of worker ants to join the battle - at least until the food crisis is resolved. , the protagonist can no longer expand the size of the nest.
When the protagonist comes back this time, the original plan was to bring a batch of supplies and reinforcements back to "Linshui City" to prepare for the upcoming war of recapture and the Northern Expedition against the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army. Now the plan cannot keep up with the changes. "Dongyang City" It also faces threats and lacks sufficient supplies.
The protagonist can only do the next best thing, bring back some insect eggs and seeds, and first go to "Linshui City" to prepare supplies.
Finally, the protagonist asked Rambo to send the flying knights to "Linshui City" to deliver the message as soon as there was a new situation. In this way, messages between the two places can be transmitted in just a few hours, unlike a walking messenger who has to travel for several days and be delayed by bad weather along the way.
In fact, the flying knights are all kings, so naturally they are not willing to take on such a lowly job as messengers. Previously, the protagonist wanted the flying knights to carry the messengers, but after a few times, the flying knights began to protest how could the lowly worker ants share a fly with them?
This inexplicable sense of superiority makes the protagonist speechless, but he is unable to change this concept of hierarchy engraved in genes. After all, they are the same race. Male ants, soldier ants, and worker ants are very different in appearance, and they exist naturally. Grade differences.
But there are no workarounds. According to the plan figured out by the protagonist, the flying knights do not act as messengers, but help Rambo fly to report important military information to the Lord God Envoy King. In this way, the flying knights who are also members of the King's Council are very happy to participate in such a major military event.
The protagonist himself feels that this approach is a bit like coaxing children, but the flying knights themselves are very different. In their view, as long as they can reflect the superiority of their own class and distinguish themselves from the low-status soldier ants and worker ants, then everything is easy to negotiate.
The protagonist has realized that in the ant world, it is unrealistic to promote the equality of ants and ants to worker ants and soldier ants and launch an affirmative movement. Even the worker ants and soldier ants themselves will not agree.
After arranging these tasks, the protagonist flew back to "Linshui City".
Now, he wants to start organizing people to build farms and delineate farmland. In this way, when the eggs and seeds delivered by "Dongyang City" arrive in a few days, they can be put into production immediately.
As a result, in the next few days, the entire "Linshui City" was a bustling labor scene.
