The third measure is to upgrade the "weapons" of the ant warriors.
Now, whether they are soldier ants or worker ants, big-headed ant warriors can only rely on their own natural weapons-a pair of big jaws to fight.
This pair of large jaws is not only a combat weapon for ants, but also a tool for hunting, farming, and gathering. It is also responsible for assisting in eating. It can be said that it is multi-purpose.
However, when used as weapons, these jaws are not powerful enough.
When facing the enemy ant warriors covered in carapace, the jaws are barely enough. Soldier ant warriors must use their strength to occupy a better attack position. Only when they can attack the enemy's neck or other weak points can they kill the enemy in a short time. Otherwise, the battle will easily fall into a jaw-to-jaw duel. Unless there is the assistance of a companion, it will take a long time to determine the winner in a one-on-one duel.
The reason why the Divine Envoy King's legion appears to be extremely powerful on both sides of the river is because all its soldiers are soldier ants. Within the same length of the front, the soldier ants with advantages in size and strength can more easily attack the enemy's weaknesses and improve the killing efficiency. , which then triggers a chain reaction and forms a frontline breakthrough.
The battle between big-headed ant workers and pavement ant workers often relies on numerical superiority and siege, killing the enemy mainly by dismembering them instead of decapitating them, and the killing efficiency will be much lower.
When attacking some insects with hard shells, the shortcoming of the ant's jaws' insufficient attack power will be infinitely magnified. Based on the protagonist's personal experience, no matter whether they encounter mantises, centipedes, or the river crabs that were rampant in "Salt City" last time, the ants cannot effectively break through the defenses. They can only sacrifice a lot in exchange for attacking the enemy's eyes, carapace gaps and other defenses that are slightly weak. Opportunities in weaknesses. Even if you pay a lot of sacrifice, sometimes you can only drive away the opponent, but it is difficult to kill him.
The protagonist never thought how to improve or make up for the natural flaw of ants, and he has become accustomed to it. But when he met with the queen of the giant-headed ant remnant, he saw that the jaws of the queen's guards were reinforced with a piece of sharp gravel, and he suddenly realized that he could still play like this.
A team of worker ants from the scientific research team were escorted to the nest of the remains of the big-headed ants. The protagonist specially asked them to learn beetle domestication techniques as well as other techniques as much as possible, such as textiles and masonry weapons, even if they learn them secretly.
After the scientific research team returned, the protagonist exchanged information packets with each of them and found that the survivors of the big-headed ants were still wary of them and restricted their activities to fixed areas. However, when it comes to technology, the Big-headed Ant survivors seem to have no concept of technical barriers. As long as the worker ants in the scientific research team put forward demands, the Big-headed Ant survivors will try their best to meet them and share relevant information.
Therefore, the technological achievements brought back by the scientific research team are very fruitful, and the protagonist also sees the remnants of an empire that was once countless times more advanced than the Big-headed Ant Kingdom and the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom.
Among the technologies brought back by the workers of the scientific research team is the technology of using gravel to make weapons.
The survivors of the big-headed ants will collect thin pieces of natural gravel and bring it back to their nests, use the fire in their nest to bake the gravel, and then quickly apply cold groundwater on it, causing the gravel pieces to burst into small pieces through rapid thermal expansion and contraction. .
This technical protagonist also knows and has applied it. However, the technology of the giant-headed ant survivors is obviously more advanced. They will control the position and timing of spraying water droplets, and try to break the gravel pieces into suitable sizes as much as possible.
Then, the craftsmen of the Big-headed Ant survivors select suitable stones, usually narrow and sharp gravel pieces. It would be great if they can have natural curvature.
Those who receive weapons are usually soldier ants, and they will line up to be transformed by craftsmen.
Artisan worker ants will prepare a special glue, which is mixed with ant glue and some animal and plant protein materials. It is more sticky than simple ant glue.
Then, the craftsman ants smear the glue on the gravel pieces while it is still wet, and then the soldier ants with their jaws closed will come forward, allowing the craftsman ants to stick the glue-coated gravel pieces to the upper side of their jaws.
The gravel pieces must fit tightly with the mandibles, and the pair of gravel pieces must also be closed when the mandibles are closed, so as to exert maximum power without affecting the soldier ants' feeding.
The combat effectiveness of the big-headed soldier ants that have received the gravel blade weapon has been completely upgraded to a new level. With the well-developed muscles of the soldier ants' heads, they can effortlessly cut into pieces as long as they bite any part of the enemy ants. Two paragraphs.
When facing insects such as grasshoppers and centipedes, they will no longer be helpless against their carapace, but will be able to pierce their defenses. Even for monsters like river crabs, the tough membranes at the joints of their carapace cannot resist the piercing of gravel flakes in their jaws.
After the protagonist learned about the masonry weapons of the Big-headed Ant survivors, he was greatly impressed, and he also intended to improve them.
The current gravel chip weapons completely rely on the shape naturally produced after the gravel is broken. Not only is the output difficult to guarantee, but the gravel chips are not processed. Due to the difference in shape, the practicality of different gravel chips varies greatly.
What the big-headed ant survivors do is to allocate the most suitable shapes to the strongest soldier ant warriors. But this obviously cannot carry out standardized production and cannot satisfy the protagonist's idea of installing tens of thousands of soldiers in six legions.
The protagonist refers to the evolutionary path of human stone tools and hopes to reprocess, such as polishing, these rough prototype stone tools.
The polished stone tools will be sharper, and the trimmed shape will better fit the ant's jaws, and can maintain a nearly uniform shape.
To polish stone tools, it is naturally better to have tools such as grinding wheels, but since the protagonist neither has the technology to process grinding wheels nor can he use wind or water power to drive the grinding wheels, he can only settle for the next best thing.
It happens to be winter now, and there are a large number of worker ants in "Dongyang City" who are doing nothing, staying underground all day long with nowhere to go.
The protagonist organized these tens of thousands of worker ants. Each worker ant was given a few pieces of gravel to be processed and some rough small stones used as sharpening stones, and asked them to be responsible for following the instructions in the information package, bit by bit. Grind these gravel pieces into shape.
Although the efficiency is very low, it has a huge base of worker ants, and there are sufficient stones prepared in the warehouse - after all, gravel is not a rare mineral. The protagonist estimates that before spring, he will be able to collect 20,000 to 30,000 sets of gravel weapons, which will not only be enough to equip the existing troops, but also have room for future expansion.
The first unit equipped with gravel weapons was still the most elite First Legion commanded by Gun.
After the first team was equipped with weapons, the protagonist conducted a drill with these soldier ant warriors!
