The army advanced towards the main nest.
From "Sitong City" to the main nest "Qingqiu City", you need to pass through four auxiliary nests along the ant path.
These four sub-nests are about the same size as the other sub-nests in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom. Each nest is ruled by one or several male ants, and the ant population ranges from thousands to ten or twenty thousand.
No matter the number of garrison troops or the defensive strength of these secondary nests, they are not enough to stop the advancement of the recharged Divine Envoy King's army.
In addition, last year's Northern Expedition depleted all the elite nests in various places, and this year's spring has just begun, and each nest has not had time to store enough food to restore the ant colony, and the ant colony is insufficient, so the protagonists of these four sub-nests do not pay attention at all.
In fact, these four sub-nests were captured more easily than the protagonist expected.
In the afternoon of the first day, the Angel King's army captured two auxiliary nests and spent the night in the second auxiliary nest. By noon the next day, the Divine Envoy King's army had captured the fourth auxiliary nest and rested here for half a day, preparing to launch a general attack on the main nest the next day.
The battles to attack these four sub-nests were short and not fierce. The one that resisted the most resolutely only required the protagonist to dispatch ten teams of 500 soldiers, and they were crushed like chickens and dogs.
When attacking these nests, most armies were on the sidelines - it was not better to invest more troops in underground street fighting. Too many troops would become bloated and difficult to turn over.
Although the ruling male ants of these attacked sub-nests were aware of the conflict between the main nest king meeting and the Divine Envoy King, they did not expect that this conflict would turn into a civil war in the kingdom that had always been united.
And the legion sent by the main nest to "Sitong City" was completely wiped out, and no troops escaped to warn. These male ants in the secondary nest did not get news from the foraging worker ants until the soldiers of the Angel King's legion came to the border.
Some male ants who sensed something was wrong organized the ants around them to resist, but these were mostly temporary workers and soldiers. Their combat power and organization were inferior to their elite opponents, and they often collapsed at the first touch.
There were two sub-nests that did not even expect to be attacked by "friendly forces". The Angel King's Legion simply sent a small team to capture and execute the male ants, and then took control of the nests.
Now that he has broken up with the king's meeting, the protagonist is even more cruel and cruel to the male ants in other nests. He does not need to slowly take these male ants into his own use, and is worried that these male ants may have other intentions even if they surrender, so he might as well Kill him.
In order to ensure the safety of the back road and maintain communication lines with "Sitong City", "Dongyang City" and other places, the protagonist left a small number of garrisons in the four sub-nest cities.
Three squads of warriors were stationed in each nest, all drawn from Ramboser's Sixth Legion. These nests are small in size, and there are no male ants. As long as there is no large-scale external enemy attack, one hundred and fifty warriors are enough to suppress internal unrest.
——I am the dividing line——
At night, the protagonist, escorted by Hua Mulan, comes outside the lair.
It is only three or four hours away from the main nest "Qingqiu City", and there is a low grassland and shrubs in the middle.
During the day, when the view is good and there is no haze, the protagonist can see the hills of "Qingqiu City".
At night, the moonlight is bright. On a night without light pollution, the moonlight can illuminate the whole world. This dark night is bright, and light and darkness blend together in such a magical way.
The protagonist looked at the full moon above his head and had many thoughts.
Chinese people have been accustomed to using the lunar calendar to measure time since ancient times. The lunar calendar is based on the waxing and waning of the moon.
The lunar calendar uses the moon to orbit the earth once as one month, that is, the synodic month is used as the basis for determining the calendar month, and a year is divided into twelve calendar months.
Now is the time when the moon is at its fullest, and it is the beginning of spring, a week or two after the vegetation begins to sprout and the insects start to hibernate. The protagonist can deduce from this that 42 days ago was the Spring Festival and the first day of the Lunar New Year that Chinese people are used to, and the night 43 days ago was New Year's Eve when thousands of families reunited.
What were you doing 43 days ago? The protagonist no longer remembers it. Anyway, he was trapped underground in "Dongyang City" by the cold winter, spending his time in various trivial matters.
Without a calendar or a clock, the protagonist has almost lost the concept of time and can only roughly determine the seasons based on climate changes and the growth and decline of vegetation.
Until today, with the help of the bright moon and climate, the protagonist was able to determine the date of the lunar calendar.
As for the solar calendar, the protagonist accidentally understands its rules. He only knows that it is a calendar based on the motion period of the earth's revolution around the sun. But the protagonist is most familiar with the Gregorian calendar.
After finally confirming the date, the protagonist no longer wants to live in such confusion. He asked Hua Mulan to get a dry blade of grass cut into a square and a pen dipped in ink, and began to draw a chart of the solar calendar.
The reason why we draw the solar calendar instead of the lunar calendar is because as a modern person, the protagonist is used to the solar calendar with 12 months and 365 days in a year. Knowing how many days each month has, he can easily draw the calendar table.
But if you want him to draw the lunar calendar form, what big and small constructions, what seventeen years and nine leaps, it will give him a headache.
The protagonist's paper and pen are both recent inventions. Although ants can use their brains to record many things, in the winter, the protagonist still feels that the things that need to be recorded cannot just be recorded in the minds of a few ants, but need to be "different". quality backup".
Paper and pen, the most important cultural invention of mankind, come into the protagonist's sight.
Making paper is relatively troublesome, so the protagonist resorts to the next best thing and uses cut grass leaves instead. The broad leaves of some plants can be written on after drying, but they are not as soft as paper and cannot be folded.
The pen is also easy to handle. It is a small wooden stick and allows the worker ants to bite the top with their mandibles until it becomes sponge-like, which can absorb the ink.
The ink uses the carbon powder collected in the combustion chamber, plus some grease, to become ink.
With paper, pen and ink, the protagonist can hold a pen and write decently using the hooked toes on the top of his two forelimbs.
Although the protagonist does not know the correspondence between this year's New Year's Eve and the specific date of the Gregorian calendar, he can roughly determine that New Year's Eve is usually either in late January or mid-to-early February. The difference of a few days does not have much impact on the Gregorian calendar. After all, it is just a tool.
He simply rounded up the numbers and regarded January 31st as New Year's Eve and February 1st as Spring Festival, so today is March 15th.
I saw the protagonist's pen was very quick, and he quickly drew the form on the paper and copied it into two copies. One has 3 years marked on it. This is this year's calendar, indicating that it is the third year since he came to this world. The last two have 4 and 5 years written on them, which are used as calendars for the next two years. The protagonist also thoughtfully added a leap day on the 29th under February of 4 years.
Tomorrow, March 16, 3rd year, will be the day when I become the master of "Qingqiu City" and even the entire Big-headed Ant Kingdom. The protagonist secretly noted this date.
