Lan Bofei led the Second Army of the Divine Envoy King to successfully hold on until the end of the day's battle, and did not allow the staid King's army to break through the second line of defense.
After both sides withdrew, Rambo Fei counted the battle losses and found that nearly 200 soldiers were killed that day and more than 100 were injured. One-eighth of the entire legion's soldiers had been lost.
He had to continue to recruit some retired soldiers in good health and some young soldiers from the "Linshui City" garrison into the army to prepare for subsequent wars.
Later, Lan Bofei and Flying Eagle also asked why the important military information that the Flying Knight General was unable to lead the reinforcements was delayed until noon.
The two flying knights who performed the mission told them everything Ramboser had communicated with the protagonist.
——I am the dividing line——
The clock was set to half a day ago, and his eyes turned to the deputy nest where Ramboser was temporarily guarding.
At this time, not long after the sun had risen, Gun led the first and third legions to the south to recover the sub-nest that had been lost to the enemy's surprise attack.
Two flying knights from "Linshui City" were on standby at the entrance to the lair. They were prepared to take off and rush back as soon as the light conditions were suitable.
Ramboser was ordered to lead the main force of the Sixth Army to garrison this sub-nest that was captured just yesterday to prevent it from being raided and fell.
The legion under his command was not full, and several squads were left as garrisons in the secondary nests that the King of Gods' legions had conquered successively. Excluding the ant-hunting scout squads, only forty-four of the fifty combat squads of the Sixth Legion are currently under preparation.
To be honest, it is far from enough to station a small team of regular troops in a deputy nest, but the protagonist does not have that many troops to dispatch for the time being. He allowed the garrison in various places to expand appropriately according to the ant population of the nest, but there was still only one male ant commander. The more the army was expanded, the more likely it would be that there would be poor command like the old-fashioned King's Army.
Fortunately, most secondary nests have not encountered enemies yet, and the garrison is enough to maintain the safety of the nests. However, with the old-fashioned king's contacts everywhere, the security situation has been deteriorating recently, and the protagonist has to make early plans.
In addition to staying at the lair, Ramboser was also responsible for a detailed inventory of the seized materials.
This batch of supplies was very important to the troops who were rolling. They set out lightly the day before, leaving all the food in the previous auxiliary nest, and then fell together.
Now, Ramboser must count the captured food. If the troops who are retreating need food, he must ensure that enough military food is sent to the front line to prevent the army from running out of food.
In a fierce battle, ants that have been full for three days will be more likely to starve due to the large consumption of energy. Food deprivation is also very dangerous for the ant army. Some ant armies will forage on their own to make up for the shortage of military rations when the fighting is not intense, but this approach is too restrictive and prone to the risk of being raided by the enemy.
Fortunately, the retreating troops don't have to worry about it for the time being. The captured food is still enough for a week.
Although Ramboser belongs to a relatively mediocre type of male ants under the protagonist, as adult male ants from the same batch as the protagonist, they are naturally closer to the protagonist and are trusted by the protagonist, so they were promoted to the Legion Commander. Position, joined the protagonist's newly established King's Council.
One of his strengths is that he is careful. After his subordinates reported that they had finished counting the supplies, he still went to each warehouse to check them.
The problem was immediately identified. In a warehouse filled with dried fungi, he saw a familiar figure that had brought many nightmares.
Some dried parasites! ! !
Naturally, Ramboser would never forget those weird parasitic fungi and the pitiful and terrifying parasitic ants in the southern hilly area. That fierce battle also knew that the remnants of the parasitic ants had escaped through the waterways.
Now that a batch of dried parasitic mycelium appears in front of me, what does it mean?
The soldier ants who had previously counted the food inventory did not find anything special about these dried mycelium, because the parasitic fungus has the ability to confuse the ants, making them ignore the existence of the parasitic fungus, unless there is a special instruction asking them to pay attention to this fungus. kind. Only male ants with higher intelligence can consciously avoid such interference with vigilance.
Ramboser hurriedly found the Flying Knights and asked them to report this important information to the protagonist immediately.
After the Flying Knight took the order and left, Lamboser still had a lot of follow-up work to be busy with.
He hurriedly summoned the male ants of the legion and checked all the ants in the entire nest, and sure enough he found an infected worker ant.
On the back of this worker ant, hyphae of parasitic fungi have begun to emerge from the gaps in the carapace. Although they have not grown maturely, they are still terrifying.
Ramboser ordered the worker ant to be killed without hesitation.
Generally speaking, just killing the poor ant is not enough to kill the parasitic bacteria. The mature parasitic bacteria will actively break away from the dead host, have certain mobility, and can actively find new hosts. However, the parasitic hyphae on this worker ant were not yet mature. After her death, the hyphae were carefully pulled out and exposed to the sun, where they quickly dried out due to lack of nutrients and moisture.
Ramboser asked his subordinates to cut all the dried mycelium into small pieces and bury them together. The tenacity of this parasitic fungus also left a deep impression on the male ants at first. Even if it is dried in the sun, it can be resurrected with full health as soon as there is moisture. It can only die if it is burned or completely chopped into pieces.
The infected worker ants were the aborigines of this nest. Because he was worried that there were still infected people among the aborigines, he separated the warriors from the original ants in the nest and accepted inspections every day.
Ramboser is also thinking about the source of these parasitic fungi. Obviously there is an infection source somewhere in the territory of this nest, which will infect the foraging worker ants. The unlucky worker ants may have collected the mycelium as food and dried it in the sun. Inadvertently infected.
In the next few days, Ramboser found several more infected ants from the natives of the nest and killed them all, without causing the rapid spread of the infected. This is something.
At that time, the protagonist who was far away in the main nest was shocked after receiving the urgent report from the Flying Knight. He read the information package in detail, and the Flying Knight kept waiting until the protagonist read another information package about Rambo's combat plan. , realized something was wrong and asked the flying knights to return quickly.
Even though he is a little worried about the disconnect between Rambo Fly's battle plan and Gun's actions, most of the protagonist's attention has turned to the parasitic bacteria.
What does the re-emergence of parasitic bacteria mean? Is it an independent incident or is it related to the batch of parasitic ants that escaped? What impact will it have on the already extremely complicated civil war situation in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom?
