For ants, once they are injured or sick, most of the time they can only rely on their own immunity to resist.
Although this immune method gives ants strong resistance, it also means that ants are not sick or injured. Once they become sick and injured, they are very easy to die from injuries or subsequent infections, and there is almost no external force to rely on. Even if it can be recovered, it is easy to leave a disability, which will affect the whole life, and it is also a burden to the ant nest.
Many wounded soldiers in the Divine Envoy King's Army had to retire due to "lack of medical treatment and medicine." The forced retirement of these experienced veterans was also a huge loss of ant force resources. At present, the protagonist usually organizes these veterans into the garrison of the sub-nests in various places to deal with low-intensity military operations, which can be regarded as using some residual heat.
Ants are not helpless against injuries and illnesses. The most primitive treatment method is to lick the injured area and use the antibacterial ingredients in saliva to relieve symptoms. This is also a treatment method that many animals have.
In addition, another sign that the ant community has entered civilization is that the big-headed ants, pavement ants and sickle-hunting ants each have a system of herbal medicine knowledge based on experience. This herbal knowledge is similar to the herbalism of primitive human tribes. However, due to the differences between ants and humans, a lot of knowledge cannot be universal, but some knowledge can be universal.
For example, both humans and pavement ants are known to eat nightshade fruit to treat some inflammations.
What’s interesting is that due to the lack of communication between the Big-headed Ants, Pavement Ants and Scythe Hunter Ant groups, although the herbal medicine developed by each is equally simple and crude, it is different from each other. It was not until the protagonist integrated it into the God Envoy King Army that the protagonist The herbal knowledge of the three families was integrated.
However, this herbal knowledge only uses more than a dozen plants that are well known to ants, and is of no practical help for most diseases. And with such rudimentary herbal knowledge, only the queen ants and male ants could receive treatment before. This kind of herbalism can only be called a medical aid, not medicine.
Perhaps over time, the slowly developing ant civilization will develop medicine based on these primitive and crude herbal medicines, but now it is not very helpful in ensuring the health of ant society.
The discovery of fly eggs, a "universal miracle drug", is of great significance to the entire Divine Envoy King's Army. Although fly eggs are inconvenient to transport and preserve, they are very effective against bacterial diseases or infections that ants are now generally susceptible to. All have excellent curative effects. This is already a "medicine" in a more scientific sense. It is of great significance for maintaining and saving the precious ant resources in the Divine Envoy King's army.
The protagonist then ordered that the fly eggs be classified as high-end food and used as a medicine reserve for the consumption of wounded ants.
Or due to the harsh transportation and storage conditions, currently the Divine Envoy King Legion can only provide patients with fly egg medicine in the main nest "Qingqiu City", and other sub-nests are not able to enjoy this treatment.
But in other words, this also helps the protagonist to control other sub-nests through medicine, especially the male ants and queens with high intelligence. They are more afraid of death. After learning about the efficacy of fly eggs (of course, the protagonist will not tell them It is revealed that these are fly eggs, and the outer skin of the fly eggs given to patients is removed beforehand, and the juice is extracted to keep it secret). Based on the instinct of seeking benefits and avoiding harm, it is difficult to disobey the instructions of the Divine Messenger King who holds the "universal medicine".
Moreover, fly eggs can not only be used as medicine, but also as health care products, which can be taken in advance to prevent germs from invading the body.
However, since the natural antibiotics in fly eggs are not resistant to high temperatures, edible fly eggs cannot be cooked, which makes the protagonist still hesitate. Although he had eaten insect eggs before, he had always cooked them in a clay pot before eating them. They tasted no different from eggs, and he could easily accept them psychologically. But he has to worry about eating raw eggs directly, let alone eating raw fly eggs.
Fortunately, since time travel and rebirth, the protagonist's body has been very healthy and has been free from illness and disaster. He is too lazy to eat food that makes him feel sick.
——I am the dividing line——
A few days after Rambo Wan's great victory, he commanded five legions under his command and completed the siege of the defeated army of the Ant Queen's inheritance faction.
The Angel King's Legion directly drove to the enemy's auxiliary nest, dug a base on the outside, controlled the entrance and exit of the enemy's auxiliary nest, and completed the siege of the enemy. As long as the enemy could not conquer the base of the Angel King's Legion, they could not Get contact and support from the outside world.
Rambowan's temperament was not willing to fight such a long siege, but he also knew that relying on fortified battles would inevitably lead to the loss of a large number of valuable troops.
After the protagonist learned of his record, he was worried that he was too reckless and issued restrictive orders. As a last resort, Rambo Wan had no choice but to use encirclement tactics to deal with the stubborn enemy according to the experience taught by the protagonist.
Even if there was relatively abundant food in the station of the Queen Ant Heritage Faction Army, it would be difficult to sustain the long-term consumption of the tens of thousands of troops that poured in. Through the siege, the protagonist estimates that the enemy will collapse due to lack of food in about a month.
In addition to reducing battle losses, siege tactics also have the effect of encircling points and calling for reinforcements.
The tactic of encirclement and reinforcements has been tried and tested from ancient times to the present. From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, to the Mongolian era, the "world conqueror", to the Liberation War and the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, this tactic has been used frequently and has often achieved miraculous results.
Even if the besieged and the reinforcements know each other's intentions, they often have to step into the trap in order to rescue friendly forces.
It is still difficult for humans to crack this tactic, let alone relatively simple ants.
Soon, the flying knights discovered that the Queen Ant Heritage Faction was mobilizing troops throughout the territory. Batches of reinforcements and supplies were gathering at another sub-nest not far from the encirclement. The enemy was obviously preparing to assemble its second force. Troops prepared to rescue and counterattack.
Judging from the scale, the enemy mobilized extremely hard this time, even to the point of sacrificing food production capacity. According to the information fed back by the flying knight, the protagonist feels that the enemy's final assembled strength can reach one hundred thousand levels.
This is a scale of enemy forces that the Divine Envoy King's Army has never faced before. Even in the heyday of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, with the support of the entire territory on the south bank of the river, such a military scale would not be easily used. This would make it difficult for the country to recover in the short term. of losses.
But the ant queen inheritance faction did just that. Maybe the ant queens lacked management experience and were hard-pressed to face the consequences of doing so. Maybe they felt that this was a fateful national war, and if they failed, there would be nothing.
In short, the Queen Ant Heritage Faction Army began to use all its strength. The protagonist also began to mobilize his troops and prepare to deal with it.
