Fortunately, Rambotu is not the kind of unlearned and unscrupulous male ant that filled the old king's meeting in "Qingqiu City". He has followed the protagonist and participated in many affairs, including the construction of nests and fortresses. He knows "Ant concrete" takes time to set.
The solidification degree of concrete in the human world mainly depends on the solidification speed of the cement in it. The setting time of cement is divided into initial setting and final setting. The time required from adding water to when the cement slurry begins to lose its plasticity and fluidity is called the initial setting time. The time required from the time water is added until the cement slurry completely loses its plasticity and begins to have a certain structural strength is called the final setting time. Generally speaking, the initial setting time of qualified Portland cement shall not be earlier than 45 minutes, and the final setting time shall not be later than 600 minutes.
Although "ant concrete" does not contain real cement, it contains viscous components such as ant glue and ant droppings, which are more similar to 502 glue and have a faster solidification speed. In addition, ants' projects are generally smaller in size and have better oxidation and solidification efficiency.
Generally speaking, "ant concrete" can be completely solidified and functional within two hours, but its solidification degree within one hour is not enough to resist violent damage.
Rambotu immediately issued an order, using smells and friction sounds to notify his nearby troops to step up their attack on the main channel and open the main channel at all costs. He could not let the enemy use "ant concrete" to build a new line of defense to delay time.
Due to the complex environment of the underground battlefield, Rambotu could only notify the troops and reserves around him at first. For the troops far away, he could only count on the messengers to deliver orders in time.
One hour, whether we can completely conquer this sub-nest today depends on this hour.
——I am the dividing line——
While Gun's army was fighting fiercely to conquer the barrier auxiliary nest of the "real main nest" as scheduled, the protagonist was in his main nest "Qingqiu City", thinking about the meaning of the intelligence he had just obtained.
Just today, he received information from flying knights from one place in the south and one in the north.
Let’s not mention the south, let’s talk about the intelligence from the north first.
The Northern Expeditionary Army is branching out in the south of the attack on the Ant Barbarian Kingdom. This is news that the protagonist has learned before.
After "conniving" the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Old King's Conference faction of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom to ravage the south for a long time, facing the situation of being attacked by the branch nest, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom finally assembled a small force to provide support.
Even this small army was inseparable from the Northern Expeditionary Army. After all, the troops of the Northern Expedition were replenished very slowly - when they crossed the river, this army did not carry the queen ant.
At that time, the King's Council considered that it was not safe for the Northern Expeditionary Army to carry the queen ants, and the precious queens might be lost in the winter.
If Darong hadn't taken the "Bridgehead" to join the Northern Expeditionary Army, and if there happened to be a queen ant in the "Bridgehead", this army could only have died little by little as time passed and lacked the supply of new ants.
From this point of view, Darong was the savior of the Northern Expeditionary Army and even the entire Great King's Conference faction, but this savior was quickly sold.
But only one queen ant is not enough to maintain the normal replenishment of an army or a kingdom. Not to mention battles with heavy casualties, daily hunting and gathering will destroy many ants, and the queen needs to continuously lay eggs to maintain the ant colony. balance.
The Northern Expedition Army can only rely on a single queen. Even if this queen gets the most abundant food supply and goes all out to produce new queens, due to the principle of the wedding flight ceremony adhered to by the old king's conference faction, they can only harvest a batch this year. The new queen.
When the number of queen ants is insufficient, the Northern Expeditionary Army's troop replenishment rate will be much slower than that of their opponents, making it impossible to fight a war of attrition.
If it weren't for the fact that their opponent, the Paidao Ant Barbarian Kingdom, was involved in a large number of troops and national power for unknown reasons, even if the Northern Expeditionary Army innovated their tactics under the influence of the Divine Envoy King, they would have had no choice but to suffer early.
It had been about half a month before the Northern Expeditionary Army was stationed in the southern part of the Pandao Ant Barbarian Kingdom. The two sides were fighting back and forth, and no one could do anything to the other.
But just when the war was stalemate, the Pavilion Ant Barbarians suddenly withdrew their reinforcements, and the southern branch was subsequently occupied by the exhausted Northern Expeditionary Army.
The Northern Expeditionary Army had already lost more than half of its elite troops and was unable to continue to expand. They moved the king's meeting and the queen ant from the "bridgehead" to the southern branch of the original paving ant barbarian tribe, established their rule here, and served as the core of the territory.
The current Northern Expedition Army already owns the territory of about twenty sub-nests. Although there are not many ant colonies, it only takes one or two years for them to consolidate their rule and restore to a certain extent the former power of the old King's Council faction. Strength and glory.
Anyway, the Northern Expeditionary Army is unable to threaten itself across the river, so it can only "look at the river and sigh." What the protagonist is really curious about and has always wanted to understand is why the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom suddenly "wilted" this year.
You know, before last winter, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army had defeated the existence of the Northern Expeditionary Army. Even if the protagonist fought against this army in winter, it was extremely difficult.
But last winter, the Pavement Ant barbarian army did not regain the lost territory on the north bank of the river, nor did it persist in its decades-long tradition of invading the south. This is extremely abnormal. Now, they have even given up on the southern branch, and the reinforcements have also been withdrawn.
You must know that according to the information provided by King Fuye, the Pandao Ant Barbarian Kingdom has one main nest and four branch nests. Giving up one branch nest basically means giving up the rule of one-fifth of the country.
Something big must have happened in the country of Paidao Yiman.
Therefore, a group of flying knights was ordered by the protagonist to set off north for long-distance reconnaissance after being fully prepared. After paying a lot of losses, this flying knight investigation team finally brought back an important piece of information, which answered the protagonist's long-standing doubts.
An ant force that the protagonist has not come into contact with before is attacking the Ant Barbarian Kingdom, and has already approached the main nest of the Ant Barbarian Kingdom.
These ants are huge, and the hugeness here is not an exaggeration.
Among the big-headed ants, worker ants are generally 3mm in length, soldier ants are 4.5mm in length, and pavement ant worker ants are generally about 3mm in length.
According to the Flying Knight's investigation, the ants that invaded the pavement ant barbarian country are not classified as worker ants or soldier ants like the pavement ants. All worker ants have a body length of more than 10mm, which is even longer than that of big-headed ants and giant-headed ants. The body of the pavement ant's male ant and queen ant.
For comparison, if the worker ants of the big-headed ant race are the size of a small car and the soldier ants of the big-headed ants are an SUV, then the ordinary soldiers of this kind of ants are the size of a bus.
Who is this ant race that suddenly appeared? Why does it seem that the dominant pavement ants on the north bank of the river are almost wiped out!
