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——I am the dividing line——
Shipbuilding is difficult to say and easy to say to the current Divine Envoy King Army.
It's difficult because, after all, ants are too small. If they want to use wood splicing to make boats with advanced and mature technology that can be used for a long time like humans do, it is still difficult to master the processing technology.
It's easy to say, but also because of the size of ants, they can completely abandon the form of human boats. A piece of rotten wood, a bamboo tube, or a hollow walnut can all be used as ants' boats.
Coupled with the large number of bronzes currently equipped by the Divine Envoy King's Legion, it is completely possible to make some simple processing improvements. Anyway, things that can float on the water are not all ships in the original sense.
However, it is not enough to have a boat that can float. A qualified boat that meets the needs must have power and steering capabilities that can allow the boat to sail to the destination according to the driver's wishes. Otherwise, this is not a ship, but a platform drifting with the current.
How can we drive the ship to move as desired against the headwind and current?
Before the invention of the steam engine, humans could only use wind and their own power to drive ships.
Wind power is undoubtedly various types of sails. The sailing technology gradually advanced by mankind has become increasingly complex and sophisticated. It has been used long after the steam age, showing extremely strong vitality.
However, sail technology is not as simple as it seems. It was not until much later that humans were able to skillfully utilize side winds and counter winds. For a long time, sails were only deployed when the wind was downwind. As for the design of the Chinese-style sail suit that can take advantage of the eight-sided wind, it is simply a black technology for the protagonist.
The ants also face the problem of overcoming the headwind. The protagonist has no research on sails. He knows that there are square sails and triangle sails, but he is also confused about how to sail with the wind.
But this does not prevent future ships from being equipped with simple sails, which will at least be useful when there is a tailwind.
In addition to wind power, what humans use most is human power to drive ships. Whether it is an oar, a scull, or a bamboo pole used to punctuate a boat, human power is doing the work.
However, given the size of the ants, it is doubtful whether they can use such tools. First of all, forget about pennies. Even in very shallow streams, ants do not have the ability to use long pennies that reach the bottom of the water. The oars and oars can be made, but the protagonist is not confident at all whether the size and strength of the ants are enough to drive the ship against the current and wind.
Although there are many difficulties, the protagonist also firmly believes that there are always more solutions than difficulties. He simply mobilized a group of scientific research team members from [Dongyang City], with Xiao Secretary II as the team leader, to build a small base on the shore of the Great Lake, specifically Engage in research and development.
The protagonist often stays here before winter to give instructions on shipbuilding work.
Before winter, there was still some progress in shipbuilding work. After experiments, the protagonist finally rejected the plan to build wooden boats and canoes.
The engineering volume and processing difficulty of both are too great, and they are not in line with the current low productivity level of the Divine Envoy King's Army.
Simple boats like bamboo rafts have also been abandoned. Such rafts are too easy to get wet, and a little water droplet may be fatal to the ant passengers on them, and it is not conducive to the transportation of supplies. What's even more fatal is that this kind of bamboo and wooden valves cannot protect passengers in rainy days and strong winds and waves. No one can predict the weather, and they don't want the ship to turn into a coffin for water burial.
The protagonist eventually develops an increasingly positive opinion of the plan to use natural walnuts to build a boat. Although a successful walnut boat has not yet been built, the scientific research team has been working hard.
——I am the dividing line——
As winter comes, the protagonist does not return to the main nest [Qingqiu City] to spend the winter, but comes to [Linshui City] where he has spent two winters.
In this year, the "world situation" on the north bank of the river has also changed dramatically, and [Linshui City] may even become the frontline again, forcing the protagonist to move here to show his attention.
After the spring of last year, the overlord Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom on the north bank of the river encountered a large-scale invasion by a mysterious ant. It has been resisting with difficulty, and was once attacked near the main nest.
In the end, despite the resistance of the whole country, the ant-domestic and powerful Pavilion Ant Barbarian Kingdom successfully defended its base camp by relying on its huge and solid main nest.
However, this war also greatly depleted the national power of the Pavilion Ant Barbarian Kingdom. Although the mysterious ants have temporarily retreated, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom has been unable to regain its lost territory and can only give up the invaded territory adjacent to the mountains in the northern part of the Barbarian Kingdom.
The remnants of the Big Head Ant Kingdom's old King's Conference faction, the Northern Expeditionary Army, also took advantage of this opportunity and by chance captured a large area of poorly defended territory in the south of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom. After suffering heavy losses and being unable to attack, they began to recuperate.
If the situation on the north bank of the river only develops to this situation, then the protagonist is optimistic about the outcome. Several opponents will consume each other, and the most powerful opponent will continue to lose blood when encountering siege. This will be extremely beneficial to the protagonist's ambition to rule the north bank of the river in the future. of.
However, the existence of a variable forces the protagonist to carefully consider the negative consequences if the north bank of the river is quickly controlled by an enemy more powerful than the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom.
This variable is the mystery ant.
Although due to numerical disadvantage, the Mysterious Ants were repelled by the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army with heavy casualties. However, these ants who came from nowhere did not stop their military expansion.
After a short rest on the occupied land in the north of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom, these ants launched another invasion. This time, their target was not the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom, but some indigenous ant tribes in the dense forest outside the eastern border of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom, including black-headed sour ants and Japanese black brown ants.
These two kinds of indigenous ants may be able to rely on their small-scale colonies and flexible tactics to defeat the barbarian army of pavement ants who are always moving forward.
But in the face of the mysterious ants that are huge and fearless of death, each tribe of indigenous black-headed sour ants and Japanese black-brown ants can only be wiped out in despair.
The mysterious ants are expanding very fast. As the end of autumn approaches, their frontline has almost reached the bank of the river. From the north and east, they formed a semi-encirclement situation on the Pandao Ant Barbarian Kingdom.
This arouses the protagonist's vigilance. Because, the power of the mysterious ants is about to come into contact with the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom and their own side.
What's even worse is that this mysterious ant seems to have no idea of peaceful coexistence or mutual checks with other ants. They constantly attack every ant race they take care of, and seem to be born to destroy other ants.
What makes the protagonist even more vigilant is that these mysterious ants reveal some characteristics that are even more terrifying than parasitic ants.
