Let me make an announcement first. I am on a business trip today and tomorrow, so I may not be able to guarantee two updates. I will write when I have time!
Why do other people have so many manuscripts, but I don’t have any? I’m jealous, otherwise I wouldn’t have to ask for leave every day!
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——I am the dividing line——
The mysterious ants in the north and the parasitic ants in the south are two types of ants that do not exist in the protagonist's previous knowledge. There are many mysteries to be solved, and they are also considered to be the biggest threats to the Angel King's army in the future.
Fortunately, both have obvious weaknesses.
The territory of the mysterious ants in the north is separated from the territory of the Angel King Legion by a river, so the Angel King Legion does not need to face its threat directly. According to the most pessimistic estimate, the enemy can only cross the ice in winter to threaten the Angel King's army, and can only dispatch small mysterious ants whose combat effectiveness and organization level are equivalent to or even slightly lower than those of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army. Such a threat The degree is greatly reduced.
Although parasitic ants are also expanding rapidly, they are blocked by a large number of indigenous hunter ant tribes. Moreover, parasitic ants are just like ordinary ants in winter and cannot go out to fight. They only need to be careful for three months a year.
In fact, because the parasitic bacteria are fungi, they are more sensitive to changes in temperature than ordinary ants. As soon as autumn arrives, all these parasitic ants disappear, giving the indigenous ant-hunting tribe, which has been tired of fighting, precious time to stock up on food for the winter.
Otherwise, if we continue to consume like this, each of the indigenous ant-hunting tribes that share the burden will be destroyed in the winter due to lack of food, even if they are not destroyed in battle. The more than a month that the parasitic ants hide in advance is the busiest hunting season for the predatory ants.
Not long after the protagonist moved to [Linshui City], a very strong cold wave came here, and the basins on both sides of the river received the first snowflakes. Although the surface of the river was still flowing with inertia, the water surface had shrunk significantly, and the water flow had also tended to flow. Slowly, obvious ice appeared in the river.
The flying knights are no longer able to go out, and the protagonist himself takes advantage of the good weather and sunshine at noon every day to climb to the northernmost branch of the big banyan tree and look to the north. Beside him, the remains of the broken rope bridge were swaying in the cold wind.
The weather was getting colder day after day, and the vegetation quickly withered and lost its color. The ice on the river gradually moved closer from both sides to the middle. The hungriest insects no longer appeared. It was not known whether they were frozen to death or dormant underground.
The protagonist looks north day after day, but never sees the mysterious ant.
They did not attack the river, and they did not know where to cause harm. But the protagonist cannot take it lightly. With the river completely frozen, as long as the enemy occupies a stable starting base on the north bank of the river, they can reach [Linshui City] the next day and launch an attack.
In winter, the protagonist doesn't have much to keep busy. During the boring days of waiting for the enemy, he will also think about the next development direction of the Divine Envoy King's army.
The protagonist's goal is to unify both sides of the river, and then head upstream to find the land where the remnants of the big-headed ants once lived. The civilization there is more developed, and the Legion of the God Envoy King can learn more useful technologies.
The protagonist himself has never thought about how the Divine Envoy King's army will develop in the future. Perhaps for a leader, such a lack of foresight is said to be a good leader who can see a hundred years into the future. But the protagonist is just chasing ducks to get on the shelf, and no experience can tell him how to be the leader of a group of ants.
What the protagonist wants from the beginning is to survive, but the cruelty of the ant world far exceeds the darkest historical period of the human world. Here, individuals must rely on the collective, and if the collective fails, the individual will basically die.
It is precisely for self-protection that the protagonist gradually creates an army of divine envoy kings that completely belongs to him and obeys him unconditionally, and defeats his superiors, and finally drives away the old king's conference that is inconsistent with his three views and domineering.
Now, it can be said that the protagonist has completed half of his small goal of unifying both sides of the river - unifying the south bank of the river.
Although the journey of hundreds of miles is half-ninety, at least a solid step has been taken. The Army of the Divine Envoy King has never been as powerful as it is now, controlling 72 sub-nests and hundreds of thousands of ant colonies. It only takes another one or two years. , with the amazing proliferation ability of ants and the popular agricultural technology, the protagonist's territory can support millions of ant colonies.
With the support of a huge ant mouth, the God Envoy King's army can accelerate its expansion. Nothing can stop the protagonist from taking the north bank of the river, not the pavement ants, not the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, not the parasitic ants causing trouble in the rear. Not even those fierce mysterious ants, not at all.
The protagonist used the winter time to formulate a plan for next year. Simply put, this plan is: first eliminate the threat from the rear, and then start the Northern Expedition.
The rear threat refers to the reappearance of parasitic ants. If this enemy cannot be eradicated or at least contained, the Divine Envoy King's army will not be able to concentrate its forces on the northern expedition.
If you want to eliminate or contain the parasitic ants, the protagonist needs to be able to directly attack the parasitic swamp, so he needs to build a fleet as soon as possible after the beginning of spring, which can at least ensure that more than four legions can safely reach their destination at one time.
Once the threat of parasitic ants can be quelled, the Northern Expedition will be put on the agenda before next winter.
The situation on the north bank of the river is now in chaos. The pavement ant barbarian kingdom, the big-headed ant kingdom's Northern Expeditionary Army and the mysterious ants are fighting together. Japanese black brown ants, black-headed sour ants and other indigenous ants are also involved.
This kind of chaos is the most beneficial to the protagonist. All the enemies on the surface and covertly are restraining each other. The protagonist can defeat them one by one and use various means to ensure that no enemy will appear that is powerful enough to gradually suppress other forces.
From the current point of view, the original overlord on the north bank of the river, the Pavilion Ant Barbarian Kingdom, is facing siege from all directions and is already in decline. The Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom has only arrived on the north bank of the river for a short period of time, and its background is too shallow. The only one who has any hope of rising quickly and becoming the biggest obstacle to the Divine Envoy King's legion is the mysterious ant of unknown origin.
But even if the mysterious ants are a barbaric race that "eats ant meat", they can only have more than 100,000 soldiers if all the people are armed. Their feeding habits determine that their numbers cannot increase rapidly, which is their weakness.
The Divine Envoy King's legion, which has a stable rear base, will be able to defeat this enemy sooner or later, even if it is exhausted.
Throughout the winter, [Linshui City] spent the whole winter peacefully, without encountering enemies or suffering any threats of disaster.
In the fourth year after the protagonist came to this world, he came quietly. And 4, in the general concept of the protagonist's world, is not a number that means good things!
