The beetle is the only carrying platform with sufficient power that the protagonist can currently find.
Beetles are the only land-based insects domesticated by the Legion of the Angel King. Although flying insects can theoretically carry weapons, the carrying capacity of flying insects is generally low. Whether they are flies or bees, they can only carry a very light load. The flying knight and its equipment are not mentioned yet, but once something like the ballista is installed, the fly and bee mounts will not be able to take off. . .
And beetles, even in the human world, are the most powerful animals in terms of the ratio of the weight of the animal itself to its load-bearing capacity.
In contrast, an elephant can use its incisors and trunk to uproot a tree several meters high, but the weight of the tree is only several times the elephant's weight. A 0.7-ton horse can pull 3.5 tons of cargo on flat ground, and the weight of the cargo is only five times the horse's weight. This has reached the limit of mammals.
In contrast, scientists found that by tying a dragonfly with a string, hanging it in the air, and then letting its claws grasp an object tightly, they found that the dragonfly's seemingly slender and fragile long legs could actually grab an object equivalent to 20 of its own weight. times the weight.
This experiment tests the strength of the insect's limbs. In order to measure the strength of the insect's whole body, scientists also conducted experiments.
For example, the two-pronged rhinoceros beetle nicknamed the "One-horned Fairy" is also one of the large beetles that has been domesticated in the Angel King's army. Some species of bifurcated rhinoceros beetles often search for food in hard soil. To do this, they must first dig long ravines in the soil. The soil is so hard that people have to use a hoe to dig out a gap, but the beetle is effortless in the process of digging, just like a powerful tractor plowing the ground.
Scientists conducted an interesting little experiment to test the limit of the bifurcated rhinoceros beetle's power: they first fixed a lead object weighing 10 times more than the body of the beetle on the beetle's body, and tried to drive it forward. As a result, the golden tortoise shell not only did not feel as heavy as Mount Tai, but instead walked with great ease and ease. The weight of the lead object increased again, 20 times, 30 times, 40 times... until the weight was 100 times the body weight of the beetle, its gait was still very smooth and it still maintained its normal speed. It wasn't until it reached 349 times that the beetle felt overwhelmed.
There is also a beetle called the Bayard fruitworm, which can even carry objects 900 times heavier than itself. It is equivalent to an elephant weighing 1 ton. If it can carry a load 900 times heavier than itself, it can lift 900 tons of things. This is equivalent to the displacement of a World War II destroyer.
The most surprising thing is that the beetle expends less energy when carrying weight than when carrying no weight. This sounds like an unimaginable paradox. After all, the beetle's own weight is much smaller than the weight of the heavy object it carries. Why does it consume less energy to drag such a heavy object than the energy consumed to move itself?
Scientists found the answer in women who walked with weights on their heads. People in most parts of the world carry weight on their shoulders or backs, but women in a few areas such as Africa and India are accustomed to carrying weight on their heads. They carry heavy things on their heads and can still walk as usual, seemingly without any cost. What strength. It turns out that this is because they keep their body's center of gravity at a constant height when walking, so they don't have to expend much effort to move their body's center of gravity. When a person is exercising, due to the unstable center of gravity, a lot of energy is naturally consumed in order to keep the body balanced. This is the case with beetles, which is also an important reason why they are "infinitely powerful".
The platform that the protagonist finally chooses is the two-pronged rhinoceros beetle. Compared with the stag beetle, which has a pair of huge sharp jaws and is very lethal in close combat, the weapon of the bifurcated rhinoceros beetle is a horn as huge as a rhinoceros horn.
However, this horn is good for charging and breaking formations, but it is a bit difficult to really expect it to kill the Destroyer or other ants.
Because the way the bifurcated rhinoceros beetle fights, it is accustomed to reaching under the opponent's body with its horns, and then overturning the opponent, without trying to kill the enemy at all. This is the most common fight between the two-pronged rhinoceros beetles: a "mating" battle. The overturned competitor will leave voluntarily to avoid being injured.
But as a war beast, the lethality of the Rhinoceros beetle is not enough. Unlike the stag beetle, which can easily kill most insects, including the Destroyer, by pinching them in two.
However, the Bifurcated Rhinoceros has a higher load capacity than the stag beetle, and is not suitable for close combat. Instead, it can be used as a long-range weapon platform to achieve division of labor with the stag beetle. This is the reason why the protagonist finally chooses it.
If it weren't for the fact that there are not enough war beasts now, the protagonist would even want to equip the logistics transportation team in the territory with these high-capacity "unicorn fairies"!
With the Beetle as a qualified ballista carrying platform, there is no need to worry about the load-bearing capacity of this platform. It is completely enough to accommodate the existing ballistas and warriors, plus a large number of artillery shells.
But just having negative gravity is not enough. The shortcoming of the beetle as a carrying platform is that its back space is limited. The existing ballistae is too large and requires a small team of ants to operate it (1 commander, 10 in charge) Ant warriors aiming horizontally, 10 ant warriors responsible for vertical aiming, 30 ant warriors responsible for winding and firing), such a lot of things and so many warriors, even the back of the largest bifurcated rhinoceros beetle is not May be accommodated.
Therefore, the protagonist needs to reduce the size of the existing ballistae as much as possible while maintaining the same shooting power, and streamline the number of ant hands operating the ballistae before placing it on the carrying platform on the back of the beetle.
The two-pronged rhinoceros beetle of the Divine Envoy King's Legion is about 50mm long and 30mm wide, which is about the size of an eraser. The carapace on his back is closed, like a tortoise shell, and his wings have degenerated and are no longer able to take off. This is different from the beetles in the human world that the protagonist knows.
But the closed carapace is more suitable for placing weapons. Otherwise, if the beetle flaps its wings and wants to take off, the load on its back and the warriors will suffer!
The protagonist plans to first place a platform on the closed back carapace of the bifurcated rhinoceros beetle, and then place the ballistae and warriors on it.
With the current processing capabilities of the ants, it is difficult to process such a large and complete wooden platform. The protagonist’s plan is to use wooden boards to splice the platform or use a ceramic platform. Both have their own pros and cons. It mainly depends on which one is more suitable for manufacturing. .
Finally, I found that there is a combustion chamber in [Linshui City], which can be easily converted into a pottery kiln. The fired pottery platform is more convenient to make and the effect is better.
