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I am the dividing line
After the success of the fire bomb sling experiment, the protagonist quickly established production workshops in [Qingqiu City] and [Dongyang City].
The preparation of this kind of weapon is not as complicated as a ballista, nor does it require blast furnaces and other equipment like copper smelting. As long as there is a site and raw materials, ordinary worker ants can do it after a short period of training.
The worker ants built new large nest chambers and storage warehouses at a certain distance from each other in remote corners of the two nests, arranged simple tools, and started production.
The mysterious liquid in a mysterious ball can make dozens of fire bombs. On the first day of operation, the two places produced thousands of fire bombs.
This number is not enough for each legion of warriors, but the inventory of mysterious balls in the entire Divine Envoy King legion is about to bottom out.
In previous operations, Mystic Balls were needed for heating, and Mystic Balls were needed for blasting and opening rivers. Now, Mystic Balls are also needed to produce weapons. Mystic Balls have become as strategic a resource as copper ore.
However, when the method of preparing mysterious liquids from fluorescent bacteria extracts has not yet yielded results, combat seizures are the only source of obtaining mysterious balls and mysterious liquids.
Facing the inventory that is about to be exhausted, and the troops assembled in [Qingqiu City] are basically in place, the protagonist decides to take the initiative and sound the clarion call for counterattack.
Currently, there are as many as 40 legions gathered in [Qingqiu City]. In addition to the old legions like the 1st legion, there are also many new legions that have just been formed after the beginning of spring.
There are as many as 20 legions gathered in [Dongyang City], and there are another 30 legions distributed in various places responsible for defense.
Such a large-scale standing army has never been seen in the history of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom and the Angel King's Army. It took half a month just to assemble it.
After the troops were assembled, a huge amount of food and grass was consumed every day. Although [Qingqiu City] and [Dongyang City] both had food and grass in stock, after a winter of consumption, there was not much left. Coupled with the abnormal weather after the beginning of spring, the harvest of gathering, hunting and foraging was also greatly affected.
At present, farmland in various places has not been sown yet, and farms have just begun to breed the first batch of mealworms, and there is still some time before harvesting.
It can be said that now is the time when the God's Envoy King's army is at its most inaccessible, and logically it is not suitable to send troops.
But the protagonist is determined to eliminate the Destroyers on the south bank of the river as soon as possible and return to a relatively safe state of confrontation across the river. Coupled with the urgent need for the mysterious ball, it prompted the army to gather.
Currently, both [Qingqiu City] and [Dongyang City] rely on food transportation from nearby nests. After the second late spring cold, the ant lanes in the entire territory are filled with an endless stream of ant transport teams. Concentrate all the remaining food in the nests in various places to the two places.
Such transportation also requires a large amount of food and ant hands, and the occupied ant hands will also affect the already meager food income.
The protagonist predicts that this food shortage situation will continue for another month and will not be relieved until the vegetation becomes lush.
But he can't wait that long. The protagonist is now bent on seeking a decisive battle with the Destroyer so that he can regain the lost land. There will be a lot of food seized in the lost land. After all, the Destroyer eats corpses and will not eat the food. At most, it will be wasted. Drop some.
Moreover, the attrition during the battle can also alleviate the food pressure. After the decisive battle is won, there is no need to maintain a large-scale main force, and some troops can return to their original nests to participate in production.
No matter how you look at it, the protagonist feels that launching a large-scale counterattack now is multi-purpose and profitable.
Although the main force of the Destroyer is still missing, and the flying knights have been searching for many days, they have found nothing. The most likely possibility is that this enemy is hiding in an underground lair somewhere to rest, thus evading aerial reconnaissance.
However, the thousands of Destroyers besieging [Sitong City] are firmly pinned there by the defenders and cannot escape. If the protagonist wants to eat this group of enemies first, he can greatly weaken the total strength of the enemy forces on the south bank of the river. .
In order to guard against another elusive Destroyer force, the protagonist left the main force, including the 1st Legion, in order to adapt to changes.
He himself led 21 legions to [Sitong City], including the 41st-60th legions, which were all newly formed troops. The only old legion was Kite's 14th legion, the Sickle Ant Hunting Legion.
In addition, he also ordered Lan Bofei of [Dongyang City] to leave 5 legions to defend the city, while he personally led 15 legions to join them, including the elite 2nd legion.
In this way, after the troops are gathered together, the protagonist will have 36 legions, with a total strength of 90,000. This army was also equipped with thousands of fire bombs and slings, and worked tirelessly to transport the spare parts of ten ballistas from [Dongyang City].
With such a large army and the cooperation of the defenders in [Sitong City], the protagonist is determined to eat up the enemies in the southern theater in one fell swoop.
I am the dividing line
Early on the morning of March 31, large armies set off from two places one after another, aiming directly at the enemy forces in [Sitong City].
The protagonist personally leads the squad of guards, marching in the middle of the team. The hunting ants on the periphery have launched a scouting network, and the flying knights in the air accompany them in turn, providing reconnaissance information at any time.
What a huge army this is. Looking down from the sky, on the small ant road, the army marches in two columns side by side. The army winds up to a hundred meters long. A very fast hunting scythe ant scout , if you want to run from the beginning of the line to the end, you have to spend more than an hour.
Commanding such a large army, the commander's task is also very heavy. Messengers are constantly running from everywhere to convey the latest situation. Some require the protagonist to make prompt decisions, but even if the order is given in time, it often takes dozens of minutes to be sent back. .
Some regiments reported that they found ferocious insects peeping on the roadside and stopped to be on guard. Then the regiment behind reported that the friendly troops in front were not advancing and blocking the road, and they had no choice but to stop.
Some regiments also reported that friendly troops did not advance but were hunting on the roadside. The defendant's regiment also complained that they were too hasty to leave and the soldiers did not have enough to eat, so they caught some prey by the way.
All these things made the protagonist so annoyed that he had to send out the guards to supervise the situation, requiring each legion to keep marching and not to leave the main force.
The biggest trouble was that the forward army discovered that a steep road to [Sitong City] had collapsed, and the army had to stop and wait for the Sickle Ant scouts to find a new road and mark it before starting again.
The journey that originally took more than a day was less than a third of the way by the time it was getting dark.
Because the nearby secondary nest is too small, most of the 50,000-strong army can only dig temporary camps on the spot to rest.
