The legions in the main nest [Qingqiu City] have already been reorganized and have been training.
The equipment rate of these troops such as copper weapons is also very high. After the beginning of spring, the weapons and equipment built in [Dongyang City] are continuously transported here, and a large number of fire bombs and slings are also produced locally.
It can be said that this army will be ready to go to war almost immediately.
But the only and most fatal limitation is that even in the main nest [Qingqiu City], the current food reserves are not enough to support an attack by 20 legions of 50,000 warriors.
The successive wars since the beginning of spring have completely consumed last year's grain reserves. This year's farmland and livestock farms have not yet ushered in the first batch of harvests, and now is the most lean time.
Not only the main nest [Qingqiu City], but also almost all the nests in the entire territory of the Divine Envoy King's Legion are out of food. The only exception may be [Dongyang City], which is the protagonist's earliest base, has the largest breeding farms and farmland, and is slightly richer in food storage.
However, there is not much food stored in [Dongyang City], and some need to be transported to [Xuanhua Flower City] to supply Lan Bofei's army. [Dongyang City]'s transportation force has to bear the supply of Rambo Fei's army and the transportation of weapons to the main nest. It is no longer enough to transport food to the main nest, otherwise production will be affected.
Moreover, even if the food is transported, it will take several days. Water from far away cannot quench the thirst nearby, and the protagonist cannot wait any longer.
The protagonist can only be cruel and let the main nest and nearby nests kill some of the mealworms that have not grown up yet, so that the army can have a full meal, and then make some dried meat to carry as dry food to support the army in the battle.
These mealworms are still half a month away from fully growing up. They are now less than half the size they were when they were finally harvested, and are about to enter a stage of rapid weight gain.
Slaughtering these mealworms now is just a last resort, very uneconomical, but it can save lives, just like in disaster years, farmers will starve to death if they don't eat the grain used as seeds.
This time, the protagonist only kept some of the egg-laying mealworms and slaughtered the rest. The dried meat obtained was enough to support the army for more than half a month of fighting.
This is also the inspiration the protagonist gets from the Destroyer.
There was a worker ant from [Liangmo City] who witnessed the tragic scene of the Destroyer not even sparing the mealworms in the nest, killing them all. She managed to crawl to the ground through a narrow vent, escaping the carnage and escaping all the way back to the main nest.
Instead of losing the battle and letting the Destroyer kill all the mealworms, it is better to use them as military rations to contribute to winning the war.
In previous investigations, the Destroyers generally only killed other ant races, and would also attack parasitized insects, but were not interested in ordinary insects. This time they even killed the mealworms in the ant nest, probably because these mealworms were full of the aura of the God Envoy King's army.
It seems that although these destroyers have good eyesight, they also rely heavily on scent recognition, otherwise they would not be able to distinguish between ants and mealworms.
——I am the dividing line——
After a busy day in the main nest [Qingqiu City], enough mealworms were finally slaughtered and the first batch of dried meat was baked urgently.
In order to prepare these grains, [Qingqiu City] and nearby sub-nests reluctantly slaughtered thousands of mealworms.
The army was finally ready and waiting to set off early the next morning.
Today, the flying knights brought back bad news. The destroyers who captured [Liangmo City] sent out troops and were on their way to [Linshui City].
However, the enemy did not send many troops, only about a thousand, with radar destroyers in the middle. Their troops were not strong enough to threaten the well-defended [Linshui City], so the enemy's main force remained stationary in [Liangmo City].
On April 17, the army of the God Envoy King set off from its main nest [Qingqiu City] and headed towards [Liangmo City]. At the same time, a large number of flying knights took off, paying close attention to [Liangmo City], [Linshui City] and [Bridgehead]. The battle situation on the front line.
——I am the dividing line——
A flying knight rode his bee mount, hovering over [Linshui City].
Under him, a group of thousands of Destroyers had crossed the bridge made of fallen dead wood and stepped onto the rocky island where [Linshui City] was located.
The defenders here did not try to intercept the enemy in the wild. The defenders in [Linshui City] are now strong enough to defend but not enough to fight in the field. They can only stick to their nests and protect the rope bridge to prevent the enemies on both sides of the river from joining together.
On the other side of the river, tens of thousands of Destroyers are tightly surrounding the [Bridgehead].
The Legion of God's Envoy King has never faced so many destroyers.
In the entire [Bridgehead], the defense line on the ground has been completely abandoned. From the air, you can still see the fragments left by the torn protective net, and the wreckage of the ballistae that was destroyed before it could be evacuated. Only there was no body, the body had been taken away by the enemy.
Fortunately, the [Bridgehead] underground defense facilities are complete and designed by the protagonist. Under the thick and solid ant concrete fortress, it is a defensive position that can limit the enemy's strength advantage.
The Destroyers laid siege for several days, but after occupying the ground, their underground attack never progressed.
Although the ground defense line has been abandoned, both [Linshui City] and [Bridgehead] still protect the entrances at both ends of the rope bridge. This is a must-win area. The Divine Envoy Army needs to control the rope bridge so that the main enemy force on the north bank of the river cannot Head south while maintaining communication with [Bridgehead].
And the Destroyers, if they knew about the existence of this rope bridge, would probably be very interested.
The northern entrance of the rope bridge is within the ant mound of the [Bridgehead], while the southern entrance is a low-hanging branch of a large banyan tree. The front end of the branch has a spherical ant mound barrier that was later built.
The flying knights in the sky noticed that the Destroyers under the big banyan tree did not directly attack the underground nests or tree nests. They seemed to know that their numbers were too few.
These Destroyers from [Liangmo City], escorting the Redding Destroyers, came to the northern edge of the island and looked at their compatriots on the other side of the river from a distance.
On the other side, a team of Destroyers came to the river, and there were also Radar Destroyers in the team, echoing each other from afar.
The two Radar Destroyers were separated by a wide river, and their tentacles were shaking irregularly and at high speed. It was obvious that they were not shaking meaninglessly, but were transmitting certain messages.
Seeing this scene, the flying knight decided to write it down and mention it when submitting the information package to the God Envoy King.
Soon, the radar destroyers on both sides completed the communication.
And the Flying Knight suddenly discovered that the originally peaceful Destroyer position on the ground on the north bank of the river suddenly boiled. Large groups of Destroyers surged up like a tide, and soon covered the entire [Bridgehead] Ant Mound. Get up!
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