The sun rises and sets, the wind rises and falls, the rain falls and disappears, the water rises and recedes.
The days passed day by day, and soon, the date outlined on the protagonist's calendar had entered July, and the season and temperature had officially entered midsummer.
The floods of the river have receded, the waterline has basically returned to its original position, and large tracts of beach have been exposed, expanding the scope of activities of the Divine Envoy King's legion.
This was a peaceful day. For a period of time, the Divine Envoy King's army had no external troubles, focused on training its internal strength, and began to vigorously operate [New Yang City].
Now that we have decided to keep the window [Xinyang City], we can no longer make do with this lair!
At present, [Xinyang City] is built according to the standards of a temporary camp. The facilities are incomplete and the scale is small. It cannot meet the living needs of the ant colony after it grows.
After undergoing vigorous expansion during this period, [Xinyang City] currently has a completely new look.
In terms of scale, the underground space of [Xinyang City] has more than doubled, mainly due to the expansion of underground nests to the north. The underground environment there is relatively drier and the soil contains less sand, so the geological structure is more stable.
After the expansion, [Xinyang City] could barely accommodate more than 10,000 ant colonies before, but now it can accommodate more than 30,000 ant colonies. Even in its hometown, it is a relatively large nest.
The underground expansion will continue, and the final size of the Protagonist Project [New Yang City] will be enough to accommodate 50,000 ant colonies.
The underground facilities in [Xinyang City] have also become complete: the combustion chamber has been expanded, and a pottery workshop that also requires the use of fire is being built next to it.
Textile workshops, stone tool workshops, ballista workshops and fermentation workshops have also been established, which can use nearby resources for production.
Mealworm farms and fly larvae farms have also been put back into use and expanded to provide enough meat for more ant colonies.
In order to prevent another outbreak of the plague and completely solve the problem of moisture in underground nests that are too close to rivers, the four walls, floor and top of underground nests and passages are coated with ant concrete, which can prevent water seepage and moisture. The flue of the combustion chamber is also built in all directions, covering most of the nest area to facilitate dehumidification.
Not only has the underground changed a lot, but [New Yangcheng] on the ground has also taken on a completely new look.
To the south of the big poplar tree, where the main entrance is, a tall ant mound rises from the ground, more than one meter high. Male ants and queens have moved into the ant mound to stay further away from the moist underground.
The ant mound is built against the trunk of a big poplar tree, and the other three sides are protected by sandy walls about one decimeter high and shallow trenches.
The wall not only surrounds and protects the big poplar trees and ant mounds, but also extends to the east and west. To the west, the wall extends to the cliff; to the east, it extends to the front of the beach. At the best flood level of about half a meter, it turns to the south and extends for more than four meters before stopping.
There is a small fortress every about five meters on the wall, as well as trenches, walls and anthill structures. Although the space can only accommodate one or two hundred warriors, it is enough to serve as a support point for the defense system. These fortresses could later be equipped with ballistae to increase their firepower.
With this defense system of walls and fortresses, the entire peninsula was completely covered and became a safe hinterland. Even if there is a large number of enemy troops besieging them, it will be difficult to break through the defense line.
The only weakness may be that during the dry season, the enemy can enter the peninsula along the unwalled section of the river beach. However, in this way, the enemy will have to pass through a wet and muddy beach. Not far away, there is a section of wall and wall that turns and extends. Two fortresses. Once these two fortresses are equipped with ballistae, the enemy will have to suffer huge casualties even if they want to take this route. Good Mood Literature Network
It can be said that the line of defense built by the protagonist is enough to allow 10,000 defenders to withstand an enemy attack that is ten times more numerous for a long time. If you retreat to the defense of [Xinyang City], the time you can hold on depends on the stock in the city - unless the destroyer comes to attack, other ants will not be able to conquer this nest at all.
On the ground, farmland has finally been opened up, and various crop seeds have germinated under suitable light and heat conditions.
Farmland is mainly concentrated in the north of Big Poplar, where the land is more fertile. However, there is also a small amount of farmland on the peninsula. As a backup, the farmland here can provide some food in case of a heavy siege.
Aphids and scale insects also hatched and grazed mainly in the weeds on the peninsula, where they began to produce sweet honeydew.
Now, except that copper mines and salt have not yet been found, the production and living standards in [Xinyangcheng] are not inferior to those in their hometown.
It is also because even though the Divine Envoy King's Legion is unique in civilization and technology, it is still in a very primitive state after all, which is why it is so easy to rebuild civilization.
Just like a Neolithic tribe declined due to natural disasters or plagues, and only a few members survived. They could easily rebuild their houses, continue to forage, and then produce offspring to continue the tribe.
But if there is a crisis in human civilization in the 21st century, then at least there needs to be a doomsday shelter to ensure that millions of talents with the most advanced knowledge and skills can survive, so that all the achievements of human civilization can be preserved. .
The more developed a civilization becomes, the more difficult it becomes to reproduce and reconstruct it.
In these days, the Divine Envoy King's Legion and the Belly Ants have gotten along more and more harmoniously, and both sides have gained some benefits from each other.
Although the Belly Ant Clan needed to pay gold to the God Envoy King's Army in accordance with the agreement, in fact they did not pay much at all.
Because the protagonist met with "Old Heart" several more times, the two parties conducted some trade.
Yes, it's trade. The Belly Ants have done this with other ant groups, so they can also trade with the Angel King's army.
In his homeland, the protagonist has never heard of trade between different forces. Even between the former Big-headed Ant survivors and the Queen Ant inheritance faction, there is no trade, only blackmail and gifts based on strength.
This is also proof that the civilization of this land is more developed than that of the homeland.
Being able to trade, this greatly enriched the source of materials for the Divine Envoy King's Legion. After all, the land they controlled was too small and too barren, and the production could not sustain all the needs.
For example, table salt is not produced in [Xinyangcheng], and the bitter alkali salt in the depression in the north is difficult to swallow even after repeated purification.
But the ants can get relatively good coarse salt, which they exchange from the red fire ants in the suzerain country in exchange for gold or food.
After the protagonist got this information from "Old Heart", he immediately offered to exchange gold for salt, thus obtaining a batch of urgently needed coarse salt and alleviating the urgent need.
Anyway, the gold was obtained from the ants, so the Angel King's army got the salt in vain, and the ants could also pay less gold. Both parties were happy!
