At the end of April, there was a lively production scene everywhere inside and outside [Xinyang City].
This is really hot. Look at the small anthill-like chimney of the blast furnace that is exposed above the ground. It is spewing black smoke. The ground nearby is glowing with a little heat, which is the heat of smelting iron. In this already hot late spring, the heat makes the area around [Xinyangcheng] even hotter.
Although only half a month has passed since the war, and the first batch of ant eggs laid by the Angel King's Army during the battle have not even reached adulthood, the Angel King's Army has recovered quickly and invested in post-war reconstruction and mass production. middle.
After the trade routes with the leaf-cutter ant country were restored, a large amount of hematite ore from the trade was stored in the warehouse next to the underground blast furnace, and more and more iron weapons, armor, and tools were distributed to the ants.
The honeydew and crow honey industries that are vital to the economy of the Angel King's Legion have been almost completely restored. Dozens of herds are distributed in the expanded territory of the Angel King's Legion, and the size of these herds is still expanding every day.
Some of the newly established secondary nests contain only a few hundred ants. Almost all of these ants are herdsmen. Moving the new herds to new pastures for grazing can produce more honeydew.
Only the herds of purple gray butterfly larvae that produce crow honey are strictly controlled to graze around [Xinyang City]. Crow honey is of greater trade and diplomatic significance to the Divine Envoy King's Legion than honeydew, and must not be leaked. Only The [New Yangcheng] area makes the protagonist feel more at ease.
Of course, whether it is honeydew or crow honey, it is difficult for ordinary worker ants in the God Envoy King's army to enjoy it. Only by performing meritorious deeds can they get a drop of reward. The Angel King's army has already traded all the honeydew and all the crow honey except for the queen ants, male ants, priest ants, and job ants.
Compared with other industries, animal husbandry suffered the least damage during the war. The mealworm and fly maggot farms originally concentrated underground in [Xinyangcheng] were not damaged, and the feed collected every day did not starve these insects. abdomen. It can be said that the meat provided by the breeding farm was the most stable food source for the defenders during the siege, but it was just not enough to remove all the ant colonies.
Now, the God Envoy King's Army has reduced its meat quota, so that more mealworms and fly maggots can survive, which can provide bugs for the newly built farms in other sub-nests, and can also provide excellent mounts for the Flying Knight team preparing to expand the army. .
The planting industry suffered the most serious damage during the war. Many of the farmland of the God's Envoy Army outside [Xinyang City] were destroyed by the enemy.
This is not because the enemy knows the usefulness of farmland and does it intentionally. Some of these farmland were destroyed when the enemy built camps, some of the young grass was harvested as food by the enemy's slave auxiliary soldiers who were looking for food, and some of it was harvested because of the influence. The enemy's attack route was destroyed.
The farmland outside the city was almost completely destroyed. After the war, the Angel King's Army urgently replanted a batch. However, due to the limited remaining grass seeds, the farmland area this year was smaller, covering only the land from outside the city to the depression.
At this time, because the consumption quota of the herds and breeding farms had been reduced due to the expansion of the insect population, the farmland had no output, and the entire legion almost relied on hunting and gathering for its food source.
But the number of prey on the ground is also decreasing. This is related to the crazy hunting and gathering of food by the Angel King Legion before the war, and the slave auxiliary soldiers of the Red Fire Ant Army going out to collect food during the war. Many prey have fled this area, and those who can be collected The food has almost been collected.
Fortunately, the floodwaters in Qinghe River are gradually receding, leaving a large number of small fish, shrimps, shellfish, snails, algae, insects and other food on the riverbank tidal flats.
Relying on water to draft, the Angel King's army is expanding the ant colony in large quantities, consuming a lot of money. It is relying on the food by the river. Although the food reserves of each sub-nest in the entire territory are very small, they can barely maintain it at a safe level. .
Since a large number of ant colonies will not emerge from pupae until next month, the standing troops of the seven legions of the God's Angel King's Army suffered huge losses during the war. They have not been able to be replenished by soldiers and commanders, and they will have to be replenished next month. together.
However, these legions have experienced fierce and bitter battles and have grown very rapidly. An elite needs to grow up through constant hard battles and victories. These legions already have the appearance of elites.
With the mass production of iron armor, the protagonist began to distribute armor to the entire army. Previously, only important commanders and magic soldier ants had iron armor. In the recent battle, the protagonist also discovered that the magic soldier ants wearing iron armor were like fierce generals rushing into battle, and they were largely immune to the enemy's counterattacks.
However, the current coverage area of the armor is limited, and the ants killed in battle are basically injured by attacks on parts that are not covered with armor. For example, compound eyes are attacked by acid, joints are pierced by fire ant stings, etc.
The current iron processing of the King of Gods Legion mainly relies on casting. It is difficult to produce hinges, clasps, joints and other parts with fine craftsmanship. It is also unable to produce full-coverage armor like European knights' plate armor. We can only continue to use the current armor with bundled armor pieces to protect key areas, but this is much better than the armor-free state.
The flying knight force is also expanding. When there is a war, just twelve flying knights are not enough to cover the entire nearby area. If there was information in advance that the leaf-cutter ant army was attacking the red fire ant country last time, the protagonist might have a strategy to make the red fire ant army in front of him suffer another heavy loss when it retreats.
At that time, the God Envoy King's army saw the enemy retreating, but it had lost the ability to pursue it. This made the protagonist feel that he had nowhere to vent his resentment, and could only watch the enemy move to the battlefield in a swaggering manner.
Even if the leaf-cutter ant army later achieved a great victory, it did not make the protagonist too angry. After all, it was his troops who won the battle to relieve their anger.
The protagonist plans to wait until the new generation of magical worker ants reaches adulthood and expand the flying knights into a small team. These are all fly flying knights. The bee eggs originally brought by the God Envoy King's army failed to breed successfully in their new home. The protagonist can only find another opportunity to conquer the bee swarm again in order to have a new bee mount.
The protagonist also plans to expand the magic soldier ants to ten teams. These armored magic soldier ants are so powerful that the protagonist even thinks they can fight the Destroyer in a one-on-one battle.
Seven of the ten squads of magic soldier ants are assigned to each legion as an elite force directly under the legion commander. The other three will be the protagonists of the Imperial Guards, as well as the direct mobile forces.
If it weren't for the fact that cultivating and supporting the magic soldier ants consumes too many resources, the protagonist would really like to have all the legions formed by the magic soldier ants.
Just as the Angel King's army was building and expanding on a large scale in its territory, the war between the red fire ant country and the leaf-cutter ant country took a new turn.
