In the following days, the Red Fire Ant Nation showed no signs of continuing to fight back.
After leaving a legion of defense troops in the [Nansen City] [Donglin City] and other places closest to the red fire ant country, the protagonist returned to [Xinyang City] with peace of mind.
Until the end of June, the Red Fire Ant Nation had not launched a new offensive against the territory of the Angel King Legion. The two sides only occasionally had small-scale conflicts caused by contact with foraging ants at the junction of some territories.
These small conflicts did not become serious. The red fire ant country knew that it was difficult to fight on two fronts, so even if it was selling iron, it would be difficult to support logistics. The Divine Envoy King's Legion is cultivating its internal strength with peace of mind and does not want to devote time and resources to war for the time being.
At this time, after two months of recuperation, the number of ant colonies in the Angel King's army has greatly increased. There are already 150,000 ant colonies in the 11 sub-nests, but it is still less than half of the peak number of ant colonies estimated by the protagonist, and it is still less than what is needed. When expanding to seek living space.
As the ant colony grows, the protagonist has been extremely busy during this period, and the administrative work volume in the entire territory is growing rapidly.
For example, most of the new ant colonies are concentrated in [Xinyangcheng] and mature, and they need to be deployed to the newly established sub-nests to enrich the ant colonies and develop industries; in the early stage of the new sub-nests, most of the honeydew industry is the main industry. To increase, it is necessary to build new farmland, breeding farms, etc. to ensure food self-sufficiency; the scientific research team has encountered bottlenecks in projects such as fluorescent bacteria extract liquid, and needs the guidance of the protagonist and more investment in ant force and material resources. And so on and so forth.
In the past, in his hometown, the protagonist could still rely on Rambo Fei and other male ants to assist him in completing these mundane tasks. Rambo Fei even vaguely looked like the Minister of the Interior and gradually separated from the military community.
But in this new world, most of the male ants around the protagonist came of age after several weddings this year and lacked administrative business experience. Moreover, there is a shortage of male ants as commanders in the standing army of the Divine Envoy King. Most of the young male ants are more willing to join the army than to take boring administrative positions.
A few young male ants willing to help are better than nothing.
The protagonist has no choice but to use a group of magical worker ants to assist him in his work. The magical worker ants are more intelligent and loyal, and they obey the protagonist unconditionally. These magical worker ants form the new administrative organization of the Divine Envoy King's Legion.
In order to eliminate the resistance of the male ants, the protagonist gave these magical worker ants a job title of "secretary", which in the language of ants means "help" and does not seem very powerful.
But in fact, administrative power is already in the hands of the secretarial office.
However, the protagonist does not delegate too much power. There are many important matters that the secretaries themselves do not have the authority to handle and require the protagonist's approval.
For example, in the military, the secretary's office has no right to intervene at all.
Recently, the Divine Envoy King's legion has not continued to expand. It still maintains the size of 11 legions, but has made up for the shortage of ant members and equipment.
The Flying Knight team has been expanded to a fully integrated team with 50 Flying Knights, all of whom are skilled ant flying knights who are loyal to the protagonist, ensuring that things like Flying Eagle will never happen again.
In addition, the tank unit that the protagonist has longed for has finally been reorganized. It now has 10 squads. Since it is not enough to form a legion, the protagonist has given it the organization of an "assault brigade". The commander of the brigade is the brigade captain, who is served by a male ant commander, who is named "Gun II".
Among these 10 tank teams, there are 2 heavy tank teams. Each team has 2 large-scale rhino beetles and 26 soldiers, 2 large-scale stag beetles and 14 soldiers, and 2 medium-sized ammunition transport beetles and 10 soldiers. .
There are 8 medium tank teams, each team has 8 medium stag beetles and 40 soldiers, and 2 medium ammunition transport beetles and 10 soldiers.
The protagonist has made innovations in the organization of the tank unit this time. First, he completely abandoned the small beetles with weak combat effectiveness. Second, there is no organization to accompany the infantry. From now on, the role of accompanying infantry will be filled by other infantry regiments and will not occupy the tank unit.
In the past, the tank unit performed well in the homeland. After arriving in the New World, the protagonist has been trying to rebuild the tank unit.
But the number of beetle eggs of various types brought by the Divine Envoy King's Legion on the walnut ship was too few, and some failed to hatch successfully, so there was never enough beetle eggs.
It was not until the spring of this year, especially after repelling the red fire ant army and expanding massively, that the Angel King's army found a large number of suitable beetle eggs from all over the territory, especially from the dead wood in the black forest.
Even after the beetle breeding industry of the Angel King Legion has greatly expanded, there is still room for providing a large number of small and medium-sized beetles to other industries.
For example, the trade team with the leaf-cutter ant country began to include a large number of medium-sized beetles as camel livestock. These beetles have rattan-made boxes on their backs that can be completely closed. When filled with hematite pellets at once, it is equivalent to the carrying capacity of hundreds of worker ants in their jaws, greatly increasing the amount of hematite imported by the Angel King's army.
With the expansion of trade between the two sides, the Angel King's army did not even have enough honeydew to trade hematite ore. Fortunately, the Leafcutter Ant Kingdom also accepts gold as a means of payment, and the God Envoy King's Legion organized ant hands to collect sand gold on the golden beach for trade.
The import volume of iron ore increased greatly, and a new blast furnace was built in [Xinyangcheng] again, and a large number of iron weapons and iron tools were widely used.
Even the crossbow on the back of the Bifurcated Rhinoceros uses a large number of iron components, which greatly increases its performance. These ballistae, as well as those in [Xinyangcheng] and other places, are also issued with a small amount of iron bullets, which have stronger penetrating power, although they are currently a bit overpowered.
After the Divine Envoy King's Army finally entered the Iron Age, the import trade route for hematite ore became the lifeline of the Divine Envoy King's Army. The source of the iron ore was completely in the hands of the Leaf Cutter Ant Nation.
So starting from July, when the Leafcutter Ant Nation stated that it needed to reduce its iron ore trading volume, it gave the protagonist a headache.
There is also a reason why the leaf cutter ant country has reduced its iron ore trading volume.
First, because the war between the leafcutter ant country and the red fire ant country is getting bigger and bigger, more and more ant hands are being sent to the front line, and production in the rear is affected. Hematite collection requires a large number of ant hands, and its priority is not as high as food production. The leaf-cutting ants can only reduce the production of iron ore and ensure the ant hands of other necessary industries.
In addition, the Divine Envoy King's army previously dumped large amounts of honeydew to the Leafcutter Ant Nation to trade for iron ore, which also resulted in a short-term oversupply of honeydew in the Leafcutter Ant Nation.
The nobles of the leafcutter ant kingdom have been raised to have a taste for crow honey, which has a better flavor and addictive effect. The demand for honeydew has decreased, and ordinary worker ants are not qualified to enjoy honeydew. As a result, the total demand for honeydew is declining.
Therefore, the leaf cutter ant country proposed a requirement to reduce the import volume of honeydew and the export volume of iron ore at the same time.
