While the red fire ant country was busy with the arrival of its overlord, the Angel King's army did not know about this and were still preparing for the winter step by step.
Because the weather is getting cooler, the protagonist also knows that the ants will not make any major military moves, so the flying knights also gave up long-distance aerial reconnaissance. In addition to necessary communication between nests, the flying knights have begun to gather in [Xinyang City] to prepare for the winter.
In fact, even if the flying knights were still operating normally, they would no longer fly into the red fire ant country and would not be able to detect this incident.
Because the Red Fire Ant Nation seems to have a different kind of resistance to the flying knights flying above it, after reaching a contract with the Angel King's Legion, it sent a special messenger to state that the flying knights must not cross the border. The protagonist does not want this matter to affect bilateral relations. , restricting the flying range of the flying knight.
At this time, outside [Hematite City], the protagonist leads most of the legion to set off, preparing to return to [Xinyang City] for the winter.
Although it was too close to the river bank, even the underground was very humid, and there were many ant colonies, making it very crowded. But there is the first lair since the Envoy King's Legion landed, and it is also their current main lair!
Living here seems to be closer to his hometown. The protagonist swore that he would return to his hometown one day!
Before the protagonist sets off back to [New Yang City], the Angel King's army has completely controlled the southern half of the forest on the east bank of the stream. The newly conquered territory is about the same size as the territory occupied by the red fire ant country and the leafcutter ant country.
Since the occupation of [Red Iron City], the Angel King Legion has sent out small groups many times, gradually including all the territory of the original leaf-cutting ant country to the east of the stream and south of [Red Iron City], and destroyed it. There are many tree nests of leaf-cutter ants, and several new nests of the Divine Envoy King Legion have been built.
Although the territory of today's Divine Envoy King Legion is far less vast than in its heyday in its homeland, it no longer looks like it lives in a corner of [New Yang City].
Moreover, all these new territories and new lairs were acquired this year, and the Divine Envoy King's army showed extremely rapid expansion.
The Angel King's army has really risen this year. They first escaped from the siege of the red fire ant army, and then turned against the leaf-cutter ant country. They struggled to survive between the two neighboring enemies and actually conquered a piece of land. It's really not easy in a great situation.
No other ant knows that the protagonist has been under great pressure this year. The haze of complete failure in his homeland was far from dissipating from his heart. Even if he found that his body did not start to decline like other ants at this age, it would not make him happy.
Whether facing a country of red fire ants or a country of leaf-cutter ants, facing enemies from both sides, the pressure on the protagonist as a leader is doubled. Even if a contract is temporarily reached with the Red Fire Ant Country, peace is fragile and war may restart at any time. This can be seen from the many conflicts between the Red Fire Ant Kingdom and the Angel King Legion.
Nowadays, even though the Divine Envoy King's army has occupied a very large territory and has dozens of sub-nests, it still cannot completely reassure the protagonist.
The protagonist knows that if the Army of the God Envoy King is now faced with either the red fire ant army or the leaf-cutting ant army in the "Eternal War", the Army of the God Envoy King, which is too small in number, no matter how elite it is, will only be completely defeated by the ant sea tactics. Submerged.
The Legion of the God Envoy King needs to continue to expand its army and continuously strengthen its military strength in order to survive in this world of the jungle.
Of course, the protagonist hopes that the army can be resurrected immediately with full health to the peak scale of hundreds of standing legions in his homeland. Even the numbers he gives to the vassal ant legions start at one hundred, which has revealed his ambition.
But the food has to be eaten one bite at a time, and the army can only be expanded bit by bit.
The current territory of the Angel King Legion, except for the forest area east of the stream that was taken from the Leafcutter Ant Kingdom, and the territory that was taken from the Forest Ant Clan and the Belly Ant Clan, the rest is the original Leafcutter Ant Kingdom and Red Fire Ant Kingdom. A place that Ant Nation looks down upon.
For example, the Black Forest is close to the main nest [Hive City] of the Red Fire Ant Nation, but it does not have the resources that the Red Fire Ant Nation needs, so they do not like it. For example, the area where the February Orchid blooms has shallow soil, poor soil, and no forests. Neither the red fire ant country nor the leafcutter ant country is interested in it.
Even [Xinyang City] was originally a lonely humid peninsula with nothing but a poplar tree. In the eyes of other ants, it was simply a barren land.
But on the wasteland, beside the river, next to the tidal flats, and in the woods, the God's Envoy Army made full use of its relatively superb agricultural technology to develop planting and breeding industries, and developed with the help of the technology of leaf-cutter ants. In the fungus farming industry, there is never a shortage of food and we are very self-sufficient.
Relying on the honeydew and crow honey trade, the Divine Envoy King's Legion traded a large amount of food from the Leafcutter Ant Nation at the beginning of the year, and later from the Red Fire Ant Nation.
The scale of the food trade with the Red Fire Ant Nation was so large that it even caused a shortage of military rations for the other party's military operations against the Leafcutter Ant Nation. It also made the young militant male ants in the Red Fire Ant Nation increasingly dissatisfied with the Angel King's army.
But aside from the impact on the red fire ant country, relying on food production and trade, each nest of the God's Envoy Army has enough food to survive the winter.
The protagonist is no longer satisfied with simply surviving the winter. On his way back to [Xinyang City], he constantly sends messengers to various nests, asking each nest to continue to breed ant colonies in the nest during the winter on the premise of ensuring food supply. , and train a group of soldier ants in advance, so that when the Angel King's army begins to expand next spring, it will save a lot of energy.
The iron smelting in [Xinyangcheng] and [February Lancheng] cannot be stopped. Now both places have a lot of iron ore stockpiled. Even if the iron ore transportation volume has been reduced due to canal construction, it still cannot be stopped. Far more than before when the ant country was breathing heavily.
The two smelting bases will continue to cast iron in the winter. The Divine Envoy King's Legion plans to expand in batches by 20 new legions next year. This winter, weapons and equipment will be produced in advance.
At the same time, inspired by the great increase in the combat effectiveness of the ants after wearing armor, and the current iron production of the Angel King's army is already higher than the actual demand, the protagonist plans to use the abundant production capacity to equip the beetles of the tank brigade with iron armor.
After putting on the armor, whether it is a double-pronged rhinoceros beetle or a stag armor, the attack power and defense power will also be improved, making it closer to the tank appearance in the protagonist's mind.
At this time, the protagonist still doesn't know that in addition to the tank troops of the Angel King's Legion, there are other insect war beast troops in this world.
Moreover, the two sides will meet soon!
