Here, the protagonist stayed for a short time. After seeing that although "Blackberry" looked scary, his vital signs were still there, he left in a hurry!
He first went back to the main nest, held a joint meeting of all races, reported the results of the previous "Sacred Tree Meeting", and asked various departments to start preparations for sending out workers who know shipbuilding and sailing skills, receiving reinforcements, supplying supplies, Delivery of honeydew and all.
Reinforcements have not arrived so soon. Even if the Ant United Nations immediately sends out technical ants to assist various countries in building walnut ships, even if it is a one-time ship, regardless of long-term use, shipbuilding can omit many processes. We can't send troops by ship until a month later!
It takes about three to five days for the army of the nearest black fire ant country to cross the downstream river and reach the big bend in the river outside. At that time, the flying transport team will temporarily change its route and be responsible for hauling the fleet to the shore.
The furthest tribe of San's flat-headed ants is estimated to have to wait two months, that is, in late autumn, to reach the war zone.
Even the three tribes including the sharp-tailed ants that flew in on the transport team would take about a month to assemble, taking into account the preparation and batch transportation.
This means that before this, the Divine Envoy King's army must survive alone for about a month before reinforcements can be expected.
Although the warriors of the God's Envoy King are all brave and well-equipped, their numbers are unfortunately too small, and the current total strength of the standing army is less than 100,000.
If you want to expand your army, food is not a problem. The current weapons production capacity, excluding the war losses and the reduction in production caused by the current shift in production focus to artillery, can roughly support the expansion of one or two legions a week, which is only 2,600 to 5,200 soldiers. In other words, in one month, the Divine Envoy King's army will be able to recruit up to 10,000 to 20,000 warriors. If the battle damage is greater this month, it will be difficult to maintain the current scale.
For example, if we gave up before, the Divine Envoy King's Legion lost 6 legions in one go, and it would take at least 3 months to recover.
When the Divine Envoy King's Army did not need to consider battle losses before the war, it relied on winter inventory of equipment to expand its army in one go. This condition was no longer available.
Calculating this, the 100,000 troops that the Civilized Ant Tribe allies can provide are extremely valuable. In particular, the protagonist also heard that the warriors such as the army ants, the thin-footed ants, and the completely different blind leaf-cutting ants are all powerful, stronger than the leaf-cutting ants.
At present, the artillery force in the Legion of the Divine Envoy is expanding rapidly. This is because on the one hand, the artillery ants do not need to be equipped with iron armor and jaw knives, and on the other hand, artillery production is the top priority.
A large number of these artillery units have been allocated and deployed and will play an important role in the subsequent defensive battle.
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After the meeting, at dusk that day, the protagonist flew back to sit in town.
After flying three places in one day and making a long circle, the protagonist was really tired, especially since he stayed up all night last night. When he landed and returned to the palace, he reluctantly drank a drop of honeydew to replenish his strength, and then immediately fell down and fell asleep.
The next day, the protagonist was busy again. He went to inspect the construction site of the fortifications, and the ants kept stopping along the way.
At this time, the six temporary small fortresses outside have begun the second phase of expansion. They are no longer a lonely ant mound. The surrounding city walls and upper towers have begun to be built, and the outermost trenches have basically been excavated.
These six fortress construction sites are nearing completion. On each construction site, there are thousands of worker ants working in shifts around the clock.
What's progressing a little slower now is the Great Wall that surrounds the six fortresses in a circle, completely covering the hematite. This wall is more than 20 meters long in total, showing a nearly semicircular shape. Both ends of the Great Wall The ends are close to the canal.
At present, only the main wall of this fortification has been basically completed, and the other supporting towers and trenches are not yet there. The protagonist’s plan of diverting water from the canal into the trench to form a moat is still far from being realized.
In this Great Wall, there are two gates with wooden doors, which were not found in previous fortresses and city walls. They can facilitate the entry and exit of ants from inside and outside. They have not yet been built at this time.
In the protagonist's conception, this Great Wall is the first line of defense. It does not expect to block the enemy here, but to weaken the enemy and hinder the enemy's front-line and rear-rear connections to the greatest extent.
The second line of defense composed of the six peripheral fortresses is the main battlefield. These seven fortresses serve as horns for each other and can fight together, so that no matter where the enemy attacks, they will encounter flank fire from other fortresses.
The last direction is the underground positions of each fortress, which are the last line of defense after the ground positions are lost.
The protagonist made an inspection, encouraged the ants in the engineering department to speed up the progress, and proposed a new plan to use underground passages to connect several fortresses.
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While the Angel King's army was preparing for the war in full swing, the other parties in this war were not idle either.
Within the leafcutter ant kingdom, in the vast forests, countless new leafcutter ant warriors set out from various nests in the country, flowing among the treetops like a trickle, and gradually merged into the "deep pool" where the army gathered at the border.
The leafcutter ant nation is rapidly restoring its military strength, but the consequence is that the food reserves everywhere are almost at the bottom. The newly harvested fungi food is quickly filled into the bottomless pit of consumption, and almost nothing is left. .
The Pavement Ant Empire has not launched a new offensive for many days. The food supplies they prepared previously have been exhausted, and the soldiers who have been fighting hard for many days also need to rest.
Today, batches of transport teams are transporting large amounts of materials over long distances from the mainland of the Pavement Ant Empire to the Western Expedition Army and the Southern Expedition Army.
The consumption of long-distance ground transportation is very considerable. For this reason, the Pavement Ant Empire has begun to squeeze the vassal ant tribe again, especially the recently restored red fire ant kingdom that is closest to the war zone and has gained the most from this war. It has become the biggest squeeze. object.
On this day, the "wisdom elder" was walking in the countryside with more than a dozen fire ant warriors.
The soldiers around him were all injured and were no longer suitable to fight on the frontline battlefield, so they became his escorts on this "food rush" mission.
It is shameful to say that the dignified "wise elder", who was once the top male ant in the red fire ant country, has now been pushed to the edge by the young male ants supported by the suzerain country, and can only come out to perform some small tasks of promoting food supply. Task.
His target was an auxiliary nest half a day's journey ahead. There were many burrowing ants living in this auxiliary nest that had just been established.
Fire ants' own ants are not engaged in production. Now the overlord country is in a hurry to press for food, so it can only continue to squeeze from the vassal ants!
