Zhu Jue has already named the first hatched female ant ant "Lucky". This is indeed a lucky little guy who avoided the fate of premature death that should have come.
After entrusting "Secretary II" to take good care of "Lucky" and other divine ant eggs, Zhu Jue had no intention of taking care of them all the time.
Taking advantage of the thunderstorm season and the truce on the Black Creek front battlefield, the Ant Alliance has been transporting supplies to the front line during the thunderstorm breaks to support the Northern Expedition after the flood season. In the Ant Alliance, Zhu Jue led the military department and was personally training the third batch of reinforcements to rush to the battlefield.
Among this group of troops, the army also has a size of 100 legions, and there are also dozens of soldiers. This army will prepare for training for three months, and then enter the battlefield as reinforcements after launching the Northern Expedition against the parasitic army for a period of time.
Even the Ant Alliance, which is as powerful as today, currently maintains three armies with about 700,000 troops on the front line of the battlefield. Together with other civilized ant coalition forces, the total strength is more than 1 million.
Eighty percent of these troops require the Ant Alliance to provide logistics. In particular, the Angel King's army relies heavily on firepower and has higher logistics requirements. In particular, the transportation of ammunition is more troublesome than the transportation of food.
Logistical constraints prevented the Archangel King's Legion from supplying more troops on the front line, at least until the canal was extended to Black Creek.
However, according to Zhu Jue's calculations, with the current military strength, it is enough to defeat the demoralized parasitic army in front of them without the need for the third batch of reinforcements. The role of the third batch of reinforcements is mainly to serve as a reserve force and cover the retreat of the army, as well as to consolidate the occupied area. .
The third batch of armies has been assembled in [Pioneer City]. Only a few of them are old legions. The others are legions expanded and reorganized from garrison forces from various places, or newly built legions.
It is easy to equip these troops with weapons, artillery, and beast control, but it will take time to form combat effectiveness. Even the legions adapted from the garrison troops lack the ability to coordinate between different legions and different arms.
If you want to grow quickly without experiencing actual combat, you can only make up for this shortcoming by relying on a lot of training.
In addition to the army training reinforcements, a large number of the Air Force reserve's magical ant flying knights who are about to complete their training are training in [Pioneering City].
Nowadays, the flying knight troops of the Divine Envoy King's Legion are basically composed of the magical ant flying knights, and there are also a few magical ant flying knights. As for the male ant flying knights who have been relegated to the second line due to historical reasons, the number is no longer large. Most of the former male ant flying knights have been transferred to instructors in flying knight schools, or simply went to the army to serve as squad captains and regimental commanders.
The God Worker Ant was chosen as the Flying Knight Ant because it has the highest cost performance, and unlike the Male Ant, which sometimes disobeys control, it is extremely loyal to Zhu Jue.
The magical ant flying knight is also loyal, but its weight is larger, which will have a negative impact on the mount's continued flight. The strength and large jaws that the magic soldier ants are proud of have little room for use in aerial combat, so there is no need to go to the sky.
There are as many as 3,000 magical ant flying knights trained this time, which is the largest number of flying knights trained in the past.
In the battle against parasitic organisms, the Flying Knight troops have fully proven their worth. They struggled to seize the air superiority on the battlefield, detect and transmit intelligence, launch air strikes on the ground, and made great contributions to the final victory of many battles.
However, in this war, the Flying Knights also suffered a lot of damage. Although the powerful few individuals and the huge total number of parasitic flying insects were not well combined, they also posed a huge threat to the Flying Knights. .
Even in the last war, the "mosquito" troops of the Pavement Ant Empire were equally numerous, but their individual combat effectiveness was weak and they never posed such a threat to the Flying Knights.
Nowadays, many battles on the Black Creek front line, as well as sporadic conflicts that occur every day, have caused more than 700 flying knight casualties. This loss is very shocking, and the front line is in urgent need of a large number of supplements and expansions.
During the training of this group of flying knights, Zhu Jue also reorganized the organization of the flying knights based on his experience on the front line, and prepared to gradually promote the new organization to other active flying knights units.
The earliest flying knight troops were organized similarly to the army, with 50 knights forming a squad. However, such an organization is very inflexible in battle. Due to the inconvenience of aerial command, although many methods have been tried, it has only been slightly improved. The flying knights still like to fight in small groups of three or five riders, or even fight alone.
Therefore, when each flying knight team performs a mission, it is often split into a smaller number of temporary teams, with the oldest flying knight serving as the commander. After all, such emergency measures are not a long-term solution.
Later, the formation of the Flying Knights was reformed, and the reconnaissance Flying Knights and the Combat Flying Knights were distinguished. Both were composed of 3 knights as a squad, and 16 squads of 48 knights as a squad. This kind of organization is relatively flexible when dealing with weak air enemies like the "Mosquito". In this war, the problem of insufficient combat effectiveness of the 3-cavalry unit was exposed.
Based on the experience of this war, Zhu Jue once again reformed the organization and weapons equipment of the reconnaissance flying knights and combat flying knights.
The reconnaissance flying knights are still composed of three knights as a small team, retaining the mobility and flexibility of the three-horseman formation. A reconnaissance team is composed of 6 teams, with a total of 18 riders, which reduces the size of the team and facilitates the wider deployment of reconnaissance forces in more areas - most areas do not require more than 20 reconnaissance flying knights to perform tasks.
The mount used to detect the flying knight is still an agile and fast fly mainly composed of green flies. The flying knight wears armor, while the fly does not. In terms of weaponry, the number of fire bomb slings equipped with the reconnaissance flying knight has been reduced from 6 to 2, as well as 2 spider silk bombs, lances and jaw knives. The air scraper is not installed, which reduces the firepower output, but The weight is also reduced.
In this way, the reconnaissance flying knight can fly faster, and the firepower is enough to protect itself. Unless it is absolutely necessary, the reconnaissance flying knight is no longer required to participate in aerial combat.
Combat flying knights are composed of 5 knights as a small team. This small team organization is more lethal than the 3-horseman organization when facing enemies with strong individual combat capabilities such as parasitic dragonflies.
6 detachments of 30 combat flying knights form a detachment, 6 detachments of 180 cavalry form a brigade, and 6 detachments of 1080 cavalry form a regiment.
The combat flying knight's mount is a bee, and the bees are all armored. The weapons remain the same, including 6 fire bomb slings, 2 spider silk bombs, jaw knife, lance and aerial scraper. In addition, each squad leader carries an additional 2 small incendiary bombs for special missions.
