Time flies to the end of August.
Zhu Jue is worthy of being the envoy king of the civilized ant tribe, the core and spiritual pillar of the Ant Alliance. Faced with the failure of the defense battle of the Thin-legged Ant Nation, when the Thin-legged Ant clan has been in panic all day long and has lost the courage to continue fighting. , he was not discouraged even though he was defeated, he re-energized himself, prepared his troops in [Hope City], and prepared to fight again!
In this little half month, Zhu Jue worked hard to retrain the defeated army with low morale, recruit new troops from the mainland, and draw reinforcements from allies who supported him. The strength of his troops quickly recovered to 100,000, and there were already more The power of a battle.
Zhu Jue's current army includes 33,000 warriors of the God Envoy King of the Big-headed Ant clan, including 2,500 warriors of a Guards Infantry Corps (composed of more than 500 veterans who participated in the defense of the Thin-footed Ant Nation, and reinforcements) It is composed of elites, including 10 teams of magic soldier ants), 9 infantry corps with about 22,500 soldiers, 1 reinforced tank corps with about 3,000 soldiers and 32 large insect beasts, 60 field artillery groups with about 3,000 artillerymen and 100 4 mung bean cannons, 400 millet cannons, 40 squads of flying knights (half and half for reconnaissance and combat flying knights) and about 2,000 flying knights.
Most of this force traveled long distances overland and received reinforcements from the mainland. They had set out before the collapse of the battlefield of the Thin-legged Ant Country, arrived in the Black Fire Ant Country in July, and then headed up the river along a straight bank of the Qing River to the Marching Ant Country. The original plan was to go directly to the Thin-legged Ant Country. country, but after Zhu Jue retreated to [Hope City], these troops also turned to join here and arrived in late August.
This group of troops was powerful and had been on the road for two months. However, except for a small number of attrition due to bad weather, none of the indigenous ants in the places they passed dared to provoke without opening their eyes.
Just look at the composition of this army, and you can know how the indigenous ants in the passing areas trembled when faced with this army!
In the infantry legion, there are all soldier ants, and there are also some golden magic soldier ants that shine in the sun. Although they are of the big-headed ant family, they look like an army of larger, medium-sized ants.
Among the many soldier ants, the large insect beasts of the Tank Legion were extremely eye-catching. The Palawan giant flat stag beetle, the giraffe saw spade, the giant forked mountain stag beetle, and the Palawan giant beetle. These super beasts that Zhu Jue finally obtained The large beetle eggs finally formed into an army, forming a strengthened tank corps, personally commanded by "Gun II". With their huge size, dark carapace, ferocious jaws and horns, luminous armor and artillery, these beetles were like a piece of A small stone moves forward like a fortress.
In the air, the mounts ridden by some of the combat flying knights have been replaced by wasps. These wasp flying knights are carefully selected elites. The mounts must be fed with meat. Currently, there are only 30 wasp flying knight teams in the entire Ant Alliance. , this time dispatched as many as one-third.
However, because wasps like to attack bees, even if the flying knights desperately pull the reins, it will not be effective, so these 10 teams of wasp flying knights act alone. Every time the Wasp Rider lowered its height, the bugs on the ground saw the yellow and black warning colors and fled in panic... wishing they had eight legs like a crab...
The artillery force has also been equipped with the latest mung bean cannon and millet cannon. The caliber remains unchanged, but due to advances in metallurgical technology, the cannon wall is thinner and the weight of the entire gun has been greatly reduced. All field guns were mounted on the backs of medium-sized dung beetles, and each gun group was accompanied by 1-2 dung beetles to carry ammunition and artillery. The ammunition configuration has also been optimized according to battlefield needs. In addition to solid bullets, incendiary bombs and explosive bombs have been greatly increased.
Faced with such a powerful force configuration and an army without much oil and water, the indigenous ants felt lucky to see that they were not here to destroy them. How could they dare to provoke them?
In addition to the warrior kings of the big-headed ants, there are also a large number of auxiliary soldiers from the Ant Alliance, including about 20,000 pavement ants, 10,000 Argentine ants, 10,000 abdominal ants, and 10,000 red ants. The forest ants were originally only intended to engage in support work, but Zhu Jue, who was short of major generals, would not let go of these vassal ants who had proven their loyalty. They were organized into 4-8 legions, for a total of 20 legions. They were also soldiers. In addition to participating in the economic construction of [Hope City], farmers also conduct regular military training to make up for the lack of troops in the Divine Envoy King's legions.
Zhu Jue also has a small number of other ant tribe troops under his command, such as 6 thin-footed ant legions with about 8,000 warriors. Half of them were donated by "Long Horns", and the rest were recruited by Zhu Jue himself or took the initiative to defect. The elite soldiers, the old and the weak have been dismissed by Zhu Jue.
There are also 8 honeypot ant armies with about 20,000 honeypot ants. They followed Zhu Jue to evacuate from the Thin-foot Ant Country or gradually gathered in [Hope City]. They followed Zhu Jue to fight for several months. The combat effectiveness is not strong, but it is still useful.
The newly surrendered Japanese black brown ants and black-headed sour ants also provided two legions of 5,000 ants each after half a month of development.
As a result, Zhu Jue now has a total of about 41,000 soldiers (the God Envoy King Legion of the Big-headed Ant Clan, and the Thin-footed Jet Ant Warriors), and about 80,000 auxiliary soldiers who are both soldiers and farmers. Compared with the hundreds of thousands of troops at the peak of the Zujie Ant Nation Defense War, they have only basically recovered their strength.
At the same time, [Hope City] has also become a prosperous frontline sub-base. Zhu Jue asked the air force to airlift the pupae of female and male Big-headed ants. Now they have broken pupae and completed a simplified wedding flight ceremony. Two ants The new queen ant has moved into the dormitory and is about to start giving birth.
Thanks to the development of auxiliary soldiers of various ethnic groups, weapons repair workshops and some workshops needed to maintain basic survival activities were built in [Hope City]. A batch of food and materials were hoarded through hunting and gathering on the surrounding land.
More supplies still come from transportation and assistance.
When the Divine Envoy King's legions traveled a long distance, they brought a large amount of weapons, equipment and ammunition, which was enough to cope with a short-term war of medium intensity. It's just that it certainly cannot cope with the needs of a long-term war with the Destroyer, so land and air transportation teams are still arriving in an endless stream, unloading piles of new cargo.
The Marching Ant Nation also provided a large amount of food to Zhu Jue's troops, most of which was aid. In this regard, the Marching Ant Nation was quite generous. The rest were goods obtained by Zhu Jue from the crow wine trade, such as a large number of locust leg tendons needed to make crossbows.
The Marching Ant Nation, like the Thin-footed Ant Nation, also has no iron ores and cannot cast artillery on site. In addition to the existing artillery of the field artillery unit, Zhu Jue also needs to manufacture crossbows in large quantities as a supplement to strengthen the firepower of the army.
