But if humans cannot completely suppress the demonized creatures in a short time, human civilization will eventually decline due to the aging of mechanical creations.
You know, in its current state, human civilization has actually been greatly damaged.
Most of the mines were occupied by demonized creatures and had to stop work. Most of the land transportation was interrupted. Maritime transportation was basically completely interrupted. Even air transportation was greatly affected by the threat of many demonized birds.
Without the transportation that previously connected the world as a blood vessel, the current situation of human beings is already in decline.
After all, the modern industry of human civilization is supported by mines and oil fields all over the world.
Without ores and oil, most commodities of human civilization cannot be produced, and it is even difficult to maintain existing machinery.
Many countries rely entirely on past inventories for support.
Fortunately, the Shang State has strong national mobilization capabilities and has more or less preserved some mines. However, after cutting off the ore and oil from abroad, how long it can persist is also a question mark.
Therefore, three months later, after the first batch of divine-blooded mantises entered the adult stage, the Shang State military decisively launched a campaign to clear out the mines occupied by demonized creatures near several very large cities.
More than 40,000 god-blooded mantises were baptized by the military's artillery fire, and they were shocked to kill into the demonized creatures that were bombed into a state of embarrassment.
The first battle effect of the God-Blooded Mantis is excellent.
Those demonized creatures fighting on their own are no match for the divine-blooded mantis, which is as uniform as an army.
Even the most powerful giant bull among them can be regarded as the kind of crazy mutant among demonized creatures.
Not only did it grow to more than 20 meters in size, but it also had the power of earth. As long as it stamped its feet, it could cause the nearby earth to shake and crack, and protrude sharp stone thorns.
Such abilities undoubtedly have an excellent killing effect on group enemies.
But even this giant bull, which was no less powerful than the previous giant bear in Shi Ruiyin Kingdom, was bombarded by a burst of 125mm heavy artillery, and was finally cut into pieces by thousands of divine-blooded mantises.
Of course, the losses caused by the divine-blooded mantises were not small. In the entire battle, more than 2,000 divine-blooded mantises were killed, and more than a thousand were injured and lost their combat effectiveness.
This is the result after the human army has fully prepared for artillery fire.
This is also a helpless thing. Killing one thousand enemies will cost you eight hundred.
What's more, the number of demonized creatures gathered near these mines has reached an astonishing number of more than 300,000, including giant pigs, giant cows, giant sheep, giant chickens and other demonic creatures with relatively powerful combat capabilities.
Being able to kill more than 150,000 demonized creatures with a force of 40,000, and making the remaining more than 100,000 demonized creatures flee in panic, is already quite an astonishing achievement.
It can be said that from this moment on, the Shang Kingdom was different from other countries and entered into a strategic counterattack against demonized creatures.
Of course, there are not without some problems. For example, this battle has caused the ammunition reserves of some armies to be rapidly reduced. In addition, the average size of these divine-blooded mantises exceeds three meters and their appetites are not small, which also makes the senior officials of the Shang Kingdom hesitate.
Should we breed more divine-blooded mantises?
But one thing that is certain is that the Shang Kingdom will definitely not be able to resume most of its military production in a short period of time.
No way, when the second spiritual energy revived and the demonic creature craze appeared, quite a few military factories in the Shang Kingdom were destroyed by demonic creatures.
This is not surprising. Most of the special factories such as military factories are built deep in the mountains.
In addition to secrecy and concealment, the original danger of explosives in military factories can only keep them away from cities.
Military production cannot be restored, and ammunition is getting less and less. Without ammunition, no matter how advanced a weapon is, it is just a fire stick.
So after several days of meetings, Shang Guo made a bold decision.
Establish a number of new giant mantis breeding bases in major cities, and send some of the female divine blood mantises to these newly established breeding bases to fully develop the number of giant mantises to make up for the lack of military production.
As for the God-Blooded Praying Mantis's big appetite, this is actually not a big problem.
After all, compared to other domestic animals, the divine blood mantis can hunt on its own. Besides, there are demonized creatures everywhere now. As long as the divine blood mantis forms a group size, the food problem can actually be easily solved.
If that doesn't work, the corpses of demonized creatures and other miscellaneous water can be used to make mixed feed, which can also satisfy the God-Blooded Praying Mantis.
Well, in fact, the God-Blooded Praying Mantis is not as picky as imagined. They have even overcome the racial habit of eating only live food.
Time passed bit by bit.
More giant mantis breeding bases were established near major cities in the Shang Kingdom.
These giant mantis breeding bases are like nails, firmly stuck in the attack route of demonized creatures.
Every three months, a batch of giant mantises will lay eggs, and then after a month of incubation, molting and other growth processes, they will grow into adults.
It can be said that the number of divine-blooded mantises has increased exponentially.
In just half a year, the number of divine-blooded mantises surged to more than one million.
This is because the officials of the Shang State did not dare to let the divine-blooded mantis live due to insufficient food.
If we let go of birth, with the reproductive ability of the God-Blooded Praying Mantis, we can reproduce 10 million people in almost half a year!
Considering the needs of combat arrangements and training, these more than one million god-blooded mantises were directly transferred to the army.
Before the revival of spiritual energy, the number of standing troops in the Shang Kingdom was approximately one million.
After the spiritual energy was revived, the number of standing armies surged to three million.
No way, fighting against demonized creatures is ultimately about manpower.
No matter how good a weapon is, it must still be used by humans?
Besides, the high-tech weapons in the past were not very effective against huge numbers of demonized creatures.
Facts have proved that although automatic machine gun towers save manpower, in fact, in the face of increasingly cunning demonic creatures, if you want to defend the city, the most effective way is to use a large number of soldiers plus automatic weapons such as submachine guns.
Therefore, these more than one million god-blooded mantises were eventually allocated directly to veterans who had joined the army before their spiritual energy was revived.
No way, although those new recruits already have some combat experience, there is still a big gap compared with the veterans who are skilled in combat skills and have adapted to military life.
Of course, even so, the cooperation between the veterans and the divine-blooded mantis still takes time.
Wang Xuegang is a squad leader of the 881st Regiment of the 712th Division of the Shang Kingdom who has just taken office.
