After a whole day of fighting, the losses of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army were greater.

The losses were mainly the loss of soldiers and food.

In the morning, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army crossed the river as usual to attack the "Target Ding" garrisoned by the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, and suffered heavy losses in the river crossing and the subsequent battle of the large corps. However, this kind of loss can also be exchanged for the enemy's attrition, and in the long run, there is no problem in capturing the heavily guarded "target D".

But then the sneak attacks of the black-headed sour ants that advanced made the paving ant barbarian army suffer from the enemy.

In the battle with the black-headed acid ants, a large number of soldiers were killed by the acid attack, and many soldiers were injured by the acid mist.

Most of the wounded will be disabled as a result, and even after they recover, it will be difficult for them to regain their original combat effectiveness, so they will be cleared out of the army.

In the ant world, severely disabled ants can only survive by begging for food, and although they do not starve to death, it is difficult to contribute to the nest.

Therefore, although there are not many direct deaths caused by the fight with the black-headed sour ants, and there are only thousands of soldiers, the thousands of wounded people generated have also greatly depleted the vitality of the paving ant barbarian army, and even become a burden on the nest.

On the other hand, there is the loss of food.

When the first black-headed sour ant tribe attacked the base camp, they carried a batch of grain, which was not large. The heaviest loss was due to the fact that after the black-headed sour ant warriors were blocked in the base camp and could not escape, all parts of the base camp became battlefields, including many granaries.

In battle, the grain in the granary will inevitably be contaminated by acid. And because the grain is mainly sun-dried dried meat and wild grains, it is very dry, and it is easy to absorb a large amount of acid mist, and the grain that is not directly affected by the acid solution is often polluted by acid mist.

And these contaminated grains are not the same as damp grains. The latter can be eaten as long as it is not moldy, and it can be eaten after drying in time. The former is completely inedible, and the acid changes the composition of the food, which will cause damage to the internal organs of the ants after eating.

You must know that formic acid is formic acid, and a certain concentration of formic acid, even if taken by humans, will corrode the mucosa of the oral cavity and digestive tract, causing vomiting, diarrhea and gastrointestinal bleeding, and even death due to acute renal failure or respiratory failure. The weight of ants is obviously not as good as that of humans, and the anti-toxicity is far weaker, and a trace amount of formic acid entering the digestive system will cause fatal damage.

It was precisely because of the heavy losses of soldiers and food, and the loss of most of the pontoon bridge materials collected before, that the high-level command of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army had to postpone the plan to attack "Target Ding" after an agreement.

The paving ant barbarian army began to get busy: transporting the wounded back to the various auxiliary nests, requisitioning a batch of worker ants to replenish the wear and tear of each legion, identifying, cleaning and discarding contaminated food, requisitioning and replenishing military rations, and collecting pontoon materials such as dry branches and grass stems.

It seems that within three or four days, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army will not be able to launch an attack, which is exactly what the protagonist wants.

In the next few days, the Northern Expeditionary Force stationed in the "Target Ding" was not idle, repairing the lair damaged in the previous battle while evacuating the seriously wounded.

Under the repeated urging of high-level commanders such as the public security king, the main nest "Qingqiu City" also scraped the ground, and finally cobbled together a wave of reinforcements from four legions, carrying food to support.

With the enhancement of the defense ability of "Target D", it seems that it will not fall in the short term, and the protagonist can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Because at this time, the army of the god envoy king under the command of the protagonist is experiencing the pains of reform, and there is no spare strength to go to the north bank of the river to support the Northern Expeditionary Army for the time being.

- I'm the dividing line -

After pacifying the southern hills, the protagonist has begun to reform the army of the Divine Envoy King's army.

He reorganized the troops of the Divine Envoy King's Legion into a field legion, a garrison legion, and a reserve garrison. Among them, the field corps is the main standing army; The garrison corps is stationed in various lairs or fortresses, but its members are also involved in productive labor on weekdays, and the soldiers of the garrison corps are also the source of reserve soldiers for the field legions; The reserve garrison force is not uniformly organized, and is composed of disabled veterans from previous wars, and is a supplementary force for the defense of the garrison.

After some supplementation and rectification, the protagonist already has a mobile force of 15,600 soldiers in six field legions, and the commanders of the six legions are: rolling, Rambofo, Rambovan, Rambotu, Ramborui and Rambosser.

In addition, there are the "Dongyang Castle" garrison corps commanded by Zhuzi, the "Linshui Castle" garrison corps commanded by Hu Zi, the "bridgehead" garrison corps commanded by Da Rong, and the "Southern City" garrison corps commanded by King Floating Leaf and Gardenia, a total of four garrison corps, as well as a reserve force composed of several veterans.

After some replenishment and rectification, a large number of new recruits were added to the various corps that had suffered heavy losses in the pacification war in the southern hills, and these recruits had to undergo some training before they could form combat effectiveness.

The training of the ants is relatively simple, just pass the information package of relevant tactics and requirements to the recruits, and then let the recruits continue to understand them in their daily training.

What really slows down the progress of the whole training is the new power that the protagonist is trying to integrate.

For example, the Scythe Hunter has always been the ideal scout warrior in the protagonist's mind, and after ambushing some of the Scythe Hunter Ant Queens, the protagonist can finally incorporate these ants with excellent eyesight and strong single-handedness into the legion.

The protagonist plans to add two Scythe Hunter Scout Squads to each field legion, and at first, due to the lack of troops, only the First Legion has a hundred Scythe Hunter Ants.

But soon, Roll came to report that it was difficult to command the scythe hunting ants.

After the protagonist understands the situation, he realizes that although ants communicate with each other through consciousness, although different races can communicate smoothly, it is still difficult to compromise on behavioral habits.

Most of the ants that the protagonist took the lead in joining the First Legion were the first batch of ant pupae to be captured, and after these scythe ants broke the pupae, they were led by a small number of subdued indigenous scythe ants, and they learned the old-fashioned practices of the indigenous tribes.

As a result, these Scythe-Hunter warriors were accustomed to the free life and fighting style of small groups, and did not adapt to and resist the prohibitive and well-organized style of the Divine Envoy Legion.

The protagonist's initial attempt to maintain the Scythe Ant-Hunting style in order to better play his role as a scout has to fail.

The protagonist has to hand over the remaining hunting sickle ant pupa, eggs and larvae to the big-headed worker ants to raise, so that they can live with the larvae of the big-headed ant and subtly change.

After this batch of hunting sickle ants became adults, they were added to the legions, and they were fused very well.

However, it takes time to wait for the young ants to reach adulthood, which also greatly slows down the training of the Divine Envoy King Legion.