For the next three days, the protagonist has been traveling between "Dongyang Castle" and "Waterfront Castle", making various preparations and instructions for the next defensive operation.

The preparations for "Dongyang Castle" are being carried out in an orderly manner, and because the person in charge is clear and has practical experience, there is basically no need for the protagonist to worry too much:

The 1st, 2nd, and 4th Army Corps under the command of Roll, Rambofo, and Rambo have completed the work of dismantling the older soldiers, and the veteran ants who have been laid off have other tasks. The newly recruited young soldier ants are all in place, and the entire legion is now made up of young soldier ants.

The new young soldiers are healthy, flexible, and malleable, but without systematic training and actual combat training, the commanders can only pass the tactical information package to them first, and then continuously strengthen their technical and tactical level in training. As for the actual combat experience, it can only wait for the battlefield and rely on the old to bring the new to improve rapidly.

Rambovan led the Third Legion to continue to defend the "Stump Fortress", but they were not selected to go on the expedition, for which the kings of the Third Legion also sent messengers to complain to the protagonist several times, and the protagonist could only try to appease them.

The situation in the southern hills is relatively calm at present, I don't know if they feel the threat of winter, and the hunters are busy searching for food for the winter, and they have no intention of provoking disputes with the Divine Envoy King Legion. In addition, the protagonist has always strictly forbidden the Third Legion to take the initiative to provoke the hunting sickle and fierce ants, which also makes the Third Legion unable to find a training object for the third legion.

But the Third Legion could not sit idle, and they devoted all their energies to the expansion of the "Stump Fortress": digging the passage deep into the ground and building another winter camp on the ground floor. Because here, like the "Waterfront City", also faces the problem of lack of warmth in the nest in the trees.

In addition to building a camp, the "Stump Fortress" also needs to allocate a large amount of grain here in "Dongyang City" as a winter stockpile. Fortunately, "Dongyang Castle" is now a big business, and it is not a problem to support "Waterfront Castle" and "Stump Fortress" at the same time.

Lan Bofei and Lan Borui also completed the preparation for the establishment of the Dongyang City Garrison Corps, which did not have much combat pressure, so it was based on the older veterans who had been dismantled from other legions, merged the independent "Dongyang City" garrison originally commanded by Lan Bofei, and then recruited a large number of young soldiers. Although on the whole, due to the large number of recruits and soldiers who have not been on the battlefield, the combat effectiveness is not as strong as that of the 1st to 3rd Army Corps, but it is enough to defend the base camp.

Rambo Fei's main job is still focused on administration and the education of young male ants, and Rambo is usually responsible for the daily training of the legion.

In terms of logistics, Rambo Fei and the commander of the expeditionary corps are in charge. According to estimates, the total amount of food needed to meet the needs of the army for four months is about a vegetarian diet and a certain amount of dried meat.

The protagonist goes to "Waterfront City" to inspect the local granary, and this year, due to the fact that there are more troops to garrison than in previous years, the main nest has not transferred a large number of grain from the store. But even so, given that this sub-nest usually only lives with a thousand ants, it is not very optimistic that its food stock will supply four or five times the defenders.

In terms of vegetarian food, the situation is relatively good, and the stored grass seeds, dried mycelium, hay, etc. are barely enough for the three legions and the original defenders to eat for three months, and only need to allocate some more supplements from "Dongyang City".

It is worth mentioning that "Waterfront City" has a vegetarian food that is rare in other places - banyan fruit.

This is the fruit of the big banyan tree where the "Waterfront City" is located, and these fruits ripen after June, and the yield is so huge that the ants are almost inexhaustible. In addition to fresh food, it is also dried in large quantities for food storage.

Not only that, although these fruits have a mediocre taste, they still support a large number of other insects besides ants, so "Waterfront City" can hunt a large number of prey on the large banyan tree. If you don't take into account the inconveniences of defense and wintering, this is indeed a treasure of abundance.

However, the "Waterfront City" does not do a good job of preserving the freshness of meat, except for the prey that was eaten at the time, the other prey is not completely dried, so there is always a smell of corruption in the meat granary, which makes the protagonist who goes in to inspect a while disgusting.

In the end, the protagonist decides to throw away all the rotten and even moldy meat, and transport a large amount of dried meat from "Dongyang City" - although the livestock in the farm have stopped breeding and breeding in winter, the amount of dried meat saved this year is amazing, even if all the members of "Dongyang City" only eat meat in winter, it is enough to supply.

However, the time and manpower required to transport these supplies are a headache for the protagonist.

About two days north of Dongyang City, the big-headed ants who lack transportation tools have always relied on the ant sea tactics of worker ants to carry supplies between different nests.

It takes four days for the convoy to make a round trip, and the protagonist estimates that he will have to send thousands of workers on three trips to carry all the supplies. Considering that winter is approaching, there is only one month left for the ants to roam freely, and the time is still very short.

In addition, troops must be sent along the way to escort them to avoid losses due to enemy or insect attacks.

Fortunately, there is also a secondary nest of the big-headed ant kingdom between the two cities, which can be used by the convoy to spend the night here.

Now that the first convoy is ready to depart, the First Legion is responsible for escorting the convoy to the "Waterfront City". After that, the 1st Army would remain stationed, while the convoy returned alone. On the return trip, they don't have to carry dried meat, so they are much less attractive to some of the predators – no predators will risk attacking swarms of ants in pairs just to eat some ants.

In the materials to be transported, the pottery bomb also occupies a lot of space, because it is too wasteful to let each worker ant carry a pottery bomb, the technical team led by the secretary has developed a thick mesh bag woven with plant fibers under the guidance of the protagonist, and a mesh bag can hold more than a dozen pottery bombs, which greatly improves the transportation efficiency.

After seeing that the mesh bags work well, the protagonist suggests that they make some mesh bags with smaller mesh to carry food such as grass seeds.

These mesh bags do play a big role, otherwise the ants would not have to run back and forth three times, it is estimated that there will be seven or eight trips.

But even so, the protagonist is not satisfied with the efficiency of transportation, and he remembers the large dung beetle tamed by parasitic ants, and if there is such a dung beetle as a pack beast, one can be worth hundreds of worker ants.

Overall, the protagonist is quite satisfied with the preparation of "Dongyang City", but as soon as he sees the situation of "Waterfront City", he is speechless for a while.