Chapter 248: Spring Cold (1)

Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!

However, even with thoughts of revenge, the protagonist knows that he can't go it alone.

The enemy's posture is still relatively vague, and the Divine Envoy King's legion is obviously not able to fight alone. Now, the Legion of the Divine Envoy King has four legions and two garrisons, and is also responsible for the defense of four lairs or fortresses, and its strength is already stretched.

Therefore, the next step will need to wait until the intelligence is further refined and friendly support is ready.

When the winter defense plan and the spring counteroffensive plan were drawn up in the autumn, the king council had already expected that there might be a fall of the side nest, but the protagonist did not expect the king of the West to die here.

The planned spring counteroffensive was divided into two parts, one part was to gather forces to recover the lost sub-nest on the south bank of the Great River, which was similar in nature to the reconquest wars of previous years.

However, this year's Reconquest War may be slightly smaller, at least only one of the three secondary nests that the Paving Ant Barbarian Army is known to have attacked! It is not known if there are any other nests that have been lost, but the absolute number of nests that have been lost is certainly smaller than in previous years.

This shows that the defense plan that the protagonist supported at the King's Council has worked, and it has also reduced the difficulty of recovering the war this year.

The second part is the main part, the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom will organize an expeditionary force to support and strengthen the "Bridgehead" through the suspended rope bridge of the "Waterfront City", and then use it as a base to launch an attack on the mainland of the Paving Ant Barbarian Country.

This will be the first time that the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom has extended its sphere of influence and troops to the north bank of the Great River.

However, before that, the protagonist needs to learn about the situation of the other secondary nests along the river and the side nests in the deep area, determine which side nests have been lost, and get in touch with the commander of the secondary nests that are still holding on.

The protagonist also needs to get in touch with the main nest and "Dongyang City", most of the reinforcements (whether it is to recover the secondary nest or counterattack Hebei) and supplies must be provided by the main nest, and "Dongyang City" is the most important logistical support for the Divine Envoy King's legions, which have completely different combat methods and logistics needs.

At present, the messenger to "Dongyang City" has not returned, and if the messenger goes well, then the messenger will return in the next day or two, and the support force will arrive soon.

On the other hand, on the main hive's side, the protagonist hasn't sent a messenger yet, so he sends one to make the main hive ready to support as soon as possible.

But according to the convention, the main nest will not send out troops until after the wedding flight ceremony once a year, and it will take about a month, and the main nest army cannot be counted on in the short term.

The protagonist sends a courier, but first tries to enlist some other support, such as command, such as the queen ant, etc.

- I'm the dividing line -

The day after sending out the messenger to the main nest, the protagonist senses an unusual change in climate.

On the first night, the protagonist who lives in the depths of "Waterfront City" can hear the whistling wind, which seems to be windy, and it is not small.

The room temperature of the nest begins to drop significantly. As winter has passed, less fuel has been put into the combustion chamber and the flame has become thinner. And since there is no threat of enemies for the time being, in order to facilitate the activities of the big-headed ants, the protagonist takes out all the stones that originally blocked the entrances and exits.

Therefore, in the absence of flame heating in the "Waterfront City", and cold air invaded through many entrances and exits, the temperature of the nest ** decreased rapidly, making the protagonist feel a long-lost cold.

The protagonist is feeling the cold, and the other ants are no better. Everyone tried to squeeze into the nest and lean against each other to keep warm. It wasn't until the protagonist ordered an increase in fuel delivery that the trend of cooling down the nest was curbed.

When he wakes up early the next morning, the protagonist crawls out of the nest tremblingly, only to find that it is sunny outside, but the temperature is very low.

The cold spring is coming.

Inverted spring cold refers to the weather phenomenon in which the temperature rises faster in early spring and the temperature is lower than normal in normal years after the beginning of spring.

Spring cold is a common weather phenomenon, around March in spring, the mainland is changing from the winter monsoon to the summer monsoon, during which there are often intermittent cold air from the northwest region, the cold air goes south and the warm and humid air in the south is maintained, forming a continuous low temperature weather.

In the cold weather of spring, sometimes it is a rainy day, but it is often sunny during the day, which makes people have a feeling of "warm wind smokes tourists drunk", but the cold air hits people in the morning and evening, making people feel that "spring cold is steep".

This cold spring is not a good thing for the ants, and even for the vast majority of insects and plants that have germinated.

For plants, the cold is a very serious meteorological disaster, which will cause continuous frost damage to plants and trees in a wide area. The cold of spring often causes the phenomenon of rotten seeds of some plants, and also affects the emergence and growth of plants.

Fortunately, this inverted spring cold appeared relatively early, and the impact on plants was not particularly large. If it appears after the "spring equinox", especially after the Qingming Festival, when the temperature rises significantly, all kinds of plants are vigorous, most fruit trees have entered the flowering and flowering period, and the ability of plants to resist low temperature and rain is greatly weakened. At this time, the cold weather of inverted spring will cause a large area of rotten seedlings, dead seedlings and low flowering and fruit setting rate, and the growth and development of other spring plants will also be seriously affected.

The effect of the inverted spring cold on insects is also great.

Ants also have nests to shelter from the cold, but most insects that have been dormant in the winter or have just hatched in the spring have a hard time coping with the sudden cooling.

Since last year was a mild winter, the temperature rose quickly in the early spring of this year, so many insects started their activities early. When the cold hits, most of the active insects can't escape the cold air and begin to die in large numbers.

After all, insects are numerous and adaptable, and there will still be many survivors, but the physiological activity of these survivors has also been broken.

The mass death of insects can in turn affect plants. Some plants lack insect vectors to spread pollen, which affects their fruiting and reproduction; Other plants have no predators and grow unchecked.

With the mass death of insects and the restriction of the growth of some plants, the ants will have a hard time, and the source of food (whether hunting or gathering) will be greatly reduced, and may even affect the ability of the colony to survive the winter.

It's not just this year, it's not just two ant nations. This cold spring and the far-reaching causes behind it are bound to have a great impact on the whole world......

But the protagonist is still unaware of these things that are too long ago, and he only knows that due to this bad weather, the messenger he sent out does not know if he will be able to reach his destination without any problems. Conversely, the reply and support he was expecting would probably be delayed.

This will have a bad impact on this spring's battle plan.