Chapter 155: The Great Expansion of the Army (1)

The number of the 10 "tanks" consisting of double-pronged rhinoceros turtles carrying ballistas is not set by the protagonist casually. The target number is based on the 12 bifurfurcatinos eggs available in the nest, taking into account the possible accidents such as not hatching or dying.

These tanks will be under the command of the 1st Army Corps of Rolling after they are formed, and 10 stag armors will be in place to serve as a melee assault force to achieve complementary near and far.

Although the small and medium-sized beetles were exposed to problems such as lack of power in the battle with the Destroyer, the number of beetles owned by the Divine Angel King's army did not increase so quickly, and they could only continue to retain many small and medium-sized beetles.

According to the method of domesticating beetles learned from the Queen Ant Inheritance faction, they can only be domesticated before and after the beetle has broken its pupae. Therefore, adult beetles caught in the wild cannot be domesticated, and can only be used by raising domesticated beetles in specialized farms.

Beetles do not reproduce much in farms and lay few eggs, so the protagonist always lacks enough large beetles.

In the protagonist's plan, in the formation of the 1st Legion of Rolling, it is still necessary to equip thirty medium beetle squads as auxiliary forces. These medium-sized beetles are not as easy against The Destroyer, but they can act as a shield to protect tanks. In human armies, infantry fighting vehicles are also needed to cover tanks, and the same is true.

As for the other small and medium-sized beetles that were eliminated by the 1st Legion, they will be taken over by the 3rd Legion of Rambovan.

The 3rd Legion also plans to upgrade to the Beetle Legion to deal with the large number of parasitic war beasts in the swamp area. However, the 3rd Legion is still stationed in [Bread City], and it will have to wait until next year to change its outfit.

In addition, the protagonist is preparing to upgrade a legion to a Beetle Legion, but has not yet chosen a specific target.

Next year will be a pivotal year, and the protagonist knows that.

Now the two major threats faced by the Divine Envoy King's legion come from one north and one south, although the destroyers of the north have only been in contact for a short time and have not fought much, but the strength and aggressiveness of the enemy have made the protagonist very jealous.

If you can't deal a heavy blow next year, when the destroyer has not yet fully digested the north bank of the Great River and its strength is not at its peak, it will be dealt a heavy blow.

Then, after the destroyer has all taken possession of the vast land on the north bank of the Great River, with its strong strength and the resources on the north bank of the Great River, it will be difficult for the Divine Envoy King Legion to have a chance to complete the great cause of unifying the basin.

At that time, the Legion of the Divine Envoy King may repeat the mistake of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom: it can only succumb to the south bank of the Great River, and face the threat of invasion every winter.

Now there is a dense ice in the big river, and it will take about a week to completely freeze it. Once the river freezes, it means that the season is the most unfavorable for the Divine Envoy Legion and the most favorable for the Destroyer.

The protagonist can't stand the fear of the New Year every year.

Looking at my calendar, it's already October 31st, and this year's winter came earlier than usual, the temperature is also a little lower, and there are exactly two months left before the Chinese New Year.

In addition to the threat on the north bank of the Great River, the Legion of the Divine Messenger also has opponents in the swampy region.

The parasitic forces hovered like ghosts on both sides of the river, and their figures had appeared on both sides. For example, the original [Dongyang City] was destroyed by parasitic fungi, and the [Purple Leaf Li City] on the north bank of the Great River also had parasitic mantis.

If the power of parasites is not completely destroyed, they can be infected and break out at any time like a plague.

This autumn's military operations in the swamp area have generally gone well, and the Divine Envoy King's legion has established a foothold in the swamp area, building four fortresses of [Swamp City], [Bridgehead], [Round City] and [Bread City], and also discovering the mysterious skull stone.

The swamp is like this world, full of secrets.

Although the protagonist has taken a certain victory over the parasitic ants, and has also found a way to restrain the parasitic war beasts, he has not completely destroyed the parasitic ants, nor has he unearthed the secrets about the skull stone and the world.

So next year the military operation in the swampy area will continue.

If the war against the Destroyer is more about self-preservation, then the war against the parasitic forces is like a journey to solve the puzzle, and the protagonist is convinced that the queen ant, who is obviously a parasitic with intelligence, will know some secrets about the skull stone and about humanity.

I'm the dividing line

In anticipation of next year's larger war, the protagonist plans to further expand his army.

Previously, when the big-headed ant kingdom was all on the south bank of the river, more than 300 secondary nests were set up. There are more than 70 of these sub-nests that are large-scale, with tens of thousands of ant mouths, and other small sub-nest models are within 10,000.

Most of the secondary nests are distributed in an irregular circle two or three days away from the main nest [Qingqiu City], and are mainly responsible for providing food for the large main nest. The other remote sub-nests either have military defense missions or border areas.

In the era of the big-headed ant kingdom, the ant mouths of so many nests added up to more than one million or less than two million ant mouths, so in the annual reconquest war, the limit of the troops that the big-headed ant kingdom can mobilize is about 600 legions and 100,000 soldiers.

In the face of the powerful paving ant barbarian country, it is no wonder that the big-headed ant kingdom with overstretched troops has never been able to gain an advantage.

After the protagonist pacified the whole territory of the south bank of the river, although it was only half a year, he had already popularized the planting industry and mealworm breeding industry to all side nests.

The development of agriculture and the sharp increase in grain harvest have brought about the explosion of ant mouths, and now the ant mouths of most of the auxiliary nests in the whole kingdom have doubled, and some key nests, such as [Qingqiu City] [Spiral Flower City] [Sitong City] and other ant mouths have increased even more. And it is far from the upper limit of the food capacity.

The protagonist estimates that he already has about four million ants under his command.

However, the army that protects such a large number of ants and vast lands has only 32 legions (not counting the garrison legions in various places), with a total of 80,000 soldiers.

Such a small number of troops can hold on, and it is certainly not enough to take the initiative on both the northern and southern fronts.

After repeatedly calculating the complex relationship between food, ant population, and military strength, the protagonist determines a plan for expanding the army, and the size of the new army can ensure that the food supply will not be shortage, the territory will be enough to support the ant population, and the new fierce war will be able to cope with the new fierce battle.

The goal of the protagonist's expansion is to create 68 new legions, bringing the total size of the field force of the Divine Legion to 100 legions, including 3 beetle legions.

In this way, the expanded army of the Divine Envoy King will have 250,000 mobile troops, and its strength will increase dramatically.