The third measure is to upgrade the "weapon" of the soldier ant warrior.

Now, the Big-Headed Ant Warriors, whether they are soldier ants or worker ants, can only rely on their natural weapon, a pair of jaws, to fight.

This pair of jaws is not only a combat weapon for ants, but also a tool for hunting, farming, and gathering, and is also responsible for assisting in eating.

However, when used as a weapon, this pair of large jaws does not appear to be powerful enough.

When facing the enemy ant warriors covered in carapaces, the big jaws are barely enough. The Soldier Warrior must use his strength to occupy a better position to attack, and can only kill the enemy in a short period of time if he can attack the enemy's neck or other weak point. Otherwise, the battle will easily fall into a duel situation where the big jaw bites the big jaw, and unless you have the help of your companions, it will take a long time to decide the winner and loser in heads-up.

The reason why the Divine Envoy King's legion appears to be combative on both sides of the river is because all its soldiers are soldier ants, and within the same length of battle line, soldier ants with advantages in stature and strength can more easily attack the enemy's weak points, improve the killing efficiency, and then trigger a chain reaction to form a breakthrough in the battle line.

The battle between the big-headed ant worker ant and the paving ant worker ant often needs to rely on numerical superiority, and in the way of siege, the enemy is mainly killed by dismembering rather than decapitating, and the killing efficiency will be much lower.

When attacking some insects with hard carapaces, the disadvantage of the ant's large jaws is infinitely magnified. Based on the protagonist's personal experience, whether it is encountering praying mantises, centipedes, or the river crabs that raged in "Yancheng" last time, the ants cannot effectively break the defense, and can only sacrifice a lot of money in exchange for the opportunity to attack the enemy's eyes, carapace gaps and other slightly weak defenses. Even if you make a great sacrifice, sometimes you can only drive the opponent away, and it is difficult to kill.

The protagonist didn't think that the innate defect of ants should be improved or made up for before, and he was used to it. However, when he met with the queen of the Big-headed Ant Remnant, he saw a sharp gravel sticking to the big jaws of the queen's guards as reinforcement, and he suddenly realized that he could still play like this.

A team of worker ants in the research group is escorted to the nest of the remnants of the big-headed ants, and the protagonist deliberately asks them to learn as many other techniques as possible in addition to the beetle domestication technology, such as weaving, such as masonry weapons, even if it is stealing.

When the research team returns, the protagonist exchanges information packets with each of them, and discovers that the Big-headed Ant Remnants are still wary of them, restricting them to a fixed area. However, for technology, the big-headed ant remnants do not seem to have the concept of technical barriers, as long as the workers in the scientific research group put forward the demand, the big-headed ant remnants will try their best to meet and share relevant information.

Therefore, the technical achievements brought back by the scientific research team are very fruitful, and the protagonist also sees the shadow of the remnants of an empire that was once countless times more advanced than the big-headed ant kingdom and the paving ant barbarian country.

Among the technologies brought back by the workers in the scientific research group is the technology of making weapons out of gravel.

The remnants of the big-headed ants will collect thin pieces of natural gravel and bring them back to their nests, use the fire of their nests to bake the gravel, and then quickly smear it with cold groundwater, and make the gravel chips burst into small pieces through rapid thermal expansion and contraction.

The protagonist of this technique will also, and has already been applied. However, the Big-headed Ant Remnants are clearly more technologically advanced, controlling where and when to spray the droplets to break the gravel flakes to the right size as much as possible.

Then, the craftsmen of the Big-headed Ant Remnants select the right stone from among them, which is usually a long, narrow and sharp piece of gravel, and it would be great if it could have a natural curvature.

Weapons are usually received by soldier ants, who line up to be transformed by craftsmen.

Artisan worker ants will prepare a special glue that mixes ant glue with some animal and plant protein materials, and is more viscous than ant glue alone.

Then, the artisan worker ants apply the glue to the gravel chips while they are not dry, and then the soldier ants with their jaws closed will come forward and let the artisan workers paste the glue-coated gravel chips on the upper side of their jaws.

The gravel flakes must be tightly connected to the large jaw, and a pair of gravel flakes must also be closed when the large jaw is tightly closed, so that it can not affect the feeding of the soldier ants, but also exert the maximum power.

The Big-Headed Ant Soldier Ant, who has received the gravel flake weapon, has completely raised its combat power to a notch, and with the well-developed muscles of the Soldier Ant's head, they can effortlessly cut it into two sections as long as they bite any position of the enemy ant inside.

In the face of grasshoppers, centipedes and other insects, they will no longer be helpless against their carapaces, but can pierce their defenses. Even a monster like a river crab has a tough membrane at the junction of its carapace, which cannot resist the puncture of gravel flakes on its large jaws.

The protagonist is amazed by the masonry weapons of the Big-Headed Ant Remnant, and he intends to improve them.

Today's gravel flake weapons are completely dependent on the shape naturally produced after the gravel fractures, not only is it difficult to guarantee the yield, but also the gravel flakes are unprocessed, and the practicability varies greatly between different gravel flakes due to the difference in shape.

The practice of the Big-Headed Ant Remnants is to give the most suitable shape to the strongest soldier warriors. But this obviously cannot be standardized, and it cannot meet the protagonist's idea of equipping tens of thousands of soldiers in six legions.

The protagonist refers to the evolutionary route of human stone tools, hoping to reprocess these crude prototype stone tools, such as polishing.

Polished stone tools are sharper, trimmed to a more conforming shape to the ant's jaws, and are able to maintain a nearly uniform shape.

To polish stone tools, it is naturally better to have tools such as grinding wheels, but the protagonist has neither the technology to process grinding wheels, nor can he use wind or water power to drive the grinding wheels, so he can only settle for the next best thing.

It happened to be winter, and there were a large number of worker ants in the "Dongyang City" who were in a state of idleness, and they couldn't go anywhere if they stayed underground all day.

The protagonist organizes these tens of thousands of worker ants, and each worker ant successively sends a few pieces of gravel to be processed, and some small rough stones used as whetstones, and asks them to be responsible for polishing these gravel chips little by little according to the guidance of the information packet.

Although it is very inefficient, it has a large base of worker ants, and the warehouse has plenty of stone prepared in advance - after all, gravel is not a rare mineral. The protagonist estimates that before the beginning of spring, he will be able to gather twenty or thirty thousand sets of gravel weapons, which will not only be enough to equip the existing troops, but also have room for future expansion.

The first unit to be armed with gravel weapons was still the most elite First Legion under the command of Roll.

After the first squad is equipped with weapons, the protagonist takes these soldier ant warriors on a walkthrough!