Chapter 306: Encirclement and Reinforcements
For ants, once they are injured or sick, they can only rely on their own immunity most of the time.
Although this immunization method gives the ants strong resistance, it also causes the ants not to get sick and injured, but once they are sick and injured, they are very easy to die due to injury or subsequent infection, and there is almost no external force to help, and even if they can recover, it is easy to leave a disability, which affects a lifetime, and it is also a burden on the ant nest.
There are many wounded soldiers in the Divine Envoy King Legion who have to retire because of "lack of medical treatment", and the forced retirement of these experienced veterans is also a huge loss of ant power resources. At present, the protagonist will generally organize these veterans into the garrison of the sub-nest in various places, and deal with low-intensity military operations, which can be regarded as exerting some residual heat.
The most primitive treatment method is to lick the injured area and use the antibacterial ingredients in saliva to relieve the symptoms, which is also a treatment method that many animals have.
In addition, another sign that the ant colony has entered civilization is that the big-headed ant, the paving ant and the hunting sickle ant also have their own set of experience-based herbal knowledge systems, which are similar to the herbalism in the primitive tribes of humans, but due to the differences between ants and humans, many knowledge cannot be generalized, but some knowledge can be generalized.
For example, humans and paver ants know to consume nightshade fruit to treat some inflammation.
Interestingly, due to the lack of communication between the big-headed ants, the paving ants, and the hunting sickle ant colonies, the herbalism developed by each of them was just as simple and crude, but they were different from each other, and it was not until they were integrated by the protagonist into the Legion of the Divine Messenger King that the protagonist integrated the herbalistic knowledge of the three families.
However, this knowledge of herbology adds up to the use of more than a dozen plants that ants are familiar with, and does not actually help with most diseases. And with such rudimentary herbal knowledge, only queens and males could be treated before. This kind of herbalism can only be called a medical aid, not yet medicine.
Perhaps, in time, the slowly developing ant civilization will develop medicine on the basis of these primitive and rudimentary herbs, but it will not help much to ensure the health of the ant society.
Although the fly eggs are inconvenient to transport and preserve, it has excellent curative effect on the bacterial diseases or infections that ants are generally susceptible to, which is already a "medicine" in a more scientific sense, and is of great significance for maintaining and saving the precious ant power resources in the Divine Envoy King Army.
The protagonist has already ordered the eggs to be removed from the category of high-class food, and used as a medicine reserve for the wounded ants.
Due to the harsh transportation and storage conditions, at present, the Divine Envoy King Legion can only provide fly egg medicine for patients in the main nest "Qingqiu City", and other secondary nests cannot enjoy this treatment.
But in other words, it is also beneficial for the protagonist to control the other secondary nests through medicine, especially the male ants and queens with high intelligence levels, who are more afraid of death, and after learning about the efficacy of the eggs (of course, the protagonist does not reveal to them that they are fly eggs, and the eggs given to the patient are also peeled off in advance, and the juice is extracted to keep secret), based on the instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm, it is difficult to disobey the command of the divine envoy king who has the "universal elixir".
Moreover, fly eggs can be used not only as medicine, but also as health supplements, which can be taken in advance to prevent germs from entering the body.
However, because the natural antibiotics in the fly eggs are not resistant to high temperatures, the edible fly eggs cannot be cooked, which makes the protagonist still prohibitive. Although he also ate insect eggs before, they were all cooked in a clay pot and eaten, and they tasted no different from eggs, which was easy to accept psychologically. But if he wants to eat raw eggs directly, he has to worry about three points, let alone eat fly eggs raw.
Fortunately, since the time of rebirth, the protagonist's body is very healthy and has been disease-free, so he is too lazy to eat more food that makes him feel disgusting.
- I'm the dividing line -
A few days after Rambovan's victory, he commanded five more legions and completed the siege of the defeated army of the Queen Ant's Legacy faction.
The Divine Envoy King Legion drove directly to the enemy's sub-nest, excavated the base on the periphery, controlled the entrance and exit of the enemy's sub-nest, and completed the encirclement of the enemy, as long as the enemy could not conquer the base of the Divine Envoy King's legion, he would not be able to get contact and support from the outside world.
With Rambovan's temperament, he was not willing to fight such a long encirclement battle, but he also knew that relying on the siege was bound to lose a large number of valuable troops.
And when the protagonist learns of his record, he is also worried that he is too reckless and gives restrictive orders. As a last resort, Rambovan had to use encirclement tactics to deal with the stubborn enemy who held out, following the experience taught by the protagonist.
Even if there was relatively abundant food in the garrison of the Queen Ant's Inheritance faction army, it would be difficult to supply the tens of thousands of troops that poured in for a long time. Through the siege, the protagonist estimates that in about a month, the enemy will collapse due to lack of food.
In addition to reducing battle damage, siege tactics also have the effect of encircling points and sending reinforcements.
From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, to the Mongol Era, the "World Conqueror", to the War of Liberation, and the War of Self-Defense and Counterattack against Vietnam, this tactic has been frequently used, and it has often achieved miraculous results.
Even if the besieged and the reinforcements are aware of each other's intentions, they are often forced to step into the trap in order to rescue their allies.
It's hard for humans to crack this tactic, let alone the relatively simple number of ants.
Soon, the Flying Knights discovered that the Queen Ant Legacy faction was mobilizing troops across the territory, and batches of reinforcements and supplies were converging on another side nest not far from the encirclement, and the enemy was apparently preparing to gather its second force to rescue and counterattack.
Judging from the scale, the enemy's mobilization this time was extremely strong, even to the point of losing food production capacity, and according to the information fed back by the flying knight, the protagonist felt that the enemy's final gathering of troops could reach 100,000.
This is the scale of the enemy army that the Divine Envoy King Legion has never dealt with, even in the heyday of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, with the support of the entire territory on the south bank of the Great River, it will not easily use such a military scale, which will cause a loss of national strength that is difficult to recover in the short term.
But the queen ant inheritance faction did just that, maybe the queen ant lacked management experience and it was difficult to meet the consequences of doing so, maybe they felt that this was a fateful national war, and if they lost, there was nothing.
In short, the Queen Ant Inheritance faction army began to do its best. And the protagonist also began to deploy troops and prepare to deal with it.