According to the confession of the captured paving ant worker ants, the protagonist learns that the number of paving ant barbarian troops stationed in this lost sub-nest is indeed small, and there is only one legion of 2,500 soldiers, which can be called the four words of garrison emptiness.

However, there are also three queens stationed here, who are constantly producing new eggs.

In addition to the newly born and adult paving ant warriors to make up for the attrition caused by the local legions due to various reasons, the rest will be sent to the south to replenish the losses on the battlefield.

At the same time, the lost secondary nest will also transport most of the collected food to the south, leaving only the food rations for the other ants and the queen's consumption.

This basically validates the protagonist's previous guesses.

Subsequently, the protagonist wrings the neck of the captured paver ant worker ant and discards the corpse at will.

As the paver ant worker ant explained just now, the death and disappearance of worker ants who go out to work is a common thing, and a fierce insect, a small disaster or even a gust of wind can cause them to die.

Therefore, the disappearance of this worker ant does not alarm the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, and the protagonist does not even need to bother to dispose of her corpse. Even when her body is found, the other paver ants will casually discard it in the ant cemetery, and even bring the body back to eat it due to food shortages, but will never scrutinize her wounds and cause of death. In this ant world, there is no presence of forensic doctors or police.

The protagonist then flies north, where he finds an opportunity to capture a captive in the second and northernmost Lost Nest and interrogate him as he did.

The situation that the worker ant learns is similar to that of the previous captive, except that the protagonist learns that there are actually ten paver ant queens stationed in the lost secondary nest.

Getting the desired result, the protagonist also kills the paver ant worker ant.

Killing her does not impose any psychological burden on the protagonist, who does not consider these ants to be of his own kind, and crushing an ant has always been synonymous with "easy" in the eyes of humans.

Maybe only Buddhists value the life power of ants, but the protagonist is not a believer in religion, and there is no need to follow these rules, and when he comes to this world, perhaps only being a complete pragmatist and utilitarian is the best way to survive.

Based on the information obtained, the protagonist pieced together the overall strategy of this paving ant barbarian army of the southern expedition.

After the Paving Ant Barbarian Army captured the three sub-nests, they used the southernmost sub-nest as the main defensive position, and gathered most of the troops, about 80,000 or more.

In the north, the two sub-nests were left with only the most basic defensive forces - one regiment each.

The two secondary nests in the north serve as rear bases, continuously transporting new adult warriors and collected food to the south to replenish the consumption of the first secondary nest.

In this way, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army will be able to support it for a longer time, and it will even cause immeasurable losses to the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army.

According to the distribution of the queen ants, the protagonist also sees a set of preparatory plans for the paving ant barbarian army.

That is, once the southernmost secondary nest is lost, the two northern secondary nests will no longer need to provide food support. At this time, with a more abundant food supply, the two secondary nests can immediately increase the egg production of the local queen ants and rapidly expand the army.

A paving ant queen can maintain a production of 600 eggs a day for a period of time when the food is abundant, which is three times the peak production of the big-headed ant queen.

As long as the big-headed ant kingdom army is delayed for a while, the queen ant of the two secondary nests in the north can quickly expand the military strength of the paving ant barbarian army.

In particular, the northernmost Lost Nest is home to 10 queens, which can produce up to 6,000 eggs a day, and the newborn ants can reach adulthood after half a month.

This also means that as long as the second Lost Auxiliary Nest drags the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army for ten days and half a month, the northernmost Lost Auxiliary Nest can rebuild a large army.

Of course, there are limits to this kind of plan.

One limitation is the insufficient number of commanders. Although the queen ant can also produce male eggs, this year's wedding ceremony has passed, and the young male ants cannot reach adulthood, so naturally they cannot act as commanders.

But this restriction is not without a solution, the southernmost lost sub-nest is conquered by the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army, and the Paving Ant Barbarian Army is fully capable of organizing a breakout, transferring the surviving kings and kings who have lost their subordinates to the rear and commanding new legions and squads.

The second restriction is food.

Whether it is the consumption of the existing army of the southernmost sub-nest, or the future mass laying of eggs by the two northern para-nest queens to rebuild the army, astronomical amounts of food are needed.

It is not enough to rely on the worker ants to search for this food in the territory of the secondary nest, and the power of natural disasters such as the severe spring cold at the beginning of this year is gradually revealed, and at the same time, the war potential of both the big-headed ant kingdom and the paving ant barbarians is weakened.

Due to the barrier of the great river, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army can only rely on the three secondary nests it occupies to support the consumption of this war, and the southernmost secondary nest has been reduced to a battlefield and cannot collect resources. This means that the paving ant barbarian army can only rely on the resources of the two secondary nests to support the combat consumption of nearly 100,000 troops.

The Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army has dozens of secondary nests throughout the kingdom to provide resources, and the protagonist also provides the technology of breeding farms and farmland for the main nest this year. In terms of resources, the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army has an incomparable advantage.

No matter how sophisticated the strategic planning of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army is, it can't withstand the endless attrition. The victory of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom Army is a matter of time.

However, what the protagonist needs is for the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army to win in a shorter time and with fewer losses. In this way, the army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom can cross the river and pose a threat to the native territory of the Paving Ant Barbarians.

After scouting the native territory of the Paving Ant Barbarians, the protagonist realizes how huge the territory and ant mouth of the Paving Ant Barbarians are, and how terrifying their war potential will be once fully mobilized.

Ironically, perhaps in the eyes of the paving ant barbarians, the big-headed ants in the south are the real "barbarians".

Only by bringing the strength comparison between the big-headed ant kingdom and the paving ant barbarian clan closer, can the protagonist's power expand rapidly in the cracks. The Big-Headed Ant Kingdom is still a very important ally.

Based on this, the protagonist must help the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom quickly achieve victory in the Reconquest War.

And the protagonist has found a way and a breakthrough.

Obviously, the two lost secondary nests in the north, where the current defense strength is weak, are this breakthrough.

Thinking of this, the protagonist immediately sped up and flew south, and he needed to contact the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army and let the other party carry out his plan.