Chapter 111: New Tank Troops

In the days that followed, the Red Fire Ant Nation showed no signs of continuing to fight back.

After leaving a legion of defensive troops in the nearest [Nansen City] [Donglin City] and other places closest to the Red Fire Ant Country, the protagonist returns to [Xinyang City] with peace of mind.

Until the end of June, the Red Fire Ant Kingdom had not launched any new offensive against the territory of the Divine Envoy King's legion, and the two sides only occasionally skirmished at some territorial junctions caused by foraging ant contact.

These skirmishes did not make a big fuss, and the Red Fire Ant Nation knew that it would be difficult to fight on two fronts, so even if they smashed the pot and sold iron, it would be difficult to support logistics. The Divine Envoy King Legion is cultivating internal strength with peace of mind, and does not want to spend time and resources on war for the time being.

At this time, after two months of recuperation, the ant-mouths of the Divine Envoy King's legion have greatly increased, and the 11 secondary nests already have 150,000 ant-mouths, but they are still half of the peak of the ant-mouths estimated by the protagonist, and it is not yet the time to expand the living space that needs to be expanded.

With the growth of the ant population, the protagonist has been extremely busy during this time, and the administrative work volume of the entire territory is growing rapidly.

For example, most of the newly-born ant populations are concentrated in [Xinyangcheng] to become adults, and they need to be deployed to the newly established secondary nests to enrich the ant population and develop the industry; In the early stage of the new secondary nest, most of the honeydew industry is the main industry, and with the increase of ant population, it is also necessary to build new farmland and breeding farms to ensure the self-sufficiency of grain; The scientific research team has encountered bottlenecks in projects such as fluorescent bacteria extract, and needs the guidance of the protagonist and more investment in ant power and material resources. And so on and so forth.

In the past, in his homeland, the protagonist could also rely on male ants such as Lan Bofei to assist him in completing these chores, and even Lan Bofei had faintly appeared as the Minister of the Interior, and gradually separated from the military world.

But in this new continent, most of the male ants around the protagonist have only reached adulthood after several marriage flights this year, and they lack administrative business experience. In addition, there is a shortage of males as commanders in the standing army of the Divine Envoy King's army, and most of the young males are more willing to go to the army than to engage in boring administrative positions.

The few young males who are willing to help are better than nothing.

The protagonist has to help him with a group of Divine Ants, who are more intelligent and loyal, and unconditionally obey the protagonist, and these Divine Ants form the new administrative structure of the Divine Envoy King's Legion.

In order to dispel the resistance of the male ants, the title of the position given by the protagonist to these god workers is "secretary", which means to assist in the language of ants, and it does not seem to be very powerful.

But in reality, the executive power is already in the hands of the secretary's office.

But the protagonist didn't delegate too much power, and there were many important matters that the secretaries themselves had no right to deal with, and they needed the protagonist's decision.

For example, in the military, the secretarial office has no right to intervene at all.

Recently, the Divine Envoy King's Legion has not continued to expand its army, and still maintains the size of 11 legions, but the shortage of ant soldiers and equipment has been filled.

The team of Flying Knights has been expanded to 1 integrated squad, with 50 Flying Knights, all of whom are Flying Knights who are loyal to the protagonist, to ensure that there will be no more things like the Flyhawks.

In addition, the tank unit that the protagonist has in mind has finally been reorganized, and now has the size of 10 squads, because it is not enough to form a corps, the protagonist gives it the formation of an "assault brigade". The commander of the brigade was the captain of the brigade, and was held by a male ant commander, who was named "Roll II".

Among the 10 tank squads, there are 2 heavy tank squads, each of which has 2 large double-pronged rhino beetles and 26 soldiers, 2 large stag armors and 14 soldiers, and 2 medium ammunition transport beetles and 10 soldiers.

There are 8 medium tank squads, each team has 8 medium stag armor and 40 soldiers, and 2 medium ammunition transport beetles and 10 soldiers.

The protagonist has made innovations in the establishment of the tank unit this time, one is to completely abandon the small beetles that are not strong in combat, and the other is that there is no accompanying infantry, and in the future, the role of accompanying infantry will be filled by other infantry regiments, which does not account for the number of tank troops.

In the past, tank units performed well in their homeland, and after arriving in the New World, the protagonist has also been trying to rebuild tank units.

However, at the beginning, the Divine Envoy King Legion carried too few eggs of various types of beetles with the walnut ship, and some of them had not successfully hatched, and they had not been able to make up enough beetles.

It wasn't until the beginning of spring this year, especially after repelling the Red Fire Ant Army and expanding in a big way, that the Divine Envoy King's legion found a large number of suitable beetle eggs from all over the territory, especially from the rotten wood of the Black Forest.

Even, after the beetle breeding industry of the King Legion was greatly expanded, there was still room to provide a large number of small and medium-sized beetles to other industries.

For example, the trade team with the leaf-cutting ant country began to add a large number of medium-sized beetles as camel animals. These beetles have rattan chests on their backs that can be completely closed, which is equivalent to the carrying capacity of hundreds of worker ants with large jaws after being filled with hematite grains at one time, greatly increasing the amount of hematite imported by the Divine Envoy King Legion.

As trade between the two sides expanded, the Legion of the Divine Envoy was not even enough to trade honeydew for hematite. Fortunately, the Leaf Cutting Ant Kingdom also accepted gold as a means of payment, and the Divine Envoy King's Legion organized ant hands to collect sand gold on the golden beach for trade.

The import of iron ore has increased greatly, and a new blast furnace has been built in [Xinyangcheng], and a large number of iron weapons and iron tools have been widely used.

Even the ballistas on the back of the double-pronged rhino beetle are made of a large number of iron components, which greatly increases the performance. These ballistas, as well as the ballistas in places such as [Xinyangcheng], were also issued with a small number of iron bullets, which were more penetrating, although at the moment they were a bit too powerful.

After the Divine Envoy King Legion finally stepped into the Iron Age in full swing, the import route of hematite ore became the lifeline of the Divine Envoy King Legion, and the source of iron ore was completely in the hands of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country.

So starting in July, when the Leaf Cutting Ant Nation said that it needed to reduce the amount of iron ore traded, it gave the protagonist a headache.

There is also a reason why the leaf-cutting ant country has reduced the volume of iron ore trade.

First, because the scale of the war between the Leafcutter Ant Country and the Red Fire Ant Country is getting bigger and bigger, more and more ant hands are being dispatched to the front line, and the production in the rear is affected. Hematite harvesting requires a large number of antmen and is not as high a priority as food production, so leafcutter ants have only reduced iron ore production and secured other essential industries.

In addition, the previous Divine Envoy King Legion dumped a large amount of honeydew to the Leaf Cutting Ant Country to trade iron ore, which also caused the Leaf Cutting Ant Country's honeydew to be oversupplied in a short period of time.

The nobles of the Leafcutter Ant Country have been raised to have a bad taste, and they prefer the crow honey with better flavor and addictive effect, and the demand for honeydew has decreased, and ordinary professional ants are not qualified to enjoy honeydew in the first place. As a result, the total demand for honeydew is decreasing.

As a result, the leaf-cutting ant country has put forward a request to reduce the amount of honeydew imported and the amount of iron ore exported at the same time.