Chapter 223: Collapse (1)
The legions in the main nest [Qingqiu City] have long been reorganized, and they have been trained.
The equipment rate of these troops is also very high, and after the beginning of spring, the weapons and equipment built by [Dongyang City] are continuously transported here, and a large number of fire bombs and slings are also produced locally.
It can be said that this large army is ready to fight almost immediately.
But the only, and most fatal, limitation is that even the main nest [Qingqiu City] currently has enough food to support 50,000 soldiers from 20 legions.
The successive wars since the beginning of spring have exhausted the grain stocks of last year, and this year's farmland and breeding farms have not yet ushered in the first harvest, and this is the time when the harvest is at its lowest.
Not only the main nest [Qingqiu City], but also in the entire territory of the Divine Envoy King Legion, almost all the nests are no longer stocked. The only exception may be [Dongyang City], which is the protagonist's earliest base, with the largest farms and farmland, and a little richer grain stocks.
However, there is not much food in [Dongyang City], and it is still necessary to transport part of it to [Spiral Flower City] to supply Lan Bofei's army. The transportation force of [Dongyang City] has to bear the supply of Rambo Fei's army and the transportation of weapons for the main nest, which is no longer enough to transport food to the main nest, otherwise it will affect production.
And even if the food is delivered, it will take several days, and the water will not quench the thirst of the near, and the protagonist can't wait.
The protagonist can only be ruthless, let the main nest and the adjacent nest, kill some mealworms that have not yet grown up, let the army have a full meal, and then make some dried meat as dry food to carry to support the army's battle.
These mealworms are still half a month away from being fully grown, and are now less than half the size of the final harvest and are about to gain weight rapidly.
Slaughtering these mealworms now is a last resort, which is very uneconomical, but it can save lives, just like in a disaster year, farmers have to starve to death if they don't eat the grain used as seeds.
This time, the protagonist only left some of the mealworms that laid eggs, and the rest were all slaughtered, and the obtained dried meat was enough to support the army for more than half a month of fighting.
This is also the inspiration that the protagonist gets from the Destroyer.
There was a worker ant from [Grain Straw City] who witnessed the tragic situation of the destroyer not letting go of even the mealworms in the nest ** and killing them all. She managed to climb to the ground through a narrow air opening, dodging the carnage, and escaping all the way back to the main nest.
Rather than losing the battle and letting the Destroyer kill all the mealworms, it is better to use it as military rations to contribute to winning the war.
In previous investigations, the Destroyers generally only killed other ant races, and also attacked parasitic insects, but had no interest in ordinary insects. This time, they even killed the mealworms in the nest, most likely because these mealworms were full of the breath of the Divine Envoy King's army.
It seems that although these destroyers have good eyesight, they also rely heavily on the identification of smells, otherwise it would be impossible to distinguish between ants and mealworms.
- I'm the dividing line -
After a busy day, the entire main nest [Qingqiu City] finally slaughtered enough mealworms and urgently baked the first batch of jerky.
In order to prepare these grains, [Qingqiu City] and the nearby sub-nest slaughtered thousands of mealworms.
The army was finally ready and waited for the next morning.
Today, the Flying Knights have brought back bad news, and the Destroyers who have conquered [Grain Castle] have sent troops and are on their way to [Waterfront City].
However, the enemy sent not many troops, only about a thousand, and there was a radar destroyer in the middle, and its strength was not enough to threaten the well-defended [Linshui City], and the enemy's main force was still standing still in [Grain Castle].
On April 17th, the divine envoy Wang's army marched from the main nest [Qingqiu City] and killed [Grain Straw City], and at the same time, a large number of flying knights rose into the air, paying close attention to the battle situation on the front line of [Grain Straw City], [Linshui City] and [Bridgehead].
- I'm the dividing line -
A flying knight hovers over [Waterfront City] on his bee mount.
Beneath him, a group of thousands of destroyers had crossed the bridge of fallen dead wood and stepped onto the rocky pan of the island where Waterfront City was located.
The defenders here did not attempt to intercept the enemy in the field, and now the defenders in [Waterfront City] were more than fortified and not enough in the field, so they could only hold on to their lair and protect the rope bridge from the enemy on both sides of the river.
On the other side of the river, tens of thousands of destroyers are besieging [the bridgehead].
Never before have the legions of God's kings faced so many destroyers.
The entire [bridgehead], the defensive line on the ground has been completely abandoned, and the fragments of the torn protective net can still be seen from the air, and the remains of the ballista that have been destroyed before it is too late to be withdrawn. There was no corpse, except for the corpse, which had been taken away by the enemy.
Fortunately, the [bridgehead] underground defense facilities are complete, which was designed by the protagonist, and under the thick and solid ant concrete fortress, it is a defensive position that can limit the enemy's superiority in troops.
The Destroyers have been besieging for several days, but after taking over the ground, the attack on the underground has not progressed.
Although the ground defense line has been abandoned, both the [Waterfront City] and the [Bridgehead] still protect the entrances at both ends of the rope bridge, which is a battleground, and the Divine Envoy King needs to control the rope bridge so that the enemy's main force on the north bank of the river cannot go south, while maintaining communication with the [bridgehead].
And the Destroyer, if they knew about the existence of this rope bridge, I am afraid they would also be very interested.
The entrance to the north end of the rope bridge is in the ant mound of the [bridgehead], while the entrance to the south end is a low-hanging branch of a large banyan tree, and at the end of the branch there is a spherical anthill barrier built later.
The flying knights in the sky noticed that the destroyers under the Great Banyan Tree did not attack directly into the underground nests or tree nests, and they seemed to know that they were too few in number.
These destroyers from [Grain City], escorting the Redding Destroyers, came to the northern edge of the island, and looked out from afar with their fellow people on the other side of the river.
On the other side, there was also a team of Destroyers coming to the river, and there were also Radar Destroyers in the team, echoing each other from afar.
The two radar destroyers were separated by a wide river, and their tentacles were shaking at irregular high speed, obviously not shaking meaninglessly, but transmitting some kind of message.
Seeing this, the Flying Knight decided to make a note of it and mention it when he submitted the packet to the Messenger King.
Soon, the radar destroyers on both sides completed the communication.
And the flying knight suddenly found that the originally calm Destroyer position on the ground on the north bank of the Great River suddenly boiled over, and a large group of Destroyers surged up like a tide, and soon covered the entire [bridgehead] ant mound!
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