After the source of infection was eliminated, Dongyang Castle remained under martial law for three days, and ants who had gone out to work had to go through strict inspection by male ants before returning to their underground nests.

Three days passed, and after no new silk thread parasites and infected people were found, the martial law was lifted, and the "Dongyang Castle" finally temporarily returned to its former tranquility.

With the significant increase in grain storage in the granary, "Dongyang City" has the ability to feed more ants in a short period of time.

And in order to prepare for the upcoming big war with parasitic ants, the protagonist once again loosens the reproductive restrictions of the queen ants.

In a short period of time, the total ant population of "Dongyang City" quickly exceeded the 30,000 mark, including about 10,000 soldier ants and about 20,000 worker ants.

The third batch of 100 males and three females have reached adulthood, and the males have been educated by Rambo Fly, and the females are educated by the queen. Now, they have met the conditions for marriage flight.

Subsequently, the protagonist once again held a second wedding ceremony in "Dongyang City" in the name of "God's will". After the ceremony, the three winning males and their subjects spent the sky together in the newly built queen's dormitory.

From the second day of the wedding flight, the protagonist assigns fifty soldier ants to each of the 100 male ants of the new adult as subordinates, forming a new team of 100.

The protagonist also transferred Rambovan, Ramboto, and Ramberray back from the Southern Fortress, which has no combat missions for the time being. Rambovan, Rambotu and Rambery will serve as instructors for the new squads, training traditional squads (hand-to-hand combat) and ranged squads (slingers), respectively.

According to the protagonist's plan, seven of the 100 new squads will be added to the Divine Envoy King's legion to make up for the battle losses after the last war, as well as the vacancies created after the transfer.

There are still ninety-three squads left, and the second, third, and fourth legions of the Divine Messenger King will be newly formed. The Second Legion will consist of the Rambo Ford squad and twenty-nine new squads, with Rambo Buddha as the commander; The third legion is the Rambovan squad and the same number of newly formed squads, with Rambovan as the commander; The commander of the Fourth Army was Rambotu.

The original Legion of the Divine Envoy King was renamed the First Legion of the Divine Envoy King, with the commander of the Legion as Roll, and the adjutants as Rambose and Rambery.

After the reorganization, each of these four legions will have 30 squads, of which 24 will be traditional squads and 6 will be long-range squads.

The ranged squad consists of a selection of able-bodied soldier ants, each carrying four pottery bombs on their backs. After running out of ammo, these ranged squads can also be used as melee units.

The protagonist's Praetorian Guard squad is drawn out, and it does not belong to any legion, and is directly under the protagonist's jurisdiction.

In the end, there were still six squads that were not incorporated into any corps, and they were temporarily used as a full-time garrison force of "Dongyang City" under the command of Lan Bofei.

After the reorganization of the army, Dongyang City had as many as four legions of military strength, a total of 127 squads, and theoretically could send more than 6,000 soldiers.

Of course, considering that the base camp still needs to be defended, the protagonist can dispatch four or five thousand fighters at a time at most, which is the limit. Even if only three legions were dispatched, it was more than four times the total strength of the first expedition, and the berserkers who were parasitic ants were already capable of fighting each other.

However, the protagonist has calmed down a lot this time, he was not carried away by revenge, and embarked on the road of revenge with the army.

This time, the protagonist is extremely cautious, first letting the newly formed regiment train diligently, and thoroughly master the close-quarters razor tactics and long-range catapult tactics.

Later, the protagonist starts to worry about logistics again.

The ranged slingers have proven their prowess in the last defensive battle, and now they have been trained to shoot at enemies from any direction and any distance with agility and accuracy under the leadership of the squad commander.

But the sweet anguish that comes with it is that the protagonist needs to start worrying about logistics.

Originally, the ants did not have to think about logistics at all when they went on the expedition, and the only food they needed could be stored in their stomachs, and they could hunt on the spot if they couldn't do it.

The slingers needed different pottery bullets, and they had to be transported from the "Dongyang Castle".

The four clay bombs that the slingers carry with them is already the limit, and after the bullets are exhausted, they can theoretically use local materials and continue to throw them with small stones, but the stone bullets of different specifications are certainly not as handy as the standardized pottery bullets, and there is no damage from the splashing of fragments that pose a great threat to the silk thread parasite.

If you want to transport pottery bombs from Dongyang Castle to the front line, you need to have a means of transport, and if you rely only on ants to carry them, it will be very inefficient.

The most efficient means of transportation for humans is, of course, vehicles.

But in the world of ants, there is no good smooth road, and any stone or tree root protruding from the ground is an insurmountable obstacle for wheeled vehicles.

The protagonist also doesn't have sharp enough tools to work with wood, and the clay knife can cut some meat and grass stalks at best.

If not in a vehicle, pack animals are also an acceptable mode of transport. Horses, camels, donkeys and other pack animals were widely used by humans to transport them in deserts and mountains where roads were inconvenient.

In the insect world, beetles such as foot beetles and dung beetles have the potential to become pack animals, with flat backs suitable for holding objects and strong enough to withstand more loads.

However, domesticating and training these beetles is a time-consuming and laborious thing, and now that the war is imminent, the protagonist does not have this effort, so it can only be regarded as a long-term plan.

In the end, the solution that the protagonist thinks of is to take it step by step and work steadily.

He planned to transport the ammunition and small amount of food needed by the troops to the southern fort first, and then build a new fortified camp on the northern slope of the hills.

A number of military stations were set up between the southern fortress and the newly built camp, and the supplies were transported in relay and eventually hoarded in the newly built fort camp.

The fortified camp will have ample supplies, enough underground barracks, and strong defenses to start the attack.

While the troops were still training, the protagonist rode Xiaoqing again, and once again intensively reconnoitred the military situation of the parasitic ants and the location suitable for building a fortress camp.

The bad news for Dongyang Castle is that the number of parasitic ants has also increased due to the abundance of food in summer. Fortunately, the soil layer is thin in the hilly areas, the vegetation is not as lush as in the plain areas, and the food resources are relatively scarce.

According to the estimation of the parasitic ants on the ground, the parasitic ant nest should now have more than 10,000 ants, and if all the people are soldiers, the number is two or three times the number that the Divine King's army can dispatch.

The good news is that the protagonist has found a suitable location to build a fortress camp on the top of a hill, although it is closer to the enemy's lair than the originally planned base of the mountain, making the fortress more dangerous when building.

However, the camp that the protagonist is optimistic about can be put into use almost without construction!