In order to conduct scientific experiments and obtain accurate control data, the protagonist groups male, soldier and worker ants, each with five ants of the same kind.

The spear, javelin, and slings set by the protagonist are all experiments in which the ants involved in the experiment use all their strength to target a soft mound of clay to see how deep the weapon can penetrate the clay or cause much damage to the clay pile.

At first, after receiving the information packets, the ants who participated in the experiment barely mastered the use of several weapons, but they were still very jerky. After practicing for a long time, I could barely make it decent, and then I started the experiment.

Eventually, the experimental results of attacking stationary clay targets showed that the performance of male and soldier ants was significantly stronger than that of worker ants when using these weapons, which require the power of the forelimbs. After all, male and soldier ants are one size taller than worker ants, and the muscles of their six limbs are relatively thick.

Attacking a clay target is the first experiment, and the second is a live experiment.

During several days of fighting against the invasion of the parasitic ant army, the southern fortress captured a group of parasitic ants.

The original mature silk thread parasites on these parasitic ants have been killed, and the new hyphae have not yet matured. After being severed with six limbs and large pincers, the captives were temporarily free of threat and suitable as test subjects.

The second experiment was carried out with these in vivo targets. The three groups that received the order took turns to step forward and attack the immobile captives with three weapons each.

When using spears and javelins, neither males nor soldiers can penetrate the hard carapace of the enemy's back, and even the clay spearhead often breaks, and can only deal damage if it pierces the gap between the carapace. And the worker ants can't break the defense even if they stab the gap.

From this point of view, there are still many problems with the pottery spearhead, which is far less useful than the pottery knife. In order to strengthen the piercing ability, the spearhead must be made thin and long, but the ceramic spearhead in this shape is very easy to break. However, making a short and thick spearhead that is not easy to break will weaken the armor-piercing ability.

The protagonist also experiments with the males riding fly mounts and attacking enemies suspended from bushes with spears during high-speed flight.

Like the knights of the Middle Ages, the flying knights held their long riding spears flat and stabbed their weapons into the bodies of their targets with precision and ferocity in high-speed movements.

Under the high-speed stabbing attack, the pottery spearhead easily tore through the originally solid ant carapace, and the spearhead was deeply inserted into the flesh, and then broke and shattered, causing greater secondary damage in the target's body.

Due to the strong impact force, in order to prevent harming the flying knights themselves, they must let go of the spear immediately after completing the stabbing attack, otherwise they will be thrown off their mounts by the huge recoil force, even if they tie themselves with silk threads.

The power of the spear's high-speed stabbing was so great that with just one impact, the captives who had been vigorous could not die anymore.

Later, he experimented with javelin throwing attacks in high-speed flight, and although the hit rate was low, once it hit the target, the damage caused was also very considerable, second only to the power of the spear stabbing attack.

It seems that with the speed of the fly mount when charging, the lethality of the spear and javelin can be greatly increased.

Experiments with catapults were also carried out.

After experimenting with the striking effect of stones of different sizes and sizes, the protagonist discovers that stones that are too small (such as the size of gravel) are too affected by the air flow when flying, not only have no speed, but also have no lethality, and they will make a sound when they hit the ant's carapace.

And the oversized stones cannot be thrown far, and they have no practical significance.

In contrast, a stone about the size of an ant's head can be thrown farthest, the fastest, and the most powerful.

With this size of stone, ordinary male ants and soldier ants can easily throw it up to two decimeters away.

When hitting the target's arthropod or abdomen, it can easily cause the arthropic limb to break and the abdomen to be punctured. Even if it is smashed on a hard carapace, such as the back of the head, it can cause serious internal injuries.

If you change to a more rounded stone, the throw distance can be increased appropriately.

However, suitable stones are not found everywhere, so the protagonist experiments with firing a batch of pottery balls as a substitute, and finds that it can also have a good effect.

The performance of the catapult is amazing. However, when trying to experiment with the flying knight using a catapult, a problem was discovered. When flying at high speeds, the males are unable to spin and shake the catapult and throw rocks due to the strong air currents. It seems that the catapult is a piece of equipment that has no chance of becoming a flying knight.

At the end of the experiment, the protagonist is most satisfied with the performance of the Catapult, although it was intended to equip the Flying Knights, but the Catapult is not up to the task.

However, catapults can be equipped in large quantities for the army, so that the Divine Envoy King's legion has a certain long-range combat ability.

Considering that when the enemy is still relying on hand-to-hand combat and is charging, and suddenly the person who is smashed by a large rain of stone bullets falling from the sky turns his horse on his back, the protagonist is secretly relieved - this taste will sooner or later be tasted by the damned parasitic ants.

Spears and javelins, on the other hand, are more powerful when used in the air and can be used as standard equipment for flying knights.

However, the clay spearheads of spears and javelins are still unsatisfactory, and the protagonist begins to play with stone tools again.

You know, primitive humans would have used stone weapons. In the Paleolithic period, stone tools were used, while in the Neolithic period, polished stone tools were popular, and a certain number of stone tools were also used. At that time, weapons and tools were one, and it was not until the later part of the primitive era that weapons were separated from tools.

By the Xia Dynasty, there were already relatively well-made stone knives, stone shovels, stone sickles, stone spears, stone ge, and other different weapons.

The reason why the protagonist doesn't think of using stone tools in the first place is because the ants are too small and weak, and it is difficult to break suitable stone chips from large stones and then refine them. Without effective means of processing, it is impossible to process stone tools in batches.

However, it is still possible to make stone weapons for the flying knights on a small scale.

In order to make these dozens of stone spears and javelins, the workers needed to collect pieces of rubble of the right size and shape, and fortunately, there were many of them beneath the weathered conglomerate and shale.

Only the sharp, long flakes are sufficient, and when they are brought back, the workers spend a lot of time on simple grinding to trim the shape.

After that, the polished stone spearhead is fixed to the wooden handle with ant glue and ant silk to become a stone spear or stone javelin.

The production of these stone weapons is too low, and it is barely enough for the daily consumption of the flying knights, and they are not enough to equip the Divine Envoy King Legion.

However, the protagonist is full of praise for the performance of stone weapons, and the performance of these rough-looking weapons has greatly surpassed the previous pottery weapons. It is no wonder that the ancients did not abandon stone weapons until the Bronze Age.