Chapter 174 Winter goes to spring
The sun rises in the east, sets in the west, and rises in the east.
Snowflakes fall, melt, and fall again.
The north wind blows, blows away, and blows again.
Winter is near, coming, and gone.
The sun and the moon turned, time alternated, and the whole world quickly passed in the silence of winter, and three months passed.
The long accumulation of old snow has melted, the wind in the north has stopped, and the warm wind in the south has awakened the buds of the trees, but the most hardy insects have not yet stung.
Spring has quietly arrived, and the protagonist has been in a blur in [Waterfront City] for more than two months.
It was a dull and boring two months, two months of hiding in an underground lair. Only when the weather is good, the protagonist dares to come out to breathe, and the flying knight in the sky and the paving ant messenger on the ground also hurried to several secondary nests along the river to exchange military information.
However, the Destroyers never attacked, which made the protagonist happy and vaguely uneasy.
The winter protagonist is not idle and bored all day long, he has practiced several garrison legions in [Waterfront City], and practiced new tactics with the destroyer as an imaginary enemy.
In the face of the Destroyer, the razor tactics of the Divine Envoy King's legion with tight formations no longer worked, this tactic is more suitable for dealing with ants whose size is not much different from that of the big-headed ant soldiers, and it is more suitable for fighting in arrays.
But it's almost useless to face the big, individual Destroyers, after all, the core of razor tactics is quick kills during the standoff, and the Destroyers don't give you a chance to confront each other at all.
When the Divine Envoy King Legion fought against the Destroyer, it had to revert to its primitive tactics and rely on numbers to besiege it, resulting in great losses.
The main character studies the tactics of the winter, which is an upgraded version of this siege tactic.
Since it is impossible to maintain a tight formation in the face of the Destroyer, it is necessary to take the initiative to disperse, but it must be orderly and chaotic.
The protagonist divides each of the 50 fighters of the Emissary King squad into five squads, each of which consists of ten warriors, with the oldest enemy soldier ant as the commander of the squad.
In the event of an encounter, each squad will be responsible for dealing with three Destroyers. One of the squads guards the Ant Commander, one squads acts as a reserve, and the other three squads each besiege a Destroyer.
Six of the ten warriors in charge of the siege were responsible for biting the Destroyer's limbs, and then pulling hard to the sides at the same time, forcing the Destroyer to lie on the ground and unable to move. The other four warriors can take the opportunity to climb the back of the Destroyer and find a weak spot to attack.
The core of this tactic is to avoid the Destroyer's frontal jaws, which will immediately be cut in two if bitten by them, but as long as they can suppress the Destroyer on the ground, their jaws will have a very limited range.
Therefore, the four fighters who are responsible for the final attack on the weak point also need to attract the attention of the destroyer and create opportunities for their comrades before the six comrades bite the six limbs.
In the event of casualties in the squad, the reserve squad has to send fighters to the top. Once all three combat and reserve squads have been killed or wounded, the squad must retreat, and the male commander must be saved.
This is the siege tactic developed by the protagonist, which needs to rely on the full cooperation of each fighter, and theoretically it is enough to resist in the field against a single strong enemy who is not well coordinated.
However, theory always needs to be tested in practice, and with the arrival of spring, the protagonist has already planned to take the troops to find trouble with the small-scale destroyer after the spring blossoms.
Unbeknownst to him, the Destroyers had already arrived on the south bank of the Great River.
I'm the dividing line
According to the records on the protagonist's calendar, today is March 4, 5 years, and it has been five years since the protagonist came to this world.
Two months ago, during this year's Spring Festival, the dinner party that day was not sumptuous, and on the first day of the year on every Friday, the protagonist felt a little lonely.
The other ants can't understand this loneliness, so the protagonist hastily hosts the traditional Chinese New Year feast, and then goes back to his bedroom alone.
Time will dilute all emotions, and by today, the protagonist has already calmed down in his busyness.
Outside the nest, two spring rains had fallen a few days ago, and the whole land was changing to a tender green shape at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The plants are the first to respond to spring, the big banyan trees have been dressed in new clothes, and then it is the turn of the insects.
The hardy paver ants have been able to move outdoors without any scruples, and they have found that some beetles and worms that have been dormant for a long time have appeared in twos and threes.
The big-headed ants are also trying to take the first step out of the threshold of leaving the nest that has been nested for the winter.
In this world, the ants are back.
I'm the dividing line
After the beginning of spring, it is customary for the big-headed ants to send messengers to the various secondary nests to exchange information.
After all, for up to three months in a winter, each nest is almost isolated, and there may be many unexpected situations. For example, in the history of the big-headed ant kingdom, there have been cases where entire nests were destroyed due to natural disasters in winter.
The protagonist flies back to [Qingqiu City] to preside over this work, but the Divine Messenger King's legion has replaced the traditional messenger with a flying knight, and this "spring ceremony" can be completed in a day or two.
On the tall anthill of Qingqiu City, a hundred fly knights are on standby, and the background is a field full of green and early flowers.
The protagonist briefly gives instructions to the Flying Knights with scents and friction sounds, and the Flying Knights take to the skies.
What is more interesting is that when taking off in a group, the bee riders often take off in batches from front to back, while the fly riders rush into the sky together as soon as they "hula".
This is consistent with the physiological habits of the mount, the bees live in the hive, need to leave the nest mouth in batches, if the nest mouth is congested with traffic, there are often bee collision "traffic accidents".
The flies are more sensitive, and they don't have a collective consciousness at all, so they naturally fly when they want to, anyway, their reaction speed and maneuverability are guaranteed not to crash.
It can be imagined that if you take a fly swatter and hit a group of flies, the flies will definitely fly away together, and it is impossible to wait for the previous flight to finish before starting.
After sending off the flying knights, the protagonist continues to take care of some chores in [Qingqiu City]. Ruling and managing a country with more than one million ants naturally has a lot of affairs.
For example, this year's wedding ceremony should be prepared soon, which is a major event related to the inheritance of the Divine Envoy King Legion from generation to generation.
There is also how to determine the breeding number of large worker ants this year, and the protagonist must also make a decision.
Just when they were busy, in the evening, the flying knights brought bad news!