Considering that the ants wield their weapons with their forelimbs, and their power is not as powerful as the ants' own pincers, the protagonist thinks of putting the army aside for the first time and prioritizing the smaller number of flying knights.

As an air force, after many efforts, the second batch of fifty male ants born now has all mounts.

It's just that these flying knights, who have been rigorously trained, now have almost no means of air attack, and their excellent mobility ability is wasted.

If, in the middle of a battle with parasitic ants, when the front line is empty, suddenly such a force is airborne near the nest of the enemy after pouring out, it will play a decisive role.

However, at present, the Flying Knight Legion does not have this ability, not only because its number is too small, but also because the Flying Knight Legion is composed of male ants with weak individual combat effectiveness.

Ants basically rely on their jaws as weapons to cut off the enemy's neck or limbs or tear the enemy apart to cause damage.

The male ant happens to have underdeveloped jaws and weak bite force, and the individual combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of a soldier ant, barely on par with the smaller worker ants.

If you can make a weapon suitable for male ants to use, it will definitely greatly enhance their combat effectiveness. And as an air force, the most suitable way of attack is, of course, a long-range attack.

Referring to human history, the earliest long-range attack weapons used by humans include javelins, slingshots, bows and arrows, and slingets.

The protagonist comprehensively considers the advantages and disadvantages of each of these weapons, and whether they are suitable for use by ants after being reduced in equal proportions.

A javelin is a spear head mounted on one end of a long pole, which can be used to throw weapons to kill enemies or hunt.

Throwing the javelin is a more complex limb action: you need to hold the gun on the shoulder, after a period of pre-run, connect the throwing steps to gain momentum, and act on the longitudinal axis of the javelin through the explosive final force, and throw the javelin over the shoulder.

This set of movements is difficult for ants who are used to crawling. This can only be done if you adjust to a position with your back limbs on all fours and your upper body upright.

It is precisely in this position that the Flying Knight rides on the Fly Mount, so in terms of body movements, the use of the Javelin is not a problem. It's just that you need to go through a long period of training to get used to the way you exert power.

There is another problem for ants to use javelins, which is also a problem that other weapons will encounter: javelins that fit the size of ants are too light, and they are easily disturbed by the flow of air when thrown, and they are light and almost lethal.

To overcome this problem, the only way to overcome this problem is to increase the counterweight of the javelin at the expense of range, so as to enhance the penetration and lethality, so that even the carapace on the ant's body cannot penetrate.

Overall, though, the javelin is still an alternative weapon.

Slingshots and arrows are long-range weapons that rely on the deformation of their bow arms to gain lethality. The bow and arrow were developed from the basis of the slingshot.

Slingshots and bows are similar in structure, consisting of elastic bowarms and a ductile bowstring. The difference is that a slingshot fires projectiles, while a bow fires arrows with a sharp edge.

Slingshots and bows and arrows also have the same problems of being easily disturbed by air currents and lack of lethality, which can also be solved by increasing the breeding of projectile arrows and increasing the charging capacity of bow arms.

The biggest drawback of these two weapons at the moment is that the crafting process is very complicated.

Although bows and arrows appeared in the Upper Paleolithic period as far back as 30,000 years ago, the earliest bow was a flexible, curved wood or bamboo, and the arrow was a stick or bamboo pole with one end sharpened. But this simple bow is very lethal and is not worth imitating.

Later developed bows, such as composite recurve bows, were extremely lethal. However, this kind of bow is complex to make, and the consumables are labor-intensive and time-consuming.

The exclusive article "Bow Man for Bow" in the "Examination of Work" makes a detailed summary of the bow-making technology. In the two thousand years since, there has been no fundamental change in the composite bow manufacturing technique in China or Asia compared with the examination of the Gongji.

In the "Examination of the Gongji", it is believed that the most important thing is to make a bow with dry, angle, tendon, glue, silk and lacquer, which are collectively called the "six materials".

Among them, the dry timber should be on the top of the wood, the second is the wood, the oak tree, etc., and the bamboo is the bottom; The horns should be made of bull's horns; The tendons are made of cow tendons, and the small ones should be long and the small ones should be rounded and moistened; six kinds of glue are deer glue, horse glue, bovine glue, mouse glue, fish glue and rhino glue; Silk is silk thread; Lacquer is natural lacquer.

There are so many materials,The protagonist is completely unable to collect them at present.,Especially in terms of animal glue.,You must know that the protagonist hasn't seen any mammals since he crossed.。

Limited to the complexity of materials and craftsmanship, the slingshot and bow and arrow, which are very common weapons in human history, can only be temporarily abandoned.

Finally, there is the sling.

Stone is one of the earliest weapons in human history and one of the main offensive weapons of the Stone Age.

The earliest way to throw stones was to throw stones with bare hands. Later, in some areas, slings appeared, and the distance of the slings was much farther and the power was enhanced.

The structure and use of the slings is simple: two belts of the same length are tied in the middle of a leather pouch, in which stones are placed. The pitcher grabs the end of the belt, swings and spins overhead, and when the speed reaches its maximum speed on the fourth or fifth lap, he releases one of the belts and the stone in the pouch is thrown in the tangential direction.

After the used stone throwing is processed and polished into cobblestone, the slinging cable can easily throw the cobblestone out of 100-200 meters, and is very powerful in a large-scale salvo.

Both ancient Greece and Rome had larger slings, and although they were poorly equipped, they were the right-hand men of the main army.

The slings are easy to use and easy to make, and they are also suitable weapons for ants.

In the end, of the four weapons, after theoretically rejecting the slingshot and the bow and arrow, the protagonist chooses the javelin and the sling.

The protagonist takes some worker ants and experiments with a batch of javelins and slings.

The javelin is basically the same as the spear, and a specially fired sharp glazed pottery spearhead is fixed to a thin branch with ant glue and ant silk, and it is done.

The protagonist initially intends to combine a spear and a javelin into a single weapon, so that the flying knights can use it as a spear in melee combat in the sky and throw it as a javelin from a distance.

However, when the protagonist tries to swing it, he discovers that the javelin and spear are not the same design. The javelin needs to have a short handle and a forward center of gravity in order to fully exert the power of the throw. The spear must have a long handle with the center of gravity in the middle of the spear body to be easy to hold.

In the end, the main character can only be crafted separately from the spear and javelin. The clay head of the spear was designed in a long, sharp hollow shape, while the javelin spearhead was comparatively larger and heavier.

The slings are made of ant silk, and a silk sac is woven in the middle to hold the stones.

After about three days, the first experimental weapons were finally ready.

After the weapon is made, the protagonist immediately finds some males, soldier ants, and ants to experiment.