The use of bees and flies to tow a boat, just as a horse to tow a vehicle, is a way to use animal power to drive a vehicle in addition to its own power and wind power. It's just that the human world does not have towing draft animals that can swim in the water or fly in the sky, and once tried to use oxen to drive boats, while the ant world has a more suitable towing draft animals.

Of the two schemes, bees and flies, the former is the most suitable. Compared to flies, bees are accustomed to swarming and are more powerful.

After experimentation, it took at least three bees or nine flies to pull a walnut boat forward in still water, and the number had to be doubled if it was to gain enough power.

Nine flies fly around together, and each fly needs to be equipped with a flying knight to be able to control it effectively, which is a great waste for the scarce and valuable large worker ants.

But as long as the bees gather in a swarm, after a simple instruction, only one flying knight needs to control the top bee, and the other bees will follow closely, which is the advantage of social creatures.

Finally, after various trials and improvements, the formed walnut boat looks like this:

An oblong walnut, larger than a ping-pong ball, stands vertically on the water, with the tip of the walnut pointing downward, and the draft is almost halfway the size of the walnut.

Two wooden sticks the thickness of a slightly inclined toothpick are fastened to the waist of the walnut by rope and glue, and then extend to attach a thicker, chopstick-sized piece of driftwood to the walnut boat.

At the top of the walnut, on the original bud eye, and now on the entrance, a straight mast sticks out of it. The bottom of this mast is fixed in the ballast stone, and the top protrudes about half a centimeter from the walnut.

The mast itself is hollow, and there are openings outside the entrance and exit and inside the walnut boat, which is a passage for ants to enter and exit the walnut boat, which is safer and faster than the original direct entrance.

There is also a hat-shaped canopy not far above the mast and entrance.

At the top of the mast is a crossbar with a cloth sail woven by ants from hemp fibers, which can be easily raised and lowered by ropes. When the sails are not in use, the crossbars and sails are lowered to the canopy position, and if necessary, the ants can also remove the sails from the crossbars and put them inside the walnut boat.

A walnut ship is fully loaded, and can carry up to a hundred ants, but then it is crowded inside. Considering the comfort of long voyages, as well as the need to carry enough food, the protagonist's plan was to carry a squad of fifty fighters per Walnut ship.

It would take fifty-two walnut ships to transport an entire legion, and the current storage of walnuts in [Great Lakes City] is not enough to build enough ships for one legion.

Fortunately, there are walnuts in the walnut forest that fell to the ground last fall, although some walnuts have inevitably cracked and sprouted after not being stored in time, but the huge base is enough for the ants to find enough walnut ship raw materials.

The more troublesome thing is to transport the walnuts back, which are difficult to conquer compared to the size and strength of the ants.

Last fall, the protagonist also used the beetles of the rolling First Legion, and with the help of a large number of ants, he was able to transport less than thirty walnuts back.

Fortunately, the parasitic ants have not been able to break through the defense line of the indigenous scythe hunter ant alliance united by the United Nations for the time being, and the protagonist still has plenty of time to build a fleet.

The protagonist plans to need at least 60 walnut ships, enough to carry a legion and sufficient supplies, and also provide a safe camp for the Flying Knights, so that the Flying Knights will not have to take off from [Southern City] at that time.

The sixty walnut boats, to avoid being swept away by the current, will be linked together by ropes. Anyway, the Divine Envoy King Legion is not threatened by enemy fleets on the water, and there is no need to worry that the serial ships will be attacked by fire like the Battle of Red Cliffs.

The construction of 60 walnut ships is a huge project, and with the support of the research team, although the experience of shipbuilding has begun to accumulate and the efficiency is gradually improving, it still takes two or three months to complete.

Until then, the protagonist can only hope that the Indigenous Scythe Ant Coalition can hold on for a little longer.

- I'm the dividing line -

Fortunately, the protagonist still has eyeliner in the Indigenous Hunting Scythe Ant Alliance.

With fifty fierce subordinate warriors, Kite has gained a certain respect among the allied forces that advocate combat effectiveness, although this respect is also accompanied by the usual contempt of the female ants of the hunting sickle for the males.

But the kite didn't care about that, these dirt buns had never seen real power. Kite is convinced that the power of the Divine Envoy King and his subordinates is the greatest, and the scene of the destruction of his own clan is forever etched in his mind, and a Stockholm Syndrome emotion makes him loyal to the Divine Envoy King instead, and does not waver because he is a foreign race.

Once, in his own tribe, he was just an older male ant who was discriminated against everywhere. Now, he has gained the trust of the great Divine Envoy King and has become the leader of fifty warriors.

Only the great angel king who represents God can value himself like this - this is the idea of the kite.

He led his subordinates to actively perform in the coalition forces, and fought bravely to be the first in every battle with the parasitic ants. The warriors of Kite's subordinates, who have been formally trained by the Divine Envoy King's legion, are not only slightly better than other clans in individual combat effectiveness due to their adequate nutrition, but are also very good at team combat. In addition to protecting kites, they can also repeatedly play outstanding results.

This allowed the warriors of this "tribe" to gain respect and prestige, and even overpowered the warriors of the legendary tribe that had just arrived in the depths of the hills, which were said to be able to suppress parasites, and became the star in the eyes of the warriors who revered the warriors.

However, Kite doesn't pay much attention to this, he just collects information in the coalition according to the protagonist's request, and then sneaks to the vicinity of the coalition garrison every night when the warriors of other tribes hide and rest, and then find the flying knight of the joint, and pass the information on.

The Flying Knight would spend the night in a safe tree hole, returning immediately after dawn the next day with information.

Thanks to Kite's efforts, the protagonist is able to keep abreast of the latest movements of the indigenous scythe-hunting ant coalition and the parasitic ants.

At present, with some tribes in the deep hills joining, the Scythe Hunter Ant Coalition has stabilized the defensive line.

The protagonist notices that the tribes from the depths of the hills who have just joined the coalition are not only larger in size, but also have a higher frequency of parasitic bacteria in their territory, so they are also more adept at fighting parasitic ants, and are the backbone of the coalition.

It was their participation that made the situation of the once passive coalition army begin to improve.