Although the plane landed in the camp, every time Long Jianguo left the plane alone, took a small bottle from the researcher's hand, and then boarded the plane again to leave, continuing the task of catching giant ants. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ye Han, who never got off the plane, naturally didn't know that Professor Qin was in that camp, and Professor Qin never thought that Ye Han would be on the plane that captured giant ants.

Later that day, the first batch of pheromones extracted from more than a dozen worker ants was sent to the Linzhou Provincial Military Region, which immediately organized personnel to carry out the introduction. The lure plan to attract giant ants on the northern line of the ant-occupied area continues to expand northward.

Before the emergence of the insect plague, the domestic research on pheromones did not pay attention to, but there was no shortage of corresponding research institutions, and the pheromone research institute did not plan to start from scratch at the beginning of its establishment, and directly used mature technology to separate pheromones.

However, the composition of pheromones is very complex, and there are only three types of pheromones that have been successfully separated: food, enemy encounter, and corpse moving, and the purity of the finished product is extremely low, containing a large number of impurities of unknown composition.

Fortunately, some impurities do not affect the effect of pheromones, and the purpose of the research is not to isolate high-purity pheromones, and the existing results are sufficient to complete the ant trap program.

However, the plan did not go well, because ants are very fond of nests, and the little pheromones provided by the research institute are not even a drop in the bucket, and they are not enough at all.

Seeing that the locust swarm was getting closer and closer to the border, Beidu immediately pressured the research institute to provide as many pheromones as possible, even if it was only to attract some giant ants.

However, pheromones are all extracted from giant ants, and there is no possibility of artificial synthesis in a short period of time, and the number of finished pheromones depends not only on the production capacity of the research institute, but also on the number of giant ants provided by the military!

So the task of catching giant ants continued, Long Jianguo, the officer with the most experience in catching ants, became the leader of the ant hunting team, and all three companies under his command were engaged in the operation of catching giant ants, and several other troops joined the ranks of ant hunting, and a large number of giant ants were sent to the Pheromone Research Institute every day.

However, the worker ants are easy to catch, but the queen ant has never been seen, and even the research institute cannot come up with a suitable capture plan, so it can only put aside the matter of catching the queen ant first.

After all, the research institute is not a biochemical factory, although it has the ability to refine pheromones, but the production capacity is too poor, but fortunately, the research institute has developed a set of effective refining schemes, and under the direct instructions of Beidu, Fuyun quickly established a pheromone refining factory.

The distance between Fuyun and the ant-occupied area is seventy or eighty kilometers, in order to improve work efficiency and reduce the impact of transportation on refining, the head of Fuyun came up with a whim, placed this factory on a train, drove to a place only a few kilometers away from the ant-occupied area, stopped, and carried out the refining work on the spot.

Eliminating the trouble of transporting giant ants over long distances, the refining speed of pheromones increased exponentially, finally meeting the needs of the military, and several groups of giant ants began to migrate north.

As it took some time to get rid of the giant ants, the vanguard of the giant locusts had already crossed the border, gnawed away the grassland forests all the way, and rapidly expanded southward, encountering the locust colony and the colony in about six to seven days at the current rate of dispersal.

This result relieved all those in the know, and began to look forward to the sooner the time when the giant ants and locusts would meet.

As soon as the locust swarm crossed the border, the two armored divisions deployed along the border line began to carry out an interdiction plan to curb the spread of the locust swarm from the east and west.

The reason for this is closely related to the characteristics of the giant locust itself.

As we all know, although the locust has wings, but the flight ability is very poor, after the body size is huge, the problem of short wings is more prominent, the flight ability is almost none, can only use the power of jumping to walk a short distance along the street, a time can fly more than ten meters is considered to be the sky.

For this reason, the sight of locusts flying in the sky did not appear, and the locust swarm moved from idling to the ground, and its mobility was far less than that of a normal locust swarm.

Otherwise, doubling the military's strength may not be able to stop the crazy locust swarm.

However, two fists were difficult to defeat with four hands, and the two divisions fought vigorously at first, destroying a large number of locusts, but as the number of locusts in the border gradually increased, the strength of the two divisions gradually became overstretched.

Fortunately, the mobilization was effective, and the locust swarm had just shown signs of getting out of control, and the Northern Military Region immediately put seven reserve divisions assembled in advance into the battlefield, and four more divisions could be put into the battlefield at any time.

In addition to heavy land warfare equipment such as tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled rocket launchers, and self-propelled artillery, the Air Force dispatched hundreds of warplanes and threw countless ammunition at the locust swarms, consuming more than 200 cloud burst bombs and thousands of cluster bombs and incendiary bombs.

The effectiveness of all kinds of weapons against locusts is good, but the high-intensity firepower strikes have also consumed a large number of weapons reserves, which has made the logistics departments complain, and the military factories in various places are running at full capacity, and the military columns full of weapons and ammunition are running day and night, constantly sending ammunition to the front, and its intensity is no less than that of a medium-sized local conflict.

Correspondingly, military spending has also risen rapidly, and the economic situation, which has been severely damaged by the insect plague, has become even worse.

The war was fought with comprehensive national strength, and Jingjiang City had fought against several kinds of giant insects, and had consumed a large number of weapons reserves, so the northern capital knew very well that the use of troops to eliminate giant insects would inevitably cause a sharp increase in military spending, and might even lead to a complete collapse of the economy.

The reason why we agreed to the plan of using insects to control insects is to reduce the cost of insect control and achieve the goal of eliminating giant insects at the lowest cost.

If it weren't for the various reasons behind it, how could the Northern Capital agree to the somewhat unreliable "Ant Swallowing Locusts" plan?

In addition to the large amount of ammunition consumed, the fatigue of continuous combat has already affected the combat effectiveness of the troops, and the northern capital has to find another way to control the locust swarm.

Soon, a plan was put in front of the decision-makers in Beidu, and after much hesitation, Beidu finally issued an order, asking the Northern Military Region to immediately arrange for anti-chemical troops to rush to the front line.

In accordance with the arrangements of their superiors, the anti-chemical warfare units sprayed a large number of insecticides on the periphery of the locust swarm, creating a locust barrier with a width of more than 200 meters.

The large number of giant locusts traveled all the way south, eating up all the vegetation on the way, but that little food could not even meet the minimum food requirements of the locust swarm, and the giant locusts were hungry and degraded in their ability to fly, and their first reaction to entering the locust zone was to swallow large amounts of insecticide into their stomachs.