One Hundred and Twenty-Three Locust Swarms Cross the Border

Although the plane landed at the camp, Long Jianguo left the plane alone every time, took a small bottle from the researcher, boarded the plane again and left, continuing the task of catching giant ants.

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 to catch 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. The military region immediately organized manpower to implement the lure plan to attract the giant ants on the northern line of the ant-occupied area to continue to expand northward.

Before the appearance of the pest disaster, domestic research on pheromones was not valued, but there was no shortage of corresponding research institutions. When the pheromone research institute was established, it did not intend to start from scratch and directly use mature technology to separate pheromones.

However, the composition of pheromones is very complicated. The only pheromones that have been successfully separated are food, enemy encounters, and corpses. Moreover, the finished products have extremely low purity and contain a large amount of impurities of unknown composition.

Fortunately, some impurities do not affect the effect of pheromones, and the purpose of the research institute is not to separate high-purity pheromones. The existing results are enough to complete the ant-attracting project.

However, the plan did not go smoothly, because ants are very nest-loving, and the little pheromone provided by the research institute is not even a drop in the bucket, not enough at all.

Seeing that the locust swarm was getting closer and closer to the border, Beidu immediately put pressure on the research institute to provide as much pheromone as possible, even if it only attracted 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. The quantity 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, did his part and became the leader of the ant hunting team. All three companies under his command were devoted to catching giant ants. The army joined the ranks of ants, and a large number of giant ants were sent to the Pheromone Research Institute every day.

However, worker ants and soldiers are easy to catch, but the queen has never been seen. Even the research institute can't come up with a suitable capture plan, so they can only put the matter of catching the queen aside.

After all, the research institute is not a biochemical factory. Although it has the ability to extract pheromones, the production capacity is too poor. Fortunately, the research institute has developed an effective extraction plan. Under the direct instruction of Beidu City, Fuyun Quickly set up a pheromone refining factory.

The distance between Fuyun and Yizhan District is 70 to 80 kilometers. In order to improve work efficiency and reduce the impact of transportation on refining, the head of Fuyun had a whim, and placed the factory on a train and drove it to It stopped only a few kilometers away from the ant-occupied area, and started refining work on the spot.

The trouble of long-distance transportation of giant ants was saved, and the speed of pheromone extraction doubled, which finally met the needs of the military. Several groups of giant ants began to migrate north.

Since it took some time to deal with the giant ants, the vanguard of the giant locusts had already crossed the border, gnawed away at the grassland forest all the way, and quickly expanded southward. According to the current spread speed of the giant locusts, the locust swarms and ant swarms will encounter each other in about six to seven days.

This result made all the insiders breathe a sigh of relief, and began to look forward to the early arrival of the moment when the giant ants and giant locusts meet.

However, the military did not let the giant ants cross the border. As soon as the locust swarm crossed the border, the two armored divisions deployed on the border began to implement the interception plan to contain the spread of the locust swarm from east and west.

The reason why this can be achieved is closely related to the characteristics of the giant locust itself.

As we all know, although locusts have wings, their flying ability is very poor. After the body size is huge, the problem of short wings is more prominent, and the flying ability is almost non-existent. They can only use the power of jumping to walk along the street for a short distance, and can fly more than ten meters at a time. Even if it's the best.

For this reason, the scene of locusts flying all over the sky did not appear, and the locust swarms were idling, and their mobility was far inferior to that of normal-sized locust swarms.

Otherwise, even if the military doubles its strength, it may not be able to stop the crazy locust swarm.

But two fists are no match for four hands. The two divisions fought vigorously at the beginning and wiped out a large number of locusts. However, as the number of locusts crossing the border gradually increased, the strength of the two divisions gradually became stretched.

Fortunately, the mobilization was effective, and the locust swarm had just started to get out of control. The Northern Military Region immediately sent seven pre-assembled reserve divisions into the battlefield, and another four divisions could be deployed at any time.

The battle against the locust swarms used a lot of weapons and equipment. In addition to tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled rocket launchers and self-propelled artillery and other heavy land combat equipment, the Air Force dispatched hundreds of fighter planes and dropped countless ammunition on the locust swarms. There are more than a hundred bombs and thousands of cluster bombs and incendiary bombs.

All kinds of weapons are effective against locusts, but the high-intensity firepower strike also consumes a large amount of weapon reserves, causing the logistics department to complain. Military factories in various places are operating at full capacity, and military columns full of weapons and ammunition are running day and night. , a steady stream of ammunition sent to the front, its intensity is no less than a medium-scale local conflict.

Correspondingly, military expenditures have also risen rapidly with all their strength, and the economic situation, which was already hit hard by the insect plague, is even worse.

The war is based on comprehensive national power. Jingjiang City has fought against several kinds of giant worms successively, and has already consumed a large amount of weapons reserves. Therefore, the northern capital is very clear that using the army to eliminate giant worms will inevitably lead to a sharp increase in military expenditures, and may even lead to a full-scale economic collapse. collapse.

The reason why the plan of using insects to control insects is agreed is to reduce the cost of insect extermination 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 unreliable "repelling ants and swallowing locusts" plan?

However, despite the psychological preparations, the loss of fighting against the giant locusts on the northern border is still far beyond expectations. In addition to a large amount of ammunition consumption, the fatigue of continuous combat has already affected the combat effectiveness of the troops. The northern capital had to find another way to control the locust swarms.

Soon, a bottom-of-the-box plan was placed in front of the decision-makers in Beidu. After much hesitation, Beidu finally issued an order to ask the Northern Military Region to immediately send chemical defense troops to the front line.

According to the arrangement of the superior, the chemical defense force sprayed a large amount of pesticides on the periphery of the locust swarm, creating a locust isolation belt with a width of more than 200 meters.

A large number of giant locusts went south all the way, eating up all the vegetation on the road, but that little food could not even meet the minimum food requirements of the locust swarm. The giant locusts were unbearably hungry and their flight ability was degraded. The first reaction of entering the isolated locust belt was to swallow , swallowing a large amount of pesticides into the abdomen.

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