A few minutes later, the armored car returned to the train factory.
At this time, the train factory had stopped refining operations, and none of the dozens of giant ant-catching armored vehicles had delivered the harvest. They all dragged the giant ants waiting under the roadbed.
Before the armored vehicle Ye Han was riding in stopped, the train slowly retreated to the west. After the armored vehicle withdrew a certain distance, several armored vehicles guarding the east side of the train simultaneously dropped tear gas on the railway.
The dispersed tear gas cuts off the smell that the train may carry, ensuring that no giant ant will be guided by the smell to follow the train.
It wasn't over yet. A tanker truck drove to the side of the pile of ant corpses and burned a large amount of diesel on top of the pile of ant corpses.
Immediately, two armored vehicles rushed near the pile of corpses. Several soldiers carrying fuel cylinders and gas masks rushed out of the armored vehicles. They quickly lay on the ground and aimed at the pile of corpses. A series of blazing fire dragons poured on the pile of corpses.
The ant corpses burned fiercely.
The fire soon ignited the diesel fuel on the pile of corpses, and the fire began to spread eastward. A breeze blew through, sending large plumes of black smoke straight into the sky, and the smell of burnt hair filled the nostrils.
Long Jianguo followed the emergency plan and used all means to block pheromones. Afterwards, he still felt uneasy. After hesitating for a moment, he simply arranged a few armored vehicles to monitor the ant colony, while the remaining people continued to capture the giant ants.
After receiving the order, Ye Han told Huya to drive the armored vehicle back to the ant-occupied area and park it at the location where the giant ants were found in the morning.
Ants have the habit of knowing their way. They go where they came and go back. After waiting patiently for a while, Ye Han successfully spotted a few giant ants in a hurry.
He immediately opened the top cover and stood up, shaking his hands and throwing out the anesthetic bottle. The glass bottle shattered on the giant ant's path, and the ethyl acetate immediately began to evaporate.
A dozen giant ants were unaware of the situation and lined up to pass over the broken glass bottles. They started walking drunkenly before going very far, and then overturned one after another.
Ye Han was surprised: "Is this thing so useful?"
The veteran also looked surprised: "Good stuff!"
Huya begged nervously: "Ye Pai, let me try, I'm not a newbie in catching ants!"
The veteran's eyes widened and he was about to speak. Ye Han quickly said, "Okay, go up and try. If you can't hit with one shot, just fire a few more times. We have plenty of time."
The veteran couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Ye Pai, why are you spoiling this kid?"
"It's okay. If there's no danger, just let him try." Ye Han chuckled and pressed the call button on the intercom, "Brothers, don't say that my surname is Ye, I'm unreasonable. I have a bunch of giant ants here waiting to be dragged away, everyone.
Come on!"
The veteran chuckled: "Now I'm rich!"
There was a muffled thud from the roof of the car, and the ant fork shot out from the tiger's fangs happened to penetrate the butt of a giant ant.
Ye Han nodded: "Not bad, not bad, drag it back."
Huya retracted into the car angrily: "I was clearly aiming for the head..."
"Then next time you aim at your butt, you'll definitely hit your head!" the veteran joked with a laugh.
Huya sat back in the cab with a sad face. As soon as he started the engine, several armored vehicles drove nearby.
Ye Han stretched out his upper body, pointed at the dazed giant ant, and patted the roof of the car to signal Huya to drive.
Catching giant ants suddenly became incredibly easy.
Giant ants usually hide underground, and you must use information to lure them out. But today happened to catch up with the ant colony riot, and there were giant ants everywhere carrying ant corpses. Everyone just needs to follow Ye Han's method and park the armored vehicle in the giant ant colony.
If you wait patiently for the giant ants to appear and then throw an anesthetic bottle near the path that the ants must pass through, you can easily catch a large number of giant ants.
The task of this day was completed with great ease. The number of giant ants delivered to the factory was more than double that of usual. If the train factory had not been unable to consume so much raw materials and called a stop in time, the soldiers might have captured many ants.
In the following period, the ant-catching team changed the way of capturing single ants, and specifically targeted groups of giant ants. The capture efficiency was greatly improved, but the work intensity was greatly reduced.
The improvement in capture efficiency caused the ant colonies near the railway to lose a large number of worker ants. The ant colonies lacking labor were unable to make ends meet. Not only did they stop expanding, but abandoned ant hills even appeared on the border!
The relevant situation was reported to Beidu. After discussion, experts believed that this was a precursor to the decline of the ant colony. As long as the military continues to work hard, it is only a matter of time before the giant ants are eliminated.
Participants couldn't help but lament that the key to being able to deal with giant insects lies in whether the method is appropriate.
The analysis results made the military extremely excited, and they immediately dispatched troops to the vicinity of the ant-occupied areas to suppress the expansion of the ant-occupied areas as much as possible.
At this time, the ant colony in the northern line of the ant-occupied area has come into large-scale contact with the locust swarm. Countless giant locusts have become the meals of the giant ants. The size of the ant colony is getting stronger day by day. Even if the military adopts anesthesia control methods, it is still difficult to suppress the ant colony. expansion.
Since the northward migration of ant colonies is in the national interest, the military adopts a guidance strategy of focusing more on the south and less on the north in ant-occupied areas, suppressing the living space of giant ants from three directions, southeast and west, forcing the giant ants to speed up their northward migration.
Suddenly, a large army gathered outside the ant-occupied area.
It was the end of another day. Ye Han, who had been busy all day, returned to the soft sleeper compartment that served as his dormitory after dinner. He fell on the bed and just closed his eyes when the compartment door was forcefully opened.
Ye Han just regarded him as a comrade sleeping with him and continued to lie there without opening his eyes or raising his head.
The visitor chuckled: "Tired?"
Ye Han opened his eyes in surprise: "Brother Long? Why are you here?"
"I have nothing to do today but come to the Three Treasures Palace. Please come." Long Jianguo sat on the bed opposite Ye Han, looking sad.
"Please?" Ye Han turned over and sat up, "Are you, Commander Long, so miserable?"
"Why not?" Long Jianguo looked depressed, "It's not like you don't know the current situation. If you give in for a few more days, I will become a bare commander."
Ye Han was immediately speechless. Everything that happened in the past two days was seen by him. Long Jianguo should indeed be depressed.
The ant-catching team under Long Jianguo is the army that has been exposed to giant ants for the longest time and has the most experience in fighting giant ants. At present, the military is comprehensively suppressing giant ants. Most of the troops recently transferred to areas near ant-occupied areas have never been exposed to them. Regarding giant ants, although the ant-catching team has made public its relevant experience, the results on paper are ultimately shallow. Each team feels that no one has given actual guidance and always feels that there is a layer of window paper missing.
So the soldiers of the ant-catching team became meat and potatoes overnight, and a large number of orders flew to Long Jianguo's desk. Long Jianguo was determined to not let go, but his arms could not twist his thighs. He was a small battalion commander, what could he do with the army? Are Fang’s bosses fighting against each other?
Most of the veterans were transferred, all the officers were transferred, and even a third of the new recruits were transferred. In just two days, a fully-staffed battalion was left with only one company that was not full.
If Fuyun hadn't refused to let go, even Long Jianguo himself would have been almost transferred away from his brother's army.
