The Divine Messenger King's army hurriedly attacked, and the leaf-cutting ant army broke into the fortress.

Fortunately, the tight paving ant empire army and the red fire ant army that pursued were not many troops, and they were defeated by the Divine Messenger King army. Before the enemy army arrived, both the Divine Envoy King and the Leaf Cutting Ant Army had already entered the fortress to hold on.

The enemy chased outside the fortress, ate two rounds of artillery salvos, and retreated after dropping dozens of corpses, and the Paving Ant Imperial Army was still very cautious, and when they did not find out the truth and the details of the artillery, they decisively chose to retreat.

The Paving Ant Imperial Army also has a last resort, at this time there are only 200,000 troops arriving in the war zone, their strategic goal is to capture the northern border, and now the task has been completed, if the extraneous branches lose their troops in the secondary places, with the strict law of the Paving Ant Imperial Army, the commanders will be severely punished!

Anyway, now the initiative is in the hands of the Paving Ant Imperial Army, they have occupied [North Song City], eliminated the local leafcutter ant garrison, seized a large amount of grain baggage, and only twenty or thirty thousand defeated troops, just run away!

The protagonist meets the acting commander of the Leafcutter Ant Army in the fortress, and is embarrassed to learn that its original commander, the female ant, has died in the chaos.

From the leafcutter ants, the protagonist learns what happened to them last night.

Yesterday, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army pursued northward, and it was smooth at first, reaching the outskirts of [Kitamatsu Castle] without encountering a large enemy army. Outside [North Pine City], there was only a thin defensive line of the enemy, which was not enough to prevent the leaf-cutting ant army from breaking through.

The Leaf Cutter Army thought that they would be able to enter the city smoothly, and then have a full meal and rest overnight.

However, when the Leaf Cutter Ant Army arrived at the [North Pine City] Tree Nest, it was the Paving Ant Imperial Army that came out of the tree hole and the leaf ball nest. To add insult to injury, it didn't take long for the paving ant imperial army to kill the trees and ground in all directions, and they were surrounded!

It turned out that the Paving Ant Imperial Army had already stormed and captured [North Pine City] during the day today, and it became a mystery why the defenders of [North Pine City] were completely defeated so quickly.

In short, the defenders of [North Pine City] did not hold out until the reinforcements arrived, and when the Paving Ant Imperial Army learned that the Leafcutter Ant Army appeared in the south, the Red Fire Ant Army immediately laid a trap when the Red Fire Ant Army failed to block it, and only then did it surround the Leafcutter Ant Army who came in a hurry.

The Leaf Cutter Ant Army initially wanted to counterattack and retake [North Pine City], and the importance of this tree nest was well known to both sides. But when the enemy troops surrounded from all directions, the leaf-cutting ant female ant who led the team still wisely issued a breakthrough order and ordered the whole army to move closer to the direction of the Divine Angel King's legion, which saved the lives of half of the soldiers.

The leafcutter ant army is still very good at fighting in the tree war, although the paving ant empire army has laid down layers of encirclement, but there are male ants who are familiar with the local terrain in the leafcutter ant army, under their leadership, the leafcutter ant army fought to the death all night, and finally conquered a few of the most important branches, the army of bees passed by, and then scattered from the tree roads that extend in all directions to escape the encirclement, and then converged on the ground in the south to evacuate.

The Leafcutter Ant Army's escape from death made the Paving Ant Imperial Army very angry, and they dispatched a mosquito unit to "decapitate" the female ant commander of the Leafcutter Ant Army, taking advantage of the lack of guards around the female ant commander of the Leaf Cutter Army.

Fortunately, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army still carried out the orders of the previous commander at this time, and fled in the direction of the Divine Envoy King Legion non-stop, and at the same time selected another female ant with the oldest seniority to temporarily take command, and there was no major chaos.

The protagonist then summons the Legion Commanders and the Flying Knight Squad Leaders to meet with the commanders of the Leafcutter Ant Army.

Now the situation is very passive for the coalition army, the Paving Ant Imperial Army has occupied [North Pine City], and the army has completely lost its support in the north, and has fallen into a situation of lack of soldiers and major generals.

The protagonist suggests that the army should abandon the plan for the defense of the northern border and rebuild defensive positions in the central region, which can lengthen the enemy's supply lines and shorten the logistics supply lines of our army.

However, the central region is also the original red fire ant territory, and now in the territory of the leaf-cutting ant country, the leaf-cutting ant country did not develop this plain at all, and there are many secret posts arranged by the red fire ant country in the local area.

If the enemy forces move south quickly, the coalition forces will not have time to build up a defense in the central region, and there will be no natural danger to rely on. There must be plenty of time to build forts and lairs in the area to form a defensive system.

In order to gain time to set up, the protagonist feels that he needs to leave a force to block and contain the enemy army. It just so happened that this fortress, which was originally used to protect the back road and the grain route, was a ready-made blocking position.

The quagmire will not dry up in two or three days, and the fortress can control the road through the mire, and even if the Paving Ant Imperial Army paves its way through the mire on its own, the defenders of the fortress can threaten its supply lines at any time.

As long as the fortress is firmly entrenched here, the Paving Ant Empire Army will not be able to go south with peace of mind, and will inevitably conquer this place first.

The protagonist is naturally reluctant to let the Divine Envoy King's army stay here to carry out the sniper war mission of nine deaths, and the purpose of his meeting is to persuade the Leafcutter Ant Army to stay and carry out the mission.

The defeated army of the leaf-cutting ant army still has nearly 30,000 troops at this time, and this fortress is built narrow but strong, even if it is a hard fight, it can be defended for a week!

The commanders of the Divine Envoy King Legion are all unconditionally obedient to the protagonist's plan, but the Leaf Cutting Ant Commanders have no right to make decisions, their instructions before setting off are to support the North, and now [North Pine City] has fallen, before receiving the next order, the Leaf Cutting Ants said that they want to rush back and join the main force of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army.

The protagonist understands the behavior of the leafcutter ants, but feels that it is a waste of fighters, and that this fortress is an excellent blocking position, and it is a pity to give up easily.

Of course, it is impossible for the Divine Envoy King Legion to stay here alone, they are here to support the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, but there is no need to sacrifice themselves to save others!

The protagonist then states that he will send the Flying Knight to apply to the army of leafcutters to keep them in the area.

On that day, the Paving Ant Imperial Army did not attempt to attack the fortress again, and the Flying Knights ventured out to reconnoiter and found that the enemy army was hunting for leafcutter ants scattered nearby [North Pine Castle] and building new nests.

When the Divine Envoy King's army heard the news, they began to evacuate on the same day, first transporting artillery units and grain to the south of the swamp, and then crossing the bridge one after another.

The Leaf Cutting Ant Army is still waiting for a reply at this time, they are resting in the fortress, yesterday's defeat has caused problems with the formation of many troops, some squads only have commanders but no soldiers, and some squads have lost their commanders, and they happen to be reorganized here.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Flying Knight brings back the order of the most powerful commander of the Leafcutter Army, rejects the protagonist's offer, and orders the Leafcutter Army to retreat.

The protagonist truthfully informs the Leafcutter Ant Army of the order, and he withdraws with the last troops to the south bank of the mire.

Looking back at the just-completed fortress to the north, the protagonist suddenly hopes that the Paving Ant Empire Army will attack at this time. In this way, the Leaf Cutter Ant Army can only stay and hold the fortress!