In the middle of summer, the temperature is getting hotter and hotter like this battle.

There was a light rain the morning before yesterday, but the earth brought a bit of coolness for a long time. But since yesterday, the sky has become unusually blue, and you can even see the mountains to the north as far as the eye can see. A few dots of clouds dotted it, and soon it was escorted south by the wind.

The sun reigns so hard that the air and the earth are scorching, and the scenery in the distance is writhing and dazed in the air.

In addition to plants, other life seems to have only known to like the season, the tireless hissing on the trunks of trees. Although the insects next to them are also cold-blooded animals, they do not dare to be active in the sun for too long in this weather, otherwise they will lose their precious water.

For many insects, water is a very valuable resource, and if they are not lucky enough to find a water source (which is relatively scarce in the wild), they can only get a little valuable water from their food, and naturally they cannot squander it in the sun.

As a result, most insects choose to come out early in the morning or around dusk, and take refuge in the shade at other times. The shade of the trees is a haven for insects in the hot summer, and the temperature here is very different from the ground where the sun hits directly, like a paradise in a scorching hell.

It may be that only the mysterious ants don't care about the temperature above 35 degrees and the surface temperature close to 50 degrees, and they are still marching under the sun, attacking, attacking, and attacking.

However, their opponents, the paving ants, did not have the courage to go to the wild to fight in this season, so they could only be trapped in their nests.

It is a nest at the base of the tree, a leafy purple-leaved plum tree about a few decades old, with its trunk hugged together and the purple leaves hanging in the air like clouds, bringing a large shade to the surface of the nest.

There are also a large number of attractive purple-red fruits hanging from the branches, and there are many fallen fruits on the ground, but the ants under the tree are dismissive of this - the fruit of this purple-leaved plum tree is mostly sour, even if it is fully ripe, it is only slightly sweet and sour, and only a few insects eat this fruit, but the ants are obviously not among them.

But the ants will not leave this big tree that does not provide fruit, because their home is here.

At the root of the purple-leaved plum tree, there are dozens of ant nests in a dense circle, this nest belongs to the paving ant barbarian country, if there is a visit from the same species, the dominant male ant here will proudly tell the visitor that this secondary nest is hundreds of years old.

This sub-nest has a long history, and it is a territory that has been opened up when the paving ant barbarian country has not yet become the overlord on the north bank of the Great River.

The territory around the secondary nest is densely covered with edible fruit trees, such as purple-leaved plums, small pinks, peach trees, jujube trees, etc., and the abundant products also make there many insects here, and many fruits and insect prey are enough to support a large secondary nest.

This nest has indeed developed into a large secondary nest with tens of thousands of ants in hundreds of years, and every day there is an endless stream of convoys to transport the harvested food to the main nest more than a day's journey.

Because there has been no war for a long time, in order to facilitate transportation and foraging, this secondary nest is not like the nest of the big-headed ant kingdom, there is only one entrance, but densely surrounded by dozens of entrances and exits around the trunk of the tree, like a necklace around the neck.

But such a structure will also cause great trouble for the paver ants in the upcoming battle.

As the Mystic Ant Soldiers advance and the alarms from the front line become more and more urgent, the secondary nest will soon be reduced to a battlefield.

A king from the main nest of the paving ant barbarians led a legion to take up the town.

It is difficult for a mere legion to play a decent role in this war, especially in a war with a powerful enemy, where the country has already lost hundreds of legions. And compared to the mission of this great king, this amount of troops is even less worth mentioning.

This king from the southern part of the land, although his hometown has fallen to the hands of the despicable big-headed ant clan, he once fought under another highly decorated king, and he also learned the essence of his teacher's tactics.

Thanks to this, the Main Nest gave him the task of building a defensive line in this [Purple Leaf Li City], and gave him the power to requisition all the resources of this area.

The Paving Ant Barbarians have already invested hundreds of thousands of huge troops in the main nest battlefield, but now it seems that they are unable to withstand the attack of a powerful enemy.

In order to defeat the enemy once and for all, the ruling males of the Paving Ant Barbarian Nation want to follow the successful experience of last year, gather a second wave of troops, and enter the battle in one fell swoop on the battlefield of the main nest, completely defeating the enemy army in front of them.

For this reason, the paver ants had to take a defensive position in the other three battlefields, concentrating all their forces and resources on the main nest.

It takes time for such a large-scale build-up of troops, and the situation on the frontal battlefield has deteriorated, and it is obviously difficult to provide enough time for the build-up of the main forces as it did last year.

In this context, the king from the south, let's call him "Suzaku", was ordered to come to [Purple Leaf Li City] in danger and was ordered to build a final line of defense.

Once this place is lost, the main nest will be exposed to enemy soldiers, or it will be under enemy soldiers in less than two days.

Although the army of paving ants finally relied on the strong fortifications of the main nest to repel the enemy last year, by that time the main nest had completed the integration of all forces, and now it has not achieved its goal.

In order to cover the main nest, Suzaku must stay here for a week.

For Suzaku, who currently has only one legion on hand, this is almost an impossible task.

But fortunately, he has the power to mobilize all the resources of several nearby sub-nests.

[Purple Leaf Plum City] and several nearby secondary nests, with a combined population of more than 100,000 ants, this is one of the most fertile areas in the whole country, providing more than 10% of the food for the main nest in the past.

Now, as the situation of the war deteriorates, a large number of soldiers are thrown into the front line and quickly die, even if the main nest is gathering troops of unprecedented size, the consumption of food is not as urgent as usual.

The pressure on the [Purple Leaf Li Cheng] to provide food to the main nest was relieved, and Suzaku dared to use the ant mouth and food here to complete the arduous task.

Under Suzaku's order, the ant mouth and grain storage in the nearby area are gathering towards [Purple Leaf Li Castle], and Suzaku is stockpiling food while reorganizing the troops, and a large number of new legions are being built.

Naturally, it is difficult for the combat effectiveness of these new legions to increase quickly, but the huge number is the greatest use of these cannon fodder legions.

An offensive and defensive battle around [Purple Leaf Li City] is about to become the focus of the battle on the north bank of the Great River.