For the Paving Ant Barbarian Nation, sending troops from all over the country to the north to fight the Bowback Ant in turn is the most important measure to maintain the combat effectiveness of the troops and the martial traditions of the race.

After all, after becoming the overlord of the north bank of the Great River, the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom has few enemies worthy of attention, and in the long run, the combat effectiveness of the troops will decline rapidly due to the lack of actual combat.

For example, although the military operations of the southern expedition to the Big-headed Ant Kingdom in the winter of each year always failed, the war was basically carried out in the territory of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, and the mainland of the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom was not threatened, and the scale of the war was difficult to expand, and the troops that went south after the beginning of spring could not return, so it was naturally difficult to play a role in training the troops.

The Japanese Black Brown Ant and Black-headed Sour Ant tribes in the east can only make small raids.

Only the bowback ants in the north are the henchmen of the paving ant barbarian country.

Although every year the Paving Ant Barbarian Army is able to repel the Bowback Ants, and then enter the northern stony mountains in the autumn to sweep and kill tens of thousands of Bowback Ants.

However, the following spring, the same number of hunchback ants always make a comeback and continue to pose a threat in the north.

The bowback ant is huge, with a hard carapace and powerful jaws, and if it comes to duels, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army often has to send more than ten warriors at the same time to defeat a single bowback ant.

In fact, on the battlefield, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army generally uses a whole squad to match two or three Bowback Ants in order to give full play to the numerical advantage.

If it weren't for the fact that the bowback ants were not good at fighting in formations, they often fought alone, and their numbers were scarce, then the paving ant barbarian army would have been even more difficult to deal with.

Suzaku first came to the north with his legion, and his tactics of intensive assault against the big-headed ants, inherited from his teacher, were not very effective against the bowback ants.

In the face of the paving ant warriors swarming from the front, the hunchback ant warriors can always sweep them back with their powerful jaws. On the contrary, the legions in the north that have been fighting with the bowback ants for a long time are more effective in forming a loose formation of warriors in a loose formation, forming a division and encirclement first and then attacking.

Suzaku's original troops, after losing one or two percent, finally gradually adapted to the enemy's tactics.

Soon, spring passed, summer came, and the hunchback ants retreated into the mountains, when food was abundant, and there was no need for the bowback ants, who had already consumed the excess to enter the plains to plunder.

The Paving Ant Barbarian Army is undergoing training, and Suzaku's legion has also been supplemented by the new force that has come from the old nest, and it is full again. After a period of joint training and hunting exercises, the unit reached its strongest state.

With the arrival of autumn, the Paver ants began to stock up on food for the winter, while the legions stationed in the north began to march north, and they were about to enter the mountains to begin a counterattack.

- I'm the dividing line -

Suzaku and his men crawled out of the mouth of the nest and saw the sun again.

Behind him was the nest of an indigenous tribe of bowback ants that had just been conquered, and the nest was hidden in a crevice of a naturally weathered stone.

After confirming that the tribe was not large, Suzaku took on the attack on his own with his own legion.

This time, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army was the attacker and had the initiative on the battlefield. The passively defensive bowback ants are unlikely to form a coalition of thousands as they do when they descend the mountains in the spring, and each tribe is often broken down separately.

Based on his previous combat experience, Suzaku sent a small group of scouts to attack tentatively, and soon lured these large, simple-minded bowback ants out of the nest.

After introducing dozens of bowback ant warriors of this tribe into the encirclement and killing them, Suzaku led the legion deep into the nest ** and killed the old, weak, sick and disabled and female ants left behind, and this small bowback ant tribe was completely wiped out of the world.

For Suzaku, this was nothing more than part of a routine battle, and almost every day he and his legions would wipe out one or two such tribes.

But these tribes of indigenous hunchback ants are like weeds in the mountains, no matter how barren the land is, they will always continue to sprout and grow the next spring.

Suzaku knew that the male ants of his country had been studying this enemy for a long time, and had come to the conclusion that this stony mountainous area was too large, and that the army of paving ants could only set foot in a small piece of land on the edge of the mountain.

And deep in the mountains, there are countless such indigenous bowback ant tribes, even if the paving ant army destroys all the bowback ant tribes near the border, it will not be long before new tribes will migrate here.

But if the Layer Ant Kingdom does not take any measures, the pressure on the defense will increase greatly the following spring.

The army of paving ants, year after year, carried out never-ending tasks that they had to do, as if they had to march south every year, in vain and stubborn.

- I'm the dividing line -

Unknowingly, Suzaku and his legions have been in the mountains for more than a month.

In the past month or so, the temperature has cooled significantly, and the changes in the mountainous areas have been even more obvious. Although the paver ants can be active in winter, at this time, they also try to choose the warmest time at noon before going out to carry out combat missions.

Hundreds of legions of paving ants, divided into more than a dozen groups, swept through the entire mountainous area near the border, almost uprooting the indigenous tribes here.

However, from the distant mountains, there are still hunchback ants who are forced to rush to the pressure of food, trying to enter the mountainous areas controlled by the barbarian army of paving ants, searching for valuable winter food.

The main task of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army has gradually shifted from clearing the indigenous Bowback Ant tribe near the border line to dealing with the attacks of tribes migrating from afar.

Such a battle will not last long, as the temperature turns colder, at most half a month, the army of paving ants will have to withdraw to the mainland to prepare for the winter.

And a legion like Suzaku from the south may set out earlier to prepare for this year's southern expedition.

The Suzaku Legion has had few combat missions lately, and most of the time they have been huddled in a nest left behind by the larger indigenous Bowback ants with the other two legions. Only go out to fight when the scouts warn of a large enemy approaching.

At this moment, Suzaku has already put his mind on the upcoming southern expedition, and every day he is training the completely different combat methods required by his legions to fight against the bowback ants, that is, the dense formation combat methods used to fight against the big-headed ants.

Suzaku will not forget that his teacher finally "died" in the battle of the Southern Expedition. Now, maybe it's your turn.

But what he didn't expect was that he wouldn't be able to return to the South this year!