On 5 April, there was still no significant sign of receding water.

A large number of worker ants from the Divine Envoy King's legion were busy on the southern shore of the hollow lake.

The surface of the water is full of floating corpses, and these water-soaked corpses are prone to germs, and the protagonist can't stand it, so he asks his subordinates to converge.

It is said to be astringent, but in fact, it is nothing more than using sticks and jaws to get the corpses ashore, and then falling into the rushing river to let the water wash away, [Xinyang City] now has no extra open space to bury the corpses of tens of thousands of enemies.

In contrast, although the Red Fire Ant Army also has hundreds of soldiers guarding the north side of the lake every day, they are indifferent to the corpses of their companions, so they let the floating corpses on the north shore continue to float.

The protagonist will sometimes curse, hoping that these enemies will be infected with the plague and suffer heavy casualties, so that they should retreat.

The Red Fire Ant Army lost tens of thousands of soldiers in the siege of the city a few days ago, as well as in the Flying Fire, but their main force still exists, which still puts great pressure on the protagonist.

If it weren't for the heavy rain that formed the lake that separated the two sides, I don't know how many fierce battles the defenders would have to go through and how many soldiers they would have lost.

But God can't take care of it forever, pinning hope on unreliable luck is not a long-term solution, and the protagonist knows that he must take some measures to win this battle.

After all, although the flood made the Divine Angel King's legion safe for the time being, the raging waves also cut off the protagonist's last retreat - the walnut ship could not sail in such water conditions, and doing so would be almost to death!

- I'm the dividing line -

"Little Flower" sits behind a flying knight and rides on a fly mount, accompanied by two other flying knights with spears.

A group of three horses and four ants were flying to the territory of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country.

After the last trade before the siege, the trade team led by "Little Flower" could only stay at home because the war had begun, and the worker ants of the trade team were also transferred to do battlefield logistics.

Last night, "Little Flower" was resting in the shared nest room with several other divine ants belonging to the scientific research group, when the great Divine Envoy King suddenly arrived.

After the Divine Envoy King communicated with the "Little Flower" alone, Little Flower took over the task of sending the Leaf Cutting Ant Country.

The protagonist hopes to deal with the Red Fire Ant Country in alliance with the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, and when the Red Fire Ant Country's army is pinned down in [Xinyang City], he encourages the Leaf Cutting Ant Country to send troops, or surround Wei to save Zhao's attack on other territories of the Red Fire Ant Country, or directly send troops to [Xinyang City], and the two sides work together to eliminate this main force of the Red Fire Ant Country.

The protagonist feels that such a strategy is a win-win situation, as the Divine Legion can remove the military threat posed by the Red Fire Ant Kingdom for a period of time, and the Leaf Cutting Ant Kingdom can also greatly weaken the military power of the sworn enemy.

With the mission, "Little Flower" and his party entered the territory of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, and then the flying knight found a place to wait outside the forest, and "Little Flower" flew to the magnificent [Holy Tree City] on the Star Bull alone under the guidance of the guide.

In the afternoon of the next day, "Little Flower" was picked up by the Flying Knight and returned to [Xinyang City].

At this time, the stagnant water has shown signs of receding, and some areas on the east and west sides of the depression are exposed to the water.

The protagonist knows that the stagnant water will not last long in this summer-like temperature and sunshine, and that the next battle will soon begin, so he desperately hopes that "Little Flower" can bring good news.

However, to his disappointment, "Little Flower" said that the Leafcutter Ant Nation rejected the protagonist's alliance proposal and also refused to join forces.

It's not that "Little Flower" doesn't work hard, she analyzes the pros and cons of this win-win proposal according to the protagonist's approach. But the protagonist's analysis of the pros and cons is full of his human thinking, and although the female ant council finds this proposal interesting and submits it, the queen ant council, the highest authority in the leaf cutting ant country, does not like this plan.

The final decision of the queen ant assembly was conveyed by the female ant who had a friendship with Little Flower: the Leafcutter Ant Nation stated that they did not need to ally with any ants, that their invincible army did not need to fight with any army, and that they would not set foot in any land without forests.

Well, the protagonist knows from this "leafcutter" style reply that the other party is obviously stubborn, and the protagonist does not send "Little Flower" to convince the other party again, which is only counterproductive to the conceited and stubborn object.

The Divine Envoy King Legion can only rely on itself!

- I'm the dividing line -

By 8 April, the water had halved down, revealing a curved strip of land on the east and west sides of the depression.

Although this stretch of land is still wet, the Red Fire Ant Army can't wait to attack.

The Red Fire Ant Army had been accumulating food for a long time before they were able to launch this military operation. But [Xinyangcheng] was harder to fight than expected, and the sudden rain dragged on for another four or five days.

During this time, the military food in the camp of the Red Fire Ant Army has been very tight. In addition to the valuable food that traveled thousands of miles around the Black Forest to bring valuable food from [Hive City], all of the Red Fire Ant Army's slave auxiliaries were also sent out in search of food.

In addition to the full rations of the native warriors of the red fire ants, the forest ants can only get half of the rations, the burrowing ants and belly-lifting ants are one-third, and the black brown ants are only one-sixth.

Anyway, if you don't fight, you won't starve to death if you eat less, these grass-tolerant slaves are the common idea of the Red Fire Ant commanders.

When there were finally one or two ways to attack, the Red Fire Ant Warriors and the Slave Auxiliaries finally ate a full meal together with open stomachs - fortunately, the Red Fire Ants also knew that they couldn't go hungry when they went into battle, so they didn't let the slave auxiliaries go to war hungry.

Later, burrowing ants and black brown ants clung to the dirt, gravel, dead grass, etc., and raised and widened the wet road that had just emerged from the water.

After being busy for most of the day, in the afternoon, the Red Fire Ant Army sent another attack force of 10,000 ants, crossed two roads, lined up on the south bank of the hollow waterlogged lake, and launched the first attack in five days.

The Divine Envoy King's legion was still in full swing, but due to the humid weather, what the defenders did not expect was that although the ballistae that had just been moved out of the ground did not get rain, the elasticity of the tendon springs was greatly reduced by moisture, and the power of the cannonballs was greatly reduced, and they were almost unusable.

Without the support of ballista fire, the defenders defended extremely hard, and fought until it was dark in the evening, and the Red Fire Ant Army reluctantly retreated.

In today's battle, the Red Fire Ant Army held its breath and often fought to the death, although it left more than 5,000 corpses, but it also caused casualties among nearly 1,000 soldiers of the defenders.

This was the highest single-day battle loss since the Divine Envoy King's Legion began, and almost half of the reorganized legion was disabled.

If the battle damage remains at this level, things will not be good for the Divine Envoy King's legion.