After repelling a third tentative attack by the enemy, the defenders waited for a few more moments before a new battle was fought.

The squad of the 5th Legion on the original front line, after being instructed by the corps commander Rambery, crossed the ballista position and the preset battlefield to reconnoiter ahead.

They were cautious all the way, but they had been following the main passage, and they were almost at the entrance, and there was no trace of the enemy.

Then they didn't dare to venture out of the entrance, and when they saw the entrance from the dark underground, they saw a light outside, and they couldn't see the specific scene at all, although there were no ant shadows, but it would be bad if they went out and encountered an ambush.

They sent the news back, and the protagonist who learned the information ran up to the highest monitoring room in the anthill and looked out through the small window.

The first thing I saw was that the flying knights in the sky were drawing a regular pattern again, and this time the pattern was not a warning. The protagonist rubs the outer membrane of his compound eye with his antennae, making sure that he is right, the Flying Knights are reporting that the enemy is retreating.

And the symbols used indicate that the enemy is not a short retreat in battle, waiting until tomorrow to continue the offensive. Rather, it is a big retreat, a direct evacuation of the [bridgehead] theater of operations!

The protagonist hurriedly looks out of the window, but the three small windows can only see the scene near the farthest three trenches, and the vegetation obscures the view.

Even though most of these vegetation have withered and lost their leaves, only a few such as firethorn and holly still maintain a stubborn green coat, the weeds have long since withered and yellow, and the shrubs have only branches, but they are dense enough to block the protagonist's peeping into the distance.

The protagonist hurriedly prepares the Praetorian Guards to fly. The Praetorian Guards immediately went to lead Xiaoqing II to the flight entrance near the top.

The same protagonist's mount, Tempest, the jumping spider, is now in [Waterfront City], where conditions are better. And the mercerized green fly Xiaoqing II, which the protagonist rides more often, has always followed him.

The Praetorian Guards are ready to fly as fast as they can, and the protagonist steps onto the saddle behind Xiaoqing II, uses a silk rope to secure the back limbs, and as soon as the middle limbs pull the reins, they rush into the air.

Originally, in order to pass through the protective net, the flying riders had to take a reserved exit, which was on the top side of the protective net, which could not be seen at all without looking carefully, and could also be covered with a movable semi-fixed small net. The exit is about the size of a flying knight to drill out. This is the only weakness that the Great Destroyer can penetrate through the net, but the enemy has not noticed its existence.

It's just that now the entire protective net has been destroyed, and the protagonist controls Xiaoqing II, so it is very convenient to fly out of the protective net.

At this time, the air was full of cold feelings, and during high-speed flight, the oncoming cold wind made both the mount and the rider feel very uncomfortable.

Xiaoqing II turned his head and wanted to fly back to the warm stable, originally when it approached the entrance, it was a little resistant, but it was much colder outside than near the entrance.

The protagonist pulls the reins hard, but instead of doing so, he pulls the balance sticks on both sides of Aoi II's body, which instinctively causes Aoi II to continue flying forward as instructed by the balance stick.

The protagonist is also cold, but he can breathe on his own and has a body temperature, which is closer to an endothermic animal, and his ability to resist the cold is stronger than that of other insects, and this cold does not stop him. What's more, even in the most severe winter, the protagonist dares to run outside to the dark underground with a silk wool and never get the protagonist's love, and the desire for light is the human nature he always insists on in the bottom of his heart.

Xiaoqing II soon arrived at the old camp of the Destroyers, and sure enough, the brigade of the Destroyers was retreating, and they formed two columns.

One group headed west, mainly the Great Destroyer, but there were also a few small Destroyers who cowered and followed. The other group headed north, full of petty destroyers.

The protagonist can't figure out why the enemy suddenly retreated, and after two days of fighting, although the losses were mostly destroyers, the Divine King's Legion also suffered a lot of losses, and the 15th and 16th Legions, which participated in the first battle, lost half of them.

Moreover, judging from the battle situation, the Destroyers successfully destroyed the two lines of defense of the defenders, and vaguely occupied the initiative.

The protagonist doesn't understand why the enemy suddenly retreated, as the sun had set over the horizon, and the Destroyers seemed to want to hide in shelter before dark, rather than camping in the besieged wilderness.

Could it be that the weather is about to change? The protagonist remembers that his soldiers have also reported that the humidity in the air is unusually high, and the temperature has dropped significantly.

In this weather, neither flies nor bee mounts can fly too far, which is too dangerous. The sun is about to set, and it is even more dangerous for these mounts to lose their heat source.

The protagonist is unable to detect the enemy's whereabouts from a distance, so after hovering for a while, he returns to the lair with the flying knights, who are almost frozen.

In the end, the protagonist asks the worker ants in the nest to go out with the ropes in the warehouse to try to repair the protective net.

It's a big job, and it's more cumbersome and laborious to repair this tattered protective net than to build a new one. But at this time, there were not many ropes in stock in the [bridgehead], and it was obvious that they could not afford to build a new net, so they could only sew as much as possible.

In cold weather, the worker ants have to grab the broken rope that sways in the wind, connect it with a new rope, and then fix it to a wooden wedge or another broken rope.

It was dusk, and a mist rose on the ground, and the hard-working worker ants quickly condensed tiny droplets of water, which intensified the heat flow of their bodies.

Many worker ants have to work for a while before returning to their underground nests to keep warm, or they may freeze outside, which is fatal.

Therefore, until it finally got dark, the workers only completed a small part of the repair of the protective net, and the protective net still did not work.

At first, the protagonist wants to continue repairing overnight, but the dark night with no heat source, the cold air and the moist fog make it impossible for the ants to stay outside for a long time, and the protagonist can only dispel this unrealistic idea.

But at least tomorrow, [the bridgehead] will not need protective nets either.

At night, the protagonist who is asleep receives a report from the ants on duty: it's snowing.

He hurriedly ran to the monitoring room to look out, only to see that it was dark outside, but the protagonist regarded it as daylight, and he saw that the clouds covered the moon, and countless black spots were slowly falling from the sky, falling to the ground, and quickly melting.

It was a light snowfall, the snowflakes were not large, and because the ground had not yet completely chilled, it melted as soon as it landed, and no snow had accumulated.

However, this snow was the vanguard of winter and the last straw that destroyed the defense line in autumn.

The protagonist knows that from tomorrow onwards, it will be meteorologically considered winter.

No wonder the Destroyers are leaving, they are afraid of the power of nature!