The Paving Ant Barbarian Nation has a long tradition of all people being soldiers.

In wartime, every paving ant can be immediately transformed into a warrior, with the male ant as the commander, the worker ant as the ordinary soldier, and the queen ant as the fertility that provides a steady stream of replenishment to the front line. Each nest, the entire race, operates like a war machine, and all the ants are parts of it.

Sometimes, even entire nests located in war zones are reorganized into war machines, even interrupting the daily work of foraging lights, and the food supply is entirely dependent on food reserves and transportation from nests outside the war zone.

This is different from the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, which is also known for its "All Soldiers for All", which always tends to use relatively elite warriors to form legions, while the rest of the ants continue to be responsible for production, and will not include the worker ants that produce food and maintain the nest into the battle team unless absolutely necessary.

The rise of these two races, which are similar but distinctive, to become local hegemons is also a testament to the strength of their respective military systems.

The other races on both sides of the river in the basin are either too small and lack potential for a single tribe like the scythe ant, lack a stable base and territory like the black-headed sour ant, or fail to arm the entire race in a nation-wide manner like the Japanese black-brown ant, and are eventually marginalized.

At this moment, the series of war preparation measures implemented by Suzaku in [Purple Leaf Li City] are all mature practices that have paved the way for thousands of years, and these practices have also helped this country survive countless crises.

Under the command and operation of Suzaku, all the ants of [Purple Leaf Li Cheng] were organized into 11 legions, of which only 4 legions were commanded by male ants.

And the 6 sub-nests near [Purple Leaf Li City] have also organized all the ant mouths into 29 legions, of which 7 legions are commanded by male ants.

Those legions without the command of the male ant are complete cannon fodder, and it is difficult for the commander to give detailed instructions to them on the battlefield, but as long as the order is given, these legions without commanders will use their flesh and blood to fight the enemy to the death, fulfilling the obligation of cannon fodder.

The 11 legions under the command of the male ant were the core of Suzaku's defense line, and these legions were concentrated in [Purple Leaf Li Castle] for training, and in addition to the regular tactics, Suzaku also taught the tactics against big-headed ants that he learned from his teacher when he was fighting in the south. Maybe these tactics will also be useful against the hateful invaders.

The 29 commanderless legions did not train frequently, and apart from occasional grouping and a small amount of training, the ants of these legions continued to do a lot of chores, including foraging for food and transporting large quantities of grain to [Purple Leaf Plum City].

In Suzaku's defense plan, the seven secondary nests on the periphery can be abandoned to disperse the enemy's forces and delay the enemy's attack. Only the largest [Purple Leaf Plum City] cannot be abandoned, and this will be the last fortress that must be defended.

The reason why [Purple Leaf Plum City] was chosen as the core of defense was not because the terrain here was easy to defend and difficult to attack, in fact, [Purple Leaf Plum City] was located on the plain, and there was almost no danger to defend.

However, based on the experience of the paving ants fighting the mysterious ant invaders, the nests on the most difficult terrain can hardly give the defenders much advantage, whether it is a nest on a dirt slope, a nest in a pile of rocks, or a nest in the bushes, they cannot stop the enemy's footsteps.

Based on this experience, Suzaku would rather choose a larger nest as a base, at least to accommodate more troops and hoard more food.

Those commanderless legions are stepping up to repair the defenses of [Purple Leaf Li City]. A large number of nest entrances and exits dug on weekdays for convenience were filled, and the nest was expanded to accommodate more troops and to accommodate the daily increase in grain.

The queen ants from the nearby nest were also welcomed into the [Purple Leaf Plum City], and here, the queen ants lost their original separate dormitory, and several queens were gathered in one nest.

The queen ants did not complain, this is wartime, and their duty is to constantly give birth and lay eggs, providing a steady stream of supplements for the front-line troops - high fertility rate, all soldiers and winter combat ability, are the three killer features of the paving ant family.

Since the other 7 secondary nests could eventually be abandoned, there was no reason for Suzaku to leave the local queen there to die. The queen ant will be the key factor in the long-term persistence of the Suzaku project.

With Suzaku's own intelligence level, it was actually difficult to arrange this series of defense plans in an orderly manner, even if he was the best disciple of his own master, he was also a rare wise man among male ants. However, the brain capacity of ants determines that the intelligence of their individuals is not high.

But fortunately, behind the Vermilion Bird is the male ant class of the entire Paving Ant Barbarian Country, and the unique group wisdom of the ants is that a group of relatively intelligent male ants gather together to communicate, which can greatly improve the overall intelligence level, which is a way of collective thinking.

Suzaku's preparation measures are the successful experience of generations of male ants in the war, and the male ants of the entire main nest have optimized the plan according to this crisis, as well as the changes that can be adjusted according to the situation at any time by themselves and their 10 male ants.

In Suzaku's opinion, he has done all the preparation work that can be done, but his confidence in completing the task is not firm.

Because, this time the enemy is too strong.

Suzaku had led his elite army to fight against this enemy, leaving an indelible impression.

It was last year, and Suzaku was drawn from the south to the northern border of the kingdom with his long-trained legion to participate in the battle against the archback ant clan in the mountains.

The Burchback Ant Clan is the arch-enemy of the Paving Ant Barbarian Nation, inhabiting the barren mountainous areas of the northern part of the kingdom, but often invading the plains to raid.

This is very similar to the hunting sickle ants in the southern border of the big-headed ant kingdom, but the bowback ants do not have the restraining power of parasites, and the size of a single tribe is also larger, reaching thousands of ants.

This makes them a greater threat to the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom than the Hunting Scythe Ant Beast Kingdom.

Because it is difficult for the paving ant barbarians to obtain enough supplies in the barren stony mountains to establish a base area, it is difficult for the bowback ant tribe to be completely expelled and exterminated, and it has been threatening the northern part of the paving ant barbarians for hundreds of years. Just as China's Central Plains regime has historically struggled to control the northern grasslands for a long time, and has been constantly invaded.

As a countermeasure, every spring, the Paving Ant Barbarian will organize troops to garrison the northern border to resist the bowback ants who have been hungry for a winter to come down the mountain and plunder. Then in the fall, there will be a counter-offensive to try to eliminate as many of the Bowback ant tribe as possible and reduce the pressure on the next year's defenses.

It was in the spring of last year that Suzaku and his regiment were transferred to the north.