The protagonist returns to the "bridgehead" three days later, and although he is alone along the way, he takes familiar routes and campsites that he has used before, but there are no thrills and dangers.

And the Fly Eagle and the Praying Tiger each had returned a day earlier, faster than the protagonist.

After being attacked by a wasp last time, the protagonist attracts his pursuers, and they are unharmed.

However, due to the panic of the mounts, it took some time for them to find their bearings.

They were able to return to their nests, and in the end, thanks to the fly mounts, for the two ants, without pheromone guidance, they could only roughly confirm their position according to the sun, and they could not find their way home at all.

But the Fly Mount is able to remember its own stable, both temporary and permanent, because there is delicious honeydew there.

Stimulated by Honeydew, the mounts of the two flying knights do not return to the nest according to their original routes, but instead choose to return in a straight line, walking a lot less than the protagonist.

When the protagonist heard the news, he couldn't cry or laugh, and he was worried that the dragon eagle and the mantis tiger would not come back, and in the end, he did not overestimate them, but underestimated the flies.

It seems that even insects that the protagonist thinks have a low level of intelligence have abilities that cannot be underestimated, perhaps because of the simple structure of their brains, their instincts are getting stronger and stronger.

Since the fly mount has this ability to find the way back to the nest, the protagonist is not afraid to let the flying knight go out alone. At least the Flying Knight, who spends a lot of honeydew to cultivate, can have a wider use.

- I'm the dividing line -

After the protagonist returns to the "bridgehead", there is still no war here.

Judging from the current signs, the nest of the paving ant barbarians not far away must have discovered the anomaly here.

However, perhaps it was they who had sent their troops to join the expedition deep into the jungle in the far north—a mystery that still haunts the protagonist's mind to this day, and he has a vague feeling that it will be important to solve this mystery; Maybe it's because of the Japanese black brown ant or the black-headed sour ant natives on the edge of the jungle.

The Paving Ant Barbarian Army did not take any military measures against the "bridgehead" under their noses, except for the occasional Paving Ant Scout who would sneak in.

This seems a bit incredible to the protagonist, after all, if you have a little strategic vision, you can see what it means to have a "bridgehead" hanging alone on the north bank of the river, and how fragile it is.

But strategic vision, maybe the male ants of the paver ant or the big-headed ant do not have much of it. After all, a war can be fought for hundreds or thousands of years, and it is necessary to exhaust national strength and invest a lot of resources year after year to consume each other, which is a complete loss-making deal in the eyes of the human world.

If the two sides can accept the big river as the boundary, carry out peace talks, and concentrate all their forces with the strength of the two countries, those indigenous ants on their respective borders will not be able to stop the expansion of the big-headed ant kingdom or the paving ant barbarian country, and the two countries will also be able to gain more territory, resources, and reproduce more of their own species.

But neither country did so, preferring to sigh and gather strength across the river for half of the year, and then go to war in the winter and spring.

For humans, war is a continuation of politics, while for ants, war is politics itself, and there is no peace with the enemy, only stalemate, conquest or subjugation, the winner takes all, and the loser disappears.

This is also given to them by ants' unique belligerent genes.

- I'm the dividing line -

The "bridgehead" is currently calm on the surface, but there may be an undercurrent underneath.

But on another battlefield, the war is already in full swing.

The protagonist soon meets a messenger sent by the Public Security King, who spends several days traveling through the northern territory of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom to the "Waterfront City".

Because foreign messengers are not allowed to cross the rope bridge, the protagonist returns to Waterfront City and meets the messenger after sending a messenger to tell the protagonist stationed at the bridgehead.

The messenger had come to ask for help, and the main nest's large army was not going well when it came to recovering the territory lost in winter, and it could even be said that it was stuck in a quagmire and unable to move an inch.

This takes the protagonist by surprise.

You must know that the troops dispatched by the main nest this time are full of 90,000 soldiers from sixty legions, and the commanders are all battle-hardened generals, and there are also elite troops like the Public Security Legion who have absorbed the military experience of the Divine Envoy King Legion.

The enemies they faced were less than 100,000 in number, but they were scattered among the three Lost Nests.

In the protagonist's opinion, the forces of the two sides are equal, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army is scattered, and the food and straw are not sufficient, while the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army can concentrate its forces, as well as the material resources of the entire kingdom territory. In this year's reconquest war, there may be big losses, but it will not fall into a stalemate, or even be difficult to move an inch.

However, the courier did not know much about it, and the details were only known to the king, who was the commander of the legion.

The purpose of the messenger sent by the public security king is to hope that the protagonist can send troops to support, which can also show the current predicament of the kingdom army.

The protagonist decides to understand the battlefield situation before making a decision, after all, the threat to the "bridgehead" has not yet been lifted, and the strength of the Divine Envoy King's army is also stretched.

The protagonist steps onto Xiaoqing II and flies southwest.

Half a day later, the protagonist arrives on the battlefield.

This battlefield is very conspicuous, and it can be seen from afar in the air without guidance at all in broad daylight.

It was an open field, and there might have been dense vegetation. However, after a severe natural disaster of inverted spring, the vegetation suffered a big blow.

And the ensuing war between the ants of the two races and two kingdoms completely destroyed the ecology of this area.

The defenders cleared the vegetation near the stronghold to build a legion line, and the attackers also had to set up camp nearby and cut down vegetation on a large scale.

As a result, a large bare yellow spot suddenly appeared on the green field, with a bare earthy undertone.

And during the day, this yellow spot was dyed dark again, and it was countless ants fighting anxiously, and the corpses were covered with layer after layer.

It wasn't until near dusk that the Kuroshio retreated in two directions, taking with them the bodies of friendly or enemy soldiers they could find—which were also an important source of military food when supplies were tight.

The protagonist found the battlefield based on this big black spot that was very eye-catching from afar.

The two armies fighting on the front line, the battle line stretched several meters away. To the protagonist's surprise, from the perspective of the battle line, the big-headed ant kingdom army was not able to encircle the lost secondary nest.

The garrison of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army established a solid line of defense, blocking the Big-headed Ant Kingdom in the southwest.