On April 9, the long-planned leaf-cutting ant army launched a counterattack across the river, with a well-planned and aggressive attack.

At this time of year, the weather was already warm, and the occasional inverted spring cold in early spring was already rare, and the attackers were forced to stop their operations without worrying about the sudden bad weather that is common in March. Temperature is no longer a help that defenders can rely on.

Due to the tight fortification of the river bank on the side of the Divine Envoy King's legion, especially the branches of the trees on the east bank of the stream stretching out to the west side were sawed off in large quantities, so that the leaf-cutting ant army had no chance to take advantage of it.

The main direction of attack of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army was placed north of [Red Iron City], where the defenders only had 20,000 Red Fire Ant Warriors and another 100,000 vassal warriors or slave auxiliaries, and their combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the Red Fire Ant Warriors.

The defenders, on the other hand, faced an attack by an enemy force four times their size, and the disparity in strength was huge.

It is not very easy for the leafcutter ant army to counterattack, the stream is a moat, and historically, the red fire ant army has rarely been able to attack the other side of the stream.

Now that the stream has also blocked the counterattack of the leafcutter ant army, the first thing they have to do is cross the river. This stream, which separates the two armies, is not wide, but the water is turbulent, and it is also the same in early spring, and some ant forces will make pontoon bridges, but pontoon bridges will not come in handy here.

The leafcutters used to rely on the road in the tree to cross the stream, and the first stage of their counterattack was to fight for control of the tree and build the road.

The Red Fire Ant Army did not cut off all the branches that could be used by the enemy, as the Divine Envoy King Army did, giving the Leaf Cutter Army a chance to take advantage of it.

Now, on both sides of the stream, dozens of branches of several trees are very close together, which are the targets of the leaf-cutting ant army.

Last year, when the leafcutter ant army retreated to the west bank of the stream, in order to prevent the pursuit of the red fire ant army, all the communication lines on the trees crossing the stream were blocked.

The branches that had been tied together by ropes were cut apart, and the long rope bridge that stretched across the sky was also severed. Only on windy days do the branches occasionally stick together, but they are also fleeting and cannot be walked.

If the 500,000 leaf-cutting ant army wants to cross the river and fight back, they must rebuild the road for the army on foot.

The Leaf Cutter Army does have a way. I saw that early in the morning, suddenly hundreds of star beetles, carrying thousands of large and small leaf-cutting ants, flew towards the east bank of the stream.

The Red Fire Ant Army has set up a certain number of surveillance troops on each tree, and when they discover the enemy attack, they immediately send messengers to warn the large troops nearby, and then prepare to meet them.

But the Star Bull had already flown very close at this time, and the large army was too late to come to support.

The Star Bull did not fly slowly, and landed on the branches of the target tree in an orderly manner.

The leaf-cutting ant warriors on the back of the Star Sky Bull quickly came down, while the Red Fire Ant Army guarding these trees basically only had two or three vassal or slave warrior squads, and they were quickly defeated by these elite leaf-cutting ant warriors.

Later, several more starbulls took off from the opposite shore, with no warriors on their backs, only some mid-leaf cutting ants pulling ropes.

One end of the rope was connected to the opposite bank, and the mid-leaf cutter ant quickly fixed the other end of the rope to the nearest branch on the shore here, and a simple rope bridge with a single rope was erected.

Later, more mesoleaf-cutting ants crawled along the erected ropes, connecting the banks with more ropes, some with short branches, and quickly built a wide rope bridge.

The Leaf Cutting Ant Army is very skilled in erecting rope bridges, unlike the stumbling like when the Divine Envoy King Legion built a shorter bridge in [Waterfront City], obviously not the first time to do this kind of thing. The leaf-cutting ant country criss-crossed the tree overpass, it is estimated that this is how it all came.

With such a bridge-building technique, it is no wonder that the Leaf-cutting Ant Army decisively gave up the east bank of the stream and retreated to the bank of the stream!

More than a dozen rope bridges were erected one after another, and the leaf-cutting ant army began to cross the river in a big way.

At this point, the main forces of the Red Fire Ant Army finally launched a counterattack, and they had already learned from the scouts about the rope bridge and the enemy crossing the river, and knew that if they wanted to stop the enemy from crossing the river, they had to occupy this end of the rope bridge and then cut the bridge.

The Red Fire Ant Army began to counterattack each tree at the same time, they divided their forces, each force was not much, and after entangled with those Star Sky Ox and infantry troops for a while, they did not achieve results, and were soon repelled by the continuous flow of leaf-cutting ant troops crossing the bridge, or even drowned.

Seeing that nothing could be done, the Supreme Commander of the Red Fire Ant Army, the Elders, gathered his troops and formed a circle on the ground to resist.

They couldn't run away, and the Leaf Cutter Army was familiar with the roads in the trees, and they were no slower to move in the trees than the Red Fire Ant Army was on the ground.

Part of the leaf-cutting ant army entangled the Red Fire Ant Army, and the other part had instinctively advanced along the tree, and soon blocked the retreat of the Red Fire Ant Army.

After a day of fierce fighting, the Red Fire Ant Army, which was dominated by vassals and slave warriors, collapsed, and then the whole army was annihilated, and the first stage of the counteroffensive of the Leaf Cutter Army achieved a big victory, which was also a small revenge for the defeat of last year's "Battle of the World".

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By the time the Leaf Cutting Ant Army crossed the river, the Flying Knights had already warned [Red Iron City], and the Divine Messenger King's Legion had also entered a state of combat readiness.

Today, there are 3 teams of Flying Knights stationed in [Red Iron City], and every time they go out to investigate, a whole team will be dispatched, and every 10 Flying Knights will act as a team.

The reason why the flying knights want to act collectively is that they are all forced by the star sky of the leaf cutting ant army, and now the flying knights are not afraid to go to the other side of the stream to investigate, and occasionally they will be chased and killed by the star sky bull when they screolate, and the flying knights are ordered not to fight, and they get rid of the enemy by the speed of the fly mount.

When this battle was coming to an end, the 3 Star Bulls of the Leaf Cutting Army were approaching [Red Iron City] without knowing whether they were intentional or unintentional.

Although the Flying Knight was ordered not to engage the enemy in an air battle on the other side of the stream, the main reason was for fear of losing the precious Flying Knight - in case of danger, the Flying Knight would fall on enemy soil and die if he jumped to escape.

But around [Red Iron City], there was no such concern, and the two nearby Flying Knight groups were ordered to guard the airspace and launched a counterattack against the Star Bull.

These Star Bulls fought on their own, and when they saw the Flying Knight, they rushed over, and the ugly-looking Star Bulls opened their jaws, which were their weapons.

There are also a small number of leaf-cutting ant warriors on the back of the Star Bull, and the number is not as large as when crossing the river to seize the beachhead, otherwise it will affect the flight speed and flexibility of the Star Bull.

Of course, the Flying Knights did not take the initiative to crash into the Big Mouth of the Star Celestial Bull, and they began to rise - height and speed, which are the two elements that the Divine Envoy King Legion has repeatedly taught the Flying Knights that they must have an advantage in air combat.

The 20 Flying Knights flew diagonally into the air at two ends, and the agility of the Fly Mount made the Star Bull who were chasing behind unable to pose a threat for the time being.