The Bee Flying Knight formation begins to descend with the protagonist, hovering and decreasing in height, after all, the bees cannot hover in the air like dragonflies, and rise and fall almost vertically. If they want to stay in place, they can only hover around.

In the cloudy weather, the sound of large clusters of bees and noisy "buzzing" wings in the sky was unusually noticeable, and the destroyers who were crossing the river looked up and noticed something strange overhead.

The Destroyer had good eyesight, and they quickly recognized that this was no ordinary swarm, with the current enemy Big-headed Ant sitting on its back.

Some Destroyers threatened the sky with their jaws growing, while others leaped three feet high in an attempt to pull the source of the annoying noise in the air down.

These Destroyers are very tall jumpers, and despite their size, their jumping ability is not inferior to that of the Scythe Hunter.

This is the first time the protagonist has seen The Destroyers bounce, as the Destroyers have been a floor stream and have never shown their bounce during the previous battle.

However, even if the Destroyers jump as high as the Bee Flying Knights, both the protagonist and the Flying Knights are safe.

The surface of the river is unusually empty, and there is no obstruction in the sky, unlike in the forest, where you have to beware of a destroyer climbing a tree to sneak attack, and the parasitic ants have ambushed the flying knight in the first place.

As long as the Bee Flying Knights maintain a certain height, they will not be immune to the enemy's jumping attacks.

When they are lowered to a certain height, the Flying Knights in groups of four, with the first two controlling mounts slightly raised and the last two remaining at the same height, are pulled by the rope into a posture of high and low back.

As the bees fly in circles, the charcoal ash from the nut shell is spilled down from the umbilicus opening in the tail and falls onto the small piece of ice, covering the crystal white ice with a dark layer.

Some of the Destroyers were also doused with charcoal ash, and they hurriedly shook the ashes off their bodies, and some of the Destroyers' air holes were blocked, and they also hurriedly cleaned them up with their mouths and antennae.

Upon discovering that the falling charcoal ash was harmless to them and that they could not reach the flying enemy, the Destroyers gave up and resumed their trek on the ice to the south shore.

The Flying Knights poured the charcoal ash and returned.

On this day, the flying knights made four round-trips in succession, spilling a large amount of charcoal ash, and the charcoal ash accumulated in the combustion chamber for a winter was no longer enough, and Lan Bofei even had to organize worker ants to dig up the previous garbage heap and pull out all the charcoal ash that had been dumped before.

At the end of the day, the flying knights threw a layer of charcoal ash about one or two centimeters wide and about ten meters long along the ice surface of the big river before returning to the nest.

The next day, the sprinkler continues, and the protagonist also flies over the river.

It's still cloudy today, but the sun shows its head from time to time. When there is sunlight, the soot-sprinkled ice is melting almost at a rate visible to the naked eye.

At first, the Destroyers dared to step through the charcoal-covered ice, but soon, water began to appear on the ice in this area, and this kind of ice water, even the Destroyer did not want to touch them, it was deadly, and it would take away precious heat at the speed of the enemy, causing the ants to freeze to death.

A person who is thrown into a river of ice unprepared will only live for a few minutes, while a cold-blooded animal like an ant will die faster.

By noon, when the protagonist flies above for the second time, he finds that a part of the ice has cracked, and more water has seeped into the ice from the bottom up.

This ice layer is actually very thin, less than two centimeters thick, but it is only due to the small amount of water and the gentle flow of the river after the beginning of spring, and another inverted spring cold has not broken.

The large amount of charcoal dust sprinkled by the flying knights absorbs a lot of heat from the sun, and accelerates the melting of the ice very quickly.

Now, the Destroyers had to bypass the ten-meter-long belt of soot, the cracked and icy areas, and the distance they had to travel to cross the river had increased several times over.

The Destroyers are not afraid of the cold, but the mysterious orb in their bodies is constantly warm.

However, trekking on the glacier consumes far more heat than the Mystic Orb can supply, so the Destroyers chose the shortest distance from the river [to Westtown] to minimize hypothermia.

After having to make a detour, the Bee Riders have discovered that some of the Destroyers are on the way and have not been able to reach the South Bank.

There were also some Destroyers who hesitated on the north bank of the Great River, apparently feeling that it was too dangerous to cross the river in this way.

This result makes the protagonist very satisfied.

I'm the dividing line

Returning to the main nest [Qingqiu City], the protagonist listens to battle reports from various places.

To the west of [Trench City], the main forces of the Destroyer have not attacked, but they are still gathering in a steady stream, and there are now six thousand of them.

On the southern battlefield, [Sitong City] has received military and material support, and is stepping up the construction of the lair's fortifications.

In addition to sending a small number of troops to attack tentatively, the main force is still stationed in the area of [Spiral Flower City], and it is also constantly gathering troops, according to various intelligence summary analysis, the protagonist feels that the enemy army here also has roughly four or five thousand people.

With the river thawing imminent, the Destroyers are desperate for reinforcements, and both sides know that the real battle will begin when the Destroyers are assembled.

The Divine Envoy King's Legion is also fighting hard, and the newly formed troops according to the protagonist's plan are being formed one after another, although there is still a lack of equipment, but it is also a great help.

I'm the dividing line

The "River Opening Plan" works well, and the protagonist naturally has to make persistent efforts.

The next day, the Flying Knights set off again to sprinkle ashes, and the protagonist followed.

But as soon as he went out today, the protagonist felt a coolness in the air, and looked up at the sky, which was cloudy, and not a trace of sunlight came out.

The protagonist's heart sank, but he still had a fluke mentality, and he didn't say it.

The flying knights all had warm babies, and they continued their mission on such a cloudy day as they could not fly.

The protagonist notices that the Destroyer is starting to cross the river again. Part of the ice that had melted yesterday had frozen another part of the night, and the Destroyers had ventured to pass through what seemed to be drier and sturdier, and no longer maintained a round formation, and began to grow narrow.

The protagonist is in a hurry, and orders the flying knights to sprinkle ash on the areas where the Destroyer passes, and the Destroyer is drenched on his face.

But by noon, the clouds had not cleared, the sunlight had not penetrated, and the ice had not melted again, and the destroyers had quickened their pace of crossing the river with greater arrogance, and quickly crossed the danger zone from the safety of several layers of charcoal and ash.

The protagonist sighs in his heart, if such a cloudy day lasts for a few days, the "River Opening Plan" will fail!

How can the Destroyer be stopped from crossing the river?