Over the past few days, the raids of different tribes on [Pioneer City] have greatly disrupted the local post-disaster reconstruction and normal production activities.

Although the [Pioneer City] is stationed with the 2nd, 4th, 8th, and 9th legions, there are 4 legions and tens of thousands of soldiers, which seems to have a lot of troops.

But in the face of an attack that could arise from all sides, it was not enough to defend every part of the territory that was spread out within a half-day's walk.

The army of the Divine Envoy King is like a devil occupying the county seat, and when it leaves the county seat, it will immediately fall into the vast sea of guerrilla warfare.

Even if the air riders increase the frequency of patrols, once they find the enemy's traces, they will report in time to save the use of troops. But the opponent also quickly learned and knew how to approach quietly under the cover of grass and trees. Such a small-scale attack is still impossible to prevent!

In half a month, [Pioneer City] lost thousands of ant mouths, thousands of aphids, and some food, in exchange for killing tens of thousands of enemies.

The ant alliance is not like the hungry and crazy indigenous ant tribe, hungry and use corpses as food, such military operations have no benefit from scientific research, and the captured enemy corpses are at most used as feed for mealworms, but even mealworms do not like to eat, if they have a choice, they prefer fresh food to stinky corpses.

However, the ants and materials damaged in the war were all real, especially the aphids that had no ability to protect themselves, and they were grazing in large groups and swarms outside, and once they were captured by the enemy, it would be a major loss.

The Ant Union was built around [Pioneer City] as a pasture base, and there are a lot of aphids raised here, and after a short period of development, the honeydew produced here has accounted for one-twentieth of the country's production.

Now that the foreign trade of the Ant Union needs a lot of honeydew, this part of the production will be affected, so it can only spend more gold to make up for the excess.

Finally, the unbearable Divine Envoy King Legion received the protagonist's order and launched a counterattack against the surrounding indigenous ant tribes.

On October 11th, the [Pioneer City] left the 9th Army Corps of the four generations of male ant commanders "Nai" to garrison, and the 2nd Army Corps under the command of "Rambo II", the 4th Army Corps under the command of "Rambo III", and the 8th Army Corps under the command of "Hu", divided into three routes and launched a sweep.

Today, the fourth-generation males of the Ant Alliance have grown into the backbone of the legion-level commanders, and the vast majority of the legion commanders are males of this generation, and only a few legions are commanded by the fifth-generation males.

The four garrison commanders of [Pioneer City] are all fourth-generation males, and the best of the fourth-generation males are fortunate enough to receive the name of "XX II" or "XX III", and it is considered a great honor to be able to obtain the name of "Rambo XX".

The meaning of this prefix is well known to educated males, and it is to commemorate the ancestors of male ants who have used this name and made outstanding contributions in the history of the ant association!

The only remaining stag elephants, beetle bulls and centiptoconas of the second generation of male ants also received a promise that their names would be used as a prefix to name their descendants after their deaths, which made them very moved.

The other sacrificed second- and third-generation males, as long as they have made significant contributions, except for traitors like Flyhawk, will also be retained as a prefix name!

Naming has become an important tradition of the ant alliance, and it is also a ritual that male ants must carry out after receiving education, symbolizing that they are ready to graduate and serve, similar to a coming-of-age ceremony.

Naming is no longer a special commendation for meritorious male ants, all male ants, queen ants, large worker ants, divine worker ants and divine soldier ants, can have names. It's just that there are so many names to take, and a lot of the protagonist's brain cells are exhausted every year.

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The three major corps set out from [Pioneer City] and attacked in the east, south, and west directions, with 3,000 sappers each in charge of transporting grain and straw as transport teams, preparing for a five-day sweeping operation.

The vast majority of the indigenous ant tribes, in the face of the attack of an entire legion of Divine Envoy King warriors, had no power to fight back at all, and they were about to collapse at the first touch.

Occasionally, there are some tribes that are relatively strong and organize thousands of warriors to resist, and they are no match for the Divine Envoy King legion.

There was only one Argentine ant tribe alliance, which was actually an alliance composed of more than a dozen of the same ant tribe, and tens of thousands of allied troops were dispatched, making it difficult for the 2nd Legion in front to win.

The two sides fought for two days in a row, and the next day, the 2nd Legion, assisted by the Flying Knight's airdrop of a mysterious ball bomb, finally broke through the line of these small Argentine ant warriors who were only the size of large-headed ant workers.

The 2nd Legion lost more than 300 soldiers and killed more than 4,000 Argentine ants, forcing the other Argentine ants to flee one after another, and the other side directly abandoned the garrison and fled into the distance.

The vast majority of indigenous ant tribes do not have the scale of the Argentine Ant Tribal Alliance, and in the face of the counterattack of the Divine Envoy King's legion, some have been wiped out, and some have been very flexible to avoid the battle and escape, continuing to look for the next target to loot.

Overall, during the five-day sweep, the Divine Envoy King's army did not capture much, and even if they breached several ant nests, the capture was not enough to cover the expenses of the military operation.

The greatest result of this military operation was the establishment of an ant-free zone around [Pioneer City] with a radius of about a day's walk, temporarily covering the security of [Pioneer City territory].

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Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long, only half a month later, at the end of October, another native ant returned to the ant-free area outside [Pioneer City], and peeked into the territory of the Ant Alliance.

Moreover, this time, the indigenous ants actually came back together, and they rarely fought with each other, and the protagonist didn't believe it if there was no inside story.

It turned out that after being driven away from the vicinity of [Pioneer City], a large number of indigenous ant tribes could only continue to loot each other, and there was simply not enough food to feed so many tribes and ant populations.

These tribes traveled back and forth within two or three days, and their food reserves were not enough to support their long migration to find a suitable wintering ground.

Finally, the ant-free area near [Pioneer City], which has not seen many ants for more than half a month, has the most abundant food resources.

Some of the surviving tribes who had tasted the sweetness of the predatory ant alliance had been forced to retreat before also preached their harvest to the friendlier tribes.

Although the indigenous ants do not interact with each other most of the time, war and conquest are the main themes of diplomacy. But there are also tribes in this region that have relatively stable relations with each other, and even have simple bartering.

Relying on such a primitive network of relationships, for most of the month, almost all the indigenous tribes actually knew that [Pioneer City] was a fat prey.

These tribes do not need to be tanned and allied, they are all coming back under the pressure of hunger!