At the end of April, the weather is getting hotter, and the ants' favorite summer is slowly approaching.

After an intensive mobilization of troops and material transportation, the Red Fire Ant Nation finally assembled an army of 200,000 in the border area, of which the number of elite warriors of its own clan was as high as 80,000. This group of troops carried five days' worth of military rations and invaded the forest territory of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country.

The Leaf-Cutting Ant Nation had already obtained information on the enemy's build-up through the scouts, and the Divine Envoy King's Legion had also provided an alert through the Flying Knights. The Leafcutter Ant Army grasped the dual opportunities of intelligence and defense, and gathered a total of more than 300,000 troops in front of them to fight, and the number was also superior.

The first phase of the battle was fought in the woods. On the battlefield, the ground and trees are full of dense ants fighting. The two sides fought for every inch of ground, every branch, and every rock.

At the height of the fighting, both sides did not withdraw their troops even at night, and continued to fight at the cost of their lives. Fortunately, the temperature is not low at night now, and the fighters on both sides can hold on.

The Red Fire Ant Army still followed the old tactics this time: the Red Fire Ant Warrior and the Burrowing Ant Warrior were responsible for the ground attack, and the Forest Ant Warrior, the Belly Ant Warrior and the Black Brown Ant Warrior fought on the tree, and the tree and the tree attacked in coordination, with the main attack under the tree and the cover flank from the tree.

Last year, the Red Fire Ant Army relied on such tactics to give full play to the strengths of various ethnic groups and won a big victory, seizing a large nest in the Leafcutter Ant Country in one fell swoop, killing hundreds of thousands of leafcutter ant residents.

But this time, the leaf-cutting ant country came prepared, occupied many advantages, and vowed to take revenge.

On the ground, for three consecutive days, the Red Fire Ant Army has made a breakthrough, and the battle line has approached the vicinity of the leaf-cutting ant nest.

But in the trees, the Red Fire Ant Army's auxiliaries failed to keep up, and the trees were disjointed, planting the seeds of defeat. The Leaf Cutting Ant Army invested its main force in the trees, took the initiative to attack, and constantly divided the slave warriors surrounding the Red Fire Ant Army, killing and wounding a large number of enemy living forces.

When the forest ant warriors of the Red Fire Ant Army were killed and wounded, the bellied ants and black brown ants could not resist at all, and fled to the ground one after another.

The Leafcutter Ant Army, which completely controls the battlefield in the trees, maneuvers at will as if they have air supremacy, constantly interspersed with roads crisscrossing the trees, and always unexpectedly raiding the side and even the rear of the Red Fire Ant Army on the ground.

A leaf-cutting ant army raided the Red Fire Ant Army's elder's own formation, and although it was desperately repelled by the Red Fire Ants, it also caused the Red Fire Ant Army to lose many high-ranking commanders.

The worst thing is that the Red Fire Ant Army's troops protecting the army's rations were defeated, and the grain was scattered everywhere, some of which were captured by the Leafcutter Ant Army.

This is a rapidly changing battlefield, and the Red Fire Ant Army has no chance to collect food while fighting, so they can only decide to withdraw their troops.

In the face of the defeat of the enemy, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army pursued and killed on a large scale, and finally the Red Fire Ant Army abandoned all the slave auxiliaries of the palace, and let the Leaf Cutting Ant Army slaughter them all, only to cover the 50,000 hungry soldiers of their own tribe to withdraw into the territory.

In this battle, the Red Fire Ant Army lost 150,000 troops, the slave auxiliaries of the four clans were all wiped out, and nearly half of the soldiers of their own clan were also lost. This is the biggest fiasco suffered by the Red Fire Ant Nation in recent years.

The Leaf-cutting Ant Army, which had won the defensive battle, launched a counterattack this time, and the battle entered the second stage.

An army of 200,000 leaf-cutter ants stepped into the territory of the Red Fire Ant Nation and began to besiege several Red Fire Ant Nests near the border.

However, in the ground battle, the average combat effectiveness of the leaf-cutting ant army was not as good as that of the Red Fire Ant Army, and the Red Fire Ant Army cobbled together an army of 100,000 troops, and the two sides fought in the border area for half a month.

The Leafcutter Ant Army only captured a few weakly defended nests, but failed to achieve great results.

During this time, the Divine Envoy King Legion was still taking advantage of the opportunity to develop, and in mid-May, the Divine Envoy King Legion had already filled the shortage of soldiers in 7 legions, and at the same time was preparing to form 4 new legions.

The protagonist naturally wishes that the war between the Leafcutter Ant Country and the Red Fire Ant Country lasts as long as possible. The recent stalemate between the two sides, and the fact that neither side has any intention of giving up, means that the war may be prolonged indefinitely, much to the delight of the protagonist.

Although the protagonist does not know the details of the battle between the two sides, after all, the flying knights do not dare to venture deep into the woods where the trees are full of ants on both sides, but the general situation of the battle can still be grasped.

Especially after the battlefield was transferred to the plains in the territory of the Red Fire Ant Country, the reconnaissance efficiency of the flying knights was greatly improved.

No, the protagonist is in the Flying Knight's information packet and discovers some unusual actions of the Leafcutter Ant Army.

While fighting repeatedly with the Red Fire Ant Army, a group of leaf-cutting ant troops, mainly medium-leaf cutting ants, actually carried a lot of small saplings to the nest they had just occupied.

These are saplings, not broken leaves that leafcutter ants often collect and transport. The smallest sapling is the size of a bean sprout, and it takes dozens of medium-leaf cutting ants to carry it together, and the largest sapling is the size of a human palm, and hundreds of leaf-cutting ants can move it. In addition, some Star Bulls were also used as power animals to join the caracity.

The saplings are alive and immediately dug and planted after being transported to their destination, and the leaf-cutting ants even bring water droplets to water the newly transplanted saplings with fragile roots every day.

These leafcutter ants actually plant trees... The protagonist is a little surprised!

But it's only surprising, after all, ants are civilized, and it's not uncommon for ants like leafcutter ants, which are closely related to the woods, to plant trees. The Divine Envoy King's Legion will smelt iron, and it is estimated that this is even more unusual for other ants.

Cutting leaves to plant trees, and then collecting leaves to plant fungi is a mature agricultural process.

Moreover, planting trees near the nest occupied by the leafcutter ants is equivalent to completely incorporating the land into the territory, after all, the leafcutter ants need a forest to produce, which is also more conducive to fighting. Just like in Warcraft, the undead must first pollute a new land to occupy it.

It may take up to a decade for these young saplings to barely reach forest, and the nests that have just been occupied before this are fragile and need native food and protection.

However, after all, the leaf-cutting ants have taken steps of expansion, and they can encroach on the territory of the Red Fire Ant Country little by little, turning the plains into forests, which is a yang scheme.

And even if the Red Fire Ant Army is strong, it is difficult to counteract it when the current army is insufficient.

After thinking about the intention of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country for a while, the protagonist somehow remembered the peculiar symbol "Rune" of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country:

One is roughly a circular symbol, which is not closed at the bottom, but leaves a small notch; A small seedling pattern with two leaves grows out of the gap; At the top of the circle, there are two short arcs that stretch to the left and right, making them look like a pair of ears.

Linked to the actions of leaf-cutting ants, forests, and planting trees, the protagonist has a flash of inspiration in his mind.

This symbol is actually yes! Actually! Actually!