After the looming threat of locusts to the south is largely eliminated, the protagonist finally has the energy to deal with other things.

Since the beginning of spring, the protagonist's messenger has begun to shuttle back and forth between various territories and the protagonist's important places, bringing several good or bad news to the protagonist.

The battlefield on the north bank of the Great River, which the protagonist is most concerned about, is still eerily calm, and there has been no fighting all winter until now.

This should be considered good news, at least the protagonist's strategic goal has been achieved, and the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom is still firmly nailed to the north shore.

The protagonist of this news has already learned from the paving ant team in the winter, and it is just to confirm it after the beginning of spring.

But the protagonist is not happy, something abnormal must be a demon, the protagonist can hardly imagine that those stubborn, every inch of land to fight for the paving ant barbarian army, in the winter that is most conducive to its battle, actually gave up the siege of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Moreover, the protagonist's flying knights searched around, but they did not find any of the territories of the big-headed ant kingdom on the south bank of the Great River that were attacked by paving ants.

The protagonist can only guess that the Paving Ant Barbarians seem to be in trouble, so much so that they have to abandon the already weakened Northern Expeditionary Army in favor of solving this problem first.

The protagonist specifically asks the Floating Leaf King, who says that in addition to the not only the not powerful enemy of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, but also the Northern Mountains. The protagonist can only guess that it is the enemy in the north who has formed a strong containment of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army.

However, even if the Paving Ant Barbarian Army does not come, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom will not be able to take advantage of the opportunity to expand.

The protagonist goes to "Target A" and learns the details from the Public Security King.

Although the Northern Expeditionary Army, which had lost troops and lacked food and food all winter, had been frightened, it did not wait for the deadly offensive of the ant barbarian army.

After the beginning of spring, another problem was plaguing the Northern Expeditionary Army. Due to the lack of food, the entire Northern Expeditionary Army had to feed on the stored carcasses of big-headed ants and paving ants in large quantities during the winter, and diseases originating from the carcasses took the opportunity to wreak havoc in the warm nests.

By the beginning of spring, the Northern Expeditionary Army had been seriously reduced, and nearly half of the remnants of the army were either dead or sick, and even among the male ants, there were a large number of sick and dead.

The police had to dump the bodies of the sick and dead into a nearby river and move the sick ants to a small newly dug nest nearby to fend for themselves, so that the spread of the plague could be stopped.

In order to solve the problem of lack of food, the Northern Expeditionary Army began to frantically forage for food in the vicinity, while asking for help from the main nest.

It stands to reason that after a winter of recuperation, although there is some drought after the beginning of spring, plants and animals have begun to multiply in large numbers, and the main nest "Qingqiu City" should have spare strength to support this side at this time.

As long as it can be replenished, the Northern Expeditionary Army is confident that it will launch another offensive and recapture the territory on the north bank of the Great River, fulfilling the long-cherished wish of the kingdom.

But what dumbfounded the messengers of the Northern Expeditionary Army was that when these messengers arrived at the "bridgehead", they found that the rope bridge they relied on to cross the river had been broken! Crack! Finish!

The protagonist had already learned the bad news from the messenger of the "bridgehead" a few days ago.

As the only bridge for most ants to cross the river, the important role of the rope bridge is self-evident.

But this is, after all, a shoddy bridge.

In winter, the paving ant team sent by the protagonist to the north is still going back and forth from the rope bridge, but around the beginning of spring, the rope bridge suddenly breaks.

It is no wonder that the rope used in this rope bridge is the work of ants, and the fibers used in weaving are of different lengths and materials, and the ants add all the fibers they can collect, which will inevitably cause the strength of each part of the rope to be unified. It can be said that this rope is inherently deficient.

After more than a year of use, the rope bridge has experienced rain erosion and soaking, and in winter, it has experienced cold, and the water vapor absorbed in some of the fibers has frozen, and the sharp ice cubes have also cut the internal fibers in the expansion process.

Finally, one day, the rope bridge broke and fell into the melting river, but the ends were still tied to the branches, drifting with the current, and could no longer take on the work of a bridge.

The protagonist knows that he must hurry up and repair the rope bridge, and the strategic significance of this bridge is too important, not only to maintain the logistics of the Northern Expeditionary Army and the Northern Territory, but also to maintain the protagonist's "bridgehead" on the north bank of the Great River and the logistics communication of the garrison.

Under the strict orders of the protagonist, new ropes began to be woven in "Dongyang Castle".

This time, the protagonist already has experience, and he asks the ants to collect some hemp plant stems and weave a rope mixed with hemp, which has long fibers, high strength, and good corrosion resistance, and is not easy to break after a year.

However, the service life of the rope bridge is limited, if it is a wire rope of the same thickness, although it will also be corroded and lost, it can be used for more than ten years.

The protagonist is obviously unable to conjure a tightrope now, and even his plan to use malachite to smelt copper in the winter is still not in full swing: the underground copper smelting blast furnace is already under construction, but the emissary sent by the protagonist to the side nest that produces malachite is in trouble.

The secondary nest where malachite is produced is not far from "Dongyang City", and the protagonist calls it "Malachite City".

At first, the protagonist wants to send a messenger to ask the sub-nest to excavate and transport malachite on behalf of the god king, and the protagonist is willing to give this sub-nest a batch of food in exchange for this.

It's not that he didn't think about directly controlling "Malachite City", after all, the lesson of "Yancheng" is still close at hand, and it is better to have the resources he urgently needs in his own hands.

However, in the matter of "Yancheng", he finally obtained the authorization of the "Qingqiu City" King Conference, which was obtained in exchange for a large amount of materials. And "Malachite City" is in the hinterland of the big-headed ant kingdom, so it is obviously not so easy to grant the protagonist authorization.

However, before the protagonist's messenger can complete the mission, she reports that the king of "Malachite City" has received an order from the main nest not to have personal contact with the Divine Envoy King, not to agree to any of the Divine Envoy King's requests, and not to accept any of the Divine Envoy King's subordinates.

This news makes the protagonist smell a little unusual, this order from the "Qingqiu City" King Meeting is simply a confrontation, even with a hint of hostility.

The protagonist who realized it afterwards remembered that he had not been in contact with the main nest since the beginning of spring.

It's no wonder that most of the male ants of the protagonist's friendship have joined the Northern Expeditionary Army, and they naturally run to the north bank of the Great River more often.

Now the main nest has obviously undergone some changes that are not favorable to the protagonist, and the protagonist does not want to go to the main nest himself, so he sends a messenger to the main nest to find out some information.