Familiar ant species, familiar military formations, familiar tactics.

Coupled with the self-defeating move of the other party who hurriedly hid after discovering the flying knight hovering on the spot, the protagonist guessed the identity of the other party.

They are the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Force of the old Big-Headed Ant Kingdom faction......

At the beginning, because the conflict of ideas became more and more severe, the old big-headed ant kingdom began to suppress the army of the god kings. Subsequently, the protagonist raised troops in [Xinyang City], quickly conquered the main nest [Xinyang City] by smashing the Yellow Dragon, and then successively eliminated the Western Alliance, the old-fashioned King Army, and the Queen Inheritance faction that later turned against each other, and unified the South Bank.

However, the power of the old Big-Headed Ant Kingdom has not become history.

At that time, there was a powerful northern expeditionary army in the old big-headed ant kingdom, which attacked the paving ants through the rope bridge of [Linshui City] and attacked a territory along the river.

The protagonist originally wanted to cut off the connection between the Northern Expeditionary Army and the South Bank, leaving it alone on the North Bank, and holding back the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom for the Divine Envoy King Army.

As a result, when attacking the Old-fashioned King's army, the Dragonfly Eagle mutinied, flew to the north shore with the old-fashioned King, and joined the Northern Expeditionary Army. The Northern Expeditionary Force then severed ties with the Divine Envoy King's legion, and was defeated a year later in the Destroyer's onslaught.

At that time, the protagonist did not know that there was a remnant of the Northern Expeditionary Army that had escaped!

Now, seeing a familiar figure on the south bank of the Qinghe River, it is not difficult for the protagonist to guess that there were some remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army, like the remnants of the big-headed ants, who escaped by climbing on the floating grass and trees, drifting all the way down the river, and finally ran aground and landed very close to the [Xinyangcheng] Peninsula.

They arrived in this new land a year before the legions of the Divine Messenger King.

Realizing the identity of the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the protagonist was very emotional.

In the original Northern Expeditionary Army, there were public security kings and senior brothers, who were originally good friends with the protagonist, and there were also enemies like the old-fashioned king that the protagonist hated, and there were traitors like the Flyhawk who made the protagonist want to kill him quickly.

This makes the protagonist's attitude towards the Northern Expeditionary Army very contradictory, he did not let the Divine Envoy King Army take the initiative to cross the river, and he also had a feeling for taking military action against the Northern Expeditionary Army.

When he learned that the destroyer had eliminated the Northern Expeditionary Army, the protagonist was also a little sad for a while, he seemed to have become a loner in an instant, and there were no equal ants around him, and he stood alone at the peak of power, but he was overwhelmed by the cold...

Now, the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army have reappeared, and the protagonist's hostility towards them is not much left, but there is a sense of sympathy.

The protagonist asks the flying knights to come back, and does not give any more excitement to the frightened bird-like Northern Expeditionary Army. Although I don't know if there are any ants I know in the Northern Expeditionary Army, judging from the attitude of the other party, the attitude of the Northern Expeditionary Army towards its own side is not friendly.

Since the Northern Expeditionary Army still exists, let them fend for themselves, the protagonist doesn't plan to do more, he has to get rid of it as soon as possible. Across the wide Qing River, there are no rope bridges or other ways to cross the river, even if the Northern Expeditionary Army is hostile to the Divine Envoy King's army, what can it do?

What's more, the situation of the Northern Expeditionary Army is not very good now, and it is still early to have the strength to threaten the Divine Envoy King Legion.

Last year, the reason why the Flying Knights did not find the Northern Expeditionary Army in their military operations on the south bank of the Qing River was not only due to the characteristics of overgrown wild grass and easy concealment in their territory, but also related to the narrow territory of the Northern Expeditionary Army and the scarcity of ant mouths.

This time, in the face of the thousands of huge bowback ants who were driven here, the Northern Expeditionary Army only dispatched about two legions of troops, perhaps these 3,000 soldiers were its entire strength, so that the ant mouths of its nest would not exceed 10,000.

Such a poor ant mouth, it is really easy to exterminate the clan if it encounters an accident casually. In the ant world, a butterfly flapps its wings, and a grain of sand falls from the sky, and an ant tribe will be completely destroyed.

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For more than half a month, the south bank of the Qing River was in chaos, and more than a dozen ant forces were destroyed, which made the protagonist somewhat relieved that the relatively weak Northern Expeditionary Army relied on its excellent military system and tactical ability that was a few points higher than that of other forces, although the losses were not small, but they finally survived.

As spring progresses, creatures flourish, food is plentiful, and the war between ant forces finally slows down.

And after the round of marriage of different ants, some new ant forces have emerged, filling the power vacuum created in the war before.

The Northern Expeditionary Army also took the opportunity to expand some territory, and if there is territory, there is food, and there is an ant mouth. Perhaps, if the Northern Expeditionary Army is allowed to develop, they will be able to regain the glory of the old big-headed ant kingdom on the south bank of the Qing River.

The protagonist asks the Flying Knights to light a small bonfire that can burn for hours on the territory of the Northern Expeditionary Army, without being discovered by the ants they forage, with flame-resistant fuel soaked in grease and gunpowder.

Originally, the fire of the Divine Envoy King's Legion was obtained from the sacred fire of the [Qingqiu City] of the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom, and today, I return this fire to you!

The Northern Expeditionary Army discovers the fire, and a male ant unknown to the protagonist takes the ant and takes the fire. Before leaving, he raised his head and looked at the flying knights hovering in the sky, and seemed to tapped his tentacles slightly.

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The protagonist does not devote all his energy to observing the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army on the south bank. After the beginning of spring, many things are waiting for the protagonist to deal with:

Construction of the canal continues, and the progress continues to accelerate.

New cannons were constantly cast, and the city defense facilities of [Xinyangcheng] began to be equipped, and the tank troops after the expansion of the army also divided some war beasts to experiment and install firearms.

The country of leaf-cutting ants and the country of red fire ants also have different movements.

On the other side of [Red Iron City], the Flying Knights found that the Leafcutter Ant Nation had recuperated for a winter, and then began to fight on the other side of the stream.

The Leafcutter Ant Nation has never been short of food, and their fungal cultivation industry has a steady yield, and even if the production stops in winter, the hoarded food is enough to fill the winter.

In today's Leaf-cutting Ant Country, the number of warriors has fully recovered to the pre-"Battle of the World", and they have hoarded as many as 500,000 troops by the stream, as well as hundreds of Star Heavenly Bulls, and it seems that they can launch a counterattack at any time.

The Flying Knights didn't even dare to fly to the other side of the stream lately, otherwise they would always attract a few or even a dozen huge Star Bulls in pursuit.

Fortunately for the protagonist, the Divine Envoy King's legion cut off all the branches of the trees on this side of the stream to the opposite bank before the winter, and the Leaf Cutter Ant Army could not cross the river from [Red Iron City] and the trees to the south.

Therefore, the main force of the leaf-cutting ant army gathered opposite the controlled territory of the Red Fire Ant Country.

And the Red Fire Ant Army doesn't seem to be ready for the upcoming counteroffensive at all, and their movements are very strange!