Chapter 102: Spring Tide

This time, the red fire ants were indeed frightened, and anyone who saw such a scene would be terrified.

They've seen wildfires, they've seen floods, they've seen strong winds, but they've never seen that scene just now. They didn't know what was happening, only a flash of light and corpses littered the ground.

In the simple thoughts of the red fire ant male ant, he directly linked the scene just now with the supernatural power!

That's divine punishment!

There is no need to laugh at ants, ancient humans also regarded all things beyond the reach of human beings as divine powers, such as earthquakes, such as rain, such as locust plagues.

The Red Fire Ant Army was a little scared, they felt that this divine punishment was a warning to themselves. Although the Red Fire Ant Army still did not retreat, their will was wavering, and even the senior male ant elders had urgently negotiated for a long time, but they still did not make up their minds!

Honeydew and Raven were so tempting that they could sometimes even overpower fear, and under the will of the Red Fire Ant Elders, the gradually wavering army settled down again.

On the side of the Divine Envoy King's legion, the protagonist himself didn't expect the results of this fire attack to be so brilliant. When he was a child, he lit flying flakes and burned ants with gunpowder powder, but he never thought that when flying flakes burned ants, it was so similar to burning them with gunpowder powder!

These flying flakes are so flammable that the protagonist is a little worried about not suddenly having a wildfire and burning the forest to the north, which is an important source of some supplies for the Divine Envoy King's legion.

The protagonist looks around again, there are no trees near the peninsula, only open grasses, lilac Zhuge vegetables and yellow whirlwind flowers, and smaller camellia flowers and cauliflower are blooming brilliantly. Maybe that's the work of the wildfires!

But the protagonist doesn't need to worry about the wildfire, because it's just starting to rain at night!

This is not the first spring rain, but it is definitely the most hearty: thousands of miles of dark clouds, boundless rain columns falling, cumulus clouds pressing the ground, and fierce winds and waters. This rain is not only the heroism of summer thunderstorms, but also the continuous spring rains.

Until the morning, the sun didn't come out, and the protagonist woke up according to the biological clock, and when he came to the outside of the ant mound, he quickly shrank back.

All right! There is no need to think about the war today, with such heavy rain, the enemy army will not be able to attack at all.

And if their humble wilderness camp doesn't have proper drainage, it's a lot of fun! The protagonist can't help but think evilly.

The rain continued, and the sky and earth were dark, and it was impossible to distinguish between day and night. And in the endless rain curtain, the flowing water of the Qinghe River collected the rain and the flood water from upstream, and it was tumbling, roaring, and rising at a much faster speed than before.

It's a spring rush!

The river flooded the beach on the riverbank, completely separating the reeds from the shore, and even when the river had risen to the highest level of water that the Divine Legion had seen before, it was still rising!

In [Xinyang City], the Divine Envoy King's legions also noticed the change in the water level, as the depths of their underground lair began to seep water droplets.

The queens live here, and after being transported by water droplets by their hands to drain the water is ineffective, they have to move to the middle and upper levels of the nest.

Then more and more deep nests flooded, and the worker ants had to busily remove all the threatened things, even caring that their bodies were dirty and wet from the mud.

Fortunately, important facilities such as combustion chambers and blast furnaces were located on higher ground and had a waterproof layer, so they were not affected in the end.

On the ground, spring tides have even reshaped the terrain, perhaps briefly, but at least for now they have changed the landscape of the surface and the course of the war.

The water level on both sides of the peninsula continued to rise, and soon broke through the slightly higher natural "dikes" on the east and west sides of the depression, and the bubbling water slowly flowed into the depression.

The earth, which had already absorbed the rain, could no longer hold the new liquid, and the water collected in the lower part of the depression, and then rose rapidly until the whole depression was submerged, and the surface of the water was connected to the great river from east to west.

The corpses of thousands of red fire ants, forest ants, and other ants that did not converge yesterday either drifted away with the current, or gathered together somewhere on the shore, and countless floating corpses covered the water, looking extremely terrifying.

And the surface of the water also completely separated the attacking Red Fire Ant Army from the defending Divine Envoy King Army, making [Xinyang City] completely become an island.

This stagnant water will last for a few days or even a week, as in previous years. When stagnant water is eventually dried by the sun and absorbed by the earth, it will leave salt in the hollows and continue to curb the growth of vegetation inside.

This is the annual reincarnation of the hollow!

- I'm the dividing line -

On the afternoon of April 4, the rain finally stopped.

When the protagonist and his guards go outside to inspect, he sees ants in the red fire ant camp in the distance.

After almost a day and a night of heavy rain, the humble underground camp of the red fire ants has been put to the test, and although the camp is still far from the river, there are still water droplets coming out of the ground.

The red fire ants themselves gathered in a relatively dry and comfortable area, while the other slave auxiliaries fought all day, relying solely on ant power to drain the water, but with little success.

In some low-lying areas, there is even standing water, and hundreds of ants have died in the water, or died in the rescue.

When the protagonist and the Red Fire Ant commanders discover that the water has separated the two armies at about the same time, they are both equally surprised.

Compared to the happy surprise on the protagonist's side, the enemy army is obviously not happy!

Originally, think about it, the Red Fire Ant Country sent a large army with absolute superiority in strength, but it was frustrated again and again in front of the fortified city. It was intended to rely on the numerical superiority to continue to consume the defenders, but the offensive had to be aborted by a flood from the sky.

Such a scene is difficult for any commander to accept.

The rain came so suddenly that the ants' premonition of the change in air pressure did not have time to take effect, and they were powerless to stop it.

Both sides can only accept this fact.

The Divine Messenger King Legion immediately began production after the rain, and with the cover of the water, they were so safe that they even dared to graze aphids on the south bank of the hollow, and looked across the water from the restless red fire ants on the opposite side.

The Red Fire Ant Army didn't seem to be planning to retreat, so they withdrew their camp a little bit and built a heart camp on a higher ground.

Previously, their camp was already in the high ground north of the hollow, but it was still flooded, and this time they had to choose a more secure location.

At the same time, every day the Red Fire Ant Army will send scouts to patrol near the water's surface, waiting for the day when the stagnant water will recede.

Occasionally, there will be a futile spray of formic acid on the opposite side of the river, adding a joke to the boring confrontation between the two sides.

Although it is safe for the time being, the protagonist is not happy - this is the situation, the enemy army still refuses to retreat, and it is obviously imperative to the Divine Envoy King's army and [Xinyang City].

And the defenders, there really isn't much capital to spend all the time.

What will it take to put an end to this war!?