After receiving the news, the protagonist immediately crosses the river and rushes back to Waterfront City, where the returning messenger is already waiting for him in the lair.

These are the two messengers sent by the protagonist to the west, and the destination is the secondary nest guarded by the Public Security King and the Western King, both of which are also along the riverbank and are in vulnerable areas.

The two messengers were traveling in groups, and it stands to reason that they should not return at the same time because they were destined for different destinations.

And another group of messengers was sent to the southwest, which was the defensive position of the second line, and this group of messengers has not yet heard back.

Curious and confused, the protagonist immediately receives a packet of messages from the two messengers.

But after reading this information, the protagonist's face is not very good.

The two messengers met a messenger sent by the Public Security King, and then arrived at the Vice-Nest where the Public Security King was located.

Here, the king of public security personally received them.

It is known that this secondary nest suffered heavy losses during the winter months. At the beginning of winter, they were not attacked, but soon after, they were besieged by an army of paver ants.

According to the estimation of the point in time, the time when they were attacked coincided with the withdrawal of the main force of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army from the north bank of the "Waterfront City".

The protagonist's previous conjecture was correct: after hitting a wall in Waterfront City, the Paving Ant Barbarians diverted their attack.

At the beginning of the defensive battle, the Public Security Corps still followed the tactics established in the autumn: put the enemy into the nest**, and in a relatively open area, use the tactics unique to the Public Security Corps to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible.

However, this time the tactics were restrained by the enemy, and the public security corps hoped to concentrate on using soldier ants to break through the enemy, and then form an encirclement and annihilation. However, the enemy warriors are able to squeeze into the formation and successfully cut the connection between the soldiers and ants - this is exactly the enemy tactic that the protagonist encounters in the defensive battle of "Waterfront City".

Although I don't know why the enemy developed this tactic in a short period of time, it should be that the new tactics of the Public Security Legion and the Western Legion were leaked during the reconquest war last spring, but this tactic did give the big-headed ant army a headache except for the Divine Envoy King Legion.

Fortunately, the enemy had just arrived, and for some reason they did not devote all their forces at the beginning, and a small part of the vanguard was still repulsed, which also provided valuable time for the public security corps to adjust its defense plan.

In fact, the reason why the enemy did not devote all their forces was simple: after they had made a long journey, the large force was busy setting up a temporary base to spend the night.

After perceiving that the established tactics were very weak in the face of the enemy, the public security king decisively asked the troops to revert to the use of plugging tactics, using narrow entrances and exits and passages to delay the enemy's offensive.

This change was crucial, as the enemy had not been able to completely capture the sub-nest guarded by the Public Security Corps all winter.

However, the losses of the public security corps were very heavy, almost half of the soldiers were killed, and the remaining half were also wounded in some way or shallower.

This is because although the public security corps has adopted the tactic of plugging, the temperature of the shallow nest from the entrance and exit is too low, and the troops stationed here will soon be frozen and move slowly, and when it comes to close contact with the enemy, these half-frozen big-headed ant warriors are no match for the vigorous paving ant barbarian warriors.

As a result, the main battlefields of both sides are often placed in the middle and lower layers of the lair, and the defenders must deal with the enemies that appear in all directions every day in an intricate lair.

If it weren't for the fact that the public security king was a veteran of the battlefield and commanded and responded effectively, this lair might have been captured.

However, after the enemy's daily advances, they had to retreat to the temporary base at night to recuperate, leaving a respite for the defenders, who could take advantage of the night to rest their troops, repair their nests, and readjust their defenses.

This brutal meat grinder-like offensive and defensive battle lasted until the end of winter, and finally the enemy withdrew to the north bank of the river while the river ice did not melt, and the public security corps finally won the winter defensive battle with difficulty.

After the beginning of spring, the king of public security also sent messengers to the surrounding areas.

The messenger sent to the vice-nest where the king of the west was the first to bring back bad news, and since there was only half a day's journey between the two places, the king of public security received a reply in the afternoon of the day the messenger was dispatched.

The Messenger reported that he had spotted a large number of Paving Ant Barbarian warriors near the nest, and he fled back in a hurry to get rid of the enemies he encountered.

There is still enemy activity around this sub-nest after the beginning of spring, and according to the experience of the public security king, it is obvious that it has already fallen, otherwise the enemy will not have a suitable stronghold, and will withdraw to the territory like the enemy besieging the garrison of the public security legion.

And the sub-nest fell, and the Western kings and Western legions stationed in it were obviously unlucky, and in the winter, they didn't even have the possibility of breaking through. Once defeated by the enemy, it can only be completely annihilated, and according to past experience, neither the Paving Ant Barbarian nor the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom will accept each other's captives.

The messenger to the east encounters the messenger sent by the protagonist on the way, and takes the two messengers to the public security king.

The police officer forwarded the information he knew to the messenger of the "Waterfront City", and the messenger went home. The messenger who had planned to go to the Western King's residence had no longer needed to move on, and he also returned.

The protagonist's face is very bad, if he can still see the face in his current body.

It is likely that the king of the West has died in battle, and although the king of public security, the king of the West and the protagonist have not known each other for a long time, they are all friends who fought side by side on the battlefield. At the king's meeting, the two kings almost unconditionally supported the protagonist's various proposals, and they could be described as loyal fans of the protagonist.

And now he was dead, in this cold winter, under the enemy's ranks.

He would not have died, and if it weren't for the protagonist's suggestion at the king's meeting that the kings themselves be stationed at the front line, the king of the West would not have gone to the dangerous sub-nest that would eventually fall. If it weren't for the fact that "Waterfront City" was rebuilt by the protagonist to be too easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army would not have changed its goal to attack the Western King's station.

But without ifs, the king of the West would have died like this, and his bones would not have been recovered, and he might have even been reduced to the enemy's military rations - in the cold and lack of food in the winter, the ants often feed on the corpses of both the enemy and the enemy, and if it weren't for the abundance of food in the "Waterfront City", this scene would have happened under the nose of the protagonist.

The protagonist feels a hint of self-reproach, and although he feels that what he did was not wrong, it indirectly led to the death of the king of the West.

Blood debt repayment, this is the belief that emerges from the bottom of the protagonist's heart. Although even without this bad news, the protagonist does not intend to let go of the old enemy of the paving ant barbarian. And now the news only makes him more determined.

Revenge, but what to do next?