When the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army broke through and the last hundreds of ants escaped by water, the rain in the sky had not completely stopped, and sporadic raindrops fell from time to time, as if adding atmosphere to this escape battle.

The remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army, which broke through in the rain, and the Destroyer troops who pursued in the rain, both paid a lot of price in this sporadic rain.

Although the heavy rain is nearing its end, the raindrops at the end are the greatest. The huge raindrops falling at high speed are no less important to the ants than the cannonballs falling from the sky, and a direct hit to the ants is enough to stun them.

Even if you just fall next to you, the impact is enough to shake the ants away.

Those ants who are unfortunate enough to be blown into stagnant water and drowned, or trapped by water droplets on rocks and blades of grass, can hardly get rid of the tension of the water film by their own strength, after all, there is nowhere to focus on their limbs in the water, and even the most powerful destroyers cannot do it.

Without the help of their companions, these trapped ants would soon drown, and in the face of the rain, the weak big-headed ants and the fierce destroyers are equal.

Both the remnants of the retreating Northern Expeditionary Army and the desperately pursuing destroyers were busy marching and rarely cared for those who were trapped, so there were many drowning soldiers on both sides.

This is just a small corner of the scene of the tragic pursuit battle.

- I'm the dividing line -

Since it was still raining sporadically in the sky, the flying knights in [the bridgehead] did not go out to investigate, and these raindrops were even more harmful to flies or bee mounts than ants.

Even if they are not hit by raindrops, if they get their wings wet, neither the Fly Mount nor the Bee Mount can continue to fly, and if they fall to the ground, the Raindrops, Destroyers, and other dangers can take the lives of the Flying Knights and Mounts who have nowhere to dodge at any time.

When the heavy rain completely stopped, and the flying knights finally flew to the direction of [Target A] to reconnoitre, they saw the scene of the Destroyers who had been reorganized going in and out of [Target A], and the Northern Expeditionary Army was nowhere to be seen.

The protagonist gets the information and naturally thinks that the Northern Expeditionary Army has been wiped out. Although he lamented the death of several of his old friends, he did not expect that these objects of his remembrance had gone from the river under his nose to the east.

Among the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army, who hid the floating debris and sailed downstream, there were the public security king, the senior brother king, as well as the dragon eagle and its mount, a dozen other male ants, the only queen, and hundreds of surviving worker ants and soldier ants.

Although the number is small, the most elite members have been preserved, and the establishment is like a complete equipment of a small ant nest.

An unknown future awaits the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army, who are drifting with the tide. And the Divine Envoy King Legion stationed in the [Bridgehead] has a foreseeable future in the short term.

Shortly after [Target A] was "lost", after the weather cleared at noon, and the crisp and cool autumn mood was restored, the Flying Knights found that the Destroyers had once again assembled and advanced.

They followed the ant path that had existed in the old paving ant barbarian kingdom and headed east, and in front of them was the [bridgehead] garrisoned by the Divine Envoy King's legion, and there would be no other targets.

The threat of the enemy is close at hand, and the distance between [bridgehead] and [target A] is extremely close, and it is only half a day's journey. At the beginning, the Northern Expeditionary Force of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom set out from [Bridgehead], first conquered [Target A], and then continued to attack the rest of the north bank of the Great River.

Now, the Destroyer is coming in the opposite direction.

After a series of battles, division of troops, and rain damage at [Target A], the number of Destroyer troops assembled and marching towards [Bridgehead] is only about seven or eight thousand, although it is a decrease from the tens of thousands of troops at the beginning of the southern expedition, but this is still a force that is enough to "destroy the world".

In the previous battle to ambush the Radar Destroyers, more than 2,000 soldiers and dozens of beetles of the 1st Legion faced a mere fifty Destroyers in the field, and although they won, they also suffered a lot of losses.

Now facing thousands of enemies, the protagonist wisely chooses to rely on the city defense to fight, and not prepare for a field battle.

It is also aggrieved, the Divine Envoy King Legion is obviously extremely strong in field combat, whether it is the old army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, or the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, or the indigenous Sickle Hunting Fierce Ant Tribe, they are not the opponents of the Divine Envoy King Legion in the field.

However, the two main enemies that the Divine Envoy King Legion has faced recently, the parasitic ants have a large number of parasitic war beasts, and the destroyers are all like "giant spirit gods", and neither of them can be defeated by the same number of Divine Envoy King Legions in the field.

As a last resort, the Divine Envoy King's army could only rely on the city defense to defend on the two fronts, one south and one north.

In the swampy area, relying on the lair with protective nets and ballistas, the Divine King's legion fully exploited its strengths and avoided its weaknesses, and achieved good results. Although it failed to complete the strategic goal of conquering the swamp and completely exterminating the parasitic ants, it at least achieved a considerable victory.

The Destroyer will be a completely new enemy, and the way of fighting is very different from that of the Parasitic Ants. The Divine King's legion's defensive combat capabilities will be put to the test once again.

- I'm the dividing line -

After the reconstruction, the [bridgehead] has formed a complete defensive system.

The outermost part is a circle of trenches around the fortress, which has been expanded several times by the Divine Envoy King's legions, and the trench is one decimeter wide and one decimeter deep.

Although when dry, these trenches can only slow down the pace of attacking ants slightly, and cannot stop the advance of ants who are good at climbing.

But after a heavy rain, the trench was full of water, and it was obvious that any ant with normal intelligence would not choose to pass through it.

It takes at least a few days for the water to dry out in the low temperatures of autumn, and before it dries, even when it's semi-dry and muddy, it's enough to keep The Destroyer from passing.

In other words, in the past few days, the Destroyers have been able to cross the trench and attack the [bridgehead], except for the three reserved passages between the trenches, except that they can fly through.

These reserved passages are designed to facilitate the entry and exit of ants in the [bridgehead] during the rainy season, and the more advanced design is of course the suspension bridge that can be retracted.

However, the suspension bridge requires a certain technical content, and although the scientific research team in [Dongyang City] can also make it, but at the current time when the production of ballistas is being stepped up, the protagonist obviously does not want to waste production on the suspension bridge.

And it takes a lot of work together to pull up the suspension bridge with the power of the ants, and the retracted suspension bridge is easy to damage under the wind and rain in the open air, so the protagonist gives up this idea.

But the reserved passages between the trenches were not undefended and could not be easily passed by the enemy.

At the back of the passage, high in the anthill, a ballista was already aimed here.