The time is September, and the order belongs to the third autumn.

At this time, the [Pioneer City] already had the atmosphere of a big city. In the past few months, 100,000 ants have crossed the river one after another, enriching the local ant population, and also contributing endless strength to the construction of this giant city, promoting the rapid growth and rapid growth of tall ant mounds like mushrooms after a rain.

And the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army, which are also on the south bank and are from the old big-headed ant kingdom, do not have the prosperity of the ant alliance at the moment, but are full of killing, destruction, and blood.

After the beginning of spring this year, the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army, which had regained the sacred flame, repelled the invasion of the Bowback Ant Tribe, and took advantage of the chaos to expand part of the territory, and there was already a revival atmosphere.

However, this small country established by the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army is still very weak, and on the south bank of the Qing River, which is constantly fighting, it is still an inconspicuous force, which may be extinguished like a candle in the wind at any time, just like the countless ant forces that have disappeared in this world and have not left a trace.

War is never-ending, pacifists simply cannot survive in this world, and weakness is the original sin.

The Northern Expeditionary Army, which had just taken a breather, was now caught in a new war, a war that originated from just a small group of psyllids!

At that time, the scouts of the Northern Expeditionary Army found a small colony of psyllids in trees near the border, and summoned worker ants to prepare to catch these small prey and replenish their food stocks.

Now that it is autumn, the ants are in a hurry to stock up for the winter, and the little psyllids that were not visible in the past cannot be let go.

But I didn't want to, a nearby red forest ant tribe suddenly broke in, and they were also ready to kill these psyllids! As arboreal ants, they treat tree pests such as psyllids as very important prey.

The Red Forest Ants had tracked down the numerous woodlice colonies in the vicinity, and the Northern Expeditionary Force felt that it was already under their own control and refused to back down. But where there is a very clear national boundary in the ant world, ants with big jaws can occupy the places where their tentacles reach.

The standoff between the two sides ensued, sparking a clash in which dozens of ants scuffled over the woodlice, which could bite almost one bite at a time.

In the trees, the Northern Expeditionary Army suffered a loss, and the soldier ants and worker ants of the big-headed ants were not at all the opponents of the red forest ants.

These mangrove ants are more powerful than the mangrove ants subdued by the Ant Alliance, and there is a slight difference in body posture between the two, which may be a relative ant species that has diverged.

The Red Forest Ant, which originally belonged to the Red Fire Ant Nation and now belongs to the Ant Alliance, is a tree warrior who is good at fighting with large jaws and stinging needles.

And the red forest ants of this tribe have degraded their stinging needles, and have been replaced by acid-shooting abilities similar to those of belly-lifting ants. And it's not just simple acid shooting, their shooting tactics are very mature.

When the warriors of the Northern Expeditionary Army wanted to rush to the red forest ant warriors not far from the branches, the other party had already occupied the nearby high places in advance, spraying formic acid at the big-headed ant warriors from all directions from leaves and branches.

At first, it was just an ordinary spray, and the red forest ant warrior shot every four or five seconds, pouting his butt high, throwing the condensed acid beads at the big-headed ant, which could shoot a distance of more than a decimeter.

When the big-headed ants braved the acid rain to rush closer, several red forest ants that had not participated in the shooting before suddenly shot out large clouds of liquid. This time, it was not ordinary formic acid that was ejaculated, but a viscous and thick liquid.

The big-headed ant that was shot immediately stuck all over, as if stuck in a quagmire, unable to move, the more it struggled, the more it was trapped, its limbs were glued together, and its body was glued to the tree.

Seeing that the big-headed ant warrior who had been killed was trapped, the ordinary red forest ant warrior on the side immediately changed the frequency of shooting, if the shooting just now was still sporadic and light rain, this time it was like a heavy rain.

The red forest ant warrior no longer threw out a single droplet of formic acid, but pouted his butt and sprayed the formic acid at the target, raising puffs of white smoke, and even the shooting red forest ants themselves were covered with formic acid.

The carapace of the red forest ant itself is highly resistant to formic acid, and the weak parts of the compound eyes and antennae are also covered with a waxy layer that is not afraid of formic acid corrosion.

But the big-headed ants that were caught on fire were immediately baptized by crazy acid, like falling into a pool of sulfuric acid, and soon became unrecognizable, struggled twice and died one after another.

The remaining big-headed ants were too small to climb down the tree to escape, while the red forest ants jumped off the tree and chased after them.

In the eyes of these Red Forest Ant Warriors, the opponent's strength is too weak, and they just chased after the opponent's lair and seized some loot.

A few red forest ants ran back to the tribe to report the news, summoning more companions to pinch the "soft persimmons".

When the Red Forest Ants gathered thousands of warriors and followed the pheromone guidance along the way, they slaughtered the territory of the northern expeditionary army, but they encountered the vanguard who came back from the rout.

It turned out that the Northern Expeditionary Army dispatched three legions of regular troops to counterattack, and the red forest ants who took the lead did not expect to encounter hard stubble, they only had dozens of them, and some of them ran out of formic acid, and they were not opponents at all.

At this time, the two sides had already formed a bond, and there was no intention of giving up, and no one paid attention to the several psyllids that had caused the incident, and both sides were soon red-eyed.

The warriors of the Northern Expeditionary Army are good at fighting in formation, are more organized on the ground, and will also concentrate on the breakthrough tactics of the soldier ants.

The Red Forest Ants were loosely formed, but they relied on long-range firepower and mobile and flexible fighting with the help of vegetation on the battlefield, which also made the Northern Expeditionary Army suffer many losses.

The tactics of the Northern Expeditionary Army were born out of the era of the old big-headed ant kingdom, and it was very effective in the face of the paving ant barbarian army, which was also an opponent of ground cluster operations, and it was a bit tricky to face the arboreal ants that the arboreal ants were good at.

If it weren't for the outflanking of the three legions, encircling and annihilating a few red forest ant troops that gathered together and had no time to escape with the help of bushes and grasses, I am afraid that the Northern Expeditionary Army would have suffered a loss in this battle!

The two sides fought until dusk, each withdrew its troops, and each left behind thousands of corpses.

Although the scale of this war is far less than the war that has just ended, the Red Fire Ant Country was wiped out, but the cruelty was not weak at all.

The Northern Expeditionary Army and the Red Forest Ant Tribe, who had formed a mortal enemy, fought endlessly in the following months.

This is just one of the many wars that take place on the south bank of the Qing River before winter, and every autumn, clashes break out between ant forces eager to stock up on more food for the winter.

The victor won the grain and could survive the winter safely; The loser no longer has to worry about food, either he will be conquered, or he will not survive the winter; As for the two sides that are evenly matched, they have consumed the excess ant mouth, and the remaining ants are enough to survive the winter by stockpiling food.

This is the cruel side of the ant world to survive the winter, which happens every year!

Just as in the spring, when the grain depots are empty, wars can be provoked for contention and plunder.

Spring and autumn are both war-torn seasons, and they are both microcosms of this war-torn world.