Soon after repelling the first counterattack of the Leafcutter Ant Nation, [Red Iron City] began to take shape under the day and night rush of tens of thousands of ants.

But even with the support of the strong city, the Divine Envoy King Legion did not dare to be careless, and the [Red Iron City] was close at hand, but it was a large country with millions of ants and hundreds of thousands of troops.

The protagonist personally led 6 legions to continue to be stationed in [Red Iron City], and only transferred the tank troops and more flying knights, and gathered the most elite forces of the Divine Envoy King Legion here.

The Leaf Cutting Ant Kingdom does not send an envoy to contact the Divine Envoy King Legion, which makes the protagonist realize that the other party does not intend to be good, the ant world does not advocate the realism and profit supremacy of human diplomacy, and the ants are more impatient and belligerent. After a short honeymoon period, the Legion of the Divine Envoy King and the Leafcutter Ant Kingdom are now completely in opposition.

The protagonist will not be complacent because he easily defeated the first counterattack of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army, and the previous Leaf Cutting Ant Army does not represent their true strength. When hundreds of thousands of leaf-cutting ant armies poured in, even the current fully armored Divine Envoy King warriors did not dare to slap their edges.

The protagonist also knows that the Leaf-cutting Ant Kingdom has domesticated the Star Skyhorn Beeral, and although this Skyhorn is a vegetarian, it has a pair of hard mouthparts that can bite through the bark of trees, and it must be one bite at a time when used to bite ants.

According to the observation of the Flying Knight, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army does not use the Star Bull in the battlefield outside the woods, but in the woods, these Star Cows will also appear near the battlefield, and their specific role is unknown.

The protective net of [Red Iron City] is used to deal with the Star Bull, and this kind of net has played a great role in dealing with parasitic war beasts in the swamp area. And the protective net of [Red Iron City] can be the size of the mesh to block the Star Sky Bull, but ordinary ants can easily pass through.

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After waiting for a few days, the protagonist did not wait for the second counterattack of the Leaf Cutter Ant Army.

The Flying Knights have repeatedly encountered ambushes from the leafcutter ants in the trees or the starry bulls piloted by the leafcutter warriors. Although most of the time it is a false alarm, there are occasional casualties.

In such an environment, the Flying Knights did not dare to go too deep, nor could they accurately grasp the movement of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army in the woods, and from the available information, it seemed that the Leaf Cutting Ant Army was gathering new forces on the border with the Red Fire Ant Country.

They can assemble in a location that can either threaten the plains of the Red Fire Ant Country, or they can quickly descend on [Red Iron City]. This information made the Divine Envoy King's legion continue to face the enemy and not dare to move.

A few days later, the first thing the Divine Envoy King Legion was waiting for was not the Leaf Cutting Ant Army, but the most hearty heavy rain of the summer.

This year's rain is not frequent, spring rain is not much, and there are a few unique thunderstorms in summer, but the rain is not heavy. The biggest thunderstorm before occurred last month, and even stopped the Red Fire Ant Army's military operation to wipe out the encircled leaf-cutting ant army.

All the rain seems to be hoarding, waiting for a time to pour out!

On September 17, the sky suddenly changed, and it rained heavily.

The rain began in the morning, when the Divine Envoy King Legion was preparing to organize the first batch of ant workers to transport the newly excavated hematite particles back to [Xinyang City], but fortunately, before the team set off, they predicted the change in air pressure and entered the nest in time to take shelter from the rain.

The sky darkened almost instantly, and then it quickly became almost impossible to see the tentacles in front of you.

In the dark sky, the soybean-sized raindrops suddenly fell like meteor showers, and at first the dry surface was still under the raindrops to spread a burst of dust, and soon the dust condensed into the mud on the surface.

The rain was so heavy that the ground soon turned into a land of water. Even in the woods where [Red Iron City] was located, the dense foliage did not seem to be able to stop the rain from invading the ground, and the ground quickly appeared to accumulate water, and the excess water even began to find a breakthrough and roll outward.

The high ground of the [Red Iron City] is exposed, but the underground nest begins to permeate a large amount of water, and the ants that gather inside can only move to the dry nest room while continuously pulling the seeping water droplets into the deep flood drainage tunnel to be emptied.

In the afternoon, the torrential rain finally stopped, and in just a few hours, it seemed that all the rain that had been accumulated for more than half a year was poured on the ground at once.

The soil was saturated with moisture, the ground was full of water, and the forest suddenly turned into a mangrove forest.

Although [Red Iron City] was not submerged, the protagonist who took off to inspect on the "Little Black" found that the low-lying hematite had been completely soaked in water and turned into a puddle.

The protagonist has a headache, this hematite has just been grabbed and started production, and now it is "soaked", there is nowhere to drain this stagnant water, and if it dries naturally, it is estimated that it will take a week.

The protagonist looks at the nearby terrain, and the area near [Red Iron City] is a low-lying part of the area, where the flowing floodwaters gather and there is nowhere to go. If it weren't for the fact that [Red Iron City] had deliberately chosen a relatively high location, I am afraid that it would have been flooded.

The only benefit of the heavy rain is that the leafcutter ants have also been affected by the flooding, and they estimate that even if they want to launch a military operation for the time being, they will postpone it.

The protagonist hovers in the air while thinking, judging from the current terrain of hematite, it is easy to accumulate water whenever it rains, and in this way, it is bound to seriously affect the normal mining of hematite!

The hematite field looks roughly in an irregular circle when viewed from the air, and the surface soil has been lifted by leafcutter ants years ago, revealing the underground ore layer. After years of mining, the mine is more than a decimeter lower than the nearby land, and the mine itself is a low-lying land, so it is difficult to think of such a terrain without accumulating water.

In the past, there was not much demand for hematite in the leaf-cutting ant country, and when the water was stagnant, the work would be stopped, and the water would dry up before continuing to dig.

After rain, the water-soaked ore layer will be cracked into thin particles after the summer heat and exposure, which is more conducive to harvesting. But in fact, there is no need to soak in water, only normal rainfall is needed to soak the ore seam, which can also have this effect.

The Divine Envoy King Legion has a large demand for iron ore, and it can't afford to wait for multiple shutdowns a year.

The protagonist in the air looks at the nearby terrain and wonders if it is possible to build a drainage channel.

Although the terrain near the hematite is low-lying, the whole area is obviously high in the north and low in the south, and the terrain at the edge of the forest drops sharply more than ten meters to the south of [Hematite City] and Hematite.

If a flood control ditch is dug around [the red iron city] and the hematite mine, and the flood control communication is lowered to the lower ground, it can effectively guide the flood water to other directions. Just the rain received by the hematite itself will not allow it to accumulate a lot of water, and it will not interfere with mining.