The news that the Leaf Cutting Ant Army and the Divine Envoy King Legion were joining forces to go north was soon known to the Paving Ant Imperial Army.

The "wisdom king" of the Red Fire Ant Country laid a large number of secret sentinels last year, which has infiltrated the territory of the old Red Fire Ant Country occupied by the leaf-cutting ants, and there are secret bases of red fire ants everywhere.

On the march, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army and the Divine Envoy King's army had almost no secrets, and every two or three hours of advancement, they could encounter the enemy who had rushed out of the dark outpost and rushed north to report the news.

These secret sentries are so secretive that they would be difficult to spot unless the enemy showed up on their own.

Although the Divine Envoy King's Legion sent flying knights and scythe ant scouts to expel and search for these red fire ant sentry posts, they were still unable to prevent it, and some of the sentry successfully escaped, returning the military situation to the Red Fire Ant Army, and then being reported to the Paving Ant Empire Army.

At this time, tens of thousands of troops of the Paving Ant Imperial Army had arrived at [North Birch City], and they took over the siege of the Red Fire Ant Army to continue [North Song City], and let the Red Fire Ant Army withdraw to meet the Leaf Cutting Ant Army and the Divine Envoy King Legion who came to meet the rushing Leaf Cutting Ant Army and the Divine Envoy King Army.

This is clearly treating the Red Fire Ant Army as coolies and cannon fodder, and the results of the battle [in North Pine City] will be taken by the suzerain, and the Red Fire Ant Army can only gnaw a hard bone.

But if the Red Fire Ant Army does not rely on the suzerain, it will not be able to restore the country on its own, so it can only swallow this cup of bitter wine and obediently obey orders.

At this time, the combined forces of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army and the Divine Envoy King's Legion marched side by side, one on the left and one on the right, and the vanguard was only a little more than a day's journey away from [North Pine City].

The troops of the Divine King's legion were all gathered and not dispersed, and although they were marching in columns, they could be converted into battle formations at any time due to the small number of troops.

However, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army only had 50,000 forwards and the Divine Envoy King's army marching hand in hand, and the other troops were still far behind, some were transporting supplies and grain, some were clearing the secret posts along the way, and some were collecting grain at the side nest along the way.

Among them, the last leafcutter ant unit is two days away from the vanguard unit. The entire leaf-cutting ant army is like a long earthworm that has been cut off into several sections, and the end cannot be taken into account.

This is not due to the fact that the Leafcutter Ant Army is not accustomed to military affairs, they also advanced in groups at the beginning, and the speed was very slow.

After joining up with the Divine Envoy King's Legion led by the protagonist, the protagonist feels that the soldiers are expensive and fast, and cannot be so slow, and suggests that the Leafcutter Ant Army send a capable force to quickly go north with the Divine Envoy King's Legion, without waiting for the large army to advance slowly.

For the sake of the protagonist's recommendation, the Leaf-cutting Ant Army finally agreed to send 50,000 troops first.

The Paving Ant Imperial Army did not expect the Leaf Cutting Ant Army and the Divine Envoy King Army to come so quickly, many of the Red Fire Ant's secret sentinels had just sent the information, and the enemy army had already appeared a day away, and this information had not even been delivered in time.

If the Leaf Cutting Ant Army and the Divine Envoy King Legion continue to advance at this rate, the Red Fire Ant Army in charge of blocking the attack will be attacked before they are in position, and the situation will be very favorable to the Leaf Cutting Ant Army and the Divine Envoy King Legion.

But the day before the battle broke out, a continuous spring rain suddenly fell, and it rained for half a day and a night.

The spring rains are not as sudden as the summer rainstorms, and the ants are aware of the change in air pressure and the gathering of clouds in the sky.

The Leaf Cutting Ant Army and the Divine Envoy King Legion both stopped their march and split up to find shelter.

The Leaf Cutting Ant Army found a tree hole in a nearby tree to hide, and the Divine Envoy King Army took advantage of its characteristics of being good at construction and dug a temporary underground camp on a high ground, all of which survived the rain unharmed.

However, their whereabouts were revealed.

The nearby red fire ant sentry spotted them, and dozens of burrowing ants and Japanese black brown ant slave ants braved the drizzle to send the military back at the cost of losing seventy percent.

After the sky cleared, when the Leaf Cutting Ant Army and the Divine Envoy King Army set out on the road again, they soon encountered the blocking position built by the Red Fire Ant Army who had arrived in a hurry!

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It's a muddy mudflat, which wasn't there yesterday.

Yesterday's rain began in the afternoon and continued to fall until the early hours of this morning, and the rain was not violent, and the total amount accumulated for a long time was not small.

The abundant water, which is not absorbed by the large amount of mud, collects into the low-lying areas and forms a waterhole in this gully.

When the sun came out, the waterhole quickly dried up into a mud swamp, which was not small, and it happened to be blocking the road of the Leaf Cutter Ant Army and the Divine Envoy King's Army to the north.

What's even worse is that the Red Fire Ant Army has already rushed to the other side of the quagmire to set up defenses.

The protagonist visits the front line to inspect in person. The Red Fire Ant Army on the opposite side is behind the mire, trying to use the geographical advantage to stop our army.

The results of the flying knight's return were not very good, the quagmire was hundreds of meters wide, and the terrain further away was complicated, which was not suitable for going around.

On the contrary, the mud here is now the narrowest, and it is relatively dry.

This means that unless the Leaf Cutter Ant Army and the Divine Envoy King are willing to give up the advantage of the surprise attack and wait patiently for the quagmire to dry up, they will also allow the enemy army to continue to besiege [North Pine Castle] and build a blocking position.

Otherwise, they will have to force their way through the enemy's quagmire defenses.

Spring mud, a very beautiful word in the poem, has become the biggest enemy of the Divine Envoy King Legion at this time.

There are relatively dry places in the mire, and if you lay dry gravel or fallen leaves, it only takes half a day to pave a road large enough for a large army to pass. Even beetles can trek through the mud and force their way through.

But when the enemy forces are on the opposite bank, breaking through the quagmire is not just a matter of engineering.

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After communicating with the supreme female ant commander of the vanguard of the leaf-cutting ant army, the two armies decided to immediately split up and rush to cross.

Both armies began to gather for supplies nearby that could be used: hay, gravel, broken plant leaves, sticks. These things were piled up in the mire, gradually paved into a road that continued to stretch north.

There are 2 roads paved by the Leaf Cutter Ant Army, each of which can run 3 ants in parallel, while the roads paved by the Divine Angel King Army are more and wider, with 3 roads and 5 ants in each side.

At present, the road of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army is extending faster, and although the Divine Envoy King warriors are better at construction, they are much behind because the total amount of work is several times that of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army.

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At this time, on the opposite side, the Red Fire Ant Army was already in full array.

They were old natives, and they knew that if it rained, this would be an excellent place to stop the attack, and it would be difficult to get around it, so they hurriedly marched here to set up defenses.

Sure enough, now the location is on their side.

The Red Fire Ant Army followed the traditional formation, and on the favorable hillside, watched the Leaf Cutting Ant Army and the Divine Envoy King Army work hard in the mire.

The Red Fire Ant Army still divides the front-line troops into three formations, left, center and right, each with about 20,000 fighters, of which about a quarter are the elite soldiers of the Red Fire Ant clan. There are also more than 10,000 soldiers as a reserve for the second formation, arranged behind a group of Chinese troops.

In addition, there are thousands of slave ant scouts, patrolling and patrolling around the battlefield.