Chapter 105: Survival in the Cracks
The protagonist, standing at the head of the city, watched the army of red fire ants cross the pontoon bridge in an orderly manner, and then did not return to the camp, but gathered in a long queue, winding all the way to the northeast.
At this moment, countless feelings of exhaustion came at the same time, and the protagonist only felt that he had escaped death again. Such a fierce battle, such a feeling of escaping death, the protagonist has only experienced when he was against the Destroyer.
This is not to say that the Red Fire Ant Army is as powerful as the Destroyer, it's just that the Divine Envoy King Legion is too weak at the moment. If it was in its heyday, the Divine Envoy King Legion would not regard the 100,000 Red Fire Ant Army as a mortal threat at all!
The enemy forces withdrew suddenly, and the Lord did not receive any information as to why the enemy troops had suddenly withdrawn.
It's still noon, it's still early, the defenders are tired, and the battle damage is also very great, if the Red Fire Ant Army has a very important military situation and must withdraw, as long as they work harder, it may even break the defense line of the city wall today.
And strangely, the Red Fire Ant Army not only withdrew, but also went to the northeast, not the northwest when they came.
In the northeast, there is the territory of the Leafcutter Ant Country, and the protagonist has a guess in his heart!
The Flying Knights immediately take off to reconnoiter from a distance, and later bring back information that verifies the protagonist's guesses.
Sure enough, it was the Leaf Cutting Ant Country that launched an attack on the Red Fire Ant Country!
Although the Leaf Cutting Ant Nation had previously refused to join forces with the Divine Envoy King Legion to deal with the Red Fire Ant Nation, they did not give up this opportunity.
Taking advantage of the fact that part of the main force of the Red Fire Ant Army was outside the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, an army of hundreds of thousands of troops was organized to attack.
Moreover, the Leafcutter Ant Army does not contradict the presentation of the "Little Flower" expression: the Leafcutter Ant Nation has stated that it is not interested in territory beyond the woods.
This time, the target of the leafcutter ant army was a nest in the woods that had been infested by red fire ants last year, that is, the nest where red fire ants grabbed hematite.
The Red Fire Ant Nation's opinion of the Legion of the Divine Envoy King is that it is nothing more than a potential slave ant clan. The leaf-cutting ant country is the life-and-death enemy of the red fire ant country, and the two sides have been fighting for a hundred years, and the two sides are like old enemies like the paving ant barbarian country and the big-headed ant kingdom.
After the first batch of reinforcements from the Red Fire Ant Country was defeated by the leafcutter ant army with a numerical advantage and captured the nest, the Red Fire Ant Country resolutely sent troops to the country despite the lack of military food.
The army besieging [Xinyangcheng], with tens of thousands of main forces and a lot of military rations, was also urgently requisitioned and rushed to the battlefield in the northeast.
Knowing this information, the protagonist couldn't help but sigh excitedly: God bless our army!
- I'm the dividing line -
The Red Fire Ant Army retreated very simply, leaving only a corpse behind.
The warriors of the Divine Envoy King, who were already extremely tired, still cheered up and began to clean up the battlefield.
Not only did the corpses on the ground need to be disposed of, but the walls also need to be repaired. In particular, the tunnels under the city wall can be described as a hole in the city wall defense line, and the protagonist plans to continue to build the wall foundation and try to plug this hole.
At the same time, the aphids and scale insects that had been holding back on the peninsula for two days were also removed and placed in various pastures.
There were also two small groups of ants from the Divine Envoy King Legion, who set off separately to reopen the original nest of [Nansen City] and the Bellied Ant Clan.
The Divine Envoy King had previously filled the entrance with stones and dirt when they evacuated [Nansen City], but during the war, the slave auxiliaries of the Red Fire Ant Army, who were searching for food nearby, did not notice it, and as long as the passage was dug, [Nansen City] could be put back into use.
As for the nest of the bellied ants in the Golden Beach Forest, it is not suitable for the legion of the Divine Envoy King, and the protagonist decides to build a new nest here [Golden Beach City].
The reason why the enemy has just retreated is to expand the territory because the protagonist has figured it out.
Although it is easy to defend and difficult to attack in [Xinyang City], in the face of an enemy with an absolute numerical advantage, it will still be trapped and worn to death a little bit.
Just like this April Fool's Day war, the soldiers of the god king can be said to be tenacious, and the city defense can not be said to be unfortunate, but the defenders are still suffering heavy casualties, and at the same time, because of the serious impact on production, there is almost no grain left, and it is more auspicious to fight again.
The Divine Envoy King Legion still has to expand its territory and expand its ant mouth, and only with more ant mouths and troops can it develop and grow in this land.
Now is a good opportunity, the two most powerful forces in the vicinity are confronting each other, leaving a gap between the weak Divine Envoy King legions.
In fact, outside the actual control of the Red Fire Ant Country and the Leaf-cutting Ant Country, there is still a certain amount of room for expansion of the Divine Envoy King Legion, such as the Black Forest, such as the Golden Beach, and the sea of flowers full of Zhuge vegetables.
It is with this intention that the protagonist restarts and builds two new secondary nests just after the end of the war, and allows the queen ants to continue to lay eggs in large numbers, ready to accumulate strength to continue to develop new secondary nests.
In addition to [Xinyang City], [Nansen City] and [Golden Beach City], the protagonist plans to expand four or five secondary nests in and around the Black Forest, and two or three secondary nests in the Zhuge Cauliflower Sea.
If such a large area of land is fully utilized, with the superb level of planting, raising, and grazing of the Divine Legion King, the protagonist is estimated to be enough to support 300,000 ant mouths and establish 20 standing legions.
At that time, the Divine Envoy King Legion only had the strength to participate in the hegemony of the Red Fire Ant Country and the Leaf Cutting Ant Country.
- I'm the dividing line -
The trade route between the Divine Envoy King's Legion and the Leafcutter Ant Kingdom has been reopened, and "Little Flower" learns that the Leafcutter Ant Army has won a great victory on the battlefield.
This was also verified by the reconnaissance intelligence of the Flying Knights, and on a battlefield on the edge of the woods in the northeast, the Red Fire Ant Army left about 100,000 corpses behind and was forced to retreat to the rear nest**.
The Leaf Cutter Army won a decisive victory, but did not pursue, perhaps as they themselves said, unwilling to set foot beyond the forest; Maybe it's because the Leaf Cutter Ant Army has also suffered heavy losses!
Both sides did not collect the corpses on the battlefield, and the protagonist personally rode Xiao Hei to take a look, shocked by the scale of the battle and the number of corpses on both sides, and also strengthened his determination to quickly expand the ant mouth.
At this time, it was late April, and taking advantage of the crack, the gods made the king's army expand to 11 secondary nests as desired, but the reproduction of the ant mouths was not so fast, and there were only a few hundreds of ants symbolically stationed in several secondary nests.
However, there will always be ant populations, and the queen ants in the nests everywhere are laying eggs at a faster rate, and the protagonist even keeps the food stock in various places at a low level, and fully supplies the queen ants and young ants.
At present, the Leaf Cutter Ant Country and the Red Fire Ant Country have temporarily died down after the Great War, but judging from the reconnaissance of the Flying Knights, the Red Fire Ant Army is frequently mobilizing and gathering in nests near the territory of the Leaf Cutter Ant Country, and the war will be rekindled in the short term.
The Legion of the Divine Envoy King has some time to use!