This week's business trip, the update is not timely, now I'm waiting at the airport for the plane to code the word, I won't be a eunuch in this book, everyone rest assured, ah~~~

By the way, because of the weather, my plane back from a business trip was delayed, and the previous flight had been canceled... I hope you don't let me spend the night here.

Well, there are a lot of words in the water, anyway, this book doesn't cost money, and the number of words in the water is fine

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- I'm the dividing line -

Because of the war caused by the bowback ants, the main force of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army was unable to leave the north until the winter came, so the originally scheduled southern expedition had to be canceled.

It is precisely for this reason that when the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom attacked the north bank of the Great River, it did not encounter a large-scale counterattack by the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, and the troops that participated in the counterattack later were all small troops organized by the southern nest itself.

And throughout the winter, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom was not attacked, which was a blessing for the bowback ants.

And the army of paving ants scattered in the northern border with separate nests and various secondary nests also spent a winter without war.

Aside from food shortages, these paver ants had no worries, and it was an unusually peaceful winter.

And the paving ants who are in a state of peace do not know that after the war with the bowback ants, another enemy they still know nothing about, but even more terrifying, has quietly approached.

- I'm the dividing line -

In the spring of the following year, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army still had no plans to pull out the camp and leave the northern border.

At this time of the year, the hunchback ants in the mountains who had been hungry for a winter would rush down the mountain to raid and ignite the war again.

The Paving Ant Barbarians will send troops from all over the country to the north to defend, and then wait until the beginning of autumn to counterattack, and then disband their troops in late autumn and return to their nests.

Last year's Northern Frontier troops were not disbanded due to the sudden change in the situation of the war, which is unique in the history of the Paving Ant Barbarian Nation.

Faced with this new situation, the latest order from the Courier from the Main Nest is to keep the troops that have been away from home for a year until the newly drawn troops arrive at the front line to replace them.

According to past experience, it will be a month before the troops from all over the country complete the assembly in the main nest and then leave for the north, which means that this exhausted army must hold on to its post for a month.

In the past, in the first month of spring, the northern army was empty, and they had to deal with the hungriest and most vicious bowback ants, and the paving ants could only rely on their nests everywhere to hold on.

They had to wait for reinforcements to arrive before they could begin an organized revolt, and they had to wait until half a year later to go to enemy land to take revenge.

But this year, as the army has not yet left, the commanders plan to take the initiative to defend as soon as spring starts, to eliminate as many hateful bowback ants as possible, and to avenge the enemy's ravaging of the northern frontier last year.

As a result, the garrisons began to concentrate in several well-located nests, forming four mobile corps.

The plan of the paving ants was to organize troops to besiege the hungry bowback ants as soon as they entered the northern plains.

In the past, the bowback ants that had just started to raid would disperse into tribes and act alone, which made it easier to go around and grab food from the territory of the paving ant barbarian country. Only after discovering the main force of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, the scattered Bowback Ants will form a coalition and return to their hometowns after a fight.

In the past, when the Paving Ant Barbarian Army assembled and then set out for the north, the Bowback Ants had already eaten and drunk enough in a month's looting, and fought with the counterattacking Paving Ant Barbarian Army in the strongest state, causing large casualties to the Paving Ant Army.

The paving ants did not think about deploying troops in the north in advance, but the northern border, which is adjacent to the mountainous area, was originally the most barren area in the territory of the paving ant barbarian country, and there was war every year, and it was really difficult to supply a large army to be stationed in the winter with the food that could be stored.

The army, which had to stay in the north for the winter last year, anticipated this situation in advance, and filled the granaries with the corpses of both sides collected during the war to eliminate the bowback ants, and paid a lot of attrition caused by sickness and starvation, so as to ensure that most of the soldiers survived until the beginning of spring.

After all, even if they can go out in good winter weather, they can't afford the intensity of outdoor labor of transporting them. Only after the beginning of spring can grain from other regions be transported to the north for support.

Just when the army of paving ants received food support and waited for the battle, vowing to vent all the grievances of lack of food and drink in winter on the hunchback ants, a week passed, two weeks passed, and not a single hunchback ant was seen in the north.

This is obviously not normal, for the archback ants in the mountains, spring begins later in the mountains, and the vegetation and insects grow more slowly. If you don't go down to the plains after a tough winter to loot, most of the members of a harchback ant tribe will starve to death.

Even if many bowback ants die from the counterattack of the paving ant army, more than half of the bowback ants can still retreat to their already vibrant mountain homeland at the beginning of summer.

Not a single hunchback ant has come to the plains this year, which clearly means that something has happened in the mountains. Reminiscent of last year's unusual invasion of the plains by a large number of bowback ants in late autumn came as a surprise to the paver ants who had never experienced this before.

Could it be that there were too many bowback ants that were exterminated last year, and there are no more bowback ant tribes in the mountains near the border?

This is certainly the best-case scenario.

The kings of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army in the north quickly met in the nest for a meeting, and then while reporting the abnormal situation in the north to the main nest, they decided to send a small force to the mountains to reconnoiter the movement in the north.

Suzaku's troops were not selected, but he pointed out at the meeting that last year he had the troops of the Great King, who he knew well, and the five legions he went to find, a total of six and a half legions had lost contact in the mountains, and there was still a certain danger in military operations on the other side of the mountains.

This information did not attract the general attention of the kings, for the army of paving ants, it is common for a war to lose one or two or even three or four percent, and many kings cannot guarantee whether they can survive the war.

Several legions lost contact at one time, probably the entire army, although not a small loss, but it is not uncommon.

Moreover, the disappearance of these troops coincided with the invasion of the Bowback Ants, and it was not impossible that the entire army would be destroyed, and there were not a few regiments lost at that time.

Although Suzaku was later reused, he was a very ordinary legion commander at the time, and he did not realize what the disappearance of his comrades would ultimately mean, nor was he in a position to push the army to change its plans for it.

The troops going to the mountains have not yet sent back the news, and the main nest has announced that it will suspend the transfer of troops, and will make plans when they get the latest information from the north, and all military affairs in the north will be handed over to the local garrison.

The barbarian legions of paving ants in the north were gone, and they began to participate in foraging for food, and in this way, everything in early spring flourished in this peace that was rare in a century.