The mysterious ants seem to have a radar-like acuity, and can always detect large forces of opponents within a certain distance of their neighborhood.

However, the few messengers sent by Suzaku failed to attract the attention of the mysterious army of ants just a few meters away.

The messengers immediately split up and accelerated in three directions, and the entrances and exits behind them were blocked again, as if nothing had ever happened.

- I'm the dividing line -

Suzaku, who was hiding deep underground, could not see the sight of the ground gradually being re-covered by daylight and the sun gradually moving towards the highest point of the blue and cloudless sky, and it was another sunny day.

In the pitch black underground, Suzaku could not be seen, and the mysterious ant warriors who withdrew from the ground began to stretch their limbs in the sun, as if to dispel the fatigue and cold of a night of fierce fighting.

He could only observe the deteriorating trend of the battle situation from the constant stream of battle reports.

The defenders of [Purple Leaf Li City] have a total of 11 legions, including 4 main legions and 7 cannon fodder legions.

So far in the battle, 1 main army and 2 cannon fodder regiments have been completely wiped out, and 1 main army and 3 cannon fodder regiments have suffered serious losses. Overall, after half a day and a night of fighting, the troops under Suzaku had lost nearly half.

The top one-third of the nests have been completely lost, and some of the nests are in a dangerous struggle, and some of the troops have lost contact.

The enemy will soon be able to occupy the upper part of the nest, and at this rate, it is still unknown whether Suzaku will be able to see the sun tomorrow.

Due to the concentration of granaries in the upper half of the nest, Suzaku also lost two-thirds of its grain reserves. But fortunately, with the current progress of the battle damage, Suzaku still has more than enough food on hand.

However, the good news is that when Suzaku expanded the fortifications of [Purple Leaf Plum City], he deliberately closed most of the passages between the upper and lower parts of the nest, leaving only seven or eight passages.

In this way, even if the enemy completely occupies the upper part of the lair, if you want to attack the lower half, it will be like starting to attack the lair again, which can bring some geographical advantage and respite to the defenders.

Suzaku had realized that the continuous fighting had made the front-line troops extremely tired, and began to consciously mobilize the new forces to be stationed near the entrance and exit of the lower part of the nest, as much as possible to meet the defenders of the upper half of the nest that had been ordered to retreat.

Realizing that the enemy was invincible, Suzaku had already ordered the upper part of the nest to be gradually abandoned.

This is also a last resort, the upper part has been completely opened by the enemy, but the defenders are divided and scattered. Rather than wasting strength in a head-to-head confrontation with the enemy, it is better to gather the living forces to the follow-up positions.

Compared to the upper half of the nest, the lower part of [Purple Leaf Plum City] is also the same as the same location of other ant nests, with narrower passages and smaller nest chambers, and some passages are even difficult for mysterious ants to easily penetrate.

Suzaku can only hope that the terrain here will play a little role.

After only one day of fighting, Suzaku had given up the unrealistic idea of killing and injuring a large number of enemies here, and he now just wanted to hold on a little longer, buying an extra day or two for the defense of the main nest.

Maybe only the main nest is the real advantageous battlefield, [Purple Leaf Li City] is still too small and weak in comparison.

What Suzaku is waiting for now is the messenger he sent out, and the reinforcements that the messenger has brought back.

- I'm the dividing line -

Several messengers split up and headed for three other nearby secondary nests belonging to Suzaku.

These three secondary nests have not yet been attacked by the mysterious ants, and it seems that the mysterious ants have also sensed that the defenders of [Purple Leaf Li City] are the main force here, and are ready to complete the battle, and have not divided their forces to attack the other nests that are close at hand.

There are also fifteen legions in these three lairs, but there are only three main legions, and the rest are cannon fodder legions, and many cannon fodder legions are not yet formed.

Upon the arrival of the messenger, the local ruling male ant immediately followed Suzaku's orders and sent reinforcements to [Purple Leaf Li Castle].

Each of the three sub-nests left only one dissatisfied cannon fodder regiment to guard, and tens of thousands of soldiers from the other twelve legions quickly marched out.

In accordance with Suzaku's orders, this army did not go directly to the [Purple Leaf Plum Castle] not far away, but made a detour to assemble at a location half an hour south of [Purple Leaf Plum Castle], so as not to be discovered by the enemy in advance.

The mysterious ants are always able to find the location of the approaching paving ant barbarian army, and although Suzaku doesn't understand why, he already knows about this trait. Therefore, if you want the army to support [Purple Leaf Li Cheng] smoothly, you have to think of a way.

Suzaku, like his teacher, is known for his intelligence in the Paving Ant Barbarian Country, unlike most male ant commanders who are reckless. Among the orders he sent the messengers was to address this.

A cannon fodder regiment circled to the north of [Purple Leaf Li City] and approached the entrance and exit from the north.

At this time, most of the mysterious ant army has entered the underground nest, and is stepping up to attack the upper half of the nest and the lower half of the nest, and has conquered the connecting passage between the two parts of the nest.

At this time, there were less than two thousand mysterious ants left on the ground to guard the entrance.

Sensing the approach of a legion of paving ants, half of the mysterious ants left their positions to expel them.

After a brief engagement between the paver ant and the mysterious ant, it turned out that they were no match at all, and the commander of the only paver ant male immediately ordered the troops to retreat by smell and friction sound.

The paving ant warriors retreated quickly, but the mysterious ant warriors were not slow to pursue, and the two sides fought and moved, and soon left the entrance and exit of the nest dozens of meters away, and the corpses dropped by the paving ants were all over the way.

At this moment, another Paving Ant Cannon Fodder Legion approached the entrance and exit of [Purple Leaf Li City] from the northwest.

This time, the mysterious ant army, which had only about a thousand fighters left, did not divide their forces to pursue, but only made a vigilant posture towards this paving ant army. The Paving Ant Legion, on the other hand, is constantly trying to provoke the defenders out of position.

These two paving ant barbarian army cannon fodder troops are both feint forces, and the main force of ten legions has already taken the opportunity to the place where the messengers left [Purple Leaf Li City].

However, they did not dig the passage where the messenger had left, which led to the bottom of the lair.

The scouts who had stepped on the spot had already searched the ground with their tentacles, found the scented spots, and guided the army to it.

It's a few meters away from the mysterious ants, out of sight of the enemy. Maybe the mysterious ants have a magical sense to sense that there is an enemy here, but the remaining mysterious ants must guard the entrance and exit, and they have no time to come.

The army of paving ants immediately dug up several previously blocked entrances and exits - entrances and exits to the upper part of the nest!