While the protagonist is enjoying the luscious persimmons, the flames of the fire have spread to [Target A] and burned to the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

The remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army, trapped in Target A, have experienced attrition after the crushing defeat in the last field battle and the continuous breakthrough in the past few days, and the available troops are still less than 5,000, and there are about five corps in the establishment, all of which are not yet in strength.

With such a small number of troops, trapped in a lonely city, not even enough food, and facing an extremely vicious enemy, it is obviously powerless to resist the army of the destroyer.

The protagonist led the army to break through the siege and arrived at [Target A] last time, and after the defeat of the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army, although he regretted it, he didn't plan to interfere with this army anymore, and the ending of his old friends inside.

And the Northern Expeditionary Army did not seize the opportunity of the Divine Envoy King's army to break the corner of the defense network last time, and broke through the siege before the Destroyer could react, and after the Destroyer's encirclement force repaired the siege network the next day, it could only continue to sit in the lonely city.

But if you don't break through, you may be lucky, even if you return to the main nest, with the strength and combat effectiveness of the remnants of the army in [Target A], you can't change the inevitable fate of the fall of the main nest, at best, you can resist for a few more days.

Staying in [Target A], at least the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Force will survive for a few more days, at least for now, while their companions in the main nest are long dead.

But it seems that there is not much time left for them.

The army of the Destroyer finally arrived at the periphery of [Target A], and although it was almost dusk, the flying knights of the Divine Messenger King's legion found that the Destroyer was immediately engaged in the attack, and there was no intention of camping at all, and they had the courage to "destroy this morning food".

These days, the last of the Crusade's last essence is constantly trying to break through the encirclement of the Destroyer's partial division and return to the main nest, and they still don't know that the main nest has fallen.

However, in the field battle, the Northern Expeditionary Army, which was already underarmed, could not break the encirclement from the inside out, and paid triple-digit battle losses every day but repeatedly returned in vain.

But these days, the Northern Expeditionary Army has not done nothing, after all, they are the essence of the old big-headed ant kingdom that once dominated the south bank of the Great River, and its commanders are the best male ants in the kingdom back then.

In the face of the dilemma, these males still maintain their pride and hope, they know that sooner or later they will face a general attack from the enemy, and when the breakthrough continues to fail, they are also strengthening the defense of [Target A] as much as possible.

In order to solve the problem of food shortage, the Northern Expeditionary Army also took the opportunity to send ant men to speed up the collection of grain near the entrance and exit of the nest every time they broke through. Despite the triple-digit casualties every day, the abundant land in autumn and the abundance of food everywhere were easy to collect, which still made the food stock in [Target A] slightly more abundant.

Especially in the cold wave of the past two days, the Destroyers have slowed down their movements, and the Northern Expeditionary Army took the opportunity to expand the search area and found many frozen insect corpses.

There are also some dying insects that desperately burrow into the warm [Subject A] nest, trying to escape the cold, but they become food for the ants.

After some operation, the food stock in [Target A] has reached a level sufficient to last for a week, although it is not enough to survive the winter, but it is much stronger than the previous embarrassing situation that almost bottomed out.

Moreover, the Northern Expeditionary Army did not know whether they had a chance to hold out until winter, and too much food was no longer necessary.

In addition to collecting food, the Northern Expeditionary Army was also strengthening the city defenses and training the army.

Although there is no supplement from the main nest, there is also an ant queen in [Target A], this queen ant was stationed here after the main nest organized the marriage flight this year, and in the case of food security, it is also constantly laying eggs to supplement the losses of the Northern Expeditionary Army, even if it can't make up for all the battle losses, it is better than nothing.

As the elite of the old big-headed ant kingdom, the Northern Expeditionary Army has a set of tactics learned from the army of the god envoy king. After the Flyhawk returned to the Northern Expeditionary Army, he was also responsible for training the new army.

The underground lair structure of [Target A] has recently been remodeled in the shape of the fortress of the Divine Envoy King's legion under the auspices of the Flyhawk, enhancing the defense in underground street battles.

It can be said that under the current situation of the shortage of senior commanders within the Northern Expeditionary Army, the Flying Eagle has used its knowledge and experience to play a mainstay role.

It is now the most senior No. 3 king in the Northern Expeditionary Army, except for the public security king and the senior brother king.

Moreover, the Fly Eagle is currently the only ant in the Northern Expeditionary Army that can still go out freely.

Once the other ants are not far from the entrance and exit of the nest, they will be attacked by the surrounding destroyers.

But the Flyhawk can fly freely on his mount, and the Destroyers can't do anything about him in the sky.

At first, the Flyhawk still has the consciousness to avoid the flying knights of the Divine Envoy King Legion, but after a long time, the Flying Eagle also knows that he has already been exposed, and the Divine Envoy King Legion does not seem to have the idea of killing himself - the protagonist knows that they will not live long, so he does not target this traitor.

Gradually, in addition to avoiding close encounters with the flying knights of the Divine Envoy King Legion, the Flying Eagle did not deliberately dodge.

But the Fly Eagle didn't dare to fly too far, his mount was not doing well lately, and the food supply and care for his mount was also lowered when food was tight and many ant warriors couldn't get enough to eat.

There were no ants in the Northern Expeditionary Army who would take good care of the mounts, and before the Divine Envoy King Legion left, the male ant flying knights such as the Fly Eagle were only responsible for performing flight tasks, and taking care of the fly mounts were completed by special worker ants.

With insufficient food, no honeydew to soothe and poor care, the Flyhawk's mount was in poor condition, and even the Flyhawk itself could not drive it to fly for long periods of time.

As a result, he can only occasionally scout in the vicinity of [Target A], and the Public Security King has been asking him to get in touch with the main nest, and he is no longer able to complete it.

After the Destroyer finally launched an attack in the evening, the Flyhawk led the rebuilt underground fortifications and trained troops to play a big role, stubbornly resisting the enemy's first attack.

However, this time the Destroyer was only a tentative attack, and did not invest many troops, so they withdrew after dark and spent the night nearby.

It was only a tentative attack, but it cost the defenders of the Northern Expeditionary Army one-third of the total strength of the battle.

No matter how optimistic the commander is, he is pessimistic about whether he will be able to hold the lair the next day.

But there is no end to the road, and on this night, the second day of the cold wave, a long, cold, pouring autumn rain patronizes the world.

The rain came very quickly, like a summer thunderstorm, and the ants' climate perception was not long after the warning, the raindrops had already fallen, and slowly intensified into heavy rain.

The ants hiding in the nest** were fine, but the destroyer who was camping in the open near [Target A] was suddenly killed.