The Flying Knight, who hurried back, reports a shocking news to the protagonist:

The nearby [Trench City] is under siege by an army of thousands of Destroyers.

The protagonist is taken aback, you must know that [Trench City] is only half a day's journey from the main nest [Qingqiu City], which can be described as the western gateway of [Qingqiu City]. When has the enemy burned the flames of war near their main nest?

The protagonist interrogates the flying knight carefully, and it turns out that the flying knight was supposed to go to another secondary nest farther away, but he finds that the secondary nest is empty, and all the ants are nowhere to be seen.

Although the flying knight was puzzled, he didn't think too much, and just prepared to return and report truthfully. However, when he flew through the [Trench City], he was surprised to find that the [Trench City] below was being attacked by the Destroyer.

When the Flying Knights, who had been in contact with the west, flew over [Trench City] early in the morning, they did not find any trace of the enemy, probably because it was still early and the enemy had not yet attacked.

The flying knight who contacted [Trench City] has not returned, and may have been killed after accidentally landing.

Soon, the flying knights from all over the country also returned one after another, because the protagonist gave the order to return to [Qingqiu City] before the sun set, and even if these flying knights had important things, they must be punctual.

Soon, the aggregated information makes the protagonist extremely nervous:

The Flying Knights did not all return, and the returning Flying Knights found that in the northwest area on the south bank of the Great River, including [to the West City], there were more than fifty secondary nests that had either become empty nests, but traces of dried blood could still be found; Either the Destroyer is stationed, and the Flying Knights circled and scouted the number of enemies, and found that there were probably dozens of nests with few Destroyers, and as many as hundreds.

There are also about ten lairs that are under attack of varying degrees. There are still more than a dozen flying knights who have not returned, and if they are all accidentally killed by the Destroyer, it means that the footprints of the Destroyer are already spread over more than eighty lairs, and a quarter of the territory on the south bank of the Great River has been reduced to war. The total number of these destroyers detected is estimated to be more than 10,000, which is not a small number.

The protagonist guesses that the enemy crossed the river in winter when it froze, which is the only explanation. The nest on the south bank of the eastern section of the river has been in contact with [Waterfront City] throughout the winter and has not been attacked. The enemy could only have moved south from the western section of the river.

It is true that so many destroyers crossed the river from the direction of [to the western city].

After conquering the western part of the last main nest of the Paving Ant Barbarians, they did not choose to head east, attacking [Bridgehead] and [Waterfront City].

Because the distance is so long, even the Destroyers will have to march for a long time, and they will even have to stop due to the weather.

So they chose to head south in a straight line from the western nest, reaching the river in the shortest distance, and then crossing the river, which is theoretically the closest distance, but the road is not easy to walk.

This stretch of river is open with ice and snow, and the cliffs on both sides of the river are winter moats for pavers, but the destroyers managed to cross the river despite a lot of effort.

Standing in the way of the Destroyer's vanguard was the defenseless [Zhixicheng], slaughtered by the Destroyer with almost no resistance, and the old worker ant who had survived from the time of the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom to the present also lost his life.

Subsequently, more and more Destroyers followed the path of the vanguard to the south bank of the Great River, and as long as the weather permitted, the Destroyers would form hundreds or thousands of teams to attack the nearest lair controlled by the Divine Envoy King's legion, expanding wildly throughout the winter.

By the time the protagonist receives the news, there are already more than 15,000 Destroyers on the south bank of the river, conquering 68 lairs.

Hundreds of destroyers are passing through the thinning but unfrozen ice of the spring to the south bank of the Great River.

At this moment, the [Stone Pillar City], [Meat Grinder City], and [Trench City] are connected in a line, and then extend roughly due north to the Great River, and the 14 auxiliary nests on this line are all being attacked.

Among them, [Stone Pillar City] and [Trench City] were obviously the enemy's key targets, and there were as many as two or three thousand destroyers besieging the city.

The protagonist does not expect the enemy to attack from an unexpected area, after all, although he has some military expertise, he is also alone, and he lacks a staff organization to check and fill in the gaps, and he can't do it himself.

After confirming that the western section of the river was safe and that there was no fighting even at the [bridgehead] on the north bank of the river, he relaxed his vigilance.

He was still using the behavior and habits of the paving ants to measure the new opponent of the destroyer, and felt that the paving ant barbarian army could not cross the western section of the river, and the destroyer would not attack from here. And the Paving Ant Barbarian Army will definitely pull out the stronghold on the north bank of the Great River with all their strength first, and the Destroyers will do the same.

Now that the enemy has reached the doorstep, the protagonist must accept this reality and deal with it.

At this moment, the situation in [Trench City] was already very critical, and they had resisted the enemy's offensive for a week, and the defenders had suffered heavy losses.

At first, the enemy attacked [Trench City] with only 200 Destroyers, but after realizing that this was a hard bone, they gradually increased their strength to 3,000 people, and besieging [Trench City] was the main force of the Destroyers on the south bank of the Great River.

The reason why [Trench City] was able to hold out for a week was due to the fact that it was once the stronghold of the Divine Messenger King's legion against the Western Alliance and the Queen Ant Inheritance faction during the civil war, and the underground defense facilities were perfect, although not as strong as the underground defense line of the rebuilt [Bridgehead].

There were as many as three legions of defenders stationed in [Trench City], and the abundance of troops was also the key to their hold.

Among them, the 27th Army Corps was formed on the basis of the strength of the original garrison corps of [Trench City] during the last expansion, and although it has not yet obtained bronze weapons, it is also equipped with gravel weapons, and after a long time of training, its combat effectiveness is not weak.

The current [Trench City] garrison corps was originally planned to be rebuilt into a new field corps after the beginning of spring, and there are many old god envoy king warriors who were injured before, and their combat effectiveness is also acceptable.

The last legion was formed by the males of [Trench City] after being attacked by the enemy, and the soldiers and workers of the whole nest were temporarily formed.

The three legions have now lost more than half of the battle, and even if the queen of the nest accelerates the laying of eggs with sufficient food supply, the first batch of hatched eggs and hatching larvae have not yet pupated, and there is no way to replenish the battle damage.