The reason why the first secondary nest was defeated and lost immediately after the enemy withdrew was due to a night attack by a mysterious ant army that arrived to reinforce it.

Yes, night raids.

This tactic that the protagonist thinks is unique to the Legion of the Divine Envoys, and it is also used by the mysterious ants. Although these mysterious ants love the sun, it seems that they are not averse to occasional military operations at night.

In fact, ants in the human world are generally active day and night, but in this world, ants are already the dominant position in the food chain, and their habits have become more adapted to being active during the day when there is plenty of food, and the species of ants that are active at night are very rare.

The Paving Ants were not prepared for a night attack, and during the main nest defense, the mysterious ants did not carry out any night raids, but evacuated and returned to the departure base every day before the sun set.

Therefore, Suzaku did not arrange a plan for the night attack at all, and the local defenders arranged for the soldiers to eat and rest immediately after the battle, and completely relaxed their vigilance.

When an army of mysterious ants poured into the nest like a black tide, most of the paving ant warriors were scattered in various nests to rest, and when they found that the enemy had been killed in front of them, these warriors were trapped in the nest and could not escape.

The paver ants in front couldn't escape, and the paver ants in the back didn't even know that their companions were being slaughtered in one nest after another.

Only a few males sensed something was wrong from the anomalous vibrations in the soil, and eventually, a scout sent by a male ant spotted the enemy's trail and hurriedly reported back.

The local males were taken aback by the news, and they wanted to reorganize their defenses, but it was too late.

By this time, the mysterious ants had taken control of most of the nest and killed thousands of paver ants. Although the lower layer of the nest where the male ant commanders of the paving ants live has not yet fallen, there are not many professional ants around them, and they can't organize themselves into a legion, and they have basically lost what they were able to rely on before.

The paving ants, which had not yet been slaughtered elsewhere in the nest, also lost their command due to the road blockage, and could not participate in the defense, so they could only be broken one by one.

The desperate Paving Ant Defenders fought desperately at the bottom of the nest, but they were defeated, and before the end of the night, the nest had changed hands, and the Paving Ant Defenders, who had just won the day, were all turned into corpses like their failed companions in the other nests, and then were carried back by the mysterious ants the next morning.

The paving ant scout in the nearby nest was aware of the mysterious ants transporting the corpses in this large group, and then discovered the fact that the first secondary nest had been lost, and then reported it layer by layer to be known to Suzaku.

Speaking of which, the paver ants also discovered that these mysterious ants transporting corpses are relatively peaceful, even if they see paving ant scouts probing their brains on the side, as long as these scouts are not close enough to be directly attacked, the mysterious ants will not give up the corpses in their mouths to expel and attack these enemy scouts.

For the Suzaku sitting in the [Purple Leaf Plum City], the loss of the first secondary nest is not a big deal, the core of the defensive position established by the Suzaku is [Purple Leaf Li City], and the other secondary nests are only a secondary defense function.

But it was clear that he had won the battle yesterday, but why he was defeated again in the blink of an eye, this is something that Suzaku is puzzled to understand - because not even a single ant escaped from the lost secondary nest to report the news, Suzaku and the commanders of the Paving Ant Barbarian Country still do not understand the night attack tactics of the mysterious ants.

Soon, during the day, the second secondary nest was attacked again.

This sub-nest is the one that discovered the first sub-nest and reported the news. The local male ant commander had already anticipated an attack today, and had assigned a number of scouts to the ground.

As soon as a force of about a thousand mysterious ants appeared not far from the entrance and exit of the nest, the scouts immediately split up to alert the main nest, [Purple Leaf Li City], and the other nearby side nests.

The large army of mysterious ants has not yet arrived in this war zone, but the two teams of forward troops that arrived here yesterday have about a thousand mysterious ants each, which is already a force to be reckoned with.

Not long after the second nest was warned, the third nest near the lost nest also sent a messenger to [Purple Leaf Li City] with the news that they had been attacked.

It seems that the two vanguard forces of the mysterious ants have launched an attack on the two nests under the command of the Vermilion Bird at the same time.

Suzaku spent the whole day anxiously waiting for the battle report, and since the mysterious ants had sealed all the entrances and exits of the two battle nests, the scouts sent by Suzaku could only watch from a little farther away.

The paver ants have far less eyesight than the mysterious ants, and these scouts are often attacked by a single mysterious ant that sneaks up on them, and the losses are not small.

However, more Paving Ant Scout soldiers still sacrificed their lives to arrive at the periphery of the war zone one after another, no matter how the mysterious ants drove them away, they had to get information and bring it back as soon as the battle was over.

The main force of the mysterious ants are all fighting underground, there are only dozens of ants on the ground, most of them are guarding the passages and cannot leave, and there are not many mysterious ant warriors who can separate and expel and attack the paving ant scouts, which gives the paving ant scouts an opportunity.

Around dusk, these paving ant scouts observed that the mysterious ants in the two battlefields began to withdraw one after another, carrying only a small number of corpses in their mouths, including the corpses of the mysterious ants themselves, but more of them were paving ants.

Every time the mysterious ants fight, whether they are victorious or temporarily retreating, they will take away all the corpses they can find, which makes the protagonist suspect that they are "anteaters".

As soon as the mysterious ants were gone, the paving ant scouts burrowed into the nest and quickly brought back important information that both secondary nests were holding out, and each had killed and injured double-digit enemies.

After receiving the information, Suzaku still did not dare to take it lightly, and he immediately sent a messenger to ask the two deputy nests not to be careless and continue to do a good job of defense the next day.

At the moment, Suzaku still thinks that the enemy has only conquered the first secondary nest after the enemy launched an attack the next day.

It was already nightfall when the messengers arrived at the two battlefields, and the next day the two nests sent messengers early in the morning to report that the nests were still in the hands of the paving ants.

Apparently last night, the mysterious ants did not launch a night attack.

Suzaku temporarily settled down, maybe the instant change of hands of the first sub-nest was just an accident, and the situation of the defensive battle was still controlled by the Paving Ant Barbarian Army.

At this time, a large black tide that was squirming forward was approaching Suzaku's defense line in a big way!!