While the development of the sub-base in the "Waterfront City" is in full swing, the protagonist does not forget to keep an eye on the situation of the "Stump Fortress" in the hilly area to the south.

Every day, a flying knight sets out from "Dongyang City" to the "Stump Fortress", and then passes the latest information reported by Rambovan to the protagonist of "Waterfront City". Of course, the flying knights who carried out the mission of delivering the message thought that they were counselors of the military intelligence, and their enthusiasm was very high......

According to Lamboveran's report:

After the arrival of supplies and reinforcements from Dongyang Castle, the strength of the "Stump Fortress" was finally relatively abundant, and the supply of materials was also guaranteed.

With Rambovan's temperament, of course, he was not willing to shrink into the fortress and be besieged by the enemy, but he had to do so due to insufficient troops. Now, Lambovan feels that it is time for a counterattack.

So, one morning, when the sky was just shining, Rambovan set off with most of the Fourth Army - speaking of which, this tactic of not fighting in the open during the day, but sneaking in at sunrise or dusk, is still deeply influenced by the protagonist. If it weren't for the poor night vision of the other ants, maybe they would have wanted to play with the night raid themselves.

There are more than a dozen tribes of scythe hunters and less than a thousand warriors still surrounding the perimeter of the "Stump Fortress". There were more than that, but after a few days, some of the tribes had moved away and disappeared.

The weakening of the enemy's strength was a good thing for the Fourth Legion, which launched the sneak attack, and they now had the upper hand in the sneak attack, and they were more numerically and organized.

Therefore, when the Fourth Legion came out of the morning light, the tribes were instantly stunned.

Instead of dispersing his forces to attack multiple scythe ant tribes at the same time, Rambovan swept from east to west. I don't know if this offensive direction is an intentional or unintentional choice of Lambovan, but the actual effect is very good.

It was sunrise, and the blinding light was shining down on the earth from the southeast. The Hunting Scythe ant has excellent eyesight, but its compound eyes are more sensitive to light and have no eyelids to cover them, so they always try to avoid facing the sun.

In addition, ants are generally used to moving after the day is fully dawn. As a result, the Scythe Ant, which had better eyesight, failed to spot the Fourth Legion of the Divine Envoy King who had made a detour from the Stump Fortress in advance.

When it came time to attack, in the face of the well-organized and well-organized Fourth Legion, the individual combat effectiveness that the Scythe Hunter Warriors were proud of could not be fully utilized.

Most of the Scythe Hunter tribes were quickly defeated and fled in all directions. The Fourth Army was like a broom, sweeping from east to west, invincible.

The battle soon ended, and the Scythe Hunter Coalition outside the "Stump Fortress" was completely routed, and the siege that had lasted for several days was broken.

To Rambovan's dissatisfaction, the enemy had good eyesight and ran fast, and this battle actually killed not many enemies, most of the enemies still escaped into the vegetation with ease, and the Divine Envoy King's army did not dare to easily send a small force to pursue at the risk of being ambushed.

In addition, at the temporary bases of these besiegers, Rambovan barely captured any useful supplies, especially food. The besiegers seemed to be living a miserable life, with very little insect meat in the camp and a large pile of leftover insect carapaces. It seems that their life is not very good.

Much to Rambovan's annoyance, the carapaces of some scaly insects that had been eaten up were found in several Besieger camps. Rambovan immediately asked people to check on the vegetation where scale insects gathered nearby, and sure enough, there was not a single scale insect left here.

The scale insect resource in "Stump Fortress" was discovered by the protagonist during his southern expedition to parasitize ants. After the victory, the protagonist moves some of the scale insects to "Dongyang Castle", while the other part stays where they are.

Before winter, both the "Stump Fortress" and "Dongyang Castle" put aphid eggs and scale insect eggs into underground nests, and then moved to the wild in the spring of the following year.

As a result, as soon as the eggs hatched, they caught up with the cold spring.

Unlike other insects, the adult body of aphids and scale insects has a good resistance to the cold of spring, which is not too cold. Aphids begin to reproduce when the temperature is above 12 °C, and the temperature is most suitable when the temperature is 16~22 °C; The suitable temperature for the normal activity of scale insect nymphs is 22~28 °C, and they begin to die when they exceed 32 °C, and a large number of them die when they are above 40 °C or below -12 °C.

Although the cold is severe, the temperature can still be maintained above zero, which is not enough to seriously threaten the survival of aphids and scale insects.

As a result, the Stump Fortress did not think of transferring these important sources of nectar in time when faced with the threat of the enemy. Now he found that he was eaten by the enemy, how not to make Rambowan angry.

This important information is also passed on to the protagonist, making the protagonist feel unusual.

While big-headed ants are omnivorous ants, while hunting sickle ants are purely carnivorous. But ants have an almost fanatical love for nectar sources, and honeydew, nectar and some sugary plant juice secreted by insects such as scale insects or aphids have always been a luxury food that ants love.

The Hunting Scythe Ant is now uncharacteristically killing all the scale insects for meat, which can only be a case - they are so scarce that they have to refuse the temptation of honeydew to prioritize basic food needs.

The protagonist's guess is correct.

The negative impact of that inverted spring cold on the hunting sickle ants is far from the impact on the big-headed ants.

On the one hand, the inverted spring cold is more harmful to insects than to plants.

Ants that live on the plains, such as big-headed ants and paver ants, are omnivorous, and when there is a shortage of prey, they can also make up for it by gathering. For tribes such as the Scythe Hunter, whose only source of food is hunting, the cold of spring will lead to a significant reduction in prey, which will lead to great famine.

On the other hand, the scythe ants live in hilly areas, where spring comes late.

When the inverted spring cold occurs, the plain area has already entered spring for a period of time, and most of the insects hatched in early spring are already adults, and their resistance to bad weather is relatively strong. For example, some beetles are able to burrow or hide under dead branches and leaves to avoid the cold.

In hilly areas, most insects are still in the larval stage, which is neither weak nor slow to keep out the cold. In the face of this extremely powerful inverted spring cold, there were naturally heavy casualties.

Due to multiple factors, the scythe ants lacked food, so they were attracted to the "Stump Fortress".

It is not only a small number of scale insects that attract them, but also a delicious prey for the hunting sickle ant, the thousands of big-headed ants in the dry stump......