The brief victories in the defense of the second and third sub-nests did not last long, and the next day, Suzaku never received any more news from these two places.

However, the scouts wandering around the periphery of [Purple Leaf Li City] were ordered to take the initiative to go to the two battlefields at noon the next day, but what they saw was the extremely familiar scene of a large number of mysterious ants carrying corpses out of the ground. As a result, Suzaku learned that the two secondary nests had been lost.

In this way, [Purple Leaf Li City] has lost its northernmost barrier and is directly exposed to the enemy's front.

Sure enough, that afternoon, the scouts hurriedly reported that a large army of mysterious ants like a black tide was slaughtering here. It seems that the next target of the mysterious ants has been determined.

This time, there were so many mysterious ants that they could not even form a single column in a marching formation, and had to march in several columns in parallel, looking like a meandering black stream, constantly converging and branching, inexorably flooding everything in its path.

This formation covered a wide area, making it impossible for many scouts on the periphery of [Purple Leaf Li City] to get away from the pursuit in time.

If it weren't for the large number of scouts sent out by Suzaku, they might not be able to detect the movements of the enemy's army and report back, and they would have been raided.

If it weren't for the fact that Suzaku had already ordered all the troops to sit back and be ready for battle, then the scouts only provided less than a quarter of an hour of early warning time, which was not enough for the entire [Purple Leaf Plum City] defense line to quickly adjust to the first wave of attack.

With such a large number of mysterious ants, they are already almost all the main force of the enemy along the way. And this way of the enemy is the key strategic direction of the four-way army in this mysterious ant invasion.

It can be said that the paving ants can buy enough time in this defense line to take the lead in the next main nest defense battle, repeat last year's victory, and even fight a beautiful defensive battle here to break up the enemy's offensive; Or the mysterious ants will unstoppably win and then continue to attack the main nest, completely destroying the foundation of the overlord on the north bank of the river. Everything depends on this battle.

In the sky, the flying knight sent by the protagonist is wandering, witnessing several columns of mysterious ants disappearing under the green vegetation, quickly crossing a ridge in the north, and then surrounding the entire purple-leaved plum tree.

As always, these mysterious ants did not send any scouts, but they were able to find the location of [Purple Leaf Li City] with unmistakable accuracy, and they would never make a mistake.

The Flying Knight is safe, but in the invisible places underground, every paver ant faces a life-and-death battle at any time.

The battle throughout the day was lackluster, and Suzaku's targeted arrangement did play a big role, and although [Purple Leaf Li Cheng] still retained six entrances and exits after being filled, the number of enemies that could enter during the war was not very large, and the larger underground structure compared to other nests made the attackers very uncomfortable. The Paving Ant Barbarian Army has achieved certain results.

But at dusk, just when Suzaku estimated that the enemy would withdraw and recuperate, he did not wait for the enemy's withdrawal.

Although there was no light in the ground, Suzaku was sure that it was already night according to his biological clock, and it was only now that he was sure that the enemy would not go back to rest like the paving ant or the big-headed ant, but was ready to continue fighting.

Indeed, in the previous few sub-nest offensive and defensive battles, the mysterious ant unit with only a thousand soldiers needed to be withdrawn to preserve its strength, and it would be replaced by other troops to attack at night.

But the current main force, with tens of thousands of soldiers who can fight at night, does not need to retreat and change formations in this move.

The good news for Suzaku is that he doesn't need to be unprepared anymore, but there's more bad news.

The defensive lines he laid out were all set up according to the half-day combat time, and now the troops at the forefront were hungry and exhausted.

However, Suzaku had no way to send the transferred troops, on the one hand, the underground nest passage was too narrow, and on the other hand, the defenders in many places lacked grassroots male ant commanders, and it was almost impossible for the two legions to hand over while stabilizing the defensive line.

And mysterious ants rarely have this problem. Although they were larger, the total number of warriors who had entered the underground was only three or four thousand, and they were scattered into countless squads, and there were not many warriors in each place.

Those who feel depleted of energy can find a wider passage or passage junction to turn around and return to the ground the way they came, allowing other energetic allies to continue the attack.

The mysterious ants are arranged in such a formation, and the more trouble they encounter is traffic jams, the two troops traveling opposite each other are often blocked together, and the narrow passage can only allow the big mysterious ants to travel alone, and they need to find a place to meet the car.

Suzaku sent a team to the rear at the beginning of the battle, but as more and more mysterious ants entered the underground, the team after the circle often did not have time to attack the enemy army on the front line from behind, and they would encounter other mysterious ant troops in the rear and be slaughtered.

At night, although the male ants who fled back had already learned that the team's tactics had failed, Suzaku had nothing to do.

The cannon fodder regiments that had fixed the defensive area for most of the day were still unable to be rotated and paid a great price of casualties. And the squads are still being sent out in a steady stream, even if there are heavy casualties, it is better to relieve the pressure on the front line.

Suzaku sits in a nest near the bottom of [Purple Leaf Plum City], and a steady stream of messengers sends a steady stream of battle reports from all over the nest, allowing Suzaku to understand the battle situation.

At this point, Suzaku had to admit that his defensive strategy had failed most of the time, and the tactic of attacking around the rear of the squad still had room to play in the face of a thousand enemy troops, and when the number of enemies thrown into the nest exceeded two or three thousand, this tactic lost its room to play.

Now, the reason why [Purple Leaf Li City] has not completely fallen, the paving ant defenders still control two-thirds of the nests and passages, only thanks to the huge size of the underground nests of the defenders.

If some measures are not taken, Suzaku feels that it is a miracle that he can hold on until the morning after tomorrow.

Suzaku had to summon several messengers and give them orders to carry out the last backup plan.

So, the messengers went up from a secret passage to the bottom of the lair, lifted a little dirt that was blocking the ground, climbed up to the ground through the secret exit, and hurried east, south, and west in the early morning light.

Behind them, the secret passage was re-sealed with dirt by the severed ants, and it looked as if the entrance had never existed.