The western nest of the Paving Ant Barbarians is located in a fertile plain, lower than the nearby mountains and hills. Among the sparse trees, there are large areas of dense weeds, forming a beautiful picture of the wilderness.

Although the grass has withered and the ground has become muddy after the last snowfall, it is still clear that this plain must be a fertile soil full of insects in spring and summer.

The fly in the ointment is that through the large patches of fallen weeds in winter, you can see that the ground is dotted with pebbles.

Originally, this plain was low-lying, and it was a lake connected to a large river a long time ago, and there were many stones washed down from the mountains by the flowing water, which turned into pebbles under the action of the current.

However, with the vicissitudes of the sea and geological changes, the stream flowing into this lake has been diverted. After losing the flow of water, the water surface dried up, and the pebble-filled bottom of the lake turned into a plain with weeds and trees.

The western nest is located in the center of the lake on a rocky pile that was originally an outcropping reef with an angular top that is very different from the warm, smooth pebbles that have been carved by the current.

The cold wind blew, and beside the pile of rocks, the grass stalks that had all fallen down made waves, revealing the black figures dotted inside.

It was tens of thousands of destroyers, lurking in the grass beside the rubble, ready to attack.

The Destroyers always seem to like to lurk in the grass or bushes, using this place as a camp. They were the same when attacking [bridgeheads].

Maybe it's because The Destroyer doesn't like to dig caverns in situ as a base, and the grass and bushes are more or less sheltered.

The Destroyer's vanguard forces had only reached the base of the Western Wing Nest yesterday, and the mud and freezing along the way made their march an ascetic one.

The antway, which was originally unobstructed, was cut off by stagnant water, and the destroyer who was able to distinguish other ant pheromones and use the antway had to often find a route to break it on his own.

The Destroyers don't have great scouts, their warriors scurry around like headless flies, finding targets with luck, and if they find a new path they don't have to return and leave pheromones along the way, other companions will naturally flock to them.

After eight days of trekking through the low-lying muddy meadows, the Destroyer finally arrived, and their best rest along the way was to spend the night in the higher, warmer nests after conquering the secondary nests along the way.

Even with these stops, the Destroyers who arrived at the Western Nest were covered in dirt and dust.

Now, their destination is finally in front of them.

As soon as the forward troops arrived, they immediately jumped into battle, and these creatures, born to fight, attacked the paver ant convoy near the nest, killing hundreds of paver ants.

The paving ant barbarian army in the western nest has long known that the enemy is approaching, and has been waiting for it.

Upon receiving the warning, the three legions on duty immediately poured out from the multiple entrances and exits of the nest, trying to eliminate the Destroyer vanguard force, which numbered about three hundred, with their numerical superiority.

The two sides fought in the grass on the south side of the rubble, withered yellow grass stalks, half-rotten leaves on the ground, muddy ground, potholes of water, and everywhere the figures of the two sides fighting and the corpses left behind.

This battlefield was too rugged to be conducive to the Paving Ant Barbarian Army fighting in the array, and soon, the Destroyer side, which was smaller in number, actually drove the Paving Ant Barbarian Army out of the grass.

The battlefield on both sides then shifted to the bottom of the rubble.

There is a lot of rubble here, and there is very little vegetation in the past, only a few tenacious weeds and mosses live, and now there is no grass in winter.

After being banished to the rubble, the Destroyers were also supported by a group of reinforcements from the rear, and the attack became even more ferocious.

Paving ants fight on every rock, almost every inch of land.

One of the main legions in the middle of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, occupying a large protruding rock, condescendingly repelled the Destroyer's repeated attacks.

The other troops did not have such favorable terrain, but on every stone, every crevice, and every slope, there were units that held out, or a small team, or several squads.

The paving ants used their flesh and blood to build a line of defense to cover their nests.

Two more legions of paving ants came out of the nest to reinforce them, but more troops did not have time to assemble from the criss-crossing passages.

And the Destroyer's reinforcements are still coming from the east and throwing themselves into the battle.

The battlefield is like a burning fire, and both the Paving Ants and the Destroyer are pouring more firewood into the campfire, making the red flame burning with blood and life even hotter.

Eventually, as the sun was about to set, the Destroyer had squeezed the defenders' line down the mountainside of the rubble.

After the Destroyer voluntarily withdrew from the battle, the refueling war ended.

The Destroyers successively invested more than 2,000 troops, and more than 200 were killed in battle, with a battle loss rate of 10%.

The Paving Ant Barbarian Army has invested 20,000 troops in eight legions, with battle losses of more than 4,000 and battle losses of up to 20%, including one legion that was completely wiped out, and even the commander of the king was killed.

The two sides went back to rest, and the Destroyer took advantage of the dusk to complete the siege of the western part of the Paving Ant Barbarian Nation.

The next day, the Paving ant convoy from other parts of the territory was attacked by the enemy, and the Destroyer sealed off the western nest, not allowing any supplies or troops to flow into the defenders' nest.

Unaware that their destination had been blocked, the Paving Ant reinforcements and convoys that had arrived from all over the country were like moths to a flame, and they were wiped out little by little.

While the outlying forces blocked the western nest, the Destroyer army launched another attack on the defenders on the rubble.

The defenders of the western nest had only fought the Destroyer for the first time yesterday, and even though there were some male and worker ants from the other secondary nests in the nest who had brought information about the Destroyer, the defenders had not expected the enemy to be so fierce before.

Yesterday, after discussion at the meeting of the Third King, it was decided that it was not advisable to engage in a field battle with the enemy, otherwise a small battle would cost the defenders nearly 5,000 troops, and the defenders could not withstand such attrition for a few days when foreign aid was cut off.

Therefore, today, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army has set up the defense line on the top of the mountain, so that the defense line is relatively short, and there are some steep boulders to rely on.

It's not that the paving ant barbarian army doesn't want to cower directly in the cave, it is really a western nest built according to the natural terrain, with more than a dozen entrances and exits, and there are too many areas to take care of for underground defense, so it is better to defend on the ground.