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More than ninety tunnels dug directly from all directions and depths through the underground sub-nests occupied by the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, and the soldiers of the Barbarian Army had to spontaneously organize resistance without command at the beginning. However, thanks to the narrow battlefield environment underground, although the barbarian army suffered heavy losses and retreated step by step, the big-headed ant expeditionary force also failed to make a decisive breakthrough.

However, the attacks of these legions are just feints, and the real killer moves of the protagonist are still to come.

Unlike the Legions, which are scattered to do earthwork, the protagonist personally directs and coordinates eight legions to conduct earthwork in a low-lying area far from the enemy's secondary nest. Only the Divine Legion of the King was on the sidelines to recuperate, and did not participate in the heavy manual labor.

The scale of the operation here is much larger, and ten tunnels have been excavated into the ground at the same time, and these tunnels are as wide as a man's index finger, which can accommodate about ten ants to pass through at the same time, and are several times wider than other tunnels excavated today. The tunnel was obliquely tilted at an angle of about forty-five degrees in the direction of the enemy's secondary nest.

In addition to these tunnels, there are also a large number of ants digging a lot of criss-crossing trenches near the low-lying land, these trenches are about one centimeter deep and two or three centimeters wide, and they extend far away to the vicinity of more than a dozen base nests nearby, and each base nest entrance is dug in a circle, which looks a bit like the trench positions during the First World War.

Due to the large amount of work and the open construction site, most of the other eight legions of workers were put into construction except for the Divine Envoy King Legion.

Time flies, the sun has gone from hanging high to lower, and the battle underground is gradually becoming white-hot. The commanders of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army finally woke up to the fact that their rear was attacked, and they began to organize different legions to defend the corresponding breach according to the defense plan when the secondary nest entrance and exit were attacked. Although due to the disadvantage of individual combat effectiveness, the casualties of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army were far greater than those of the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force, but relying on the continuous reinforcements of the new force, they had gained a firm foothold and once again dragged the battle into a tug-of-war.

The nine legions around the protagonist, including the Legion of the Divine Envoy King, have not yet been engaged in battle, and the trenches crisscrossing the ground have been dug, but the tunnels under the ground are too large to penetrate the enemy's lair due to their large width and depth.

The protagonist is not in a hurry, anyway, the enemy did not take any countermeasures, and he still has time to slowly engage in earthwork. According to estimates, the first larvae laid by the queen of the paving ant barbarians are still nine days away from reaching adulthood and entering battle, and there is still plenty of time.

The protagonist returns to the silk bed he carried on the march and eats a little food. Now there are many subordinates, and there is a lot of dry food that can be carried for the protagonist, enough for him to eat for a week. It's just that drinking water is not easy to solve, and the rainwater collected in some places on the ground is too dirty, so it is only in the early hours of the morning that the subordinates can go down to collect some clean dew on the grass blades.

The protagonist sleeps for a while after eating, and doesn't wake up until the second half of the night, and the construction site is still in full swing, but there is no good news yet. The other legions still held their positions underground, but they were unable to expand their gains in the short term. The legions of these big-headed ants are constantly replacing the squads with large losses underground with fresh forces, and the paving ant barbarian army is unable to drive out the invaders, and their losses are far greater than those of the big-headed ant expeditionary force.

The protagonist waits patiently for a while, and he even climbs down the tunnel himself to estimate the progress of the project with the number of steps. The site is about 2.5 meters away from the entrance of the secondary nest, and if the width of the underground part of the secondary nest is 1 meter, then it is necessary to dig about 2 meters horizontally to penetrate the secondary nest. The tunnel is 45 degrees deep underground, and for every 1 meter dug distance, the horizontal direction is close to 0.7 meters. When the length of this tunnel reaches 3 meters, it will be about the same as the secondary nest, and the protagonist has estimated that it has been dug for more than two meters. In that case, by tomorrow morning, the project will be almost complete.

After the assessment, the protagonist goes back to rest, during which some of the more anxious kings send messengers to ask when they can attack. When they saw that friendly forces had already started a war, it was too anxious for these militaristic and aggressive ants to just dig here. The protagonist had to patiently comfort them, and after such a toss and turn, soon the sky was white.

Good news finally came from the construction site, a tunnel was dug into a passage to the side nest, and the protagonist immediately rushed over to inspect the situation. At the mouth of the tunnel, a worker ant who has just crawled out reports that some soldier ants and worker ants have burrowed into the enemy tunnel to investigate, and have not yet found the target that the protagonist is looking for.

Because the tunnel dug at this site is very deep, it has reached more than two meters underground, basically close to the bottom of the secondary nest, the number of paving ants in this area is small, and the resistance encountered by the big-headed ant expeditionary force is relatively small. All the big-headed ant warriors who have attacked the secondary nest are searching for important targets in strict accordance with the requirements of the protagonist. These targets are: queens, eggs, larvae, and pupa.

The protagonist guesses that these valuable targets will be hidden at the bottom of the secondary nest, because sooner or later the upper part will become a battlefield, and only by hiding the queen ant at the bottom can they maximize their role as a reinforcement.

The three squads of the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force, which had entered the secondary nest from the first large tunnel, had searched for a distance, and had searched for several small forks in the road, killing the few paver ants they encountered neatly, and their whereabouts had not yet been revealed. It's just that the target designated by the protagonist hasn't been captured yet.

Soon, the second tunnel was also opened, and several more squads climbed in through the new entrance. This time they were lucky, found a nest with a large number of paving ant pupa, and destroyed all the ant pupa. The bad news is that the team has released a paver worker, and if nothing else, the enemy army will soon know that the bottom of the secondary nest has been invaded and will take countermeasures.

The protagonist is still not moving, a few ant pupae are of little value, and he is waiting for news of the discovery of the enemy queen, which is the most important target.

Soon two more large tunnels were dug through. Other tunnels have been dug very deep, but they have not yet been penetrated. The protagonist went down one by one and took a brief observation, and it was estimated that there would be no results if he continued to dig, so the protagonist ordered the worker ant tunnel under construction to change the direction of the excavation, and approached the end of the several tunnels that had been penetrated.