On October 6, the weather was fine, and the western border of the Red Fire Ant Country.

This is a barren open field, the wild ground is full of large and small fragmented stones, and all kinds of plants stubbornly survive between the cracks in the stones.

But wherever the vegetation is dense, it must be a place with a thicker layer of soil, and in most places the vegetation is barely surviving, and its roots are deeply rooted, trying to draw some water from deep underground.

At this time, it is already in the golden autumn, and the weeds are gradually showing signs of withering. The grass seeds on the grass have long been ripe, some full, and have fallen to the ground to be collected by the foraging ants; Some of them are as poor and shriveled as the soil under the roots of wild grasses.

The dense entrances and exits of the ant nest on the ground that were originally covered by vegetation have been unable to be covered by the withering vegetation at this time, and a large number of ants are busy on the open ground during the day.

With the withering of weeds in abundance, it is a time for ants to collect their winter food during this time, until autumn.

But at the same time, it is also a time of war.

Most of these ants on the ground are warriors, fighters who are about to strike in the next military operation.

Many ants have a habit of launching a large-scale offensive against the enemy in the fall, and if they win, they can seize the enemy's territory and stockpiles and spend the winter more comfortably. Even if you lose, as long as you don't lose too much territory, it will be relatively good for surviving the winter - the warriors who die in battle don't need to consume precious food in the winter, so that the other ants can have enough food to survive!

This is just a microcosm of the cruel side of the ant world, and the ruling class of various ant forces is well aware of it.

It is rare for a force like the Divine Envoy King's Legion not to worry about stockpiling food in winter.

The Red Fire Ant Nation also faces a shortage of food every winter, so it has become a common practice to launch an offensive every autumn. Last year, the Red Fire Ant Nation's autumn offensive was victorious, and they once conquered the hematite fields, and among the trophies they obtained was the hematite grains that were eventually purchased by the Divine Envoy King's army.

This year, the Red Fire Ant Army gathered 300,000 troops for the autumn offensive, including 150,000 native warriors and 150,000 auxiliaries.

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Centipede and a small team of Divine Messenger King warriors set off from the station, walked on the ground for about a meal, and arrived at the lair where the supreme commanders of the suzerainty country were located.

Now the 300,000 army is gathered together, and the nests stationed are distributed on the ground of dozens of square meters, and the underground nests are even denser and criss-crossed.

Among them, the Red Fire Ant Nation's own army and slave auxiliaries were stationed in the center, while the centipede task force of the Divine Envoy King's legion and the troops of several other vassal states were stationed on the periphery.

Today, the elders of the Red Fire Ant Army sent messengers to bring the commanders of the vassal states to discuss the matter.

But in fact, in addition to the Divine Envoy King Legion, the troops of other vassal countries are also commanded by the male ant commander sent by the Red Fire Ant Country, so this time, in addition to the Red Fire Ant male ant, there is only a foreign ant Centipede.

At present, the Red Fire Ant Nation and the Divine Envoy King Legion have reached a nominal master-slave relationship, but not all Red Fire Ant males are satisfied with the current bilateral relationship.

Since arriving here yesterday, the centipede has sensed the hostility of some red fire ant males towards them. Some of the Red Fire Ant troops kept a close watch on their troops, and even forbade the Divine Envoy King warriors to walk far away from their nests.

Today, the centipede was ordered to attend the meeting, but no red fire ants dared to stop him, but the commander of several male red fire ants in the same company, after seeing the centipede, took the initiative to distance themselves, and some even opened their jaws at the centipede and made threatening movements.

The centipede ignored this, and the king received a report from the flying knight yesterday about the matter, and the flying letter ordered the centipede not to make any extraneous branches, and to compromise if necessary. Although the centipede was impatient with the actions of the red fire ants, it did not dare to disobey the orders of the divine envoy king, so it could only hold back its anger.

At today's meeting, sure enough, the elders of the red fire ants were not at ease, and they assigned a military task and ordered the armies to attack tomorrow.

According to the plan, tomorrow's offensive Red Fire Ant Army will be divided into three group operations: left, center, and right. Among them, the middle cluster has the strongest army, with 120,000 soldiers, including a large number of warriors of the Red Fire Ant tribe; The left and right clusters are 90,000 fighters each, and their strength is slightly weaker.

The plan of the Red Fire Ant Army is to launch a frontal attack on the 300,000 troops deployed on the border by the Leaf Cutting Ant Army in the middle cluster, and at the same time the left and right clusters will launch a detour to try to encircle and eat the last main force of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army in front of them.

This kind of outflanking tactic is a tried and tested style of play by the Red Fire Ant Army.

The reason why the centipedes felt uneasy about the elders of the red fire ants was because they had arranged for the centipede task force to attack as the vanguard of the cluster.

The Centipede Task Force only has 5,000 soldiers in two legions, although as a vanguard force, there are about 3,000 forest ant warriors and 1,296 red fire ant warriors to assist, but on the opposite side is a leaf-cutting ant army of 300,000 hedgehogs gathered in one place, and it is clear that their troops are cannon fodder.

For example, the forest ant army, which is also cannon fodder, became the slaves of the Red Fire Ant Country after their country was conquered by the Divine Envoy King Legion, and since there is no queen ant, these forest ant warriors cannot be replenished. Therefore, the elders of the red fire ants also sent these "redundant" forest ants as pioneers.

As for the 1,296 Red Fire Ant Warriors, they were in the Overseer Clan, and they could not be expected to help.

The establishment of the Red Fire Ant Army is different from that of the Divine Envoy King Legion, they also have the same squad and legion establishment as the Divine Envoy King Legion, but each squad only has 1 commander and 35 warriors, and each legion has 36 legions and 1296 ants.

The centipede had no say at all in the military meeting, so he was forced to take the order and return to the station.

Although the Divine Envoy King's Legion had previously won the command of its own troops in the contract, it still had to obey the command of the suzerain's kingdom in terms of general strategy. This time, the Red Fire Ant Kingdom used this trick to stumble on the Divine Envoy King Legion.

When the protagonist learned of this situation, he was a little stunned, he didn't expect that the elders of the red fire ants would be so talented in politics, at present, this trick seems to be primitive and simple, but the Divine Envoy King Legion can only eat Coptis dumbly, and he can't say anything about his suffering...

He could only ask the flying knight to tell the centipede to act on the opportune footing, not to fight tough battles, to try to preserve his strength, and to break through to the southwest if necessary.

The battlefield of the Red Fire Ant Army and the Leaf Cutting Ant Army is about a day's walk to the [Red Iron City], which is currently controlled by the Divine Envoy King Legion, where 6 main legions and tank assault groups are stationed, ready to go forward to support the Centipede Task Force.

If the Red Fire Ant Kingdom really wanted to kill the Centipede Task Force, the Divine Envoy King's Legion would not sit idly by!