As the autumn breeze cools, the vegetation in the mountains withers at a visible rate, and the insects become thinner.

The legion was stationed, Suzaku was already calculating the date of his return to the south, but he didn't expect that on this day, the situation in the stony mountains and even the entire northern border suddenly changed drastically.

On that day, countless bowback ants suddenly swept south from the northern mountains, and it was a pity that it affected the paving ant barbarian army and its native land.

The number of these bowback ants is so large that the war zone where Suzaku's legion is located alone has tens of thousands of enemies facing it, and even the old male ants who have fought with the bowback ants all their lives have never seen so many bowback ant colonies in action.

In the past, even if the Bowback Ant Tribe formed a temporary alliance for the purpose of going down the mountain to raid, it rarely exceeded a thousand people, and the tribal alliance army of about 3,000 was already the most powerful enemy that the Paving Ant Gate had ever faced.

And in the autumn, when the paving ant barbarian country counterattacked, the bowback ants were scattered into dozens and hundreds of groups to fight separately. So in order to cope with this kind of war, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army were scattered on a long front.

In the war zone where Suzaku was located, the five northernmost legions were stationed in three nests, and they were immediately overwhelmed by the swarming army of bowback ants and lost contact.

Only a handful of scouts fled desperately south, warning the garrisons along the way.

The camp of the Suzaku Legion was not far from the north, and almost soon after receiving the alarm, just after gathering the troops, it was not long after the scouts of the regiment were scattered that the enemy was close to the garrison.

At the beginning, Suzaku and the male ant king of the other two legions stationed together did not realize that this wave of enemies was so large, because the scouts who called the police did not provide a specific number of enemies, but only stated that the frontline of several legions had been surrounded, and the enemy continued to move south.

According to past experience, even if the bowback ants formed an alliance, the total number would not be too much, and it was even less likely that there would be too many troops to go south while fighting the five paving ant legions.

So, the three commanders unanimously decided to go out of the nest to fight.

As a result, not long after the first legion came out of the nest, when Suzaku and the legion were ready to go out later, the previous legion had already retreated.

As soon as he caught a rout, Suzaku realized that the ground was densely packed with enemies, and as soon as the first legion went out, it was not even lined up in formation, and it was scattered by the swarming enemy, and the corps commander was also left with no bones left in the chaotic army.

Fortunately, the enemy seemed to just want to break through the defense line, and had no intention of attacking the underground lair, and rushed all the way south. Just as Suzaku and his troops were waiting for the battle, the enemy had left as quickly as he came.

Suzaku and the other male ant king who remained looked at each other, not knowing what the enemy's intentions were.

After some discussion, Suzaku and the other legion commander decided to divide the defeated legion that had lost its commander in two, with two males each leading the strengthened headquarters legion, one to the north to find out the whereabouts of the five legions, and the other to the south to find the main force.

Suzaku's troops advanced south, while the other male ant king led his troops north. Later, Suzaku never saw the king again......

- I'm the dividing line -

Suzaku led his troops to march on the bleak land in autumn, this mountainous area has shallow soil and sparse vegetation, and now these only remaining tenacious and surviving weeds are also withered and yellow, and the whole world seems to have no life at all.

Suzaku walked forward, while thinking about the intentions of the sudden and rapid departure of the large number of bowback ants, the bowback ants did not make a big move, but it was usually a spring thing, and the scale was not so large.

He couldn't figure out what the purpose of this large-scale anti-seasonal operation of the hunchback ants was. The answer will soon be known to him.

The Suzaku Legion found the main force two days later, and this force also encountered a surprise attack by the Bowback Ants, and a major battle broke out between the two sides.

The result of the battle was a small victory for the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, but the main force of the Bowback Ant Army remained, and they took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield and entered the territory of the Paving Ant Barbarian Country located in the plains from the place that the Paving Ant Barbarian Army could not control.

Judging from their performance in battle, the bowback ants are not resolute in their will to fight, and they are more like they are fleeing than they are actively attacking. That's why they are determined to break through the defenses, and cunningly abandon attacking those fortified strongholds or large groups of enemy forces.

As tens of thousands of hunchback ants rushed into the plains, many nests in the northern border of the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom were alarmed. After fleeing the mountains, the hunchback ants seem to have let themselves go, and instead of continuing south, they raid and forage in the fertile plains, and some tribes even start to choose places to nest.

This was something that the paving ant barbarians could not tolerate, and the Northern Expeditionary Army stationed in the mountains began to assemble and prepare to return for reinforcements.

The losses of this army were not great when the hunchback ants attacked, and some of the once-lost legions stationed in the far north were also rebuilt, and these legions were all retreated into the ground, and most of the legions that dared to go out to fight in the field suffered heavy losses or even annihilated the whole army.

Suzaku, however, found that he had not seen the king who had fought alongside him and then headed north, and the five legions he was looking for, a total of six and a half legions, had not been heard from.

The commander of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army sent some scouts north to search for the whereabouts of these legions, but the army could not wait long, the north was already full of flames, and it was obviously not good for this unusual war to break out in this important season of hoarding food before winter, and the army must quickly quell the war.

Suzaku followed the army south, and for the next month or so, he had been fighting everywhere.

This time, the hunchback ants seem to have made up their minds not to return to the barren mountainous area, whether it is a small tribe acting alone, or a large coalition army of thousands of bowback ants still holding together, they have erupted into extremely strong combat effectiveness.

However, in the face of the numerical superiority, organizational superiority and home field advantage of the paving ant barbarian army, these bowback ant troops were still defeated.

But the enemy was so scattered, some were routed and then fled south, while others hid in places that were not easy to detect, and the Paving Ant Barbarian Army had to fight fires everywhere and ran for their lives.

It wasn't until winter came, when the remnants of the humpback ants could only cower in a nest and could not escape, that they were completely wiped out by the army of paving ants who were good at winter warfare.

The turmoil of the unseasonal invasion of the bowback ants caused heavy losses to the paving ant barbarian country, and most of the northern territory was ravaged by foreign races. Not only did a large number of ants die, but the most important autumn food income of these nests was also greatly affected, and some nests were in short stockpiles, which obviously would not be better this winter.

Although the victory was finally achieved, the commanders of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army did not know that this turmoil was only a small prelude to the invasion of the mysterious ants that followed.