On April 7th, in the afternoon, after two days of trekking, the army of the Divine Envoy King finally arrived at a place about an hour away from the [Spiral Flower City], and then stopped for a while.

The protagonist is not in a hurry to attack the enemy of [Spiral Flower City].

According to the Flying Knights, most of the destroyers in [Spiral Flower City] are huddled underground, and a small number wander aimlessly outdoors, without sending out a vigilant force, and it seems that they have not noticed the arrival of the Divine Envoy King's army.

But this is only an illusion, the protagonist knows that the enemy must have some kind of reconnaissance and early warning means, and this is definitely not an opportunity for a surprise attack.

After confirming that the Destroyers have not taken action, the protagonist orders the troops to build a camp on the spot.

It's already afternoon, and if you go directly to [Rolling Flower City], unless you can quickly defeat the enemy, you can enter [Rolling Flower City] and spend the night. But once the stalemate in the field is very unfavorable, the army must not camp on a cold night in the spring!

After the battle in the dense fog of [Sitong City], the protagonist has realized that it is not his side that can be directly crushed by the many ants, and the difficulties in command and dispatch brought by the huge army will always exist, and the play of the combat effectiveness of the army will be shackled.

But the momentum of the Divine Envoy King's army is overwhelming the opponent, and now in the southern theater, the offensive and defensive forces of the two sides have changed momentum, as long as they fight steadily, they can definitely defeat the enemy.

Therefore, the protagonist asks his subordinates to build a camp, which can support the battle between the army and the enemy army of [Spiral Flower City] nearby, and can be attacked and retreated.

The protagonist is so focused on earthwork, much like the ancient Romans, whose legions had to build barracks everywhere they went. The fortifications of the ancient Roman legionary camp consisted mainly of moats, earthen walls, palisades, and four camp gates. It was usually built in squadrons, with each legion responsible for one side of the fortifications, with the two Roman legions in Rome in front and rear of the camp and the two legions of the allies in charge of the left and right. Under normal circumstances, the trench is only dug to a depth of 1 meter, and if there is a possibility of enemy attack nearby, the trench must be dug and widened. The excavated earth was placed on the edge of the trench to form an earthen wall, on which wooden stakes were inserted. Forming a fence. All posts have several right forks, which are sharpened and pointed outwards, making it difficult for an attacker to pull them out. Many generals often punished their soldiers by building camps, such as during the Jugurdah War, where Metilas punished soldiers who feared the enemy by repairing camps every day. In the end, the soldier even said that he would rather fight to the death than build the camp. However, the camp did protect the Roman legionnaires who camped in the wild.

The protagonist led the Divine Envoy King Legion before, and also tasted the sweetness of building a camp. Earlier, by strengthening the defense of [Linshui City], it blocked the southward invasion of paving ants every winter, and solved the long-term winter defense problem of the big-headed ant kingdom; During the civil war last year, the Divine Envoy King Legion relied on the city defense in [Trench City] and [Meat Grinder City] to consume a large number of troops of the King's Council faction and the Queen Ant Inheritance faction; Last year, when he fought against parasitic ants and parasitic war beasts in the swampy area, he gradually suppressed the strong parasitic forces.

Now, in the face of destroyers who are no less fierce than parasitic war beasts and have more numbers, the protagonist naturally has to take out his housekeeping skills.

Today, the camp excavated by the Divine Envoy King's legion is not just some temporary caves to cross the river, but according to the standard of the fortress, a huge ant nest is built vertically and horizontally connected underground, there are more than ten entrances and exits on the ground, and the entrances and exits are piled up into high ant mounds, and the walls of the mounds are connected to each other to cover them, and there are trenches outside the walls that have both defensive and drainage functions.

However, unlike the permanent fortresses, the ant mounds and walls were not made of ant concrete, but were simply made of earth, and there were no protective nets on the ground, and there were no ballista emplacements underground.

After all, the camp's role was to attack the base, and it needed to be more balanced into the free access of large armies, rather than reducing entrances and exits and increasing barriers to the underground lair for defensive purposes.

On the camp site, many warriors of the Divine Envoy King are working in full swing and in an orderly manner.

The protagonist looks at the sky, there are about two hours before it should be dark, and the camp is estimated to be repaired at that time, and it can be completed in a hurry at night, without delaying the next day to attack [Spiral Flower City].

But at this moment, a team of flying knights suddenly lands and hurriedly delivers a packet of information to the protagonist.

The protagonist reads the packet and takes a look at this scene:

The originally peaceful [Spiral Flower City] nest** suddenly poured out a large group of Destroyers, and after converging some troops on the ground, they rushed through the grass and bushes all the way to the east.

There were two or three thousand of these destroyers, and among them were the radar destroyers with huge bodies and extremely long tentacles.

The direction of their movement is to the east, that is, where the Divine Envoy King's army is building its camp, and if the enemy only occasionally convulses and sends a large force to advance here, even the stupidest worker ants will not believe it, the enemy has obviously discovered the Divine Envoy King's army.

With about an hour left before the Destroyer arrives, the protagonist immediately sends out a large number of heralds to order the troops to prepare for battle.

Since there is still an hour to prepare, the protagonist has to make the most of it.

After entering a predetermined position according to the field formation, the legions arranged a concave formation, and immediately piled up earth in their respective areas, and piled up an arc-shaped city wall about three centimeters high and more than ten meters long before the enemy arrived.

The troops of the first line were stationed on the city walls, with a condescending advantage, and the rest of the troops were on standby behind the walls, ready to respond.

Ten ballistae carried by the army were also assembled, arranged on both flanks of the line, with five ballistas on each side. Because they did not carry giant crossbow arrows, the warriors of the Divine Angel King also collected a lot of stone bullets and piled them up next to the ballistas.

The 1,000 fire bombs carried by the army were also divided into 300 and placed in the middle of the position.

In this battle, in addition to the fact that there were no tank troops to participate in the battle, the Divine Envoy King Legion had already taken out all the most advanced weapons.

The protagonist is a little excited in his heart, although he is already a "veteran" who has experienced a hundred battles, but this battle is of great significance, and it still makes his adrenaline soar.

In addition to testing new equipment in real combat, the strategic significance of this battle is also important. If this two or three thousand enemies were completely annihilated in the battle this time, then it would be logical to recover [Spiral Flower City], and even the entire lost territory in the south.

The Divine Envoy Legion may be able to wipe out the enemy on the south bank of the Great River before summer arrives, and then the protagonist will have at least half a year to plan to pacify the swampy area and counterattack the north bank of the Great River.