Today's clouds are blood-red, as if to foreshadow a bloody day.

After a short but brutal scout battle, the warriors of the King of God packed up their bodies and returned to the back of the city walls, while the scouts of the red fire ants retreated with most of their wounds, taking valuable information with them.

This bit of blood from the scout battle is not enough to stain the sky red.

The curtain of the more bloody siege battle has entered the countdown, and the army of the Divine Envoy King is making the final preparations for the "Cage City".

- I'm the dividing line -

In the morning, it was the turn of "Grass" to take two companion flying knights on duty, and they were near the old nest of the bellied ants, closely monitoring the movements of the red fire ants, ready to warn the protagonist at any time.

Previously, when the Flying Knights were staying in the trees, they encountered a sneak attack. A small group of red fire ants somehow appeared on the tree where the Flying Knights were staying, and were sneaking closer to the Flying Knights' stoppage.

This tree makes it easy to observe the nest, so it becomes a fixed monitoring position.

Fortunately, the flying knights have encountered several such sneak attacks before, and there is already a system of sentry and vigilance. The sentry spotted the sneak attack in advance, beckoning his companions to fly into the air in time to be vigilant.

"Grass" also confirmed that the red fire ants did notice these flying knights on their side, and did not treat them as ordinary flies and lost their vigilance!

After such an episode, the flying knights could only hover in the air as much as possible to reconnoitre, and when the mounts were really tired, they would land on a slightly higher place to rest for a while, and often shift their positions to prevent another sneak attack.

Near noon, "Cao" saw a few red fire ants running back to the nest, these were the scouts of red fire ants who had just returned from [Xinyang City].

Their return was like pressing the start button, and after a while, the messenger of the red fire ant ran from the nest in the center to the nest around it.

The nests of the family of bellied ants overrun by red fire ants are made up of multiple nests the size of tennis balls on tree branches. The Red Fire Ant troops were scattered among them.

While the messengers in the central tree nest were out in all directions, another army went out to escort the surviving belly-raising ants down the trees and advance towards the territory of the red fire ants.

These bellied ants also support the queen and carry eggs, larvae and chrysalis. They are like black slaves who have been taken away on the land of Africa, under the whipping and urging of the escort soldiers, they have embarked on a road of blood and tears with no return.

After the bellied ant captives were taken away, the red fire ants poured out of their nests. Countless warriors surged out of the nests of trees, and streams converged into small rivers, which in turn merged into pools.

After assembling on the ground of the woods, more than 6,000 red fire ant warriors formed a long column along the pheromones left by the scouts, stepped out of the woods, along the river beach, and killed in the direction of [Xinyang City].

The speed of the red fire ant is extremely fast, and the speed of the march is faster than that of the big-headed ant and the paving ant, as if they are charging all the way.

Under the sun, the carapaces of the red fire ant warriors were fiery red, like the elite Red Armor Army. The Red Fire Ant Warrior also kept opening its jaws and salivating as it marched, as if it was biting at a non-existent enemy or prey.

The nest of the bellied ant clan was very close to [Xinyang City], and when the sun was still high, the army of red fire ants had already arrived outside [Xinyang City] and began to gather in a somewhat messy formation during the rapid long-distance march.

The red fire ants gradually arrived outside [Xinyang City] in columns. The protagonist has already been warned by the flying knight, and takes the defenders to stand on the city wall in advance.

For a moment, the protagonist has the heart to lead the army out, intending to defeat the vanguard of the enemy before the army of red fire ants arrives.

But considering that the red fire ants do not have a clear distinction between the forward, the middle army, and the rearguard, but continue to arrive, it is difficult to make the enemy's entire army rout in one go. If the war is unfavorable, it will be difficult to get out.

The protagonist does not plan to take risks, but fights with peace of mind with a strong city defense.

The Red Fire Ant Army was assembled on the river beach, and they were facing a tower on the easternmost side of the [Xinyang City] defense system.

From the perspective of defensive terrain, if the Red Fire Ants want to attack the ant mound in [Xinyang City], there are only two ways to choose.

One is to directly break through the city wall and kill in a straight line to the nearest anthill area, but this must be under the full resistance of the defenders, and the ants must attack the city, which is a hard-hitting and unstoppable way to play.

The other way is to bypass the defensive line along the river beach.

The western defense line of [Xinyang Fortress] was attached to the city wall, completely covering the entire road. However, the eastern wall could not be extended all the way to the beach river, because it was difficult to build a wall on the river beach, and the city wall would be completely submerged during the flood season.

Therefore, the walls could only be built on higher ground, even during the flood season, above the water level. But in doing so, it leaves a hole in the riverbank that allows a detour into the peninsula.

But even if the red fire ants found this road, it was not easy to walk, and the city wall of [Xinyang City] made a special turn here, and the attackers had to brave a road of bullets to get around.

- I'm the dividing line -

Seeing that a number of red fire ants have gathered, the protagonist orders the ballista to attack first.

The Red Fire Ants' assembly site was not too far from the city wall, and perhaps according to their previous experience, such a distance would not encounter a long-range attack from acid, and could shorten the distance of the charge.

But the shooting distance of the ballista is far beyond the experience and imagination of the red fire ants.

At the corner of the wall facing the river beach, there is a tower with two ballistas. The protagonist also places the command post in this slightly higher place.

At the same time, the defenders also mainly gathered in this section of the wall. At present, the 2nd Army Corps was responsible for the defense of the walls, the 1st Corps was in the rear as a reserve, and the 3rd Army Corps had some units to guard the rest of the walls.

With the current total strength of the Divine Envoy King Legion, it is unrealistic and unnecessary to deploy heavy troops everywhere on the nearly five-meter-long city wall. Therefore, it is only focused on the attack direction of the red fire ants.

When the stone projectiles fired by the two ballistas fell into the formation of the red fire ants one after the other, they were visibly bewildered by the blow they had never seen before.

Ants are too small, and in this world, natural disasters affect ants far more severely than humans.

For example, if an apple falls from a tree and hits a person, several laws will be born. But if you hit the ant army, you will cause dozens of casualties!

At first, the Red Fire Ants wondered if the blow was a natural disaster or if it came from the enemy. But when the ballistas hit the army of red fire ants at a fixed frequency, their commander understood.

To the surprise of the protagonist, the red fire ants quickly put themselves in order after a slight panic at the beginning, even if the continuous stone bombardment caused dozens of casualties, they did not waver in the slightest.

Like the Spartan warriors who were not afraid of death, they resisted artillery fire and completed the preparations before the attack.