[Qingqiu City] can't hold on for a long time, and the protagonist sees this rationally, and doesn't want to gamble because of annoyance.

After this explosion and raid battle, the loss of the defender soldiers alone is enough to make up for the gap after the queen ant left behind by the nest ** for half a year. But will the Destroyer give the defenders half a year?

Not to mention the fact that the ballistas were almost completely lost, and the firebombs were also consumed, and the defenders could only take their lives to block the road most of the time, barely ensuring that the position was not lost.

The most rational way is to break out of the encirclement and preserve the vitality of the mountain to make a comeback.

But even if they abandon this place and break through, where can the Divine Envoy King's legion continue to resist?

The reason why the original main nest was converted into a fortress was because it was the strongest nest, but in the end, it only lasted a week, and it was crumbling under the enemy's self-explosion.

Further south, except for [Sitong City], the other side nests are not in danger to defend, they have been abandoned, and they are a blank area that the enemy can drive straight into.

Even [Sitong City] is far inferior in severity and scale to [Qingqiu City], and the protagonist does not think that there are the conditions to build a new defense line there.

In fact, if the enemy's white-bellied destroyer cannot be suppressed, the protagonist does not think that any of the ant nests have the conditions to hold on for a long time. It's like a fortified medieval castle that suddenly becomes incredibly fragile after the advent of cannons and explosives.

Further southeast from [Sitong City], there are a large number of auxiliary nests that have just completed relocation and newly built, and have not yet fully recovered their productivity.

In this area, there are also important locations such as [New Salt City], [Malachite City], and [Dongyang City]. Once this last territory is lost, the Legion of the Divine Envoy King will be defeated back to the primitive society.

If that happens, the protagonist will have to think about escaping into the southern mountains, or even further into the swampy areas.

There are a large number of native ants such as the Scythe Hunting Ant in the southern mountains, and although they cannot withstand the attacks of the destroyers in the end, the complex terrain and the many indigenous tribes can give the Divine Envoy King's legion a chance to maneuver.

The swamps are separated from the area currently occupied by the Destroyers by impenetrable water, and the Destroyers cannot threaten the swamps until they have opened land access to the southern mountains.

Even if the Destroyer arrives in the swamp, which is full of ponds and islands, large and small, it is a moat for the Destroyer who cannot wade through water.

Although there are rampant parasitic ants and war beasts in the area, at least this enemy is much easier to deal with than the Destroyer, and the Divine Envoy King's army has established a foothold in the local area, built several nests, and can be regarded as a basis for revival.

The protagonist unconsciously thinks of the retreat after being completely driven out of the south of the Great River, and he has no way to do it, and he really can't think of any way to stop the invasion of the Destroyer.

If you escape to the swampy area, you can survive, but it is not easy to rebuild the country, and it is even difficult to restore the current level of society.

For example, there are no salt mines or copper mines found in the swamp area, both of which are very important to the Divine Legion.

Salt is an essential mineral element and an important material for the preservation of cured meats that are eaten during the long winter, and also plays a role in some other productions.

If you can barely overcome it without salt, it will not reduce the level of productivity. Once [Malachite], the only source of copper, is lost, the Divine Legion will lose their bronze weapons and tools, and will have to revert to gravel tools.

And in the swampy areas, there is very little even suitable gravel, where only silt and humus are the most.

After the sharp decline in productivity, it will be difficult for the Divine Envoy King's army to even process wood and fiber, and the production of ballistas and net ropes will also become more difficult.

Without ballistas, brass jaws, and protective nets, the advantage against parasitic ants and war beasts would be lost, and it would be difficult to protect oneself even in swampy areas.

These hidden dangers are like a complete chain, one link after another, so that the army of the Divine Envoy King may be completely reduced to a catastrophe.

The more the protagonist thinks about it, the more scared he becomes, and he feels that he has no last resort, so he should not think about escaping into the swamp to survive. In history, no great civilization thrived in treacherous places such as jungles, permafrost, and swamps, and only in a place as fiercely competitive as the plains could a strong civilization be killed.

But continuing to hold on to [Qingqiu City] is nothing more than consuming thousands of elite soldiers every day.

Now the rear territory has not returned to normal metabolism, and the replenishment of new fighters will have to wait at least a month or two later, and the loss of one of the fighters on hand of the protagonist is one less, which is really unaffordable.

The protagonist found a high-level executive, held a simple meeting, and made a plan to retreat.

There were only two ways to retreat, and the secret passage left by the oldest king was too narrow, and more than a thousand ants could be evacuated at most in one night. However, the exit to this passage is hidden, far beyond the anthill, where the Destroyer occasionally passes by, and evacuating at night can ensure concealment and safety.

The protagonist decides to let some worker ants with little combat effectiveness evacuate tonight to protect the queen, larvae and some important supplies.

The large troops, on the other hand, were preparing to evacuate from the spacious sacred passage, which, although also damaged by the explosion, remained largely intact, with new openings still open on the ground.

After the explosion, the protagonist had already blocked the road with stones for the first time, and the enemy ignored this dead end for the time being and did not leave a garrison.

From this passage, it is possible to avoid the Destroyer who has taken control of the upper half of the nest, and avoid extremely unfavorable street fighting.

Because it takes time to dispatch the army, taking advantage of the fact that the enemy is resting at night and there is no time for the two sides to fight, the protagonist hurriedly assigns tasks and prepares to break through and retreat after the preparation is completed in the early morning.

Because there is a radar destroyer among the enemy, it can detect the movement of a large force, in order to prevent the enemy from blocking the main force of the breakthrough with all his might, the protagonist also has to leave a force in the nest ** to launch a counterattack in advance, which involves the enemy's attention.

This task was volunteered by the Floating Leaf King.

The protagonist knows the mind of the Floating Leaf King, and earlier today the Floating Leaf King came to the protagonist to talk to him deeply.

After the fall of the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom, the Paving Ant Clan was left with only one bloodline in the Divine Envoy King's Legion (the Floating Leaf King refused to admit that the nests on the north bank of the Great River were of the same kind).

Now the Divine Envoy King Legion is also facing a crisis, and it may abandon the paving ants at any time. The Floating Leaf King hopes that he and his Paving Ant Legion, who have been making soy sauce, can make some contributions, so that the Divine Envoy King can take care of their clan more and not abandon them.

The protagonist agrees, and the Paving Ant Legion is responsible for carrying out the fatal feint mission.