I'm on a business trip this week and haven't updated in time. Now I'm typing while waiting for my flight at the airport. I don't know how to read this book, so don't worry~~~
By the way, my flight back from a business trip was delayed due to weather conditions, and the previous flight was cancelled. . . I hope you don't let me spend the night here.
Well, the above is a lot of word count. Anyway, this book doesn’t cost money, so the word count doesn’t matter.
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——I am the dividing line——
Due to the impact of the war caused by the ant, the main force of the pavement ant barbarian army was unable to leave the northern border until winter came, so the southern expedition originally planned that year had to be cancelled.
It is precisely for this reason that the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom did not encounter a large-scale counterattack by the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army when they attacked the north bank of the river. The troops that later participated in the counterattack were also small self-organized troops from separate nests in the southern border.
And throughout the winter, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom was not attacked, which was a blessing to the Campoback ants.
The pavement ant army stationed in separate nests and sub-nests in the north also spent a winter without war.
Aside from food shortages, these pavement ants have no worries and it's been an unusually peaceful winter.
The pavement ants who were in a peaceful state would not have thought that after the war with the ant, another more terrifying enemy that they did not understand at all had quietly approached.
——I am the dividing line——
In the spring of the next year, the Pavilion Ant Barbarian Army still had no plans to break camp and leave the northern border.
At this time in previous years, the ants in the mountainous areas, which had been hungry all winter, would impatiently come down the mountain to plunder, igniting the war again.
On the other hand, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom will mobilize troops from all over the country to defend the northern border, wait until early autumn to counterattack, and then disband the troops at the end of autumn and return to their respective nests.
Last year's northern troops were not disbanded due to sudden changes in the war situation, which was unique in the history of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom.
Faced with this new situation, the latest order conveyed by the messenger from the main nest is to let the troops who have been away from home for a year continue to hold on until the newly transferred troops arrive at the front to replace them.
According to past experience, it will be a month before troops from all over the country complete their assembly at the main nest and head to the north, which means that this tired army must stick to their posts for another month.
In the past, in the first month of spring, the northern border was depleted of troops and had to deal with the most hungry and ferocious ants. The pavement ants could only rely on nests in various places to hold on.
They had to wait until reinforcements arrived before they could begin an organized resistance, and it would be half a year before they could seek revenge on enemy soil.
But this year, because the army has not yet left, the commanders plan to take active defense at the beginning of the spring and eliminate as many of those hateful ants as possible to avenge the enemy's rampage in the northern border last year.
As a result, garrisons from various places began to gather in several nests with convenient transportation, forming four mobile corps.
The plan of the Pavement Ants is to immediately organize troops to besiege the hungry Campoback ants after they enter the northern plains.
In the past, the ant ants that had just started to plunder would disperse into tribes and act alone, which made it easier to grab food from the territory of the paving ant barbarian kingdom. Only after discovering the main force of the pavement ant barbarian army, the scattered bow-backed ants will form a coalition and return to their hometown while fighting.
In the past, when the pavement ant barbarian army gathered and marched to the north, the ant ants had already eaten and drank enough during the month of looting, and were in the strongest state to fight the counterattacking pavement ant barbarian army, causing the pavement ant barbarian army to fight back. The army suffered heavy casualties.
It is not that the Pavement Ants have not thought of deploying troops in the northern border in advance, but the northern border adjacent to the mountainous area is originally the most barren area in the territory of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom. There are wars every year, and it is difficult to supply the food that can be stored. A large army was stationed all winter.
This army, which had to stay in the north for the winter last year, anticipated this situation in advance. They filled the granary with the corpses of both sides collected during the war to eliminate the ant, and also spent a lot of attrition caused by disease and starvation to ensure that Most of the soldiers survived until spring.
After all, even if pavement ants can go out when the weather is good in winter, they cannot withstand the intensity of outdoor labor of transportation. Only after the beginning of spring can food from other regions be transported to the north for support.
Just when the army of pavement ants received food support and stood ready, vowing to vent their grievances about the lack of food and drink in the winter on the ant, one week passed, two weeks passed, and not a single one was seen in the north. The figure of the ant.
This is obviously not normal. For ants in mountainous areas, spring begins later and vegetation and insects grow more slowly. Most members of a Trichodon ant tribe would starve to death if they did not descend to the plains to raid after a difficult winter.
But the tribes that descended from the mountains to plunder were able to thrive. Even if many ants died in the counterattack of the pavement ant army, more than half of the ants were able to retreat to their homeland in the already vibrant mountainous area in early summer.
Not a single ant came to the plains this year, which obviously meant something had happened on the mountain side. Thinking of last year's abnormal behavior of a large number of Camponotus ants invading the plains in late autumn, this surprised the pavement ants who had never experienced such a situation.
Could it be that too many Camponotus ants were wiped out last year, and there are no Camponotus ant tribes left in the mountainous areas near the border?
This is of course the best case scenario.
The kings of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army in the north quickly met in the branch nest for a meeting. Then, while reporting the abnormal situation in the north to the main nest, they decided to send a small force to the mountains to investigate the movements in the north.
Suzaku's army was not selected, but he proposed at the meeting that he had the king's army that he was familiar with last year, as well as the five legions he went to look for. A total of six and a half legions lost contact in the mountains. There are still certain dangers in military operations.
This information did not attract the general attention of the kings. For the pavement ant army, it is common for a war to suffer 12% or even 30% to 40% battle losses. Many kings cannot guarantee whether they can survive the war.
Several legions lost contact at one time, possibly wiping out the entire army. Although it was not a small loss, it was not uncommon.
Moreover, the disappearance of these troops coincided with the large-scale invasion of the Campoback Ants. It was not impossible for the entire army to be annihilated. There were also many legions lost at that time.
Although Suzaku was later reused, he was just a very ordinary legion commander at the time. He neither realized what the disappearance of his comrades ultimately meant, nor did he have enough status to push the army to change its plans for this purpose.
No news has been sent back from the troops heading to the mountainous area. The main nest has announced that it will suspend the deployment of troops and wait for the latest information from the north before making plans. All military affairs in the north have been handed over to the local garrison.
The pavement ant barbarian legions in various parts of the northern border stopped fighting and began to participate in foraging out of boredom. In this way, all things in early spring began to prosper in this rare peace in a century.
