The plan to advance into the hinterland of the swamp was originally the second step of the swamp attack by the God's Envoy King's Army. According to the plan, it should have been carried out long ago.
However, due to the extremely unsatisfactory progress of the war, it was the first time in more than two months that the Divine Envoy King's army that came to the swamp area tried to leave the vicinity of [Swamp City] and march into the depths of the swamp.
In fact, the protagonist currently only has two legions of troops on hand, and there are still some battle losses. The supplies stored in [Swamp City] are not abundant. The food is only enough for one month's consumption, and the building materials, ropes, etc. are not rich either.
Although the Divine Envoy King's Legion has achieved great results in defensive battles in recent days relying on complete defense facilities and advanced weapons.
But once you are far away from [Swamp City], it means that the fortress needs to be rebuilt. Moreover, the logistics route may no longer be safe by then. Supplies from the mainland fleet can only be sent to [Swamp City], then transported to [Bridgehead] via a rope bridge, and then transported to the front line via other routes. And once they leave [the bridgehead], the logistics route through the swamp will be full of dangers.
However, as autumn deepens, winter is approaching, and the climate has become significantly colder. It may not be obvious when there is sunshine at noon, but it is obviously cooler in the morning and evening.
The protagonist wanted to completely pacify the parasitic army forces in the swamp area before winter, so that he could concentrate on dealing with the new enemies on the north bank of the river next year. This mysterious ant force has grown too fast and has become a major problem for the protagonist.
Now it seems that the plan to conquer the swamp is difficult to complete as scheduled. Although the parasitic army lost troops in front of the [Bridgehead], relying on the huge swamp, they can always be supplemented by war beasts, ant colonies and supplies.
But at least, the protagonist hopes to weaken its strength as much as possible before winter, so that once it leaves to go north next year, the parasitic bacteria will not be able to recover in a short period of time and will be unable to threaten the rear of the Divine Envoy King's army.
Now the situation on the north bank of the river has begun to gradually become clearer, and a new and more terrifying enemy is revealing its bloody jaws.
——I am the dividing line——
Although he is in the southern swamp far away from the river, the protagonist can still regularly learn information about the north bank of the river from the flying knight.
Before the protagonist marched into the swamp, the mysterious ant troops on the north bank of the river had stopped their military operations in the main nest of the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom in the middle, and instead launched a massive attack on the eastern branch of the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom. The main force of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army Also moved here.
The two sides fought successive nesting wars in the east, with hundreds of thousands of ants from both sides killing each other all day long. The Pavement Ant Barbarian Army has been firmly withstanding the enemy's offensive and guarded this crucial scoring nest.
But just a month later, roughly when the protagonist and his subordinates were building the [Bridgehead], the mysterious ant army suddenly appeared again near the main nest of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom.
The mysterious ants had already captured [Purple Leaf Licheng] before, which was only a day or two away from the main nest, but they were not in a hurry to attack the main nest at first.
The Pavement Ant Barbarian Army also tried to counterattack [Purple Leaf Licheng] and even robbed local food, but they did not win.
As the nesting war in the east became increasingly fierce, the pavement ant barbarian army originally assembled in the main nest faced the problem of tight food supply, so they simply gradually mobilized the army to support the nesting in the east.
The Pavement Ant Barbarian Army judged that the army of mysterious ants had also left [Purple Leaf Licheng], so they did not launch a large-scale attack on the main nest.
But in fact, this army of mysterious ants has never left. They just stayed put for some special reason, or they were waiting for something.
As the mysterious ant army raided the main nest of the Pavilion Ant Barbarian Kingdom, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army just woke up from a dream.
Fortunately, although many of the local troops were transferred away, there are still more than 100,000 people left. However, facing the mysterious ants whose number was only a fraction of their own, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army was defeated in several field battles and could only retreat to the main nest and rely on defenses to hold on.
The mysterious ants do not march at sunrise and retreat at sunset like parasitic ants, but instead besiege the main nest day and night.
The pavement ant defenders suffered heavy losses and were unable to go out to collect food. They had to rely on their already tight inventory to hold on.
The reinforcements assembled from all over the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom try to break through the mysterious ants' defense line outside the main nest every day, but they are always no match for the mysterious ants in the field battles. They often fail and suffer heavy losses.
Just a few days after the protagonist made the air defense net, he learned that the main nest of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom had been captured.
Although this main nest has hundreds of thousands of defenders and is huge in size, it has no reinforcements from outside and no food and grass inside. Under the round-the-clock offensive of mysterious ants, it lasted for a month and finally fell.
The flying knight responsible for the investigation saw the mysterious ants swarming into the nest, carrying out corpses one after another, and heading north. The team carrying the corpses was flowing in an endless stream, like an eternal river.
Except for the troops blocking the reinforcements of the Pavement Ant Barbarians on the periphery, almost all of the mysterious ant army was devoted to the work of transporting corpses. It was not until the third day that the main nest was emptied.
Later, the mysterious ants did not occupy the main nest, but evacuated in the direction they came. At this time, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army, which had been unable to break through the mysterious ant defense line on the outside, successfully entered the main nest, only to find that it had become an empty city.
There were originally hundreds of thousands of worker ants, thousands of male ants and hundreds of queen ants, but no ants were alive or dead.
The pavement ant barbarian army did not know that the bodies of their companions had been taken away, but they were already aware of the outcome of the main nest.
The main nest has fallen and no longer exists.
Centipede insects are dead but not stiff. Even if the main nest falls, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom has two branch nests and hundreds of secondary nests, and still has the power to fight.
Although the main nest has been "recovered", there are no residents or garrison here. At this time of fierce fighting, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom is unable to rebuild a new capital.
The eastern nest, which currently has the largest number of troops and has the largest number of kings and kings, has naturally become the ruling center of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom. The male ants here have reestablished the King's Conference and continue to command the entire country.
If there hadn't been this war with the mysterious ants, the Pavilion Ant Barbarian Kingdom could have recovered by relying on its heritage.
But the mysterious ants seem to be the nemesis of the pavement ants.
The newly established King's Conference of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom was faced with war when it was established. It lost the resources and support of its original main nest, and the eastern branch nests could only step up their efforts to obtain supplements from secondary nests in various places.
The mysterious ant army gathered outside the nest in the east is causing huge losses to the pavement ant barbarian kingdom every day and continues to bleed it.
