Just as the protagonist is enjoying the delicious persimmons, the flames of the prairie fire have spread to [Target A], burning the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
The remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army trapped in Target A have experienced a disastrous defeat in the last field battle and have experienced exhaustion in the continuous breakouts in recent days. The current available troops are less than 5,000, and there are still about five legions in the organization, all of which are not enough. .
With such a small force, they are trapped in an isolated city, they don't even have enough food and fodder, and they face an extremely ferocious enemy. They are obviously unable to withstand the army of the Destroyer.
After the protagonist led his army to break through the siege and arrived at [Target A] last time, and failed to recruit the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army, although he regretted it, he did not intend to interfere with the outcome of this army or the old friends in it.
The Northern Expedition Army did not seize the opportunity of the God's Envoy King's army to break through a corner of the defensive network last time. They broke out before the Destroyer could react. After the Destroyer's surrounding troops repaired the surrounding network the next day, they could only continue. Sitting in a lonely city.
But maybe it was lucky that they didn't break out. Even if they returned to the main nest, the strength and combat effectiveness of the remaining troops in [Target A] would not be able to change the inevitable fate of the main nest's fall. At best, they could resist for a few more days.
Staying in [Target A], at least the remnants of the Northern Expedition Army can survive for a few more days. At least they are still alive now, while their companions in the main nest have long since died.
But it seems that there is not much time left for them.
The Destroyer's army finally arrived at the perimeter of [Target A]. Although it was almost dusk, the flying knights of the God's Envoy King's Army immediately launched an attack upon discovering that the Destroyer had no intention of setting up camp. They were quite "destroying". The spirit of "this morning meal".
In these days, the last elite of the Northern Expedition Army kept trying to break through the siege of the Destroyer's partial division and return to the main nest. They did not know that the main nest had fallen.
However, in the field battle, the Northern Expeditionary Army, which had insufficient strength, was unable to break the encirclement from the inside out. It suffered three-digit battle losses every day but repeatedly returned without success.
But these days, the Northern Expeditionary Army did not do nothing. After all, they were the essence of the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom that once dominated the south bank of the river, and their commanders were all the best male ants in the kingdom back then.
Facing the predicament, these male ants still maintained their pride and hope. They knew that sooner or later they would face the enemy's general attack. When the breakout continued to fail, they also tried their best to strengthen the defense of [Target A].
In order to solve the problem of food shortage, the Northern Expeditionary Army also took the opportunity to send ant hands to collect food near the entrance and exit of the nest every time they broke out. Although three-digit casualties were paid every day, the fertile land in autumn and the easy-to-gather food everywhere made the food storage in [Target A] slightly more abundant.
Especially the cold wave in the past two days has slowed down the Destroyers' actions. The Northern Expeditionary Army took the opportunity to expand the search area and found many frozen insect corpses.
There were also some dying insects that hurriedly got into the warm nest of [Target A], trying to escape the cold, but they became the food in the mouths of the ants.
After some operations, the grain storage in [Target A] has reached a level that is enough to last for a week. Although it is not enough to survive the winter, it is much better than the previous embarrassing situation where it has almost bottomed out.
Moreover, the Northern Expeditionary Army did not know whether they would have a chance to persist until winter. Too much food was no longer necessary.
In addition to collecting food, the Northern Expeditionary Army was also strengthening city defenses and training troops.
Although there is no supplement from the main nest, there is also a queen ant in [Target A]. This queen was sent here after the wedding flight of the main nest organization this year. When food is guaranteed, she will also Continuously laying eggs to supplement the losses of the Northern Expeditionary Army, even if it cannot make up for all the battle losses, it is better than nothing.
As the elite of the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom, the Northern Expedition Army has a set of tactics learned from the Legion of the Divine Envoy King. After Tingying returned to the Northern Expeditionary Army, he was also responsible for training the new army.
The underground lair structure of [Target A] has recently been remodeled under the auspices of Flying Eagle in the shape of the fortress of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, enhancing its defense in underground street battles.
It can be said that under the current situation of the severe shortage of senior commanders within the Northern Expeditionary Army, Tingying has used his knowledge and experience to play the role of the mainstay.
He is now the third most senior king in the Northern Expeditionary Army, besides the King of Public Security and the King of Senior Brother.
Moreover, Xiaoying is currently the only ant in the Northern Expedition that can still go out freely.
Other ants will be attacked by the surrounding Destroyers once they are not far from the entrance to the nest.
But the Flying Eagle can fly freely on its own mount, and the Destroyers are powerless against him in the sky.
At first, Tingying had the consciousness to avoid the flying knights of the Angel King's Legion, but as time went by, Tingying also knew that he had been exposed, and the Angel King's Legion seemed to have no intention of killing him - the protagonist knew that they would not survive long. , and there was no target for this traitor.
Gradually, in addition to avoiding close encounters with the flying knights of the Divine Envoy King's legion, Flying Eagle no longer deliberately avoided them.
But Flying Eagle did not dare to fly too far. His mount was in poor condition. With food reserves tight and many ant warriors unable to eat, the food supply and care his mount received were also lowered.
There were no ants in the Northern Expedition Army who knew how to properly take care of their mounts. Previously, in the Legion of the Divine Envoy King, the male ant flying knights such as Flying Eagle were only responsible for performing flying tasks, and the care of the fly mounts was completed by specialized worker ants.
With insufficient food, no honeydew to comfort it, and inadequate care, the Eagle's mount was in poor condition, and even the Eagle itself could not drive it to fly for a long time.
Therefore, he could only occasionally conduct reconnaissance near [Target A]. He was unable to complete the mission that the Public Security King had been entrusting him with to contact the main nest.
After the Destroyer finally launched an attack in the evening, Flying Eagle led the reconstruction of the underground fortifications and the trained troops played a great role in stubbornly resisting the enemy's first attack.
However, this time the Destroyer was just a tentative attack, and they did not invest many troops. They withdrew after dark and spent the night nearby.
But this was just a tentative attack, but the defenders of the Northern Expedition suffered one-third of their total strength in battle losses.
No matter how optimistic the commander was, he was pessimistic about whether he could hold the nest the next day.
But there is always a way, and on this night, on the second day of the cold wave, a long, cold, and pouring autumn rain came across the world.
The rain came very quickly, like a summer thunderstorm. Not long after the ants' climate sensing ability gave an early warning, the raindrops fell and slowly intensified into a heavy rain.
The ants hiding in the nest were fine, but the destroyers camping in the open near [Target A] suddenly suffered.
