Since the temperature dropped and winter began, the Divine Envoy King's army has not encountered any large-scale invasion by the Destroyer.
On the other side, in the western territory of the Paved Ant Barbarian Kingdom, the clouds of war are always dense. Even if the weather clears up occasionally, it is just a flash in the pan.
They were also invaded by the Destroyers before the winter began. Unlike the Legion of the God Envoy King who stuck to the [Bridgehead] and defeated the Destroyer's offensive, before the great cooling, the old land of the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom had lost several sub-nests one after another. Western nesting has been targeted.
Within the territory of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom, the remaining sub-nests are currently barely integrated by the original Western Branch of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom. After losing contact with the second king's conference reorganized by the Eastern Branch, the Western Branch The kings of the Nest reorganized the King's Council for the first time and shouldered the task of commanding the country's strength to resist the Destroyer.
However, the current situation is very critical. The Third King Conference has only gathered the strength of dozens of nests near the western branch nest. There are also a large number of disconnected sub-nests still controlled by pavement ants, which are widely distributed in the old pavement ant barbarians. They are found all over the Kunoyuan territory, in the southeast, northwest and northwest.
Even in the northern reaches of the Barbarian Kingdom, which first fell to the hands of the Destroyer, there were still sub-nests that survived. They are often located in remote areas, and the destroyers don't know whether they haven't discovered them or feel that there is no need to conquer them for the time being, allowing them to survive.
More surviving sub-nests are scattered in the east, south, west and middle of the basin on the north bank of the river. They have neither been conquered nor contacted by the new Third King Conference.
The Destroyers obviously had a clear strategy. Instead of raiding the scattered sub-hives, they constantly organized the main force to eliminate the main force of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army, and consciously eliminated the most organized resistance.
Therefore, during the war when the Destroyers invaded the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom, they gave priority to directly attacking the main nest of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom from the north. After repeated battles, they captured the main nest in one fell swoop, causing the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom to lose its unity. Command brought a series of chaos.
After establishing the second king's conference in the eastern branch of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom, the Destroyer concentrated its main force to attack here, and successfully separated the connection between the new main nest and most of the territory, making the new main nest lose its strategy. The depth and economic foundation of resistance finally succeeded in wiping out the Eastern Nest and the Second King's Conference in the fall through a war of attrition.
Now, the Destroyer's focus is directed at the third king's conference in the western branch. This is also the last branch of the once extremely powerful Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom and the once prestigious Pavement Ant Barbarian Army.
In just one year, the Paved Ant Barbarian Kingdom and the Paved Ant Barbarian Army have been successively captured by the Destroyer and the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom and took away the northern nest, the southern nest, the main nest, and the eastern nest.
The western nest is already the last hope of the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom and the Paving Ant Barbarian Army. Once it is lost here, it will mean the complete end of the organized resistance on the north bank of the river.
Even though there are still a large number of sub-nests in the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom that have not been conquered, they are already a mess and there is no center to knead the scattered forces together.
The fate of the Paved Ant Barbarian Kingdom and the Paved Ant Barbarian Army are all focused on the large nest in the west.
While the Destroyers stepped up their siege on the second king's conference in the east, the third king's conference in the west was temporarily in a safe environment. They used the resources of dozens of sub-nests under their effective control to quickly form as many as There are hundreds of legions and more than 200,000 troops.
This is the foundation of a country with vast territory and rich resources. When the protagonist originally planned the Northern Expedition, this was the biggest difficulty he expected. If he could not win quickly, he would be dragged into a war of attrition by the enemy's powerful national power.
That is to say, the Destroyers massacred countless cities along the way and quickly disintegrated the many resistances of the Paving Ant Barbarians with an efficiency rarely seen in the world, so that they did not fall into the quagmire.
Before the temperature cools down, the Destroyers want to take a straight line and attack the western nest directly from the eastern nest.
They have conquered three sub-nests. Along the old ant road of the ant barbarian country, they are still six sub-nests away from the western sub-nest.
If it hadn't been for the sudden change in weather, the Destroyers would have been able to reach the Western Hive City within a week.
The sudden cooling and falling snow prevented the Destroyers from taking advantage of nature, so they had to turn around in advance and return to a safe shelter to rest.
The third king meeting in the western branch has learned the latest military information from the ants who escaped from the nest.
These ants usually find that their nests have been attacked when they return from foraging for food. They cleverly escape westward along the ant path and join the nearest secondary nest.
The male ants that received the auxiliary nests of these fugitive ants immediately sent out messengers to deliver the message.
The Western Branch has gathered more than 200,000 troops and has also hoarded a large amount of food. This is all the result of the Western Branch trying its best to draw blood from the territory it can control.
The Third King's Council also realized that the enemy's goal is the western nest, and only by guarding the western nest can the final victory be possible.
Therefore, the fate of other sub-nests is not important. All their available ant colonies, food and other resources must be gathered to the west to establish nests.
Even if these secondary nests completely lose their ability to resist invasion and don't even have enough food to survive the winter, it doesn't matter.
Just when the heavy snow suddenly fell, a large number of transport teams from the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom were still gathering from various places to nest in the west. The heavy snow hindered their transportation and also caused some ants who could not escape to freeze to death on the way.
It can be said that the arrival of winter not only gives the Pavilion Ant Barbarians a chance to breathe, but it also makes their preparations for war more difficult.
The clouds of war will only be temporarily stopped by the north wind, but they will never disappear.
When the two waves of cold air that followed finally stopped, the clouds dispersed, and the sun returned to the earth, when the protagonist was experimenting with the mysterious ball in [Linshui City], the army of destroyers was dispatched again.
This time, the Destroyers gathered more strength. The army that was blocked from attacking the Angel King's army also joined the Western Expedition, so they did not harass the [Bridgehead] again.
Together with other gathered troops, the Destroyer's army this time numbered more than 20,000. This was an extremely powerful force, as unstoppable as a cold front in winter.
In winter, even the Destroyers who could move outdoors moved much slower. They could only advance at the rate of one sub-nest a day or two sub-nests every three days. It was not until the eighth day that they arrived at the third king of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom. The western branch where the conference is located.
Subsequently, the Destroyers surrounded this huge nest built in a jumble of rocks, and also blocked the roads for pavement ants from all over the place to gather here.
