In the following days, the Destroyers surrounded, blocked, and attacked the western nest of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom day after day.
The Pavement Ant Barbarian Army is also resolutely defending the defense line on the top of the rock pile, but the situation is still becoming increasingly critical!
After several days of consumption, more than a thousand Destroyers were lost, and the loss of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army was as high as more than 30,000 soldiers.
If the war continues, the entire strength potential of the western branch is only enough to last for about a month, and it seems that it will not survive this winter.
Moreover, as the rate of soldiers dying is much greater than the rate at which the ant nest replenishes new warriors, and as the absolute number of defenders decreases, once a certain critical point is exceeded, collapse will occur.
A battle does not mean that the two sides fight until one side is completely annihilated, but that one side will collapse when it cannot bear the losses. The same applies to the war of ants. Once the defense line collapses, even if all the Pavement Ant warriors resist stubbornly, they will only end up being divided and slaughtered by the Destroyer.
The Destroyers are waiting for this critical point to arrive. They are quietly surrounding the western nest, watching eagerly, ready to tear this nest apart at any time, and are ready to essentially destroy the paving ant barbarian kingdom.
In the western nest, although there is still fighting spirit among the male ants, a gloomy and pessimistic atmosphere is also spreading.
Although there is still plenty of food and grass in the nest, and there are currently a lot of soldiers, contact with the outside world has been cut off. With no external support and the enemy attacking rapidly for days, the keen male ants have already seen the outcome in the near future.
But it seems that God will also take pity on the fall of a giant, and the sunset will have its time to shine again.
One day, the destroyers had a premonition that cold air was coming, and they were more sensitive to the weather than ordinary ants. Then, the Destroyers began to evacuate quickly, retreating to safe shelters in the rear.
The pavement ant barbarian army discovered that the enemy was retreating, and they quickly sensed the arrival of cold air.
At the meeting of the third king of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom, taking advantage of most of the day before the cold air arrived, the commander brought in a group of soldiers and food from the nearby nest.
For this reason, the six sub-nests closest to the west have even existed in name only. Each has only one old male ant left with hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled worker ants. The young and middle-aged ants and the queen have been moved to the west. Part of the nest.
Even if these secondary nests survive the winter and do not need destroyers to attack them, they will soon perish if the western secondary nests do not send the queen back.
Heavy snow falls on the earth at night, like white jade fragments scattered from the sky, falling one after another, giving the world a layer of beauty and a chill.
The pavement ants also have a simple belief in gods similar to the big-headed ants, and even have male ant positions that are related to gods, such as the oldest king and the divine envoy king. The protagonist learned this from King Ukiha.
I wonder if these paving ants would thank God from the bottom of their hearts at this moment, thanking him for stopping the enemy's attack with a snowfall and temporarily saving the last hope of the paving ant barbarian kingdom, the western nest.
But the snowfall cannot last forever. No matter how majestic the snowfall is, it will eventually end.
As the cold front moves south across this mountain basin, high pressure takes control of the land, the dark clouds disperse, the falling snow stops, and the sun shines back into the world.
Although the absolute temperature has dropped significantly compared to before, under the sunlight, the temperature is still above zero at noon, and the pavement ants can already move around in the sunlight.
Of course, Destroyers that are better adapted to winter can also be used.
Soon, an army of tens of thousands of Destroyers appeared again, blocking and surrounding the western nest just like last time.
At this time, the Western Branch Nest has once again gathered some strength from the surrounding nests, and is stronger than before.
However, due to the current weather, with very low temperatures in the morning and evening, the pavement ants are unable to go out early in the morning and set up a defense line on the top of the rock pile mountain. And the hardy Destroyer attacks shortly after sunrise.
Therefore, the pavement ant defenders can only deploy their defense lines below the surface. They also experienced the passive and helpless feeling that the defenders had when they invaded the Big-headed Ant Kingdom from the south.
The underground structure of the western nest is complex. The underground structure of the piles of rocks is densely covered with rock blocks, and soil brought by wind and water between the rock blocks.
The nest chambers and passages in the western part of the nest can only extend along the trend of the stone surface and use the stone seams to expand. Therefore, they are not as regular as most ant nests, and are not suitable for constructing some complex structures suitable for defense.
Moreover, there are as many as a dozen entrances and exits to the western nest, which is also a last resort due to the complex underground terrain.
The Destroyers launch attacks from all entrances, and the Pavement Ant defenders can only hold on to every line of defense. Otherwise, the loss of any line of defense may lead to a chain of collapses.
When the battle goes underground, it is even more disadvantageous for the defenders. Street fighting in narrow passages is more conducive to the destroyers with strong individual combat capabilities, but not conducive to the pavement ants who are accustomed to sieges.
The Pavement Ant Warriors cannot even defeat the Big-headed Ant Soldiers in street battles, let alone these giant ant-like destroyers. The pavement ant stands before the destroyer as hopelessly as a man stands before a hungry brown bear with his bare hands.
Every day, although the Destroyers who had withdrawn yesterday would launch a new attack on the underground, the scope of their advance was expanding every time.
Gradually, all the upper levels of the western nest of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom were lost, and the Destroyers would no longer retreat outside the city at night, but would stay on the spot in some warm places.
The defenders tried to continue fighting at night to drive away the remaining destroyers and rebuild a complete defensive circle, but failed.
The pavement ants had to retreat to the lower half of the nest, while the destroyers took control of the upper levels.
The two sides faced each other across different levels. The situation was gradually not conducive to the Pavement Ant barbarian army. Even the Pavement Ants' own male ants began to despair.
They no longer strictly restrain their subordinates, and no longer carefully calculate every penny of food consumption. The male ants took the lead in devouring the sweet delicacies in stock, and the worker ants also let go and ate as much as they wanted.
Anyway, compared to how long the food in stock can last, their remaining days are shorter.
Inside the western branch of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom, there is already an atmosphere of doom and gloom!
I am the dividing line
After having Nuan Baobao, and the [Bridgehead] was temporarily safe, the protagonist simply spread out ant felt and took Nuan Baobao with him, and flew back to [Dongyang City].
Here, he led his scientific research team to prepare samples of the equipment needed for his "tank plan" in advance.
