After some meetings and strict restraints, the protagonist was able to worry a lot about the march the next day without causing any trouble.
In addition, the road was smooth along the way and there were no road blockage accidents. The army finally began to move forward at a normal speed. It took the well-fed and drunk soldiers a day to arrive at [Sitong City] northeast of [Sitong City], a distance away from [Sitong City]. City] is a larger lair about half a day’s journey away.
This lair is the station and grain platform selected by the protagonist, and it is also the place where Rambo’s army is notified to come and meet.
There are currently no Destroyer nuisances here, and the Destroyer cordon has recently been more than an hour away.
The army stopped here and settled down in the expansion nest. Except for some troops who were sent out for reconnaissance or hunting, most of the soldiers were quietly waiting for the troops from [Dongyang City] to converge.
Before evening, a large-scale transport team from the main nest [Qingqiu City] finally arrived with a batch of precious grain.
This transport team has been transformed. They are no longer ordinary worker ants carrying food in their mouths. Instead, they are composed of some small beetles that are not suitable for battlefields. They carry rattan storage baskets and can carry dozens of ants at a time. quantity. Ordinary ants also have packages woven with ant silk to carry food, which greatly increases their transportation capacity.
The protagonist also received news about the swamp area from the main nest here. According to the flying knight's report, the ants found a unique thing next to the skull stone in the bun hill.
Judging from the information package, it is a rectangular object with heavy rust marks on the surface, indicating that the object is made of metal.
The shape of this thing is too regular, it is probably an artificial artifact, and the ants will report this information.
The protagonist decided to wait until the war situation stabilized and take some time to go to the swamp area to take a look at this thing and see what it was.
In addition, flying knights in the swamp area said that due to the cold temperatures in the area, spring has just begun recently.
After the beginning of spring, parasitic ants have begun to move, and parasitic ants and parasitic war beasts are constantly operating outside the territory of the Divine Envoy King's legion. The enemy is likely to launch an attack in the near future.
In addition, as the temperature gets warmer, a large number of dragonflies and damselflies gradually begin to appear in the swamp area. The flying knights' aerial flight becomes more dangerous and they must act in groups.
The protagonist ordered the Great Worker Ant Flying Knights stationed in [Great Lake City] to move to the swamp area to strengthen the air power in the area.
Then he asked Rambo Wan in the swamp area to be on close alert. He didn't have the spare capacity to send too many troops to support the swamp area. At most, he asked [Dongyang City] to allocate some supplies, and then gradually sent out the manticores currently stationed in [Great Lake City]. The 11th Legion and the 12th Legion of the Spider Wolf were transported by walnut ships.
Lambowan only needs to hold on to his current territory. With four legions of elite troops and several ballistae, he shouldn't make any mistakes.
After regaining the lost land on the south bank of the river, the protagonist plans to use his troops to completely pacify the parasitic ant forces in the swamp area and put an end to two-front warfare.
The protagonist originally thought that the swamp area could be pacified last year, but the strength and combat effectiveness of the parasitic ants there far exceeded expectations. As a result, four elite legions are now unable to escape. It has to be said that this is a mistake.
However, marching into the swamp also protected the area of [Southern City] and [Dongyang City], protecting this rich and vital territory from being poisoned by the parasitic ants that defeated the Sickle Ant Hunter coalition.
What is right and wrong, what is the weight of gain and loss, it is impossible to judge now.
I am the dividing line
The next day, April 4 on the protagonist's calendar, the army of the Divine Envoy King stationed in the northeast of [Sitong City] met up with the army commanded by Lan Bofei from [Dongyang City] at noon.
Now the army has a total of 36 legions and 90,000 soldiers, and the food can last for three days.
The protagonist lets the troops complete their final rest and prepare to set off the next day to face the Destroyer.
While waiting for the [Dongyang City] army, the Divine Envoy King's legions were not idle either. A large number of Sickle Ant Hunting Scouts and some support legions had already fought against the Destroyers.
The main purpose of the Angel King's Legion is to find out the enemy's troop distribution. After all, the area of [Sitong City] is densely populated with shrubs and long grass, and the flying knights' reconnaissance cannot completely replace ground reconnaissance.
In particular, Destroyers like to camp in bushes and grass, where they can avoid aerial detection.
In addition, the Divine Envoy Army also hopes to open up contact with [Sitong City] and inform the defenders of the arrival of reinforcements. It is best to cooperate inside and outside to attack the destroyers besieging the city.
But the Destroyers seemed to have noticed the arrival of the Divine Envoy King's army. According to reports from the Flying Knights, the Destroyer troops still stationed in the area of [Xuanhuahua City] were pulling out of their camps and rushing towards [Sitong City] at high speed.
In addition, the Destroyer also deployed an airtight security net outside [Sitong City]. Even the mobile and agile scythe-hunting ant warriors could not find a gap and could not get close to [Sitong City] to contact the defenders.
On the 4th, the entire periphery of [Sitong City] was filled with smoke and small-scale battles between the two sides were everywhere.
Several Destroyers stopped a team of ants that were exploring. The ants took advantage of the enemy's small number and quickly surrounded them. They were not timid at all when facing enemies that were larger than themselves.
In the Divine Envoy King's legion, the Hunting Ants are already the unit with the strongest individual combat effectiveness, but in this siege, the elite Hunting Ant scouts sacrificed seven lives to kill four enemies.
Another team of Destroyers was even more unlucky and ran into more than a dozen Destroyers head-on. The commander of this team, relying on his own bravery, jumped over and tried to kill the enemy at the front with his jaws and stingers.
But before her comrades could come to her aid, there was only a flash of cold light, and the Destroyer's jaws opened and closed like lightning. This reckless commander was already dead.
The other Destroyers lost their command and immediately dispersed without further entanglement. The Destroyers did not pursue them and continued to guard the defensive line tightly.
There are also local battles that have become more and more intense.
When the scouts of the Divine Envoy King's legion encountered the Destroyer, and both sides refused to retreat and were unable to eat each other, the approaching troops from both sides kept coming like adding more firewood, making the fire burn stronger and stronger.
In the biggest battle, the Destroyer invested hundreds of troops, and on the side of the Divine Envoy King's legion, there was a legion on guard nearby that pressed forward. However, this regiment lacked combat experience and suffered more than half of its casualties. It was only in the evening that it was withdrawn.
At the end of the day, the Divine Envoy King's army lost thousands of warriors, and the Destroyer suffered hundreds of casualties, and this was just a test front before the decisive battle.
The Legion of the God Envoy King has dispatched troops that created history, and the Destroyers have also assembled thousands of troops. This war is bound to cause mountains of corpses, valleys of bones, and rivers of blood!
