The lively scene in the territory of the Divine Envoy King's Legion did not last long. The moment the signal was received, the climax of the production activities suddenly receded, as quickly as the ebbing tide, leaving only a mess outside [Xinyang City].
On April 1st, as if God was joking, the protagonist had almost forgotten that this was April Fool's Day for humans, and the red fire ant army suddenly came out.
Countless enemy soldiers poured out from [Hive City], lined up in a long queue, circled outside the northern black forest, and then pointed directly at [New Yang City].
Over the past few days, there have been flying knights in the Divine Envoy King's Army keeping an eye on [Hive City]. Three groups of flying knights have been taking shifts throughout the day, just to give early warning when this moment comes.
As soon as the red fire ant army was dispatched, [Xinyang City] immediately received an alert quickly brought back by the flying knight, and then sent a large number of messengers to inform the ants working outside the city to prepare for transfer.
After the flying knights finally confirmed that the target of the fire ant army was their own country, they sent back the highest level alert.
The remaining flying knights in [Xinyang City] came out in full force, circling separately in the territory, constantly changing locations, and flying warning tracks everywhere. Even those ants working in relatively remote locations, even if they did not receive the first warning from the messenger, looked up at the traces of blurry shadows in the sky and knew that they should return to the city in time to escape.
In half a day, the originally busy work scene outside [Xinyang City] quickly disappeared. The ants and herds were moved back to the city or the peninsula. The lush farmland was abandoned. The hunting team that was halfway through the hunt even lost the prey they had just caught. He couldn't care less and ran away in a hurry.
——I am the dividing line——
The protagonist received the alarm immediately. After the flying knights confirmed the official attack of red fire ants, the protagonist held a brief combat meeting and asked the army commanders to pull out their troops to assemble and carry out defense tasks according to the predetermined plan.
This time the enemy is coming fiercely, and the protagonist does not know that the fire ant army was delayed for nearly half a month due to lack of troops and rations.
He believed that the enemy must be well prepared this time, just like the longer the sling is rotated, the more powerful it is when it is fired, this attack by the fire ant army must have been long-awaited and thunderous!
According to the rough observations of the flying knights, the Red Fire Ant Army dispatched at least tens of thousands of soldiers this time. The enemy troops formed a long and thin line that stretched for hundreds of meters. When the leading troops had already set off for a while, the follow-up troops even He hasn’t left the [Hive City] underground yet.
There was one factor that seriously interfered with the flying knights' estimation of the number of enemy troops, preventing them from obtaining more accurate figures for a while. This factor is that half of the incoming red fire ant army are slave auxiliaries.
Fire ants' own warriors only accounted for about half of this army. The rest were slave auxiliaries of various races. After being identified by the "old heart" of the male ant, these slave auxiliaries included burrowing ants and forest ants. , black brown ants, and even abdominal ants! All fire ant slave ants are among them.
It is precisely because so many ants of different races gather together, with different colors and sizes, and they are all moving at high speed, and often interspersed with each other, that the flying knights originally used the method of adjusting the enemy's size, formation length and The method of estimating the number by width, which is more suitable for a single ant clan, is not very accurate for a while.
However, the flying knights still worked hard to estimate the number of enemy troops. They split up and lowered their altitude, collected as much information as possible, and then went to a nearby tree to communicate. They calculated that the number of enemy troops was approximately 100,000.
With such strength, even the Divine Envoy King's Army in its heyday did not dare to underestimate it. The current Divine Envoy King Legion, facing such a powerful enemy, will lose everything if they are not careful. Even the protagonist, who has experienced many battles, knows that this will be a tough battle!
It is worth mentioning that when the flying knights lowered their altitude and circled to estimate the enemy's strength, some belly-lifting ant warriors seemed to have been inspired and began to spray formic acid into the air. It's just that their shooting height is less than one decimeter. The flying knights were not actually threatened, but they also increased their flying altitude.
——I am the dividing line——
In the evening of that day, the sun was already halfway down, and the army of fire ants that was marching around the edge of the northern black forest finally arrived at the outskirts of [Xinyang City].
The Angel King's legion has long been waiting on the newly reinforced city wall. The 3rd legion, 4th legion and 5th legion are on the front line, and the most elite 1st legion and 2nd legion are on standby at the rear.
In the dim light, the protagonist standing on the high ant mound only saw the enemy's black mass, sweeping in like a torrent. The originally bright red, or dark brown, reddish-brown ants of various races were now at dusk. , all look like deep and light black.
The enemy troops stopped at the depression north of [Xinyang City] and gathered north of the depression. The black torrent gradually gathered into a black lake, like a black reservoir hanging above a dam. It seemed that when the dam collapsed, everything in front of it would be swept away.
The number of enemy troops is really astonishing. Once there are thousands of ants, if you look to the left and right when the front is parallel, you will feel boundless, let alone a hundred thousand people.
After the enemy troops gathered together, they finally occupied more than ten square meters of ground. They were densely packed and shadowy, and the enemy's heads were swinging and their tentacles were shaking.
The enemy did not launch an attack immediately, but the Divine Envoy King's army still did not dare to be careless. The entire army was on alert, and the enemy had already begun to set up camp.
At this time, from the information package brought back by the flying knights, the protagonist saw the difference in status between the red fire ant warriors and the slave auxiliary soldiers.
The fire ant warriors all gathered in small formations and stayed put. Some slave warriors vomited food from their stomachs and fed them one by one to the hungry fire ants after traveling for a day.
There are also many slave auxiliaries, mainly burrowing ants, who, like their race name, began to dig out their nests.
It seems that the enemy is going to set up a camp very close to [Xinyang City].
The enemy's nest is outside the range of the ballista, and the protagonist has no way to stop their actions, so he can only watch.
In addition to serving the fire ants and building nests, the slave auxiliaries in the fire ant army also began to collect some of the military rations they carried in their mouths and moved them little by little into the newly dug underground military camp.
It was like this until quite a while after dark, before the army of 100,000 fire ants settled down and settled underground one after another.
Only one legion of the Divine Envoy King's legion was left on guard, and the remaining troops went back to rest.
The protagonist still did not go back. He was staring at the enemy camp in the darkness, seeming to be planning something.
