This time, the fire ants were indeed frightened, and anyone who saw such a scene would be horrified.
They had seen wildfires, they had seen floods, they had seen strong winds, but they had never seen what they had just seen. They didn't know what happened. They saw a flash of light and corpses everywhere.
The simple thought of the red fire ant male directly connected the scene just now with supernatural power!
That’s divine punishment!
There is no need to laugh at ants. Ancient humans also regarded all things that are beyond human reach as divine power, such as earthquakes, rain, and locust plagues.
The fire ant army was a little scared. They felt that this divine punishment was a warning to them. Although the red fire ant army still has not retreated, their will is wavering. Even the senior male ant elders have had emergency consultations for a long time and still have not made up their minds!
Honeydew and crow honey are so tempting that sometimes they can even overwhelm fear. Under the will of the red fire ant elders, the gradually shaking army stabilizes again.
On the side of the God Envoy King's legion, the protagonist himself did not expect that the results of this fire attack would be so brilliant. When he was a child, he burned catkins and burned ants with gunpowder powder, but he never thought that burning ants with catkins was so similar to burning ants with gunpowder powder!
These flying catkins are so flammable that the protagonist is a little worried that a wildfire will suddenly break out and burn the forest in the north, which is an important source of supplies for the Divine Envoy King's Legion.
The protagonist looked around again. There were no trees near the peninsula, only wild grasses. The lavender kudzu and yellow inula, as well as smaller shepherd's purse and field cauliflower were all blooming brilliantly. Maybe this is also due to the wildfires!
But the protagonist doesn’t need to worry about wildfires, because it started raining just after nightfall!
This is not the first spring rain, but it is definitely the most hearty one: Thousands of miles of majestic dark clouds, endless raindrops falling, cumulus clouds pressing down on the ground, and strong winds and water. This rain is as heroic as a summer thunderstorm and as continuous as a spring rain.
The sun didn't come out until the morning. The protagonist woke up according to the biological clock. When he came to the outside of the ant mound, he quickly shrank back.
alright! There is no need to think about the war today. With such heavy rain, the enemy cannot attack at all.
Moreover, if their simple outdoor camp does not have complete drainage measures, it will be great fun! The protagonist couldn't help but think evilly.
The heavy rain continued, the sky and the earth were dark, and it was impossible to distinguish between day and night. And in the endless rain curtain, the flowing water of Qinghe River has gathered rainwater and floods from upstream, and is rolling, roaring, and rising at a much faster speed than before.
This is really spring tide!
The river water flooded the beach on the river bank, causing the reeds to completely separate from the shore. Even when the river level had risen to the highest water level that the Divine Envoy King's Legion had ever seen before, it was still rising!
In [Xinyang City], the Divine Envoy King's legions also noticed changes in the water level, because water drops began to seep out from the depths of their underground lair.
There are some queen ants who live here. After the drainage by carrying water drops in the hands of the ants fails, the queens can only move to the middle and upper layers of the nest.
Subsequently, more and more deep nest chambers were filled with water, and the worker ants had to rush away all the threatened objects, not even caring that their bodies were dirty and wet from the mud.
Fortunately, important facilities such as combustion chambers and blast furnaces are located on higher ground and have waterproof layers, so they were not affected in the end.
On the ground, the spring tides even reshaped the terrain, perhaps temporarily, but at least for now they changed the pattern of the surface and the direction of this war.
The water level on both sides of the peninsula continued to rise, and soon broke through the slightly higher natural "dykes" on the east and west sides of the depression, and the gurgling water slowly flowed into the depression.
The ground in the depression that had already been saturated with rainwater could no longer accommodate the new liquid. The flowing water gathered in the lower parts of the depression, and then quickly rose until the entire depression was submerged, and the water surface was connected to the east and west rivers.
The corpses of thousands of fire ants, forest ants and other ants that had not been restrained yesterday were either drifting away with the current or gathering together somewhere on the shore. Countless floating corpses covered the water, which looked extremely terrifying.
The water surface also completely separated the attacking red fire ant army from the defensive God Envoy King army, turning [Xinyang City] completely into an island.
This water accumulation will last for several days or even a week, as it did in previous years. When the accumulated water is eventually dried by the sun and absorbed by the earth, it will leave salt and alkali in the depression, which will continue to inhibit the growth of vegetation inside.
This is the annual cycle of depression!
——I am the dividing line——
On the afternoon of April 4, the rain finally stopped.
When the protagonist came outside with his guards to inspect, he saw ants coming out to observe in the camp of red fire ants in the distance.
The heavy rain almost day and night put the red imported fire ants' simple underground camp to the test. Although the camp was still far from the river, water droplets continued to emerge from the ground.
The fire ants themselves gathered in a relatively dry and comfortable area, while other slave auxiliaries fought all day long, relying solely on the power of ants to drain water, but with little effect.
There was even stagnant water in some low-lying areas, and hundreds of ants died in the stagnant water, or died during the rescue operation.
When the protagonist and the commanders of the fire ants discovered that the water had separated the two armies at almost the same time, they were both equally surprised.
Compared with the happy surprise on the protagonist's side, the enemy's side was obviously unhappy!
Originally, think about it, the Red Fire Ant Country sent out a large army with absolute military superiority, but suffered repeated setbacks in front of the fortified city. The original plan was to rely on numerical superiority to continue to consume the defenders, but as a result, the offensive had to be suspended due to floods from the sky.
Such a scene is difficult for any commander to accept.
The rain came so suddenly that the ants' premonition of changes in air pressure had no time to take effect, and they were even less able to stop it.
Both sides can only accept this fact.
The Angel King's Legion immediately started production after the rain. With the cover of the water, they were safe. They even dared to graze aphids on the south bank of the depression, facing the anxious fire ants across the water.
The red fire ant army didn't seem to be planning to retreat yet. They moved their camp back a little and built Xin's military camp on a higher ground.
Their camp was already on the high ground to the north of the depression, but it was still hit by floods. This time they had to choose a more secure location.
At the same time, the fire ant army will send out scouts to patrol near the water every day, waiting for the day when the water recedes.
Occasionally, there will be ants that vainly spray formic acid from the other side, adding a sense of humor to the boring confrontation between the two sides.
Although it is safe for the time being, the protagonist is not happy - even in this situation, the enemy army still refuses to retreat. It is obvious that they are bound to capture the Divine Envoy King's army and [New Yang City].
As for the defenders, they really don't have much capital to keep spending.
How can we end this war? ?
