On April 5, the water still showed no sign of receding significantly.
A large number of worker ants from the Angel King's army are busy on the south bank of the depression lake.
The water is full of floating corpses. These water-soaked corpses can easily produce germs. The protagonist cannot stand it anymore and asks his subordinates to restrain themselves.
It is said that it is restrained, but in fact it is just to use wooden sticks and mandibles to bring the corpses ashore, and then drop them into the fast-moving river to be washed away. [Xinyangcheng] now has no extra open space to bury tens of thousands of people. corpses of enemies.
In comparison, although the fire ant army also sent hundreds to thousands of soldiers to the north of the lake every day to guard, they were indifferent to the corpses of their companions and allowed the floating corpses on the north shore to continue to float.
The protagonist sometimes curses, hoping that these enemies will be infected with the plague and suffer heavy casualties, so that they will retreat.
The fire ant army lost tens of thousands of soldiers in the siege and fire in the past few days, but their main force still exists, which still puts great pressure on the protagonist.
If there hadn't been heavy rain forming a lake that separated the two sides, I don't know how many more fierce battles the defenders would have endured and how many soldiers they would have lost.
But God cannot take care of him forever. Placing his hopes on unreliable luck is not a long-term solution. The protagonist knows that he must take some measures to win this must-win battle.
After all, although the flood made the Angel King's army temporarily safe, the turbulent waves also cut off the protagonist's last escape route - the walnut boat cannot sail in such water conditions, and doing so would almost mean death!
——I am the dividing line——
"Little Flower" sat behind a flying knight, riding on a fly mount, and was guarded by two other flying knights holding spears.
They were a group of three riding four ants, flying to the territory of the leaf-cutter ant country.
After the trade team led by "Xiaohua" completed the last trade before the siege, because the war had begun, it could only stay idle at home. The workers of the trade team were also transferred to battlefield logistics.
Last night, "Little Flower" was resting in a shared nest room with several other magical worker ants belonging to the scientific research team, when the great Divine Envoy King suddenly arrived.
After the God Envoy King communicated with "Xiao Hua" individually, Xiao Hua accepted the mission of being an envoy to the Leaf Cutter Ant Kingdom.
The protagonist hopes to form an alliance with the Leafcutter Ant Nation to deal with the Red Fire Ant Nation. While the Red Fire Ant Nation's army is being pinned down in [Xinyang City], he can encourage the Leafcutter Ant Nation to send troops, either to surround Wei and rescue Zhao and attack other territories of the Red Fire Ant Nation, or to directly send troops. [Xinyang City], both sides work together to eliminate this main force of the red fire ant country.
The protagonist feels that this strategy is a win-win situation. The Angel King's army can eliminate the military threat posed by the red fire ant country within a period of time, and the leaf cutter ant country can also greatly weaken the military strength of its archenemy.
With the mission, "Little Flower" and his party entered the territory of the Leafcutter Ant Kingdom, and then the flying knights found a place to wait outside the forest. "Little Flower" alone, under the guidance of the guide, flew to the magnificent [Holy Tree City] on the Star Beetle.
In the afternoon of the next day, "Little Flower" was picked up by the Flying Knight and brought back to [Xinyang City].
At this time, the water had already shown signs of receding, and parts of the high areas on the east and west sides of the depression were exposed to the water.
The protagonist knows that the stagnant water will not last long under the summer-like temperature and sunshine, and the next war will start soon, so he eagerly hopes that the "little flower" can bring good news.
But to his disappointment, "Little Flower" said that the Leafcutter Ant Nation rejected the protagonist's alliance proposal and refused to join forces.
It’s not that “Little Flower” didn’t work hard, she analyzed the pros and cons of this win-win proposal according to the protagonist’s method. But the protagonist's pros and cons analysis is full of his human thinking. Although the Female Ant Assembly found this proposal very interesting and submitted it, the Queen Ant Assembly, the highest authority in the leaf-cutting ant country, did not like this plan.
The final decision of the queen ant conference was conveyed by the female ant who had friendship with "Little Flower": the leaf-cutting ant nation stated that they did not need to ally with any ants, and their invincible army did not need to fight with any army. Will not set foot on any unforested land.
Well, the protagonist knows from this "leaf-cutting ant" style reply that the other party is obviously stubborn, and the protagonist does not send "Little Flower" again to convince the other party. Such an approach will only be counterproductive for the conceited and stubborn target.
The Legion of God's Envoy King can only rely on itself!
——I am the dividing line——
On April 8, the water had dropped by half, and a winding strip of land was exposed on the east and west sides of the depression.
Although this section of land is still very wet, the fire ant army can't wait to launch an attack.
The fire ant army had been accumulating food for a long time before launching this military operation. But [Xinyangcheng] was harder to conquer than expected, and the sudden rain delayed the battle for another four or five days.
During this period of time, the food supply in the camp of the Fire Ant Army has been very tight. In addition to traveling thousands of miles around the Black Forest to transport precious food from [Hive City], all the slave auxiliaries of the Red Fire Ant Army were also sent out to search for food.
Even so, the fire ant army has also reduced its ration supply. In addition to the fire ant's own warriors who can get the full ration, the wood ants can only get half of the ration, and the burrowing ants and abdominal ants can only get one-third. The number of black ants is only one sixth.
Anyway, these grass-tolerant slaves won't starve to death if they don't fight and eat less. This is the common thought of the fire ant commanders.
When there were finally one or two roads to launch an attack, the fire ant warriors and the slave auxiliary soldiers finally had a full meal together. Fortunately, the red fire ants also knew that they should not go into battle without starving soldiers, so they did not let the slave auxiliary soldiers starve. Going to the battlefield on a belly.
Later, the burrowing ants and black brown ants carried soil, gravel, dead grass, etc. in their mouths to raise and widen the road that was still wet just after it emerged from the water.
After being busy for most of the day, in the afternoon, the red fire ant army sent out an attack force of ten thousand ants, crossed two roads, formed an array on the south bank of the lake with water in the depression, and launched the first attack in five days.
The Angel King's legion was still ready, but due to the humid weather, what the defenders did not expect was that although the ballistas that had just been moved out of the ground were not exposed to the rain, the elasticity of the tendon springs was severely reduced due to moisture, and the power of the cannonballs was greatly reduced. , almost unusable.
Without the fire support of the crossbows, the defenders' defense was extremely difficult. They fought fiercely until dusk when the sky was dark, and the red fire ant army reluctantly retreated.
In today's battle, the fire ant army held their breath and often refused to retreat. Although they left more than 5,000 corpses behind, they also caused the casualties of nearly a thousand soldiers of the defenders.
This was the highest single-day battle loss since the beginning of the war between the Divine Envoy King's Legion, and almost half of the reorganized legion was crippled.
If the battle losses remain at this level, the Army of the Divine Envoy King will be in serious trouble.
