Shortly after repelling the first counterattack of the Leafcutter Ant Kingdom, [Red Iron City] began to take shape under the day and night work of tens of thousands of ants.
But even with the support of a fortified city, the Divine Envoy King's army did not dare to be careless. What was close to [Red Iron City] was a big country with millions of ants and hundreds of thousands of troops.
The protagonist personally led 6 legions to continue to be stationed in [Hematite City], and the only tank troops and more flying knights were transferred here. The most elite force of the Divine Envoy King's legion was gathered here.
The Leafcutter Ant Nation did not send envoys to contact the Divine Envoy King's army, which made the protagonist realize that the other party did not intend to be kind. The ant world does not advocate the realism and interests of human diplomacy, and the ants are more impatient and warlike. . After a brief honeymoon period, the Divine Envoy King's Legion and the Leafcutter Ant Nation have now completely turned against each other.
The protagonist will not be complacent just because he easily defeated the first counterattack of the leaf-cutting ant army. The previous wave of leaf-cutting ant army does not represent their true strength. When hundreds of thousands of leaf-cutting ant armies surged in, even the current armored warriors of the God Envoy King did not dare to touch them lightly.
The protagonist also knows that the leaf-cutter ant country has domesticated the star beetle. Although this beetle is a vegetarian, it has a pair of hard mouthparts that can bite through tree bark. It must be able to bite ants one at a time.
According to Flying Knight's observations, the leaf-cutter ant army does not use star beetles on battlefields outside the woods, but in the woods, these star beetles will also appear near the battlefield, and their specific functions are unknown.
The protective net in [Hematite City] is used to deal with the star beetle. This kind of net has played a great role in dealing with parasitic war beasts in swamp areas. As for the protective net of [Hematite City], the mesh size can block the beetle, but ordinary ants can easily pass through it.
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After waiting for several days, the protagonist did not wait for the second counterattack of the leaf-cutting ant army.
The flying knights' reconnaissance missions deep into the woods were often ambushed by leaf-cutting ants in the trees, or chased by star beetles driven by leaf-cutting ant warriors. Although most of the time it was a false alarm, there were occasional casualties.
In such an environment, the flying knights dare not go too deep, and they cannot accurately grasp the mobilization of the leaf-cutter ant army in the woods. From the available information, the leaf-cutter ant army seems to be gathering at the border of the red fire ant country. New power.
The place where they gather can not only threaten the plains of the red fire ant country, but also quickly attack [Hematite City]. This information allowed the Divine Envoy King's army to continue to feel as if they were facing a formidable enemy and not dare to move without permission.
A few days later, the first thing that the Angel King's army was waiting for was not the army of leaf-cutting ants, but the heaviest heavy rain this summer.
Rains are not frequent this year, with not much spring rain. There are a few unique thunderstorms in summer, but the rainfall is not heavy. The biggest thunderstorm happened last month, and it even blocked the red fire ant army's military operation to eliminate the encircled leaf-cutting ant army.
All the rain seems to be accumulating, waiting for an opportunity to pour out!
On September 17, the weather suddenly changed and it rained instantly.
The rain started in the morning, when the Angel King's army was preparing to organize the first batch of ant hands to transport the newly excavated hematite particles back to [Xinyang City]. Fortunately, the team had predicted the air pressure before they set off. Changes, timely enter the nest to take shelter from the rain.
The sky turned dark almost instantly, and then the sky quickly became so dark that it was almost impossible to see the tentacles in front of me outdoors.
In the dim sky, raindrops as big as soybeans suddenly fell like a meteor shower. The initially dry surface was still covered with dust under the impact of the raindrops, and soon the dust condensed into mud on the surface.
The rain was so heavy that the ground quickly turned into a watery land. Even in the woods where [Hematite City] is located, the dense leaves can't seem to stop the rain from invading the surface. Water quickly appears on the ground, and the excess water even begins to find a breakthrough and roll outward.
[Akatie Castle] The terrain is higher, so the ant mounds are exposed from the flood. However, the underground nests begin to seep a lot of water. The ants gathered inside can only move to dry nests while the continuous flow of water drops that seep in Take it to the deep drainage tunnel and dump it.
In the afternoon, the heavy rain finally stopped. In just a few hours, it seemed that all the rain accumulated in more than half a year was poured on the ground at once.
The water content of the soil has been saturated, there is water everywhere on the ground, and the forest suddenly turned into a mangrove.
Although [Hematite City] was not submerged, the protagonist who took off for inspection on "Blackie" found that the low-lying hematite mine had been completely soaked in water and turned into a puddle.
The protagonist had a headache. The hematite ore had just been taken over and started to be produced, but now it was "in ruins". The water had nowhere to drain. It would probably take a week to dry out naturally.
The protagonist looked at the nearby terrain. The area near [Hematite City] happened to be a low-lying area, and the flowing floods gathered here with nowhere to go. If [Hematite City] hadn't deliberately chosen a relatively high location, I'm afraid it would have been flooded.
The only good thing about this heavy rain is that the leaf-cutting ants have also been affected by the floods. They estimate that even if they want to launch military operations, they will postpone it for the time being.
The protagonist is hovering in the air while thinking. Judging from the current terrain of hematite, water will easily accumulate in a heavy rain. In this case, the normal mining of hematite will be seriously affected!
Viewed from the air, this hematite mine is roughly in the shape of an irregular circle. The surface soil was lifted up by leaf-cutting ants many years ago, exposing the underground mineral layers. Years of mining have made the mine more than a decimeter lower than the nearby land, and the vicinity of the mine itself is a low-lying land. In such a terrain, it is difficult not to accumulate water.
In the past, the leafcutter ant country did not have much demand for hematite. When the water accumulated, it would stop work, and then continue digging after the water dried up.
After rain, the water-soaked mineral deposits will be broken into fine particles after being exposed to high temperatures and sunlight in summer, making it easier to collect. But in fact, there is no need to soak it in water. It only needs normal rainfall to soak the mineral layer to achieve this effect.
The Divine Envoy King's Army has a large demand for iron ore, and it really cannot afford to wait for multiple shutdowns a year.
The protagonist in the air looked at the nearby terrain and wondered if a drainage channel could be built.
Although the terrain near the Hematite Mine is low-lying, the entire area has an obvious topographic trend of high in the north and low in the south. A dozen meters south of [Hematite City] and the Hematite Mine, the terrain at the edge of the woods drops sharply.
If a flood control ditch is dug around [Hematite City] and Hematite Mine, and the flood control ditch is directed to lower-lying areas, the flood can be effectively directed to other directions. If only the rainwater received by the hematite itself does not allow it to accumulate a large amount of water, it will not interfere with mining.
