Familiar ant species, familiar military formations, and familiar tactics.
Coupled with the other party's self-defeating behavior of hurriedly hiding after discovering the flying knight hovering on the spot, the protagonist guessed the other party's identity.
They are the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom faction...
At first, due to the increasingly severe conflict of ideas, the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom began to suppress the God Envoy King's army. Subsequently, the protagonist raised troops in [Xinyang City], quickly went straight to Huanglong and captured the main nest [Xinyang City], and then successively eliminated the remaining forces of the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom on the south bank of the river, including the Western Alliance, the Old-Fashioned King's Army, and Later, the ant queen's inheritance faction turned against each other and unified the South Bank.
However, the power of the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom has not become history.
At that time, the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom had a powerful Northern Expeditionary Army, which passed the rope bridge in Linshui City to conquer the Pavement Ants northward, and captured a territory along the river.
The protagonist originally wanted to isolate the Northern Expeditionary Army from the south bank and let it hang alone on the north bank to contain the Paving Ant Barbarian Kingdom for the God's Envoy King's Army.
As a result, during the attack on the Old-Fashioned King's army, Flying Eagle rebelled and flew to the north bank with the Old-Folded King and joined the Northern Expeditionary Army. The Northern Expeditionary Army subsequently severed ties with the Angel King's army and was completely defeated in the Destroyer's offensive a year later.
At that time, the protagonist did not know that a remnant of the Northern Expeditionary Army had escaped!
Now, seeing familiar figures on the south bank of the Qinghe River, it is not difficult for the protagonist to guess that there were some remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army, who, like the survivors of the big-headed ants, escaped by climbing on the floating vegetation and drifting along the river. Finally, we ran aground and landed very close to the [Xinyangcheng] Peninsula.
They arrived in this new land a year earlier than the Angel King's army.
After realizing the identity of the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the protagonist was very emotional.
In the original Northern Expedition, there were heroes like the Public Security King and Senior Brother who were originally good friends with the protagonist; there were also enemies like the old-fashioned King who the protagonist hated, and even traitors like Flying Eagle that the protagonist wanted to kill quickly.
This makes the protagonist have a very ambivalent attitude towards the Northern Expeditionary Army. He did not let the Divine Envoy King's army take the initiative to cross the river and took military action against the Northern Expeditionary Army because he had feelings for it.
When he learned that the Destroyer had wiped out the Northern Expeditionary Army, the protagonist was a little sad for a time. He seemed to have become a loner in an instant. There were no equal ants around him anymore. He stood alone at the pinnacle of power, but he was so cold...
Now, the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army have reappeared, and the protagonist has little hostility towards them, and instead feels a sense of sympathy.
The protagonist asked the flying knights to come back and did not give the frightened Northern Expeditionary Army any more excitement. Although I don't know if there are any ants I know in the Northern Expeditionary Army, judging from the attitude of the other party, the attitude of the Northern Expeditionary Army towards my side cannot be said to be friendly.
Since the Northern Expeditionary Army still exists, let them fend for themselves. The protagonist does not intend to do anything unnecessary, and must get rid of them quickly. Across the wide Qinghe River, there is no rope bridge or other means of crossing the river. Even if the Northern Expeditionary Army is hostile to the Divine Envoy King's army, what can they do?
What's more, the current situation of the Northern Expeditionary Army cannot be said to be very good. It is still early to have the strength to threaten the Army of the Divine Envoy King.
Last year, the Flying Knights conducted military operations on the south bank of the Qinghe River. The reason why the Northern Expeditionary Army was not found was not only because the territory was overgrown with weeds and easy to hide, but also because the Northern Expeditionary Army's territory was small and there were few ant colonies.
This time, facing the thousands of huge and capable ants that were driven here, the Northern Expeditionary Army only dispatched about two legions of troops. Perhaps these 3,000 warriors were its entire force. In this way, the number of its nests The number of ant colonies will not exceed 10,000.
Such a pitiful ant colony can easily be wiped out if it encounters an accident. In the ant world, if a butterfly flaps its wings and a grain of sand falls from the sky, an ant clan will be completely destroyed.
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For more than half a month, the south bank of the Qinghe River was in chaos, and more than a dozen ant forces were destroyed. What made the protagonist somewhat gratified was that the relatively weak Northern Expeditionary Army relied on its excellent military system and tactical capabilities that were much better than other forces. , although the loss was not small, it survived in the end.
As the spring weather begins to grow, life enters its prosperous period, food becomes abundant, and the war between the ant forces finally slows down.
After a round of marriages between different ants, some new ant forces emerged, filling the power vacuum created in the previous war.
The Northern Expeditionary Army also took the opportunity to expand some territory. Where there is territory, there is food and there are ant colonies. Perhaps, if the Northern Expeditionary Army is allowed to develop, they can recreate the glory of the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom on the south bank of the Qinghe River.
The protagonist asked the flying knights to use flame-resistant grease-soaked fuel and gunpowder liquid to light a fire that could burn for several hours on the territory of the Northern Expeditionary Army without being discovered by the ants foraging for it. Small campfire.
At the beginning, the fire of the Divine Envoy King's Legion was obtained from the holy fire of [Qingqiu City] of the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom. Today, I give this fire back to you!
The Bei Zhengjun discovered this fire, and a male ant unknown to the protagonist took away the fire with the ants. Before leaving, he raised his head and looked at the flying knight hovering in the sky, and seemed to lightly tap his tentacles.
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The protagonist did not spend all his energy observing the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army on the south bank. After the beginning of spring, there are many things waiting for the protagonist to deal with:
Construction on the canal continues and progress continues to accelerate.
New cannons were continuously cast and began to be equipped with the city defense facilities of [New Yangcheng]. After the expansion of the tank force, some war beasts were also divided into experiments to install additional firearms.
The leafcutter ant country and the red imported fire ant country also have different trends.
Over at [Red Iron City], the Flying Knights discovered that after the leafcutter ant country had rested for the winter, they began to build up their troops on the other side of the stream.
There has always been no shortage of food in the leafcutter ant country. Their fungus cultivation industry has a stable output. Even if production is suspended in winter, the food stored in them is enough to survive the winter.
Today, the number of warriors in the Leafcutter Ant Kingdom has fully recovered to what it was before the "Great War". They have amassed as many as 500,000 troops by the stream, as well as hundreds of star beetles, and they seem to be able to launch a counterattack at any time.
The flying knights have not even dared to fly to the other side of the stream recently, otherwise they will always be chased by several or even a dozen huge star beetles.
Fortunately for the protagonist, the Angel King's army specially cut off the branches of the trees on this side of the stream extending to the other side before going through the winter. The leaf-cutting ant army was unable to cross the river from [Hematite Castle] and the trees to the south. .
Therefore, the main force of the leaf-cutting ant army is gathered opposite the control area of the red imported fire ant country.
The fire ant army seems not to be prepared to face the upcoming counterattack at all, their movements are very strange!
