Not long after the transportation lines were cleared and stabilized, the season entered the thunderstorm season.
This spring was dry, but in summer, the sky and clouds seemed to be repaying the accumulated rain several times over. After entering July, it rained almost two or three times a week, and sunny days were few and far between.
Sometimes in gloomy weather, the air pressure changes drastically, and without much warning, a short period of rapid rainstorm suddenly hits, and the ground is instantly wet, and even becomes a wetland.
Such weather is disastrous for ants far away from their nests in the wild. When they notice the abnormality in air pressure, there is not much time left to take refuge. Those ants that are too late to return to their nests have no choice but to seek refuge in higher ground nearby and hide in the lee of the wind and rain to suffer.
More often, the weather is heavy rain that lasts for most of the day, or even intermittently for several days. At this time, the heavy rain pours, and the weather is connected by water lines, like stalactite pillars in a cave. The ground is full of water, and the water It reflected the gloomy sky, and it was almost impossible to tell which was the sky and which was the earth.
And next to it, the big stone cracks turned into waterfalls again, and streams of Bailian surged into the ground, but they still couldn't fill up this small-looking stone crack, and they didn't know how deep it was to accommodate this endless flow. of floods.
Zhu Jue arrived during the interval between two heavy rains.
The disaster situation here is much better than last time. Due to the higher terrain, many new drainage channels have been dug. Rainwater is guided and collected into the trenches outside the fortress, and then directed into the bottomless stone crevices nearby. Except for part of the ground space near the surface that was soaked by infiltrated rainwater, most of the underground nests were safe and sound.
Zhu Jue was busy in the war against the Destroyer a while ago and had no time to think too much. He had almost forgotten about the mysterious stone crevices and the human hands in them. The stone crevices had been very peaceful during this period, and the human hands did not appear again. , as if what I saw that day was just an illusion.
Zhu Jue always believed that it was not a fantasy. Although it was impossible for a person to be buried under the stone and survive to this day, there should always be a reasonable explanation for this supernatural phenomenon. And the answer lies under the cracks in the rocks!
When the thunderstorm season was extremely fierce, Zhu Jue suddenly had an idea in his mind - so much rain poured into the cracks in the rocks, no matter what the human hands under the cracks were, it would probably be affected. Maybe in the next two days, there will be another strange movement in the cracks of the stone!
Huge impulse filled Zhu Jue's heart. He no longer had any desire to become a human being, but uncovering the mysteries about humans in the cracks of the stone was still very attractive!
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During the occasional breaks in the thunderstorm season, the venomous sunshine in midsummer will immediately regain control of the earth. The scorching sunshine will whip all living things like a whip. Even cold-blooded insects dare not be exposed to the sun all the time to avoid overheating. High, and rapid water loss.
But in such a scorching sun, the flying knights who were reluctant to go to work could only hide in the shade of the trees to catch their breath, but they saw the destroyers not afraid of the scorching sun, and actually moved swaggering under the bright sun.
The Destroyers are racing against time to maneuver and regroup at the northern and western borders of the Thin-footed Ant Kingdom!
This is obviously a prelude to the next massive invasion!
Within the territory of the Thin Foot Ant Nation, the civilized ant coalition began to become nervous, and they also took advantage of the rain to prepare for war.
Due to the long-term rainfall, the flying knights' attendance efficiency is now worrying, and they do not dare to risk long-distance reconnaissance. So far, many flying knights have not returned in the bad weather, and it is obvious that they will never come back. The ground was also full of mud, and the walking scouts of the Thin-footed Ants could not be dispatched. The civilized ant coalition had almost no idea of the military situation in the Destroyer's rear.
However, based on previous intelligence, Zhu Jue could easily deduce that the Destroyers had already eliminated many indigenous ant tribes in the rear, as well as the remaining resistance forces of some destroyed powerful forces, and could mobilize more troops to the battlefield of the Thin Foot Ant Kingdom.
Occasional reconnaissance reports indicate that the Destroyer's amassed forces this time are expected to be far greater than last time. Opposite the large rock crevice in the north, based on the reconnaissance results, Zhu Jue estimated that more than 100,000 Destroyers had gathered in place. The gathering place of Destroyers outside the Western Territory is far away, and the specific scale is difficult to estimate, but there are definitely many!
If the Destroyers had assembled such a huge group last time, with the more than 100,000 troops that Zhu Jue had assembled at that time, even if they had the support of the Triangular Fortress, they would not be able to resist it.
Fortunately, the Destroyer's previous invasion tactic was the most taboo tactic among military strategists. The civilized ant coalition was able to win, temper their troops, and make up for the loopholes in the defense system.
Even so, Zhu Jue will occasionally feel frustrated - so far, no one knows where the Destroyer comes from? Does it have a homeland? Where is the homeland? How many total troops are there? How many more troops can be invested on this battlefield? What is the potential for war?
Without knowing these answers, it is impossible to correctly assess the true strength of the Destroyer, and it is difficult to plan how to defeat the Destroyer...
Zhu Jue shook his head and pushed these negative thoughts out of his mind. The most important thing at the moment was to block the wave of enemy ants in front of him. Let's take it one step at a time!
Today's northern defense line, in addition to waiting for the three large fortresses to continue to expand and strengthen defense, there are more than 10 newly built small fortresses spread out to control the key ground areas between the three large fortresses and build a defense network.
At the same time, the long underground passage between the three large fortresses is under construction and is expected to be completed in the near future. At that time, the civilized ant coalition under Zhu Jue can maneuver quickly and safely underground to break the siege of a single stronghold by the Destroyer.
After receiving the food and reinforcements provided by the marching ants, the defenders in the north were no longer in danger of food shortages, and the total strength of Zhu Jue's troops had also expanded to 250,000.
It includes:
There are about 10,000 warriors of the God Envoy King in the 4 legions, and there are also several squadrons of field artillery, fly tiger knights and flying knights;
There are about 150,000 honeypot ant warriors, including about 50,000 elite soldiers and 100,000 old and weak men;
About 20,000 thin-footed ant warriors;
About 70,000 army ant warriors.
In the western and southern territories, the continuous fortress groups have finally been completed. Each fortress has an average of three to five hundred troops stationed in it, and the main force of the 800,000-strong thin-footed ant army continues to be commanded by "Broken Horn" and "Long Horn" Several, scattered and stationed in 6 large fortresses, can be gathered together to attack at any time.
Both the northern and western territories are mobilizing and deploying defenses with difficulty during the thunderstorm season, continuing to improve their defense lines, and preparing to face the thunderous strike of the Destroyer!
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