During the time when Fang Zheng returned to Tiandao Palace to sort out internal affairs, the battle between the Fire Nation and the Zerg had never stopped.

Logically speaking, if the Zerg wanted to destroy the Fire Nation, they would only need a simple F2A to achieve their goal, but Fang Zheng did not choose to do so.

Sun Tzu said: "Warfare is the art of deception. So when you are capable, pretend to be incapable; when you are using an attack, pretend not to use it; when you are near, pretend to be far away; when you are far away, pretend to be near."

Fang Zheng's goal was not simply to teach the Fire Nation a lesson or to make them suffer. On the contrary, his goal was to wipe out most of the Fire Nation's forces in one fell swoop and completely pull out all the teeth of this tiger... Even if he couldn't pull out all of them, at least he would make it difficult for the tiger to eat.

Is it really so easy to find trouble in the Tiandao Palace?

Therefore, Fang Zheng had been ordering the Zerg and the Fire Nation to fight guerrilla warfare, and hiding all the advanced troops, using only the Hydralisk, Alien and Zerglings to harass the Fire Nation.

As a human being, Fang Zheng is of course well aware that humans are creatures with very rigid thinking habits. Having seen these three types of soldiers so often, they will subconsciously think that the Zerg only has these three types of soldiers. So when the decisive battle comes, when Fang Zheng releases the other types of soldiers, the Fire Nation will inevitably be confused.

And beyond that, the most important thing is...interest.

All wars must have their purposes, just as Fang Zheng's purpose is to weaken the power of the Fire Nation. If you want the Fire Nation to invest most of its military forces in this undeveloped land, you naturally have to have interests that can attract them. Otherwise, no one is a fool. No one would invest most of the country's military power to develop a piece of wasteland.

Fortunately, Fang Zheng didn't need to take action, and the Fire Nation had a reason to conquer this land.

That's the fungal mat.

The fungal blanket of the Zerg can nourish the land and make it regenerate. Nanali had used a piece of fungal blanket to make fertilizer before, but Fang Zheng didn't let Nanali use the fungal blanket as raw material because he was worried that he couldn't explain the source of the material clearly.

And the facts have proved that there are more than just Nanali who are talented alchemists in this world. Soon, alchemists in the Fire Nation also discovered this characteristic of the fungal blanket, which immediately attracted the attention of the Fire Nation.

As mentioned before, although the Fire Nation is vast and sparsely populated, its weakness is poor soil. So after Nanali invented the fertilizer, the Fire Nation has been trying to "invite" it over. However, because Fang Zheng was keeping a close eye on it and had no intention of letting it go, the Fire Nation did not succeed, and even lost a rear admiral...

But now, with the fungal mat, the Fire Nation suddenly feels more confident.

If you don't give it to me, I will make it myself!!

As a result, the fungal mat quickly rose to the level of national strategic reserve materials, and the Fire Nation also dispatched a large number of soldiers to try to completely wipe out the swarms of insects roaming on the fungal mat. After all, if they want to "mine" the fungal mat, they must face the endless harassment and guerrilla warfare of the swarms.

Although ordinary Zerg units are no match for Legendary Powers and spellcasters, they are outnumbered. Hydralisks would often stretch their tails out from underground to tease them, or Aliens would sneak over to launch a night attack in the dark, which would annoy the people of the Fire Nation to death.

Moreover, legendary strongmen and mages are not cabbages. You can't expect them to do nothing but follow the transport team back and forth for guard patrol every day.

Therefore, the Fire Nation also made a decision. These ugly bugs must have a nest. As long as they find their nest and gather superior forces to take it down in one fell swoop, they will never have to worry about future troubles!

The soldiers of the Fire Nation were certainly not lazy. They followed the route of the insect swarm and soon found a large nest. It was obvious that this was the lair of these damn monsters. As long as all these monsters were eliminated, this land would belong to the Fire Nation forever!

Of course, all of this was designed by Fang Zheng long ago.

That insect nest base was a branch base specially created by Fang Zheng, and in order to prevent the Fire Nation from discovering the remains of the goddess, he also deliberately built this insect nest base... on top of the remains.

Yeah, that's right.

Above the goddess ruins.

Are you kidding? How can we not use such a good thing? Think about it carefully. If the Fire Nation destroyed the Zerg Hive Base in broad daylight and then blew up the Goddess Ruins, how would they explain it? At that time, the Zerg Swarm can appear as the guardian of the Goddess. As for the Fire Nation... hehe...

As for whether the Goddess Ruins could withstand the attack of the Fire Nation, Fang Zheng thought about it and estimated that there would be no problem. After all, he couldn't even force it open, so he could only obediently complete the task and upgrade. If the Fire Nation had the ability to help him open the door... then it would actually save him some effort!

But now...

"It's time to play a game of StarCraft."

Looking at the image uploaded to the personal terminal in front of him, Fang Zheng smiled coldly, then moved his fingers and closed his eyes.

The next moment, he entered the entire Zerg network.

At the same time, the Fire Nation, having received accurate intelligence, also dispatched a large army towards the insect nest.

The two cavalrymen rode their horses back and forth, inspecting the troops around them, while chatting idly.

"I never thought that the parliament would put so much effort into this and mobilize the troops from three military regions to jointly wipe out these monsters. Aren't they just some demons? Why is it so exaggerated? Wouldn't it be better to find a few legendary masters or great wizards to directly bomb their nests?"

"Hey, you know shit!"

Hearing the sigh of his colleague, another White Feather Cavalryman snorted.

"You understand the truth, how can the parliament not understand it? You don't understand this, right? The main reason we came here this time is..."

Having said that, the White Feather Cavalry curled his lips towards the rear.

"To give that adult some strength."

“…Why?”

"Are you really stupid or are you just pretending to be stupid?"

The White Feather Cavalryman looked hopeless and glared at his stupid colleague.

"I think you also know that Lord Kara is dead. This news is spreading all over the country. That dragon slayer is our patron saint. After his death, there must be someone to take over! That lord is the successor of His Excellency the dragon slayer! The parliament sent him here this time just to let that lord stand out and divert the attention of the people. Otherwise, why do you think the parliament is keeping silent about Lord Kara and not even talking about revenge for him..."

"But I heard that Lord Kara died in a fair duel."

"Nonsense! These are all rumors. Lord Kara is so powerful, how could he be killed in a fair duel? It must be that the liars in the Holy Kingdom used some despicable means to secretly harm Lord Kara! The parliament has no evidence, so it didn't say it! But we will avenge this grudge sooner or later! "

As he spoke, the White Feather Cavalry waved the weapons in his hands.

"Humph, those sinister and despicable villains want to harm us, so we won't surrender so easily! Only our Fire Nation is the defender of peace and freedom! Those guys who worship gods all day long can only scare people by pretending to be gods!"

Having said that, the White Feather Cavalryman suddenly stopped, held the reins, and slowly looked around.

"Did you hear any... noises?"

"sound?"

Looking at the reaction of the Baiyu Cavalry, the other cavalryman also looked around.

"I didn't hear anything..."

“Swish!!”

Suddenly, at this moment, a series of sharp spikes suddenly flew out from the ground. One of the spikes pierced through the warhorse, went up along the cavalryman's lower body, and came out directly from his head, thus stringing the cavalryman and the warhorse in front of him together into a string of candied haws!

"Why??"

Seeing his colleague's head suddenly explode and the whole person being lifted high up, the other cavalryman was stunned, and then he quickly reacted.

"enemy……!!"

However, before he could finish his words, the ground around him suddenly cracked open, and springtails jumped out, biting his head in one bite, swallowing his screams and his head into its stomach.

"What happened?"

The advancing army also noticed that something was wrong, and they hurriedly picked up their weapons to see where the enemy came from. But soon, countless spikes emerged from the ground, like sharp blades, and stabbed directly into the army. With roars and wails, in the blink of an eye, many people fell to the ground covered in blood, or were pierced by the spikes and hung in the air.

Before the soldiers could react, the ground suddenly cracked, and tens of thousands of springtails appeared around them without any warning.