King Fuye was heartbroken at this moment.
Last year, during the defense battle of "Linshui City", King Fuye also felt like this.
That was when he organized troops twice to build a defense line, but was easily broken through by the big-headed ant barbarians on the opposite side, which shook his belief that the Pavement Ant Kingdom was favored by God and would always win.
The enemy is obviously more powerful than the Pavement Ants, but the Pavement Ants regard each other as barbarians, so what are they?
The Floating Leaf King luckily fell on a fallen leaf floating on the river, and was sent back to the north bank of the river by the current and wind.
While rafting, King Fuye thought a lot and realized a lot.
It has to be said that in an ant society that attaches great importance to the collective and despises the individual, even the highest decision-making requires collective decision-making by a group of kings whose individual intelligence is not outstanding in the eyes of humans to ensure the rationality of the decision-making.
The psychological activities of King Fuye have gone far beyond the thinking level of ordinary male ants. If I have to use a metaphor, it is the difference in thinking between humans and Buddhas, although it is not that significant.
People see mountains as mountains and water as water. When the Buddha sees mountains, he sees them not as mountains, but as famous mountains; when he sees water, he sees them as not water, but as famous waters.
During the process of floating, the Floating Leaf King, who was thought of thousands of times in his mind, has become an alternative in the ant world.
He thinks a lot, tactically, strategically, politically, and even at a higher level.
After returning to the main nest from the south bank of the river, other kings who were familiar with him noticed his changes.
He became a special presence in the King's Council, with shocking views that often attracted crowds of siege.
He actually advocated that the sacred pavement ant country blessed by God was equal to the surrounding barbarians such as big-headed ants and sour-smelling ants. He advocated that instead of marching southward in winter, the river should be accepted as the southern boundary and connected with the east and west. The natives on the border maintained basic peace and tried their best to deal with threats from the north; he advocated reforming military organization and tactics, and learned from the barbaric big-headed ant barbarians; he advocated giving more power to the deputy nest, and the main and deputy nests should have an equal relationship.
These views stunned all the kings and were completely contrary to the sacred tradition.
If it weren't for King Ukiye's prestige in the previous war against the north, and if King Ukiye hadn't figured out the corresponding tactics to restrain the big-headed ant barbarian army, the King's Council might have torn him alive.
Finally, the king's meeting issued an order prohibiting King Ukiye from going out. King Ukiye could only stay in the main nest and serve as an instructor to teach war experience and tactics to the king and the underage male ants.
His other views were considered heretical and forbidden to spread.
King Fuye was not discouraged by the ban. He stayed quietly in the main nest. While teaching, he kept replaying the wonderful first half of his life in his mind:
In the desperate battle in the northern battlefield, the resentment and despair of the opponent's queen and king when annihilating the small indigenous tribes on the border, and the same despair when facing the enemy who was unable to resist on the south bank of the river.
Putting himself into the role of his former enemy, King Fuye found that he could see through many things and understand many truths.
Although he cannot spread his own opinions, King Ukiye faithfully implements the prohibitions of the King's Meeting, but there are always a few male ants who come to him who don't know how to learn about his shocking views at the King's Meeting.
Some of them come to refute themselves, and some of them come to learn more about the concepts in detail out of curiosity. For the former, King Ukiye gave a gentle refutation. For the latter, due to the prohibition, King Ukiye could not explain in detail, but he could follow the guidance and guide his own opinions from the other party's worldly experience.
Around him, a small group gradually emerged, adhering to a set of views completely different from the mainstream. This group is still very small and has not been noticed by the King's Conference. Otherwise, in the ant society that pays attention to ideological unity and prohibition, there will be no room for the spread of a heresy.
It's funny to say that in the human world, there used to be a large number of rulers who wanted to unify the thoughts of the people, but little did they know that diverse thoughts could not be eliminated.
Even in the ant world, it seems that each individual ant is like a screw on a machine, and the machine's "thoughts" - such as software, cannot have multiple sets. Ants should be the most perfect creatures with collective supremacy, unity of interests, unity of thought, and unity of action.
But in the ant world, in addition to hard-working ants, there are also lazy men who feed on their fellow ants; in addition to brave warriors, there are also cowards who can only run away with their heads in their hands; in addition to mainstream views, there are also independent heretical ideas.
In the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, there is a secret inheritance among the queens that opposes the current rule. Some queens and their supporters form this heretical group.
In the country of Pavement Ants, there is now such an idea that is outside the mainstream. This kind of idea is like being contagious and growing stronger.
——I am the dividing line——
King Fuye led his troops out this time, on the one hand, because the Pavement Ant Nation was completely unprepared for the military threat from the south this season and lacked suitable commanders.
On the other hand, it is also because King Fuye has performed well recently. With the help of his friends, he got the opportunity to be re-employed.
King Fuye naturally attached great importance to this opportunity. He was meticulous in organizing and arranging troops, and even made preparations for the possibility that the number of enemy troops would be greater than expected.
But as soon as they met, King Fuye still felt that he had greatly underestimated his enemy.
This big-headed ant army is even more powerful than the big-headed ant army he encountered last year. In addition to the suddenness of the ambush, their ability to fight head-on is also outrageous.
Unlike the king of the vanguard army who almost lost his command, King Ukiye immediately realized that this battle was unwinnable.
Under his command and deployment, the legions under his command did not fall into a situation of collapse and command failure like other friendly armies. He still took more than half of the troops to withdraw from the "gap" in the enemy's formation, covering each other along the way as they retreated to the starting position. nest.
Ant warriors are heroic. Even if the situation is unfavorable, they will fight to the death and never surrender.
But escape and retreat are also recognized, and soldiers who have lost their command can escape by any means they can find. Commanders are even more obliged to withdraw as many troops as possible when their troops fail.
Only during the southern expedition in previous years, when the retreat route was blocked by a river, would they fight to the last soldier.
This is also the reason why King Ukiha opposes the Southern Expedition - it is a stupid thing to send a group of troops out to die every year.
Now, King Fuye has executed his retreat plan almost perfectly, but can he really evacuate?
