After knowing the true identity of the oldest Wang and his gang, the protagonist needs to make a choice on whether to aid them or not.
From a personal emotional point of view, the protagonist does not have a good impression of the King's Conference, which has repeatedly made things difficult for him. Naturally, the protagonist has some sympathy for the ant queen inheritance forces who are also "persecuted" by the King's Conference.
But on the other hand, the protagonist has a very good relationship with his senior brother. If it is confirmed that the oldest king betrayed the main nest, the senior brother will naturally inherit the title of the oldest king and become the top being in the entire king hierarchy, adding one more weight. Allies also have indirect benefits for the protagonist.
From a purely profit perspective, aiding the ant queen's inheritance power will not see any possible potential benefits for the protagonist. At most, it will create a separatist force within the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.
But now, the protagonist still needs the Big-headed Ant Kingdom to focus its attention to the north to contain the more powerful Paving Ant Kingdom, so that the protagonist can develop smoothly.
Once changes occur within the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, the main energy of the King's Council will be devoted to the civil war, and the protagonist's plan will obviously come to nothing.
Thinking of this, the protagonist couldn't help but be inclined to reject Lao Wang's request for assistance. A qualified ruler should not be too entangled in personal feelings; interests are the most important thing.
However, the protagonist does not want to completely offend the ant queen's inheritance power. The other party can lurk within the big-headed ant kingdom for hundreds of years. During this period, the intricate power entanglements are not so easy to provoke.
Thinking of this, the protagonist has a foolproof plan.
The protagonist retreats to the left and right, letting the worker ant messenger leave, and then gives Lamborghini a task.
He asked Rambo to kill the messenger, and then sent the flying knight to throw the body to the edge of the territory of a sub-nest on the southern border of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.
This auxiliary nest is the destination proposed by the messenger for the protagonist to transport food and grass. It is obviously closely related to the inheritance power of the queen ant.
If you throw the messenger's body here, it will probably be discovered by the ants in this sub-nest. There is no forensic science or criminal investigation in this world. Faced with the corpse of a companion appearing alone in the wild, the ants are likely to think that she just suffered an accident.
Once the messenger's scent information is reported, the oldest king and queen ants who learn the news will probably think that their messenger had an accident halfway and did not reach the destination at all.
In this way, the protagonist does not need to make a choice between the main nest and the queen's inheritance power for the time being.
Even if the other party sends a messenger again, it will take several days to arrive. At that time, the protagonist was already in the north dealing with the Northern Expedition, and the ant queen's inheritance forces could also get this information from their own insiders. For the time being, they could not expect the protagonist to come back and agree to their request.
In short, what the protagonist is using now is a drag-out trick.
——I am the dividing line——
The protagonist's plan was quickly implemented, and the worker ant messenger was killed by a sneak attack without preparation. She had her neck broken and died, which was an obvious sign of murder, but the ants generally didn't care about this. In their eyes, the corpse was just a corpse.
A loyal flying knight was selected to perform the mission of dumping the body, and he was also given a silence order.
The flying knight returned in half a day. He successfully completed the task. Not only did he dump the body at the designated location, but he also witnessed a foraging Big-headed Ant worker ant discovering the body and dragging it back.
According to the ants' practice, the body will be hastily dragged to the ant cemetery and discarded. The worker ants who later discover the body will report the smell information of the unfortunate messenger.
As long as this sub-nest is related to the Queen's inheritance, Lao Wang and the others will soon know the "unfortunate news" that their messenger died on the road.
——I am the dividing line——
After handling a difficult incident, the protagonist is in a good mood and encourages Rambo Fei to take good care of "Dongyang City". He himself went to Xiaomi's scientific research team to inspect and made some general suggestions on the direction of technological development.
Afterwards, the protagonist returns to the north.
The historic northern expedition of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is about to begin, and the entire kingdom has fallen into a military frenzy.
From the river area in the north to the hilly areas in the south, from the borders near lakeshores, swamps and forests in the east, to the gradually rising mountains in the west, hundreds of sub-nests in the entire Big-headed Ant Kingdom have been mobilized.
Elite warriors from all over the country gathered in the main nest, and the little military rations saved by the various sub-nests were also transported to the main nest.
In this Northern Expedition, the King's Council decided to send an unprecedented one hundred legions, a total of 150,000 soldiers.
This military strength has almost exhausted all the mobile forces of the entire kingdom. Except for some sub-nests in the border areas that need to deal with indigenous enemies, which still retain defensive forces, only the old and weak are left in the sub-nests in the hinterland. Even the main nest couldn't cobble together another mobile force.
Such a large-scale army requires the command of a hundred kings. In the entire meeting of kings, almost all kings with strong military command capabilities appeared, including the public security king and the good man king. However, the senior brother, who has always liked military operations, was left behind in the main nest because he now had the responsibility of being the oldest king.
Such a large army consumes astronomical amounts of food. Although the protagonist promises to provide a batch of food for the Northern Expedition after crossing the river, there is still a lot of food required for this army to leave the main nest and go to "Linshui City".
The food that the main nest desperately scavenged from each sub-nest was barely enough to sustain the army for a week. It was probably enough for the army to reach "Linshui City" and cross the river for another three or four days.
The protagonist obviously underestimated the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's enthusiasm for the Northern Expedition. He had previously proposed to provide enough military rations for 40,000 troops for a week.
The size of this batch of military rations happened to be the amount of food seized by the Divine Envoy King's Army during the first counter-encirclement and suppression campaign.
Now, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom has a total of 150,000 people, and this amount of food is only enough for them for two days...
The protagonist immediately flies to the main nest and raises logistical questions. However, the kings are very optimistic. The protagonist previously proposed at the king's meeting that they can use food to defeat the enemy. The kings believe that relying on this method can support their long-term operations.
The protagonist couldn't help but despise himself, and he was right to say that he was the one who suffered from the enemy because of food, but now he really shot himself in the foot.
The kings of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom have never seriously calculated how much rations such a large-scale army needs to consume every day, how many days it takes to conquer an enemy sub-nest, and how much food needs to be captured for each victory to support the next battle.
Anyway, the protagonist made the most optimistic estimate based on the experience of the first counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, but the results were very pessimistic...
