It is not uncommon to intercept the messengers between the secondary nests. Before the main nest "Qingqiu City" is occupied by the protagonist, each secondary nest needs to send messengers to each other frequently to communicate information and supplement the intelligence obtained from the main nest.
After the "fall" of the main nest and the "subversion" of the old king's meeting, messenger exchanges became more frequent between the deputy nests that lost the source of information from the main nest. All the ruling male ants are anxiously waiting for the information sent back every day.
However, when there is no unified leadership core, these deputy nests can only maintain communication at best, and rarely connect with each other to pose any substantial threat to the protagonist.
Lambori noticed something was wrong because the number of couriers intercepted had increased abnormally recently, several times that of normal times.
In the past, interrogating couriers did not require the legion commander to personally do it, and his own squad commander would take care of it. However, since most of the interrogation results are of little significance, the male ants responsible for the interrogation often do it perfunctorily unless there are special instructions.
After Lanborui returned to the main nest "Qingqiu City" in the evening, he reported his new discovery to the protagonist.
The protagonist is keenly aware that there is something wrong, so he appoints Lambori to interrogate it personally.
After interrogation, the protagonist learned that several auxiliary nests west of the main nest "Qingqiu City", with a scale of about ten, have reached a preliminary joint intention, and want to jointly resist the invasion of the Angel King's army, and prepare Cooperate with the troops directly under the old-fashioned king to launch a counterattack on "Qingqiu City".
This undoubtedly adds another variable to the already complicated situation, and it is beyond the protagonist's expectation.
According to past experience, when there is no unified leader with sufficient prestige, these deputy nests are closed to themselves, and it is difficult to take positive measures. This makes the protagonist somewhat unwary of them.
Even after the staid king's messengers went to each sub-nest to actively connect with each other, each sub-nest still sent small troops to invade the protagonist's territory according to the position of the ruling male ants. Except for one sub-nest that was captured once, they did not Not much achievement. There are still many deputy nests who still close their doors and don’t ask anything about what is happening outside the window.
But now, there is a double-digit alliance of sub-nest size, and it is a hostile alliance.
This is different from the alliance of seventeen sub-nests established by the old-fashioned king. In that place, there is a king like the old-fashioned king who has great prestige, seniority and ability in the meeting of the main nest and old kings to mediate and coordinate, and can be brought together and merged. Not surprising.
But this time the intelligence reality showed that the initially formed "alliance" to the west of the main nest did not have a male ant with enough prestige to convince the crowd. There was not even a king among these male ants.
This alliance is completely centered on the largest sub-nest with the most dominant male ants, and is temporarily led by the king conference of male ants in this central sub-nest. This is completely different from the previous perception of the protagonist.
But in fact, this is in line with the development trend of the big-headed ant colony in the context of the "fall" of the main nest.
Compared with the main nest, the auxiliary nests in various places are smaller in size, but "although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs", the structure of these auxiliary nests is still very complete.
Whether it is male ants, queen ants, worker ants and soldier ants, there are four major classes. Most of the secondary nests have only one male ant and queen, but there are also a few larger, richer, and important secondary nests with multiple males and queens.
Although there is no king in each sub-nest, the position of king is not a natural thing among ants, but an acquired title.
According to the general evolutionary rules of the big-headed ant colony, all secondary nests can be regarded as a backup of the main nest.
When it is confirmed that the main nest has "fallen", the largest secondary nest will gradually replace the original main nest and play its role. All the male ants in this sub-nest will form a new male ant conference, promote themselves to kings, and then slowly get in touch with other sub-nests to organize the remnants of the big-headed ant kingdom that were scattered due to the "fall" of the main nest.
Sometimes there will be new male ant meetings in different sub-nests that are far away. At this time, the two sides will decide who obeys whom based on the size and strength comparison between them.
Sometimes the distance between the secondary nests between these new male ant meetings is far away, and the main nest has been "fallen" for a long time, and it is difficult to maintain a similar community atmosphere between the two secondary nests. Each of them may entangle a group of secondary nests, and a war breaks out. civil war.
This is the response of the big-headed ant family, including many other ant species, after losing its main nest. This response is not any man-made design, but an instinct based on genes, primitive but effective.
Therefore, it is difficult to completely eliminate a race. All its secondary nests must be pulled out one by one and all the ants must be killed. No wonder the ancestors of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom took hundreds of years to wipe out all the pavement ant barbarians on the south bank of the river after they came out of the southern mountainous area.
Now, the "Western Alliance" that has emerged has traces of the promotion of this secondary nest to the new main nest, but it is different.
Although the main nest has "fallen", after all, the Angel King who occupies the main nest is nominally of the same species as the Big-headed Ants. Even though most of the ruling male ants in the secondary nest are hostile to this Archangel King who violates tradition, the Angel King is still A "Council of Kings" was formed.
The old-fashioned king in the far northeast formed another king's meeting. The orthodoxy and legality of this king's meeting were recognized by the Deputy Chao who received the news.
In the presence of the "King's Meeting", qualified sub-nests in various places did not spontaneously and completely begin to transform into the main nest.
Although the newly emerged "Male Ant Conference" of the "Western Alliance" has the shadow of the "King's Conference", the male ants in it did not establish themselves as kings, but obeyed the "King's Conference" of the distant old-fashioned king faction. However, It is regarded as the remnant of a king's conference that was interrupted after being formed halfway.
However, even if it is an incomplete "King's Council", after it obeys the orders of the old-fashioned king, shows strong organizational skills, and contacts double-digit deputy nests, this "Western Alliance" will have a huge impact on the main nest "Qingqiu". The threat to the city has greatly increased.
Although the size of the ant colony of the "Western Alliance" is not as large as that of the territory controlled by the old-fashioned king, it still has tens of thousands of people and can piece together tens of thousands of warriors.
Moreover, they are very close to the main nest "Qingqiu City", so they can arrive at dawn and dusk. Even though the protagonist has occupied a circle of sub-nests outside "Qingqiu City" and established a buffer zone, he must not take it lightly.
Currently, there are only two legions in the main nest, and the remaining troops are still dragged in the northeastern region, which makes the protagonist feel that his troops are extremely empty.
