The protagonist is still confused about what kind of changes have happened within the Paved Ant Barbarian Kingdom.
The internal intelligence of the Pavilion Ant Barbarian Kingdom is basically in a state of darkness for the protagonist, just like playing a real-time strategy game without opening the entire map. Due to the huge differences in appearance and smell between different ant races, he cannot even send spies to find out the inside story. Although the protagonist also has Pavement Ants such as King Floating Leaf under his command, the protagonist does not think that these have the smell of the God Envoy King's army. The pavement ants can blend into their own species.
The protagonist can only rely on the intelligence obtained from the northern reconnaissance operation last year and the outdated information provided by King Fuye. He knows that the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom has powerful enemies in the north.
Maybe they encountered big trouble in the north and had to mobilize the whole country to mobilize all their troops, including the southern branch. This made it easier for the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's northern expedition to change their goals.
In the next few days, the flying knights of the Locust Jackal sent back more information: not only the Northern Expeditionary Army was launching a massive attack, but also the tribe of black-headed sour ants and Japanese black-brown ants that paved the eastern border of the ant barbarian country were taking advantage of the situation. Besiege the auxiliary nest of the paving ants on the border.
In the past, these tribes could only plunder and then retreat to the woods to the east. Conquering cities and plundering land was really not their strong point. Only when the pavement ants were weak to a certain extent would the greed of these indigenous tribes be stimulated.
From the aggressive southward invasion across the river more than a year ago to now being embattled on all sides, the originally powerful pavement ants seemed to be in huge trouble.
The situation on the north bank of the river is still a bit far away for the protagonist. He must integrate the resources and strength on the south bank of the river as soon as possible before he can rush to get a piece of the pie.
Recently, the relationship between the Angel King's legion and the Ant Queen's inheritance faction has become increasingly tense. In order to compete for the swinging sub-nests between the actual control areas of both parties, the two sides have frequently clashed.
Generally speaking, except for the extreme supporters of the King's Conference faction, the ruling male ants of the neutral sub-nest are more willing to vote for the Queen's inheritance faction that conforms to ancient traditions, rather than to the evil Archangel King and his minions whose image has been "blackened" .
However, the Army of the God Envoy King has a stronger combat capability and has been extremely active in attacking recently. Under real threats, many ruling male ants in the neutral sub-nest will not consider taking refuge with the God Envoy King when the army approaches and join the new nominal "king". Meeting" to obtain the title of king.
It often happens that the Angel King's army and the Ant Queen's inheritance faction's army arrive at a certain sub-nest at the same time, and some conflicts break out. The ending is basically that the Legion of God's Envoy drove away the opponent.
This is because the Angel King's army has received the order from the protagonist and dares to attack the ant queen's inheritance faction army without any scruples. The ant queen inheritance faction seems to be wary and does not dare to break up.
But obviously, the patience of the senior leaders of the Queen Ant Heritage Faction is also limited. Recently, no messengers have come from the "real main nest" of the Queen Ant Heritage Faction. The two sides are actually in a state of "breaking off diplomatic relations", and they are only one day away from declaring war. A layer of window paper that breaks when poked.
The protagonist is not too worried. He has twelve legions in hand, which greatly increases his strength. In addition to the two legions stationed in "Qingqiu City" and several garrison legions remaining stationed, the mobile force of ten legions was enough to sweep across the south bank of the river.
These mobile forces are currently attacking separately to sweep or crash-land those secondary nests that are neutrally watching. The newly formed legion has quickly become familiar with formations and tactics through frequent battles, and has grown quickly.
In the neutral sub-nests in various places, those who firmly resisted the minions of the Divine Envoy King have been exposed and suppressed in the Rebellion of the Old-Fashioned King and the Western Alliance Rebellion. Most of the remaining ones are hesitants and fence-sitters, and their will to resist is not firm.
The protagonist suffers from the fact that there are too few male ants under his command that can engage in administrative work. Even if the cultivation of new male ants this year is accelerated, it will still be difficult to fill the gap.
The direct male ants loyal to the Divine Messenger King are sent to those important sub-nests with large populations and rich resources. For other sub-nests that have been captured, the protagonist can only temporarily entrust the local surrendered ruling male ants to continue to manage them as a win-win. , and all of them were given the title of king.
However, in Darong's case first, it is impossible for the protagonist to trust these "old ants" in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom without reservation. What we are doing now is just a temporary measure!
——I am the dividing line——
At the critical moment when the ten legions were in full swing conquering various places and the relationship with the ant queen's inheritance faction was becoming increasingly tense, Rambotu's fourth legion sent a messenger back to convey an unexpected situation.
When the Fourth Legion was attacking the neutral sub-nest, they discovered a sub-nest infected by parasitic ants! ! !
The protagonist was startled. After reading the information packet, he hurriedly rode on "Xiao Qing II" and set off, rushing to the secondary nest which was only more than a day away from the main nest "Qingqiu City".
This secondary nest is located in a low-lying area full of pools and shrubs. Although it is not far from the main nest, it is far away from the main ant tunnel and does not have particularly rich resources. In addition, there are frequent floods here, so the size of the secondary nest is not large.
According to the protagonist's information, this sub-nest only has a few thousand ant colonies, and is an insignificant marginal sub-nest. During the previous civil strife in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, this sub-nest did not join the hostile forces, but it also did not show submissiveness, and was almost forgotten by the protagonist.
It was at this stage that the protagonist asked ten mobile legions to raid separately, and only then did he find out the abnormal situation of the secondary nest.
Xiao Qing II quickly flew the protagonist to the destination.
This secondary nest is located on a small high base in this depression, backed by a willow tree. Surrounded by pools and vegetation, there are many mosquitoes.
The protagonist drove the Xiaoqing II, carefully avoiding the numerous gnats and dragonflies that gathered in the shade, and landed on a shrub without any danger.
Under the bushes, Lambert had been waiting for a long time.
Seeing the protagonist coming, Rambotu hurriedly came up to greet him.
The protagonist has seen the investigation results of the Lambert Corps in the messenger's information package:
The Lambo Tu army was originally preparing to attack this sub-nest, but the two prisoners captured by the Sickle Ant scouts as usual were prepared to be tortured by Lambo Tu himself for information, but Lambo Tu was shocked.
One prisoner was normal except for missing half of his leg, an injury that may have been caused by resistance.
But the other prisoner was not only extremely manic, but even the ants controlling him couldn't calm him down. And the hyphae emerging from the gaps in the carapace on its back felt extremely familiar to Rambotu, who had fought with parasitic ants before.
These are the hyphae of parasitic fungi!
After an inspection, Lambert quickly ordered the infected person to be executed, pulled out the parasitic hyphae, dried them and chopped them into pieces, and then hurriedly notified the protagonist!
