The messenger was killed, the negotiations broke down, and now there are very few options before the Angel King's army:
The most direct way is to completely defeat the enemy and inflict pain on them so that they will never dare to invade the river bank area again, and use their strength to gain a living space for themselves.
However, there are only three legions of the God Envoy King, which is less than 10,000 soldiers. Although the total number of troops in the red fire ant country is unclear, according to the honest confession of the surrendered ants, it is believed that there are "millions of people". Although It may not be accurate, but it can roughly reflect the scale of its strength, which is very terrifying.
The second option is to fight a small-scale, short-term battle, show strength, and when the situation is favorable, follow the original plan and exchange for peace at the cost of becoming a vassal of the red fire ants and other conditions.
This is why the protagonist was determined to eliminate two thousand enemies in one battle yesterday.
Now the red fire ants have rejected the first negotiation conditions, but if the Angel King Army can continue to make the red fire ants pay an unbearable price, it is not impossible to negotiate again. This strategy is similar to Singapore's "poisonous bee" strategy. Even if you can make great efforts to conquer me, you will still lose more than you gain.
The last way is to find a way to provoke a war between the leaf-cutter ants and the fire ants, so that the fire ants have no time to worry about anything else. At least they cannot concentrate on dealing with the God Envoy King's army, so as to win a gap for the survival of the God's Envoy King's army.
No matter which choice you make, the prerequisite is to defend [Xinyang City], which is already the last home of the Divine Envoy King’s army!
The Legion of God's Envoy King can no longer withstand another major defeat. This time, they don't even have a walnut boat to escape!
——I am the dividing line——
After the red fire ant army killed the messenger of the Angel King's army, they already knew that the murderer who killed two thousand of their own soldiers yesterday was this foreign ant force that they had never heard of before.
At the same time, in the original tree nest of the ant family, the fire ants interrogated some of the remaining ant captives and learned some information about the Angel King's army.
The interrogation was not carried out immediately after the war yesterday, which also allowed the existence of the Divine Envoy King's Legion to be hidden for one more day.
Although the Belly Ants came to destroy the country, before the Belly Ants completely lost their resistance, they also implemented a policy of taking no prisoners.
However, after the ant family has completely lost the ability to resist, the fire ants still choose to leave some worker ants, male ants, and queens alive. These captives will be transported back to the mainland together with a large number of captured ant eggs, larvae, and pupae. , will become a slave in the fire ant nest in the future.
The fire ants originally expected that these ant slaves could produce honeydew and crow honey for the country of fire ants, but they found that something was wrong.
Among the male ant captives, the oldest one is a male ant with one of his antennae broken off. Let's call him "One Horn".
"One Horn" and "Old Heart" are both the most senior kings of the Belly Ant Clan. Now the three kings have gone their separate ways, one died in yesterday's battle, "Old Heart" defected to the Angel King's Legion, and "One Horn" surrendered to the Red Fire Ant Kingdom.
The red fire ants learned some information about the God Envoy King's legion from "One Horn", and then they realized that the Belly Ant Clan had concealed an important piece of information from the suzerain country for nearly a year. The honeydew and crow honey they were thinking about were simply It's not produced by these belly-lifting ants.
The demise of the fire ants this time was definitely not a whim, but a carefully calculated decision.
Last year, the high-quality honeydew and the fatally attractive crow honey that the ant family suddenly produced in large quantities in trade have already made the red fire ants in the suzerain country salivate. But last year, they were busy fighting leaf-cutter ants, so fire ants had no time to pay attention to this matter.
The food shortage caused by last year's drought has continued into the spring of this year, and even the red fire ants now have little food left.
At this time, they chose to conquer the ants, so that they could not only use the food stored by the ants (last year, the ants obtained a large amount of food from the red fire ants through transit trade, which far exceeded their consumption), but also use Ant slaves produce and sell honeydew and crow honey on their own.
This is a very beneficial plan for fire ants.
However, although the fire ants seized a lot of food as they wished, it can temporarily alleviate the food crisis. But another task, the honeydew and crow honey that the males of red imported fire ants are more concerned about, is not in the hands of the ant family.
The ant has even given up raising its own "brown wax scale", leaving only a small amount of honeydew in its nest.
The commander of the red imported fire ants who led the army to the expedition this time was a male ant with medium qualifications. Before he left, he received instructions from the elders of the red fire ants. Knowing that the 36 elders valued honeydew and crow honey more, he He also clearly knew what would happen to him in the red fire ant country with strict military laws if he failed to complete this task.
Therefore, he has made up his mind to lead his troops to conquer these foreign big-headed ants and kill all their soldier ants and commanders. The worker ants will be plundered as slaves, and the queen ant will become the birth machine of the new slaves, completely controlling them. Honeydew and crow honey resources.
Even though the scouts sent intelligence today that these foreign big-headed ants actually wiped out the large force that disappeared yesterday, the commander of the red fire ants did not waver in his decision.
He still has more than 7,000 warriors under his command, and he feels that except for leaf-cutter ants and the behemoth in the north, no ant force can resist the attack of so many fire ants.
——I am the dividing line——
The protagonist has no idea what is happening inside the fire ant, but this does not prevent him from actively preparing for war.
It is impossible to hide in such a big [Xinyang City]. In the morning, red fire ant scouts have already appeared near [Xinyang City].
The protagonist specially dispatched several squads of hunting scythe ferocious ants. Under the guidance of the flying ant knights in the sky, they tried their best to eliminate these approaching scouts and delay time.
But the disappearance of the scouts in this direction also aroused suspicion. The red fire ant scout troops spied here more intensively, and at the same time they changed from a single scout to a small force.
The scout war between the two sides became intense.
Hunter ants and red fire ants are both warriors with extremely strong individual combat effectiveness. The Scythe Hunter Ant is huge and is no less powerful than the Destroyer. It can bite a fire ant into two pieces in one bite. However, these ants are not equipped with iron armor, and the stings of fire ants are also fatal to the ants.
When the team hunting sickle ants failed to eliminate the fire ant scout team in the first time, the ambush battle turned into an encounter where both sides continued to add troops.
The location of [New Yangcheng] was finally passed back by the red fire ant scouts.
Seeing that the situation was irreversible, the protagonist ordered the 2nd Legion to attack, defeated the fire ant scouts, and brought back the Sickle Ant scouts who had lost more than 20 soldiers back to the city.
