Originally, based on the relationship between the red fire ant country and the vassal country, they would not have noticed so quickly that the forest ants had been conquered by the God Envoy King's army.
In the past, the forest ants only needed to contribute a batch of grain to the overlord country every quarter, or exchange some necessary materials with the red fire ant country when necessary. This kind of contact frequency may only occur once every month, two months, or even three months.
In other words, if it had been in the past, the Red Fire Ant Nation might not have noticed anything strange in the Forest Ant Nation until a month or so later. By then, the God Envoy King's army had already established a firm foothold in the new territory.
But now, the red fire ant country is in the stage of a full-scale war with the leaf-cutter ant country. Such a war is rare in recent years and requires both sides to devote all their strength.
This was a sign that the wings of the butterflies began to flap after the Legion of the God's Envoy King arrived here, which had already begun to cause a sign of a storm.
In addition to its own warriors, the red fire ant country also needs a large number of auxiliary soldiers, especially the forest ant auxiliary soldiers that receive the most attention. After all, among the four vassal ant tribes, the forest ants are the only ones that are relatively capable of fighting, and the most trusted by the fire ants.
This trust is reflected in many aspects. For example, the Red Fire Ant Kingdom has not turned any wood ant queen into a slave under its control so far. All wood ant warriors are vassals to the Red Fire Ant, not slaves. This is the most intuitive cash flow that the red fire ant country values.
But in this way, when the red fire ant country needs the help of forest ants, it can only continue to send envoys to the forest ant nests to recruit troops, but it cannot increase the number of eggs laid by slave ant queens in its own territory. Make up for battle losses.
Just two days before the Angel King's army conquered the forest ants, the envoys sent by the fire ants recruited the latest batch of thousands of forest ant warriors who had just emerged from pupae. Only a few old or disabled warriors were left in the forest ant nests. Many soldiers stayed behind, allowing the Divine Envoy King's army to win with almost no effort.
On May 22, which was the third day after the Angel King's army conquered the forest ants, the red fire ant kingdom sent an envoy and discovered something strange.
At this time, this nest has been named [Donglin City] by the Angel King's Legion. The main force of the Angel King's Legion has withdrawn, leaving only a small garrison in the area, and the worker ant colonization team has not yet arrived here.
The Flying Knights recently had a patrol mission in [Donglin City]. They first discovered the team of red fire ant envoys, and then were ordered to guide the garrison to try to eliminate this group of red fire ants to avoid leaking military information.
There were only 12 red fire ants, but they were very powerful. In the end, a team of 50 Angel King warriors had an absolute numerical advantage and were ambushed, but they still paid the price of 6 deaths and 2 injuries, killing 10 red fire ants. ants, but 2 fire ants escaped.
These two fire ants seemed to be aware of the threat from the air, and even knew how to hide in the grass to avoid the tracking of the flying knight, and returned to their territory hidden all the way.
This is something the protagonist did not expect.
——I am the dividing line——
After the fire ant country learned the information, the protagonist didn't pay much attention at first.
On the first day, the Red Fire Ant Country did not react, and the protagonist even felt that the Red Fire Ant Country would swallow its anger for the time being.
After all, more than 90% of the troops of the red fire ant country are currently gathered at the border to fight against the leaf-cutter ant country.
Currently, the total military strength of the red fire ant country on the border has reached 500,000, and the leafcutter ant country has 800,000 troops.
Of course, not all of these troops can be put into battle. A large army requires a lot of ants engaged in foraging, food transportation, camp maintenance and other tasks. Generally, only one-third to one-half of them can actually be put into battle. . But that is also a very large scale.
In the fire ant territory, the sub-nests far away from the battlefield basically retain only the most basic fire ant warriors, who are used to maintain the security of the territory, as well as some slaves responsible for producing food.
The protagonist does not think that the Red Fire Ant Nation can still muster a force strong enough to threaten the Angel King's army to fight back.
But he obviously does not understand the collective character of the Red Fire Ant Country.
On May 24, the Flying Knight reported that there was an enemy force of about 3,000, starting from the border of the Red Fire Ant Country and on their way to [Donglin City].
The red fire ant country cobbled together a small army from several nests on the eastern border like squeezing toothpaste. Although they knew that the previous siege of [Xinyang City] by a large army had failed, they believed that [Xinyang City] had unfavorable terrain. and the reason for strong defense.
This time it will be a field battle, and the fire ant elders believe that this small force may be enough to compete with the foreign ant force in the south.
Of course, the more reason is that the red fire ant country cannot bear the tone of its vassal state being destroyed. The fierce and fierce red fire ants never accept military defeat.
Moreover, the conquest of the forest ants would be a real blow to the red fire ant nation. They would lose such excellent auxiliaries as the forest ants forever. Only by retaking the territory of the forest ants as soon as possible and then seeing if they can snatch back some of the forest ant eggs, especially the queen ant eggs, can this vassal state be preserved.
Ant eggs are very good trophies and are usually kept to be eaten slowly or to be cultivated as slaves. Therefore, the fire ants feel that as long as they counterattack quickly and smoothly enough, they can regain control of the descendants of the forest ants. But they didn't know that all the forest ant eggs had long been transferred to [Xinyang City] by the Divine Envoy King's army.
Among the incoming fire ant army, there were only a thousand soldiers of the fire ant family, and the rest were basically burrowing ants, with only a few black and brown ants and abdominal ants.
Burrowing ants have the largest number among all the vassals and slave ants in the Fire Ant Kingdom, and they have a strong ability to produce food, so a large number of burrowing ants are left in the rear, and this time they were also recruited to deal with the Angel King's army.
The protagonist formed a fighting force in [Xinyang City], consisting of the 3rd Army, the 8th Army, the 9th Army, and the 10th Army. The last three are all new legions. This time, they bullied the few with more, which was perfect for training.
Because the enemy army is closer to [Donglin City] and the reinforcements cannot rush to defend the city, the protagonist instructs the few garrison troops in the city and the worker ants of the newly arrived colonization team to evacuate and move closer to [Golden Beach City].
After the red fire ant army successfully captured the empty [Donglin City], they failed to achieve the goal of regaining control of the forest ants, so they continued to march south under the guidance of the scouts.
To the north of [Golden Beach City], under the guidance of the Flying Knight, the Divine Envoy King's Legion found a favorable terrain and fought a perfect ambush.
The three thousand red fire ant army was almost completely wiped out, and only a few dozen deserters who were deliberately let go returned to the territory to report.
Subsequently, the Divine Envoy King's Legion took advantage of the situation to regain [Donglin City], leaving the 10th Legion to garrison here and build city walls, towers and other defensive facilities.
After the counterattack failed, the red fire ant country finally realized that it would be difficult to deal with the foreign ants in the south without enough troops.
In order to concentrate on dealing with its old enemy in the west, the red fire ant country could only choose to temporarily swallow the bitter pill of losing the forest ant clan.
