What I posted yesterday was swallowed again... I had to write it again...
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Qinghe is in its annual turbid period again.
The fast-flowing river water and the yellow waves pushed the floating object carrying the Destroyer to the shore.
However, these floating objects drifted unsteadily in the backflow in front of the cliff of the peninsula, repeatedly pulling and sawing, and finally leaned towards the beach on the other side.
The Destroyers above had already noticed the God's Envoy King's army waiting on the shore. They didn't care that there were only a dozen on their side, but there were thousands on the other side. As soon as Fu came to the shore, they came to kill them fiercely.
These destroyers didn't look tired at all. They had been drifting in the flood for a long time and had no food or luggage, but it didn't seem to affect their combat effectiveness at all. They were still ferocious and brave!
But now, the Army of the God Envoy King, which has fully entered the Iron Age, is no longer what it used to be, and it has no fear of these former enemies.
The two ballistae have already been strung up and loaded with iron bullets, waiting for the Destroyer to enter the firing range.
Although this type of iron bullet has strong penetrating power, it is overly powerful when faced with ordinary ants, and its range is much shorter. It is not as effective as shotguns or pottery bullets that can cause splash damage.
However, the protagonist still insisted on producing a batch of iron bullets, and led the ballista unit to experiment, train, and formulate iron bullet shooting tactics.
This kind of weapon is what the protagonist prepares for the destroyer and parasitic war beast when he counterattacks his homeland in the future! !
When the two iron bullets were fired, they immediately hit, penetrated, and ejected 5 Destroyers. It was also because of the close formation of the Destroyers that they suffered such heavy losses at once!
The wounds of the Destroyers who were hit from the front were miserable and they died on the spot. In the past, they were not so vulnerable when faced with direct fire from stone or clay bullets. Even if it is hit twice by the ejected iron bullet, the destroyer will inevitably end up with broken bones and tendons.
The iron bullet proved its power!
Subsequently, the Angel King's army did not conduct a second round of shooting. Instead, the entire army attacked and surrounded the enemy.
After paying the price of three warriors dying in battle, the God Envoy King's army basically eliminated the Destroyer in front of them. Subsequently, the warriors of the Divine Envoy King tried to control the remaining two Destroyers who were injured by the crossbows, and let the protagonist interrogate them.
In battle, it is easy to kill the enemy, but it is much harder to capture the enemy alive, especially if you want to capture the Destroyer who is two trapped beasts still fighting!
It took more than a dozen warrior casualties from the God Envoy King Army to suppress the two Destroyers. Only then did the protagonist come over and forcibly establish a tentacle connection!
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On August 30, the fourth day after encountering the destroyer, the captive male red imported fire ants were released and the sixth day after returning home. The protagonist finally received a reply from the Red Fire Ant Country.
A male burrowing ant acted as an envoy, carrying an information package and, escorted by 20 burrowing ant warriors, entered the territory of the Legion of the Divine Envoy King.
When they were discovered by the patrol force, they dropped to the ground and showed a peaceful gesture, and were then escorted to [Xinyang City].
The protagonist reads the information package sent by the other party. This information package is released in the name of the Presbyterian Council, the highest authority in the country.
What made him happy was that the information package revealed the Red Fire Ant Nation's willingness to contact and meet with the God Envoy King Legion.
But what made him dumbfounded was that the Red Fire Ant Nation meant that it was willing to accept the God Envoy King’s Legion as a new vassal of the great Red Fire Ant Nation!
In the information package that the protagonist asked the male red imported fire ant to take over, of course he had no intention of becoming a vassal of the other party. He just hoped to form a trading partner and non-war alliance with the red fire ant country.
However, after the elders of the Red Fire Ant Nation read the information package, based on their world view, they took it for granted that only the weak would actively try to establish contact, and the only people the Red Fire Ant Nation was willing to peacefully coexist with were their own vassals!
Under such misunderstandings, and the fact that the red fire ant country is also facing difficulties, these elders of red fire ants who are difficult to communicate with are reluctant to contact the God Envoy King Legion.
Now, the battle between the red fire ant army and the leaf-cutting ant army has reached a difficult stage for both sides.
The leaf-cutter ant army has very little food left, even the corpses are barely enough to eat, and is on the verge of collapse. The reinforcements also suffered repeated defeats and were never able to rescue the besieged troops.
For the Red Fire Ant Army, the nearly month-long battle has left the soldiers physically and mentally exhausted. They also face the dilemma of frequent logistics shortages and interruptions.
In such a tight situation on the front line, the elders of the Red Fire Ant Nation have all grown up from the flames of war on the front line. They are very good at strategies and tactics. They know that they cannot start a fire in the backyard and fight on two fronts.
The Angel King's army has shown great strength before, being able to hold its line of defense under the siege of the red fire ant army, conquering several vassal states and border sub-nests of the red fire ant country, and even defeating the red fire ant army in field battles several times.
The elders of the Red Fire Ant Nation rated the warriors of the God Envoy King as being second only to the Red Fire Ant warriors in combat effectiveness, and stronger than forest ants and leaf-cutting ants.
The elders of the fire ants, who did not want to provoke such an opponent for the time being, and who were in great need of honeydew and river crow honey because they were bewitched by the belly ants last year, finally made up their minds and were willing to accept the God Envoy King's legion as new vassals, but they must agree to what they proposed. condition.
The information packet received by the protagonist did not contain the specific content of these conditions. The elders of the Red Fire Ant Nation asked representatives of the God Envoy King Legion to come to the capital of the Red Fire Ant Nation [Hive City] for a meeting.
Although the protagonist is not interested in becoming a vassal of the Red Fire Ant Country, he is also willing to start contact and negotiations with the Red Fire Ant Country.
Therefore, the protagonist sent "Little Flower" with diplomatic experience as an envoy, along with a small team of guards, to follow the male burrowing ants to [Hive City].
Although "Xiaohua" is the messenger, she does not have the power to make decisions. She just goes to test the other party's tone, and then brings back the conditions of the red fire ant country, and it is up to the protagonist to decide.
In order to gain an advantage in the negotiations, the protagonist personally led three legions to the Black Forest, deployed them very close to [Hive City], and deliberately let the fire ants discover them.
The truth is only within the range of the cannon. What you can't get on the battlefield, don't expect to get it at the negotiation table.
This is the diplomatic norm of the human world that claims to be civilized. This is true in the human world, and even more so in the ant world, which is more like the law of the jungle.
The protagonist's behavior of flexing his muscles is to increase some bargaining chips for the God Envoy King's army in negotiations. Anyway, he knew very well that at present, the red fire ant army did not have extra troops to deal with him.
But he also needs to control the situation carefully. According to the investigation of the Flying Knights, the leaf-cutting ant army cannot hold on for long. If favorable conditions cannot be reached while the leaf-cutting ant army is still able to contain the red imported fire ant army, it is entirely possible that the red fire ant country will terminate the negotiations after winning.
This is a diplomatic negotiation like dancing on a tightrope!
