Negotiating with the fire ant country is very difficult. The belligerent and fierce fire ants are more difficult to communicate with than the proud leaf-cutting ants.
[Beehive City] In a hive room on the ground, there is a small ventilation hole leading to the outside of the hive, and weak light also comes in. This is the negotiation scene.
The floor in the nest room is flat, and there is a huge, oozing-looking star beetle head on the wall. Its long tentacles are embedded in the wall and are hanging down to touch the ground. This is the only decoration.
Three fire ant elders stood in a row with their backs to the longhorn head, accompanied by more than a dozen fire ants and burrowing ants. After seeing "Little Flower" come in and stand still, one of the elders used his tentacles to touch the red fire ant warrior on the side. The red fire ant warrior then touched a slave burrowing ant. The burrowing ant came over and passed the information packet to "Little Flower". .
"Little Flower" didn't know that the red fire ant country's behavior actually equated the status of the Father God Envoy King's Legion with that of a vassal country or slave ant tribe.
"Little Flower" didn't realize this. When she read the so-called "negotiation conditions" indirectly passed on by the fire ant elder opposite, she was immediately startled and stopped the meeting.
This short first meeting lasted only one minute.
When "Little Flower" got the other party's conditions, which could even be said to be clear, she didn't dare to respond at all, and immediately sent a guard to carry the information package and left [Hive City].
Fire ants were escorted and monitored along the way by their own warriors, but no other ants came to trouble the messenger. The messenger quickly came outside the city and summoned the flying knight hovering in the sky, who immediately transferred the other party's terms to the God Envoy King.
The messenger did not notice that when the flying knights landed, the fire ants next to her showed clenched jaws of hostility.
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After about ten minutes, the protagonist saw the terms proposed by the other party and became very happy.
The other party proposed that the Divine Envoy King's Legion could become a vassal of the great Red Fire Ant Nation and fulfill its obligations like other vassal nations.
These obligations mainly include two points:
First, when the suzerain country needs it, it can recruit the warriors of the God Envoy King as auxiliary troops without any conditions or restrictions. The recruited warriors will be commanded by the red fire ant country.
Second, the Divine Envoy King's army must pay tribute every year to 100 snail shells of honeydew and 20 snail shells of crow honey. After completing the tribute amount, the suzerain can continue to barter for honeydew and crow honey.
These two terms are extremely harsh, and it is impossible for the protagonist to agree to it. The God's Envoy King's Legion is not defeated by your men. What's more, it seems that the God's Envoy King's Legion still has the advantage for the time being.
The elders of the Red Fire Ant Nation had no intention of bargaining over the specific terms. They just asked the God Envoy King Legion to accept them in full. No wonder "Little Flower" immediately stopped the meeting and sent the terms back.
The protagonist immediately asked the flying knight to pass on the order, and asked "Little Flower" to put forward his own proposal on behalf of the Angel King's Legion. The main point was that the Angel King's Legion and the Red Fire Ant Nation had equal status, mutual non-aggression, and formed a military alliance against the Leaf-Cutter Ant Nation. , carry out trade and other terms.
But it didn't take long for "Little Flower"'s reward to come. The three elders of the Red Fire Ant Kingdom rejected the proposal of the God Envoy King Legion without hesitation.
Negotiations reached an impasse on the first day.
The protagonist thought for a while, ordered the "Little Flower" mission to withdraw, and then prepared to exert some military pressure on the Red Fire Ant Nation, such as continuing to capture several border sub-nests to promote compromise on the other side.
But what he didn't expect was that "Little Flower" and the mission didn't come back!
When the flying knight informed the messenger of the order and asked her to tell "Little Flower" to evacuate, the flying knights who took off again waited in the sky for a long time and never saw the envoy coming out, while the belly-lifting ants on the ground began to shoot into the sky.
Not knowing whether the mission was detained or killed made the protagonist extremely angry. These fire ants were simply unreasonable.
If the envoy is killed, then there is no need to continue the negotiations between the Angel King's army and the Red Fire Ant Nation before taking revenge. The Angel King cannot tolerate such a bad incident as the murder of the diplomatic ambassador. This is a great provocation.
As soon as the protagonist gave the order, the Angel King's army deployed on the border immediately took action. They did not continue to capture the border sub-nest as originally planned, but instead pointed their troops directly at [Hive City].
The Red Fire Ant Nation is currently empty of troops. Even the main nest [Hive City] does not have many troops. The three legions of the protagonist should be able to protect themselves. At the same time, other legions in the rear were also ordered to go to the front line. The protagonist planned to assemble 8 legions and 20,000 troops to besiege [Hive City].
If the mission is killed, the protagonist must teach the enemy an unforgettable lesson and remind them to respect their negotiating opponents. If the mission is merely detained, the Red Fire Ant Nation must be threatened to release the mission, and at the same time continue negotiations on conditions acceptable to the God Envoy King Legion.
The large-scale invasion of the Angel King's Legion quickly alarmed the red fire ant army in [Hive City]. They had previously discovered the Angel King's Legion at the border through foraging ants and scouts.
The Red Fire Ant Army quickly assembled a force of 5,000 troops to stop the attack. Only less than a thousand of them were Red Fire Ant soldiers. This also shows how empty the local military strength of the Red Fire Ant Country is.
The reinforcements from the Angel King's legion have not yet arrived, but the protagonist has already personally led the forwards of three legions to defeat the red fire ant army. The fire ant army was mainly composed of slave auxiliary soldiers such as black and brown ants and belly ants. It almost collapsed at the first touch and incidentally disrupted the main formation composed of the soldiers of the red fire ant tribe.
The fire ant army collapsed and retreated to [Hive City]. The protagonist led three legions to pursue the victory, preparing to establish a foothold in [Hive City] first. Then wait for the follow-up troops to join up.
If the protagonist has no intention of directly attacking [Hive City] and directly attacks the main nest of the Fire Ant Kingdom, then the relationship between the two countries will be completely broken.
The protagonist's plan is to temporarily surround [Hive City] and hold an armed parade, so that the fire ant elders can see the strength of the God Envoy King's army with their own eyes, throw away those unrealistic illusions, and return to the negotiating table obediently.
When the Legion of the God Envoy King arrived at [Hive City], they saw a huge rock-like ant mound full of entrances and exits. This was the first time that the protagonist saw the main nest of the red fire ant country with his own eyes instead of seeing it from the information package. Come to it - it really does look like a giant wasp's nest!
[Hive City] is surrounded by large and small conical pits. The Flying Knights did not know what they were despite repeated investigations. When the "Little Flower" delegation entered [Hive City], they were also led in a twists and turns by the guide. Walk around these pits.
The protagonist couldn't understand it either, but he still asked his men to continue the siege mission and try to stay as far away from those pits as possible.
It is easy for a few ants to get around these dense pits, but when thousands of ants move together, there is always an unlucky one who falls into a pit without paying attention.
When a member of the Divine Envoy King's Army fell into the pit, shook the dirt off his body, and was about to climb up, a sudden change occurred!
