In order to deal with the current situation, the protagonist made some arrangements.
Then, a question arises in the protagonist's mind.
The direct reason why the Angel King's army must actively prepare for war since the beginning of spring is of course to guard against the leaf-cutting ant army.
But thinking more deeply, if the red fire ant army was not well prepared for war, the obviously deployed defense forces would not be able to stop the leaf-cutting ant army. Those on the second line [Hematite City] originally did not need to prepare for war so urgently, but now they can only bite the bullet and go forward.
Thinking of this, the protagonist was shocked. Could it be that the red fire ant country did this deliberately and wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife?
After all, the two sides don’t get along very well. The God Envoy King’s Army wants both the Red Fire Ant Country and the Leafcutter Ant Country to suffer and benefit from it. Why can’t the Red Fire Ant Country also use the knife to kill people?
However, do fire ants really have such a mind? Such an advanced strategy is not something that a weak ant can do! ?
(Should there be a flag here?)
The God Envoy King's Legion was originally willing to become a vassal of the Red Fire Ant Kingdom, enduring a high annual tribute and sending troops to help the Red Fire Ant Army. Isn't it just hoping that in the war between the red fire ant country and the leaf-cutter ant country, they can have both sides and maximize their interests?
Although they are not getting the best of both worlds now, the Divine Envoy King's Legion has indeed gained considerable benefits.
However, now that the leaf-cutting ant army's counterattack is imminent, the first line of defense of the red fire ant country is ineffective. The red fire ant country will obviously retreat to the third line, which makes the second line of the God's Envoy King army to block the fire ant country!
The more the protagonist thinks about it, the more something is wrong. Something must have happened in the country of Red Fire Ant. He is unaware of it, which makes the current situation a bit passive.
However, the Divine Envoy King's Legion lacks the channels and means to collect internal intelligence of the Red Fire Ant Nation. Both the Flying Knight and the Scouts can only collect some outdoor intelligence.
Not only for the Red Fire Ant Nation, it is difficult for any ant force to obtain internal intelligence from other forces.
If humans want to obtain this kind of information collection, they will send spies or recruit traitors within the enemy for their own use.
But in the ant world, this trick doesn't work. How can ants of different races lurk inside the enemy? Even the same species of ants have different smells! Even if you find a way to catch the enemy's scent, if the spy returns successfully, he is afraid that he will be killed by his own people first.
The protagonist never knew that there were spies in the ant world, and there was not even a word for this in the ants’ brainspeak.
The path of espionage is not feasible, and it is also difficult to win over the enemy's traitors. After all, scum like Flying Eagle are in the minority. I don’t know if Flying Eagle is still alive, hum… the protagonist’s train of thought has strayed.
Turning back again, but you can find a way to spy on some ants who know the other party's inside story and get some information.
The protagonist suddenly regretted that he did not provide an additional set of information during his communication with the elders of the Red Fire Ant Nation.
He hurriedly asked the "celestial being" to ask if the fire ant elder and his followers had gone, where they had gone, and whether there was still time to remedy the situation.
As a result, the fire ant elders and the others left early in the morning, and it was already noon now. If they walked quickly, they would have almost left the territory of the Divine Envoy King's legion.
The protagonist thought for a while, and hurriedly took out his horse fly mount "Xiaohei", prepared some things, carried them by several flying knights, and then followed him to fly north.
Red imported fire ants don't like forests. After they were allowed to enter the territory of the border sub-nest, they were accompanied by the warriors of the God's Envoy King. As a result, the elder of the red fire ants took his entourage and the monitoring warriors of the God's Envoy King, walked around in a circle, and came from the outskirts of the forest. , this matter was also specially reported to the protagonist.
So the protagonist flew north first, and then searched along the edge of the forest. Sure enough, he quickly found his target.
The fire ant elder and his entourage probably had a good meal in [Xinyang City]. They walked quite slowly on the road and were still far from the border.
The protagonist landed, and the fire ant elder was very surprised to see the protagonist falling from the sky, with his jaws wide open and his tentacles raised high and shaking gently.
The protagonist had already thought of his words and asked the flying knights to take down the things they brought, which were small clay pots containing diluted honeydew and crow honey.
The honeydew and crow's honey exported by the Divine Envoy King's Army are both concentrated. Such concentrated honeydew and crow's honey cannot be drunk directly. It needs to be mixed with water before drinking.
The protagonist asked the Flying Knights to take other ants to drink the diluted honeydew. He personally accompanied the red fire ant elder. He diluted the crow honey in a clay pot and mixed it with some alcohol brewed in the fermentation workshop.
The protagonist tells the elder fire ant that he likes the other person very much and is reluctant to let the other person leave. He should drink precious honeydew again to see him off.
There is also a close relationship between male ants. This red fire ant elder has a low status in the domestic Presbyterian Church. Faced with the preference of the leader of a powerful vassal country, coupled with the temptation of crow honey, he was flattered.
Yesterday, although the fire ant elder was also very happy to eat, there was only honeydew and no crow honey. Crow honey was not allowed within the Divine Envoy King's army. Had it not been for the protagonist's personal order today, no crow honey would have been brought out from the warehouse.
After drinking a can of crow honey mixed with wine, the fire ant elder, who had never withstood the test of alcohol, quickly became drunk, and his tentacles were no longer on guard. The protagonist easily got some of the information he wanted.
However, this fire ant elder was so useless that the protagonist fell drunk before he finished reading it, and almost caused a misunderstanding.
If the red fire ant entourage hadn't realized that the elder was just asleep and not dead, he would have fought the protagonist on the spot.
The protagonist asked them to go to the nearby auxiliary nest of the Envoy King Legion to rest, and then leave after waking up. He returned to [Xinyang City].
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The information read by the protagonist is not much, but it is crucial.
He did not expect that the seemingly arrogant country of red fire ants actually had a suzerain state, and the elders of the red fire ants were very afraid of this suzerain state.
This suzerain country is too powerful. Its territory is a hundred times that of the red fire ant country, and its ant population is hundreds of times larger.
What makes the protagonist dumbfounded is that the overlord of the red fire ant country is actually an empire founded by pavement ants. There are pavement ants in my hometown, but they are also found here, and they are also found on the south bank of Qinghe River. It seems that pavement ants are everywhere.
The Pavement Ant Sect Nation generally ignored the Red Fire Ant Nation and allowed it to wreak havoc in the south. But this time, for some unknown reason, a large amount of supplies and soldiers were taken away from the Red Fire Ant Nation last winter.
Pavement ant warriors can move outdoors in winter, but how do they transport large amounts of supplies over long distances, and how do they get fire ant warriors who are afraid of the cold? The protagonist doesn't understand.
The good news now is that the Red Fire Ant Nation has not adopted any conspiracy or conspiracy against the God Envoy King's Legion, even though the relationship between the two parties is far from harmonious.
The bad news is that after being squeezed by its overlord country, the red fire ant country really does not have the strength to deal with the counterattack of the leaf-cutting ant army for the time being!
