On May 23, the day after the leafcutter ant army captured [Slippery Rock City] and massacred the city, they invited representatives from the Angel King's army to negotiate.
The two parties had agreed before that after joining forces to defeat the Red Fire Ant Army, they would discuss how to divide the land and resources of the Red Fire Ant Country.
Originally, the God Envoy King's army had intended to assist the leaf-cutter ant army in attacking [Slippery Rock City], but the other party refused. They said they wanted to take revenge alone, probably because they wanted to commemorate the 200,000 compatriots who died in the battle. The protagonist didn't persist, and later found out that he had been tricked.
In today's negotiation, the protagonist did not personally participate. The status of the negotiator sent by the other party was not equal to that of the supreme leader of the Angel King Legion. This is a diplomatic etiquette among civilized ant tribes, so the protagonist sent a spade elephant and two male ants. , 3 magic soldier ants acted as representatives to negotiate.
The reason why we still send female magic soldier ants is because the leaf-cutting ant country is dominated by queen ants, and at the same time, we are continuing to improve the status of the magic soldier ants and the magic worker ants.
After all, the blood of the protagonist flows through the bodies of the magic soldier ants and the magic worker ants!
Spade Elephant and other representatives, accompanied by guards, walked into the narrow passage in the stone crevices. The ventilation in [Slippery Rock City] was poor, and a strong smell of blood and corpses lingered. This was left behind by yesterday's massacre. .
If you look carefully, you can see that there are blood stains and the remains of some ant body tissues everywhere on the floor and walls.
The spade elephant was also a veteran who had come over from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain. His tentacles trembled, and he continued to move forward with the representatives and guards without any objection.
When the negotiations began, the purpose of both parties was very clear, that is, to strive for the interests of their own country as much as possible when carving up the territory of the red fire ant country.
Although at this time, the leaf cutter ant army only controls [Slippery Rock City] and a few other secondary nests, the Angel King's army has not occupied any other nests except [Hive City]. More than 90% of the territory of the red imported fire ant country has not been lost.
However, the red fire ant army, which had lost its main nest and suffered heavy losses in its main force, was no longer looked down upon by both sides. The remaining nests, territories and ant colonies with weak defenses in the red fire ant country have been regarded as food for both parties in the negotiation.
The goal of the Angel King Legion is to carve up half of the land of the Red Fire Ant Country, including the [Hive City] that has been acquired, and the strategic location [Slippery Rock City] that can protect [Hive City].
At the same time, the stag elephants want to hand over the northern territory of the red imported fire ant country, which is far away from the leafcutter ant country, to the leafcutter ant country on the grounds that there are forests in the north of the red imported fire ant country, so that they can serve as a northern barrier to resist possible attacks by the overlord of the red imported fire ant country. revenge.
Through investigation, the flying knights indeed discovered a forest in the northern territory of the fire ant country, but it was a sparse secondary forest, not the dense forest that leafcutter ants like best.
However, the God Envoy King Army concealed this during the negotiations and only said that there was a large forest over there, which made the Leafcutter Ant representative very excited.
The negotiators of the Leafcutter Ant Nation also had their own ideas. They requested five-sixths of the territory of the Red Fire Ant Nation on the grounds that the number of troops sent by the Leafcutter Ant Nation was five to six times (30 times) that of the Angel King’s army. They also demanded The Legion of God's Envoy King will give up [Hive City].
Of course, the spade elephant would not do it. This condition was far from the bottom line given by the God Envoy King.
Spade Elephant said that if it weren't for the support of the Divine Envoy King's army, the leaf-cutting ant army would have been wiped out the day before yesterday, and there would be no chance to negotiate.
The leaf-cutter ant army accused the Angel King's army of being too slow to come to the rescue and failing to fulfill its obligations to the alliance.
The representative of the God Envoy King's Legion also accused the leaf-cutting ant army of not launching an attack in advance as agreed.
The two sides argued back and forth, and finally the leafcutter ant representative realized that he was wrong and made concessions.
In the end, the partition agreement reached by both parties was:
The Angel King's Legion obtained about one-third of the territory in the east and south of the Red Fire Ant Kingdom, and [Hive City] is still occupied by the Angel King's Legion.
The leaf-cutter ant army occupied the remaining two-thirds of the red fire ant country's territory. The Angel King's army suggested that they occupy the northern forest, and they agreed. For the leafcutter ant nation, forests are much more useful than wilderness that needs to be transformed by tree planting.
The strategically important [Slippery Rock City] is still controlled by the leafcutter ant nation. They refuse any negotiation conditions involving the ownership of [Slippery Rock City] on the grounds that the leafcutter ant army conquered this place alone.
Afterwards, when the protagonist learned the news, he couldn't laugh or cry. It turned out that yesterday the leaf-cutter ants had such a motive in rejecting the Angel King's army to help in the battle. The protagonist was actually fooled without realizing it. It seems that the leaf-cutter ants had simple thoughts. Ants are also relatively complex and cunning.
Although [Slippery Rock City] has not been taken down, [Hive City] is exposed to the threat of the leaf-cutting ant army at any time, but the protagonist does not care.
First of all, the Leaf-cutting Ant Nation is currently an ally and has the bond of inheritance from the ancient gods. It is estimated that the two sides will not turn against each other.
Secondly, [Hive City] has always been valued by the Leafcutter Ant Nation. The Divine Envoy King Legion has no obsession with this place and does not intend to vigorously build [Hive City]. It only regards this place as a buffer zone.
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After reaching an agreement with the Leaf Cutter Ant Army, the Angel King's army returned to [Hive City].
After that, the Divine Envoy King's legions began to attack everywhere to occupy their own territories. These secondary nests that were scattered, out of command, and weak in strength were all conquered one after another.
Because we have only reached a rough division agreement with the leaf-cutter ant country, how many sub-nests are there in one-third of the territory? Neither party in the negotiation knows the inside story of the Red Fire Ant Country, and there are only a lot of areas where they can take advantage.
While the leaf-cutter ant army was still resting in Slippery Rock City and waiting for reinforcements, and there was no window of opportunity to start expansion, the Angel King's army occupied a large area of the eastern, southern and even central territory of the original red fire ant country.
After the leaf-cutter ant army began to expand, although there was a lot of land left for them, in the end the ratio of the number of secondary nests occupied by them and the Angel King's army did not reach 2:1, but about 5:3.
The leafcutter ants were unaware of, or did not care about, this small discrepancy.
Their thoughts were mainly on the remnants of the fire ant army.
Compared with the God Envoy King's army, which has been expanding smoothly, the leaf-cutter ant army still needs to face the desperate resistance of the 50,000 remnants of the red fire ant army.
These remnants of the fire ant army were very tenacious and entrenched in the north of the country. They plundered the resources of dozens of secondary nests in the north and assembled an army of 60,000 to 70,000 people to fight several battles with the approaching leaf-cutting ant army.
It was not until the end of June that the powerful leaf-cutting ant army slowly exhausted the remaining red fire ant army, forcing the last 10,000 red imported fire ants and slave ants to flee north to the sovereign country with their families, and finally completely occupied the red fire ant. The northern border of Ant Kingdom.
At this time, the leafcutter ants discovered that the woods in the north were very sparse and needed to be transformed with great efforts, and then they realized that they had been tricked by the God Envoy King's army.
So far, only half a year has passed this year, and only three months since the beginning of spring, the red fire ant country that has dominated the country for hundreds of years has been destroyed!
