With the experience of the last "Inheritance of Ancient Gods" civilized ant tribe conference, the protagonist is not in a hurry to go to the [Holy Tree City] of the Leaf-cutting Ant Kingdom to attend the conference this time.
Generally, the ants who are far away have to leave early to avoid delays on the road and miss the meeting. The Ant Alliance Country is very close to the Leafcutter Ant Country, so there is no such concern.
The protagonist has been very busy recently. Instead of arriving early and staying in [Holy Tree City] for a day waiting for other representatives to arrive like last time, it is better to continue working in [New Yang City].
The protagonist set out early on the morning of the meeting, and he flew in under the escort of a small team of flying knights.
Entering the venue, everyone was still in a lazy state lying on the ant silk mats. The protagonist would not arrange these mats in a conference room in his country. Although they were comfortable, they were not solemn.
Representatives of most of the ant tribes have already entered the venue, and some female ants from the host leaf-cutting ant country are taking care of things.
Only the leaf-cutting ant queen and the black fire ant clan representative who were presiding over the meeting had not yet entered the venue. According to reports, the black fire ant clan representative had arrived yesterday and was discussing something with the leaf-cutter ant queens.
The protagonist lay down on the ant silk mat to rest for a while, and the late leaf-cutting ant queen and black fire ant representatives finally entered the venue.
The protagonist looked up and lowered his head.
Suddenly, he realized something. He raised his head suddenly and looked at the few ants that had just entered the door. Their tentacles were raised high and their jaws were clenched tightly.
The ant that came in followed the black fire ant representative. He seemed to have known that the protagonist would appear here. He looked around the venue, locked the protagonist, and looked at the protagonist without showing any signs of weakness.
The eyes of both sides collided, and sparks shot out, both filled with anger and hatred!
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About the same time, far north.
This is the territory of the pavement ant empire. In a nest near the southern border, the ants are converging into the nest in a steady stream.
The south of this nest is adjacent to a barren gravel land, and through this gravel land, which takes about a day's walk to cross, is the territory of the former red fire ant country, which is now the border of the leafcutter ant country.
After the remnant army of the red fire ant nation was defeated last year, it was through this sand that they arrived at the pavement ant empire to seek shelter, and were immediately placed in this nest to rest.
Although the Fire Ant Nation, as a vassal state of the Pavement Ant Empire, often takes some unruly actions, the Pavement Ant Empire, which has a high self-esteem, at most regards it as naughty and does not pay special attention to it.
After all, in front of the huge size of the Pavement Ant Empire and its strength that is far superior to the surrounding forces, the Red Fire Ant Kingdom does not dare to really make any mistakes.
Facing the Red Fire Ant Nation's request for help, the Pavilion Ant Empire, which valued the dignity of its superior nation, decided to raise troops to restore this vassal nation after discussions among the six kings.
Although their kin far to the north are also seeking help, the Pavement Ant Empire is willing to fight on two fronts.
After all, the northern battlefield is too far away, and the support the Pavement Ant Empire can provide is limited, while the southern battlefield is close at hand!
The Pavement Ant Empire has always been happy to do this kind of act that makes other vassal states more grateful. As for who the opponent is and what their strength is, the Pavement Ant Empire doesn't care. No force is the opponent of the Pavement Ant Empire. This has been proven by their thousands of years of history.
If it weren't for the fact that all the forces from the east, west, north, and south had become vassals, the Pavement Ant Empire would definitely be even bigger than it is now. But now that the other ant tribes have surrendered, the Pavement Ant Empire, which values face, is no longer able to hold its jaws.
However, their expansion ambition has not been extinguished. This time, with the help of the Red Fire Ant Nation to recover, the Pavement Ant Empire will be able to legitimately continue to use troops to the unsubordinated areas in the south to further expand the territory of the empire. This is the capital of every Six Kings. The dream of greatness.
In recent years, the Pavement Ant Empire has rarely carried out large-scale military operations. Those wars to suppress rebellions and rescue vassal states have not been brought to the stage at all, which has already made this six kings very dissatisfied.
The Red Fire Ant Nation was originally the most powerful vassal state under the Pavement Ant Empire, and the two forces that destroyed the country were said to have mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops. Such a scale of war could keep the Six Kings focused.
For the sake of caution, this time, the first batch of troops invested by the Pavilion Ant Empire included 720,000 imperial troops.
Among the various vassal forces of the empire, in addition to the 80,000 red fire ant army that will definitely participate in the war to restore the country, the other 36 ant tribes will also participate in the war. The first batch of these vassal soldiers and mercenaries from the empire's trade will be 220,000.
Calculated in this way, the coalition forces of the Pavement Ant Empire dispatched as many as 1.02 million troops at one time. A veritable army of one million is definitely not comparable to those who dare to call themselves a million troops with only 100,000 people!
If it weren't for the worry that the logistics supply could not keep up, the Pavement Ant Empire could mobilize several times this number of troops to participate in the war.
Among the troops that the Pavement Ant Empire plans to participate in the war, there is a clear division of combat soldiers and auxiliaries. This is a reflection of the professionalism of their army. It is precisely because of this professional army that the Pavement Ant Empire has achieved such a great victory in history. A land.
Among the 720,000 troops, there are 480,000 auxiliary troops and 240,000 combat troops. The 2:1 configuration is enough to ensure the combat effectiveness of the combat troops.
It seems that the configuration of the Pavement Ant Empire Army has caused the strength to shrink to one-third of the book. It seems that the strength is greatly limited, but in fact this is not the case.
If you look at the previous wars between the leaf-cutter ant country and the red imported fire ant country, you will find that the leaf-cutter ant country seems to be able to mobilize an army of 700,000 people at a time, and the red fire ant country has also mobilized an army of 500,000 people.
Neither the leaf-cutting ant army nor the red fire ant army distinguishes between combat soldiers and auxiliary soldiers. Ant soldiers are responsible for chores such as food transportation and engineering construction, as well as participating in battles. In fact, it is difficult to balance combat effectiveness and logistical support.
In the "Battle of the Ancients", the leaf-cutting ant army was surrounded and eventually annihilated. Could it be that it was not possible to effectively guarantee the transportation of the front line, resulting in the lone army being surrounded?
There are a large number of slave auxiliary soldiers in the red fire ant army. Except for a small number of red forest ant slaves, other ants are more suitable as auxiliary soldiers, but they are forced to participate in the battle, which often becomes a weak point in the army.
The method of dividing the Pavement Ant Empire Army into combat troops and auxiliary troops is much more scientific and reasonable.
Moreover, these 720,000 troops are only the first batch of assault troops used to break through the enemy's border defenses. Once a suitable base is obtained across the barren gravel land, they can quickly transport enough to support the overall strength of the Imperial Army. Wan Ant used three months' worth of supplies to go to the war zone.
After receiving logistical support, the Pavement Ant Imperial Army will continue to mobilize the second and third batches of troops to participate in the war.
Naturally, the Red Fire Ant Army will not miss the battle to restore the country. They received the territory set aside by the Pavement Ant Empire and donated materials. After recuperating last year, the Red Fire Ant Country has regained some of its vitality.
In this war to restore the country, the red fire ant army will dispatch 80,000 warriors, including 20,000 native warriors, 40,000 burrowing ant slaves, 30,000 abdominal ant slaves, and 10,000 Japanese black ant slaves.
