On June 13, the pavement ant imperial army captured the last important nest in the central defense line of the leaf-cutting ant army. This marked the old territory occupied by the leaf-cutter ant kingdom, except for some remote small nests and those close to the mainland. Some of the nests and others have been basically lost.
At this time, it had only been 9 days since the "June 3rd Battle" ended, and 8 days had passed since the Divine Envoy King's army had withdrawn from [Panxia City].
During this period of time, the defeated leafcutter ant army defended the nests in the central direction. They fought tenaciously in the defense battles of some tree nests, which made it very difficult for the pavement ant imperial army who were not used to tree fighting.
However, the Pavement Ant Empire also has some vassal ant clans that are good at tree warfare. When the yellow ant clan began to participate in tree warfare, the situation of the leafcutter ant army went from bad to worse.
The leaf-cutter ant nation once tried to organize and dispatch new troops to rescue the central defense line, but they were short of supplies. The assembled soldiers could only gather in the eastern part of the mainland and did not have enough supplies for departure.
They also contacted the Angel King's Legion in an attempt to seek assistance in terms of troops and materials, but the Leafcutter Ant Army did not send troops. It was impossible for the Angel King's Legion to send troops alone to defeat millions of enemy troops. They only provided some supplies. of assistance.
When the central defense line was completely lost, the leaf cutter ant army naturally no longer had the need to send troops. They began to deploy defenses on the mainland to defend against the next offensive of the pavement ant imperial army.
In mid-June, other ant tribes that received the leaf-cutting ant country's "request for help" finally sent reinforcements one after another and arrived at the leaf-cutting ant army's homeland. There were a total of 1,296 black fire ant warriors, 1,296 marching ant warriors, and mulberry ant warriors. There are 864 flat-headed ant warriors and 216 bullet ant warriors.
Among them, the army ant clan and the bullet ant clan did not originally promise to send troops, but this time they still provided assistance.
The number of reinforcements is not large. After all, these ant tribes are not bordering the territory of the leaf-cutter ant country. It is not easy to mobilize troops over long distances simply by air transportation. Recently, most of the air transportation power of the Bullet Ant Clan and the Hairy Forest Ant Clan has been devoted to airlifting reinforcements. A large number of soldiers of all races were bundled in bags like cargo and brought to the Leafcutter Ant Kingdom by migratory locusts or giant dragonflies.
The ant tribes of various civilizations also provided some supplies within their capabilities, but they did not help much in terms of food that was most urgently needed by the leaf-cutting ant country. In addition to transporting soldiers, the already tight air transportation force can only prioritize transporting more important supplies such as salt, followed by food.
For the large amount of food that the leafcutter ant country needs, in addition to relying on the fungus cultivation beds in their own nests, they can only rely on the neighboring ant country.
The Ant Nation has always produced a lot of food. Each nest in the core hinterland has farmland and yellow mealworm farms. After conquering some of the territory of the Red Fire Ant Nation last year, agriculture has also been vigorously developed on these fertile new lands. Currently, the food reserves of the Ant Alliance are enough to sustain the country for three years if only its own citizens consume it, and a steady stream of food is produced every day.
After learning that the Leafcutter Ant Nation requested a large amount of food for trade, the protagonist flew back to [Xinyang City] and made a decision at the conference of all races, agreeing to sell up to two-thirds of the national food stocks to Sleepwalker.
However, the United Ant Nation has enough food to sell, but the Leafcutter Ant Nation lacks sufficient means of payment. In the past, they used dried mycelium as their main means of payment for purchasing honeydew. Now they have to buy food in turn. There are only a few goods that leaf ants can offer in exchange.
Naturally, what the Divine Envoy King Legion is most interested in is beasts like the Star Beetle. Unfortunately, the Leafcutter Ant Nation has tightened their belts and is unwilling to sell more of their sacred beasts. The Leafcutter Ant Nation can also provide some wild fruits or vegetables such as nightshade. These are not useful as food. They are only supplementary food that the noble ants occasionally prepare. The Ant Nation also wants some.
In the end, the Leafcutter Ant Nation almost emptied their wealth, even taking out the coarse salt donated by other ant tribes, honeypot ants with bellies full of nectar, as well as alluvial gold and hematite particles stored in previous warehouses. Trade only bought one-third of the grain reserves of the Ant Alliance, and this was still at a preferential price.
Although they were unable to empty out the granaries of the Ant Alliance and the Leafcutter Ants' own warehouses were emptied, they soon received a large amount of grain from the land route.
With food in hand, the leaf-cutting ant nation once again mobilized 400,000 troops and set up a new defense line in the eastern part of the native forest. Reinforcements from other ant tribes were also dispatched here to assist in the defense.
After the Pavement Ant Empire Army occupied the central defense line and regained half of the old Fire Ant Kingdom's homeland, they were not in a hurry to move south or west, and the battle situation experienced a brief calm.
Because of the existence of the "Mosquito" troops, the Flying Knights did not dare to unscrupulously investigate the Ant Empire Army. They could only take advantage of the morning and night to quietly gather information.
Based on the limited intelligence, the protagonist can only guess that the enemy army is resting and recuperating, and that they are dividing their forces to attack some small nests of the local leaf-cutter ants that still exist.
In fact, the Pavement Ant Empire Army did a big thing locally - helping the red fire ant country to recover.
Although the entire homeland of the red imported fire ant country has not yet been recovered at this time, the pavement ant clan and the red imported fire ant clan are already impatient for the restoration of the country.
Needless to say, it goes without saying that the red imported fire ant nation has always been the biggest wish in the hearts of the "wisdom elders" and other male ants who left their country. This time, the red fire ant nation has been fighting on the front line for the restoration of the country. The "wisdom elders" even fought for In the past year, he has been desperate enough to sneak into the leaf-cutter ant country and the ant alliance country.
The Pavement Ant Empire believes that helping the red fire ant nation recover can make other vassal ant tribes more trusting and dependent on the suzerain nation.
In this war-torn world, every ant clan is worried that one day their clan will disappear from the world. If the suzerain country is willing to help them recover by then, it is equivalent to giving these ant clans one more chance to survive. Survival is the common wish of every ant tribe!
In addition, among the vassal states of the Pavement Ant Empire, there are also some unruly vassals like the previous Red Fire Ant Kingdom. Just because the Pavement Ant Empire did not pay much attention to them before does not mean that it does not care. This time, they will take advantage of the opportunity of restoring the country to crack down on these restless vassals.
On June 17, a former large nest of the red imported fire ant in the central region officially announced its return to the country. It also reluctantly "gifted" 72 nests in the northern border [North Pine City] to the suzerain as the suzerain's request to send troops. of remuneration.
Although the "wisdom elders" are not happy, they can only accept it now. Fortunately, at least the suzerain country promised to seize more territory for them that did not originally belong to the red fire ant country as compensation!
