The protagonist's guess is correct. The culprit of the ant plague in Liuyi City is lurking in this nest.
Last winter, an ant plague occurred among the red fire ants and slave ants stationed there.
Since Liuyi City had been surrounded before winter, the defenders had little time to prepare supplies for the winter. Most of their food for the winter was ant corpses, which was a last resort.
It is not surprising that the plague appeared. For the germs in the corpse, this is a God-given opportunity to thrive. Countless viruses spread among the putrid corpses and then infected the ants, and then more and more people were infected.
The fire ant family still has a way to suppress ant plague. They know to let sick ants live in one area and healthy ants live in another area.
Putrid corpses were fed to the sick, while fresher corpses and scarce ordinary food were supplied to healthy ants.
This set of measures is much better than the epidemic prevention measures of most civilized ant tribes. Throughout the winter, although the ant population in Liuyi City suffered heavy casualties, order was not lost.
In contrast, leaf-cutter ants and other civilized ant tribes inevitably eat carcasses when they spend the winter, but the proportion of their food still includes a lot of ordinary food, which does not cause ant plague.
This is also the reason why the ant plague only rages in Liuyi City and has not appeared in the leaf-cutting ant country.
When the "Wisdom Elder" led a few supporters to leave Liuyi City, he wisely only took away healthy ants. Whenever any ants show symptoms of disease on the road, whether they are red imported fire ants or slave ants, they will be expelled without mercy and die outdoors in the cold spring.
Relying on harsh measures, the "wisdom elder" and his party arrived in Beisong City in good health.
After becoming a "dictator", the "wisdom elder" can finally unleash his revenge, which he has longed for. Even when he was idle, he did not give up his desire for power, but hid it deeply in his heart. .
As long as the Red Fire Ant Nation cannot do without his wisdom and military command ability, he will have a chance!
The opportunity came! It is for this reason that when the demands of the sovereign state conflicted with the political traditions of the Red Fire Ant clan, the "wisdom elders" chose to follow their own individual will.
It's not that he doesn't know that the younger generation of male ants today are both afraid and hateful of him, but what does it matter? The suzerain country supports him, thousands of soldiers from the Pavement Ant Empire support him, and the red fire ant warriors of his own tribe also obey the words of him, the highest-ranking elder.
The entire country of red fire ants bows to him! This is enough!
It is impossible for him to kill all the young male ants. As long as the other party still obeys, he can accept it!
I am also doing it for the red fire ant country! The "wise elder" thought so.
Under his management, the original Northern Songcheng tree nest was abandoned, and a beehive-style underground nest was quickly built on the ground near the original site of the red imported fire ant home.
This measure also made the younger generation of male ants slightly more supportive of the "wisdom elders".
At the same time, relying on the huge amount of supplies left by the sovereign country, the "wisdom elder" ordered his native queen ants and slave ant queens to mass-produce tens of thousands of ant eggs, which greatly supplemented the scarcity of the red fire ant country. of ants.
Seeing that spring is getting stronger, the first batch of male ants that have emerged from their pupae have begun to appear. They are waiting for the opportunity to fly for marriage this year. The "wisdom elder" is also waiting for these first batch of male ants to be loyal to him after he becomes a dictator. .
When the haze of the ant plague gradually dissipated in mid-April, all the disharmony and divisions within the coalition forces were finally temporarily suppressed, and the army began to regroup and prepare to advance towards Beisong City.
At this time, the coalition forces suddenly discovered that the red fire ant country they were facing seemed to be able to resist again, as if the extinguished wildfire was burning again.
After intensive investigation by the Flying Knights, the Angel King Legion estimated that the Red Fire Ant Nation had quickly recovered to the level of 340,000 combatable troops. Although it was at a disadvantage compared to the coalition forces, it was not without resistance.
After the coalition forces have regrouped, there are only more than 100,000 troops left. Except for the ants who died from the ant plague, most of the tribes are unwilling to send more troops.
The black fire ants and other tribes have already obtained the territory close to the "Holy Tree", and they are focused on managing the territory. Most of them are only willing to send one or two thousand troops, and even the completely different blind leaf-cutting ant tribe refuses to send troops.
The Ant Alliance has been at war with the Black Fire Ant Clan recently. When they regrouped in Liuyi City this time, the Black Fire Ant Clan actually refused to station the Angel King’s army on their territory. The protagonist angrily ordered the troops to withdraw to Banxia City, and also Not going to war.
Nowadays, almost only the leaf-cutter ant army, which is eager to regain their lost territory, is sending troops. The other tribes are only sending troops symbolically or not at all.
This coalition force must travel long distances for several days, without support from the sub-nest along the way, and logistical supplies must be transported over long distances. However, the red fire ant army can wait for work, and with abundant supplies and some promises of support from the sovereign country, they can safely replenish their battle losses.
When the coalition forces dispatched troops from Liuyi City on April 17, the protagonist received news that he was not optimistic about this military operation at all...
The protagonist refuses to send troops not just because he is angry with the black fire ants.
Instead, he noticed that within the civilized ant tribe, since the "Flying Eagle" caused a stumbling block for the Ant United Nations at the last conference, pointing out that the Ant United Nations was a "rebel" and should not have status, all races There are some subtle changes in the attitude towards the Ant United Nations.
Sometimes, an emotion only needs a seed to grow and thrive silently in the heart.
Although the protagonist tried his best to clear his name at the time, after all, several ant clans' attitudes towards the Ant Alliance gradually worsened. The most representative of them was the black fire ant clan inherited from the Vulcan who was almost poured into the ecstasy soup by the remaining members of the Northern Expeditionary Army. .
In addition, there are the harvest ant clan inherited from the Grass God, the sharp-tailed ant clan inherited from the Insect God, and the thin-legged ant clan inherited from the Wind God.
Among these four tribes, three tribes have sent out expeditionary forces, and they are not easy to deal with the Divine Envoy King's army among the coalition forces.
The protagonist is now expressing his attitude, and at the same time he hopes that the coalition forces will fail this time, and then the God Envoy King Army will appear as the savior again.
In that case, the Ant Alliance can have a greater say in the civilized ant conference and temporarily suppress the doubts about the legal qualifications of the Ant Alliance.
Of course, the protagonist also knows that if the internal friction within an alliance is too serious, it may have a huge negative effect.
But he is not the leader of this alliance and cannot suppress the "voice" of opposition, so he can only increase his "voice".
Just in case, to prevent the coalition forces from making a big tactical mistake and collapsing this time, the protagonist ordered the Divine Envoy King’s Army to dispatch troops from Banxia City in three days and head to Beisong City via another road.
In this way, the Divine Envoy King's army can enter the battlefield at any time.
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