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Zhu Jue initially thought that these thin-legged ants were coming for him.
According to reports, these Thin-legged Ants come from the Thin-legged Ant territory north of [Panellia City] and near [Liuyi City]. They were colonies established far away from the mainland by the Thin-legged Ant Expeditionary Force that originally participated in the civilized ant alliance. , has strong independence and is not subject to local control on weekdays.
The Thin-footed Ant clan has always been close to the Black Fire Ant clan and has not dealt with the Ant Alliance. Could it be that now that the Black Fire Ants have disappeared, the Thin-legged Ants have reappeared?
Zhu Jue then thought about it and realized that was not right. His patrol was known to high-level officials in China, but it was obviously not known abroad. The ants had no intelligence awareness, so how could they accurately know the information about his arrival in [Panxia City]? ?
And even if they want to harm themselves, these thousands of thin-footed ants are obviously not enough to pose a threat. If there is still a possibility of success in a raid in the wild, now that I am staying in a strong nest fortress, the area is a key fortified area in the north. Even if it is besieged by 100,000 thin-legged ants, it will not be conquered in a short time.
After Zhu Jue asked about the local Ten Ant Group, the members of the Ten Ant Group were also puzzled and said that there had been no recent conflicts between the local area and neighboring colonies and overseas territories. A while ago, according to the request of the main nest, a delegation was sent to present and sell crow wine, and they were entertained...
Crow wine! ?
Zhu Jue roughly guessed what was going on. It seemed to be a coincidence, but he still cautiously asked the accompanying guards and local garrison to prepare for emergencies, and then personally took the young nobles and local officials out of the nest to deal with the situation.
Outside [Panxia City], on a low hill, a group of thin-legged ants were entrenched on it, confronting a legion of the local garrison.
The thin-footed ants are very scattered, and thousands of them completely occupy the low hill. They don't pay attention to formation, and they are like a piece of loose sand.
But these thin-footed ants cannot be underestimated. During the war with the Pavement Ant Imperial Army, Zhu Jue had seen the fighting power of the thin-legged ants. They were extremely fast and were one of the very few who could catch up with the enemy's silver ant army. Each of the square arms is like a light cavalry.
The dispersed formation is actually more suitable for taking advantage of the agile, fierce, and good at fighting alone. These more than a thousand thin-footed ants are actually not as easy to bully as their numbers.
[Banxia City] Local officials went up to ask questions, and the other party also sent representatives. The two sides communicated in neutral open spaces separated from the protection of their own troops.
Zhu Jue hid his identity and kept listening to the reports from the returning messengers behind the array.
Sure enough, it was Crow Wine who was to blame. The thin-footed ants are here to catch the autumn wind this time, and they ask the ant alliance to give them a batch of crow wine, otherwise they will not leave.
They also threatened that if they did not leave, the worker ants in [Banxia City] would not be able to come out to forage.
The colony land that these warriors live in is small. They were very eager after tasting the crow wine sold last time. However, there was no additional production and enough crow wine was traded, so the ants considered "finding another shortcut." .
Zhu Jue instructed the negotiators, saying that they would only trade and not give away anything. If the other party wants to get nothing, there is no way!
After a while, I saw the Thin-legged Ant from the opposite side pushing over a dozen big-headed worker ants from the back of the short hill. Some of the joints and limbs were broken. They struggled hard under the control of the opponent's big jaws, but to no avail.
This is a worker ant from the Ant Alliance that was captured in the territory of [Banxia City] and was injured. The other party arrogantly said that they can use your own worker ants in exchange, or use corpses.
The other party was obviously playing rogue, and the injuries to the domestic ants also angered Zhu Jue. Do these small-legged ants think that the ant United States are easy to bully?
In fact, the Thin-footed Ants are very confident in their speed. They feel that even if the opponent is annoyed, they can easily leave with their speed advantage. In their homeland, they often use this method to defeat the harvest ants, which are also members of the civilized ant tribe, and they have tried and failed.
This time they wanted to repeat their old tricks, but they were destined to hit the wall today.
Zhu Jue ordered the negotiation to stop and the entire army to attack.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Thin-footed Ants knew that their side had few troops, so they wanted to evacuate first, then come back to regain their position later, and use guerrilla warfare to force the Ant Alliance to agree to their unreasonable demands.
But the commander of the Thin-legged Ants miscalculated. The Thin-legged Ant warriors were so fast that most of the ant tribe could not restrain them. But no matter how fast they are, the flying tiger knights of the Divine Envoy King's legion can still catch up, and the flying knights in the air are far faster than them.
I saw the flying knights swooping down and using their spider silk balls to continuously bind and tie up the fleeing thin-legged ants on the ground. The fly tiger knights flew quickly over the vegetation on both sides and overhead, catching a thin-legged ant with every swoop.
Zhu Jue ordered to capture as many alive as possible. In the end, less than 20% of the more than 1,000 ants escaped, more than 800 were taken as prisoners, and more than 100 died of serious injuries.
Zhu Jue then ordered some of the leading male ants to be executed. The other male ants and ordinary thin-footed ant warriors were treated as slaves and taken directly to the hematite mines with difficult conditions to atone for their sins until death.
Later, it was said that some ants were organized by male ants and tried to escape from the mine. The mine cut off two of the male ants' joints, greatly reducing their speed. The male Slender-footed Ant knows that he cannot escape, so he accepts his fate. Ordinary Slender-legged Ants can't even think of escaping without their organization, so they work obediently until death.
The home country of the Thin-footed Ant also appealed for this conflict at the Civilized Ant Tribe Conference, hoping that the Ant Alliance would release its male ants and compensate for the losses. However, the Ant Alliance strongly refused and received no support from other tribes. In the end, nothing happened.
This is something.
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This episode did not disturb Zhu Jue's interest in patrolling. After leaving the Pinellia City, which was surrounded by yellow autumn grass, they turned southeast and went south along the stone beach and stone hill border in the eastern part of the Ant Alliance.
The border here is not very peaceful. The neighboring indigenous ant tribes living in the barren land often invade and plunder. However, the indigenous ants are weak and pose no threat to Zhu Jue and his party. Zhu Jue just wants to let the younger generation of noble ants understand the situation here.
After witnessing an attack, a young male giant-headed ant became indignant and demanded revenge.
Zhu Jue assigned a team of fly-tiger knights? Several flying knights and some infantry, commanded by him and some young ants with the same idea, were responsible for the revenge operation.
Three days later, Zhu Jue and his party, who had arrived at [Golden Beach City], returned to the team. They found nothing. It was difficult to find the residence of the indigenous ant tribe on the barren stone beach. Even if they found it, there were only old and weak ants inside. The queen ants follow the young ants and plunder all year round.
The retaliatory action yielded no results, which Zhu Jue had expected, and also made the young noble ants realize the complexity of the border situation.
