Zhu Jue's goodwill also paid off.
On March 24, the Black Fire Ant Nation decided to withdraw most of its troops stationed in the border area with the Ant Alliance Nation.
This is a gesture of goodwill, but it is also a helpless move to concentrate more troops to pay off the large-scale invasion of parasitic ants.
But no matter which reason was the main reason, Zhu Jue also expressed his goodwill by reducing the troops stationed in [Western City] to one-sixth of the current size after receiving the notification from the Black Fire Ant Nation's envoy.
The long-term tension between the two countries has eased significantly since the beginning of spring this year, and everyone seems to be happy. The only two people who were dissatisfied, besides "Flying Eagle", were probably the commanders of the Black Fire Ant border garrison.
Before the winter last year, by blatantly selling the client ants as slaves to the Ant Alliance, the black fire ants and the commanders of the client ants in this garrison lived a life of gods with crow wine every time, better than the main nest. The high-ranking kings here are even more elegant and extravagant.
This movement of the army has obviously cut off this line of extra money for Crow Wine. However, the national war was imminent, and the commander of the Black Fire Ant Army still had good qualities and a sense of responsibility for fighting the ants. After a short period of preparation, the Black Fire Ant Army began to break camp without any intention of delaying it.
Before breaking camp, "Xiao Shen" from [Western Realm City] brought a group of ants to work for the army. After being allowed to enter, they carried 3 snail shells and crow wine and gave them to the black fire ant army. The meeting between the two parties was full of friendly atmosphere as always. On behalf of the Ant Alliance, "Xiao Shen" wished the Black Fire Ant Army a victory. The Black Fire Ant Army thanked the Ant Alliance for its strong support, and then they had a good time.
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Just as the black fire ant army in the border areas and the black fire ant armies from all over the country were converging on the main nest [Black Fire City], in [Black Fire City], the king's meeting was held many times in the past few days.
The king's meeting discussed how to prepare for war.
The disastrous defeat in the Western City not long ago caused the Black Fire Ant Kingdom to lose more than 100,000 troops. This is something that has never happened in recent decades. The Black Fire Ant Nation paid attention from top to bottom and prepared for the next decisive battle.
Since the rise of the Black Fire Ant Nation in constant wars and conquests, it has been invincible in the region. Even the powerful civilized ant nations such as Army Ants and Thin-footed Ants respect the honor and combat effectiveness of the Black Fire Ant warriors.
The last time the black fire ant army suffered such a disastrous defeat and made such preparations, it dates back decades. At that time, a group of hook-toothed ants wandered into this area from south to north.
The hamster-toothed ant is the famous ghost-spined ant, and like the Buchner's ant, it is often called an army ant. But in fact, in the classification of ant species, army ants generally refer to the ants of the genus Army Ant in the subfamily Formicidae.
However, the hamster-toothed ant and the Brydon's ant are more famous, and they often take over the name of the army ant. At this point, the genuine army ant clan inherited from the Earth God in this region will definitely not be happy with this. They are serious oriental army ants, and their fighting power is not weak. They made great achievements in the holy war against termites.
That year, the hook-toothed ant tribe numbered nearly 100,000. They first appeared at the border of the leaf-cutting ant kingdom on the north bank of Qinghe River. They quickly slaughtered countless tree nests of the leaf-cutting ant clan, the guardians of the sacred tree, and killed Millions of leafcutter ants.
That year was a year of severe drought. The trees dried up and the leaves withered, making the leaf-cutter ant clan, which was originally strong but extremely dependent on green plants, extremely weak. This time it was attacked by the hook-toothed ants, and then faced with the rise of the booming ants after the drought. The strong challenge of the ant clan has not slowed down in just a few decades, and it has lost its former glory.
That year, the Qinghe River even stopped flowing for a time, and the hook-toothed ants, which had ravaged most of the territory of the leaf-cutter ant kingdom, took the opportunity to cross the dry river bed and enter the territory of the black fire ant kingdom.
The Black Fire Ant Nation organized a large-scale crusade, but suffered heavy losses due to the flexible maneuvering tactics of tens of thousands of Fire Ants. After a decisive battle, they lost more than 200,000 elites.
Fortunately, the wandering hook-toothed ant tribe also lost more than half. Compared with the civilized ant tribe with stable territory, they who have been wandering are even less able to bear the losses. After realizing that the black fire ant country was in trouble, the ants migrated eastward along the Qinghe River bed and later disappeared.
Now the Black Fire Ant Kingdom has once again suffered an epic defeat. This time the intruders are larger and more hostile than the hamster ants, so the kings of the Black Fire Ant Kingdom have to pay attention.
The memory ants that usually live deep underground are frequently awakened and come to the conference room to show the kings the examples of their ancestors' battles against the fallen ants.
These memory ants are specially raised worker ants with slightly larger heads, but their bodies are deformed and small. It is even difficult to walk from the residence to the conference room, and they need to be carried by ant slaves.
They have a special status in the country and do not need to work like ordinary worker ants. They enjoy the same material offerings as unmarried female ants every day. Even the male ants must be treated with respect, because these memory ants, which stay away all year round, represent the ancestors and glorious history of the black fire ant country.
The last holy war with fallen ants was so long ago that the male ants had long forgotten about it, but there were various legends circulating about it.
Only memory ants, the full-time ants responsible for preserving the history of the Black Fire Ant Nation, can have memory files. After reading, because too many years have passed since the last war, many generations of memory ants have passed, and some information packets were lost and blurred during the intergenerational transmission. Fortunately, most of the information is still relatively complete.
Previously, the black fire ant clan rediscovered the method of using flames to treat parasitic infections, which was discovered from the information provided by the memory ants.
This time, the kings and generals of the black fire ants also obtained a lot of information about the fallen ants, at least they did not go into battle with a blind eye.
Paying attention to historical inheritance is also a major reason why the Black Fire Ant Country remains strong and prosperous.
The black fire ant army is still gathering, and is expected to be completed by the end of March, when 500,000 troops will be deployed. This is almost all the mobile forces that the Black Fire Ant Nation can mobilize at the beginning of spring without affecting the prevention and production of various places.
At the same time, envoys from the Black Fire Ant Nation will attend the Civilized Ant Tribe Conference at the end of March to strive for more material assistance at the conference. Other civilized ant tribes may not be as generous as the Ant Alliance, but in the face of the invasion of fallen ants, they still need to express their common hatred.
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Even as the black fire ant kingdom prepares for war, the parasitic ants are not idle either.
More and more parasitic ants are emerging from a valley outside the western border of the black fire ant country, and the number is extremely large. It took them two years to open up this road from the swamps and mountains to the outside world, and now they are out in force.
The termites that invaded the black fire ant country before were forced to migrate as a family to avoid parasitic ants.
