The first civilized ant tribe conference in the 11th year of the New Calendar opened on the last day of March in a very solemn atmosphere.
How to deal with the military threat of fallen ants is the theme of this conference. The sudden appearance of fallen ants has made the civilized ant tribe feel the crisis firsthand.
If the messenger from the 22nd Contact Tree area last year brought information about demon ants, there was still some distant threat, at least it was safe today. So this time, the fallen ants have broken into the territory of the civilized ants in this area, but it has really made all the ants feel that the threat is close at hand.
In the "Battle of the Rock Face", an army of more than 100,000 black fire ants suffered a disastrous defeat. Although the black fire ant nation was secretive and unwilling to reveal too many details about this military defeat. But after learning the news, the Ant Alliance sent a large number of flying knights to investigate the battlefield, and even had a small-scale battle with the flying parasite beast.
The images sent back by the flying knight were shared by Zhu Jue with representatives of all races at the meeting. The corpses of the black fire ant army on the ground, as well as the corpses of killed giant centipedes and other parasitic beasts, as well as the corpses everywhere on the ground. Insects being infected by parasitic bacteria can be seen. These scenes shocked the representatives of all ethnic groups!
The fallen ants are no longer the distant legends in the minds of the memory ants, but are truly present in front of their eyes, already close at hand and within reach.
At the meeting, representatives from all races easily reached a consensus on how to deal with the threat of fallen ants and demon ants, but they differed on how to implement it.
Zhu Jue is trying to push for the establishment of a closer military alliance among the civilized ant tribes. If the civilized ant tribes are similar to the "EU", then this military alliance must be like "NATO" and should be led by one main leader. It is composed of other participants and should be coordinated in military command and have higher command authority than a single ant clan.
As a country that has faced the threat of fallen ants, the Black Fire Ant Nation is not very concerned about it. They firmly believe that the military strength of their own clan is enough to deal with the threat. They just hope that all clans can provide a large amount of food and other material support, and it is best to bear all the military spending.
Guardians of the Holy Tree The leaf-cutter ants are very interested in the military alliance proposal proposed by Zhu Jue. In their view, since their country is the guardian of the Holy Tree, the leading role in the military alliance must be their own. Such arrogance has aroused the unanimous contempt of powerful countries such as the United Ant Nation, the Black Fire Ant Nation, the Marching Ant Nation, and the Thin-footed Ant Nation.
This kind of contempt made the queen representative of the leaf-cutting ant clan very unhappy. She knew that these clans looked down on the combat effectiveness of the leaf-cutting ant warriors, but she confidently stated that the top combat power lost by the guardian clan of the sacred tree would be threatened by the sacred tree. When the time comes, they are the natural leaders of the region.
The Bullet Ant Clan is as eager for justice as ever and is willing to provide a group of expeditionary troops to assist the Black Fire Ant Army in fighting without any strings attached. However, due to the small size of their clan, they can only dispatch a few thousand troops. In the hundreds of thousands, Level battles are more symbolic.
Most of the other civilized ant tribes have little interest in joining any military alliance and are only willing to provide some material support. They are not even interested in military expeditions like the one they supported the Leafcutter Ant Nation the year before last - after all, the Black Fire Ant Nation is not near the Holy Tree. , and are not willing to cede land to other countries as colonies.
In fact, the meeting did not reach any effective agreement except intentional cooperation. This also made Zhu Jue very dissatisfied. He felt that such a scattered civilized ant tribe would be unable to organize to fight against the Destroyer in the future.
In the winter, he once planned three plans to integrate the power of the civilized ant tribe. Now it seems that the first plan can be abandoned. Among the remaining two plans, one is radical but has quick results, and the other is radical. Steady but slow to produce results, he had to plan carefully.
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After the civilized ant clan conference, representatives from each clan returned to their respective homes. Except for some ants who agreed to provide material support, the representatives of each clan only brought news of the approaching threat back to their home countries and had no other role.
Zhu Jue had some exchanges with the queen ant assembly of the leaf-cutter ant country, and then left the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade "Xiaohua" and his deputy "Xiaofan" to discuss the specific details of a certain transaction.
The two countries have reached an agreement, and all that remains is to discuss the specific distribution of benefits. The content of this transaction is based on an established example from the year before last, in which the Leafcutter Ant Nation leased some pastures in its territory that were useless to the Ant Nation to the Ant Alliance Nation for grazing aphids, scale insects, etc. The Ant Alliance uses crow wine, honeydew and grain as rent.
Such transactions are additional income for the Leafcutter Ant Nation. Their fungus cultivation industry can only utilize forest resources. For them, grassland is not much different from wasteland. They are naturally happy to rent it out in exchange for crow wine and honeydew.
For the Ant Alliance, this type of transaction is not only economically beneficial, but also a tentative step in Zhu Jue's first plan to integrate the power of the civilized ants!
His ultimate goal is to subtly integrate the economy and even the military of the Leaf-Cutter Ant Nation into the system of the Ant United Nation!
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On the day when the Civilized Ant Tribe Conference was held, the Black Fire Ant Army fortress at the western end of the northern border of the Black Fire Ant Kingdom, which had been holding on for a week, fell!
At this time, the ground of this earth cliff had long been changed beyond recognition. In this season when spring rains were not common, the ground was actually full of mud.
The tall ant mound has collapsed, leaving only a third of the original ruins. These are the masterpieces of parasitic dragon lice.
Starting from the third day of the siege, "Parasite Ikkyu" controlled hundreds of parasitic dragon lice and arrived at the pond next to the cliff.
These parasitic dragon lice continuously spray water cannons, and the turbulent water flow initially has no way to deal with the dry ant concrete exterior wall of the ant mound. But these ant mounds are made of mud after all. Under the impact of water cannons day and night, they will inevitably soften, deteriorate, and eventually collapse.
To make matters worse, the ant mounds of the black fire ant family are full of holes. A large amount of water flows along the channels into the interior of the ant mound and gathers in some low-lying areas. The long-term internal soaking aggravates the collapse of the ant mound.
The black fire ant clan's fortress is not like the original fortress of the Angel King's army in the swamp. It is covered by a protective net, so that the worker ants can go outside the nest for emergency repairs, or it has a developed waterproof and drainage system to reduce the threat of water cannons.
Finally, on the fifth day, the ground of the ant mound partially collapsed, and the parasitic army that had been waiting for a long time swarmed in, looking for a way through the ruins, and entered the underground of the fortress.
The structure of the underground nest is far less suitable for defense than the above-ground ant mound. The tenacious black fire ant defenders resisted for two days and one night, and finally shed their last drop of blood.
On March 31, 11th year of the New Calendar, the fortress completely fell and not a single ant escaped. The cave door in the northern border of the Black Fire Ant Kingdom is also completely open to the army of parasitic ants.
