If conservative members such as "Daxiong II" have an ideological impact on the basic theory of equality of all ethnic groups on which the Ant Alliance was founded, they need to be resolutely suppressed. Crow honey addicts will lead to the proliferation of drugs, which will destroy the physiological health of the noble ants and require severe crackdowns.
As a core member of the conservatives and the brains of the censors, the harmfulness of "Jianiu II" is self-evident. Once caught, according to the previous punishment cases of the interrogation team, he will be executed or even punished with the most severe punishment. Burning torture is a normal operation.
But now "Jianiu II" and his associates are missing, and they also took away a group of professional worker ants and many weapons. Where did they go? What do they want? Zhu Jue finally smelled a hint of conspiracy at this time!
He sent a large number of pavement ant messengers to various nests on the south bank of Qinghe River, issuing orders to arrest "Jianiu II" and his associates, but he never received any response. "Jianiu II" In a moment, dozens of big-headed male ants and thousands of worker ants seemed to have evaporated from the world.
However, Zhu Jue felt that "Jianiu II" and his accomplices had not left the Ant Alliance. It was already late autumn and early winter when they left the main nest. Traveling long distances in this season was an act of seeking death. The other party is probably lurking in a nest in the Ant Alliance, and controls the nest with its status and power. It is easy to make the messengers sent by the main nest return without success.
If he wanted to completely dig out the "Jianiu II" gang, he would have to wait until spring. Zhu Jue was a little anxious, but he had no choice.
Fortunately, this crackdown on conservatives and crow honey addicts has been fruitful. The conservative forces within the Big-headed Ant clan have been almost uprooted. Many of the crow honey addicts who were severely suppressed before have slipped through the crackdown. After this winter, the cohesion within the Ant Alliance has been greatly enhanced!
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The calendar turned to February of the 13th year of the New Calendar.
Relying on the communication of pavement ant messengers who can go out in winter, and the successive completion of some long-distance underground tunnels that communicate with each nest, the nests in the Ant Alliance, which were forced to isolate from each other when winter came in previous years, still maintain communication with each other. A certain level of communication.
Although "Jianiu II" was not found, it does not mean that this winter communication system failed. On the contrary, under the relay transmission of the dedicated paving ants, even what happened outside the territory on the north bank of Qinghe River was reported within a month. Passed to the main nest within.
On this day, the main nest received a pavement ant messenger from afar, rewarded her with a warm honey-sweet drink, and listened to the report he brought back.
The intelligence sent back by "Rambovan II", the senior commander of the guard, showed that there were already signs of activity by the Pavement Ant Imperial Army nearby.
Apparently, taking advantage of the good opportunity of winter, the pavement ant imperial army is intensifying its invasion of the civilized ant tribe, especially the territory of the bordering leaf-cutter ant tribe. However, the civilized ant coalition was trapped by seasonal factors and found it difficult to respond.
However, no news came back from the headquarters of the guarding senior commander "Rambotu II". If the messenger was not lost in the wild, does it mean that the route of the Pavement Ant Imperial Army's invasion is closer to the east and south than before? Its position has threatened the homeland of the Ant Alliance on the north bank of Qinghe River!
Zhu Jue is still very confident in the command of "Rambo Wan II". There are more than 100,000 troops stationed there, with solid city defenses and sufficient armaments and supplies. There are also a large group of fortresses composed of small bunkers on the periphery, and a group of fortresses in the rear. A garrison of the same size as the second line of defense.
Even if it is besieged by hundreds of thousands of pavement ant imperial troops, the defenders will be able to hold on until spring and wait for support.
Moreover, today's Pavement Ant Empire is still the same size and combat effectiveness as it was in its heyday two years ago. Now they are facing an existential crisis brought about by the invasion of Destroyers. They urgently need to find a new living space and waste their precious troops on the stronghold. There is no benefit to being under the city, and as long as its commander has sense, he will not bother to attack the fortress.
In winter, messages from far away are always precious, and often have to be relayed between multiple nests along the route. If there are no pavement ant messengers stationed in some nests, the previous messenger will have to travel an extra mile through the cold and dangerous Kutu. Especially in sections where there are no underground tunnels and can only be walked on the ground, the courier must wait until the weather is fine before setting out on the road. Even then, couriers often disappear outside, which is obviously a disaster. In order to ensure smooth communication, the same message needs to be sent by three pavement ant messengers one after another.
In order to maintain the winter communications of the Ant Alliance, more than 400 Pavement Ant messengers died in the line of duty this year.
The messenger who reluctantly delivered the information to Zhu Jue had been on the road for three days. The dry food he carried was exhausted and his physical strength was on the verge of exhaustion. After Zhu Jue asked about the news, he asked the worker ants to take him down to rest and recover. .
There was good news in the past two days. The long-distance underground tunnel between the main nest and the emerging metallurgical center in the south was basically completed before winter. It was repaired and reinforced during the winter and has been put into use. Communication between the two places can now be smoothly connected through the tunnel.
Zhu Jue's previous army expansion plan has kept the blast furnaces in full swing this winter. The local iron ore comes from shallow underground excavations and is not affected by the weather on the ground. The warehouses are filled with charcoal, and the production capacity in winter is no better than other areas. The season should be low.
In just two months, the military industry, which is fully engaged in the production of armaments, has produced hundreds of thousands of sets of armor and jaw knives, and hundreds of city defense or field artillery.
In order to inspect and commend the city's leading nobles and workers, Zhu Jue, who had been at home all winter, rarely went out of the city. Accompanied by the imperial guards, he went along the long tunnel.
This was Zhu Jue's first time walking in a long-distance tunnel. The tunnel was not straight and had to turn or go around half a circle from time to time. Ants lacked underground positioning technology during construction, so they needed to identify landmarks on the ground, dig shafts down, then dig tunnels to connect different shafts, and finally fill the shafts, so the twists and turns of underground tunnel construction were inevitable.
There are not only ants that occasionally walk through the tunnel, but also many insects that hibernate underground. They are attracted by the temperature in the tunnel and gather here. So much so that nearby nests must be regularly searched by patrol teams to prevent threatening carnivorous bugs from being mixed into them.
In front of Zhu Jue and his party, there were guardsmen clearing the way to drive away the insects blocking the road, while Zhu Jue walked forward as a chariot under the guard.
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