Standing on the highest ant mound in [Eastern Realm City], "Dong Mao" looked toward the northeast from here.
Under the influence of the Divine Envoy King, high-level nobles in various nests are now proud to have a nest with windows at a high place. The higher the status of the nobles, the higher the altitude of their nests.
As the governor of the Eastern Territory, "Dong Mao" naturally obtained the right to use this top-level nest until his death or transfer. The nest room has two windows that can be opened and closed. Inside, there is a typical ant-Union style home decoration: rough furniture made of wood, ant silk and hay, pottery, ant felt decorations, and hematite powder patterns on the walls. Drawn with the talisman of the god of fire.
These home decorations were all left behind by the previous governor who died suddenly. "Dong Mao" had no interest in home decorations, so he continued to use them. What is slightly different from last year is that the next door to this nest room was originally a place where the guards lived, but now it has been used by "Dong Mao" for other purposes.
Several big worker secretaries stayed next door, waiting to be summoned at any time. Secretaries are one of the professions that big workers often engage in. They are responsible for memorizing information packages that are difficult for high-ranking nobles to completely remember but are very useful. Once necessary, they can provide intelligence information in a timely manner like a memory, and can also provide relatively professional advice. .
The previous governor obviously didn't pay much attention to the secretaries. The secretaries' lair was underground and they had to wait for half a day every time they were summoned. "Dong Mao" directly placed secretaries around him. He had 6 secretaries, 2 were left by his predecessor, 1 was brought from the battlefield in the base area behind enemy lines, and the other 3 were newly recruited as needed. Anyway, There are many large worker ant former research institutes in the main nest currently idle, and the secretary will approve any application.
"Dong Mao" looked into the distance for a while. The scene a few meters away was already chaotic in his compound eyes, like a thousand-degree myopia looking at a splash-ink landscape painting, but he still liked this feeling. , the feeling of being able to see the future.
But he couldn't really foresee the future, not even for a day, otherwise he wouldn't be worried. So he asked his personal guard to summon a secretary to retrieve some information packages.
This secretary was left over from her predecessor, and she was summoned the most frequently throughout the winter, because her brain stored information about the hairy forest ants, covering all aspects.
When he took office before winter last year, "Eastern Mao" was entrusted by Zhu Jue to pay special attention to the intelligence of the Maolin Ant Nation, the only ally on the eastern front and the biggest factor of instability. Throughout the winter, he imagined countless possible scenarios in his mind and made plans.
"The Sword Comes"
However, after the beginning of spring, the development of the situation was still beyond the expectations of "Eastern Mao", which caught "Eastern Mao" who considered itself to be strategically superior, somewhat unprepared.
Throughout the winter, the hairy forest ants had not been attacked. The destroyers on the eastern front, who were so close at hand, seemed to be far away, being held back by the seemingly weak indigenous tribes in the eastern highlands.
After the beginning of spring, the hairy forest ants organized an expeditionary force and took the initiative to enter the Eastern Highlands to challenge the Destroyer. Moreover, in the name of the commander of the Eastern Front, the Maolin Ant Nation will also recruit the "Eastern Mao" Divine Envoy King's Legion to join the battlefield and obey the command.
"Dong Mao" had already received the order from the God Envoy King, and he was noncommittal about the conscription. He did not refuse directly but stood still, preparing to sit back and watch the expeditionary force of the Maolin ant clan be defeated before taking action.
The idea of Zhu Jue and "Dong Mao" is to rely on the swamps and wetlands in the Mao forest ants to resist the destroyers. Such terrain can greatly weaken the destroyers' advantages. But this plan cannot be explained clearly to the arrogant Maolin ant clan. It can only be implemented after it suffers a huge defeat and Zhu Jue regains command of the eastern front.
What was unexpected was that after the expeditionary force of the Hairy Forest Ant clan arrived in the Eastern Highlands, they attacked various indigenous tribes like a deadly force. At the same time, they also fought with the Destroyers scattered everywhere, making enemies everywhere. Suffered repeated defeats. But more than a month has passed, and the Maulin Ant Expeditionary Force not only did not suffer a decisive defeat, but showed signs of gaining a firm foothold.
This is not because the expeditionary army of hairy forest ants is very adept at fighting. The combat effectiveness of their most powerful army is not comparable to that of army ants, thin-legged ants and even black fire ants. But the specialties of the Maolin ants gave them unexpected reinforcements!
The many indigenous tribes in the Eastern Highlands were unable to withstand the Destroyer's attack for a long time in terms of strength, but many seemingly weak indigenous tribes did manage to do so.
This is because the eastern highlands abound in a plant that is extremely repulsive to the Destroyer, a plant of the Asteraceae family with tall, beautiful white flowers—Pyrethrum albicans.
This plant has a paralyzing or even fatal effect on many insects, and the Destroyer dare not approach it directly. However, many local indigenous tribes have developed controlled techniques of using pyrethrum to defend their nests and even hunt. It is thanks to this white-flowered pyrethrum that large tribes of indigenous ants survive.
For example, the most common species of ants know how to collect dry pyrethrum powder and seal it in old pupal sacs to make poisonous smoke pupal sacs. Although they will die from a large dose of white flower pyrethrum dry powder, their tolerance is much stronger than that of the destroyers and most of the ant tribe, so they dare to take the initiative to release poison during the melee between the enemy and ourselves.
In addition, indigenous ant tribes such as black turtle ants and corn hairy ants will also use the skills of white-flowered pyrethrum in different ways.
The hairy forest ant expedition also encountered counterattack from the indigenous tribes using white-flowered pyrethrum at the beginning, and was unable to do anything. However, they have several traditional trading partners in this area, and they quickly acquired their technology of using pyrethrum through trade. They also purchased a batch of indigenous ant eggs and larvae of various ethnic groups that are highly resistant to pyrethrum.
After hatching, these slave ants were armed into a special force. Relying on their superior numbers and weapons, they conquered small and medium-sized indigenous ant tribes one after another like snowballs, captured many queens and young ants, and then continued to expand. its troops.
To deal with the Destroyer, this special force can also use the effect of white-flowered pyrethrum to contain it.
Relying on the special troops composed of slaves to clear the way, the Hairy Forest Ant Expeditionary Army did not even lose many of their own warriors, and gained a foothold on the eastern highlands, began to operate a nest, and planned to continue to expand the territory and counterattack the Destroyer.
As a result, the "East Mao" troops who were standing still were under pressure. They did not listen to the nominal command of the Eastern Front, allowing the Maolin ants to take the opportunity to attack and slander Zhu Jue among the civilized ant tribes.
"Dong Mao" did not receive the latest instructions from Zhu Jue, but only received an order to "act with the camera". He did not know that this was a test, but he was also racking his brains to think of countermeasures!
