Not only is food in short supply, [Qingzhu City], which has limited capacity, is also overcrowded with ants at this time.
The nest itself is built in the hollow interior of bamboo, with 7 bamboo tubes opened up and down, and ant concrete is used to separate different cabins inside. According to convention, the bottom section is the queen's palace and the winter palace of the male ant nobles, and the top section is the summer palace of the nobles. The local nobles who only account for one percent of the ant colony occupy two-sevenths of the space. . Thousands of worker ants and slaves were left crowded into the remaining five sections of the bamboo tube, and there was not enough space.
More than twice as many foreign troops poured in at once, and [Qingzhu City] became even more crowded. This nest was originally built when the bamboo was still green. Now that the bamboo is old, it is impossible to expand it with the ants' big jaws and simple stone tools. In previous years, they waited until the old nest was really dilapidated before finding another new bamboo to move to. Now the Destroyer is outside and doesn't dare to go out at all.
"Shui Nao" who led the rear army entered the city and saw what was happening. He unceremoniously asked his generals to lead the army to seize the winter palace and half of the summer palace of the local nobles. The local nobles dared to be angry and dared not speak out but had to endure it. The slave troops were crowded together with the local ant slaves. Even if many partitions were removed, it was still difficult to turn around.
After counting the supplies, it was found that there was insufficient food, which made "Shui Nao" very anxious. He was supposed to return to [Liu'an City] to enjoy the celebration and banquet, but he was suddenly thrown into such a desperate situation, how could he be willing to do so. However, "Shuinao" sent several waves of messengers one after another to risk their lives to break through to ask for help, but they were all killed by the destroyers outside the city, and [Qingzhu City] was too small and had no air power available.
Fortunately, "Rhinestone" had not forgotten this partial division. In the afternoon of the next day, a messenger arrived.
This male ant messenger came riding on a giant mosquito. This is also a unique mount of [Willowbank City] - a giant mosquito is unique to the local swamps. Its feet are covered with brush-like hairs. Because of its huge size, it can ride on a male ant. . However, "Rhinestone" and other nobles from the main nest ridiculed that these mounts, which cannot fly long distances and carry heavy trade, are weak, just like the local nobles who ride them.
It's just that both dragonflies and locusts have a heavy workload, and the "Rhinestone" of [Willowbank City] has to send these idle giant mosquito knights to take on simple orders.
"Shui Nao" received the promise and information provided by "Shui Diamond", saying that a large number of destroyers are coming to gather, not only surrounding [Green Bamboo City], but also coveting [Liu'an City]. "Rhinestone" ordered the "Shuinao" warlord to defend and try to contain the Destroyer's siege forces as much as possible. "Shui Diamond" promised to perform its duties for "Shui Nao" and provide sufficient support through air transportation.
"Shunao" also informed the giant mosquito noble knight of the extreme food shortage in the city, and the messenger immediately flew back to [Willowbank City].
The two cities are so close to each other that even if the giant mosquito is not very fast, it will arrive in an instant. Along the way, under the giant mosquito, in addition to the turbulent pool water, were the Destroyers densely packed on the shore. Their dark and ugly bodies of various colors almost covered the surface, as if a huge net covered everything.
In just half a day, the main force of the arriving Destroyers had surrounded [Green Bamboo City]. At the same time, they began to cut down vegetation and collect materials on the northeastern shore of [Liu'an City] in preparation for building a bridge to cross the water.
These Destroyers had previously encountered several ant nests protected by water moors and fortifications. During the process of being temporarily blocked and finally defeated, the Radar Destroyer in charge had already mastered the tactics to deal with them. However, the vast water area outside [Liu'an City] was the first time the Destroyers invading from the west encountered such a fortified city with such favorable geographical location, so the preparation time was extremely long. This was the reason why the Destroyers had not yet launched an attack.
But it was said that the giant mosquito noble knight who sent the message arrived at [Willowbank City] and entered the city, but did not go directly to "Rhinestone" to report, but was intercepted halfway. The one who stopped him was "Shuibo". Since they were both local nobles, the Giant Mosquito Knight decisively followed "Shuibo" and went to another place first.
That was the palace of "Junk". Here, the Giant Mosquito Knight informed him of the trip and the content of the exchange in detail, and then "Junk" let him go.
"Rhinestone" only heard the report from the giant mosquito noble knight later, and he did not know what had just happened. After listening to the report and discussing with his trusted noble generals, "Rhinestone" summoned the nobles to hold another military meeting.
The meeting was attended by the same male ants as before, and the foreign reinforcements and the local nobles still seemed to be somewhat divided. However, as the prestige of "Rhinestone" increased, this gap was beginning to show signs of being bridged. The drunken nobles who showed up briefly last time were not notified this time and did not come.
"Rhinestone" informed everyone of the exchanges with the garrison of [Green Bamboo City], and expressed its readiness to use all air transportation forces to transport grain to [Green Bamboo City] to support the war there. Then his cronies immediately agreed.
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However, to "Rhinestone's" expectation, most of the nobles did not express support, including those who were also foreigners but did not come from the main nest. Instead, most of them opposed it.
"Rhinestone" didn't know at all that just before, "Water Can" had convinced the local nobles that they unanimously opposed sending precious grain to nearby small towns. This would obviously weaken the city's defense capabilities and endanger their lives. life. Afterwards, the local nobles dispersed to persuade the foreign nobles. Only "Rhinestone" and the main nest nobles were deceived.
Although the foreign nobles who are not the main nest have always been biased towards "Rhinestone" in mentality, they don't have much entanglement in the end. Under the persuasion of the local nobles, they also feel that since they are in [Willowbank City], the most important thing is that there is no Something happened, and what does [Qingzhu City] mean?
So "Rhinestone" was surprised to find that this time his proposal was actually opposed by most of the participating nobles.
"Jug" even took the lead in asking: Even if military rations are provided, how long can [Qingzhu City] hold on? How many Destroyers can be contained?
"Rhinestone" has not thought about this issue in depth at all. His command is more based on the intuition brought by experience. At this time, he can only give an uncertain answer: maybe he can last for one six days, or two six days, or maybe More six days.
When "Water Pot" asked him to swear by the water god that aiding [Qingzhu City] would not harm the city's combat effectiveness, he remained silent again. Of course, such an attitude could not convince the opposing nobles, so the proposal was completely rejected.
"Shui Diamond" was very angry, but he was not angry that he had to break the promise he had just made to "Shui Nao", but because the prestige he had gained from victory had been weakened a lot this time. Moreover, he also saw the obvious uncooperative attitude of "Jug" and other local nobles. They only cared about the gains and losses of the city and their own life and death, and did not consider the narrowness of the entire eastern battlefield!
