This is what "Shuxia" faced after taking over and reorganizing the team. Moreover, he also knew that the situation faced by the Governor-General was very complicated. The limited mobile forces were used to suppress the rebellions and riots, and they were not able to cope with them. If the enemy situation was not particularly serious, they would not be invested in the place where he was. He could not count on it. Regular army support.
At present, the expansion of the Governor-General still mainly relies on economic means, such as crow honey to control the upper levels of indigenous ants. But this is only a temporary measure after all. From the governor down to the ordinary nobles, everyone knows that the hidden dangers of economic control of indigenous tribes are too great. The rebellions and turmoil that are popping up everywhere now are related to the rapid economic annexation in the past two years. The governor-general area is full of problems. Unstable, the only ones that are truly reliable are those directly controlled nests occupied by the various races of the Ant Alliance.
However, establishing a direct-administration nest requires large-scale investment, and the conflict with the indigenous ants is much more serious than a covert economic invasion. The direct-administration expansion force that the governor-general can currently squeeze out is nobles like them "under the tree" The pioneer team led by him was invested in the most important direction, had high hopes, and was also under the greatest pressure.
When his predecessor is dead and cannot be held accountable, if he cannot complete this mission, it will not only lead to the loss of the limited expansion power of the governor-general, but also the loss of his own future. "Under the tree" thought hard for a long time, thinking about how to break the deadlock.
With his efforts, the senior Shen Xiongyan, who was in charge of the transportation of the governor-general, made it easier for "Shuxia" by allowing a recently arrived walnut fleet to be delayed for an extra week, so that "Shuxia" could deploy this naval force for transportation. The pioneering team and supplies avoided the difficult and dangerous swamp land route. At the same time, a resting bee transport team was allowed to be driven by him. If it weren't for the fact that they were both divine male ants, "Under the Tree" would never have been able to receive such assistance.
But even if you reach your destination by water, you still can't rule out the direct threat of the sour ant tribe. This tribe occupies the only way forward, and happens to be stuck in the nesting area "under the tree". If you defeat them, you will not be able to complete the mission, but if you cannot build a nest and have no support, you will not be able to defeat the powerful sour ants. The plan and reality seem to be trapped in an endless loop.
However, "Under the Tree" successfully and tactfully broke out of this apparently deadly cycle, stunning the entire Southern Territory and making Zhu Jue excitedly go to explore this descendant.
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The success of "Under the Tree" is based on a series of big bets.
He left no backup or reserve force, and made a desperate move to load all the ants and supplies of the pioneering team onto the fleet, including the queen ant, who had the bees pulling the fibers with him and sailed all the way upstream. If it fails this time, "Under the Tree" will obviously not have the chance to do it again!
Two days later, the fleet approached its destination, hidden on the river bank. "Under the Tree" weighed it again and again, rejected his subordinate's suggestion to seize the beach during the day, and waited silently until night.
At night, although there are still a few wandering ants in the sour ant tribe patrolling the territory, most of the ants have returned to their nests and have not noticed the pioneering team approaching Chichi. And when the night light is dim, it gives "under the tree" a night to create miracles.
"Under the Tree" urged the pioneering team to build a nest on a higher ground near the river bank, backed by a mulberry tree. Instead of choosing a tree nest that required a lot of construction work, he dug a hole at the base of a mulberry tree and built an underground nest.
An ordinary underground nest can begin to take shape in one night, but the key to the survival of this nest is to be able to withstand the attack of the indigenous sour ants the next day, so the city defense must be strong. But in just one night, with hundreds of worker ants, it was too late to build a strong fortress in the traditional style of the Angel King's Army - it would take two or three days just to completely dry the ant concrete in a humid environment.
This place is too close to the sour ant tribe. Even if they want to hide during the day, the sour ants will quickly find traces of construction at the roots of the mulberry tree and become suspicious.
"Shuxia" estimates that he only needs one more day and night to build enough nests and city defenses to rely on, and can use his own strengths to offset the strength and geographical advantages of the indigenous sour ants. In order to gain this extra 24 hours, "Under the Tree" made a bold decision - to take the initiative and use offense instead of defense!
In the early morning of that day, there was a light rain, and all the sour ants returned to their nests to take shelter from the rain.
When the rain stopped after sunrise, the sour ants were ready to leave their nests, but they found that the entrances and exits of four or five nests that were close together were blocked.
The sour-smelling ants didn't pay attention at first. Rain sometimes causes landslides and blocks the entrance of the hole. They send out worker ants to repair it, and usually it doesn't take long to get through.
However, worker ants soon came to report that the newly opened entrance and exit were guarded by enemy ants. Those worker ants that showed up were dragged out and killed. Then the enemy ants dropped sand, gravel and soil in an attempt to fill the hole again. The aggressive sour ants were so angry that they almost came out of the nest. However, the blocked entrance and exit made it impossible for these provoked sour ants to swarm out, so the leading ants had to brave the attacks of enemy ants to dig out.
"Under the Tree" personally led half of the armed militiamen in the pioneering team to block the entrance of the sour ant's hole and hold it tightly inside the nest, preventing it from taking a step out of the nest and preventing it from taking advantage of its military strength.
But soon, the sour-smelling ants opened some of the original backup entrances and exits and appeared not far away. "Under the Tree" took the lead and led a group of armed militiamen to greet them. Although the Divine Ant did not have the power of "gods descending to earth" like Zhu Jue, its basic strength was also very strong, and it was worthy of three divine soldiers. The combined efforts of ants. In a small-scale melee, "Under the Tree" can easily defeat the siege of several sour ants as long as it avoids the opponent's spray.
Thanks to the heroic fighting of the commander, the stinky ants were never able to gather outside the nest and were blocked underground.
The stalemate lasted for most of the day, with the stinky ants unable to get out. Seeing that the enemy ants had no plan to attack the nest, they stopped making a fierce breakout. The two sides remained in a stalemate until the evening, and their tentacles sensed that heavy rain was coming. "Under the tree, ” Then they evacuated, and the sour-smelling ants were too busy taking shelter from the rain and did not pursue them.
The heavy rain that lasted most of the night that night brought a lot of trouble to the pioneering team. Water accumulated in the newly built tree nest. If the spillway dug on the surface during the day had not played its role, it would have been destroyed long ago. "Shuxia" led the team to continue the construction despite the rain, and finally completed the surface walls and trenches at dawn the next day.
With the dawn sunshine, thousands of stinky ant warriors surged in like turbid waves to take revenge on the muddy ground!
