After sending off the brainwashed red fire ant males, the protagonist hopes to reach a peace agreement with the red fire ant country, and then covets the hematite of the leaf cutting ant country.

Of course, even if this plan succeeds, it may not be a matter of time or a half, and the Red Fire Ant State is also a country with a male ant democracy, and there will certainly be controversy within its ruling class.

And in any ant country, it is basically the conservative majority.

It's just that the protagonist believes that the combat effectiveness shown by the Divine King's legion and the abundant resources it can provide can make those conservatives come to their senses.

But the protagonist is also worried about the plan if it doesn't work out, and he often encounters times when the plan is not as good as changing, and the ants often behave irrationally. Therefore, the Divine Envoy King Legion has been practicing its internal skills recently, after all, only if you are strong is the most trustworthy.

Although the trade in honeydew hematite with the Leaf Cutting Ant Kingdom has been completely suspended, with the accumulation of several months, the Divine Envoy King Legion has completely entered the Iron Age, and all the necessary weapons and tools have been updated to iron tools, and the old bronze and stone tools have been thrown into the warehouse for temporary storage, and there may not be a chance to reactivate it.

The blast furnace is still firing, and the warehouse near the blast furnace still has enough iron ore for three months of smelting. Freshly smelted steel is temporarily cast into ingots and minted when needed.

The current plan of the Divine Envoy King Legion is to be able to control the hematite or reopen the trade within three months, so as to ensure that the blast furnace will continue to stop, and the civilization level of the Iron Age will not regress.

After all, iron tools are worn out in use, especially the ants' iron tools are often only a small layer thinner than a piece of paper, which is easy to wear out, and it is necessary to constantly replace new iron tools and discard the old ones and recast them.

At the same time as the Great Iron Smelting, the protagonist also added 2 new vassal ant clans to the Legion of the Divine Envoy King. After conquering the countries of the forest ant and the black brown ant, the army of the god envoy king also captured the forest ant and the black brown ant queen, and naturally established a new vassal race under their control.

At present, the six vassal ant tribes, such as paving ants, hunting sickle fierce ants, leaf-cutting ants, belly raising ants, forest ants, and black brown ants, are still living in independent urban areas in [Xinyang City], so that it is convenient for the Divine Envoy King Legion to control these vassals, and it will not be like the Red Fire Ant Country, but it has strong control over the slave ant clan and a weak control over the vassal ant clan.

However, the underground space of [Xinyang City] is limited, and it has been almost developed to the extreme, among the six vassal ant clans, only the paving ant and the scythe hunting ant, the two old vassal ant clans that have been under the command of the Divine Envoy King Legion for a long time, have a larger urban space, and the other four vassal ant clans have very small living places.

The protagonist didn't think about moving these vassal ant tribes to the vicinity of [Xinyang City] to develop, such as the leafcutter ant clan in [Xinyang City], because there is only one poplar tree nearby, and it can't produce fungal food in large quantities, so if you migrate to the Black Forest, you won't be limited by resources!

But at present, the external environment of the Divine Envoy King Legion is not safe, and only the strong city defense of [Xinyang City] is the last reliance of the protagonist, and he is worried that releasing the vassal ant clan too soon will only cheapen the Red Fire Ant Country.

If the brainwashed red fire ant male ant goes back and says that the king army is successful for the gods, and the two countries reach peace, they can only consider doing so. For now, the protagonist has decided to play it safe.

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This year's rainy season came later than usual, and the flood peak of Qinghe also came and went late.

Until the end of August, the flood waters had not receded, and the water was still high above the [Sinyangseong] Peninsula.

Floods can bring surprises from time to time, not only the increase of gold on the golden beaches, but also the occasional floating debris washed down upstream, if intercepted by the peninsula, when the water level recedes, the ants can go up and search for it.

Flightless insects, some locally hard-to-obtain vines and other materials, and even the occasional seeds that can be used as spices, Qinghe can always bring some surprises to the Divine Envoy King legion.

Of course, there are also scares.

On August 26th, the protagonist is still waiting for news from the Red Fire Ant Country, when suddenly a messenger arrives in a hurry.

The Flying Knights found something terrible on the surface of the river. The protagonist hurriedly rode "Little Black" into the air and flew towards the river on the north side of the peninsula.

Before, the flying knight who was in charge of monitoring the Leafcutter Ant Country in the northwest found a large cloud of floating debris on the surface of the Qinghe River, so he leaned over to take a look, but it didn't matter, and he hurriedly stopped his original mission and went back to report.

The current of the Qinghe River was very fast at this time, but this mass of floating objects floated closer to the shore, and some obstacles such as reeds were hung from time to time, but it was not so fast.

The protagonist quickly flies to the target and takes a closer look.

On the float made up of branches and weeds, more than a dozen huge dark black ants are opening their jaws in the direction of the protagonist.

This kind of ant may not be an ant thing, the protagonist is very familiar!

They took away everything the Divine Envoy King's Legion once had, forced the protagonist to live in exile, and indirectly killed many of the Divine Envoy King's soldiers who fell into the swamp!

The Destroyer, a dozen Destroyers, suddenly appeared near the territory without warning.

The protagonist speculates that the destroyers were accidentally swept into the flood and survived the floats, just like the Divine Envoy King Legion who rode the walnut boat in the beginning, and floated all the way down the current.

However, at the beginning, the army of the Divine Envoy King had a sturdy walnut boat, enough things and supplies, and did not sail during the flood season, so the journey was still not easy.

These destroyers sail through the turbulent torrent, they seem to have no luggage, they are still alive, they can still be alive, I don't know if they are tenacious, or they are still ghostly!

The float where the Destroyer is located is close to the east bank of the river, and in this direction, there is a 90% chance that it will hit the north side of the [Xinyang City] Peninsula and then be stopped by the peninsula, which means that the Destroyer may land on [Xinyang City].

The protagonist asks the accompanying flying knights to keep a close eye on the dozen destroyers, and then go back to organize their troops and prepare for battle.

A few dozen Destroyers are no threat to the Divine Envoy Legion. However, the protagonist is now curious about the situation in his homeland, and he wants to capture at least one Destroyer alive to see if he can read the information in his head!

The Divine Envoy King's legion quickly mobilized two squads and a tank assault brigade, set up positions on the riverbank, and even placed two ballistas. These units are deployed where the floating debris is most likely to land and can maneuver as soon as possible according to the actual situation.

Sooner or later, the protagonist will have to lead the troops back to his homeland, this time, let the newly formed troops that have not fought with the Destroyers take these dozen Destroyer sacrifice flags!