Chapter 121: Negotiation (2)
Negotiating with the Red Fire Ant Nation is very difficult, and the belligerent and fierce Red Fire Ants are more difficult to communicate with than the arrogant leaf-cutting ants.
There is a nest room on the ground of [Hive City], and there is a small ventilation hole leading to the outside of the nest, and a faint light also penetrates. This is the scene of the negotiations.
The floor of the nest is flat, and there is a large, seeping star-like bull head on the wall, embedded in the wall, and the long tentacles hang down to touch the ground, which is the only decoration.
The three red fire ant elders, with their backs to the heads of the heavenly bulls, stood in a row, accompanied by more than a dozen red fire ants and burrowing ants. After seeing "Little Flower" come in and stand still, one of the elders used his tentacles to contact the Red Fire Ant Warrior on the side, and the Red Fire Ant Warrior contacted a slave burrower ant, who came over and gave the information package to "Little Flower".
"Little Flower" didn't know that such a style as the Red Fire Ant Country was actually the status of the Father God Legion and the status of the vassal country or the slave ant clan.
"Xiaohua" didn't realize this, and when she read the so-called "negotiation conditions" indirectly passed on by the red fire ant elder opposite, she was immediately startled, and immediately suspended the meeting.
This short initial meeting lasted only one minute.
When "Xiaohua" got the other party's conditions, it could even be said to be a disc, he didn't dare to respond at all, and immediately sent a guard with an information package out of [Hive City].
Escorted and monitored by Red Fire Ant warriors along the way, no other ants came to trouble the messenger. The messenger soon arrives outside the city and summons the flying knights hovering in the sky, who will immediately pass on the terms of the other party to the Divine Envoy King.
The Courier didn't notice that when the Flying Knights landed, the red fire ants beside her were clenching their jaws hostile.
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Ten minutes later, the protagonist saw the terms proposed by the other party, and he was happy.
The other party proposed: The Divine Legion of the King can become a vassal of the great Red Fire Ant Country, and fulfill its obligations like other vassal countries.
These obligations are twofold:
First, when the suzerainty needs it, it can unconditionally and unrestrictively recruit the warriors of the Divine Envoy King as auxiliaries, and the recruited warriors are commanded by the Red Fire Ant State.
The second is that the Divine Envoy King's legion must pay an annual tribute of 100 snail shell honeydew and 20 snail shell honey. After completing the tribute, the overlord can continue to barter for honeydew and crow.
These two terms are extremely harsh, and it is completely impossible for the protagonist to agree, and the Divine Envoy King Legion is not your defeated general, not to mention that the Divine Envoy King Legion is still in an advantage for the time being.
The elders of the Red Fire Ant Country had no intention of bargaining for specific terms at all, and they came up to ask the Divine Envoy King Legion to accept it in its entirety, no wonder "Xiaohua" immediately suspended the meeting and sent the terms back immediately.
The protagonist immediately asks the Flying Knight to pass the order, and let "Little Flower" put forward his own proposal on behalf of the Divine Envoy King Legion, which is mainly the terms of equal status and non-aggression between the Divine Envoy King Legion and the Red Fire Ant Country, forming a military alliance against the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, and carrying out trade.
But it didn't take long for the return of "Little Flower" to come, and the three elders of the Red Fire Ant Nation rejected the proposal of the Divine Envoy King Legion without thinking.
Negotiations reached an impasse on the first day.
The protagonist thinks about it for a moment, orders the "Little Flower" mission to withdraw, and then prepares to put a little pressure on the Red Fire Ant Kingdom militarily, such as continuing to capture several border nests to promote a compromise on the other side.
But what he didn't expect was that "Little Flower" and the mission did not return!
When the Flying Knight informed the Courier of the order to tell "Little Flower" to evacuate, the Flying Knight who had re-ascended waited in the sky for a long time, but never saw the mission come out, while the belly-raising ants on the ground began to shoot at the sky.
It is not known whether the mission was detained or killed, which makes the protagonist extremely angry, and these red fire ants are simply unreasonable.
If the mission is killed, then there is no need to continue the negotiations between the Divine Envoy King's legion and the Red Fire Ant Kingdom before revenge, and the Divine Envoy King cannot tolerate such a bad incident as the killing of the diplomatic ambassador, which is a great provocation.
As soon as the protagonist gave the order, the Divine Envoy King's legion arranged on the border immediately took action, and instead of continuing to capture the border sub-nest as originally planned, they pointed directly at [Hive City].
Now that the Red Fire Ant Country is empty, even the main nest [Hive City] doesn't have too many troops, and the strength of the three legions of the protagonist should be safe for themselves. At the same time, the other legions in the rear were also ordered to go to the front, and the protagonist planned to gather 20,000 troops from 8 legions to besiege [Hive City].
If the mission is killed, the protagonist is to teach the enemy a lesson that he will never forget, reminding them to respect the negotiating opponent. If the mission is only detained, it is also necessary to threaten the Red Fire Ant Kingdom to release the mission, and at the same time continue the negotiations on terms acceptable to the Divine Envoy King's legion.
The invasion of the Divine Envoy King Legion soon alarmed the Red Fire Ant Army of [Hive City], who had previously discovered the Divine Envoy Legion at the border through foraging ants and scouts.
The Red Fire Ant Army quickly put together a force of 5,000 troops to block the attack, of which less than 1,000 were Red Fire Ant Warriors, which also shows how empty the local forces of the Red Fire Ant Country are.
The reinforcements of the Divine Messenger King's legion have not yet arrived, and the protagonist has already led the vanguard of the 3 legions to defeat the Red Fire Ant Army. The Red Fire Ant Army is dominated by slave auxiliaries such as black brown ants and belly raising ants, and they almost collapse at the touch of a button, which incidentally disrupts the formation composed of the warriors of the Red Fire Ant clan.
The Red Fire Ant Army retreats back to [Hive City], and the protagonist leads 3 legions to pursue the victory, preparing to establish a foothold in [Hive City] first. Then wait for the follow-up troops to converge.
The protagonist has no intention of directly attacking [Hive City], and directly attacks the main nest of the Red Fire Ant Country, then Liangzi will be bigger, and the relationship between the two countries will be completely broken.
The protagonist's plan is to temporarily surround [Hive City] and hold an armed parade, so that those Red Fire Ant Elders can see the strength of the Divine Envoy King Legion with their own eyes, discard those unrealistic illusions, and obediently return to the negotiating table.
When the Legion arrives at Hive City, they see a huge rocky anthill full of entrances and exits, which is the first time the protagonist has seen the main nest of the Red Fire Ant Nation with his own eyes, not from the message packet - it does look like a giant earth beehive!
There are large and small conical pits around [Hive City], and the flying knights have not known what they are many times, and when the "Little Flower" mission entered [Hive City], they were also guided around these pits.
The protagonist can't read it, but he still tells his subordinates to continue the siege mission, trying to stay away from the pits.
It's easy for a handful of ants to get around these dense pits, but when thousands of ants move together, there is always one unlucky one who falls into the pit without paying attention.
When an army of gods and kings fell into the pit, shook the dirt off their bodies, and prepared to climb up, a sudden change occurred!