Yesterday's post was swallowed again... I had to rewrite...

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Qinghe is in an annual turbidity period again.

The fast-flowing water, the yellow waves, pushed the floats carrying the Destroyer to the shore.

But the floating objects drifted back in front of the cliff face of the peninsula, repeatedly sawing and seeking, and finally leaned towards the beach on the other side.

The destroyers above had already noticed the army of the Divine Envoy King who was waiting on the shore, and they didn't care that there were only a dozen of them on their side, and there were thousands on the opposite side, and as soon as the rich landed on the shore, they slaughtered them violently.

These destroyers don't seem tired at all, they have been drifting in the flood for a long time, and they have no food or luggage, but they don't seem to affect their combat effectiveness at all, and they are still fierce and brave!

But now, the army of the Divine Envoy King, who has fully stepped into the Iron Age, is no longer what it used to be, and it is not afraid of these former enemies.

The 2 ballistas had already been wound and loaded with iron bullets, just waiting for the Destroyer to come into range.

Although this kind of iron bullet has strong penetrating power, it is overpowered in the face of ordinary ants, and the range is much shorter, which is not as good as scatter bullets or pottery bullets that can cause splash damage.

However, the protagonist still insisted on producing a batch of iron bullets, and led the ballista troops to experiment, train, and develop iron bullet shooting tactics.

This kind of weapon is the protagonist's preparation for the Destroyer and the Parasitic War Beast in order to counterattack his homeland in the future!!

When 2 iron bullets were fired, they immediately hit, pierced, and catapulted 5 Destroyers, which is also to blame the Destroyers' own formation is too close, so they will suffer such heavy losses at one time!

The Destroyer's wounds from a head-on hit were miserable and instantaneous, whereas they had not been so vulnerable to direct stone or pottery bullets. Even if the iron bullet is hit twice, the destroyer will inevitably end up with broken bones and tendons.

Iron bullets have proven their might!

Subsequently, instead of firing a second round, the Divine Messenger King's legion attacked with all its might, surrounding the enemy army.

After paying the price of the death of 3 warriors, the Divine Envoy King Legion basically wiped out the Destroyer in front of them. Subsequently, the Divine Messenger King warrior tries to control the remaining 2 Destroyers who were injured by the ballista and let the protagonist interrogate them.

In battle, it's easy to kill an enemy, but it's much harder to capture an enemy alive, especially if you want to capture 2 trapped beasts like the Destroyer!

It took more than a dozen warriors to kill and die before the two destroyers were suppressed, and the protagonist came over and forcibly established a tentacle connection!

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On August 30th, the fourth day after the encounter with the Destroyer, the male ants of the red fire ant were released and returned to China on the sixth day. The protagonist finally receives a reply from the Red Fire Ant Country.

A burrower ant male ant as a messenger, carrying an information packet, under the escort of 20 burrower ant warriors, stepped into the territory of the Divine Envoy King's legion.

When they were spotted by the patrol force, they threw themselves on their limbs and showed a peaceful gesture, and were escorted to [Xinyang City].

The protagonist reads a message packet from the other party, which is issued in the name of the Presbyterian Church, the highest authority in the Red Fire Ant Nation.

To his delight, the information pack revealed that the Red Fire Ant Nation was willing to contact and meet with the Divine Envoy King Legion.

But what made him laugh and cry was that the Red Fire Ant Kingdom meant that it was willing to accept the Divine King Legion to become the new vassal of the great Red Fire Ant Country!

In the information pack that the protagonist asked the red fire ant male ant to bring over, of course, he didn't have the idea of becoming a vassal of the other party, he just hoped to form a trading partner and a non-war alliance with the red fire ant country.

However, after the elders of the Red Fire Ant Country read the information packet, with their worldview, they took it for granted that only the weak would take the initiative to try to establish contact, and the only people who the Red Fire Ant Country could be willing to coexist peacefully with were their vassals!

Under such a misunderstanding, and the Red Fire Ant Kingdom was also facing difficulties, these Red Fire Ant Elders, who were difficult to communicate, were reluctant to contact the Divine Envoy King Legion.

Now, the Red Fire Ant Army's siege of the Leaf Cutter Ant Army has reached a difficult stage for both sides.

The leaf-cutting ant army has little food left, and even the corpses are almost not enough to eat, and they are on the verge of collapse. The reinforcements were also defeated repeatedly, and they were never able to rescue the besieged troops.

On the side of the Red Fire Ant Army, the nearly month-long battle has left the soldiers physically and mentally exhausted, and they also have to face the dilemma of frequent logistical supply and interruptions.

In such a tight situation on the front line, the elders of the Red Fire Ant Country have all grown up from the frontline war, and they have a very good level of strategy and tactics, and they know that they can't start a fire in the backyard and fight on two fronts.

The Divine Envoy King Legion had already shown great strength before, being able to hold the line under the siege of the Red Fire Ant Army, and was also able to conquer several vassal states of the Red Fire Ant Kingdom and the border sub-nests, and even defeated the Red Fire Ant Army in field battles several times.

The elders of the Red Fire Ant Kingdom evaluated the combat effectiveness of the Divine Envoy King Warrior second only to the Red Fire Ant Warrior, and was stronger than the Forest Ant and the Leaf Cutting Ant.

The Red Fire Ant Elders, who did not want to provoke such an opponent for the time being, and who were in need of Honeydew River Raven Honey due to the bewitchment of the Belly Raising Ant last year, finally made up their minds and were willing to accept the Divine Envoy King's Legion as their new vassals, but they had to agree to the conditions they proposed.

The message pack that the protagonist receives does not contain the specifics of these conditions, and the elders of the Red Fire Ant Kingdom ask representatives of the Divine Envoy King Legion to meet with the Red Fire Ant Kingdom capital [Hive City].

Although the protagonist is not interested in becoming a vassal of the Red Fire Ant Country, he is also willing to start contact and negotiations with the Red Fire Ant Country.

So, the protagonist sends the diplomatically experienced "Little Flower" as an envoy to follow the burrowing ant male to [Hive City] with a squad of guards.

Although "Xiaohua" is a messenger, she has no decision-making power, she just goes to probe the other party's tone, and then brings back the conditions of the Red Fire Ant Country, which is decided by the protagonist.

In order to gain an advantage in the negotiations, the protagonist personally leads 3 legions to the Black Forest, where they are deployed very close to [Hive City], and deliberately let the Red Fire Ants find out.

Truth is only within the range of artillery, and what you can't get on the battlefield can't be expected to be available at the negotiating table.

This is the diplomatic norm of the self-proclaimed civilized human world. This is still the case in the human world, and even more so in the ant world, which is more law-of-jungle.

The protagonist's muscle-flexing behavior is to add some bargaining chips to the Divine Envoy King's legion in the negotiation. Anyway, he knew very well that the Red Fire Ant Army did not have the extra forces to deal with him at present.

But he also needs to grasp a degree, according to the reconnaissance of the flying knights, the leaf-cutting ant army has not been able to support it for too long. If it is not possible to reach favorable conditions while the Leaf Cutter Ant Army can still contain the Red Fire Ant Army, it is entirely possible that the Red Fire Ant Nation will terminate the negotiations after winning.

This is a diplomatic negotiation that is like dancing on a tightrope!