The Floating Leaf King's heart was broken at the moment.

Last year, during the defensive battle of "Waterfront City", the Floating Leaf King also had this kind of mood now.

It was when he organized troops to establish a defensive line twice, but was easily broken through by the big-headed ant barbarians on the opposite side, which made him shake his belief that the paving ant kingdom was favored by the gods and won forever.

The enemy is obviously stronger than the paving ant country, but the paving ants regard each other as barbarians, so what are they?

The Floating Leaf King was lucky enough to fall on a fallen leaf floating on the surface of the river, and was carried back to the north bank of the river by the current and wind.

While rafting, the Floating Leaf King thought a lot and realized a lot.

It has to be said that in an ant society that values the collective and despises the individual, even the highest decision-making requires a group of kings who are not outstanding in single intelligence in the eyes of humans to make collective decisions to ensure the rationality of decision-making.

And the psychological activity of the Floating Leaf King has far exceeded the thinking level of ordinary male ants. If I had to compare it, it would be the difference in thinking between man and Buddha, although not so significant.

People look at mountains as mountains, and water as water. The Buddha looks at the mountain, that is, it is not a mountain, it is a famous mountain, and when it looks at the water, it is not water, it is a famous water.

In the process of floating, the floating leaf king who turns thousands of times in his mind has become an alternative in the ant world.

He thinks a lot, tactically, strategically, politically, and even at a higher level.

After returning to the main nest from the south bank of the Great River, the other kings he knew well noticed his changes.

He became a special presence in the Council of Kings, and his views were shocking, and he often attracted crowd sieges.

He actually advocated that the sacred paving ant country blessed by God was equal to the surrounding barbarian tribes such as big-headed ants and sour ants; He advocated that no more expeditions to the south should be made in winter, but that the natives of the eastern and western borders should be kept at a basic peace with the Great River as the southern boundary, and that they should make every effort to deal with the threat from the north; He advocated reforming military grouping and tactics and learning from the barbaric big-headed ant barbarians; He advocated giving more power to the secondary nest, and the main and secondary nests should be in an equal relationship.

These views stunned all the kings and were completely contrary to the sacred tradition.

If it weren't for the fact that the Floating Leaf King had a great prestige in the war against the north before, and if it weren't for the Floating Leaf King who came up with a corresponding tactic to restrain the tactics of the big-headed ant barbarian army, the Great King's Council estimated that it would be possible to tear him alive.

In the end, the King's Council issued a ban on going out, and the Floating Leaf King could only stay in the main nest as an instructor to teach the king and the juvenile male ants the experience and tactics of war.

His other views were considered heretical and forbidden to be disseminated.

The Floating Leaf King was not discouraged by the ban, he stayed quietly in the main nest, and while teaching, he kept replaying his wonderful first half of life in his mind:

In the fierce battle of the northern battlefield, the resentment and despair of the queen ant and the king when they exterminated the small indigenous tribes on the border, and the same despair when facing the enemy who was powerless to resist on the south bank of the river.

Bringing himself into the role of his former enemy, the Floating Leaf King found that he could see through many things and have an epiphany.

Although he can't spread his opinions, and the Floating Leaf King has faithfully implemented the ban of the King's Conference, there are always a few male ants who don't know how to learn about his shocking views at the King's Conference.

Some of them came to refute themselves, and some of them came out of pure curiosity to learn more about ideas. For the former, the Floating Leaf King gave a gentle refutation, and for the latter, limited to the ban, the Floating Leaf King could not elaborate, but he could guide his own views from the other party's world-related experience.

Around him, a small group gradually emerged, adhering to a completely different set of views from the mainstream. This group was still very small and had not been noticed by the Council of Great Kings, otherwise, in the ant society that emphasizes unity of thought and prohibitions, there would definitely not be a heretical epidemic.

It's funny to say that in the human world, there were a large number of rulers who wanted to unify the minds of the people, but as everyone knows, pluralistic ideas cannot be eliminated.

Even in the ant world, it seems that each individual ant is like a screw on a machine, and the "thoughts" of the machine, such as software, cannot have several sets. Ants should be the most perfect creatures with collective supremacy, unity of interests, unity of thought, and unity of action.

But in the ant world, in addition to industrious ants, there are also lazy people who rely on their companions; In addition to brave warriors, there are also cowards who can only hold their heads and run away; In addition to the mainstream views, there are also independent heretical ideas.

In the kingdom of the big-headed ants, there is a secret tradition among the queens against the current rule, and some of the queens and their supporters make up this heretical group.

In the country of paving ants, there is now such a movement that is outside the mainstream, and this kind of thinking is like being contagious and growing stronger.

- I'm the dividing line -

On the one hand, the Floating Leaf King led his troops out this time because the Paving Ant Nation was completely unprepared for the military threat from the south this season, and lacked a suitable commander.

On the other hand, it is also because of the good performance of the Floating Leaf King recently, and with the help of his friends, he has been given this opportunity to be reactivated.

The Floating Leaf King naturally attached great importance to this opportunity, and was meticulous in the formation of the army and the arrangement of troops, and even calculated that the number of enemy troops might be greater than expected.

But as soon as they fought, the Floating Leaf King still felt that he had greatly underestimated the enemy.

This big-headed ant army is even more powerful than the big-headed ant army he encountered last year, in addition to the suddenness of the ambush, their ability to fight head-on is also outrageously strong.

Unlike the king of the vanguard legion, who almost lost his command, the king of floating leaves immediately realized that this battle could not be won.

Under his command, his legions did not fall into a situation of collapse and command failure like other friendly forces, but he still withdrew from the "gap" in the enemy formation with most of his troops, covering each other all the way to the auxiliary nest when they set off.

Ant warriors are heroic, and even if the situation is unfavorable, they will fight to the death and never surrender.

But escape and retreat are also recognized, and warriors who have lost their command can escape by all means from the path they can find. Commanders are obligated to withdraw as many troops as possible in the event of a defeat.

Only in previous years when the retreat route was blocked by a large river would they fight to the last soldier.

This is also the reason why the Floating Leaf King opposes the Southern Expedition - it is a foolish thing to send a group of troops to die every year.

Now, the Floating Leaf King has executed the retreat plan almost perfectly, but can he really withdraw?