Chapter 116: The Lie That Was Revealed
After the trapped leaf-cutting ant army refuses to break through, the protagonist is a little helpless.
Although the surrounded 350,000 troops can temporarily contain the Red Fire Ant Army in the defensive battle, they lack the necessary food and grass for long-term combat, and the food and grass they have hoarded in advance are only enough to support two weeks.
In other words, in two weeks at the earliest, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army will be unsustainable, and the Red Fire Ant Army will occupy a strong position in the relations between the three countries, breaking the current equilibrium.
Subsequently, the Divine Envoy King Legion may usher in the full revenge of the Red Fire Ant Nation.
The exact timing of the retaliation depends on when the Red Fire Ant Nation will take a satisfactory result from the Leaf Cutting Ant Nation, and when they will turn their spears.
After all, the Divine Legion has the honeydew and raven honey they crave, and the red fire ants will not give up these sweet resources.
The protagonist knows that he can't sit idly by and watch the lone army of leafcutter ants be annihilated, otherwise the army of the god envoy king will also die. He also sent "Little Flower" to the mainland of the leaf-cutting ant country to pass on the information, hoping that his queen ant conference and female ant conference would be wiser and choose to let the troops break through and preserve their vitality.
But the leaf-cutting ants seem to be a tendon to the end, and they don't let the protagonist get his wish.
The representative of the leafcutter ant thanked the Divine Envoy King Legion for the information. After the 8th, they received reports from some stragglers who had broken up and returned that they knew that there was a big battle at the front. But in the past few days, the Red Fire Ant Army has not launched an attack on the mainland, and the front-line troops have not sent messengers back, and the scouts who went out from the territory have only found some enemy positions, and have not found their own side.
After learning of the defeat on the front line, the final response plan given by the Leaf Cutting Ant Kingdom was to entrust the Divine Envoy King's legion to send orders to the besieged troops to hold on, and the local army began to form new troops to prepare to support the siege.
The decision made by the Leaf Cutting Ant Kingdom was not in line with the protagonist's wishes, because their plan to form a new army further drained the few remaining ant hands who were digging hematite, and the amount of iron ore imported by the Divine King's army then instantly dropped to less than one-tenth of its peak.
However, the Leaf Cutting Ant Kingdom rejected the proposal of the Divine Envoy King Legion to break out, leaving him helpless.
The protagonist even asked "Little Flower" to fake a piece of information, making her lie and telling the besieged troops of the Leafcutter Ant Army that the Queen Ant Conference would allow them to break through the siege.
But unfortunately, this lie has been revealed.
The female ant commander of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army asks "Little Flower" to provide a complete scene information packet, and the protagonist mentally makes a fake information package for "Little Flower" in advance just in case. The protagonist is confident that his fake info treasure has never been spotted before, and he doesn't work very hard.
But this time, the lie leafcutter ants saw through it.
In the information packet, there is not only the specific content of the command, but also the appearance of the ant that conveys the order, the surrounding environment furnishings, etc., which is all the information of a standard information department, and the protagonist does everything in it, but does not pay attention to the details of the carving.
Although the protagonist tries to restore the scene according to the information provided by Xiaohua, he has not been there after all, and the background of the production is inevitably rough. Just like the background of a 3D game character's environment is actually 256 colors, it is inevitable that there will be incongruity. The inquisitive female commander quickly spotted the flaw - they had apparently known that there was a lie.
If it weren't for the fact that this lone army couldn't contact the locals, with the look of their deep hatred for the "liars", the protagonist was afraid that the leaf cutting ant country would immediately break off diplomatic relations with his side, and he wouldn't want to import hematite again.
The self-defeating protagonist has to think about the way back.
Now, if the remaining forces of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army are wiped out, perhaps the Leaf Cutting Ant Country will not know that the Divine Envoy King Legion has tried to deceive them and be able to maintain bilateral relations, but the Divine Envoy King Legion will have to face the military pressure of the Red Fire Ant Army alone in the future.
If the Leaf Cutter Ant Army is not eaten and successfully persists until the newly formed reinforcements in the local area are relieved, then the "Little Flower" can't hide the lie, and maybe the Divine Angel King Army will completely lose the quasi-partner of the Leaf Cutter Ant Country and the only source of hematite.
The protagonist can't understand why the Leaf Cutting Ant Country is so disgusted by the human world of lying, which almost everyone does every day! Maybe that's the unique rule of the ant world!
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On the 12th, the Red Fire Ant Army had launched an all-out attack on the besieged Leafcutter Ant Army.
The dwarf, freshly transplanted saplings did not provide any defensive bonus to the defenders, and the Leaf Cutter had to fight desperately on the ground against the Red Fire Ant Army, who were better at ground combat.
Because of their large numbers, the defenders built a large, criss-crossed, and densely packed underground camp under the besieged area, and the ground was also full of entrances and exits.
The flying knight looked down from the air, and saw that the yellow ground was dotted with black holes and green saplings, like a dough cake sprinkled with sesame seeds and green onions.
When the Red Fire Ant Army captured the first entrance, the battle began both above and below ground.
The morale of the Red Fire Ant Army is high, and the leaf-cutting ant army is fighting for every inch of land, and every inch of land changes hands is accompanied by the tragic scene of corpses covering this land.
The Red Fire Ant Army has launched a general offensive for two consecutive days, losing more than 30,000 of its own and destroying more than 50,000 enemies, but more than 80% of the positions are still in the hands of the Leaf Cutting Ant Army.
The Red Fire Ant Army didn't know that the Leaf Cutting Ant Army didn't have much military rations, otherwise they only needed to besiege but not attack, and they would be able to easily win the victory after half a month.
They just bury their heads in the attack, trade the flesh and blood of their warriors for one position after another, and then pull up, chop up, and throw away those damned saplings.
The Leaf Cutter Army was even more uncomfortable, losing one-seventh of its strength in two days, which was as fast as the rate at which the stock was consumed.
And as fewer and fewer fighters survived, the time for which food could be sustained was extended.
Maybe the moment when the military rations are exhausted, the Leaf Cutter Ant Army will have been wiped out!
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Just as the Red Fire Ant Army and the Leafcutter Ant Army were fighting, the Divine Envoy King's Legion also had a new military operation.
Recently, due to the rapid growth of the ant population and the expansion of the territory, the inventory of the Divine Envoy King's army has not been much. After the trade volume of honeydew iron ore declined, although some of the antmen who produced honeydew began to be allocated to the grain production industry, it was far from quenching the thirst.
Therefore, when the flying knights found a huge food resource "at their fingertips", the Divine Envoy King Legion immediately went out!