Chapter 185: Negotiation and Partition
On May 23rd, the day after the Leaf Cutter Ant Army conquered [Talc City] and slaughtered the city, they invited representatives of the Divine Envoy King's Legion to negotiate.
The two sides had agreed before that after the combined forces defeated the Red Fire Ant Army, they would discuss how to carve up the land and resources of the Red Fire Ant Country.
Originally, the Divine Envoy King Legion intended to assist the Leaf Cutting Ant Army in attacking [Talc City], but the other party refused, saying that they wanted to take revenge alone, presumably to pay tribute to the 200,000 compatriots who died in the battle. The protagonist didn't insist, and later found out that he had been pitted.
In today's negotiation, the protagonist did not personally participate, and the status of the negotiator sent by the other party was not enough to be equal to the supreme leader of the Divine Envoy King Legion, which was a diplomatic etiquette between the civilized ant clan, so the protagonist sent a spade elephant and 2 male ants and 3 divine soldier ants as representatives to negotiate.
The reason why female Divine Ant is also sent is to consider that the Leafcutter Ant Country is a queen ant system, and at the same time, it is also to continue to improve the status of the Divine Soldier Ant and Divine Worker Ant class.
It's good that the god ant and the god ant all have the blood of the protagonist in their bodies!
Accompanied by the guards, the spade elephant and the other representatives walked into the narrow passage in the stone crevice, and the ventilation in the [Talc City] was poor, and a thick smell of blood and corpses lingered, which was left over from yesterday's massacre.
If you look closely, there are also blood stains and the remains of some ant body tissues on the ground and walls.
The spade elephant was also a veteran who came from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, and his tentacles trembled, and he continued to move forward with the representatives and guards without any objection.
At the beginning of the negotiations, the purpose of both sides was very clear, that is, to fight for the interests of their own people as much as possible when dividing up the territory of the Red Fire Ant Country.
Although at this time, the Leaf Cutter Ant Army only controlled [Talc City] and a few other side nests, and the Divine Envoy King Legion had not captured any other nests except for [Hive City]. More than ninety percent of the territory of the Red Fire Ant Country has not been lost.
However, the Red Fire Ant Army, which lost its main nest and suffered heavy losses from the main force, has been ignored by both sides. The remaining nests, territories, and ant mouths of the Red Fire Ant Nation with weak defenses have been regarded as food for both sides of the negotiations.
The goal of the Divine Envoy King's Legion is to carve up half of the land of the Red Fire Ant Country, including the [Hive City] that has already been obtained, and the strategic location [Slippery City] that can cover [Hive City].
At the same time, on the grounds that there are forests in the north of the Red Fire Ant Country, the spade elephant wants to hand over the northern territory of the Red Fire Ant Country, which is far away from the mainland of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, to the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, so that they can serve as a northern barrier to resist the possible retaliation of the suzerainty of the Red Fire Ant Country.
Through reconnaissance, the flying knights did find a forest in the northern territory of the Red Fire Ant Country, but it was a sparse secondary forest, not the dense forest that leafcutter ants liked.
However, the Divine Envoy King Legion concealed this during the negotiation, and only said that there was a large forest over there, which made the representative of the leafcutter ant very excited.
The negotiators of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country also had their own thoughts, and they demanded that the number of troops sent by the Leaf Cutting Ant Country was 5 6 times (30 times) that of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, and they also demanded that the Divine Envoy King's Legion give up [Hive City].
The spade elephant naturally doesn't do it, and this condition is too far from the bottom line given by the god king.
The spade elephant said that if it weren't for the support of the Divine Envoy King's army, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army would have been wiped out the day before yesterday, and there would be no chance to negotiate.
The Leaf Cutting Ant Army accused the Divine Envoy King's army of being too slow to come to the aid and failing to fulfill the obligations of the Alliance.
The representative of the Divine Envoy King Legion accused the Leafcutter Ant Army of not launching an attack in advance as agreed.
The two sides quarreled back and forth, and finally the representative of the leaf-cutting ant also realized the loss and made concessions.
In the end, the two sides reached a carve-up agreement that:
The Legion of the Divine Envoy King has gained about one-third of the territory to the east and south of the Red Fire Ant Nation, and [Hive City] is still occupied by the Legion of the Divine Envoy King.
The Leaf Cutter Ant Army occupied the remaining two-thirds of the Red Fire Ant Nation's territory, and the Divine Envoy Legion suggested that they occupy the forest to the north, and they agreed. For the Leafcutter Ant Kingdom, forests are much more useful than wilderness that needs to be transformed by tree planting.
The strategically located [Slippery Rock City] is still under the control of the Leaf Cutting Ant Nation, and they refuse any negotiation terms regarding the ownership of [Slippery Rock City] on the grounds that it was conquered by the Leaf Cutting Ant Army alone.
Afterwards, the protagonist learned the news, only to cry and laugh, it turned out that yesterday the leaf-cutting ant army refused to make the king army help the war and there was such a layer of thought, the protagonist was unconsciously fooled, it seems that the thoughts of the leaf-cutting ants are more complicated and cunning among the simple ants.
Although [Talc City] was not taken down, and [Hive City] was exposed to the threat of the Leafcutter Ant Army at any time, the protagonist did not care.
First, the Leaf Cutting Ant Country is currently an ally, with the bond of the ancient god inheritance, and it is estimated that the two sides will not turn against each other.
Second, [Hive City], that is, the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, has always valued it, and the Divine Envoy King Legion has no obsession with this place, and does not plan to vigorously build [Hive City], only using this place as a buffer zone.
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After reaching an agreement with the Leafcutter Ant Army, the Divine Envoy King returned to [Hive City].
After that, the legions of the Divine Envoy King began to attack everywhere and occupy their own territories, and these scattered and commandless and weak sub-nests were conquered one after another.
Because there is only a rough division agreement with the Leafcutter Ant Country, how many secondary nests are there in one-third of the territory? Both sides of the negotiation do not know the inside story of the Red Fire Ant Country, and there are many places where they can take advantage.
While the Leaf Cutting Ant Army was still resting and waiting for reinforcements in [Slippery Rock City], and there was no window of opportunity to start expanding, the Divine Envoy King Legion occupied a large area of the eastern, southern, and even central territories of the former Red Fire Ant Country.
After the Leaf Cutting Ant Army began to expand, although there was a lot of land left for them, in the end, the ratio of the number of secondary nests occupied by the Divine Envoy King's army did not reach 2:1, but about 5:3.
The leafcutter ants didn't know, or rather didn't care, about this little discrepancy.
Their minds are mainly on the remnants of the Red Fire Ant Army.
Compared to the Divine Envoy King Army, which has been expanding smoothly all the way, the Leaf Cutting Ant Army also needs to face the desperate resistance of the 50,000 remnants of the Red Fire Ant Army.
These remnants of red fire ants are very tenacious, entrenched in the north of the country, scavenging the resources of dozens of secondary nests in the north, and cobbling together sixty or seventy thousand troops, and fighting a few battles with the approaching leaf-cutting ant army.
It was not until the end of June that the powerful Leafcutter Ant Army slowly exhausted the strength of the remnants of the Red Fire Ant Army, forcing the last 10,000 or so Red Fire Ants and slave ants to flee north to the suzerain, and finally completely occupied the northern border of the Red Fire Ant Country.
At this time, the leaf-cutting ants found that the woods in the north were very sparse and still needed to be renovated, and then they realized that they had been pitted by the Divine Envoy King Legion.
So far, only half a year has passed this year, and only 3 months after the beginning of spring, the Red Fire Ant Country, which has dominated one side for hundreds of years, has been destroyed!