After knowing the true identity of the oldest Wang and his gang, the protagonist needs to make a choice on whether to help them or not.

From a personal emotional point of view, the protagonist has no good impression of the King Conference who has repeatedly embarrassed him, and the protagonist naturally has a certain sympathy for the Queen Ant Inheritance Force who was also "persecuted" by the King Conference.

But on the other hand, the protagonist has a good relationship with the elder brother, and if it is confirmed that the oldest king betrays the main nest, the senior brother will naturally inherit the title of the oldest king and become the top existence in the entire king class, and one more heavyweight ally will also have indirect benefits for the protagonist.

If you start from the perspective of pure interests, you can't see any possible potential benefits for the protagonist, at most, it will create a divisive force within the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.

But now, the protagonist also needs the big-headed ant kingdom to focus on the north, contain the more powerful paving ant kingdom, and let the protagonist develop smoothly.

Once there is a change within the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, the main energy of the King's Council will be devoted to the civil war, and the protagonist's plan will obviously come to naught.

Thinking of this, the protagonist can't help but be inclined to refuse the most old Wang's request for assistance. A qualified ruler can't be too entangled in personal feelings, interests are the most important.

However, the protagonist also doesn't want to completely offend the queen ant inheritance forces, the other party can lurk in the big-headed ant kingdom for hundreds of years, and the entanglement of forces in the middle of it is not so easy to provoke.

Thinking of this, the protagonist has a foolproof plan.

The protagonist retreats left and right, allowing the worker ant messenger to leave, and then orders a mission from Rambofei.

He asks Rambo to kill the messenger, and then sends the Flying Knight to drop the body on the edge of a secondary nest on the southern border of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom.

This sub-nest is the destination proposed by the courier for the protagonist to transport food and grass, and it is clearly closely related to the queen ancestor's forces.

Drop the courier's corpse here, and it is likely that it will be found by the ants of this secondary nest. There is also no forensic science or forensic science in this world, and when faced with the corpse of a companion who appears alone in the wild, the ants are likely to think that she has just suffered an accident.

Once the messenger's scent information was reported, the eldest king and the queen ant who learned the news would probably think that their messenger had an accident halfway through and had not reached its destination at all.

In this way, the protagonist does not need to choose between the main nest and the queen inheritance forces for the time being.

Even if the messenger were to be sent again, it would be several days before it arrived. At that time, the protagonist was already in the north to deal with the Northern Expedition, and the Queen Ant Inheritance Force could also get this information from their own internal lines, so they couldn't expect the protagonist to rush back to answer their request for the time being.

In short, what the protagonist is now using is a procrastination.

- I'm the dividing line -

The protagonist's plan is quickly executed, and the worker ant messenger is killed by a sneak attack unprepared. She had her neck broken and died, a clear sign of murder, but the ants generally didn't care about that, the corpse was just a corpse in their eyes.

A loyal flying knight was chosen to carry out the task of throwing corpses, and he was also given a gag order.

The flying knight returned in half a day, and he successfully completed his mission, not only discarding the carcass to the designated location, but also witnessing a foraging worker ant find the carcass and drag it back.

As is customary for the ants, the corpse is hastily dragged to the ant cemetery and discarded, and the worker ants who find the corpse will report the unfortunate messenger's scent.

As long as this sub-nest is related to the Queen's Inheritance Forces, the Elder King and the others will soon know the "unfortunate news" that their messenger has died on the way.

- I'm the dividing line -

After dealing with a tricky incident, the protagonist is in a good mood and encourages Lan Bofei to take good care of "Dongyang City". He himself went to the scientific research group of the secretary to inspect and made a general mention of some technological development directions.

The protagonist then returns to the north.

The historic Northern Expedition of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom is coming, and the entire kingdom is in a military frenzy.

From the great river region in the north, to the hilly areas in the south, from the borders near lake shores, swamps and forests in the east, to the gradually rising mountains in the west, hundreds of secondary nests of the entire kingdom of the big-headed ant have been mobilized.

Elite soldiers from all over the country gathered in the main nest, and the little military rations saved by each side nest province were also transported to the main nest for concentration.

In this northern expedition, the Great King's Council decided to send an unprecedented 100 legions, a full 150,000 soldiers.

This military force has almost exhausted the mobile forces of the entire kingdom. With the exception of some of the sub-nests in the border areas that had to deal with the indigenous enemy, they also retained their defensive forces, and the sub-nests in the hinterland were left with only the old and weak. Even the main nest can't piece together another mobile unit.

Such a large-scale army needs to be commanded by a full hundred kings, and the kings with strong military command ability have almost poured out of the nest in the entire kings' meeting, and the kings of public security and good people are among them. It's the elder brother who has always liked military operations, because he is now the oldest king, and he was left behind in the main nest.

With such a large army, the amount of food consumed is also astronomical. Although the protagonist promises to provide a batch of military rations for the Northern Expeditionary Army after crossing the river, there are also many food needed to make this army march from the main nest to the "Waterfront City".

The food that the main nest desperately scavenged from the various secondary nests was barely enough to sustain the consumption of the army for a week, and it was probably enough for the army to arrive at the "Waterfront City" and support it for another three or four days after crossing the river.

The protagonist apparently underestimates the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom's enthusiasm for the Northern Expedition, and he previously proposed to provide enough food for an army of 40,000 to eat for a week.

The size of this batch of military rations happened to be the amount of grain captured by the Divine Envoy King's legion during the first counter-encirclement and suppression.

Now, there are 150,000 people in the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, and this amount of food is only enough for them for two days......

The protagonist immediately flies to the main nest and raises logistical questions. However, the kings are very optimistic, and the protagonists have proposed at the king's meeting that they can fight for a long time.

The protagonist couldn't help but despise himself fiercely, and said that it was he who was the one who was the enemy because of the food, and now he really shot himself in the foot.

The kings of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom had not seriously calculated how much military food they needed to consume every day, how many days they needed to conquer an enemy's nest, and how much food they needed to capture for each victory to support the next battle.

Anyway, the protagonist made the most optimistic estimate based on the experience of the first anti-encirclement and suppression, and the results were very pessimistic......