The Red Fire Ant Kingdom seems to have fallen for the Divine Envoy King's Legion, and has reached a treaty that is obviously beneficial to the Divine Envoy King's Legion. But in this world, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, who knows the final outcome and the final winner?

For now, at least, both sides are satisfied, and the Divine Legion of Kings has been satisfied with the external environment they have coveted and can focus on their next goal. And the Red Fire Ant Nation is also very satisfied: they have a new thug, they have honeydew and crowmi, and they have more confidence to deal with the figures that appear from time to time in the north.

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On September 10th, the army of the Divine Envoy King, who had already fought hard during the negotiations, finally completed their preparations and sent troops from [Xinyangcheng] to march towards the hematite.

Because the hematite area is located in the forest, far from the territory of the Legion of the Divine King, and surrounded by a large number of leafcutter ant nests. Therefore, even if it is successfully occupied, it is bound to face endless counterattacks from the Leafcutter Ant Country.

How to keep the hematite that was so hard to occupy is much more difficult than how to capture the hematite!

The Legion of the Divine Envoy plans to build a stronghold there that would protect the hematite, as well as a safe line of communication.

Therefore, this time the troops need to prepare a huge amount of materials for the construction of the city in advance, and the preparations began in early September and were not completed until today.

Yesterday, the Divine Envoy King Legion provided the first batch of tribute to the "suzerain" Red Fire Ant Country, which was escorted by "Little Flower", and another task of "Little Flower" was to encourage the Red Fire Ant Kingdom to continue to send troops, taking advantage of the last great victory, to occupy more of the territory of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, and use it as a military operation for the Divine Envoy King Legion to attract enemy firepower.

The Red Fire Ant Nation didn't know if they had accepted the suggestion of the Divine Envoy King's legion, and their elders in charge of receiving "Little Flower" were very silent and never responded to the message after receiving it.

However, "Little Flower" learned from another elder who was too sweet by the taste of honeydew that the native warriors of the Red Fire Ant Country were too tired and had to rest for at least half a month before they could send troops.

The Red Fire Ant Nation can't rush to the front to attract firepower, but the Divine Envoy King's legion is ready, and the arrow is ready to be fired.

The protagonist weighs it and finally decides to go it alone.

Although the territory of the Leafcutter Ant Country is vast and there are many ant mouths, in the recent battle, the Leafcutter Ant Country lost 700,000 elite troops at once. Later, in order to rescue the trapped troops, the Leaf Cutting Ant Country organized 5 reinforcements successively, including the loss of reinforcements, the Leaf Cutting Ant Country lost more than 80 thousand soldiers in a month, many of whom were elite veterans.

Even in the Leaf-cutting Ant Country, such a huge loss is a great loss and difficult to recover in a short period of time.

The protagonist learns from the Flying Knight that in the later stages of the Battle of the Ore, the proportion of medium-sized worker ants in the reinforcements of the Leaf Cutter Ant Army has increased.

Among the leaf-cutter ants, it has always been composed of large leaf-cutter ants and small leafcutter ants, the former is burly and powerful, and the latter is fierce and agile, and the two are quite difficult to work with. The mid-leaf cutter ant is mainly responsible for collecting leaves and doing other chores in the territory, and is not good at fighting.

The fact that a large number of mid-leaf cutting ants had to be incorporated into the leaf-cutting ant army showed that its personnel replenishment had been stretched thin, and it was a helpless move that had to be done.

With the current strength of the Divine Envoy King Legion, even if the Leaf Cutting Ant Army is still stationed with 200,000 troops on the border with the Red Fire Ant Country, not far from the area where the hematite is located, it is not afraid.

But not being afraid now does not mean that you are not afraid of the future, with the speed of ant breeding, with the terrifying stable food supply capacity of the leaf-cutting ant country, it is entirely possible to pull out an army of 800,000 in two or three months.

Even if the individual combat effectiveness of this large army dominated by new recruits will be inferior to that of veterans, the number alone is enough to make the Divine Envoy King Legion who takes the elite route feel collapsed - there are enough ants to bite the mantis to death!

The protagonist can only hope for two points, one is to build a strong fortress near the hematite to defend it, and the other is that the Red Fire Ant Kingdom will be able to send troops to contain the leaf-cutting ant army after it has recovered its strength.

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On September 12th, the Red Fire Ant Army, which had been galloping all the way, entered the territory of the Leafcutter Ant Country and arrived near the hematite.

The Leafcutter Ant Nation has left only a few thousand ants in its local tree nests, some mining hematite and the other producing food.

These leafcutter ants had also seen the Divine Envoy King warriors before, and when the two countries were still trading, the trade team of the Divine Envoy King's legion often came here to carry hematite particles back home.

But this time, the Legion of the Divine Envoy King appeared as invaders.

The area was still some distance from the border of the Red Fire Ant Country, and there was also a barren land between the territory of the Divine Envoy King's legion, so there was no large-scale garrison at all.

The Divine Legion killed some of the rebels and captured the remaining leafcutters—the mid-leafcutter ants easily surrendered, as did the males.

This secondary nest with hematite resources, although it is very important for the leaf-cutting ant country, but the status is not high, there is not even a leaf-cutting ant female stationed in the local area, and the highest commander is a male ant.

The protagonist orders the release of the captives, and the male ants of the leafcutter ants take them out of the hematite mine and return to their homeland on their own, which can be regarded as a reward for the help of the Leafcutter Ant Kingdom to the Divine Envoy King Legion in the past.

The protagonist asks the male ant to bring a message to the Leaf Cutting Ant Queen Ant Conference and the Female Ant Conference in [Sacred Tree City]: saying that due to the previous interruption of bilateral friendly relations and trade by the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, it has caused huge losses to the Divine Envoy King Legion, and the Divine Envoy King Legion will occupy the hematite for 99 years as compensation for the Leaf Cutting Ant Nation. If the Leaf Cripper Ant Kingdom needs hematite, the Legion of the Divine Envoy King is willing to open up trade and export hematite and other resources!

After easily occupying the hematite, the protagonist ordered the destruction of the leaf-cutting ant's nest, and tens of thousands of troops and the same number of large-headed ants began to build [Red Iron City].

The site of the Red Iron City that was finally selected was a luan tree near the hematite excavation site. This luan tree is a little further away from the other trees, and as long as you remove some branches and leaves regularly, you can prevent the leaf-cutting ant army from detouring from other trees when it attacks.

There are natural mounds at the base of the Luan tree, which are condescending and can control the hematite that is close at hand.

The protagonist plans to build a fortress consisting of ant mounds, underground ant nests, fences, towers, trenches, and protective nets around Luanshu, which requires a capacity of 30,000 ant mouths and a warehouse that can hoard a large number of hematite grains.

The construction period of [Red Iron City] is very urgent, although the protagonist has found a plausible excuse for the Divine Envoy King's army to occupy the hematite, but it is only an excuse, and the Leaf Cutting Ant Country will not suffer a dumb loss in the future.

The next battle between [Red Iron City] and the Divine Envoy King's legion may break out tomorrow.