Chapter 170: Rebel Heart
The protagonist goes to meet with the emissary of the titular suzerain, the Red Fire Ant Kingdom.
This meeting was not very pleasant, and the envoy sent by the Red Fire Ant Country ignored all the excuses made by the protagonist for refusing to send troops, and very strongly demanded that the Divine Envoy King Legion provide tens of thousands of ant mouths, and arrive at the main nest of the Red Fire Ant Country [Hive City] within 3 days.
The messenger also said that if the Divine Envoy King's Legion did not fulfill its obligations to the suzerain, countless brave Red Fire Ant warriors would set foot on this nest and steal what they needed, and then the Divine Envoy King's Legion would cease to exist and all the ants would be reduced to slavery.
The protagonist is very respectful on his face, but he is disdainful in his heart, and even secretly annoyed.
If he hadn't known that the Red Fire Ant Country was now being suppressed and beaten by the Leaf-Cutting Ant Army, and he didn't have the strength to deal with him, maybe he would have been bluffed by this messenger!
Moreover, after all this time, have you Red Fire Ant Nation forgotten how you signed the alliance under the city in the first place? Do you really think that the army of gods makes the king of kings as weak and deceitful as a clan of bellied ants!?
Even though the Divine Envoy Legion is currently spending a lot of resources on both the canal excavation project and the colonization of the south bank of the Qing River, they do not want a war to disrupt the plan.
However, the Divine Messenger King's legion is not afraid of war, and if the protagonist reveals the news brought by this messenger to his legion commanders, he is afraid that the legion commanders will immediately be indignant and want to start fighting immediately.
After weighing it up, the protagonist asks the messenger of the Red Fire Ant Kingdom to wait for a while in the name of the need for the males to discuss and decide together.
The protagonist then leaves the nest of the meeting and orders his workers to wait for the Red Fire Ant Messenger and their entourage and guards. At the same time, the protagonist asks the Immortals to take care of the nest with the Praetorian Guard team, and forbids the envoys inside to go out, which is actually house arrest.
Under the ruling system of the Divine Envoy King Legion of Yiyantang, of course, the protagonist does not need to consult with other males, he just finds an excuse to come out, and then lets the flying knights set off to investigate.
Later that day, the Flying Knights returned one after another to report on the results of the investigation.
These Flying Knights went to the Red Fire Ant Nation and other vassal states to reconnoitre, and found that the Red Fire Ant Army had been mobilized and was assembling in [Hive City]. There are also signs of dispatching troops in other vassal countries, and some flying knights have also found signs of red fire ant messengers in the territory of vassal countries.
Combined with the fact that the leaf-cutting ant army has already occupied a number of secondary nests in the territory of the Red Fire Ant Country, the soldiers are in full swing, and they have begun to plant saplings, the protagonist deduces that the Red Fire Ant Army is going to fight desperately and against the water!
With relatively complete information, the protagonist has confidence, and he knows that the Red Fire Ant Country is indeed temporarily unable to take care of his side.
The relationship between the Divine Legion and the Leafcutter Ant Country cannot be hidden from the Red Fire Ant Country forever, and similarly, the relationship between the Divine King's Legion and the Red Fire Ant Nation cannot be hidden from the Leafcutter Ant Country all the time without being discovered.
After riding the wall for a long time, the protagonist decides to make a decision!
After receiving the order, the Praetorian Guard team quickly carried the severed head of the Red Fire Ant Messenger to his life. These red fire ants were placed under house arrest for half a day, and although they were offered delicious food and drink, they kept clamoring to go to see the Divine Messenger King, and even bit two worker ants serving them as a warning of threats.
It's just that they didn't realize that they would soon die, and in the face of a group of wolf-like Divine Ant Guards, the Red Fire Ant Messenger and the Guardian were eliminated in three or two clicks.
Later, the protagonist asks the Flying Knight to take "Little Flower" to warn the Leaf Cutting Ant Nation, informing them of the movement of the Red Fire Ant Army being assembled, and indicating that the Divine Envoy King's army will also send troops to fight.
At the same time, the Divine Envoy King's army gathered troops and stood by in [Xinyang City].
The plans of the main characters are:
The Red Fire Ant Army has now been assembled, their strength is not as good as the Red Fire Ant Army, and they lack food, so it is definitely impossible for them to stay in [Hive City] indefinitely, and they have no time to pay attention to their own side where the envoy has never returned. The next step of the Red Fire Ant Army is most likely to be to open a decisive battle with the Leaf Cutter Ant Army in the near future.
Regardless of whether the Red Fire Ant Army wins or loses, the rear is empty, and the Divine Angel King Legion will raid [Hive City] and take out the main nest in one fell swoop.
If the Red Fire Ant Army on the front line is defeated, the Divine Messenger King's legion will occupy more of the Red Fire Ant Nation's territory and its vassals, and include it as a buffer zone on the front line. If the Red Fire Ant Army wins, the Divine Envoy King will slaughter the city in [Hive City], taking all the supplies it can take away, leaving the Red Fire Ant Kingdom a dead city.
With the loss of the main nest, the elders of its highest authority will be destroyed, and the Red Fire Ant Country is bound to fall into chaos, and the protagonist can instigate the well-fed Leaf Cutting Ant Army to continue the attack and contain the remnants of the Red Fire Ant Country.
The protagonist makes up his mind to use the actions of the hostile Red Fire Ant Nation to submit his name to the alliance of civilized ant clans.
As for what to do if the suzerainty of the Red Fire Ant Country comes to take revenge in the future? That is also a matter for the future, when the time comes, the Divine Envoy King's army will have a large rear on the south bank of the Qing River, and the canal defense line will be used as a support, and an ant-free area will be carved out in the territory of the old Red Fire Ant Country as a buffer, and the enemies of the labor expedition may not be able to take advantage of it.
For the raid on [Hive City], the Divine Messenger Legion assembled 6 legions, including a tank assault group that had just completed artillery modifications, and 1 flying knight squad to assist.
This time the troops sent were not as good as the troops that surrounded [Hive City] during the last negotiation with the Red Fire Ant Kingdom, when the Divine Envoy King's Legion mobilized 8 legions. Today's god envoy Wang Legion has a great cause, and he also has to take care of the defense of the canal construction site, and the troops that can be drawn are limited.
But today's Divine Envoy King Legion has the bonus of firearms, and there are 4 mung bean caliber guns and 4 millet caliber artillery in the tank brigade dispatched, and the ability to siege the city is much stronger than last year.
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On May 13, the Red Fire Ant Army did not wait for the arrival of some troops from afar and reinforcements from vassals, and 120,000 troops pulled out of [Hive City] and marched to the front.
Because there were too many troops from all over the country who did not arrive in [Hive City] as scheduled, the Red Fire Ant Kingdom had not yet discovered that the long-delayed Divine Envoy King Legion had rebelled.
A large number of Red Fire Ant Couriers are moving around, contacting those troops who are rushing to [Hive City] and turning to the front line to converge.
All the Red Fire Ant Messengers who entered the territory of the Divine Envoy King's Legion were killed one after another by the Flying Knight and the Ground Scythe Hunter Ant Scout Warriors.
On May 15th, the Red Fire Ant Army and the Leafcutter Ant Army began to confront each other, engaged in a tentative fight, and a decisive battle was about to break out.
On the same day, the Divine Envoy King Legion assembled in [Xinyang City] officially sent troops, all the way north, planning to cross the Black Forest and go straight to [Hive City].
Twice besieged [Xinyang City], forced the Divine Envoy King's Legion to become a vassal, and forced the Divine Envoy King's Legion to pay tribute.
The Red Fire Ant Kingdom and the Divine Envoy King Legion have long been at odds, and the protagonist suddenly changed his diplomatic policy and decided to catch the Red Fire Ant Kingdom and beat him up, and there is actually a reason for it!