Chapter 27: The Captives (2)
Although it has been a year since he came to this world, during which the protagonist has been trying to adapt to the thinking habits of the ants, he still underestimates the gap between himself and the ants' thinking.
I had this feeling when facing the king's meeting in the main nest of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom before, but now, the conversation between the protagonist and the Floating Leaf King, or the negotiation, or the surrender ceremony, is also extremely difficult.
At this time when the two of them were communicating, the Divine Envoy King Legion and the Paving Ant Remnant Army were still in a tense confrontation, this military operation had not yet completely ended, and the commander had not issued a new order.
For this reason, the protagonist "had an idea" and tentatively asked to "disarm" the Paving Ant Army first, so that he could be more at ease and be sure of the other party's sincerity.
According to the protagonist's idea, the opponent will definitely not be happy to disarm his troops, this is the only card that the opponent has at hand. If you abandon your martial arts, the other party can only pull the tiger skin of the paving ant country to sing.
As for what to do with your own side after disarming the other side? This kind of adult ant is difficult to ambush as a slave, and even needs to allocate a large number of troops to take care of it, consuming precious stored food, it is better to kill it.
But if the other side surrenders, according to the tradition of the human world, killing prisoners is a bad omen. Bai Qikeng killed 200,000 Zhao pawns, and in the end he ended up miserable; Xiang Yukeng killed Qin pawns, completely pushed the Guanzhong region to Liu Bang, and finally did not fight an opponent who had been defeated repeatedly but had a solid Guanzhong as a backup; Not to mention the Japanese at the time of the war of aggression against China, they are still an abnormal country.
Unexpectedly, the Floating Leaf King didn't care about the army under his command at all, and he generously said that the Divine Envoy King Legion could execute these paving ant warriors at will, and he wouldn't care.
Once again, the protagonist has difficulty understanding the other party's brain circuits, but his proposal is tempting, and the protagonist does not want to take on hundreds of ticking time bombs for nothing.
As a result, the Floating Leaf King stepped into the Divine Envoy King Legion Formation and was "protected" layer by layer.
Subsequently, the Divine Envoy King's army launched a merciless attack on the enemy army, which had lost its commander and still maintained a "loser posture".
The last remnants of the paving ants, in the midst of the chaos, spontaneously rose up to resist, but this resistance was in vain, and they were quickly slaughtered.
The protagonist orders the Praetorian Guard to escort the Floating Leaf King and return to the "bridgehead" with him.
The three Divine Envoy King legions stayed in the secondary nest of the paving ants that had just been captured and began to clean up the battlefield.
On the ground and underground, the corpses of paving ants are strewn all over the field, and although the protagonist does not intend to occupy the secondary nest, it is necessary to bury all the corpses.
Otherwise, if the enemy sends messengers, and sees this scene, he will immediately know the fate of the troops they have sent.
And if it is just an empty secondary nest, it may cause the enemy to guess out of thin air, misleading their judgment, and buy a little more time for the Divine Envoy King Legion.
The harvest of this campaign was also rich.
Strategically speaking, it smashed the enemy's first encirclement and suppression, and bought time.
In the Paving Ant Nest, the Divine Envoy King's Legion captured enough food for 10,000 soldiers to eat for a month, this batch of food is very valuable, especially in this year's Bad Year, food is the most important strategic material.
In the secondary nest, the Divine Envoy King Legion also captured hundreds of young ants and ant eggs, and due to the need to continue the battle, the fourth legion occupying the secondary nest only killed the adult ants such as the queen ant and worker ants in the enemy nest, and temporarily spared these young ants and ant eggs that were not a threat for the time being.
The number of these eggs is obviously low, and it is believed that this secondary nest has realized that there is a shortage of food this year, which has reduced the number of eggs laid by the queen.
What to do with this batch of larvae and eggs, the protagonist didn't think about it. It's a bit of a waste of food, although it's all high-quality protein, but if you raise it to be a slave, there is now a subdued paver ant queen in the "bridgehead", and there is no shortage of these eggs and larvae.
In the end, in order to increase genetic diversity, the protagonist asks the Divine Envoy King to bring back these larvae and ant eggs and hand them over to the paving ant slaves of the "bridgehead" to take care of.
- I'm the dividing line -
Back in the "bridgehead", the protagonist finds a hidden nest room, and continues to communicate with the Floating Leaf King accompanied by several guards such as Mulan.
Maybe it's because there are no ants of the same clan around him, and he is in the enemy camp, and the Floating Leaf King has lost some of his previous calmness.
After a difficult exchange, both sides felt that it was difficult to understand each other's thoughts many times, but both sides gradually understood the general meaning of the other.
For the Floating Leaf King, his request is simple and realistic.
He demanded that his life be safeguarded, and that he be released and returned to the main nest of the paver ants.
In response to the Bighead's "good deeds", he can use his influence to mediate in the main nest to reach a truce between the Pacifier and the Bighead.
Of course, in order to facilitate the truce, it is not enough to "gift" themselves back to the nest, the big-headed ant country should also show its sincerity, such as "giving" or "paying tribute" to a batch of supplies.
The protagonist laughed in his heart, this king is really thick-skinned and black-hearted.
Obviously, he was defeated on the battlefield, but he made such a request, if it was realized, even if the other party returned to the main nest alone, he could also boast that he had made the big-headed ant kingdom "submit".
Ants are creatures that actively implement realism, so the Paving Ant Kingdom spends a lot of resources and troops every year to restore the old territory on the south bank of the Great River, which is not easy to achieve in the eyes of most Paving Ant Kings.
If there is a step now to obtain the nominal "submission" of the old enemy and the materials to pay tribute, I believe that with the sophistry of the other side, a truce between the two sides can really be achieved.
When the time comes, the King of the Paving Ants will not care about the small loss of 10,000 soldiers and the razing of a secondary nest, but will regard the Floating Leaf King as the dry city of the country.
And the protagonist also knows in the exchange that the Floating Leaf King had no intention of leaving the lives of those army soldiers under his command at all, after all, these soldiers more or less understood that the defeat of the battle and the situation of the Floating Leaf King entering the enemy's interior was a hidden danger.
And before the Floating Leaf King was ready to "surrender", he even commanded his direct troops to kill another king who was ready to fight to the death, and then sold his own direct troops clean.
This kind of trick and thick black degree of turning hands into clouds and covering hands into rain are also at the level of a hero in the human world, not to mention the ant world that is still at the level of human kindergartens in the conspiracy and conspiracy.
As for the request made by the other party, although it is ridiculous, the protagonist has to admit that it still has a certain appeal.