Chapter 225: Rebellion
Soon, the protagonist leads this improvised team to the destination, where fierce battles are taking place.
As an important location, the main entrance and exit of the main nest are arranged with a garrison, just as the main nest also had a standing army responsible for guarding and patrolling.
In addition to the rolling beetle legion, the other five Divine Emissary King legions all take turns to send troops to guard the main entrance, and today it is the turn of the fourth legion of Rambotu.
At that time, Rambotu was personally sitting at the main entrance, with the strength of two squads around him.
When the diehards of the King's Conference coerced the rebel army to break out of the main entrance, Rambo organized the troops around him in time to block the passage.
The defensive Lamboto held out for nearly a quarter of an hour, not allowing the more rebels to rush out and escape. If it weren't for the narrow terrain, Lamberto would have been able to defeat this rabble with fewer wins.
In this rabble, only a few soldier ants are strong in combat and even know how to cooperate with each other, which caused a lot of trouble to Rambotu, and later learned that these soldier ants were actually soldiers of the Divine Envoy King Legion.
As the protagonist leads the gathered troops to attack from the rear, this small rebellion is quickly quelled.
However, the protagonist is furious, and after the interrogation is completed, the male ants who started the rebellion are killed and dismembered, and their heads are embedded in the sides of the main passage, and they are illuminated with fluorescent bacteria to warn the other restless males.
From the interrogation, the protagonist learns the cause of the rebellion.
Most of these males were young kings who were bent on killing the gods and reviving tradition. After being taken into custody, the kings tried to use their identities to win over the guards in order to escape.
However, since the guards at the beginning were all the protagonist's Praetorian Guard soldiers, he grew up in "Dongyang City" and received the protagonist's education and was loyal. The plans of these males did not succeed.
Due to the low IQ of the soldier ants, they do not realize that they need to take the initiative to report this important information without the protagonist asking.
After the protagonist recruits the Praetorian Guard team back to build a dormitory and guard the safety of the "Dongyang City" for him, the guards of these male ants become ordinary Divine Envoy King warriors.
The restless male ant soon enlists several Divine Envoy King warriors to guard them, all of whom are veterans of the main nest and are assigned to the protagonist in the earliest Reconquista wars. These veterans who grew up in the main nest still retained their reverence for the king and king of the main nest, so they obeyed the command of the male ants.
The male ants quickly killed the remaining guards with the help of the guards they had won, and then escaped, pulling the worker ants they encountered all the way, and went straight to the main entrance and exit, but failed.
Knowing what happened, the protagonist can't help but feel a little more distrustful of the remaining veteran ants from the main nest under his command.
Previously, after deciding to fight against the main nest, the males from the main nest stood up and objected, and then the protagonist expelled all the males from the legion with an iron fist.
In the case of the soldier ants, the protagonist has no action, believing that as long as the commander is loyal, the warriors below will not have problems. But this is clearly not the case now.
Of course, the protagonist also made mistakes, and if he hadn't transferred the Praetorian Guard team or left a male ant in the detention area, the rebellion could have been avoided.
Although the rebellion was quickly suppressed, it caused chaos and panic for a while, and the protagonist had only conquered "Qingqiu City" for a short time, and it was just in need of a quiet transition period to take power, and what was happening now was obviously unfavorable.
In a fit of rage, the protagonist kills all the males involved in the rebellion, as well as the Divine Envoy King warriors who participated in it. The coerced worker ants were also taken into custody and prepared to be sent to the "Southern City" and were no longer allowed to stay in the main nest.
The protagonist even decides to send all the veterans from the main nest in the Divine Envoy King's army to the "Southern City" to fight on the border, and fill the gap with the new generation of soldier ants who have received loyal education in the "Dongyang City".
The protagonist then builds a new prison and imprisons the remaining males who have not participated in the rebellion in groups of ten.
Each prison is a separate nest with only one entrance, the entrance and exit are fenced with branches, and the walls of the nest are covered with stones, so that if the male ants want to dig up the earth and escape, they must first dig up the stones, which not only increases the difficulty, but also makes the sound of falling stones colliding.
Outside each prison there are carefully selected guards, all of whom are loyal to the new generation of soldiers. And on one of the main passages where all the entrances and exits of the prison converge, there is also a male ant with a whole squad on regular patrols.
With such a net, the protagonist can finally rest assured, and he no longer has to worry about what happens to the male ants of the King's Conference.
- I'm the dividing line -
The aftermath of this small rebellion goes far beyond that.
Later that day, the protagonist meets a messenger.
The courier is from within "Qingqiu City" and is sent by the queen of the current ally, the queen of the queen of the Ant Legacy faction.
After receiving the intelligence support of these allies and easily capturing "Qingqiu City", the protagonist did not think about how to deal with the relationship with these allies.
He did not agree with their ideas, did not approve of the ants later taking power, and feared that the eldest king had already mastered several secondary nests and formed an independent force.
Therefore, after entering the city, the protagonist has not officially met with these allies, the queen ant, and is busy with other things.
They also don't seem to know how to use their contributions to the advantage.
This is also understandable, the queen ants have not taken care of political affairs for many years, and it is okay for them to ventilate the news, and it is indeed a bit difficult to take the opportunity to share the results of the battle. And there are very few male ants loyal to the queen, and they all fled with the eldest king, and no one gave them advice.
This time, the queen summoned up the courage to send the messenger, not because she was enlightened, but because she was afraid.
So many males were killed by the Divine Messenger King like their prey, and even their heads were embedded in the edge of the passage, which frightened the queens with such bloody and cruel practices.
These queens, who had been confined by the King's Council and lived in isolated nests, were now free to move around, and they came together to consult with each other.
In the end, they sent a messenger to express their desire to leave the main nest "Qingqiu City" and go to the south controlled by the eldest king, to the birthplace of the big-headed ant clan.
The protagonist is worried about what to do with these queens, and as an important player in another faction and a current nominal ally, the protagonist is naturally worried about them staying in the main nest.
This idea hits the protagonist's mind, and he immediately agrees, and offers to send troops to escort him.
The queen refused, saying that the worker ants they had with them would be enough. Although these queens are in the egg-laying period and have bloated bellies, they are not suitable for long travel, and it is best to wait a week or two for their abdomen to return to normal.
But the queen ants couldn't wait any longer and set off early the next morning.