Chapter 356: Aftermath
The matter of defeating the Third Fleet of the Cummins family is still fermenting.
From the very beginning, the battle situation in the swamp of despair was not an isolated incident.
Rather, it is an international event that affects the entire Byron Union, and even the political pattern of the continent of Ascharn.
Not to mention, just the Eternal Night Army's ally, Princess Regent, Sophia, who has been staring at the Swamp of Despair during this time, taking up more than half of her daily energy to deal with political affairs.
The four elite legions belonging to the royal family, together with the main force of the Iron Rose Knights, have secretly moved to the fiefdom of the princess regent.
Should the situation in the Swamp of Despair slip completely over the side of the Kingsleys, they will intervene in the war at any time, provided that the Eternal Night Warlord agrees to open the water passage.
It was not only the Kingsley family who had been reluctant to intervene in the Swamp of Despair from the beginning, but also the Eternal Night Commander.
The ambition of the Eternal Night Army Leader is not small, not only to eat the swamp of despair, but also to swallow it in the form of monopoly, once inviting other forces to intervene by force, even if they win the final victory, it will be difficult to maintain the integrity of the various sovereignty.
Even the elders of the crocodile tribe understood this truth, and they were unwilling to let the Eternal Night Army Leader intervene by force, until the Third Fleet of the Cummins family sailed into the Danube and completely shattered their hopes, so they had to invite the Eternal Night Army Leader to enter the game.
As it turned out, their initial fears were right.
Since the Eternal Night Warlord intervened in the Swamp of Despair, there was basically nothing to do with the crocodiles, and they could only follow behind and beat the side drum.
Being so passive in the battle situation means the fruits of victory, and it is difficult for them to gain much from it.
The distribution of those warships captured from the Cummins family was naturally carried out under the leadership of the Eternal Night Lord.
Although the Eternal Night Warlord did not eat alone and assigned all the Cummins family warships to his own name, he took out half of the ownership of the warships.
However, this half of the warship was not given to the crocodile, but was jointly held like the brother port, and each side contributed half of the crew and sailors, including the command level, in view of the lack of talent in this area of the crocodile people, most of them are now the acting captains led by the Eternal Night Army.
Wait until the candidates recommended by the crocodile people have passed the professional training of the Eternal Night Commander, and then officially take over the position of captain.
In this regard, the elders of the crocodile clan are also a hundred unwilling in their hearts, just look at the new army that the Eternal Night Army leader participated in the training, the crocodile people who have been trained by the Eternal Night Army Leader, who their hearts will be towards at that time, it is still unknown, their brainwashing ability is too strong.
But there is no way to refuse, they really don't have the knowledge reserves in this area, and they want to explore it on their own, but they don't know that it will grind until the year of the monkey, and when the situation is stable, the acting captain of the Eternal Night Army may have turned positive.
Could it be that because they were afraid of the brainwashing ability of the Eternal Night Lord, they gave up the opportunity to let others become acting captains in vain?
Those young crocodile people who have been instilled with new ideals by the Eternal Night Army Leader, even if they are no longer in trouble, but the starting point is still for the welfare of the Crocodile Clan, just in a way that the older generation cannot understand and accept, but it is not better than the pure Eternal Night Army Leader.
With a lesson from the past, the Eternal Night Army Leader naturally guarded against Princess Regent using this on them.
In the royal battle room, not only the large map of the Ashane continent is placed, but also the Swamp of Despair, as well as the troop layout of the Eternal Night Commander, the Kingsley family, the Cummins family and the crocodile people.
The entire battle process of the Swamp of Despair has been repeated countless times on it, and the outcome of this war has also been deduced countless times.
"The battle has been played out countless times, and it turned out to be a result that we didn't expect at all. "The princess regent threw the chess piece representing black powder in her hand into the Danube, and the original situation of the eternal night army leader was bound to die, not to mention the life and death, but also turned into a situation of killing and all.
Ever since Princess Regent had visited the military staff of the Eternal Night Army, she was very interested in this kind of collective combat command.
However, the current military model of the Byron alliance has been deeply rooted, and a change in land has almost pushed itself into the opposite side of all lords and nobles, and if it does it again, the military system will be tampered with.
Even in recent years, with the in-depth cooperation with the Eternal Night Commander, he has sought a lot of benefits and stabilized his position and reputation, it is difficult to resist the resistance from the old system.
And the princess regent, who is becoming mature, has a deeper understanding of the so-called change.
As the young baron said, a country is like a big tree, and if a hurricane tries to blow it down, even if it is a magnitude twelve, there is a high chance of failure in the end, because its roots are too deep, unless the hurricane can be so strong that it can even bring up the soil on which it lives.
If the roots of the tree were rotten and a colony of ants were to nest here, let alone a hurricane, even a gentle push from a child could cause it to collapse.
The change she launched is a hurricane, which looks vigorous, but in fact it is difficult to shake the roots, and there is no way to uproot it by her own strength.
More precisely, the starting point of her change is problematic, from beginning to end, it is only the interests of the Lancelot royal family itself, whether it is the other lords and nobles, or the Holy See of the Holy Ether, those lords benefit from it, only incidentally.
She didn't unite all the forces she could connect with, so she naturally struggled.
When the two of them were chatting together, Sophia didn't pay much attention to what the young baron said about the power of ordinary lords.
As soon as she came, the princess regent herself was in the bureau, and she received an elite education from childhood to adulthood, and what she saw was also an elite ruling model, and before she made formal contact with Sean, she never jumped out of the bureau and observed everything with the eyes of an outsider.
Second, in the history of Ashaan, the people erupted into their own rage and changed the political landscape, not to mention unprecedented, but it was also very rare, including the abolition of slavery in the plains of Asia Minor, which was also carried out under the leadership of the lords and nobles who realized the disadvantages of slavery, and not those slaves who rose up to resist because they could not bear the oppression.
The revolt of the slave gladiators led by the Manyu Army was the first roar of the slaves on the Ashane Continent.
At the beginning, the Manyu army led the spark to collapse like a prairie fire, which really made the Prince Regent and the rulers of the Byron Alliance look sideways, and they had to reflect deeply and find the problem.
The final result of the study of this question seems to lie in the sharp contradictions between the slave owners and the slave gladiators, whether it is the assassination of the Grand Duke Borg or the contradictions caused by medical treatment, they are only the fuse, and the formal intervention of other forces is a matter after the situation has completely collapsed.
If the turmoil caused by the slave rebel army only touched the princess regent, the terrifying rise speed of the Eternal Night Army Leader made them truly realize what kind of terrifying power these inconspicuous fart people would break out when they united.
One person's power is finite after all, and when a system twists the power of all people into a rope, the power possessed is infinite.
The battle in the Swamp of Despair is not so much the victory of the Eternal Night Leader as the power that has once again created glory.
The military staff, the regent princess Sophilia has no way to establish, but there is no problem with a few more personal advisers, and they are used to form a private staff to assist themselves in analyzing the battle situation.
The battle situation in the Swamp of Despair, they have deduced countless times, the Eternal Night Army Leader and the Kingsley family have won and lost each other, the probability is three to seven, the victory rate of the Eternal Night Army Leader and the Crocodile Alliance is only thirty percent, most of them ended in a miserable victory by defending Brother Harbor and inflicting heavy damage on the Kingsley family.
Using Brother Harbor as bait, lure the Cummins family's Third Fleet into the narrow waterway, and use the unconventional power of black powder to set up a lore game and eat the entire Cornmins family's fleet.
This kind of battle situation, they deduced countless times, but they did not predict it.
After all, in the process of deduction, the parameters of the unconventional force of black powder are missing.
Faced with this situation of reversal of life and death, the princess regent, who is used to seeing strong winds and waves, can't help but be excited.
There is both excitement and disappointment.
Excitedly, the situation in the Swamp of Despair has become clear, and as long as the Eternal Night Army Leader does not make stupid decisions himself, the Kingsley family will have no chance of turning the tables around.
Sophia has now tasted the benefits of teamwork, and it may be a little less timely, but most decisions are above the passing line.
The Eternal Night Lords are already very skilled in this area, and it will be difficult to catch their big mistakes.
Disappointed, the Lancelot royal family lost the opportunity to intervene in the swamp of despair by force for the greater good.
But as long as the Swamp of Despair doesn't fall into the hands of the Kingsleys, it's not the worst outcome for the Lancelot royal family.
And personally, the Eternal Night Warlord is his staunch ally, and for himself, its rise will do more good than bad in a short period of time.
"Golden Armor!Dragonwreck Battleship!River Throwing Cart!Black Powder!" Red Rose Amelia snapped her fingers. This war used too many unconventional forces, each of which can directly affect the existence of the war situation, and naturally there will be a series of variables, but I didn't expect the Baron's Pavilion to use black powder so diversely, we have black powder in our hands, and we didn't expect that black powder was buried in the soil and water, turning into all kinds of bomb traps, not to mention the Kingsley family and the Cummins family, who have limited knowledge of black powder, although it is unexpected, but it is reasonable. ”
Amelia's unconventional power in the Swamp of Despair is like a treasure of her own eyes, and she estimates the actual power and has an accurate assessment.
But it's normal to think about it, the momentum created by the Desperate Swamp is so huge, and few people with a heart have to send sentries here.
In this war, not only the princess regent is clear, but everyone who has a little strength has already received accurate information, just sooner or later.
"Although we have obtained black powder from the hands of the Eternal Night Army Leader, but the attention to it is far from enough, from today onwards, the research funds of the relevant departments of black powder will be doubled, and its formula will be reversed as soon as possible, this matter will be watched by Biluo himself. Princess Regent Sophilia said with a bit of chagrin that could not be concealed.
After witnessing the explosive power of black powder for herself, Sophia already thought that this kind of thing would change the course of war.
The soft grinding and hard bubble wanted to get their hands on it, but at first, the Eternal Night Army Leader refused on the grounds that the production was limited and the number of blasting barricades was huge.
When the Jacob River returns, there will be no way to continue the monopoly.
Because of the shortage of food in the army of Eternal Night at that time, it had to be imported in large quantities from the princess regent, and when the situation was passive, it had to come out with some good things, and black powder was at the top of this list.
Although the princess regent has realized the strategic significance of black powder, she has given it a high degree of importance.
However, she does not have the knowledge of another world as a guide like Sean, and has no clear research direction, so when she gets her hands on it, she can only draw a scoop according to the gourd, as the Eternal Night Commander first demonstrated, and use it as a blast.
The Eternal Night Army leader told them with practical actions that that method of use was only the rudimentary use of black powder.
This made the princess regent ruthless, ruthless in the research of black powder, not seeking to surpass the Eternal Night Army Leader in a short period of time, just not to be thrown too far by the other party, and to have an absolute advantage over other forces.
"Yes, Your Highness. Biluo, the chief of the palace guard, commanded.
"There's another tip. Amelia smiled meaningfully.
Say. The contemplative Princess Regent did not see her expression.
"On the way to the royal capital, the Lord of Buck will enter the city in three days at a slow rate or three days at the earliest. ”
"As expected, it was for the sake of his army of 200,000 trapped on the eastern shore of the Swamp of Despair, and I was moving faster than him. Sophia smiled knowingly.
It is not difficult to guess the intention of Archduke Buck, the contemporary family of the Kingsley family, to run to the royal capital Valesta at this time,
The Eternal Night Commander's turnaround was too fast, so fast that it only took one day to destroy the Third Fleet of the Cummins family, and it was almost enough for the Kingsley family's more than 200,000 troops to conquer the Eastern Army, and there was no time to react, and the Danube River, a vital water communication line, returned to the hands of the Eternal Night Commander, and then was completely blocked here.
Although she didn't see it with her own eyes, Princess Regent could imagine what it was like on the Danube River now.
The entire supply line of the Eastern Army was cut off alive and turned into a lone army hanging on the east bank of the Swamp of Despair.
The Commanders of the Eternal Night don't need to attack them at all, as long as this blockade lasts for a year and a half, they will collapse without a fight.
With their own abilities, the Kingsley family obviously had no chance of returning to their territory safely, so Grand Duke Buck set his sights on outside forces, and at this time, the regent Princess Sophilia became his first choice.
Don't forget that the supreme leader of the Eternal Night Army is still the baron she has personally canonized.
"I'm afraid he's going to be disappointed, Baron Sean's allegiance to us is just a formality, we can't have a fundamental impact on their decision, I heard that the Grand Duke of Buck came to the royal capital with a large freight carriage, as many as a hundred, each rut print, enough to be a few centimeters deep, for this trip, His Excellency is said to have dissolved even his most beloved silver cup. Amelia said with a look of regret.
I don't know if Amelia regrets that their influence on the Eternal Night Warlords is limited, or if they don't have a chance with the heavy money led by Grand Duke Buck.
Obviously, Grand Duke Buck thought that the initiator of the rise of the Eternal Night Warlord was the Princess Regent.
In fact, it is not only Grand Duke Buck who has this kind of thought, many forces have this kind of thought.