Ya knocked out and woke up, and it was just one thing to be busy with the cold water of Skull Island.

Through interrogating the captives, Shui Hanji discovers that the Westbound Fleet's problems are not only the surrender of a group of unplanned captives and the acquisition of a windfall, but also the need to divide forces to send these gains back to the kingdom of God.

Even more troublesome was that they had been delayed at sea for so much time, and the war had already started on the west coast, so much so that the main force led by Hei Shuo had attracted almost all the troops of the Stuart colony to the Western Front.

On the one hand, when formulating the strategy, Hei Shuo underestimated the speed of the advance of the newly formed "Yin Zhongwei", and on the other hand, the westbound fleet was indeed more than ten years later than expected.

Therefore, by the time the westbound fleet attacked Skull Island, the vanguard of the Indian Guards had already captured the town of Iligra, less than two hundred miles from the core city of the Stuart colony, Tavaré.

At this time, it was only twenty years after the landing of "Yin Zhongwei" on the west coast.

In this way, no matter how slow the city guard and the colony group responded, they had already completed the assembly. The Doge's Palace deployed tens of thousands of troops in Candrake, a major transportation route west of Tavaré, in the hope of stopping the "Bright Dogs" that suddenly appeared on the west coast.

The two sides confronted each other over the narrow passage between the town of Iligra and the city of Candrak, which happens to be a river valley between the vast rainforest and has been cultivated by the indigenous people of the Western Continent for thousands of years as their traditional home.

The north and south sides of the valley are dense rainforests, home to alien beasts that even well-armed and experienced adventurers dare not penetrate, and the armies of both sides do not dare to rush through the rainforest, and there is no way around.

The "Yin Zhongwei" was almost entirely infantry, moving slowly, with a lot of baggage, and although the forward assault was very fast, the occupied areas in the rear still needed to be rectified and cleared. Knowing that the colonial army had assembled in Candrake, across the valley, he was relieved to settle down in the town of Illegra and in turn to hold the road from east to west along the valley, splitting the Stuart colony in two.

On the other hand, the colonial army was also glad that the "Bright Dogs" had stopped their eastward advance, and they now only needed to hold the valley and prevent the opponent from continuing to advance, and as for recovering the lost territory, it would have to wait for Londinium to send troops.

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Stuart's army in the colony was really a group of powerless "security army", the colony regiment could only be regarded as a militia, and it usually did the work of farmers, adventurers and mercenaries, and the only people who wore armor all year round were probably the guards in charge of façade decoration in the town. The city guards, who are responsible for the security of the city, are even more unbearable, mostly gang members and idle gangsters, who only do to maintain law and order in the city.

In the Stuart colony, what can really be regarded as a professional military is the guard of a few great lords on the eastern seaboard, at least they are full-time soldiers, who have been training their combined fighting skills and combat skills all year round. However, this group was not only very few in number, but their first task was to defend the territories of the great lords, and they did not accept the conscription of the colonial governor's palace at all.

In the early days of colonial development, Stuart also learned from the lordship system of its southern neighbor, the colony of Castile, modeled on the feudal system, which recognized the legitimacy of individual occupation of land, as long as the lord paid taxes to the principality for the corresponding land.

This kind of rigidity, which does not take into account local conditions, quickly became problematic.

In the colony of Castile, due to the organization and coordination of Count Lee Baptiste, it was mainly based on redemption and less use of military occupation, and the southern part of the New World was vast and sparsely populated, and there were fewer conflicts between colonists and aborigines, and even helped the development of indigenous tribes, which has achieved a win-win situation.

And Castile only recognizes lords of noble blood, the so-called occupation, that is, each noble family sends their own children to lead the family's private soldiers, to the pre-agreed area to establish a foundation, and several neighboring lords can also help each other, everyone may be relatives around the bend.

The occupation of the Stuart colony was very anxious for quick success, so it also caused the source of later contradictions.

As Lee Baptiste's expedition voyage along the eastern coast of the New World, they brought back not only news of the discovery of the New World, but also basic information about the New World from the indigenous people.

According to the expedition's description, the southern part of the New World was a barren and backward wilderness compared to the north.

Therefore, at the imperial capital conference to discuss the distribution of the benefits of the new world, the then Grand Duke of Castile proposed that Castile only need to divide the land south of the Huerdo Mountains, give up all the benefits of other regions, and not participate in the expedition organized by Prince Antony.

The other parties immediately agreed, happily excluding Castile from the expeditionary force.

At that time, on the one hand, the Grand Duke of Stuart sent more than 10,000 legions to participate in the expeditionary force under the banner of joint occupation and joint development, and on the other hand, he mobilized various forces in the principality to form his own expeditionary team, and set the target to the north of the Huerdo Mountains, and those areas that the expeditionary force did not have time to take into account for the time being.

With the advantage of equipment, the superiority of the number of transcendents, and the powerful combat power of synergizing source energy, Stuart's expedition soon defeated the indigenous nations, and reached the de facto occupation of the land north of the Huerdo Mountains and south of the Brand River.

Prince Anthony, who organized the expeditionary force, was dissatisfied, but he had no time to take care of it, and when the expeditionary force disappeared into the western jungle, no one objected to the Duchy of Stuart taking the central part of the New World as its colony.

At that time, in order to quickly occupy the land, Stuart's army directly adopted the strategy of suppressing the aborigines by force, relying on bloody means to control the millions of aborigines living there.

The transcendents who participated in the occupation discovered that the southern colonists of Castile had received practical benefits through lordship, gaining land that could be passed on to future generations. Collectively, they demanded from the Archduke Stuart the same policy as the Castile colony.

The Grand Duchy was a community of interests created by the union of many nobles, and the Grand Duke of Stuart could not disobey the will of the people, so he convened a meeting and simply divided the land in the occupied area.

On the surface, the principle that everyone has a share, but in fact, the Archduke Stuart, who harbored evil intentions, divided the land very smallly, and almost everyone who participated in the expedition got a piece of territory.

Each of the transcendents who participated in the war of conquest was given a share of the land, ranging from a few hundred acres to thousands of acres, but most of them were not able to cultivate such a large tract of land.

At that time, there were very few immigrants to the New World, and out of fear of unfamiliar places, few ordinary people were willing to leave their homeland to seek a living in the New World.

There was a joke in the streets of Tavaré that shouted: "Lord Lord!"

Eight out of ten people will say yes.

In the face of a shortage of labor, the colonists turned their minds to the natives who had just been defeated by them.

As a result, the "lords" of the transcendent went out of their way, capturing the aborigines who had been driven out of their traditional areas of life and hiding in the mountains and dense forests, and forced them to work on their newly established estates.

As a result, the conflict between the colonizers and the indigenous people intensified, and in the following decades, the two sides continued to clash with each other, and the indigenous people launched several large-scale protests.

Later, due to the continuous conflict between the Stuart colonists and the aborigines, many inland areas of the lords died, and no one inherited the land, and the land that was occupied by force was recaptured by the aborigines.

Will there be another large-scale war to purge the aborigines?

Stuart's national power could hardly have been to organize another large-scale war.

At this time, some clever people invented the "colonial group system", since the transcendents who came to the New World to open up the wasteland could not fight against the natives who were several times their size with scattered individuals, then the alliance of dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of transcendents should be fine.

Dozens or hundreds of colonists gathered to form a town to develop the surrounding land, manage the aboriginal slaves together, and share the profits.

The colonial group system was successful, and the united transcendents easily suppressed the natives, and there were too few transcendents among the aborigines to confront the colonies.

Since then, only the eastern coastal zone, due to the convenience of communication with the empire, there has been an influx of immigrants, and the original establishment of some powerful nobles has the strength to protect themselves, so that the lord's domain can be retained. Most of the rest of the territories disappeared during the turmoil, and later became the basis of the colonial group.

Although it was able to suppress the aborigines, the loose militia of the Colony Regiment was simply unable to resist the armies of the Kingdom of Light. When the town was divided and surrounded, these militias were defeated in a battle, but there was nowhere to flee, so they had to be taken prisoner.

However, Heishuo was also more merciful in dealing with these captives and their families, and after the surrender, the Western Sahara Empire chose to evacuate the territory controlled by the Kingdom of Light to the north or south.

Most of the surrenderers chose to flee north across the Brand River to the northern part of the royal New World, rather than south through the Huerdo Pass into the southern part of the New World.

The new conquistadors were only allowed to take with them a cartload of supplies for each Imperial who laid down their arms and chose to leave, and the houses and supplies they left behind were to be distributed among the natives.

Although slavery was outlawed in the Stuart colony after the war thirty years ago, the "smart" colonists continued to employ indigenous people to work in the land using indentured labour.

With the experience of the Stuart colonists, Heishuo naturally did not intensify the conflict with the aborigines, and chose the same soft policy as the Castinians, intending to share the fruits of victory with the aborigines.

The effect was remarkable, just over a dozen years after the colonizer's property was distributed to the aborigines for the first time, thousands of aborigines volunteered to join the Minfu team to help the "Yin Zhongwei" in front of them transport supplies.

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The news that Shui Han got was still one-sided, he only knew that the two sides were facing off on the front line of the river valley, and the leader of the Mirror Regiment had just been requisitioned to Candelak City a few days ago.

What he didn't know was that the Governor's Mansion did not pin its hopes of resisting the Illuminati ** team on Candrake City, but hoped to hold on to Tavare City and wait for local support.

At this time, in the governor's palace of Tavare City, Governor Noitra finally learned the news of the loss of Skull Island.

After learning the details, Noitra was shut up in the house alone and drank alcohol.

Unlike the Mirror Grandmaster who had escaped, Noitra knew what the weapons used by the Illuminated Divine Fleet's assault on the harbor of Skull Island were, the artillery of the Illuminated Divine Kingdom had just been equipped with troops, and from what they had described, the artillery of the Illuminated Divine Kingdom was much more powerful than the kind of artillery they had ever seen.

Neutra once tried the artillery transported from the mainland, but it was just an iron ball from the local artillery, although even the transcendent would break his bones and tendons after being hit, but after all, the range of the attack was only a little bit, and the threat was limited.

However, the iron ball from the artillery of the Kingdom of Light can explode after hitting the target, and in addition to the splashed fragments of the iron ball, it will also produce flames that are difficult to extinguish.

Powerful artillery is still a thing, and more importantly, with such a fleet holding the open sea, the local reinforcements will definitely be intercepted at sea.

There is a mental calculation and no intention, and it is really controlled everywhere.

Count the numbers, and the flying clippers carrying the letter for help should arrive at Lundinium at this point.

Thinking of this, Noitra forced a smile and poured another large sip of wine from her neck.

However, the high hopes of the Governor of Neutra for the reinforcements of the homeland would not have been possible even if it had not been blocked by the fleet that occupied the waters off Skull Island.

The local area is currently overwhelmed.

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Five years ago, the news of the Kingdom of Light's attack on the Stuart colony had not yet reached the Empire, and the flying clippers carrying the news were still adrift at sea.

Due to the blocking of information from the ocean, the news of the war did not arrive, so it did not affect some calculations, and a major event happened according to the prepared script.

Presented to Archduke Stuart's desk in advance was a declaration of war for another war.

It turned out to be a declaration of war by the Duchy of Castile against the Duchy of Stuart.

The event that made the entire empire debate during this period was the bloodshed of the Beijing Office.

The royal family accused the guards of the Duchy of Stuart in the Imperial Capital of attacking the demonstrators, causing hundreds of casualties.

The Duchy of Stuart accused the royal family of attacking the liaison office and killing its staff.

Officials on both sides blamed each other, people demonstrated, and in the newspapers attacked each other, insulted each other, and threatened war.

In fact, it is just a matter of words, and there is no intention of doing it at all.

Unexpectedly, the Duchy of Cashia, which was supposed to be eating melons and watching the drama on the side, unexpectedly issued a declaration of war directly against the Duchy of Stuart.

There are three reasons for the declaration of belli.

First of all, of course, the pirates of the Duchy of Stuart attacked the northern city of Ilga, killing many nobles and thousands of people, and then using gunpowder weapons to kill hundreds of legionnaires, looting the city, and then flying away.

Gunpowder weapons were originally new equipment for the Stuart military and should not have been in the hands of pirates, who must have been in touch with the Stuart military.

Coupled with the fact that Stuart pirates often plundered Castilian merchant ships to and from the New World, the colony's satrapy not only did not send troops to attack, but issued privateer licenses for official recognition, which further confirmed their official background.

Secondly, there is the accusation of the royal family, attacking the envoy fleet, attacking the demonstrators, ignoring the majesty of the imperial co-lords, and repeatedly challenging the bottom line of various countries.

In the end, it is natural to turn to the assassination of the chief assistant of Eichendorf in the curtain year, pointing out that the former chief assistant died in the explosion of a gunpowder weapon, so the principality of Stuart must have been involved in the assassination.

To sum up, it is difficult to settle the country without a war, it is difficult to settle the victims without a fight, and it is difficult to maintain the dignity of the royal family without a fight.

This declaration of war was transmitted to the entire empire through the telegraph system, and the whole country knew about it before Castile's army was deployed.

The declaration of war also roasted the royal family and the Archduke Stuart on the fire, and the two sides insulted each other for more than a month, and the people's worries were pushed to the highest point.

But in fact, both sides have no intention of going to war, and they are arguing back and forth, but they are just cohesive internally, showing strength externally, and expecting the other side to give in first and win a diplomatic victory.

Now the Duchy of Castile jumped out of the "King Qin" and shouted that it would launch a war against Stuart for the royal family, but the royal family had to declare its participation in the war, otherwise it would not be able to account to the people of Gyeonggi and the Northern Regions.

In recent years, the Duchy of Stuart has been promoting the threat of Castile internally, and its people have long regarded Castile as a burden in the final war

Now the old enemy jumped out, and the country was naturally shouting war.

There had been no sword fighting between the three principalities and the royal family for more than two hundred years, and people finally remembered that the empire was not monolithic, and war suddenly came.

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