Chapter 326: Confrontation
Although the Council of Elders of the Crocodile Tribe, the Crocodile Elders have withdrawn the Crocodile from the West Bank as much as possible.
However, the disadvantages of their weak control were undoubtedly exposed at this time, and many relatively small or remote villages and gathering places were not notified at all, let alone those wild people who were not under their rule in the first place.
Whether on the east or west coast, more or less, there will be crocodiles left.
The Kingsley family didn't have the time to take care of them before, but now that they are in need, they naturally think of them.
"Send people back to the border city and recruit mercenaries, the price is double the last time. Once again, Akmer turned his mind to the original League of Criminals.
I used them as cannon fodder once last time.
This time, because the Kingsley family was more well prepared and pushed all the way, they didn't spend money to hire them.
Now that there is a shortage of cannon fodder, naturally they are the first to think of them.
Due to the reputation of the League of Criminals, even if they are already under the rule of the Kingsley family, there are still many criminals who come to defect every day for one reason or another.
Perhaps out of the desire to march into the swamp of despair, he was reluctant to make a difference.
Perhaps, if necessary, the idea of being able to recruit a force of mercenaries.
The Kingsleys did not set out to rectify the League of Criminals.
Now it seems that this choice was the right one.
There is no problem in using heavy rewards to collect thirty or forty thousand mercenaries.
Compared with the crocodiles who drove in, this is a high-level cannon fodder with some combat effectiveness, and there are many brave people among them, who may be able to bring a lot of surprises.
"Do you need to discuss this matter with Your Majesty?" a general reminded in a very weak voice.
"I see. Akmaiser's face darkened, and he waved his hand, and there was an impatience in his tone that could not be concealed.
This kind of thing, in the past, Akmesser had absolute control, after all, this is the concept advocated by the Kingsley family, what can be solved with money, priority is spent on solving it, especially on the premise of reducing the mortality rate of its own elite soldiers.
However, with the widespread use of the Messenger Eagle, this control in the hands of Akmesser has become smaller and smaller, and in cases where it is not particularly urgent, it is necessary to ask Archduke Buck for advice first, especially when a large amount of money is used.
What's more, Grand Duke Buck is now close at hand, on the Dragonship of the Cummins family.
Hastily ending the military meeting here, Akmesser headed straight for Stubbin's Dragonwreck.
The two families are advancing by land and water, the distance in a straight line is no more than five kilometers, and it is a squad operation, so Akmaiser naturally does not need to detour the original road.
Akmaiser told the Buck Grand Duke the situation he had detected in the past few days: "There is no better strategy at the moment, and in the end we can only take the road of attacking the city with ants, but with our current manpower, it is difficult to gnaw this hard bone, even if it is gnawed hard, it will cause heavy casualties and affect our next plan, so I think, should we pull a mercenary from the border city over as the vanguard of the siege." ”
"The difficulty of the Eternal Night Leader is far beyond our expectations. Grand Duke Buck let out a long breath, nodded and said, "You are the supreme commander of the Eastern Army, you have the highest decision, you decide this matter, I will fully support it, not only can mercenaries be recruited from those border cities, but also from the grain transportation team from the Bryan family, you can also promise heavy profits to see if you can recruit some brave people from them." ”
Akmaise's eyes lit up and said, "Your Majesty has thought it through, and maybe you can really get some help from them." ”
In these years, most of the people who walked out to do business were a little brave, or had special guards, and these merchants were very profitable, as long as they promised heavy profits, there was nothing they did not dare to do, including going to the battlefield.
Anyway, what the Kingsley family needs is siege cannon fodder, quantity rather than quality, regardless of whether their combat effectiveness is good or bad, even if it helps to consume a few more arrows from the Eternal Night Army when the time comes, it will be good.
If it weren't for Grand Duke Barker's reminder, Akmesser really hadn't thought of this piece.
Perhaps Grand Duke Buck had already taken this step into account when he lured them to come and deliver food with heavy profits.
Take one step and look at three steps, this kind of thing, Grand Duke Buck can't do it.
"In addition, I will send a message to the territory, and organize a group of 50,000 slave soldiers to come out, plus 20,000 elites, and I will definitely take this brother port at once at that time. Grand Duke Buck pondered for a few seconds before continuing.
"Yes. Akmaiser was overjoyed, he had just wanted to ask for a mercenary, but he didn't expect to get a reinforcement army, and a lot of reinforcements.
If this series of troops is gathered, the number of elites and cannon fodder that can be mobilized in his hands will exceed 250,000.
If he didn't have the confidence to take this city, which was less than a third of the way built, he wouldn't have to mess around, and he would have resigned.
There are disadvantages and benefits for Grand Duke Buck to accompany the army.
The disadvantage is naturally that Akmesser will feel constrained by many parties, many things that can be decided by himself, he has to go through another formality, if the opinions of both sides can reach an agreement, it is good to say, if he can't reach an agreement, it will be bad.
Although Grand Duke Buck is more rational to let go most of the time, there are times when he is stubborn, and it is still difficult to reverse, every time it makes Akmesser very headache, and he can't tell him directly, you can play politics, but in war, you are really far behind, so don't command blindly.
The advantage is that in the current situation, he can directly observe the battlefield, have a more intuitive feeling, and give more support.
With the follow-up support promised by Grand Duke Buck, Akmesser was in no hurry to storm the city.
Build camps outside of Brother Port, clear roads, build safer logistical supply lines, or transport them from the rear or cut down logs from further afield to build siege equipment.
In terms of recruitment, three sides are out.
The forces mobilized from the Carthusian army did not need to be worried about by Akmaiser, and they were just waiting to be received.
However, the matter of sending troops to drive away and collect the crocodile people as cannon fodder and hiring border city leaders and Black people as mercenaries still requires him to personally send people to Zhang Luocai.
As time went on, the Kingsley family gathered more and more troops outside of Brother Port.
The Kingsley family at the same time as frequent movements.
The Eternal Night Commander is not idle, not only is all kinds of material resources being transported continuously, but the part of the brother port that has not yet been built is also stepping up construction.
Grinding guns in battle, not fast and light.
It's a little bit more to be able to build now.
"We can't just sit here and wait, can we? "Andes the Tiger Tagore, who was crouching at the head of the city and looking at the Kingsley family camp, said whimsically.
The previous sniping on the river beach was an appetizer for him, and it was not enjoyable at all.
"You stay honest, it won't be long before there will be endless battles for you, and if you don't want to fight, you won't be able to do it, now your hands are itchy, go to the arena and find someone to talk to. Sean rolled his eyes angrily, not taking his brainless opinion to heart at all.
The Eternal Night Commander knows that the Kingsley family is now deploying troops to prepare for the siege of the city.
But there is nothing to do but wait patiently.
Compared with the Kingsley family's Eastern Army, the three main legions led by the Eternal Night Army are elites, but the number is too small.
The crocodile tribesmen were injured in the bloody battle at the mouth of the Wuyin Lake River before, and the rest of the army let them help defend the city wall, and it was okay to release arrows.
Drag them out to fight a field battle with the Kingsley family, they can fight, and the Eternal Night Leader is not at ease!
Previously, they were able to rely on the terrain to snipe at the Kingsley family, but now they have as few snipers as possible.
Because no one knows if this is the bait that Akmaiser threw down to lure them into the bait.
There were already three crocodile soldiers, who had been ambushed by Akmesser and eaten in an attempt to rescue the driven people.
Although the Eternal Night Army Leader has air superiority, Sean is alone, facing an army of 100,000 people, he has no skills, and can only focus on the big target, and the small situation still depends on the parties themselves.
Now that the situation has been reversed, it is not the Eternal Night Army Leader who consumes the Kingsley family's living force, but Akmaiser who is trying to consume the Eternal Night Army Leader and the Crocodile Clan.
Compared with the siege of the attached ants, especially the attack on a fortified city, Akmaiser prefers that they go out to fight a field battle with him, even if it is a high casualty rate, he also admits it, after all, no matter how large the casualty rate is, it is impossible to be greater than the siege of the attached ants.
"That's not possible, even if I find someone to talk to, I have to wait for my rotation to finish. Tagore said in a very principled way, "I'm just talking, and it's not illegal to talk about it!"
"If you don't change your teachings, sooner or later you will suffer in the mouth cannon, you go and get busy with yours, I'll just go around casually and leave in a while. Sean didn't give Tagore any good looks.
This guy has now completely integrated into the Eternal Night Commander, and he is still doing well in other aspects, but he has the problem of mouth cannons, and he has not changed his teachings.
Sometimes the popular ones can't wait to hang him up and smoke twice.
But those who know him know that when he speaks, he doesn't use his brain at all, and if you get angry with him because of this, it's purely because you can't find it yourself.
"How can it be done, you are the lord patrolling, I, the city defense general, have to follow, what if I find fault?" Tagore shook his head repeatedly.
"You're driving me away in disguise!" Sean squinted at him, feeling that he was a fault-picker when he came here.
"How can it, it is our honor for the Lord to come to the front line to inspect. Tagore was visibly insincere.
"Don't talk nonsense here, this sentence is true or false coming out of your mouth. Sean scolded with a smile, "In this regard, you are professionals, if I find faults, it will really add to the chaos, I am not here to inspect the defense, but I have encountered problems in research, and I have come out to wander around and change my mood." ”
"Oh?" Tagore looked like he believed you were a ghost, and followed behind Sean's ass step by step.
It's not that I'm really afraid that Sean will find fault, but this is the front line, what if the other party sends an assassin to assassinate him?
The tall city walls can stop ordinary people, but they can't stop those big knights and champion knights.
Although this kind of thing is very rare, after all, Sean's appearance here is a completely temporary decision, but there is nothing wrong with being careful.
In peacetime, the defense of Brother Port is presided over by the commanders of the three main army corps led by the Eternal Night Army, with the Military Staff as an auxiliary.
Although Sean is now in Brother's Port, he rarely interferes in this matter.
There is a specialization in the art industry.
It's not that he doesn't have talent in this area, it's that there are so many things that need to take up his energy that he doesn't have more energy to devote to it.
Instead of blindly commanding half-heartedly, it is better to delegate power to these generals, and they only need to firmly grasp the overall situation and coordinate and supervise various departments.
If it weren't for the fact that the black collar was very arrogant, and he wouldn't let anyone other than himself ride it now, Sean would even want to hand over the aerial reconnaissance.
Fortunately, there is good news from the Institute of Biological Anomaly.
Seven Sunset giant eagle eggs nourished by the energy reactor chamber give birth to reactions.
After receiving the news, Sean also flew back to the Northern Fortress to witness the birth of these little guys who are strategically important to the Eternal Night Commander.
Unfortunately, only three of the seven giant eagle eggs survived, and those four had completely lost signs of life and became out-and-out dead eggs.
To be more precise, they failed to return to the ancient world in the egg and became an out-and-out deformed child, which is commonly known as hairy eggs, and even has no value for follow-up research, after all, it has not been fully formed, and can only be reduced to a nutritional product in the mouth of gluttons.
In terms of nutritional value, they are far above ordinary eggs, even ordinary eggs, put in the energy reaction chamber for two or three months to nourish it becomes extraordinary, not to mention the extremely rare Sanset giant eagle egg.
Fortunately, with the help of people, several Sonset giant eagles have been successfully paired and have begun to lay eggs, which may be the reason why the food is rich enough, and the number of eggs laid is quite large, more than twenty in total, which is enough for the next wave of experiments and hatching under the leadership of the Eternal Night Army.
The three little ones who had successfully hatched out of chaos not only survived, but they all returned to the past as the Eternal Night Leader had expected at the beginning.
However, the three present three distinct states.
One was just born, and it was covered with electric rays, and the whole was translucent.
One is the abnormal air flow around the body, and it is also covered with fluff, so you can glide to it in a fluttering short distance, as long as the wings are a little stronger, it is not a problem to fly directly.
The last one, however, did not display any supernormal abilities, neither thunder nor lightning nor the ability to manipulate the wind, as if it was no different from an ordinary Sunset Giant Eagle.
Of course, this is just as if it was hatched after half a year of nourishment in the energy reaction chamber, and this alone is a bit unusual.
In fact, after a period of time, it was also proved that this little guy who looked the most inconspicuous was the one who ate the most of the three, and the other two siblings had twice the amount of food combined, and it seemed that the magic power on its body was used for growth and development, and in just half a month, its size had exceeded three times that of the other two.
It's not obesity, it's overall rapid development, and the Institute of Biological Anomalies can still clearly distinguish this.
There is such a big difference in a nest, it can only be said that their bloodline is not pure, it may not only be a kind of thunder golden eagle, they may also contain the blood of other birds in their bodies.
However, they are only in their infancy now, and it is still unknown what they will look like when they grow up, and the black collar is just an example, and it does not have much reference value.
On the contrary, the recording of their growth process will become the first-hand information of the Institute of Biological Anomalies to facilitate the subsequent incubation and nurturing of their siblings.
In addition, another reason why Sean personally ran away was to select people and secretly set up another secret unit of the Eternal Night Army, the Air Formation.
The air formation is different from the Night Leopard Marine Corps.
The combat effectiveness of the personnel themselves is secondary, and the most important thing is whether they can adapt to high-altitude work, as well as other factors such as body size.
Fear of heights is sometimes something that cannot be controlled by human beings.
At the beginning, because of the long-term operation of the Thunder Golden Eagle, Sean thought that he had already adapted to high-altitude flying.
As a result, when the black collar was lifted into the air, it was found that it was not the case at all.