Chapter 299: Urgent Move (Adding Changes to the Supernatural Continent, 5/5)
The crocodiles, who looked very weak and were not taken seriously by the Kingsley family at all, gave them a dull stick on the head.
A fire burned them to the ground, almost annihilated here, Akmesser was full of confidence in front of Stubbin, and he didn't lose the battle, but if he continued to fight like this, even if Akmesser still had one or two hole cards in his hand that had not been fully played, the outcome was still unknown.
This battle is definitely the heaviest loss of the Kingsley family in the past hundred years, and in order to break the formation, it is the most elite and brave part of the Kingsley family who charge ahead.
Tens of thousands of elite soldiers have fallen here forever, and if Grand Duke Buck hears about it, he is afraid that he will stomp his feet in distress.
Most importantly, the ships originally prepared by the Kingsley family were damaged by more than six or seven percent, and in the next invasion of the Swamp of Despair, they had to rely more on the Cummins family.
The more you rely on them, the more you will extort them according to the pirate family's consistent nature.
Fortunately, it is not without gains, the price paid by the crocodile people is not smaller than theirs, and what is consumed alive is also the most elite and bloody part of their clan.
They shoulder the spirit of a nation, and without their support, the crocodile people may not be able to resist such a tough battle.
Then there is the small abacus of the Cummins family, which exposed them in advance and lost the opportunity to sneak attack the Eternal Night Commander, which made the situation in the Swamp of Despair even more complicated.
But things have already happened, and it is useless to say more.
Akmaiser is not the kind of person who is greedy for words, and after expressing his dissatisfaction a few words, he turned the topic to the cooperation between the two sides.
The two sides work together to eat the swamp of despair, which is the most important thing at the moment.
However, for Akmaiser, the most important thing is to lick his wounds, repair his team, and reopen the road with the Carthusian army leader, so that the follow-up food and grass supplies can be brought up.
The fierce battle for three days and three nights in a row was a challenge and an ordeal for any army.
Both the Kingsley family and the crocodile people are already overloaded.
It's just that one side is fighting against the water, and if you don't enter, you will die.
On the other hand, they are backed by their homeland, and if they can't defend it, they will be wiped out.
If it had been changed to a normal state, it would have been defeated long ago because of the collective psychological collapse of the soldiers on one side.
When the clenched breath was loosened, all the soldiers were like they had collapsed, or yelled excitedly, or roared wildly, or howled, and some even had a complete psychological breakdown and fell into half-stupidity, half-madness, and so on.
Without a period of trimming, it is really a question of how much combat effectiveness they can exert themselves.
Stubin really wanted to go it alone, but without the cooperation of the Kingsley family, the sailors they accompanied the ship really went ashore, and it was not enough for the crocodile people to stuff their teeth.
Their big ships have become their biggest obstacle again, not to mention that the various branches cannot enter, even the banks of the Danube River, they dare not get too close.
The only thing that can be done is to show off your might on the Danube, intimidate and intimidate the crocodiles, and touch the water of the Danube by the way.
Otherwise, it would be a tragedy to wait until the real fight breaks out and be lured into the shallows that look deep.
Another full-scale invasion of the Swamp of Despair will have to wait for the Kingsley family's army to adjust.
However, with such an invincible armada crisscrossing the Danube, the west bank of the Swamp of Despair was inevitably cut off from the crocodiles, and if they were not defeated, there would be no way to subdue their homeland.
When the Commins fleet sailed into the Danube River and the news of the defeat of the crocodiles reached the Eternal Night Commander, all the Eternal Night Commanders were taken aback and immediately overjoyed.
"That old pit viper is really calculating, eighty percent of the reinforcements he invited were coming for us, but I didn't expect it to be a pig teammate, but it fulfilled us to the letter, hehe, I see if those elders can still bear it now. "Even a rough man like Andes Tiger Tagore, who doesn't like to use his brains, at this time, has seen through the layout of Archduke Buck at a glance.
However, by mistake, the situation that had been somewhat broken for the Eternal Night Commander was completely reversed and became the most beneficial for them.
The formidable fleet brought by the Cummins is certainly a new threat, but it is far less than the good side.
Originally, when they faced the Kingsley family simply, even if they were at a disadvantage, the crocodile people always had a fluke mentality.
They really can't bear it, they still have a water advantage, they can retreat to the Danube River, and entangle with the Kingsley family on the river.
It is precisely because of this mentality that they have always refused to bow their heads and refuse to ask the leader of the Eternal Night Army to help.
If it continues to be consumed like this, the elite of the crocodile people will be completely depleted, and at that time, it will be a little meaningless to ask the Eternal Night Army to take action.
In fact, the Eternal Night Commander has already prepared for the worst, and is ready to use some inferior means, such as using the elders who have been bought by them to lie about the military situation, and invite himself to enter the game.
However, this method, unless it is absolutely necessary, the Eternal Night Commander does not want to use it.
Now that the Cummins family has joined in, it is different, their powerful fleet has directly shattered the last psychological defense line of the crocodile people, making them feel powerless and desperate.
In this case, the Eternal Night Leader will be their only option.
"It is worthy of being the ruler of a collar, and the means are really vicious, if it weren't for the lack of tacit understanding between them, we would only be afraid of a big loss. "Ben Hebrew, a person with a rich ability to make associations, does not look particularly good-looking, and has obviously thought of the most terrible consequences.
"What's the use of having the best calculations if they don't execute it properly?" McGee the Skullcrusher grinned, "Lord Lord has been telling us to wait, can't we wait for this opportunity?"
As he said this, his eyes had already fallen on Ralph, the first person to lead intelligence in the Eternal Night.
Eighty percent of the news that Sean knew, he also knew.
Seeing everyone's eyes fall on him, Ralph spread his hands and said: "We know that Grand Justice Buck is negotiating with the Cummins family to buy a ship, but they are being blackmailed by the pirate family, but they have reached a secret agreement in private to send a fleet to make a detour from the sea to attack us, but they don't know anything, the Hawkeyes of our Eagle Eye Secret Service are also flesh and blood, they can only see with their own eyes, listen with their ears, and will not do magic out of thin air." ”
"The situation of the Cummins family is too special, very xenophobic, our people have never been mixed in, and the understanding of this family is completely hearsay, and there is nothing from within them, anyway, I don't know about this matter. ”
Anyone who knows anything about the Cummins family knows that Ralph is telling the truth.
Since the loss of the Miracle Peninsula and the exile of this family to the sea, they can only use islands and boats as their home, and many people have never had the opportunity to set foot on the mainland in their lifetimes.
Half of the population is self-reproduction, and the other half is sea raids, and when they get on their ships, there are only two ways to go, either join them or become a dead body and sink to the bottom of the sea.
That's where their pirate name comes from.
The Hawkeyes of the Hawkeye Secret Service, even if they use means to get in, are estimated to be the lowest level of ship slaves, who use iron chains to shake the oars, and have no chance to collect and transmit news.
"Whether the lord knows it or not, send this information over first and see what instructions he has. Erikson, who has a steady temperament, is as steady as ever, "Until then, let's be fully prepared, war is coming, no matter who it is, don't want to snatch the Swamp of Despair from our hands, the Swamp of Despair is ours." ”
"Huh!" everyone couldn't help but shout excitedly, for the coming war, there was not the slightest fear, only frenzy and excitement.
They have been operating in the Desperate Swamp for so long, opening trade, transporting grain, exporting weapons, and helping the crocodiles train new troops, learning for so long, and finally it is harvest time.
Make no mistake, they're not learning, they're just an investment in disguise.
When Sean received the news, he was entertaining the elders of the Andes descendants of Valesta at a banquet.
Because of their colour and ethnicity, the descendants of the Andes of the Byron League usually protect themselves by association, most commonly the Chamber of Commerce.
Because most of the descendants of the Andes are landless, some narrow-minded local lords and nobles do not recognize their identity, even if the land is barren, they are not willing to give it to them.
In order to survive, they can only engage in some menial jobs, and business is one of them.
The Byron Union is now an out-and-out agrarian economy, and in the eyes of the lords, the land is above all else, at least most of the lords, like the princess regent, who advocate the New Deal and pay attention to commerce, but the minority is a minority, and they are deviants, even if they are in high power and want to implement the New Deal, it is also a lot of obstacles.
No one wants to engage in the dangerous business of doing business unless absolutely necessary.
In these years, traveling far away is an extremely dangerous thing, a little careless, it will never return, let alone running around the world with goods, there is no running single gang at all, the person who does this, the grave grass has long been one person high.
Gathering in groups and doing business collectively is the right way.
That's what the descendants of the Andes did.
However, compared with the largesse of the Eternal Night Army, he took the high-end route of luxury goods and established his own restaurant shop.
The descendants of the Andes of the Byron League undoubtedly ran some of the unprofitable businesses, most of which were not looked down upon by the noble agents, and the most inconspicuous and risky businesses were just for the sake of making ends meet.
They don't dare to get their hands on those businesses that come too quickly, wealth is a very dangerous thing for them, not to mention those lords and nobles, even those ruffians and hooligans, they can take the lives of their whole family at will.
Looking for legal protection?
That's right, in the legal text of the Lancelot royal family, it is clearly stated that they are free men and have the same status and rights as the Byronic people.
But the law is still enforced by people.
Since human factors are involved, there is no real fairness and justice.
These Andesian descendants have long understood this, so they have been living carefully and humbly.
When they heard that there was an Andes, a man of pure blood from the Andes Mountains, who had been canonized as Princess Regent and became a Baron of the Eternal Night.
You can imagine how ecstatic they are in their hearts, running to tell each other one by one, looking forward to it.
This kind of mood is not just as simple as the promotion of relatives from the same race.
And because they see hope in it, and they see hope in it.
After all, there is a natural connection between the two sides, they don't expect this Baron of the Eternal Night to do anything for them, as long as they don't discriminate against them, at the critical moment, they will be satisfied with the justice they deserve, and the rest they can create with their own industrious hands.
They originally thought that this was just a small thin leg, after all, the position of baron was innumerable in the Byron Alliance, especially in Valesta, where a stone fell from the sky, and if it hit a random person, it could be related to the lord and noble.
But judging from the momentum that this Baron of the Eternal Night came to Valesta, there is no way to measure it by ordinary barons, even those earls with real power who have a history of hundreds of years may not be able to make such a big battle.
These descendants of the Andes were happy and a little worried.
The greater the strength of the Barons of the Eternal Night, the more power they can borrow from it.
But for the same problem, the stronger the other party, the higher the threshold, and they may not be able to look at them.
If the other party doesn't want to see him at all, all his excitement and excitement will be in vain.
This concern reached the extreme after the other party rejected his invitations one after another.
If they don't see hope, they might be willing to go on and just go on.
Now that I see the dawn and hope, but I pinch it out vigorously, it's hard to accept.
The only thing to be thankful for is that the kind of refusal of the Baron of Eternal Night is not a contemptuous refusal, but the kind with other intentions.
When Valesta opened the shop, he had already shown kindness to the descendants of the Andes, and many of the staff of the store were recruited from among them, and the salary given made many Byron people even more jealous.
This is something they could never have dreamed of before.
Therefore, when Sean sent out the invitation, naturally all of them were absent.
The banquet organized by Sean was not a very popular buffet banquet among the nobles of the Byron Alliance, both men and women, holding wine glasses, casually chatting at the banquet.
Eating and drinking are only insignificant entertainment, and the main purpose of communication, conversation, and secret trading is its main purpose.
Sean doesn't like this kind of banquet very much, and always feels that this kind of banquet is a little alienated and wary, and everyone wears a layer of masks.
He still likes the feeling of being gathered at a table.
But it's not an aristocratic oak table.
That kind of table is often three or four meters, and some are even more than ten meters long, and the older the family, the longer the oak table.
I don't know when the making of oak tables was strictly regulated among the aristocracy.
Not only are there regulations for copper, silver, gold, and hollow patterns, but also for size, which are closely related to the family inheritance time, lord rank, and the number of clansmen.
If the oak table used for the family dinner is not of the right size, it will be ridiculed by everyone, and eighty percent will be branded as an indecent name such as nouveau riche.
However, one thing is certain, the longer the family has an oak table, and the current record holder is undoubtedly the Lancelot royal family.
Sean had the privilege of visiting the oak table, and from one end to the other, even agile waiters could walk for hours.
If you sit at opposite ends of the table and talk, you probably have to shout loudly.
It is said that this table, the highest record, can accommodate one hundred and twenty-three members of the royal family at the same time, sharing dinner.
This kind of table is not so much a dinner table as an extension of power.
Eating on this, not only is there a strict restriction on the seats, but even all kinds of etiquette are clearly stipulated, and there must be no excesses.
Sean is now also eligible to have his own oak table, which can reach the kind that is two to three meters long.