"Your Excellency is worried about this, it is too far away. Sean laughed and said, "The East Odin Prairie is so vast, one of us is in the south and the other is in the east, even if we eat in one direction, we have to eat for two years, and when our army meets together, it is not too late to discuss this issue, after all, the variables are too great, those remnants of the East Odin Empire are not cattle and sheep to be slaughtered, and the tiger in Ulan Bari will not let us steal his prey." ”

"That makes sense. Archduke Cedric nodded, "We'll leave this issue until we meet on the Odin steppe." ”

Archduke Cedric also knew that plotting against the Odin steppe was not such a simple matter, those Odin orcs fell in front of the West Odin Empire, that was because the two sides were of the same origin, and the East and West Odin Empires were divided, which was a matter of the upper echelons, and had nothing to do with the herdsmen below.

But in the face of the Byronians, they will be the ones who resist the invaders, and will not break their backbones and rule them normally.

"As for fairness. Sean said in a flat tone, "How can there be absolute fairness in the world? What His Excellency the Grand Duke just said is not a human factor, but a geographical factor, which is not something you and I can decide, and naturally we can't pay for it! Therefore, in this regard, I have no way to make any concessions, and the only thing I can promise is that you have the first right to purchase military equipment." ”

"Deal. Archduke Cedric said without hesitation.

He has already tasted the sweetness of the new weapons provided by the Eternal Night Army Leader in the war against the Western Empire, and they can rely on fifty or sixty thousand iron cavalry to conquer the city in the Western Odin Empire, and they are invincible, relying on the benefits of black powder.

In the face of this new weapon, the old city wall, which had fallen into disrepair for a long time, was as soft as tofu, giving the broken blood a chance to fight quickly.

Otherwise, their achievements on the Miracle Peninsula will be quite limited, at best, they will wander around, burning those small towns and towns, and they will have no heart for those large cities.

If you use the old siege mode, not to mention the casualties, even if you want to take a city at any cost, it will take a few weeks at the earliest, and some will drag on for months or a year and a half, which is very normal.

This new weapon is not only a siege weapon, but also a defense weapon.

If the Theodin Empire really takes retaliatory military action, it will have to rely on the benefits of this new weapon.

Although the Broken Blood Castle has been reversed after the first batch of black powder arrived, it has been cracked backwards, but in the past, there was a lack of financial resources, and there was no professional talent in this area at all, everything was started from scratch, and there was no ten years or eight years, so basically don't think about it.

Instead of expecting to do it yourself, it is better to hope for the Lancelot royal family, hoping that they will share technology after they make a breakthrough.

In a short period of time, this new weapon still needs to be imported from the Eternal Night Military Leader.

"I need 100,000 barrels of black powder, which needs to be delivered before the beginning of spring. Archduke Cedric continued.

"100,000 barrels of black powder? Your Excellency is going to wash the floor with black powder barrels. "Sean knew that the Broken Blood Castle would add an order for black powder, but he didn't expect it to be so huge as soon as he opened his mouth.

The barrel here is not a small barrel of twenty or thirty kilograms thrown by an ordinary trebuchet, but a large barrel with a net weight of one hundred kilograms per barrel for ease of transportation and sale.

Archduke Cedric opened his mouth to order 10,000 tons, if all of them were made into black powder barrels for projectiles, there were enough four or five hundred thousand barrels, and just by blowing them up with black powder barrels, they could also blow up the West Odin Empire.

This is the fundamental reason why when Sean and Archduke Cedric just discussed it, they were more concerned about the division of interests, and they didn't have much worry about the monstrous tide of troops in the Western Odin Empire.

The Western Odin Empire has gathered more troops than ever before, but the Broken Blood Fort is no longer the Broken Blood Fort it once was.

Without changing the original war mentality, Ulaanbari rashly waved his troops to attack the Broken Blood Fort, just asking for his own suffering.

Just like Sean speculated, even if there was no Eternal Night Army leader to make small moves from it, Archduke Cedric would try his best to lure the Theodin Empire to attack, and before the secret of the black powder was discovered by the Theodin Empire, it would be extremely lethal and severely damage the Theodin Empire.

"What's the problem?" asked Archduke Cedric, worried.

"There is no problem with the output, mainly because of the transportation, and it will take more than a month for the section of the river in the Andes Mountains to thaw, and the demand is too great to ensure that all the products are transported. Sean discussed, "It's too tight before the beginning of spring, if we can delay the delivery date to a month after the beginning of spring, then it will be foolproof, we can find a way to ship half of it first, there shouldn't be much of a problem." ”

"Then it is decided, 50,000 barrels before the beginning of spring, 50,000 barrels a month after the beginning of spring, only in advance, not in delay!" decided Archduke Cedric, "if I arrive on time, I will pay in full, and the price will be reduced by 20% every night for a week." ”

"Deal. Sean nodded in agreement without hesitation, he was still confident in the Eternal Night Lord's ability to transport.

"Now that we're done talking, let's talk about personal matters. Archduke Cedric laughed, "When are you going to propose to little Sophia?

"This is in the pipeline. Sean patted his chest and promised, "This matter was originally planned, but it was delayed due to unexpected events, and I will definitely give Princess Sophia an unprecedented wedding." ”

"You'd better hurry. Archduke Cedric put pressure on Sean, "Now that the outstanding young people of the entire Byron League are staring at this matter, there will definitely be countless challengers." ”

"Then beat all the challengers. Sean was confident.

"It's best if you have faith. Archduke Cedric laughed.

Marrying the regent princess Sophia will encounter obstacles, and Sean is mentally prepared for this matter.

Anyway, he is also from Andes, and he has many obstacles in seeking a baron in the Byron Alliance, let alone marrying the princess of the Lancelot royal family, once this news is announced, it will inevitably cause an uproar.

In the past, the Eternal Night Army Leaders were barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes, and they didn't care about the fluctuations in the political bureau of the Byron Alliance, at most, they let off their mouths, and it was impossible for them to really bite them.

However, as the economic entanglement between the Eternal Night Warlord and the Byron Alliance becomes deeper and deeper, it is impossible not to pay attention to the impact of this aspect, after all, the Eternal Night Warlord still has to take money from these lords and nobles, and if it attracts the disgust of too many people, it will further increase the difficulty of their economic invasion and expansion in terms of commodities.

This matter still needs to be carefully planned, and it is necessary to find an opportunity to show more muscles to the Byron Alliance, and the importance of the Eternal Night Leader to the Byron Alliance.

When the time comes, it will be the Byron Alliance that needs their Eternal Night Leader, not the Eternal Night Leader who needs their Byron Alliance, and everything will fall into place.

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Barsin savannah.

Once rich and beautiful, it was called the paradise of the Odin orcs.

This winter has been a hell on earth.

The endless Orc-domed tents stretch for hundreds of kilometers.

The neighing of horses, the bleating of sheep, the barking of cows, and the roaring of people constitute a vivid picture of life.

Millions of troops.

It sounds like a simple number, but when it comes to putting it together, it's absolutely scary.

Especially when it comes to the Orcs of Odin.

It represents not only millions of Odin orcs, but also millions of war horses.

On the march and battle on the vast Odin steppe, it is impossible to fight without war horses, even those prisoners of war slaves can also get a substitute horse, not to mention those elite Odin orc warriors, with two horses or even multiple horse configurations, it is normal, because they know the importance of war horses very well, so every time they attack the city, war horses will become one of the materials they focus on.

With an army of millions of Odin orcs, it's normal to have more than double the number of war horses.

The number of cattle and sheep will be increased tenfold on the basis of the strength of the army, and only this base of cattle can barely support the food, drink and consumption of this huge army.

Even with such a large herd, the warriors of the Theodin Empire still attack frequently, because if they sit here and do not move, they will sit and eat empty, not only people have nothing to eat, but even the livestock have already gnawed the ground clean, including the withered grass under the snow, which was also chewed clean by those strong steppe cattle.

If you look down from above, the huge barracks of the Theodin Empire, like a multi-legged monster, lie twisted and twisted in the core hinterland of the Balsin steppe.

Every five minutes, an Odin orc cavalry, screaming, rushed out from any part of the monster, or dozens, or hundreds, or thousands, and occasionally tens of thousands, and rushed into the depths of the Barsing steppe.

What they go to do, they know without asking.

Here they have only one thing to do - hunting.

This time they hunted neither wolves, nor yellow sheep or bison, wild horses, these wild creatures, with an extremely keen sense of smell, had run away long before the arrival of the army of the Western Odin Empire, and the slow ones had already been digested and returned to nature.

There is only one target worthy of the hunt of the Western Odin Empire - the tribes of the Eastern Odin Empire, who share the same faces and common ancestry as them.

In the same way, every five or six minutes, a cavalry roared back, some with a full load, some empty-handed, and some even with a broken army.

The tribes of the East Odin Empire, in the face of life and death, will not be captured, and many brave people and tribes choose to make a fish and die to break the net, which will break the teeth of many West Odin Empire soldiers who come to hunt.

It's just that they can escape once, but they can't escape the second and third times...... If they can't wipe out all the hunting soldiers of the Theodin Empire, it won't be long before they will lead a more powerful encirclement team until there is nothing left of the scum they eat—not all the scum in the truest sense of the word.

The old, weak, sick and disabled were killed on the spot by them as nourishment for the plants and trees of the Balsing steppe in the coming year.

Women and children, the able-bodied, were relegated to slavery and needed not only to serve them, but also to satisfy their personal desires.

The same is true for livestock, which are estimated to survive this winter, and those who are too thin are slaughtered directly, or stewed for meat, or made into military rations.

As for the bloody scenes created by the massacre, it did not affect their appetite in the slightest.

These Odin orcs who still choose to take the initiative when there is no war are the elite of the elite.

The more brave warriors and warriors they were, not only the more spoils they get, the more rewards they get, the more strategic materials they collect around them, the more herdsmen and prisoners of war slaves they have around them, and the more rights they have.

When the time comes, it will be easier to get more and more military exploits, more booty and more rewards, until they are approved by their supreme ruler and granted him a grassland, and then a small tribe of Odin orcs will appear.

For the Orcs of Odin, war is a process of power shuffling.

The rotten, the old and weak, are eliminated in the war, or turned into dung, or become a stepping stone for others to rise.

Brave and powerful, rise through the war and become the new warrior and ruler.

Therefore, many Odin orcs are happy when they hear about the war, because for them, it is a great opportunity to change their lives and circumstances.

After this war, there will be a large number of new low- and middle-level chieftains rising in the Western Odin Empire, and they belong to the Emperor Ulaanbari of the Western Odin Empire, and their loyalty will be much higher than that of the old forces, and they will become the backbone of Ulaanbadin's own empire.

Ulaanbari's all-out war against the East Odin Empire certainly has elements of great success, but it also has its own multi-faceted calculations, whether it is from the aspect of annexing the East Odin Empire or from the perspective of consolidating its own rule, it has far-reaching significance.

Nominally, the lion royal court of the East Odin Empire is the rightful ruler of the Odin orcs and the master of the entire Odin steppe.

Although the Tiger royal court of the Theodin Empire has always refused to accept this, believing that this is purely a personal decision of Queen Miranda, the lion and the tiger have always had the same inheritance rights.

However, it is an indisputable fact that the Lion Court has ruled the complete Odin Empire for hundreds of years, and the years have helped the Lion Court to sit this point in the hearts of the Odin orcs, just as the Odin Emperor is a god in their hearts.

If Ulan Bari wants to break this perception and want to elevate the status of the Tiger Royal Court above the Lion Royal Court, he must dismantle the Lion Royal Court to pieces, step them into the quagmire, and tell all the Odin orcs that the Lion Royal Court is no longer enough to protect them, and the powerful Tiger Royal Court is the best choice for the Odin Orcs.

In fact, the main purpose of Ulaanbari's troops this time was not to unify the Odin steppe, but to have only one goal from beginning to end, that is, to completely exterminate the lion royal court.

As long as the lion royal court is destroyed, he will be completely liberated from the three-legged situation.

Even if you know the risk of being stabbed in the back by the Byron Alliance, it is definitely worth it in the long run.

At that time, not only can it slowly encroach on the East Odin Empire, but even if it sends troops to attack the Byron Alliance, no one will hinder him and hold him back.

The other purpose is to consolidate his rule.

Although Ulan Bari is known as a virtuous person, but the succession time is too short and too young, the internal forces of the Western Odin Empire are intertwined, not to mention other large and small tribes, just the eight core tribes directly under the Tiger Clan's royal court, he can only control three, and the remaining five are in the hands of the older generation of chiefs.

They hold themselves meritorious to the royal court of the Tiger Clan and to Ulan Bari, so that they will not listen to the tune and do not listen to the announcement, but they are also very self-controlled, and the difficulty of mobilizing them is quite high, and many times, there is no temptation of interests, don't expect them to fully support themselves.

These people have been in high positions for many years, and their appetites have already been extremely greedy, and it is too difficult to completely feed them and convince them.

Even Ulaanbazhi, who thinks highly of themselves, does not have the confidence to do this, and it is more direct to use the war to cultivate a new force loyal to them than to be angry with them.