Just like Deathwing, there are many mages who have rushed from all over Middle-earth to the land of heaven, Lelouch's welcoming attitude has obtained a large number of excellent mages for him, and he has no nationality and race, in this mage recruitment activity, Lelouch even recruited a large number of elf and orc mages, and there are many dwarves, but the most are still humans, but as said at the beginning, although humans are omnipotent, they are very average, so although the number of human mages is the largest, but among the top teams, humans are not much different from the number of mages of other races。

Under the encouragement of this set of talents, the research disadvantages that had been troubled in the early stage were solved at this moment, these mages may not all have a sense of identity with Lelouxiu's forces, but this does not prevent them from doing everything they are doing to contribute to the development of the human race, and Leluxiu does not need them to have too much sense of identity, after all, they themselves are doing what they like, and they must have enthusiasm for work.

Coupled with the environment provided by Lelouch for them, now it is probably the only place in the whole of Middle-earth that treats them so favorably, they don't need to deal with Lelouch anyway, this concept of talent is somewhat similar to the modern earth, talent can be shared, and scientists have almost no concept of nationality.

The development of the Magic Academy has entered the formalization, and after the development of the magic crystal, the homeopathic and Steam City cooperated to create a steam robot under human control, Lelouch deepened the manpower advantage of the Magic Academy, and then chose to continue, to carry out some new academic research, Lelouch gave them no restrictions on their research, but specified some general directions, so that although they could not get special development, but it would not limit the research direction of the Magic Academy, and to be honest, every time the Magic Academy came up with results, Lelouch would have a sense of expectation of gambling to open the box。

The matter of the Magic Academy has come to an end here, and after the completion of the first two years after the steam revolution, Lelouch feels that it is time for the empire to move, there is no strategic deterrent weapon in this society, what do you want, as long as your fist is big enough, then you can get it, Lelouch now has the land of heaven and the central province, the sacred mountain range next to it is still in full swing of bloody battles, and the elves next to him are like bamboos in the inland sea, but with the fusion of Lelouch and Kelgen, the elves have unconsciously increased the elven troops located at the junction。

The elves, whose power has been greatly increased, are now able to send more legions, and the elves have recruited no less than 100,000 new legions among the elven remnants of the Inland Sea, and most of these new legions have been sent to the border between the Heavenly Lands and the Forest of Angres.

These people have not had a comradeship with humans, so they are full of business, and these things are not painful, Lelouch does not have any ideas, after all, it seems that in the next few years, or even ten years, the possibility of a break within the coalition is very low, and now it is just to prevent it.

Leluxiu's real goal is still the land outside the central province, the black land is hot in the inner Mordor, Lelouch doesn't want to care, let alone get into it, the inland sea is the sphere of influence of the elves, then the next last open space, there is only the gray swamp sandwiched between the black land and the inland sea, and Leluxiu's goal is the gray swamp, the geographical environment of the gray swamp is still more suitable for human survival, but it needs a large area of wasteland and flat land, and the gray swamp is full of water enough for humans to reclaim a large area of land.

And now there is a war in the gray swamp, in which the beastman clan has risen strongly, spreading war throughout the gray swamp, Lelouch feels that he should now directly participate in it, and bring the entire ash swamp into the rule of the empire, for this Lu Xiu has already ordered his staff to make detailed plans, these plans plan the entire human race in the next few years, the road to rule the entire gray swamp.

The ash swamp is different from the central province, where the land is flat, it is at the doorstep of the human core, and the centaurs on it are weak, so humans can quickly control the entire central province, but the gray swamp is different.

In the ash swamp, there are countless people of all races, their population base is huge, although it is also divided into countless small tribes, but this does not prevent them from treating the ash swamp as their home, and the most important point is that the creatures living in the ash swamp are mostly non-human, if Lelouch wants to turn the ash swamp into human territory, then the treatment of these alien races needs to be carefully discussed, but no matter how it is discussed, in the end, it is nothing more than killing!

There is no compromise to talk about, whether it is Lelouch or the aborigines, either Lelouch chooses to give up the Ash Swamp, or the Aborigines choose to give up their homeland, these two options are impossible for both sides, so in the end, only one party completely gives up, it is possible, Lelouch can be gentle at first and slowly encroach, but when the Terrans gain a foothold in the Ash Swamp, Lelouch will let these aborigines of the Ash Swamp see what it means to burn the plain.

"Your Majesty, in the first batch, we plan to send a total of 20,000 garrisons and 5,000 religious guards, as well as 150,000 voluntary immigrants recruited by the entire empire. ”

Declan carefully introduced the composition of the first batch of advance teams, the total number of people added up to nearly 180,000, if you add some local humans in the local area, then the number of the advance team is enough to 200,000 people, this number is very huge, after all, 200,000 people can do a lot, not to mention that they are still in the prime of life, whether they are the aborigines of the Gray Swamp or the imperial immigrants, they all have extremely strong combat effectiveness, and Lelouch in order to let his advance team gain a firm foothold in the Gray Swamp, but he did not hesitate to directly approve the special case of a musket per person。

That is to say, in addition to their own weapons and equipment, each soldier of the advance team army will also get a musket, these muskets are generally large-caliber, whether it is a short gun or a long gun, the power is extremely amazing, and not only in the ranks of the soldiers to promote muskets, even immigrants are all equipped with muskets, these immigrants can no longer be called immigrants in theory, should be called armed colonists.

"The arrangement of the whole resettlement plan is to establish a castle-type town based on the periphery of the ash swamp in the early stage, plus twenty village forts, to form the initial settlement base, and then the central provincial capital will send a large number of construction teams to ensure that the first single railway track will be built within three months under the condition that the whole line starts at the same time, so as to ensure that the large-scale migration from the empire to the gray swamp is prepared. ”

"How long will the total implementation period of this initial plan be?"

Lu Luxiu asked curiously, and Wang Zifeng hurriedly answered: "We estimate that this initial plan will take a total of six to nine months, and it will be completed in 12 months at the latest. ”

"And we've already secured land rights to the outlying races of the local Grey Swamp, and they've allowed us to enter their territory and settle for a year of 50,000 men and a thousand black iron weaponry. ”

Decres picked up the words after Wang Zifeng finished speaking, and Lelouch nodded with satisfaction when he heard these arrangements:

"Well, very good, since the planning is very good, then rest assured and bold to carry it out, I will be here in the White City, waiting for you for a year, I hope that after a year, the empire can officially start large-scale migration to the gray swamp. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Finally, after obtaining the permission of the highest right, the 180,000 armed colonial teams that had been prepared for a long time embarked on the journey, this scene is like the picture of the United States after the establishment of the United States, migrating to the prairie in the center of North America, the huge team marched on the vast land, on both sides were countless escort troops, and the migrant teams in the middle used various carriages and ox carts, carrying full supplies to the distance, these people who could voluntarily sign up themselves had a strong sense of exploration and pioneering spirit, especially when each of their families and no one had a musket in their hands, they were even more confident。

Each of them has received paramilitary training, it can be said that they themselves are a second-line reserve soldiers, they pick up the gun is a soldier, put down the gun is a builder, this team can be seen as 180,000 immigrants, can also be directly seen as 180,000 troops.

The migration of humans to the Grey Swamp soon made the entire already extremely tense Middle-earth even more tense, the elves accelerated the progress in the Inland Sea, and the Beastman clan, which had long regarded the Grey Swamp as a forbidden place, intensified its frantic expansion, but the other natives who stood on the opposite side of the Beastmen obtained a large number of weapons and equipment provided by the Terrans without further expansion of the land, including many weakened versions of inferior muskets.

This makes the beastman's biggest advantage, the physical advantage is greatly smoothed out by firearms, which makes the beastman very angry, but in the face of the powerful human race, the beastman now does not dare to directly challenge Lelouch, they choose to temporarily endure, and hope to be able to catch up with the human race before they gain a foothold in the gray swamp, the gray swamp will become their own complete sphere of influence, and when the time comes, whether it is to fight or make peace with the human race, they will be more free and confident.

Now the situation of the gray swamp is the crazy expansion of the beastmen, the aboriginal alliance got a lot of military aid from the human race after selling a piece of land, and the colonial team of the human race is in the outermost dense forest, began the construction of their new home, the aborigines here have long left, even if they have not left, the vast majority of them are human remnants, these people Lelouch is still very welcome, after all, they are also natives here, the geography of the gray swamp, they must be very familiar with it, which has a great effect on the future expansion of the plan。

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Ash swamp.

The gray swamp is actually a large continuous swamp, and the reason why it is called the ash swamp is because he has been shrouded in the gray swamp miasma for almost many years, so there is such a name, the gray swamp was the core land of the beastmen at the beginning, but with the rise of Mordor, the beastmen in front of Mordor during the Maharaja's period, not even ants, were directly purged, killing the beastmen not one in ten, under this tragic slaughter, even the most hardened race, will grovel, for the continuation of their race, the beastmen became the vassal of Mordor, and the trolls were actually provided by the beastmen for Mordor。

And when Mordor was raging all over Middle-earth, the Grey Swamp was not interested in occupying it because of its harsh geography and sparse population, but only symbolically sent a legion to garrison it here and no longer managed, and this also became a good place for races from all over Middle-earth to flee, almost saying that as long as they arrived here, they could avoid Mordor's oppression, although the living environment of the Grey Swamp was as harsh, but at least God could only accept them.

This is the strange ecology of the gray swamp now, the beastmen live in the southernmost part, while various other immigrants live in the center and the north, a hundred years is enough time to turn them into the aborigines here, everyone thinks that the gray swamp should become their home and land, there was still Mordor pressed before, and now Mordor is busy fighting a civil war, and the beastmen, who have lost their oppression in an instant, finally began to plan for a hundred years, they want to take back the entire gray swamp, and the attitude of the beastmen towards other species is very simple: either become slaves or die！

This practice is even more brutal than Mordor, and Mordor will at least give you a choice of untouchables, and now the beastmen don't even have a choice of untouchables here, and the other aborigines naturally don't do it, so the gray swamp fought so happily, and in this context, the 180,000 human colonists came to the gray swamp.

On the periphery of the gray swamp, a team of wood spirits shuttled through the dense jungle, male warriors with horned bows vigilantly looked around, carefully protecting the caravan in the middle, they came from the more distant central area, to the territory of the human race to exchange supplies, although the large army of the beastmen were blocked in the north of the central area, but there were also a small number of guerrillas of the beastmen, and other natives with bad intentions, in this gray swamp, there was no law and reason to talk about, the only thing that could be talked about was the sword and fist in the hand。

"Elder, we have seen the human castle, we have arrived!"

(End of chapter)