Curris City, the largest city on the west coast of Mizusawa Country, is located northwest of the Endless Swamp. Although it is known as a big city, it is only compared to a country like Mizusawa Province that is not developed. Mizusawa is a country that is very dependent on aquatic creatures, and the citizens of the beast tamer clan and the witch clan are all used as their slaves by domesticating aquatic creatures in their production and life, as well as in military combat, and there is a complete system for cultivating and domesticating aquatic creatures. The witch clan and the beast tamer clan are extremely ancient races in Middle-earth, they have long been accustomed to breeding on this Mizusawa continent, and they are not very interested in exploring outward, and they are very content with the status quo.

The reproduction mode of the Mizusawa country is destined to be underdeveloped in science and technology for races like them, for example, in terms of navigation, they have always been in the most backward state. It owns almost the entire western coastline of the continent, but it has not exploited the sea, and its shipbuilding and navigation technology have been stagnant, and it is not as keen on sea competition as Shenlong Island and Alchemy Country. Despite this, Mizusawa Province is not lax in its defense of its own coastline, although its fleet is vulnerable in front of Shenlong Island and Alchemy Country, it has a complete coastal defense system, through the construction of dikes, sluices and various military fortifications, these are a great deterrent to enemies who dare to invade Mizusawa Province from the sea.

But this kind of passive defense is too bloated and doesn't make much sense! You can defend against the enemy for ten years and a hundred years, but what about a thousand years? The initiative is always in the hands of a potential enemy! The coastline is too long, and it is impossible for the people of Mizusawa to spend a lot of manpower and money on the construction and maintenance of coastal fortifications for a long time, and if the enemy does not attack, these coastal fortifications will be wasted and become an obstacle to economic development. What can you do if you build the Great Wall? As soon as the enemy breaks through a gap, the entire line of defense collapses. These fortifications are dead, but people are alive, and no one can maintain a high level of vigilance over the entire coastline for a long time with high intensity, and the defense budget does not allow this. To put it simply, the fortifications you built for a billion gold coins, if the enemy does not attack your fortifications, this money is spent in vain; Or if the enemy wants to break through this fortification, it will not cost so much at all, maybe only one percent, one-tenth of the investment, you can make the defense line you have spent a lot of manpower and money to build into a decoration. Therefore, in the real national defense defense, danger and fortifications are secondary, and the key lies in the comprehensive national strength and comprehensive combat strength of the whole country, that is, soft power, in-depth defense capability, and national cohesion.

That being said, given the current situation of Mizusawa Country, this is the only way to guard its coastal defense border. Therefore, the 300,000 Shenlong Island Expeditionary Force led by Carllow, under the cover of the Shenlong Island battleship, broke through the defense line of Mizusawa Province from Curris City, and used this as a base point to advance to the endless swamp depth of Mizusawa Country. Without warning, the enemy suddenly appeared in front of him, and the witch clan of the Mizusawa country was defeated one after another, and the territories of many sub-clans fell one after another, including the territory of the Xiangjing clan where Elder Iona was located, which was also occupied by Shenlong Island. But Carlo didn't want to occupy the swamps of the Witch Clan, for the Dragon, these desolate swamps were of no value at all, their first goal was the Brimstone Ring, and the other purpose was to help the Abyss Hell Clan contain the Witch Clan's army, so that the Mizusawa Kingdom would be attacked on the eastern and western fronts.

Although Carlo's offensive was extremely sharp and achieved significant results in the early stages of the war, it was a very risky and even stupid move to fight on the territory of Mizusawa Country. The defense ability of the Mizusawa Country is the first in the Middle-earth world, and the swamps in the territory are everywhere, and it is almost impossible for the armies of other powers in the Middle-earth world to move an inch here, and there has never been an army outside the Mizusawa Country in history that has been able to completely conquer the country.

Therefore, the operation of the Shenlong Island General's Mansion, from the perspective of grand strategy, is a failure, Shenlong Island itself still has the old enemy of the Alchemy Country, and he will set up a strong enemy by himself, and he will also drag his own Shenlong Island into the endless quagmire of war, and the Alchemy Country will not miss this opportunity to launch an attack on Shenlong Island in retaliation for the devastating blow of Shenlong Island to the coastline of the Alchemy Country a few years ago! The Mizusawa country is not as weak as Shenlong Island imagined, especially the witch clan after several years of change, absorbing many alchemy countries' technology, tactics and war concepts, using their own in-depth defense to resist step by step, using deep space to disperse Carlo's expeditionary force, and using the terrain advantage of their home field to launch a magnificent guerrilla tactic with Carlo's army.

Carlo had to add another 300,000 troops to the Mizusawa Country, looking like he was determined to win, and their confidence was not only that the comprehensive national strength of Shenlong Island was higher than that of the Mizusawa Country, but also that they had the powerful ally of the Abyss Hell Clan as an echo. Although the Witch Clan has the ally of Fuxing City, which is equivalent to having the support of the Fifth Legion, the entire Alasia Empire has been dragged down by the army of the Abyss Hell Clan, and it is too busy to take care of itself, where can it still manage the Mizusawa Country?

However, the Alchemy Country's response was so swift that Carlo was greatly surprised, he originally thought that the Alchemy Kingdom's fleet would intervene in the operation of Shenlong Island at least two months later, which was the regular war mobilization time, and according to his own calculations, two months after he launched the war, the Alchemy Kingdom would enter winter, the sea would be frozen, and it would be impossible for the fleet to leave the port. However, the Alchemy Country's combat preparedness has never been relaxed, and they don't need to get any information from other countries at all, because they have the most powerful intelligence system in Middle-earth, the Swinging Spaceship, and every move of the Shenlong Island army is clearly monitored by the Alchemy Country's Swinging Spaceship, and it only took a few days to complete the assembly and mobilization of the fleet, and go south to launch an attack on the waters of Shenlong Island.

That's what Carlo didn't expect. The sea fleet of Shenlong Island is not without hole cards, and the Abyss Hell Clan made a promise to the General's Mansion to assist them in dealing with the fleet of the Alchemy Kingdom at sea, so there is the appearance of the ghost ship, and Shenlong Island is actually indirectly allied with the ghost ship of the undead clan.

With a population of only about 100,000 people, Curos City is considered a large city in Mizusawa Country. There are magic guilds in the city, but the magic tower is only three floors, and the magic guilds in the entire Mizusawa country are very backward, because the magic apprentices who are not too talented in the Mizusawa country are relatively weak, and the basic conditions are relatively weak, and the enthusiasm of the people of the Mizusawa country to become a magician is not very high, and from top to bottom, they have always thought that magic does not contribute much to the water town of Ze like them.

Coors City is a mixed city of witches and animal tamers, many witch tribes have their own industries in the city, and many witch men live in the city.

Now the city is very chaotic, the army of Shenlong Island has not been able to fully control the city, but only controls the city's port, city hall, industrial chain workshop, military workshop, warehouse, main traffic base and other important measures, Mizusawa City's urban military and civilians are still using their own way to resist the invaders persistently.

Modolik's fleet captured the port of Curonian City and controlled the sea area near Cours City, but he had no marines and could only rely on the port for defense. The already chaotic situation in Curs City has become more complicated and delicate due to the intervention of the Alchemy Navy, a third-party force.

The Mizusawa side still can't figure out the intentions of the Alchemy Nation fleet for the time being, because Modolic attacked the port controlled by Shenlong Island, and did not make other moves against other targets in the city, the Mizusawa side temporarily maintained restraint on this fleet, and they are also following the principle that the enemy's enemy is a friend, and if they can not make an enemy, they will not make an enemy first, but if the Alchemy Kingdom's fleet is here to take advantage of the fire to rob, that is another way to say. In short, until the situation is clear, Mizusawa will not have too much hostility towards the Alchemy Kingdom's fleet.

The view of the garrison of Shenlong Island is completely different, the Alchemy Country and Shenlong Island are old enemies, and now they have directly destroyed the army and warships guarding the port, obviously coming at themselves, and the enemy they are now facing is only the military and civilians of the Mizusawa Country, and there is a powerful naval fleet, and this fleet has cut off their sea communication with Shenlong Island, and the expeditionary force of Shenlong Island is in trouble.

Higg asked Modolik's fleet to deploy defenses in the port of Curonian City, and then left. He didn't go directly to the Magic Guild to recover his magic power, but first went to the Thieves' Guild branch in Curos City.

"Your Excellency!" Palermo, the branch leader of the Curonian Thieves' Guild, carefully identified the gold badge of the Thieves' Guild given to him by Schlyzer handed him, and after confirming that it was correct, he didn't dare to be careless, and said respectfully, "The general assembly will send an adult to the branch below, is there any urgent mission?" ”

"I need a map of all the military deployments in Coors City and the Endless Swamp!" Higg said unceremoniously, "When will I get it?" ”

"Military deployment situation map?" Palermo was taken aback and hurriedly said, "What do you want this picture for?" We, the thieves' guild, have never been involved in military and political affairs, although we have some information, but it is all passed on by word of mouth, the information is scattered, we only select the intelligence records that we think are useful, key information, will be sent to the general assembly, where did the drawings come from? ”

"You should know that don't talk too much if you shouldn't ask!" Higg glared at Palermo and said coldly, "I only give you three days to summarize all the information and draw a map of the current state of the military situation, and the map should mark the latest information of each stronghold and each legion, including your views on the information you have, and your prediction of the movements of each legion!" ”

"Three days?" Palermo gasped, if it is just a military deployment, it is enough to mark the army number on the map, but to add how many people are in a certain legion or stronghold, the military structure of the legion, who is the commander-in-chief, who are the main generals, what they want to do here, what is the next move, this is definitely a huge project, you know, the entire endless swamp is fighting, and it is impossible for any general to stay still, not to mention the military intentions of a legion according to the informationPalermo was embarrassed and said, "My lord, this is really ......"

"If you can hand me the map in three days, all the members of Coors City will be credited with it!" Higg interrupted Palermo and said, "I can introduce you to the Elder!" ”

"Really?" Palermo was almost unsteady on his feet, feeling flattered, and hurriedly said excitedly, "In three days, I will definitely hand over the map to the adults!" ”

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