Chapter 311: Ice Cave City
"Affecting Ice Cave City?"
Chappell looked at Dane in surprise, not understanding what Dane meant. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Their territory, from White Wolf Castle to Shawan Harbor, belongs to the southernmost part of Sindelare.
The Ice Cave City, which is almost more than 400 kilometers away, is the second largest city north of Sindlaire, and is named after the special ice cave environment around the city.
It wasn't a good place to live, and the environment was harsh. If there is one place in the barren Hindlaire that has the worst soil environment, it is definitely the area around Ice Cave City. In the wasteland, there are some slightly better lands that can be used to grow food near the water source, but Ice Cave City is not among them, and there are no farms around this city.
However, it still has a large population, and has become the second largest city in the northern region, and the main reason is that the ice cave terrain around Ice Cave City is home to some monsters with high hunting value and ice elemental characteristics. At the same time, there are abundant mineral resources in the terrain of ice caves.
Absenteeism, monster hunters, and mercenaries have become the main groups in Ice Cave City, and there are quite a few of them. At the same time, a large number of supporting industries for these hunters, such as hotels, taverns, equipment repair and manufacturing, are also developing quite well. At the same time, as a source of raw materials, there are many caravans that will visit it.
All in all, although the living environment is relatively harsh, it is a thriving town, with a permanent population estimated at 10,000 or 20,000, and if you count a large number of floating population, there will even be a scale of 100,000 people in Ice Cave City.
Ice Cave City is not a place where a warlord has the final say, there are several warlords large and small in Ice Cave City and its surrounding area, and the model is a bit like the former Shawan Port being fought over by Morno and Ma Long, but it is much more chaotic. In fact, Ice Cave City has always been the most chaotic place in Hindlaire, because the interests are most obvious there, unlike other big cities, where the city needs to be maintained. In Ice Cave City, as long as you grab the territory and send people to mine, you can dig up money, which is the easiest resource to compete for.
In such a chaotic and distant place, Chappell really couldn't think of any way to exert influence there, and he even found it particularly difficult to control when he had placed intelligence on Ice Cave City before.
But Dane didn't feel that his idea was whimsical. He said: "Chapell, you should not limit your eyes to us and we can only use military action to influence the situation in other regions. Right now, we have the strongest control in the South, and we are kind of strong in the whole of Hindlaire, and sometimes, we show our attitude by making our voices heard to the outside world, and that's a way of making an impact. ”
"Moreover, we now hold the lifeblood of Hindlaire's maritime trade, and although some of the raw materials produced from Icecave City will be transported by land, there will also be a lot of them that will be transported to us by sea and transported to other places. Isn't there a lot of things we can control? ”
"These are ways to show our impact. Of course, it is unlikely that we will be able to extract too much profit from the turmoil in Ice Cave City from such a distant situation, but at least, we have the capital to speak in the situation in Ice Cave City. ”
"Chappell, I hope you can take advantage of this. I won't ask too much, after all, the geographical distance is indeed objectively difficult, but at least, you need to do something to cool down the battle situation in Ice Cave City. What to do, you can discuss with Verina, who is sitting in Shawan Harbor, anyway, you can try to make the war in Ice Cave City not escalate too quickly. ”
After listening to Dane's words, Chappelle said thoughtfully, "I think I understand what you mean, and I'll find a way to do it." ”
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The battle in Ice Cave City is undoubtedly a precursor to the imminent start of a great war. On the one hand, Dane needs to get Chappell to do something that can cool down the war in Icecave City, and on the other hand, he also needs to continue to strengthen the armament and put it on the agenda.
Now, not counting the troops in Komya, just talking about the line from Fort White Wolf to Shawan Harbor, the number of troops that Dane has has reached the scale of 7,500 men.
The first thing to talk about is the garrison army controlled by Verina.
Originally, the strength of the garrison corps was 3,000 people in two wings, but now, she has merged the garrison battalion and the port guard in Shawan Port to form the Shawan Port Wing, and then counting the previous two wings, the strength of the garrison corps alone has reached 4,500 people.
Moreover, there is also an increase in combat effectiveness.
At the beginning, most of the soldiers in the garrison corps were some temporary recruits, some mercenaries who were recruited, and some second-line security forces in the past. These soldiers, first, are poorly equipped, and second, the quality of the soldiers is also very average; even after training, individual units with good performance may be able to reach the level of ordinary regular soldiers, and most of the others are worse than the regular army.
But now it's different.
After the battle with Governor Conley's Nail Legion on the outskirts of Shawan Harbor, Dane realized that among his elite troops, the use of light infantry was very ineffective, and when fighting some critical battles with difficult combat situations, it was easier for the light infantry regiment to collapse in bad situations, and it was possible to become a pig teammate who dragged its feet.
It was precisely because of this idea that Dane very simply made a new military reorganization plan, and he wanted to replace all the light infantry units in his main army with real main forces.
And as for the light infantry regiments that were replaced, of course, they could not be wasted. For Dane's main army, they are a burden, but for Verina, this is a rare treasure!
In any case, these light infantry regiments are regular troops that have been trained for a long enough time, have mastered certain military skills, and have acceptable discipline and the quality of their soldiers. Even if it is at the bottom of the regular army, it is better than those recruit eggs and second-line security teams in Verina's hands.
So, after receiving these eliminated light infantry regiments, she scattered and filled them into her own legions, and the strength of the entire legion was greatly improved.
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