"Chapter 199: Tempting the Kingdom"

Outside the city of Grandel, the kingdom's position, where more than 30,000 kingdom troops are now stationed. In the ten years of confrontation www.biquge.info tents outside the city have been built into rows of houses, and the fence that was built between the two sides is now a wooden wall, like a national border separating the Free Cities Alliance and the Subic Kingdom. The legion of the kingdom stationed here, which was originally used to attack the alliance at any time, also cultivated land on the other side of the wall, recruiting bankrupt farmers to help them farm, and ensuring that they could be self-sufficient even when they were far from the interior of the kingdom. Merchants who saw business opportunities also came from nearby cities, and every once in a while they brought wine and other goods that were not easy to get here, making a profit of 120 percent. Within ten years, scattered small traders had even set up improvised shops in the camps, and the officers of the army were fully permitted to do so, as long as they paid enough taxes.

In previous days, before the beginning and end of the month, merchants from the Free Cities League would come outside the walls to trade with the soldiers with certain goods that were forbidden in the army, and the officers of the kingdom would turn a blind eye to these goods after receiving enough "gifts". Over time, there will even be carriages from different places with some "stumbling women" to the barracks to give appropriate "condolences" to those soldiers.

Even as the kingdom's follow-up troops arrived here one after another, even as the atmosphere of war grew heavier, those troops who had most of the experience of garrisoning here still acquiesced to certain rules, and the merchants of the alliance continued to sell forbidden materials to the enemy, driven by huge profits, including those holy water ordered by the great consul Li Xiaopan. It can be said that although this is the border between the kingdom and the alliance, it was also a smuggling place on the border between the two sides before the war broke out.

On the border wall, the soldiers of the kingdom who were patrolling and standing guard stood at their posts, constantly talking to the soldiers next to them. It wasn't that he deserted, but because today was the day that came only twice a month, and today, some merchants from the Alliance would bring horses and camels to transport magical beasts, and bring those stimulating drugs and delicious food that the Alliance only had, and with it, maybe a woman in a caravan and a fat boss with a smile on his face. The soldiers were very excited when they thought of the stimulation of the drugs and the embrace of the women, which were not available in the barracks, especially the women, whom they hadn't seen for more than a month, and even their superiors were a little hungry and thirsty.

In their anticipation, some figures finally appeared from the distant side of the city, walking towards them.

"I'll open the door." When a soldier saw the figures and the procession, he immediately prepared to go down and open the door. And their captains were delighted, especially the ones that could make the soldiers relax all day long (a very light drug, a not-so-good specialty in the woods near Grandel, which hallucinates and makes people feel comfortable and relaxed. Although the physical damage to people is limited, it will make people who are not strong enough collapse in bed all day and cannot get up, so it is forbidden by the armies of all parties. He is out of stock.

However, he soon realized that something was wrong, because the number of people on the other side was a little too much, and the team was neat, not at all what the caravan looked like. He immediately stopped the soldier who had come down from the wall, and then ordered the other soldiers to ring the alarm.

"Damn the officials, fighting again at such a time." The squad leader walked down the wall in an insulting manner, calling for more troops to come up. According to his thoughts, this is the nonsense of the officials of Grandel, the two sides have been constantly attacking each other to obtain information over the years, and every time this kind of thing happens, the trade and smuggling between the two sides will stop for a long time, so this makes him very unhappy.

But what the officer didn't know was that he was right to scold the official, but the person who caused the military temptation was not in Grandel City, nor had he been to Grandel City, and he was sitting at the table at the base camp of Tibetan Soldier City at this time, eating steak and waiting for news.

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Tibetan Soldier City, Training Camp.

In today's training camp, the soldiers who were originally going to train stopped their original schedules and stood all over the training camp playground as seriously as standing guards, and on the playground, several puppets would let the dummies be placed there, and on the bodies of these dummies, they were also tied with armor of different specifications, and on a nearby table, there were some melee weapons and crossbows.

"My lord, these are the military samples sent by Grandel, and they are all standard for the regular legions of the kingdom." Meron stood beside me, introducing me to the armor and weapons.

"Very well, what are the results?" I nodded and asked.

Now we have reached an internal agreement that we can launch an attack on the 30,000 men stationed on the border before the Kingdom army can support them, weaken them as much as possible, reduce our pressure in the event of a possible major war in the future, and maybe get the Kingdom to make concessions to us if the situation is good.

So I instructed the Grandels to send a small force to attack the kingdom's positions and spy on the kingdom's intelligence. Of course, the Grandels retreated quickly in this battle, but we also got some important loot, such as the equipment that came standard with these Kingdom troops.

"The armor that comes standard with this kingdom unit is of average quality, and its defensive performance is slightly better than that of a level 2 militia leather armor, but our archers can easily shoot through it." Meron put down the armor, which was full of hollow bows and arrows, and pointed to a much better piece of armor tied to the straw man.

"This armor is worn by officers and elite soldiers, and its armor ability reaches 3.5 points, which can effectively protect against the arrows of ordinary Alliance archers, and has good defense against our low-level archers, and can effectively protect against long-range bows and arrows with lined chain mail, but tests have proven that they do not last long under the attack of arquebus salvos and sister marksmen. Moreover, barbarians in close combat can easily cut through these armors. ”

Meron led me through the pillars and dummies to a piece of armor that looked very thick, and his tone became heavier.

"The only threat to us is these heavy cavalry of the kingdom, they wear very thick and heavy armor, and their strength is generally that of low-level warriors, and the power of the charge is amazing, and the hordes of skeletons cannot resist it at all. And the defensive effect of these armors is also very good, archers below level 4 can't shoot through without skills, and the 50-meter penetration effect of the arquebus is also very average, only the musketeers can do a shot through, but the kingdom's garrison has more than 5,000 such cavalry, half of which are such knights, which will have a great impact on our skeleton legion. Mei Long said to me.

"Then bombard them with cannons, shoot them with musketeers, send them flying with giants, and kill them before they reach our troops!" I pulled out my pistol and fired three shots in quick succession at the armor, leaving three holes in the armor.

"Mei Long, prepare the troops, maybe they are strong, but they can't stop us!"