Chapter 168: The Secret of the Kerrigans

After a night of thinking, Jian Chen, who had made up his mind, began to plan for how he wanted to break away from the empire.

Of course, he also knows that this kind of thing is not in a hurry, and when the time is not ripe, rash action will only kill himself.

The most important thing now is to get rid of Mlak's surveillance and strengthen his own force.

Mrak is a famous Imperial general, with a lot of experience and sophisticated methods, and this is really a headache for the opponent.

And the 3,000 troops he sent to Hammondale Town, although he had the intention of being in the center to receive White Cliff Pass and Fort Werning, but more importantly, it was to guard against the alien leaders of Hammondale and to spy on Chen Jian, a very dangerous figure in his eyes.

If Jian Chen dares to make a move, this army will definitely become the vanguard of Mrak's crusade against Jian Chen.

Before there was no way to deal with Mrak and his Emperor's team, Chen Jianjue's self was still a little more peaceful, he only hoped that the Oufu people could fight a little bit now, not like in the last war, they were beaten by the empire and the elven kingdom in two or three clicks.

Chen Jian even hoped that the Ofer Kingdom could attack Hammondale sooner, as long as these Kerrigans fought here, I believe that Mrak would not have the time and energy to care about himself, and he could find a way to win in the chaos and strengthen his own strength.

If Mlak can leave Hammondal, it will undoubtedly be the best outcome.

But this matter is not in a hurry, so Chen Jian still focuses on how to strengthen his force for the time being.

Hammondal's geographical location is really special, if he makes an independent effort in this place, not only will the Erathian Empire not let him go, but the elven kingdom that has always been eyeing this region will not give up.

At that time, if it weren't for the situation, the Elven Kingdom might not have been willing to give up this significant land.

If the Empire had been devastated in the battle with the Ov Kingdom, and if Hammondale had nominally become independent from the Empire, would the elves not have the slightest idea?

I'm afraid that the elven army will appear in Hammondale earlier than the Emperor's team.

And those who are spying on Hammondale are not only the Erathia Empire and the Elven Kingdom, not to mention the Orph Kingdom, which has been at war with the Empire, and the necromancers of Dia have also coveted this land for a long time.

Terrence Rockwin's capture of Hammondale was not an impulsive, blind and brainless act.

After deciding to break away from the Empire, Jian Chen's vision was finally no longer limited to the identity of an imperial lord, and he began to look at the problem from the perspective of a strategic level that he should have achieved now.

In the previous days when he was a staff officer in the Empress Catherine's military camp, he inadvertently learned a lot about the current situation on the continent from the Empress and her staff officers, and learned a lot of things that he should have learned.

On the surface, Terrence Rockwin was to find and excavate the grave of his teacher Kelvin and obtain some treasures and magic books left by Kelvin, and his later performance was indeed the same, but on the other hand, Hammondale was of unusual strategic significance to Deya.

By occupying Harmondale, Deya's necromancers were able to successfully isolate the Elven Kingdom on the continent.

The necromancers and the elven kingdom can be called like the sea, the elven kingdom wants to destroy the necromancer and regain Diya, why don't the necromancers want to destroy the elves and expand their territory?

If it weren't for the fear of the three kingdoms of the Holy Alliance joining forces, perhaps the necromancers would have done it again a long time ago.

And if the Kingdom of Tytalia and the Kingdom of Negan want to go to war with the Empire, the current Hammondale is also a problem that they have to face.

It can be said that Hammondale is a place of four wars, and this situation reminds Chen Jian of Jingzhou during the Three Kingdoms period.

Without strong force, it is not ordinary but difficult for us to hold on to this small territory of great strategic significance to all parties.

And what makes Chen Jian even more helpless is that during the Three Kingdoms period, several major forces competed for Jingzhou, and everyone was still honestly fighting on the ground, this world is good, the air force grabs a lot, and any force can casually pull up a large number of air forces, if there is no strong enough flight force or anti-aircraft fire to suppress the enemy's air force, it is tantamount to a fool's dream if you want to hold Hammondale with the dangerous terrain.

And it's not just a matter of flying troops, Hammondal's population also objectively determines that Chen Jian is unlikely to pull up an army with enough troops in a short period of time.

The more he analyzed, the more worried Chen Jian felt about his future.

If you are not independent, you will definitely not end well, and if you are independent, it seems that the end will be even worse.

Where are you going to find an air force to come out?

After thinking about it for a long time, Jian Chen couldn't come up with a clue, and then thinking about it, Jian Chen couldn't help laughing.

He found that he seemed to be a little too anxious, and now that he hadn't even done it yet, he had already planned what would happen after independence.

"You have to eat one bite at a time, and you have to do everything one by one!" Smiling bitterly and patting his hand at the door of his sore head, Jian Chen picked up the pen and began to write letters to Empress Catherine.

Even if he couldn't pull up a large army, the strength in his hand was still a little more, and after finding that his thoughts were a little out of reality, Jian Chen put away his thoughts and began to face the facts in front of him.

Whether it was to deal with Mlak or the Kregans, it was obviously impossible to rely on a few hundred troops on his hands, so Chen Jian thought that he had to find a way to expand the army.

At present, he is still the lord of the empire, and he is still subject to the restrictions of the imperial decree, and if he wants to expand the army, of course, he must obtain the consent of the empress.

And the Kerrigan invasion undoubtedly gave him a pretty good excuse.

In the name of defending Hammondale against the Cregan invasion, Jian Chen asked the Empress for permission to temporarily recruit militia in case of emergency, as he had done during the last invasion of the Elven Kingdom.

At the same time, Mlak's excuse to suppress foreign immigrants was also moved out by him.

In his letter, he told the Empress that since the new immigrants had just arrived and there was war, and that the number of new immigrants was so large that he was not sure that he would be able to appease them completely in a short time, it was also necessary for Hammondale to organize an army of sufficient troops to maintain stability in the area and to alarm the possible emigration commotion. He also mentioned in the letter that this matter could also be done by the Emperor * team, but Chen Jian expressed considerable concern about Mrak's rejection of foreign races, and was deeply afraid that the appearance of the Emperor * team would have the opposite effect and make the already unstable situation worse.

But if it were a local army with a large number of alien soldiers, the effect might be much better.

And the dwarves stayed and Chen Jian also stated his opinion to Empress Catherine.

In the letter, Chen Jian explained in detail about the fact that he let the dwarves go to Hammondale to open a foundry, and he believed that the empire and the hill dwarves had finally established an alliance, and now was the critical moment to find a way to consolidate this relationship, if the empire took the initiative to let the dwarves evacuate from Hammondale, it would undoubtedly cause a feeling to the dwarves that their investment had been wasted, and if the dwarves were angry with the empire because of this, then everything the empress had done before would be in vain.

Therefore, he thought that the best thing to do was to let the dwarves decide for themselves to stay.

After writing it, Chen Jian immediately sent the letter.

Then Jian Chen began to write letters to the dwarven king Hesfa again.

According to the information provided by Mlak and Mlak's own analysis, in order to prevent the Empire from attacking the Ofer mainland from Hammondal, perhaps the Legan people were already heavily guarded in the direction from Hammondale to Ofer.

And the Krigan want to directly attack the eastern defense line of the Erathia Empire from the Ofer homeland, except to cross Baildes, there is no other better choice, at this time the eastern defense line of the empire has been broken by the Kregans, so in order to ensure the logistics route in Bairders, there must be no small number of Orphan troops.

But what made Jian Chen wonder was how the Ofer army had successfully attacked the empire through Bailders, but it was not discovered by the empire and the hill dwarves, and they didn't even alarm the caravans coming and going on the road.

According to Morgo's report, until the day before yesterday, there were caravans coming to Hammondale from that trade route.

And if the Dwarven King found out about the large-scale military moves of the Oufu Kingdom, with the current alliance between the Hill Dwarves and the Empire, there was no reason why he should not remind the Empress to pay attention to the enemy's actions, let alone inform Jian Chen, whom he called a friend.

The Kregans went from under the noses of the hill dwarves and the Empire, unwittingly advanced to the borders of the Empire, calmly attacking.

How did they do it?

In order to clarify this matter, and to decide the fate of the dwarves who were still in Hammondale, Jian Chen immediately sent a letter to the dwarven king.

After a while, the dwarf king Hesfa took the lead in replying to Jian Chen's letter.

To Jian Chen's surprise, the Dwarf King had just learned about the military operations of the Oufu people.

"My dear friend, you may not believe it, but the truth is that before I received your letter, I had just discovered that the Stone Castle had been surrounded by a group of Orver troops who had come out of nowhere, and they were currently attacking us, and when I received your letter, I was directing my soldiers to fight hard against the enemy, and there were so many enemies, and I looked out on the platform of the Stone Castle, and there was a terrible sea of red as far as the eye could see, and the Legan people were collectively crazy, Under the attack of the flying fire monsters, the platform was soon lost, and we can only hold on to the narrow terrain at the entrance to the castle. ”

"I really don't know how these Kerrigans were able to do that, not at all! I sent two caravans to Hammondale yesterday to buy food, and they must have all fallen victim to the Cregans by now! I can imagine that now that Bailders has become the world of these red devils, the road has been cut off, and my people in Hammondale can't come back even if they want to, so let them stay in Hammondale to help you! I'll write to Malkaem and ask him to take his people under your command for the time being, my people are not only excellent craftsmen, miners, and builders, but also very good fighters, and I trust that they can help you in the battle if the Cregans attack Hammondale or any other accident happens! That's it, my friend, I'm going to command the battle! Thank you again for your help to our family, if it weren't for your strong support in Hammondal, we have restocked a lot of food, I'm afraid we won't be able to survive this time, you have done us a great favor again! I feel extremely honored to have a friend like you! Your forever faithful friend, Hesfar. ”

The dwarf king's letter made Jian Chen even more surprised.

The battle had already started last night on the eastern defense line of the Empire, and the Stone Castle was attacked a day later than the Empire, how did the Legan do it?