Chapter 212: Parting Ways
With the ice tactics of the Ice Elemental Army, the combined forces of Roger and the Changzong family easily defeated the water army of the Nine Ghost Family, and even further occupied the Toba Fortress.
However, when Roger proposed to continue the attack on Toba Castle, the people of the Chozong family raised objections.
"Your Excellency! No kidding! Being able to completely destroy the Kumano Water Army is already a great victory, and there is no need to attack Toba Castle again! "Nagamune's family is still Yoshida Masashige who came forward to "negotiate" with Roger, but looking at Yoshida Masashige's red-eared appearance, people who don't know may think that the two sides are arguing.
Although in fact, the two sides are almost on the verge of dispute.
"Why, it's all at this time, does the Changzong family still want to retreat?" Roger said very calmly, but the irony in his words made the blood pressure of the people of the Changzong family continue to rise. "In any case, it is already a fact that we have completely wiped out the water army that the Nine Ghost Family relied on to become famous. You and I and the Nine Ghost Family have naturally become mortal enemies, is it possible that the Sect and my family plan to wait for the Nine Ghost Family to recover, and then watch them come over to settle accounts after the autumn? ”
"Of course not!" Yoshida Masaki shouted, "But our army is a water army!" There is no ability to storm the city at all! Even if it is filled with human lives, there is no way to capture this Toba Castle of the Nine Ghost Family in a short period of time! In case other families send reinforcements at this time, it is not a very easy situation to solve if you are attacked on your back! Such an obvious thing does not outweigh the losses, of course my family will not do it! ”
"I see." The corners of Roger's mouth curled slightly, "However, Changzong's family does not have the ability to attack the city. But I have it at home. It's just a garrison of 2,000 people, but my family can easily take it. ”
This. Yoshida Masashige is of course well aware that in the final stage of the total destruction of the Kumano Water Army. Those powerful air elemental creatures that flew out of Roger's ship were definitely capable of easily defeating the defenders of Toba Castle. But Changzong's family originally just wanted to show the strength of their own family, but they didn't mean to offend the Nine Ghost family to death.
You must know that the Nine Ghost Family and the generals of the Oda family in the past have a very close relationship, and the Nine Ghost Moritaka of the Nine Ghost Family is also the retainer of the old turtle of the Tokugawa family. Once the Toba Castle, the home of the Nine Ghost Family, is really captured, not to mention the Tokugawa Family's legion, just the Fukushima Family and the Ikeda Family, who have a good relationship with the Nine Ghost Family, will be enough for the Nagasho family to have a headache.
"Goo, if Your Excellency really wants to attack Toba Castle with his own will, then I can only forgive my family for not accompanying me!" Yoshida gritted his teeth. Finally, he said this sentence.
"Oh, it looks like the Changzong family is going to break the contract, right?" Roger stiffened his face, and Kerr, who had been closing his eyes behind him, opened his eyes suddenly, and Wendy, who was floating in mid-air, sneered and began to condense lightning arrows.
Yoshida Masashige suddenly felt chills all over his body, and the people of the Nagazong family behind him also nervously pulled out the sword in their hands. Although Kerr and Wendy look like two weak girls from the outside, the generals of the Changzong and my family, who have seen two elemental heroes slaughter in the water army of the Nine Ghost Family, dare not underestimate the two of them.
"Zhengzhong, step down, you've done a good job." A sigh came, and a young general in a kimono slowly walked out of the generals of the Chozong family. And the generals of the Changzong family lowered their heads one after another, and Yoshida Masashige also lowered his head and moved his position.
"If Your Excellency has any requests, please say them, I am a family member of my sect. It's all right! The general looked at Roger's excessively young face and said with a sigh.
The situation is stronger than people, and it is now. The former governor of the Changzong family also had to bow his head.
"Refreshing, I don't want much. The ships of the Nine Ghost Families are all mine, and I want ten more ships. Of course. I want a big ship. Roger looked at the true head of the Changzong family and said with a smile.
However, his smile, in the eyes of the people of the Changzong family, is probably similar to the devil's smile.
"Good!" Without waiting for the generals behind him to protest, Changzong and my Sheng Qin directly nodded in agreement. In fact, he originally thought that Roger would make even more excessive demands, but Roger just lightly asked for all the ships of the Nine Ghost Family and ten ships of his family, which really made him breathe a sigh of relief.
After all, ships or something, rebuild it's okay. Now that the water army of the Nine Ghost Family has been destroyed, relying on the strength of the Tosa Water Army, the Changzong family is already enough to protect itself.
The premise is that it is not a strongman like Roger or a general who offends the Tokugawa family.
In the face of Roger's coercion, the generals of the Changzong family saw that the "former" family governor of the Changzong family had already succumbed, so they naturally agreed to go down the slope.
There's no way, Kerr and Wendy behind Roger haven't dispersed the elemental energy in their hands yet.
Now that the opinions of the leaders of both sides have been agreed, the next handover of ships is naturally completed smoothly.
Standing on the ship in the distance, looking at the Qi Elemental Legion that had already begun to attack Toba Castle, the Mori relatives of the Changzong Department sighed very lonely.
"My lord, I'm really sorry, it's my subordinates who don't do their best! Please forgive me! Yoshida Masashige knelt at the feet of Nagamune's Mori and kowtowed again and again.
"Get up, Masahiro, it's not your fault." Changzong and my son shook his head, "Although the process is a little tortuous, my purpose has been achieved. ”
"Huh?" Yoshida Masashige looked up in some shock.
"Although I am afraid that no one will care about the existence of my family in today's war, the Kumano Water Army has indeed been destroyed. My family can pretend that this matter has nothing to do with us, and then quietly attack the city and plunder the land on the four countries, and restore the rule of the Changzong and my family. A smile suddenly appeared on the face of the head of the Nagazong family, "Moreover, the general of the Tokugawa family, I'm afraid there won't be that idle time to take care of my family." ”
"I see! Worthy of an adult! It's so clear! Yoshida Masashige immediately began to pat his ass, and although he hadn't figured it out yet, it didn't affect his sycophant kung fu at all. And his sycophants were obviously shot very coolly, and his laughter could be heard all over the ship.
"Enthusiastically" sent away the people of Changzong's family. Roger immediately asked Wendy, who couldn't wait, to attack the city.
Toba Castle and Toba Castle are not far away, and the defenders of the castle have long known that Toba Castle has been captured by the enemy. The demoralized defenders did not resist much at all, but only symbolically released two waves of arrows. "Protecting" the Nine Ghosts Shoulong directly abandoned the city and fled, which made Wendy, who was bent on making meritorious contributions, very dissatisfied.
However, this alchemy city was finally occupied by Roger, and Roger immediately came down and began to build a teleportation array relying on the core of the alchemy city. In fact, that's the real reason why Roger had to build this city. If this Toba City is not an alchemy city, Roger would still have to find an alchemy city to attack, so that he can establish a teleportation array and mobilize the troops gathered in the inner city.
With the help of Wendy and Kerr, this large teleportation array was quickly built. As soon as the teleportation array opened, a fiery red figure immediately rushed out of it. Pounced directly on Kerr. No need to look, Roger also knows, it must be a rabbit.
Even when he was adrift at sea, he didn't have a rabbit that was separated from Kerr, and this was the first time he had been separated from Kerr. No way, there need to be at least two or more elemental heroes in the inner city to be able to control the elemental legion smoothly in Roger's absence. And Tuna, who is an Earth Elemental hero, will definitely not get on the ship, so the rabbit has to stay in the inner city with Tuna.
And after the rabbit, it was Alice and her group. After saying hello to Roger, Alice and Roger went with a group of sailors to receive the ships of the Toba Valley. Although those ships will act as bait. But the decoy also had to be as powerful as possible to attract the attention of the defenders of Edo Castle and the Edo navy.
After Alice, there were the eighth-order excellent swordsman troops and the eighth-order angel troops, which were Alice's Praetorian Guards, and naturally they had to follow her closely. Then came the major units under Alice's command. After these powerful troops were gone, Sakurahime appeared on the teleportation array with Hattori Sayuri and others.
Sayuri Hattori, who followed Sakurahime closely, glared at Roger viciously when she saw Roger. No way. Ever since that conversation between Sayuri Hattori and Earth Spirit that day, Roger has been avoiding Sayuri. Relying on the plug-in of [Eye of Knowledge]. Sayuri couldn't find a chance to be alone with Roger in more than a month, and was so angry that Hattori Sayuri, who had always thought that her ninjutsu attainments were not low, began to wonder if her ninjutsu cultivation had regressed. Otherwise, how could Roger never be caught.
Sakurahime walked to Roger's side very naturally, standing behind Roger like a guard, and Sayuri and Xiao Ming naturally followed closely.
This made the Naga Sword Saints who appeared from the teleportation array look at Roger very dissatisfied.
"I said, this shouldn't be my delusion, right? How do I feel like these nagas are going to cut me all the time? That look is completely murderous! Roger said with a wry smile.
Sakurahime immediately blushed and lowered her head, while Hattori Sayuri said nonchalantly, "Ann la, a!" These Naga Sword Saints are very well-behaved warriors, and they won't make a move against you, who is the lord! Also, that look is very normal, after all, for these kendo saints, your strength already has the qualifications to be challenged by them. ”
Sayuri is of course fooling Roger, which Roger actually understands himself, and he is more or less clear about the reasons for this.
In the Sea Clan, women are respected, and in the eyes of these Naga Sword Saints, Roger, who is a man, is actually standing in front of Sakurahime, which is already a great rebellion! But Sakurahime, who is the person concerned, has been following behind Roger without saying a word, and Roger still has the name of "guardian" on his head, and the Naga Sword Saint who has a scar on his left eye standing at the forefront of the Naga Sword Saint troops barely suppressed the anger in his heart, but his eyes at Roger have always been very unkind.
In this regard, Roger really couldn't explain anything, so he could only honestly bear the murderous eyes of the Naga Sword Saints.
These Naga Sword Saints were obtained by Sakurahime after the establishment of that mermaid city, at Roger's suggestion, after taking the initiative to communicate with the Blue Scale Clan and other members of the Sea Clan.
For the sea tribes in the deep sea, Sakurahime provides this place to trade with the land race, which is really exciting for them. After all, this harbor of the Shimazu family. It was the forefront of trade between the merchants of Yingzhou and Elia. Here, the Sea Tribes can easily obtain a lot of the supplies they need. He was also able to freely sell all kinds of products from the sea to the merchants of the Elia Continent and Yingzhou, which really made the leaders of the three major sea clans ecstatic.
Naturally. Sakurahime, who provided the city as a trading place "free of charge", was unanimously approved by the leaders of the three major sea clans, and these Naga Sword Saints were gifts from the Naga clan.
Compared to the ordinary four-armed Naga Sword Saints, the eighth-order Naga Great Sword Saints with a total of five hundred are all awakened six-armed Nagas, and their strength is enough to fight hundreds of rounds on land with the outstanding swordsmen who are also eighth-order!
It's definitely a great gift.
And immediately following the Naga Sword Saints were seventh-order mermaid warlocks who numbered two thousand. The mermaids from various mermaid clans saluted Sakurahime and Roger before heading to the Toba Cave with the Naga Swordmasters.
Although their strength is only seventh-order, these mermaid warlocks are the ace troops of the mermaid clan, and their special ability is "Mermaid Song". But the terrifying ability to control hostile forces on a large scale. The value of these mermaid warlocks is even higher than that of the Naga Sword Saint. If it weren't for the fact that Sakurahime was a mermaid royal family, the major mermaid clans would really be reluctant to withdraw these troops.
Despite being able to go ashore, these Sea Clan warriors were more accustomed to resting in the sea, so the port of Toba no Ka was the right place for them to stay.
In addition, the sea elves sent out ten heavily armed dragon whales. These behemoths have actually been following Roger's fleet closely, but for the sake of secrecy, these dragon whales are lurking in the deep sea. It's just surfaced now, and I'm playing with the blue-scaled dragon whale.
Unlike the Naga and the Merfolk, the Sea Elves have always been sparsely populated, which is why they send these dragon whales. After all, the sea elves are also one of the three major sea tribes. Therefore, despite the blood dripping from their hearts, in order not to lose face in front of the other two races, the sea elves still sent these sea trump cards worth no less than the other two races.
Wait until all the Sea Clan troops are out. Next up is Roger's Elemental Army. In order to meet the decisive battle, Alice and Roger are pouring out. And now the inner city. It was handed over to the Sword and Rose Mercenary Group, which took over the task of temporarily defending the city. Compared to the Iron Blood Mercenary Group, most of them are Sword and Rose Mercenary Groups of half-elf members. Apparently better at defending the city, that's why Alice gave them this task.
However, the Sword and Rose Mercenary Group originally thought it was going to guard a border city, but after passing through the teleportation array, they were stunned to find that it was a Yingzhou city that needed to be guarded.
After the last elemental hero, Tuna, emerged from the teleportation array, Roger gave Melia the task of maintaining order, and then gathered all the high-ranking generals and began the strategic deployment of the attack on Edo Castle.
"Sayuri's clever empty action has failed, everyone already knows this." Seeing that everyone nodded, Roger continued. "But they also found out that the leaves of the World Tree are indeed in the castle tower of Edo Castle now, so we can only choose to storm Edo Castle now. In addition, Sayuri and the others did not gain nothing, and they successfully found out the deployment of Edo Castle. ”
As he spoke, Roger slowly spread out a map, although it was a little rudimentary, but most of the structure of Edo Castle was clearly drawn on it.
"In order to gain the greatest advantage in this campaign, I have decided to divide all my troops into three legions, led by me, Alice, and Sakurahime." Roger said, glancing at everyone.
Because of the construction of that mermaid city, Sakurahime, who is now the lord of the alchemy city named "Sakura City", is the only person who has the qualifications to lead tens of thousands of troops except Roger and Alice.
"Then, this army on the sea will be under the control of Sakurahime." Roger pointed to an arrow on the map at sea, and then looked at Sakurahime.
"That's fine, but I'm going to join the assault force attacking Edo Castle." Sakurahime nodded, but made a request. And without waiting for Roger to object, she plugged the possible gaps, "Under my leadership, Kerr in charge of the Water Elemental Legion has the ability to communicate with the Sea Clan and the Dragon Whales, so don't worry that I'm not there, it will lead to confusion in command." Rather, it would be more appropriate to hand over all the command to Kerr, after all, I have no experience in commanding large armies. ”
Looking at Kerr beside him and nodded, Roger agreed to Sakurahime's request, and then he looked at Alice: "Then, the army responsible for storming Edo Castle on land will be led by you, Alice." ”
"Don't worry, leave it to me, in terms of the experience of the Great Army, I don't think I will lose to your few elemental heroes." Alice confidently took on the task.
Only then did Roger remember that Alice had been taught by several of the Holy Spirit of the Gelaru royal family, and her experience in this area was probably much stronger than that of Kerr and others, who had only led the Elemental Legion.
"The last one, then, is the assault force that breaks into Edo Castle." Roger glanced at everyone present, and took over the command of this unit, "I have the ability to transform into a holy beast, and I will definitely be able to complete the task as much as possible in the event of any accidents, so the command of this assault force is mine." ”
Aisha, who was standing next to Roger and holding the fireball, couldn't help but roll her eyes: "This is the most critical task, if we don't agree with you to go on an adventure in person, you will secretly follow it." ”
Everyone burst into laughter, and Roger himself shook his head with a smile. When everyone's laughter stopped, Roger slammed his fist on the map.
"Alright, I hereby declare, the decisive battle, begins!" (To be continued.) )
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