Minahill Harbor is a deep-water harbor in Nanhai County, and its existence has led to the concentration of people in nearby San Jose to live in the city. The presence of the Royal Navy in San Jose has exposed businessmen with a keen sense of smell to various business opportunities.

As a result, the prosperity of Minahir Port even exceeds that of the main city of Nanhai County, and in other areas along the coast, there are only a few small fishing villages and aristocratic estates.

To the southwest of Port Mýný is a flat coastline with a hundred miles of beaches, less than a hundred miles from Minahir Harbour. This large stretch of beach has a name, "Patong Beach". With fine sand and beautiful scenery, it is a holiday destination.

However, in Nanhai County, this Patong beach is not particularly popular, because Patong is already close to the "Odanlok Province", which belongs to the Sanzhi area, and officials in the two counties pay little attention to it. At the same time, although the north of Patong Beach is a plain area, about 50 miles further north, there is a mountain range that separates this area from Nanhai County, and the terrain is very dangerous.

This closed area is what San Jose officially calls the Patong area, and the mountain range in the north is called the Red Branch Stone Forest. The entire mountain range is made up of stone mountains that are fifty or sixty grams high, and look like stone pillars. The terrain of stone forests is not common in the mainland, and not many people know about it.

Due to the strange terrain of the stone forest, it is difficult to navigate, so only a small number of fishermen survive in the entire Patong area, and the nobles and military of San Jose rarely set foot here, even though the bustling port of Minahir is not far to the northeast.

The fishermen of the Patong area, on this day, all felt a huge sense of unreality. However, after a long night, the fishermen who got up early came out of the fish house with their sleepy eyes, and were surprised to find that the sea, which had always been empty, was full of boats parked without knowing what was going on.

They were all large ships several stories high, and the sides of the ships looked neatly at a row of oars, and on the masts up to tens of grams, black flags fluttered, and I couldn't see what the flag was.

On Patong Beach, countless small boats are parked there, like a swarm of ants, and the black crowd is getting down from the small boats and starting to line up. Those people, dressed in clothes they didn't know, were all sturdy men, carrying swords, guns, swords, and shields, and were constantly assembling under the shouts of the commander.

"Woo woo woo!" on Patong Beach, the low sound of horns began to sound, shaking the hearts of the fishermen.

The fishermen who live on the shores of the long southern sea, who have hardly seen anyone outside of San Jose, and even the merchants of the merchant alliance will only go to Minethil Harbor or the main city of Nanhai County to trade.

When they saw this scene, the fishermen's first reaction was that they were from the strange army, the Royal Navy, and what did they want to do?

No one realized that the black banner was actually the royal flag of the Desiks. Therefore, their first instinct is not to leave, but to get closer to find out.

The Desiks, after the landing, the infantry began to assemble directly on the beach, and some war horses were also transported from distant transport ships. After the Desik rangers were fully equipped, they mounted their horses and began to probe in several directions.

When the curious fishermen climbed over the cliffs and came to the beach, they saw a warrior riding a war horse, covered in leather armor and holding a steel sword, and pounced on them viciously. The steel knife shone coldly, so dazzling.

Before the fishermen could react, the rangers rushed up, waving their steel knives and severing their heads, and flew into the air.

The Ranger Captain looked at the corpse that fell to the ground with contempt, and said expressionlessly, "No need to clean up, according to the established plan, immediately find out the enemy situation here until the Chizhi Stone Forest area, the light infantry regiment will rush to the Stone Forest area within a day to set up defenses, our task is very heavy!"

Meanwhile, outside the port of Minethil, General Wellington began to feel that something was strange. After the first day of naval battles, the Desiks did not leave. They kept their fleet more than fifty miles outside the port, more than twenty miles away from the San Jose fleet, and had no intention of engaging further battles at all.

If the San Jose ships approached, they would fight back with trebuchets and crossbows. Wellington even felt that the Desiks looked like they were surrounding their own fleet!

Why did they neither attack nor leave, and even prevented their own fleet from leaving the harbor? Admiral Wellington was so anxious that he could not understand how Desik's fleet appeared on the surface of the Long Sea near Nanhai County. Of course, during the naval battle, the news of the invasion of the Desik people had been sent to Kyoto City by fast horses, and I hope that the cabinet lords of Kyoto will be ready.

Judging from the desperate posture of the Desiks in the naval battle yesterday, they are definitely not casual temptations.

What did they want to do, Desiks? General Wellington's mind was filled with this question all night.

So three days later, when the news of the Desik's landing from Patong in the southwest came, General Wellington felt not shock, but a sense of relief.

The Desikhs landed in the Patong area, completely unnoticed by the nearby San Josés. First of all, because of the large number of small fishing villages by the sea, there is no resistance in the face of the Dersik rangers. The Desiks were so cruel that they spared no civilians in their sight, and in a matter of days, dozens of civilian villages in Patong were slaughtered. During this season, there were basically no nobles in the holiday estates of those nobles, and the few remaining slaves were also wiped out by the Desik Rangers.

This time Desik followed the landing army behind the navy, with more than a hundred transports, almost 30,000 men, mainly infantry regiments, supplemented by a small number of rangers. It was indeed not an easy task to transport these horses to the southern tip of the continent, but the Desik did it. With the help of these Rangers, the landing of the Desiks proceeded unusually steadily, and when the 30,000-strong army was assembled, the Rangers had basically cleared all the San Jose settlements within fifty miles.

Further north is the Red Branch Stone Forest, where the Rangers have cleared the vast Patong area before the San Josens can react. Holding the dangerous place here, they can hold the beachhead of Patong, which can be attacked and defended, and they can threaten the area behind Nanhai County at any time.

This was the Sicilian Plan, landing south of San Jose, occupying a foothold and threatening the prosperity of San Jose. "Sicily" is the ancient Desik word for "landing".

And in the end, it was a small accident that caught the attention of San Jose.

In the Red Branch Stone Forest area, there is a special bird called 'swift'. This tiny bird loves to nest at the top of the stone forest. The bird itself is not precious, but this swift's nest can be eaten, known as beauty and beauty, and is deeply loved by the ladies of San Jose. As a result, a profession in the vicinity was born, the nest seeker. People in this profession can climb up to dozens of hundreds of grams of stone forests without the help of tools, just to find a small bird's nest.

They will use special paragliders and hooks to move between the stone forests, and they can easily move between the stone forests without landing. Therefore, when the Desik rangers galloped into the Stone Forest area, several nest seekers on the Stone Forest couldn't believe their eyes.

Although they were just ordinary civilians in remote areas, those fierce men riding tall horses and carrying shiny steel knives still made several nest seekers feel the slightest bit bad. The top of the stone forest is not bare, and some vegetation covers the top of the stone forest. As a result, several San Jose people who were hiding in the depths of the vegetation were not discovered by the Desik soldiers for a while.

But they couldn't hide for long, and when the two squads of Rangers arrived, more Desik soldiers began to approach the area, and everyone looked up to the south, where a large cloud of smoke and dust had been kicked up in the sky. After looking around, the Rangers selected the three tallest pillars and began to climb them with the help of ropes, as if preparing to set up a lookout post at the top of the tower.

If you don't die, among the towers they chose, there was the one where the nest seekers were hiding.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the leader of the nest seekers handed over his tools to the youngest man, and solemnly commanded: "Son, go now, go north, and don't look back, whether it's to the main city or to the port of Minethir, in short, don't stop! No matter what, as soon as you see the first person, tell him that the Desik is coming!

The young man couldn't believe it, and stammered, "They're Desik, and how did they end up here?"

The leader glared at him angrily, "Don't ask me, I don't know, but they're coming." Don't be verbose, grab a paraglider and a rope and go!"

The Desik soldiers were not good at climbing, and it took half a day to climb to the air of the stone pillar, and suddenly, only the Desik rangers below could be heard shouting, and the Desik people in the air hurriedly looked down, and the people below were shouting something, and then pointed upward. When the man looked up again, he saw several stones, whistling down from the top of the pillar. The Nadesik soldier hurriedly pressed his body against the stone pillar, and the stone grazed his body and fell, which was really dangerous.

Enraged, the Deciks who had been sent down took up their bows and arrows and shot them at the top of the pillar, where the San Jose people were clearly hidden.

Just as the two sides were facing each other, on the back of the stone pillar that everyone could not see, a young San Jose nest seeker tightened the hook on his body, opened his paraglider, and slid north. The attack of his companions, which attracted the attention of all the Deciks, gave him a chance to escape.

He didn't dare to think about the fate of his companions, and he couldn't think about it, but he knew that he had to leave the stone forest as fast as he could, and rush to the port of Minehir, where there was the Royal Navy of San Jose, and where there were San Jose soldiers.

The alarm bells in the port of Minashil rang for the second time in just a few days, and this time, the alarm bells were even more urgent. General Wellington, who got the news, was relieved, fortunately it was the Stone Forest area, and there was still hope. As long as they can be locked off in the south of the Stone Forest, there won't be much of a problem. However, I just hope that the cabinet ministers of Kyoto City will respond as quickly as possible.

O San Jose, war is coming!