The fact that the Li'an Kingdom is the most powerful country in the human world is very incomprehensible if it is placed in a previous life.

First of all, it is the only country in the world that does not have a sea front, just like Mongolia in the previous life. Secondly, it is the country with the largest contact with the border forest, which means that compared to other countries, the Li'an Kingdom is more vulnerable to demonic beasts and alien races.

How can such a place with no maritime resources and not a good degree of national security become the most powerful country in the world? There are two particular reasons here.

First, because the Li'an Kingdom is the country with the largest contact area with the border forest, it is equivalent to a natural barrier for the human world to resist the invasion of Warcraft and alien races, if one day the Li'an Kingdom does not want to be this barrier, it can completely abandon the border state.

And because of its special geographical location, if the border states are discarded, these violations will flow through this gap to other countries. In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening, countries will naturally choose to tolerate various political disputes, and even regularly give a large amount of money to the Li'an Kingdom. Over time, the Li'an royal family became the least enemy, and its military power became more and more powerful.

Therefore, Warcraft and alien races are not only a simple threat to the Li'an Kingdom, but also a weapon used by the Li'an Kingdom to intimidate other countries.

Second, the Kingdom of Li'an is the only country that has direct territorial contact with all human countries, so two countries that are far apart want to trade, and in order to avoid the large costs and taxes caused by crossing multiple countries, they will choose to trade in the Kingdom of Li'an. So it naturally becomes an economic corridor for the human world.

Therefore, even though it lacks maritime resources, the wealth level of the Li'an Kingdom is still the first. The current economic corridor is named after the kingdom and is called Li'an State, which is a stark contrast to the border states.

However, in the past ten years, because there were relatively few invasions from demonic beasts and alien races, there were not even invasions on the scale of war. So the presence of the border states is getting thinner and thinner. Once the days of comfort have passed, human beings will forget to think about danger.

The most direct manifestation of this is that not only has the number of troops stationed there has decreased by half, but the salaries they receive have become less and less. Lords and nobles were even more reluctant to contribute money to support the activities of the army.

As the general of the direct army of the border state kingdom, Payne is in charge of all the garrison troops in the state except for the lord's guard, and if necessary, he can also bypass the king and directly blow the war horn.

But the problem is that war is not something he can start if he wants to, it needs a staggering amount of money and material support. Although the king required the cooperation of the local lords, it was not compulsory.

Payne himself didn't even have the right to expropriate in wartime, and even if it was a small action, he had to run to ask those lords and nobles for things. Of course, most of them came back with black faces.

Shelley's arrival was the first time since he took office that he had encountered aristocrats willing to take the initiative to support military operations. Although Payne didn't know if she had any money, she was at least happy in her behavior.

But when Payne looked at the map of the greenskins tribe that Shelley had brought out, he now wished she hadn't come.

According to Shelley's drawings, these tribes of greenskins have quietly developed nearly a thousand tribes, almost every tribe has a number of more than 10,000. Not to mention the number of troops in their border states, even if the number of troops in the entire Shanglian Kingdom combined, it could not catch up with one-fifth of the other party.

You must know that the greenskins are not humans, each of them has the same strength as human soldiers, and it is said that it only takes a year from birth to combat. That is to say, even the green-skinned ghost who was born last year can now have combat ability.

On top of this, these green-skinned ghosts actually picked up sophisticated weapons and equipment this year. If these tens of millions of greenskins all took up arms one by one and went out together to press the human world, the result would be obvious.

Even if it is convenient for the Kingdom of An to abandon the border states, it is too late to establish a defensive line sufficient to resist them. The entire human world will be wiped out.

That's why Payne agreed to move to Shelley's side. And he was ready to send all the troops in the border states to Shelley's side.

They must go to the tribes that destroy them one by one before the greenskins collectively attack the human world, only in this way can they have any hope of fighting against them.

Even this would cause a large number of casualties. After all, the greenskins are not low in combat power, and they are also better at fighting in the forest.

There will be a staggering number of casualties, and even Payne himself is ready to die for his country.

Seeing him so pessimistic, Shelley smiled: "There is no need to be so pessimistic. Do you think if the situation was really that bad, I would still go to such trouble to come to you? I had slipped away on my own. ”

"What do you mean? Isn't that real? Not that many greenskins? ”

"You misunderstood this, the numbers on the chart are all true." Seeing that his face sank again, Shelley stopped teasing him, "But I have some special weapons." If used correctly, it is not impossible to defeat them with zero casualties. ”

"Zero casualties? I think you're still trying to tease me. ”

"Hearing is false, seeing is believing, whether I'm lying to you or not, you can see it with your own eyes."

After saying that, the two maids who accompanied him brought the two boxes, and Shelley opened them himself. Payne leaned over to look at it, his face full of questions.

In the two boxes, there were a bunch of black iron balls and several handfuls of different shapes, and it was not even clear that they were of any use. Yunnan

"These are the weapons you call them?"

Shelley smiled and said, "General Payne, can you borrow your training ground?" Of course, it's best to have dozens of more dummies as targets. ”

An hour later, as the last loud bang in the training ground ended, the officers and men of the entire kingdom were already stunned and forgot to close their jaws. Payne, who had been watching her operate these so-called weapons by Shelley's side, didn't blink an eye the whole time.

"Ahem~ The formula of this gunpowder is still a bit low-level, and the smoke left behind is too thick, and you may be able to make a smoke bomb if you improve it."

Shelley waved her hand to drive away the smoke in front of her, and on the other hand, she looked into the field, the dummy that had completely turned into scum, and the deep pits all over the ground, she nodded with satisfaction, and said to Payne beside her.

"How? General Payne, these weapons of mine are acceptable, right? ”

Payne's legs trembled and his teeth chattered. This is where to see the level of passing. At this time, he finally understood why Shelley had such sufficient confidence from the beginning: "Gong...... Your Royal Highness Princess, do you mean that these weapons are also provided to us? ”

"Of course, as long as you can cooperate well with my orders. I don't think you're stupid, my goal isn't as simple as just killing the greenskins. ”

Colliding with her eyes, Payne couldn't understand what she meant. If it was before, he would definitely refuse, but after watching the pictures that subverted his understanding just now, he had to admit that he hesitated.

"First of all, I can only make these weapons in the world, and they can be useless if I want to. If I take them to my enemies in the future, you may not even have a chance to hesitate. ”

With that, Payne's last line of defense was broken, and he fell to his knees.

"Loyalty to you, Your Highness the Princess!"

Thousands of elite soldiers in the audience also knelt down at this time and shouted in unison.

"Loyalty to you, Your Highness Princess!!"

Shelley snorted, facing such a scene, but there was a trace of regret in his heart.

It would be nice if the theme song of Game of Rights was the background music.

"General Payne, I'll only give you ten days to prepare, and after ten days, I'll see that all the troops have been assembled near Yongle City."

"Yes, Your Highness Princess."

Shelley stretched: "Alright, that's it, I have to go to Canterlot to ask Duke Poka for tax money." ”

"Your Royal Highness Princess, you have too few people with you, why don't you let me take you with you."

Shelley glanced at him, "What do you mean?" Do you think I can't handle that old guy alone? ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." Payne wiped the cold sweat from his head, "In that case, please be careful. ”

Shelley waved her hand, and the maids immediately came to pack the boxes for her, and when she turned to leave, she casually said, "You are right, I do have to be careful not to stain my shoes when I step on the ants." ”

The corners of Payne's mouth trembled, and he silently mourned for Duke Pokata for a second in his heart. The idiot had no idea what kind of being he was messing with.

At this time, Payne thought that even if the king stripped Shelley of the crown prince's qualifications, it could not prevent her from becoming stronger than several other princes and princesses.

It was the first time that a general who could force his own army directly under the kingdom had to stand in line, at least since the establishment of the Li'an Kingdom.

It's not okay not to stand in line, although she didn't say it explicitly, but Payne couldn't hear it, she was so clear that she was also going to grab the throne. If she joins this strife and uses the weapons she just had, who can stop her?

Watching Shelley's carriage fade away, the shock in Payne's heart still did not calm down.

"Pass my order, use the Tongsheng Tree to inform all the troops in the border state to move immediately, and take all the supplies to the old Standing Stone Town. The assembly must be completed within 10 days. ”

"Yes, General!"