Act 328 The Intentions of the Kings
"It's finally back, and the cold and sea-smelling air is so good!"
The officer in charge of greeting him at the dock gave Bai Gang a strange look, the air in Storm Point had always been like this, cold and damp, and it was the first time I had heard someone say that such air was good.
However, it is none of his business how Bai Gang looks like, his task is only to pick up people.
"Lieutenant Colonel Bai, please come with me, Commander, they are already waiting."
"Okay."
Bai Gang left the dock and got in the car and went straight to the storm base, and soon met Commander Ren and Major General Le in the smoky command center.
"Lieutenant Colonel Bai, it's just the right time for you to come back, come, show you something good!"
"Good stuff?"
Bai Gang stood next to Commander Ren and looked at the screen he let out, it seemed to be the real-time battle situation transmitted by the front-line drone at high altitude, and he couldn't be clearer about what the wriggling white bones represented.
Just when Bai Gang wanted to ask what he was looking at, he saw the image suddenly shake violently.
Firelight, loud noises, and mushroom clouds!
Bai Gang looked at Commander Ren in surprise and said in disbelief, "You guys...... You planted nuclear mines!? ”
Although the yield of that nuclear mine does not seem to be large, it is also a nuclear weapon anyway! Could it be that the situation has reached this level!?
"Nuclear mines? No, no, no, of course not! Commander Ren smiled, "It's just that a batch of 152 mm ammunition has been destroyed in a centralized manner, you know, now the local people want to unify the caliber to 155 mm, and these 152 mm shells are piling up more and more, making their heads bigger, and we can be regarded as doing them a favor." ”
"Destroy the shell ......" Bai Gang thought for a while, and suddenly realized where the image on the screen just now came from, "It's that artillery position behind the first line of defense!?" ”
"That's right, that's it."
When Bai Gang set off for the Seven Kingdoms, the position was still being planned, but when he came back, he witnessed the moment when the position exploded.
Bai Gang asked, "So the undead have broken through the first line of defense?" ”
Commander Ren said: "Yes, that position is the last position of the first line of defense. ”
Bai Gang asked again, "How many of the undead have been destroyed?" ”
Commander Ren shook his head and didn't speak, Major General Le said: "I can't count it, before the war, they covered the entire valley, and now they still cover the entire valley, if you have to say it, I estimate one percent." ”
"One percent ......"
Major General Le patted Bai Gang's shoulder: "Don't have that bitter face, it's just the first line of defense, we don't use much means except barbed wire, mines, artillery bombs and aerial bombs."
Originally, the purpose of the first line of defense was only to prevent the scattered low-level undead from going south, and it was very good to be able to support it and still cause so much damage to the undead! Don't expect too much! ”
Major General Le said it easily, but the expression on his face was not relaxed at all, and this speech was more like saying it to those staff officers in the command center.
Commander Ren said: "Okay, let's not talk about the front line, Lieutenant Colonel Bai will tell me about your harvest in Shifeng City, are those kings willing to cooperate with us?" ”
As soon as he mentioned Lion Peak City, Bai Gang's face became strange.
"They're willing, but at the same time they're not very willing."
Bai Gang shrugged his shoulders and said.
"When it comes to fighting the undead, those guys are very happy to say yes, and the terms they give are very generous.
But when it comes to the issue of interests, they all become misers, without exception! Even if we were given some promises, they could only be carried out after the undead had completely repelled the onslaught of the undead.
This is nothing, but there is another point, they seem to be frightened by the situation of the undead breaking through the fortress of the Blood Keep, not only do they not allow us to open the Echo Canyon as a road passage, but they plan to completely block the Echo Canyon and cut off the north and south of Anglia! ”
Commander Ren was surprised: "What an interesting idea, are they planning to build a high mountain on the side of the Blood Castle!?" That's a great job! ”
Bai Gang sneered: "It's indeed a big project, but I'm afraid it's just talking, one of the favorite things of those kings is bragging, and their internal opinions are not consistent."
One thing is certain, though, and that is that we don't expect to negotiate a trade route through the road, and the seven kings have agreed to make the Blood Ciep a no-go zone once they have regained it, and no one will be allowed to pass through it. ”
"There are no on-road trade lines...... It's not good news that we won't be able to have too many fleets in a short period of time if we rely only on sea freight. Commander Ren sighed and said, "What about our other requirements?" ”
Bai Gang said: "Except for the road trade, most of the others agreed, but the content was basically discounted.
The first was a series of diplomatic recognitions, which amounted to the formal acceptance of us as a member of the human power on the continent of Anglia.
Then the demand for free trade was accepted, but the tax cut was impossible, and the demand that tariffs remain unchanged for twenty years was not accepted.
The request to legally buy property, including mines, was denied, and all large money transactions had to be submitted to the king for personal approval.
And even if it's an agreed deal, if they think we've made too much money afterwards, they also have the right to ask for a new contract, hell, they're going to give themselves regret pills!
Some even openly profess fear that we will buy all of his kingdom with Mithril! ”
Then Bai Gang said a few more things, all of which did not fully meet the original expectations.
Major General Le frowned and said, "It's already time for the undead to be overwhelmed, and they are still so careful!" It's incredible! ”
Bai Gang said: "Actually, I think they are very smart, because now we are at the forefront, whether they agree to our conditions or not, we will fight the undead to the end, and agreeing to those conditions will not make us work harder." ”
And they do work hard to support us against the undead.
They believe that we are not lacking in conventional combat power, and can even be said to be excellent, and the biggest shortcoming is in high-end combat power, so they intend to send us a reinforcement composed entirely of high-end combat power.
Although the list has not yet been finalized, they guarantee that the lowest level will not be weaker than the top strength in the upper rank.
In addition, they have promised to send an expeditionary force of no less than 50,000 men to the Black Thorn region after recovering the Blood Fortress to assist us in sweeping away the undead entrenched in the territory of Duze.
This will do us a lot of help, if they can reclaim the Blood Castle in time.
And in order to be able to regain the Blood Castle as soon as possible, they came up with a plan. ”