Chapter 31: The Storm of Taking Office

The province of Aden, located in the south of the Nordia Empire, borders the Winter Empire and the Spring and Autumn Empire, and two thousand years ago, the province became an ownerless province and has always been a problem for the empire. The east of the province is connected with the Warcraft Forest, and the other more than ninety percent of the area is mountainous, and there is fog all year round, and now it has become a paradise for robbers, and the empire has sent a large army to suppress bandits dozens of times, but they have returned in vain, and several times they have almost been wiped out, which has been in a state of no owner.

I measured the area on the map, which is about 200,000 square kilometers, and if I have the ability, I can expand infinitely to the east, because the Warcraft Forest is also a borderland. As a viscount, there is no such a large territory, at most a small city should be the city lord, this province of Aden was taken by me after looking at the map, even His Majesty and the headmaster were surprised, and wanted to persuade me to give up, but I was convinced.

Three months before taking office, I asked Bassoon, through his grandfather's connections, to find some veterans who had been discharged from the army, and Gucci to help me buy a large amount of grain and seeds, Fili, Fixi, and others to help me buy young and strong slaves, and I flew alone to the province of Aden in the evening.

Aden Province belongs to the subtropical region, the four seasons are like spring, there is only one official road to communicate with Nangui Province, and the junction with the Winter Empire is a primitive tropical rainforest, the water network is vertical and horizontal, the terrain is complex and changeable, a big river is the natural national border with the Spring and Autumn Empire. At the end of the Nangui Road to Nanguan Road, a big mountain blocked the way, a mountain road that was not very wide was overgrown with weeds, indicating that no one had passed through here for a long time, and there was a small valley at the end of the mountain road, and a village of hundreds of people lived here, looking at its dilapidated thatched houses, it showed that it was very poor.

Going further in is a larger mountain range, a canyon with a width of 20 meters in the middle is more than 2,000 meters long, it is the only passage, after passing this narrow passage, it is a hilly area, there are more than 10 large and small lakes, the area is about 10,000 square kilometers, after this hill, it really enters the mountainous area, the terrain in the mountainous area is quite complicated, the dense fog in the morning and evening makes people unable to find the way in and out of the forest, more than ten bandits make a nest here.

I chose a plot of land near one of the largest lakes in the hills, and sent an army of construction machinery from the base to start a major construction project, which would become the administrative center of Aden province.

There are two strong robberies on the side of the hills, the number is not much, the strength is not strong, it took a day to solve, so that the construction machinery army can be safely constructed, and the construction of the administrative center in the hilly area is just completed in three months.

Within a month, Bassoon had brought in 1,200 veterans, most of whom had nothing to worry about, and the Fili brothers had purchased nearly 10,000 slaves, and had reached the first batch of 3,500 men.

On the fifth day after the team left Yanjing, I found the tail, and there were many mercenary groups galloping by, among the 1,200 veterans, 200 were specially selected elite soldiers by Grandpa Bassoon, and the two veterans with the peak strength of the fighting division were the main and deputy captains, named Stark and Jonais, who led ten fighting squad leaders to serve me.

On the afternoon of the eighth day, I chose a hillside with my back to the mountain as my camp, and ordered the slaves and soldiers to cut down trees to make a simple fence, put 200 carts of supplies in the back of the camp, and then bury pots to cook and rest on the spot.

Through the detection satellites, I learned that the men and horses who ambushed me were fifty miles from the camp, and that there were more than 3,000 people in three mercenary regiments, and 3,000 cavalrymen who looked like regular troops, and their conversations fell to my ears word for word. I rode up and down the perimeter of the camp on horseback while they were busy, and then called Stark and Jonais, took out several large boxes of grenades, taught them how to use them, and let them distribute two of them, and chose one thousand of the best men among the slaves, one grenade for each of them.

When everything is arranged, let everyone eat and wait for the enemy to take the bait.

When it got dark, those who were ambushing couldn't hold their breath, so they had to abandon the ambush location and attack it instead, letting more than 3,000 mercenaries take the lead and press back themselves. The three mercenary captains knew our situation very well, more than 3,000 slaves had no combat experience, only more than 1,000 veterans were also of average strength, they divided into three ways and swaggered around the camp, and when these mercenaries entered the defensive circle at thirty meters, they were greeted by grenades thrown by five hundred slaves.

"Boom ······" Five hundred high-level fire-based magic spells instantly engulfed more than three thousand mercenaries, and after a miserable scream, only a few dozen people survived, and the powerful ones such as the Great Dou Master in the mercenary group disappeared without even having a chance to resist.

The three thousand cavalry had to send arrows on the string, the first pull out a thousand horsemen rushed up, the second pull a thousand horses also followed, but unfortunately waiting for them was still five hundred grenades, the first pull cavalry had ninety percent of the death in the explosion, and at this time the third pull cavalry in the array had not yet moved one by one inexplicably carried off the horse and fell to the ground to die, the second pull cavalry only heard a slight sound of wings, and also fell off the horse and fell to the ground to die inexplicably.

There were still a few masters left at the scene, and two archmages became the first objects of my care, and the other masters saw that the general situation was gone, and fled in all directions, and were wiped out by the battle robots I secretly ambushed. In this attack, no one escaped the net, more than 2,000 magic horses were seized, more than 1,000 were injured, and the dead horses became meat for slaves, and a number of weapons and property were used.

This battle was a one-sided slaughter, only a few dozen people on our side were slightly injured, no one died, the 1,200 veterans saw the power of the grenade, and excitedly hid the two grenades on their bodies as if they were treasures, this is a good thing to save their lives!

After cleaning up the battlefield, I began to share the results······