Chapter 511: Expedition
Xia He's guarantee is not to forcibly improve their realm, but to make them qualified legends.
The young mages, impressed by Xia He's strength, chose to trust the lord. Although they say that the veins have no share in them, they also know that they will not be able to get anything on their own, and they will lead to death.
Shrek has a big heart, and he chooses his own little mage group, in addition to the qualification requirements, he must also be a brain powder of the blood mage. He wanted to create an army of mages who were absolutely loyal to his lord, and now it seemed that he had done it. Because Xia He promised that if they were willing to ask for the rough stone, Xia He would give a very large amount.
This time, it was impossible for Xia He to disappoint these mages, so he simply set up a group of guard mages, with these twenty-four young mages as the backbone, and then slowly increase them in the future. Shrek is the leader of the mage group, and Xia He also wrote a plan, and the future of these twenty-four mages began to be planned by him.
Xia He began to re-examine his strength, and he still had more than two hundred boats. The old battleships, all sold to the imperial nobles, the new battleships, there are not many changes in appearance, only the core is remade.
There are a lot of ships, but the real elite fleet, there are only four.
The fleet of the Knights of Medirli, nine ships. Freya's private fleet, twelve ships. The fleet of Odin at Cape Storm, this one is relatively large, with twenty-four ships. Then there is the Asra fleet, named after the Xia River, and this one is fourteen boats.
Every sailor in these four fleets can be regarded as elite soldiers, and the treatment is also the best, and the equipment is all first-class. In the past two years, the crews of the fleet have been constantly swapped with each other, and the essence of the fleet is concentrated in these four fleets.
Because the battle on Dragon Island was basically over, Lynch's infantry approached the last two cities in the north and did not attack, and the outer fleet blocked the sea area and waited for the other side to surrender. With the support of imperial resources, the first ones that can't survive must be those two cities.
Without actual combat, the rate of progress of soldiers can only grow slowly.
The strength of the four elite fleets was selected in the war, and the battlefield can best see the quality of a person. In the end, the navy of the empire, the enemy is still the Holy Thunder Empire. The quality of the warships on the Green Forest side may not be comparable to that of the Arcane Empire now.
The emperor will also completely block the sea route of the half-elf empire in February next year, and now there are many fleets to go, and Xia He himself has also produced one, a total of twelve ships, and many flying warships.
Xia He's current strength is still not enough, and a lot of resources have been invested in the Taiyin Immortal Mansion. On the side of the goddess of doom, she has already begun to build Bai Yujing in the Taiyin Immortal Mansion. Of course, with Xiahe's strength, the most is to lay a foundation. If you want Bai Yujing to become a star fortress that is rampaging in the universe, the destroyer, Xia He can't do it even if he becomes an immortal.
Ordinary immortals don't have this ability, at least they are golden immortals.
The Medirli fleet and the Asra fleet are both on the side of Sun City, a total of twenty-three ships, plus the rest of the small fleets are trained here, and there are nearly a hundred warships in the entire Rhode Island.
Sun City's side is stepping up training, everything is business as usual, and the temporary personnel changes seem to be related to the battle against the half-elf empire. The warship that sent Shrek to explore the eastern seas was assigned to a fleet and transferred to Cape Storm. This is also a normal routine exchange, but the sailors on this battleship will never return to Sun City.
After all, Xia He was afraid that the news would leak out, and the divine soldiers were all mobilized here, and Su Qi took on the mining task. Xia He made a lot of ghost and god runes and handed them to Su Qi. He can't get past this matter, and among the nobles of the empire, some people have been targeting him.
Xia He simply sat firmly in Sun City, and it took half a year to help his subordinates improve their strength as much as possible.
Qiu Xuanji is also in retreat, refining his equipment.
It dragged on until September, and the empire suddenly had a tense atmosphere, and Xia He's side knew the news, the imperial fleet was in the sea area of the half-elf empire, and there was a conflict with the warships of the Green Forest Continent. Because there had been an order from the emperor for a long time, the noble warship of the Arcane Empire sank the nine ships of Midorimori in one go.
Xia He knew that this was the node of the outbreak of a full-scale war, and Lu Lin would definitely not just forget it.
Nine battleships, already able to organize a fleet.
The ones I sold before were relatively powerful ironclad ships, and in naval battles, there were still many auxiliary warships, especially in offshore battles, small ships of more than ten meters could pose a threat to large ships. The empire is desperately building ships in two large ports in the west, half of which are small warships, which is to make a long-term plan.
On the Xia River, the fleet heading for the Half-Elf Empire also set off, a small fleet of seven boats, with six thousand soldiers. Shrek personally led the inspection team, and the twin swordsman Jani cooperated. The fleet moved south along the coast, all the way to Red Sea City, a coastal city in the eastern part of the Half-Elf Empire.
Red Sea City is not an important military town, and the most people here are half-elf fishermen. From Red Sea City, you don't need to drive far to catch fish in September and October every year.
In the past two years, the Half-Elf Empire has also been frantically developing its navy, and it has gradually become important because of the large number of sailors here. The Half-Elf Empire also added a military port and built a fort in Red Sea City.
Red Sea City now has about 10,000 and a half elven army, as well as a large number of trained recruits.
Of the 6,000 people sent by Xiahe's side, only 1,000 were considered elite. However, with the cooperation of the fleet, there is still some hope for attacking Red Sea City. Among the seven battleships, there was one gunboat that attacked land.
Now the Marquis Mansion is not Xiahe's business alone, too many people's interests are tied up in Rhode Island. Many people who took refuge in Xiahe also felt that the empire was going to wage war against foreign countries. On their own, there will never be a day to emerge. Blood mages are new nobles who will accept them.
If you want to work for others, you have to see if you are qualified.
In addition to Xiahe's seven boats, Xiahe also contacted more than a dozen local nobles to attack Red Sea City together. Among the dozen or so nobles, only one is strong, and the rest can only send one or two boats. But together, it is also mighty, and the security is greatly increased.
The great nobles who united with Xia He were the Merrifins family located in the eastern center of the empire, and their titles were also marquises. The Merifin family belonged to the new nobility of the House of Commons, and Xia He only invited it at that time, but he didn't expect the Merrich family to agree immediately, and sent a fleet over to train with Xia He's soldiers.
Knowing that Xia He planned to use the Half-Elf Empire to train troops, the Merriffin family gathered 10,000 people, of which more than 3,000 were considered the elite of the family, and they were also sent to Rhode Island for training.
The main thing is to train the armies to cooperate with each other, because the empire has not fought for a long time, and the armies of various nobles may have very different passwords.
Xia He didn't refuse, and Rhode Island didn't have many secrets, except for the veins found in the open sea.
Therefore, this expedition is not only the 6,000 people of Xiahe, but also the large and small nobles combined, almost more than 30,000. Xia He had to send two more magicians transferred from Cape Storm to preside over the affairs of the fleet.
If it's a mess, you can't fight.
After the fleet set off, in Xiahe's study, a magic array was always open. This magic array is used for communication. For everyone who obtains the Xia River Badge, the badge itself can monitor the battlefield. The Xia River can be observed unilaterally.
There is also the magic airship that follows the expedition above the fleet, and the low-flying aircraft can provide news to Xia He.
Outside of the world's atmosphere, there are already quite a few man-made meteorites flying that can serve as relay stations for signals. Of course, without these, it does not delay Xia He's voyeurism. It's just that with these artificial meteorites, the cost of voyeurism has been reduced a lot.
In addition to Xia He, there are two more people in the room, one is Smith, who came back from Cape Storm, and can follow Xia He in the future. His sword weapon was refined, although he had not yet reached the epic realm, which could be regarded as a surprise to Xia He. The other person is Abigail.
Abigail looked no different from the original, looking at Xia He's appearance, he still had a somewhat intoxicated look.
However, she put more thought on development, the temple needs her, the underground world, the goddess of wealth has obtained too much, and she almost has the strength close to the legend.
Believers in the gods are so easy to level up.
"Asla, why didn't you give me one for your badge, for fear that I would reveal your secret?" Abigail looked at the image sent back by the expeditionary fleet, very envious.
"Yes, I tell you, what you see here, your goddess can see too. If I give you a badge, she'll know the secret in no time. ”
"Hmph. ”
"Okay, I'll make you a separate one, the two of us can communicate, can we always do it?"
That's pretty much it, Abigail's face softened slightly. ”
Smith was inexplicable, not knowing what the relationship between this beautiful woman and the teacher was, why would the teacher hook up with a believer in a god?
"Abigail, please come over here so that you can help me guide Smith. ”
Abigail was puzzled and said, "He's a swordsman, how can I guide him?"
"Teach him how to fight spellcasters, you're definitely the best at it. ”
Abigail looked bitter and said, "Let him learn to deal with me?"
"You're not a pure spellcaster, you wear heavy armor, and knights of the same level are not your opponents, right?"
Abigail sneered, "To deal with knights, you still need to wear heavy armor?"
"Isn't that it?"
"What's in it for me. Abigail asked with a straight face.
"No, there is no benefit to a copper plate, can you help?" Xia He's appearance, Smith felt a little underwhelmed. Asking people to do things, and this attitude?