196. Overstretched
Viglia smiled bitterly and said: "Vilia now knows that I am arrogant, I didn't expect that Brother Jiajing is so young, but his strength is so strong! ”
Jiajing also shrugged his shoulders helplessly: "Do you really think that defeating a dragon knight is such a beautiful thing? The Inlu country behind him is now giving me a headache, and this time I invite the two of you to go up the mountain, just to help Badaling get through this difficulty with the help of your help!"
Anyway, this matter has to be said sooner or later, so it is better to bring it up now.
Vilia quickly regained his shrewd mind, because it was impossible for the Lu State to send troops to attack Badaling on a large scale, at most it could only send a master to sneak into Athena to find trouble in Badaling, but their strongest dragon knights were all killed in the hands of Jiajing, and they should not be stupid enough to send someone to die again, they are very likely to use money to hire mercenaries to act on their behalf, and come to Badaling to find Jiajing for revenge.
His bandit alliance has formed an alliance with Badaling, and he often conducts confrontation exercises with Badaling's private soldiers in peacetime, so he naturally knows more about Badaling's military strength than outsiders. Vilia knew that ordinary mercenary groups would not be able to capture Badaling at all, let alone that Jiajing was still a super master with the terrifying strength to slaughter dragon knights!
Tied up with Badaling, it is definitely a good thing for the Tempest Knights, the current forces of the Great Wasteland have changed from scattered bandit gangs to collectives, groups like Gomez are becoming more and more powerful, and the Tempest Knights are also forced to run to the dangerous area near Star Picking City to make a living, and if this continues, I am afraid that in the near future, the Tempest Knights will cease to exist.
Although everyone spontaneously formed a bandit alliance because they realized this, it was still much inferior to other forces, and even super forces like Gomez sent the fox girl to win over Jiajing's relationship and take the opportunity to climb the big tree of Badaling.
Many thoughts flashed through Vilia's mind in an instant, but his mature and sophisticated appearance made people unable to see his inner monologue at all, and after a while, he nodded very dryly: "Jiajing is Vilia's brother, not to mention that he is a small Inlu country, even if it is an exquisite empire, the Wind Knights will definitely not frown, if the Jiajing brothers are in need, there are more than a hundred people in the Wind Knights, all of them are at the disposal of their brothers!" He is the leader of the Bandit Alliance, and although he does not have absolute right to speak, he is the absolute boss in the Tempest Knights, and his words are more effective than holy decrees.
Negan Pei had discussed with Lin Ying in detail before coming here, Gomez was no better than a petty bachelor like the Tempest Knights, they had their own fixed territory power. Although he dared to forcibly confront the imperial army, it was all a last resort, and now the powerful forces in the Great Wasteland are not only them, as long as the hostile forces receive a large amount of financial support, it is easy to organize a more powerful army, and it is even possible to take advantage of the victory to annex Gomez, so Gomez will never openly support Jiajing before he fully understands Jiajing's true strength, so as not to provoke the Inlu State and let the other party secretly support other forces in the Great Wasteland to invade their own territory.
However, in order to win over Jiajing, Lin Ying had also ordered Negan Pei, as long as Jiajing asked, he would assist Badaling in his personal name.
Therefore, Negan Pei smiled bitterly and said: "Please forgive Jiajing for this, Gomez is at war with the Boomer family for silver ore veins, and there are really no extra troops to support Badaling, but the city lord has ordered Negan Pei to fully assist the Jiajing brothers, as for the materials and equipment, as long as the brother speaks, Gomez will do his best to meet the brother's requirements!"
Jiajing couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in his heart, but he also understood Lin Ying's approach, after all, as a hegemon who led hundreds of thousands of people, he couldn't just do things according to his own preferences, and it was already the limit to be able to send Negan Pei to help.
As for the materials or something, Badaling was originally a big mine, plus the dragon knight and the large-capacity space ring, you can collect ores in other places at any time and come back to let the green dwarves build equipment, so there will naturally be no shortage of materials, but with his promise, it is better than nothing, who knows if there will be any unplanned changes in the future.
Jiajing's disappointment was not revealed, but he just laughed and said: "Sure enough, it's a good brother, Jiajing didn't make friends, haha, Vilia, Neganpei, you are all battle-hardened warriors, Badaling is now preparing for a military exercise, please give me some guidance, please two here!"
The three of them walked up the mountain with a smile, and the two fox girls also timidly followed Jiajing and went up the mountain together.
Negan Pei's giant armored beast chariot was driven by the guards themselves to the wooden houses at the bottom of the hill to store, and a large number of houses were built when the workers were hired to dig the moat, and the empty houses were left behind when the workers moved out.
Although most of them were demolished, some of them remained unbuilt and could be used as a residence for soldiers at the bottom of the mountain.
Negan Pei sighed while going up the mountain: "Badaling is really a dangerous mountain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if there are enough materials to hold the position, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the enemy to attack ten times the strength of the force!"
Negan Pei's exclamation also suddenly reminded Jiajing that even if the enemy adopts the tactics of encircling the mountain, Badaling is better than having its own dragon knight and iron feather sand eagle, and can wear space rings and storage bracelets to break through and buy supplies, as long as the money is enough, where will there be a shortage of materials?
The dragon and the black feather, with their speed of traveling two thousand miles a day, can reach any corner of the empire in five days and overnight. From this point of view, more reserves of gold coins is the last word, although Yihong makes money, but Badaling is also a bottomless pit, now I don't know how much money has been invested, Jiajing's current wealth on hand is only hundreds of thousands of gold, plus Maidier went out to purchase food, and to buy ore to build equipment for the rock giant, the consumption in a short period of time is huge, I really don't know where to find money, no wonder people always say that fighting a war is a money-burning job, whoever has sufficient funds, whose chance of winning is greater, and now the war has not officially started, Jiajing already has a feeling of being stretched, once the war really starts, I don't know how many gold coins will be needed。
Fortunately, most of the private soldiers and samurai in Badaling are wandering samurai and mercenaries, and they are rolling on the blade all the year round, even if they die on the battlefield, there will not be many pension problems, after all, Star Picking City is next to the Great Wasteland, and this area is mostly infested by wandering samurai, wandering Kasia and mercenaries, so that they can recruit so many people at once, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to change to a rich area in the interior.
Anyway, Jiajing is already using his brain on how to make money.
The dragons have the habit of collecting treasures, and the mysterious white dragon that was killed by the golden dragon should also have it, so you have to take the time to find it, and Talon, a dwarf in the spirit cave, has been visiting the tomb for many years, and there should be a lot of antiquities that can be sold. It really didn't work, so he asked Lao Ke for some of the dragon materials to sell on the black market.
Before the war started, Jiajing had to prepare money as soon as possible, and now there were not enough people under his command, but fortunately, Vilia and Negan Pei came to help, and they could help solve some of the problems, otherwise Jiajing's head would have exploded.