Liu Jingtian was a little bottomless, and began to ask Jin Da Thigh and Xu Ping'an's opinions: "Look at it like this, the war can be launched......

In the era of cold weapons, there was nothing to mix and mix, but this was the era of black powder where lead shells were flying around! The traversers lacked interest, and no one wanted to mix too much, so they said: "You are in charge of fighting, killing, and killing!"

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Liu Jingtian struggled for a while, gritted his teeth, and clapped: "Then it's decided, let's fight! Even if it fails, it's nothing, it's a big deal to go back and go with Heishu Millet, who is afraid of whom!"

Finally, in the last days of 1650, the kobolds were ready to greet the new year with war......

The first to move were Teemo's three thousand musketeers, who set out silently in the darkness of the night on a thousand horses, and plunged headlong into the mountains of the north. These men are tasked with finding a way for the army, and behind them will be an even larger team that will take advantage of the Atlas Mountains to attack the port of Essaouira.

Next, under the pretext of 'training during the winter break', the traversers gathered the 'three violent gangs of the Bailong Sect' and the 'City Defense Army' to the Governor's Palace of Agadir. These people have been trained for at least two months to fight bayonets - it is bound to collapse, but the queue to shoot has already learned.

The common people are no longer surprised by these tosses -- the secondary school trio has copied the boarding school system of later generations, and the teenagers who have come from the flickering have spent most of their time in school and training grounds, and everyone is used to it.

However, this time is unusual, the Great Demon King's plan is real!

The traversers first picked out two thousand poor people who did not get seasick and had good physical strength, and brought them to the secret shipyard...... Naturally, this is all a pathetic human engine!

There are more than 5,000 people who pick the rest, old and young, and they are magnificent.

Liu Jingtian thought about it, leaving half of the child soldiers who were too young to take care of the house, he didn't want to be a nanny. Finally, Tesfir took the remaining 2,500 men and followed the signs left by the 'Timo Cavalry Regiment' into the mountains, all the way north.

Early in the morning, after they had breakfast, they pushed countless kobolds' 'standardized board carts' to roll forward, and the mighty convoy was very spectacular.

After sending these people away, Liu Jingtian took Guan Renxiu and ran to the secret shipyard.

This hidden fjord between two mountains has been managed by kobolds for a long time and has not been discovered by humans. Today, the camouflage at the entrance has been cleared, revealing a narrow waterway.

Everyone waited silently, until the moon rose, and the six 'finless porpoise-class' offshore gunboats began to move slowly, forming a long line, and slowly sailing out of the fjord.

These giant coffin-like strange ships, coated with black wood tar, look ugly. Each ship has a large 'power cabin' that takes up more than a third of the hull volume. Now, there were more than three hundred and twenty wretched people inside, clumsily pushing the metal pedals on their hands and feet to the sound of the kobold commander's slogan.

Although Liu Jingtian improved the design, adding vents and multiple passages, the environment in the 'power cabin' was still very crowded, and it was comparable to the crowded bilges of the three-row galleys in the Mediterranean.

However, after all, after several months of military training, everyone has turned discipline into a part of their instinct, and even has a sense of honor, so at the sound of kobolds' slogans, the huge propeller under the water began to slowly turn, pushing the six-hundred-ton ship out of the bay.

These warships are really a big consumer of manpower.

Not only did the 'man-powered engine' need three hundred and twenty strong men to drive it, but there were also many other helmsmen and sail handlers: there were four low masts to hang the sails, and 50 kobolds were already very lean.

And there are even more gunners, a 32-pounder cannon requires fifteen kobolds to operate - no way, kobolds have little manpower, and they need four kobolds just to carry shells. The twelve-pounder cannon is a little less, but it also requires twelve dog heads.

The 'Porpoise-class' battleship, with a total of twenty-two thirty-two-pounder cannons and twenty-two twelve-pounder cannons, needed a huge number of kobold gunners - 600 men!

And in order to lower the center of gravity, the gun deck is extremely low, and only kobolds can get into it, and there is no way to use humans as coolies.

However, Liu Jingtian's brain hole is relatively big: "This ship is used to block the waterway, and only one side can face the enemy! Then the cannon on the other side is used as a decoration, and there is no need to arrange a gunner!"

As a result, the number of gunners was cut in half, otherwise there might not even be enough gunners......

However, Liu Jingtian was still very worried about one thing: Our coffin boat would not suddenly disintegrate halfway through the battle, right? The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, so the fish people who had eaten hundreds of mixed meals were also brought along with their big 'pets' that were scared to death -- you don't have to worry about fighting, but in case the boat sinks, it is good to help the fishermen......

Next, Liu Jingtian sacrificed the dimensional cave with high hard work, and stuffed more than 3,000 kobold veterans into it, plus a large pile of powder kegs - sneak attack or something, I like it the most!

There are several groups of troops, and it is not all mobilized by the Great Demon King. A thousand German mercenaries were thrown into the 'castle tower' to be accompanied by the Spaniards. In addition, the 2,000 kobolds who have stayed in the 'castle tower' all year round are also not a small strength. Their nominal commander is naturally Xu Ping'an.

These thousands of people have a lot of work to worry about: the hills around the 'castle tower' are full of commercial buildings, but there are basically no walls and fortresses, so it can be regarded as the weakness of the kobolds, and they must hurry up to arrange a few defensive positions.

Because no one knows how the army of Marrakech will react when they see a wave of men and horses attacking Essaouira, maybe they will come to 'besiege Wei and save Zhao' in order to support the pirates.

Inadvertently, Liu Jingtian brought out all the traversers except for Brother Long to lead the troops......

Agadir is not far from Essaouira, one hundred and thirty kilometers of gentle hills by the sea, and it is not difficult to walk.

By the evening of the next day, the 3,000 cavalry of Timo's division and the 2,500 infantry of the Tesfir division had finished their journey into the mountains and reached the vicinity of Essaouira. Along the way, because of the kobolds' previous 'demolition and resettlement activities', there was no longer a single indigenous household, so this huge team had no witnesses at all. According to the plan, they would rest in a hidden place and wait until the middle of the night before making a surprise attack.

The second force is the navy of Liu Jingtian and Guan Renxiu. Thankfully, the boat is fine, and the manpower engine is not a big problem, only a few 'manpower cylinders' have some minor problems, just give it a beating.

After capturing a few small fishing boats and scaring off more trading ships, Liu Jingtian also found a small harbor and hid in it.

Looking at the slowly rising moon, Liu Jingtian was full of confidence: "Next, it is to wait for the moon to be dark and the wind is high and set the fire high!"