Chapter 106: Count Willon's Ambitions
The dividing line between the private domain handed over to Xu Yi by the Lord of Weilun and his private domain is mainly a river that originates from the north of the Duchy of Stantin and the border of the Black Rice Wasteland and finally flows into the Endless Sea.
The Abdant River is not too wide, but after accepting the territory, Xu Yi imitated the Rum River outside the city of Bonta, widened the Abdant River and remodeled its embankment, and built a dam near the mouth of the sea, making the river more than 50 meters wide at its narrowest point and more than 20 meters deep at its deepest point.
At the beginning, many people in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce were very incomprehensible about Xu Yi's large-scale transformation of the Abu Dante River, because more than 500,000 gold coins were invested in the transformation of the river.
In the eyes of most people, this is simply not an essential expense.
However, today, when Count Weilun led a full 10,000 of his most elite troops to the Abu Dante River, looking at this incomparably wide and bottomless river, he found that Xu Yi's approach was too far-sighted.
With such a barrier, his subordinates had no way to fly over it, and it was naturally impossible to attack the territory of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Five days ago, Count Veron received a statement from Xu Yi.
In the statement, Xu Yi sternly rejected Lord Weilun's request to "no longer sell and provide military magic machinery to other lords in the Duchy of Stantin", and said that since this territory is now owned by him, then Count Weilun has no right to take it back.
As for all the properties of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, Count Weilun is not even more qualified to obtain them.
Xu Yi's rhetoric in the statement was very unkind. The idea of calling the Count of Willon bluntly wishful thinking is wishful thinking.
See this statement. Count Veron was furious. It only took five days to organize the most elite 10,000 soldiers under his command to invade Xu Yi's private territory on a large scale.
In his opinion, in fact, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce only has less than two thousand guards, half of which are still left in the Black Rice Wasteland, and the current protective force in Xu Yi's private territory is only about a thousand chamber of commerce guards, and it is impossible to stop his army.
However, only in the beginning. They encountered the great obstacle of the Abu Dante River, and it was extremely difficult to even enter Xu Yi's private territory.
Looking at the many factories and neatly arranged beautiful houses on the territory on the other side of the river, and the smooth roads that crisscrossed the land, Count Weilun snorted heavily, but his eyes showed a completely irrepressible greed.
In fact, he had long had the idea of annexing all the industries of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
The great value contained in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is best known to him, who has been a long-time neighbor with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and has worked deeply for a long time.
He knew very well that if he could fully incorporate the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce into his control, then in the Principality of Stantin. He will surely become the most powerful lord, even more powerful than Grand Duke Stantin.
It's just that Count Weilun felt that his strength was not enough before. So although he coveted the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce infinitely in his heart, he could only endure it secretly.
However, after defeating Count Fran and several other lords in succession, Count Veron's strength has swelled several times, and his confidence has also increased greatly, and he is even convinced that even Archduke Stanting now has enough strength to defeat him easily.
However, the counterattack against him by the four lords before made him soberly aware of a problem.
The reason why he was able to easily defeat Count Fran and several other lords was entirely because he had the military magic machinery provided by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, so that the combat effectiveness of his soldiers far exceeded that of other lords, so that he was able to advance all the way.
And the reason why the four lords who fought back against him made him suffer the first defeat was because their men were also equipped with various military magic machines of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, so that the two sides stood on the same starting line.
From easily defeating the opponent to basically evenly matched between the two sides, the difference lies in whether or not military magic machinery is equipped.
Count Veron knew this better than anyone.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Count Weilun made a completely unreasonable request to Xu Yi that "the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is not allowed to continue to sell military magic machinery to other lords in the Duchy of Stantin".
Count Wei Lun didn't expect Xu Yi to agree, or he hoped that Xu Yi would not agree, because in this way, he would have enough excuse to launch an attack on the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and rightfully swallow the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce into his mouth.
As long as he can completely control the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, then he can continue to occupy an absolute equipment advantage, and he can definitely easily defeat all the other lords in the principality, and finally occupy the entire Duchy of Stantin, becoming the next Grand Duke of Stantin.
Even...... He is confident that he will fight out of the Duchy of Stantin, defeat all the countries on this continent, and become the new overlord of this continent!
However, before this ambitious and ambitious goal can be achieved, the dilemma ahead must be solved.
"Where's the ship, haven't you got it yet?" asked Count Veron, turning his head to his cronies beside him, impatiently.
He and the 10,000 men he had brought with him had been on the banks of the Abdant River for a whole morning, just waiting for enough boats from elsewhere to transport the soldiers across the damned river.
"I've collected some boats, but there aren't many of them, I'm afraid ...... I'm afraid I won't be able to transport so many of us at once. The cronies replied with a look of embarrassment. "My lord, why don't we just try to rush straight across the bridge?"
Count Veron followed the direction of his cronies' fingers, and his gaze fell on a wide bridge across the Abdant River, which was not too far away.
After just one glance, Count Willon's face immediately sank, and he slapped his cronies on the head with a heavy slap, and scolded angrily: "Are you an idiot? Don't you see a row of magic bazookas and pieces of magic repeaters placed on the other side of the bridge?
The cronies touched their heads and muttered, "It's not that exaggerated, is it? We haven't used magic bazookas and magic crossbows, and they're not so powerful that they can't handle them at all." ”
"Nonsense, the magic bazooka and magic repeater we use are all provided by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, and they definitely won't give us the best. I'm sure their own magic bazookas and magic repeaters are much more powerful than we do. Count Veron continued to scold. "Besides, the loss of rushing over such a narrow bridge is too great, and if you cross the river, the damage can be minimized. After all, they have too few people?
The cronies nodded again and again: "I understand, Lord Lord, you are really extremely wise. ”
Count Veron snorted coldly, turned his head and continued to frown at the other side of the river.
Although he said it lightly, he also knew that even if he had an absolute advantage in numbers, if he wanted to break through the Abdant River, he would definitely suffer extremely heavy losses.
However, as long as the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can be controlled in the end, then no matter how heavy the losses are, they can bear it.
Anyway, these subordinates are just civilians forcibly recruited from the territory, and it is a big deal to recruit them when they are dead.
As long as you have enough strength, you can conquer a larger territory and have more people.
It's just 10,000 people, it's nothing.
"My lord, someone has flown over. The cronies on the side suddenly raised their hands and pointed to the sky in the distance.
"Flying here?" Count Wilon was stunned for a moment, looked up, and saw a person flying at high speed from the air opposite, and in a moment it had already crossed the wide Abdant River and landed in front of Count Wilun's army.
When someone landed, Count Wei Lun looked at it and was stunned again.
This person is actually Xu Yi!
"Your Excellency, can you come out and have a few words with me?" Xu Yi's gaze shot in the direction where Count Wei Lun was, until it landed on Count Wei Lun's face.
Seeing the faint smile on Xu Yi's face, Count Weilun's heart suddenly jumped, and the expression on his face changed drastically.
He suddenly realized that he had overlooked a very important issue.
When calculating the combat effectiveness of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, he only counted the escort of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but completely ignored an extremely important factor that can play a decisive role in the traditional war on the Sainz continent, that is, the existence of the magician!
Because of the small area and low average population of the Duchy of Stantin, there are not many magicians in the entire principality, let alone a big magician.
Although Lord Weilun now has a large number of soldiers and his strength is far greater than before, there is no magician in his army at all, because all the magicians in the Duchy of Stantin have been recruited by the Grand Duke of Constantine, and the Grand Duke of Stantin does not allow other lords to recruit magicians on their own.
Now seeing Xu Yi flying over from the river, Count Wei Lun immediately thought of this Yan zhòng question.
Compared to him, who has no magicians at all, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has a large number of magicians.
Not to mention anything else, the Magic Research Institute of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce alone currently has a full four hundred and sixty-three magicians, and the lowest is also a fourth-level magician, of which a full one hundred and seventeen are high-level magicians at level six and above.
Not to mention that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce also has a super heavyweight storage zài, that is, Camilla Grand Magician!
Thinking that there are even more than a thousand full-time magicians in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce who are in charge of the third-level and below level 3 magic array of the magic mechanical power core, it is completely certain that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is not only far beyond Count Weilun, but even far beyond the entire Duchy of Stantin in terms of the strength of magicians!
Even, even the young face in front of him, with a sunny smile on his face, and Xu Yi, the president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce who looked harmless to humans and animals, was a powerful ninth-level magician himself! (To be continued......