In June 358 of the year Pandehrah, the Fields launched a surprise attack on Raven City, the capital of the Raven Kingdom.

The Lord of Iron Oak Castle, Haakon 'Shield', led a large fleet to the bay of Raven City, and quickly landed at each end of Raven City.

The total number of pirates, smugglers and mercenaries who landed was close to 3,000.

'Shield' Haakon himself landed on the north side of Raven City with several hundred troops, guarding the bridgehead to the north, preparing to stop the reinforcements from the western part of the Raven Realm.

The Stronghold Lord of Fields Weansen Haravin and the new Lord of Swamp Castle Fat the Fat Lord, Halosgar, landed in Orin Town, south of Raven City, with an army of more than 2,000 men, and led their troops directly to Raven City.

Raven City only had six hundred lone troops, and all of them were second-line troops, plus the king and important lords were all gone, so they could only struggle to support themselves in the face of an attack by four times the size of their Fields.

Fortunately, Queen Ursula in Changge Harbor sent the Falcon Knights to contain the Fieldswigs, so that Raven City was not quickly captured.

It seems that the Fields are in a good situation, but King Vidis is furious when he gets the news.

"Who the hell let Haakon and Haravin attack the Raven Realm?! The Ravens are now our allies! And...... Our ships can't enter the inland sea of Lion Lake at all, where did Haakon get the warship?! ”

King Vidis anxiously stroked his bare scalp and paced back and forth in the camp.

"According to the news from Haakon, it was Ursula who provided you with twenty large and medium-sized warships, which were originally from the Raven people - this business is actually not bad, for us, with these twenty warships, we can completely control the entire Lion Lake Inland Sea, not to mention Raven City, the entire northern part of the continent can only tremble under our fleet......"

'Red Sword' Count Edin calmly analyzed.

"Battleship...... Ha! If those ships were in my hands now, I certainly wouldn't mind turning against the Ravens. But Adin, do you really think that Haakon and Harravin will obey my orders after they get those ships? They attacked Raven City without getting my order, obviously intending to rely on those warships to occupy Raven City and the mouth of the Lion Lake Inland Sea as warlords......"

Vidis gritted his teeth and said, "I am the king of Fieldsway, and the Ravens will only hate me, and their counterattacks will come at me, but what benefit have I gained?" I didn't get anything, and I'm going to get revenge from the Ravens! Duke Adarian, who has fallen into the bay, will definitely send troops to the city of fog cages......"

"The Valkyries are still in Mist Cage City, and they should be able to stop Duke Adarian...... Don't worry so much. ”

Earl Aydin was relieved.

"Perhaps...... But they won't go out of the city to meet the enemy, unless they are paid enough...... However, the economy of Fog Cage City has collapsed......"

Vidis looked at his best friend and smiled bitterly: "Adin, my situation is much worse than you think, I came to attack Lion City this time, in fact, I just want to use Lion City to pay off my debts...... I'm going bankrupt. If Fogcage City becomes a battlefield, I'll be completely bankrupt......"

Aydin was stunned, and then sighed understandingly: "I'm about to go bankrupt too......"

The great lords of Fieldsway are indeed mostly poor now.

Especially the ...... with a little conscience like Vidis and Aydin

More than two years ago, the West Coast was plundered by the fleet of the Bacchus Empire - this was Leon's idea, he made a list of fruits for Mario, and then General Sulla took the Shadow Wolves to buy a handful for Zero Dollar......

Since then, Fieldsway has been massing a large army to fight, and it has continued for two years now, and it has not stopped for a moment.

The tug-of-war in the western part of the Lion Realm has not only brought down the Lion Kingdom, but also Fieldsway, the pirate lords of the West Coast who have never developed agriculture in the first place, and have always relied on commerce, smuggling, piracy, and fishing to sustain their economy.

The continuous war had cut off most of the trade routes that Leon had established in Changhe Town, and the same was true for Fieldsway's side - most of their trade routes were also cut off, and the specialties of the West Coast could not be sold inland at all.

Since most of the troops had to be put into the war, smuggling to the Buckley continent was difficult, and it was difficult for the pirates to make any big business in the past two years, and the looting revenue handed over to Vidis was not much.

As a result, Fieldsway's economic environment is worse day by day, and it is naturally difficult to collect regular business taxes.

Coupled with the continuous war, the protracted tug-of-war in the western part of the Lion Realm swallowed Vidis's wealth like a bottomless pit, but he did not dare to withdraw his troops at that time, and if he did, Agasson and Creon would definitely pursue, which would lead the battlefield to the territory of Fieldsway—when the time comes, the economy will collapse faster.

At the same time, Fieldsway is an allied country, and the relationship between the lord and Vidis is not a relationship of allegiance in the conventional sense, but an alliance cooperation, that is, they are actually equal in status with Vidis.

After all, Vidis was only a big pirate leader before he was elected as the leader of the alliance, and he was not much different from other pirate lords, except that he had the most popular best friends......

Vidis, the king, is essentially more like a marshal, because he can't force orders to any lord, and he summons the lords to send troops to bear most of the money and food.

Although he can share the lion's share of the spoils, the problem is that Fieldsway has not gotten any decent loot in the past two years.

It is true that there is a lot of territory, but those areas are either empty or poor......

Howling Castle had been slaughtered, and the lord was Inna, who didn't listen to orders in the first place;

The village of Short Howl has been plagued by a group of drunkards, and has never been popular;

Fort Kaigne was once occupied by Brennus, and after several heretical crossings, it was so poor that it had no food to eat, and even needed Vidis's military rations to be relieved;

Later, he occupied Azgod, which was originally relatively rich, but after a few months of fighting, Azgold was left with refugees and ruins;

Until a few months ago, Crag Rock Cove and Misty Castle defected to Vidis, who had thought that it was finally time to make a fortune - Crag Rock Cove was a rich land of the first class in the Lion Realm, with a large population and a lot of arable land, and it had always been a good place for money and food.

Unexpectedly, the main reason why Crag Rock Bay defected to him was actually that there was no food to eat—the Three Prophets had been entrenched here before, and in order to deal with Roland, they had created a lot of uncontrolled degenerates.

So the area around Cragrock Bay and Mystery Castle, all the way to the far countryside, no one dared to farm in this large area before, the fields were barren for two seasons, the grass grew taller than people, and there was no grain in Craggy Bay for a long time......

Vidis thought to himself, there should always be a dinar without food, right?

But when he took over Crag Rock, he realized that the dinar in the hands of those nobles had already been finished by Brenus and the Three Prophets in turn......

Moreover, even if you have the money, it is difficult to get food in Fieldsway—there is a shortage of food on the entire West Coast, and only the farmers around Lake Quay in the eastern part of Shining Bay are better at farming, and there is not enough food.

The collapse of the domestic economy, the shortage of grain production, and the ongoing war, the merchants did not dare to do business, which caused the price of food and household goods to increase several times in the whole of Fieldsway.

Vidis and Aydin were conscientious, and they didn't want to rob the civilians under their rule, nor did they want to treat their warriors badly—they both knew that if they plundered civilians at such times, it would be more difficult for the economy to recover.

So they became very poor in these two years.

Vidis, in particular, is already in debt everywhere.

In order to maintain the situation, he borrowed a lot of money, food and materials from those wealthy merchants in Fog Cage City, and also owed a lot of military salaries to the pirate lords.

Fields is no better than other kingdoms, and these debts must be repaid by Vidis, otherwise he will be the end of the king—he is a debt borrowed against the city of foggy cages.

His attack on Lion City this time was actually to pay off his debts.

The Lion City is the center of the entire continent, and the surrounding area is full of the best fields, Vidis plans to move a large number of residents into the area of the Lion City, use his own fog cage city to pay off debts, and then organize farming around the Lion City.

In this way, it only takes one harvest season for him to solve the food problem and thus free the entire country from the economic crisis.

Even if you can't conquer Lion City, you can at least occupy the area of Luxin Lake, and as long as you let the troops stay near Barranli and support it until next year, you can solve the problem.

Unexpectedly, before the Lion City had even started fighting, something was wrong on the side of Craggy Bay - Haakon's attack on Raven City at this time was tantamount to forcing Vidis to a dead end......

The Raven Kingdom and Fieldsway were originally allies, but before the Bacchus Empire and the Lion Kingdom were allied, Vidis could only ally with the Raven Kingdom.

Now tear up the covenant and attack the capital of others, this is a mortal enemy!

A pirate leader like Haakon may not be very sensitive to this kind of diplomatic situation, but Vidis can think with his toes that the Ravens will definitely retaliate at any cost, and whether Raven City will be captured or not, at least Iron Oak Castle and Mist Cage City will definitely be counterattacked by the Ravens.

Haconna bastard got twenty big ships, he didn't care too much about Iron Oak Castle in the first place, he could hide at sea and be free, but Vidis's fog cage city would definitely become a battlefield.

It's not a question of whether the Fog Cage City can be defended, but it can't be allowed to become a battlefield, otherwise Vidis will go bankrupt directly......

In other words, Vidis must retreat to protect the city, and he must not let the flames of war spread to the city.

"Do you want to withdraw your troops? Is there any other way? ”

Aydin sighed, "Although we may not be able to conquer Lion City, we will definitely be able to occupy the cultivated land in the area of Deer Heart Lake...... But if we withdraw now, Leon's troops may pursue us until the area around Fort Changxiao, and the territory they occupied before will be lost. ”

"Throw it away, if I can't keep the Fog Cage City, I'm afraid I'll be thrown directly into the sea......"

Vidis' face was full of depression: "Now we have no allies...... Ursula, hum, Ursula, that woman is a fart! If it would have been good to support her, I would have helped her kill Gregory IV a long time ago! Haakon, this idiot, twenty boats blinded him! ”

Seriously, it's no wonder that Haakon, twenty or more medium-sized warships can blind the eyes of the vast majority of people in this era......

A country, with all its national efforts, may not be able to build so many large and medium-sized warships in three or five years.

Even if a large city were exchanged for dozens of warships, many kings would find it cost-effective.

Haakon stopped Amy and negotiated with her on the condition that he intended to take Raven City and Ursula in exchange for the ships.

However, it was too late for King Vidis to agree, and Haakon took the business privately.

To this end, he demanded twenty ships as a 'down payment' for Ursula to stay in Rock Bay, using Rock Bay as a guarantee to ensure that he would not run away with the ship.

At the same time, 'Ursula' with 400 men in Rock Bay can also prevent Haakon from killing people and seizing ships.

In order to negotiate the deal, the two sides swapped places.

As a result, Crag Bay is now controlled by Amy.

Oh no, it's controlled by 'Ursula' - it's the Falcon Banner in the harbor anyway, and the person who trades with Haakon is also the 'Queen Ursula'.

"I don't think that Haakon leader will actually take Raven City...... He's probably just putting on a show. The friends he found looked like were either smugglers or mercenaries, and it was impossible for this rabble to capture Raven City, right? ”

Boudis said.

"I don't care if they can capture Raven City, even if it's just pretending to attack, I just need him to attack Raven City...... Even if he attacked with all his might, it was indeed impossible to capture Raven City, and Ursula would definitely go to the rescue - I sent a message to Ursula asking her to send someone to support Raven City, and she would definitely go. ”

Amy was in the harbor of Crag Rock Bay, looked at the dozen or so warships left in the harbor, turned to Bao Daisy and said: "Destroy the port, drive the battleship to Lion Lake City, our goal has been achieved, take away all the supplies in Crag Rock Bay, and leave nothing left." ”

"Huh? Don't we occupy Craging Bay? We really gave them twenty ships! At such a big price, just leave? ”

Bao Daisi was stunned: "It is completely possible to occupy Craggy Bay now, they only have more than a hundred people left here, we can deal with it." ”

"There's no need, you can't keep it if you occupy it. Haakon's attack on Raven City is tantamount to Fieldway tearing up the agreement and declaring war on the Raven Kingdom. Even if Haakon was just trying to make a deal with us, Fieldsway's army would have to withdraw from Lion City...... We'll be surrounded by Fields if we stay here. ”

Amy shook her head: "Don't get entangled in one city and one place...... Our goal has been achieved, don't be so greedy. Boat...... Hehe, how can the ship have food, if the whole country can't eat, what's the use of taking more ships? ”

With that, she took off Ursula's helmet, stuck it on the railing of the dock, and headed for the battleship.

Amy spent a lot of effort to deceive people, paid twenty battleships, but got nothing, it looks like a loss?

Boudis pondered.

But Amy doesn't think so.

Her vision is no longer the same as before.

What would Haakon or Harravin, or any other Van Skerry pirate leader, do when they get twenty ships, especially in the Lion Lake Inland Sea?

What would they do if they not only had warships, but also occupied Crag Bay or Raven City?

Will they still obey Vidis's orders?

Sending equipment to the enemy, or even sending a large amount of strategic equipment to the enemy, sometimes does not make the enemy stronger......

Just as Emperor Marius provided two 'reinforcements' to the Lion Kingdom during its most difficult time, the support of Agathon and Creon did not make the Lion Kingdom stronger, but made it impossible for the Lion Kingdom to lift the quagmire of war, and it was trapped in it until Amy abandoned the Lion City and was able to get out.

Now, Ursula has given the ships to the Fields, allowing them to attack Raven City, and the war between Fields and Raven can only continue.

At the same time, Fieldsway will lose all of her allies, and the real Ursula will not consider them as her own - Ursula is in the port of Changge, and if Raven City is in danger, as long as Ursula wants to become the true queen of Raven Realm, she will definitely go to support, and she will definitely be the enemy of Fieldsway.

In other words, Amy single-handedly caused Fieldsway, Raven Kingdom, Ursula, and Haakon to form a new quagmire of war.

(End of chapter)