In the early stage of the Magical Calendar, there had never been a naval battle for countless years before that, let alone a large-scale naval battle with thousands of ships in the late Magical Calendar, so no country had a large navy, and even fewer countries would compete for sea power.

Whether it was the magic calendar or the red moon calendar, the various national regimes were quite stable at that time, and wars rarely broke out, so it was easy for ordinary people to live in such an era.

Especially in the Eminole Continent, more than 70% of the land is plains, and the Xiusi Empire in the southwest of the continent is completely located on the endless Great Plains, except for the Holy Snow Mountain Range in its east, the average altitude of most areas is only 20 meters, this so-called average altitude refers to the average of the highest absolute altitude of 23 meters and the lowest absolute altitude of 17 meters;

The Haiha mercenary empire in the southeast is backed by the most abundant jīng spirit forest on the mainland, and the left hand lightly supports the eastern foot of Shengxue Mountain, facing the sea, the only seemingly bad geography in the country is the fish webbing swamp at the front of the hinterland of the empire, but it is the only place in the entire continent that produces grass coal, smokeless, tasteless and flammable grass coal is a winter luxury item that all wealthy families on the mainland buy at a high price, it seems that the geography is not good, but the living standards of the residents here are in the forefront of the entire continent;

The Flower Language Plain where the Holy Court is located is the holy place that everyone on the continent yearns for, 500 years ago, after the defeat of the Hami people in the Flower Language Plain, the military power of the Amy Empire covered here again, but Amy I kept his promise, in his life, never set up any administrative power on this land, and after 5 years, handed over the ruling power of the entire Flower Language Plain to the Holy Court that was rising on the continent at that time, and sent heavy troops to help the Holy Court to defend the territory, Amy I mentioned many times in his later years that the biggest reason why he did not take the Flower Language Plain was that this land was too fertile, and it was too easy to breed the aristocratic atmosphere, just like a golden birdcageIn fact, most of the chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry have become victims of slaughter in this situation, you know, these poultry still have beautiful feathers, moving singing voices, and proud flying figures in the blue sky 10,000 years ago. The Plains of Flower Language actually made Amy I fearful like a tiger, and the extent of its richness can be imagined.

The eastern part of the Huayu Plain is low hills, and it is these hills that block the wind blowing from the east coast, and even more so the desert that comes with the wind. Due to the xìng ethnicity, there is only one race that can live in the entire desert region - more precisely, the other races may also be able to live here, and only the Harvey, a special race, is not willing to leave the desert, they are made up of hundreds of tribes, each with a population ranging from 1,000 to 10,000, these tribes make up the sacred desert kingdom, most of the people of these deserts live near the three oases, living on cacti and desert lizards. During the day, all the people of the desert kingdom hide behind the sand dunes, and when they are bored, they like to use the fibers of the cactus to weave some tapestries and scarves, the cacti grown in the desert area provide extremely fine fibers, and have excellent tenacity under enough sunlight, these weavings are sold well in the upper classes of the continents.

As for the Amy Empire, not to mention, there are mountains and rivers to the right, and on the right side are extremely rare hills and forests, which provide a lot of wood and minerals.

The extensive continental highways run through the entire continent, not only connecting to the capitals of various countries, but also the larger towns are also covered by the road network, and even some remote villages know the truth: "If you want to get rich, you must first build roads". All kinds of goods are transported around the mainland through the continental highways.

Therefore, not only can the people everywhere rely on the mountains and water, but occasionally some idle people are also attracted by business, transportation, robbers, mercenaries and other ideal and lucrative professions.

Except for a few small coastal villages that are extremely close to the sea and have no access to roads, not many people are willing to deal with the sea, let alone fish for food from the sea.

Because of the above reasons, the simplicity of the map in Horns' hands was unimaginable to the generals of later generations - even such a rudimentary map was drawn from memory by asking the soldiers from fishing in the small mercenary group to gather together, and later, Horns used several collective exercises of the Vulture Brigade to fully cover the sea surface more than 50 miles west of Xilin Island, and then sorted out and drew a new map again.

Horns briefly introduced the origin of the map to the head and deputy head of the regiment, and when he wanted to introduce the situation in detail, Amy motioned for him to wait, and then gently picked up Ying, who was still standing with him, and carried the girl to the bed behind her despite the girl's objections, and pressed the quilt for her. Back at the table again.

Balbas shook his head helplessly and whispered: "I was really moved, Amy's father was almost very good to Amy's mother like this, and Amy's father's gentleness is famous among all the officers and dependents of the entire border guard." It's a pity," Balbás said with a blush of regret on his face.

Horns pointed to the coastal defense map and succinctly introduced it to several key members: "On the sea, once the vulture leaves the land for 50 miles, it will not be able to see the mainland, and it is easy to get lost, and we don't have large ships, so the map boundary you see is only 50 miles. I once sent a team of vulture scouts along the coastline to break through the defense lines of the Empire of Hughes and go 500 miles deep to reconnoitre, and according to the scouts, there is indeed a big war there, and the two sides are in a stalemate. And," Horns' finger pointed again to the southwesternmost corner of the continent, "there is a mighty fleet here, and the flag on it is pure black sè. If you get to Xilin Island from here, it will only take about 4 days. ”

"I thought that I could easily earn some protection money on Xilin Island, and at most I would only kill small pirates or exterminate some bandits, but I didn't expect that now I would want to fight like a regular army. Amy touched her nose and said, "The whole deal is too loss-making, the Red Stone Emperor I made a lot of money this time, and he used the money to buy a sheep to buy a Dixing Dragon back." ”

"It's really unlucky, I knew I wouldn't be a mercenary. Eating people with short mouths and short hands with people, knowing that they are being deceived but taking money, they can only do this for the sake of professional ethics. Amy said helplessly.

"Do you think they're going to attack us, what about our strength now, and do we need to evacuate the inhabitants of the island?" Amy has been busy earning money and her life's work lately, and she doesn't know as much about the current training results of the small mercenary group as Horns, who has been staying on Xilin Island for a long time, and Balbas, who is directly responsible for the training of mercenaries.

Horns shook his head helplessly: "I don't know." Logically speaking, it should not be. At present, the army from overseas is not large enough to fight on several sides. But not necessarily, if I were the commander of the other side, I would definitely attack a country with all my strength first, and this kind of multifaceted combat would definitely be impossible. Therefore, now I feel that the wisdom of the opposing commander's commander cannot be judged by common sense, if it is not a rash and low-level opponent, or the actual strength of the opponent is like an iceberg on the sea, most of which are below the surface of the sea. ”

"Which one do you think is more likely?" Amy asked in a deep voice with squinted eyes.

As far as pure military doctrine is concerned, in the small mercenary group, Horns's talent far exceeds that of Chi Aotian, who was born in a military family, and Balbas, who has been in the military for many years, which is the biggest and most surprising discovery of the small mercenary group in the past nearly a year. It's just that where this rich experience comes from, Horns has never given you a reasonable explanation. The most common explanation is what I see when I read a book, and this explanation is also the most acceptable to everyone, the 200 years of dwarf life, as long as you spend one-tenth of your time reading a book, it will be impossible for humans to surpass.

"Well, I'm leaning towards the latter. Before Horns could finish speaking, Balbas answered: "Yes, I also agree with this view, the Haiha Empire has 50,000 regular troops and 25,000 swordsman troops, and the Mercenary Empire has 60,000 active soldiers and 35,000 swordsman troops, and with the charm of the four mercenary kings, it is no problem to summon another 30,000 mercenaries on the entire continent to help in the war." Even if the Amy Empire is on the same continent, it has not yet thought that two countries will attack at the same time, and it must be prepared to cross the months-long sea route from one continent and run thousands of miles. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the opponent may attack in multiple ways, maybe they will not attack the mainland of the Amy Empire, but if I am the commander of the other party and have surplus troops in my hands, attacking the Lion River and occupying the mainland highway can not only cut off the transportation lifeline of the Haiha Empire, but also the best means to contain the opponent. ”

"So, we've become a battleground for soldiers now?" Amy's words were bitter, his eyes staring at Chi Aotian, he wanted to ask for the opinion of Chi Aotian, who had returned a few days earlier than him.

Chi Aotian nodded slowly.

"So how did the islanders arrange it?"

"They have all been evacuated, and we used the small mercenary group's small funds to invite them all to a small town 100 miles away from here, and informed them that they were going to leave the dragon and predict that there might be a major earthquake here in the next two months, so evacuate in advance. Horns said.

"Hmm...... I can't see that Horns is a genius at lying. This is the best, so that everyone can leave consciously without hurting anyone. Amy joked with Horns.

"What about the troops?"

"This is still relatively optimistic, compared to half a year ago, our number has increased greatly, the Great Swordsman Battalion has a total of 302 people, the Blocking Swordsman Battalion has 90 people, the Demon Swordsman Battalion has 60 people, and the Vulture Swordsman Battalion has 112 people. As Horns said this, Amy was shocked.

The whole two songs mean that there are a total of 52 soldiers and officers in the company, and they are in formation, so it may not be too surprising to be afraid of other troops, but if it is a grassland jīng spirit archer, it is a different matter. Prairie jīng spirit is a branch of jīng spirit, like other jīng spirits, has good night vision, due to living in the grassland for a long time and cannot touch the forest, few people can become a jīng spirit magician who is good at wood magic. The greatest advantage of this race is that they are built on the grassland, compared to the forest jīng spirits, they are tall and good at hunting with bows and arrows in the strong winds of the grassland, therefore, almost every grassland jīng spirit is a natural archer and archer. It is also a talent deliberately recruited by the armies of various countries.

"Hehe, don't be surprised. Horns laughed: "It's a good chance, a jīng spirit tribe in the Huayu Plain heard that there was a war, so they organized some young soldiers to prepare to go to the Haiha Empire to participate in the war - of course, it was to make money, but the recruitment fee given to them by the Haiha Empire was comparable to ours, so we intercepted them before they entered the recruitment point." ”

"Well, yes, now we are almost a regular army except for cavalry, Daqingshan should be the captain of this new battalion, who let us have only you know how to bow and arrow here." Alas, I have to feed 52 more people, and I really hope that the war will start immediately, and send them up to fight, kill, and cut as soon as possible, and then we can reduce some of the ordinary expenses. ”

Hearing such irresponsible words come out of someone's mouth, Horns nervously looked out the door to see if anyone would hear, and Balbas was ready to reach out and plug his gibberish mouth.

"Hey, you're mistaken again, I mean send them to exercise, and then you can save money. Amy flipped through the ledger and helplessly pointed to the financial expenses on the ledger.

Of course, whether it is really a misunderstanding as the head of the group said, I believe everyone knows very well.

"What about tactical preparation?" Amy was testing Horns like a teacher.

Horns pointed his finger at the map again: "We have nailed bamboo spikes all over the beach to the open sea, and we have also covered the perimeter of the island with such spikes to prevent the enemy from going around our backs. Now that the waves have washed away for more than 10 days, unless you step on it, you will never be able to see the nails under the seaweed. ”

"Good dragon, won't we be able to get out too?

"This is reassuring, we left two paths, all the team members know, easy for us to deploy internally, and there is a continent, only a few of us know, in case we can't fight, there is still a way to retreat. Horns had an equally sly smile on his face.

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