The city of Osgilia itself is a peninsula jutting out into the sea, surrounded by the sea on three sides, but only on the south side is a flat beach, and on the other two sides are steep cliffs up to 10 meters high!

The whole of Osgilia was built on such a blessed environment.

In addition to the most majestic city wall on the continent to the west, the other passage in and out of this majestic city is on the sea, and the only landing point is the flat beach that the city inevitably affords, the port and wharf of Osgilia.

Known as the "insurmountable city", the western walls of Osgilia are naturally famous all over the world, "and similarly, the defense of the southern port coastline is also known to the world."

Even Landis, a maritime power with the world's most powerful navy, could only shake his head and sigh in the face of the city's coastal defense.

Only the beach in the south of Osgilia is relatively flat, this is a natural deep-water harbor, a half-moon arc of the harbor terrain, on both sides of the steep half-slope cliffs, and at the mouth of this harbor, the terrain extending out on both sides, respectively, built a wall, and in front of the mouth of the sea built a two-mile-long seawall!

The topography made the harbor of Osgilia seem to be in the shape of an impregnable funnel, "and right on the coast were built tall lookout towers, all of which were made of great rock, and whose bases were even cast of iron juice, so strong that the scalp was tingling. There are at least thirty of these towers along this line of defense along the harbor wharf, looking down on the front of the harbor, and there is no blind spot in the visual JL in the first place.

Secondly, these towers are equipped with a large number of ballistas, these are heavy ordnance specially designed to attack ships at sea, each ballista, can fire a range of at least 500 meters of giant crossbow arrows, this kind of crossbow arrows are huge, can directly penetrate the hull deck, mixed with fire oil, can directly cause ships at sea to suffer great trauma.

It is said that at the beginning of the construction of the city, in order to strengthen the defense of the sea, a number of ships loaded with a large amount of stone were even specially scuttled on the surface of the sea!

And in the event of war, the area suitable for the landing of the army in the harbor area is very narrow, only less than ten miles of sandy beach, and this beach is all shrouded under the high slope, and a number of towers have been built on the high slope, once the enemy puts small boats on the sea to transport troops and tries to land, then two battalions of archers are stationed on this high ground, and the range of the bow and arrow can directly completely cover the landing beach, if the enemy tries to land from here with small boat transports." Then there will undoubtedly be a bloody massacre.

More importantly9!j, in order to prevent the threat of a strong hostile port at sea, a small royal fleet was stationed in the harbor area of Osgilia all year round. This fleet was nominally subordinate to the Imperial Navy, but in fact, from the beginning of its establishment, it was firmly controlled by the royal family, and the fleet generals of the past generations were the most loyal to the royal family.

The size of this fleet was not large, only 2,000 sailors, and more than a dozen small and medium-sized warships, although the scale was not large, but it was enough to meet the defense of the harbor. Anyway, the only thing that needs to be defended is a narrow area such as a safe waterway at the mouth of the sea, and this small fleet is enough. Moreover, half of the ships in the current small fleet are new ships produced by Landis, which were purchased by the royal family with a lot of money.

The defense line on such a coastline is high and low, far and near, and deep. Even many years ago, an admiral of the Randijin Empire sent an envoy to Byzantium in the name of a visit between the two countries, and after observing this sea defense line with his own eyes in Osgilia, he could not help but sigh: Such a line of defense, even if I give the best fleet of the kingdom, if I want to successfully land, I am afraid that most of the casualties will be crushed.

These days, Osgilia was under siege by the rebels, and the western walled area was in full swing. But the rebels were slow to attack Osgilia from the sea because of the presence of such a strong defensive line. The rebels themselves did not have any military strength at sea, and they had no strength to fight at sea, so they could only concentrate all their ships and reluctantly block them on the sea to achieve the purpose of besieging Osgilia, but if they wanted to attack from here, they would never be able to do it.

And the royal fleet in the harbor was too small, the defense was okay, and it was not able to go to sea to fight.

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After the advent of the war, the once prosperous harbor area had long since become silent and down, and the royal fleet of the military port took over the original civilian dock area, and at the same time, the soldiers of the city guard who were transferred to guard the coast firmly guarded. And because of the blockade of the rebel fleet at sea, no foreign merchant ships could enter Osgilia anyway, and the fleets of some chambers of commerce that originally stayed in Osgilia were forced to anchor in civilian harbors. Since the beginning of the war, Osgilia has entered a period of military administration, and the warehouses of some of the original merchant groups in the harbor area have also been occupied by the military, and all useful materials have been requisitioned. Of course, the chamber of commerce that has been requisitioned ships and materials can negotiate with the central government in the city and get a compensation - this decision was insisted on by Prime Minister Salembonili, who resolutely opposed the army's expropriation of the property of the chamber of commerce in the port area without compensation, and the prime minister's reason was very clear: these chambers of commerce are dead to the face of the forces on the continent, and we cannot offend all these guys in order to win a war. Otherwise, even if we win the battlefield for a while, we will face enemies all over the world!

Of course, the army also forcibly raided some chambers of commerce that secretly supported the forces of the governors of the Tema Military Region according to intelligence. This decision was also approved by the prime minister.

For all commercial transactions had ceased, and the great harbor looked deserted at the moment, with all the shops closed, and only a few defenders occasionally passing by.

Only on the square of the port, the Imperial Eagle flag is still fluttering on the flagpole.

Adric and his party were galloping through the city, and before the horse team rushed into the harbor area, Adric heard the rapid sound of a warning horn from the towers of the sea in the distance.

In the distance, in the area of the military port, the small Royal Navy fleet, several warships have anchored and set sail, and the sailors are busy nervously under the ships.

Adric turned over and dismounted, and immediately rushed over, only to see the officers of the defending army in the harbor area running towards him.

"What-what's going on?"

Adric's expression was complicated. "Your Excellency, it has been determined that it is not a rebel ship.

Responsible for guarding the harbor area is a banner regiment of the city guard, and at the same time there is also the commander of the Royal Navy fleet, this commander is mediocre in appearance, in fact, as far as Adric knows, this guy's talent is also mediocre, the only desirable thing is that he is calm and cautious by nature, but this temperament, to say that it sounds steady; The emperor chose such a person to command the only naval fleet in the hands of the imperial family, but it was precisely this kind of temperament that took a fancy to this naval fleet, as long as it defended a limited area, it did not need to be aggressive, as long as it acted safely and did not make mistakes.

Of course, more importantly, this guy is from a noble group that is loyal to the royal family,

The admiral silently went to Adric's face, and after saluting, handed Adric a solitary telescope: "My lord, you can see for yourself." ”

Adrick frowned, strode up the high slope, and looked out into the sea.

In the distance, beyond the horseshoe-shaped sea in front of the harbor, on the vast sea, the two fleets spread out on the sea, and a momentum of confrontation was being put on a confrontation.

There is a fleet on the periphery, there are hundreds of ships, large and small, but most of them are small and medium-sized ships, and most of them are civilian ships, which look like a rabble of temporary conscriptions, and the flags are also mixed, obviously belonging to those rebels.

The other fleet is noticeably different. The large black ships, all of which were the most advanced three-masted warships invented by the Landisians, were built with double decks and long-range ballistas and cannons, making them sturdy. The draft is also noticeably deep. On top of that, the fleet consisted of thirty ships, four of which were large ships, and eight medium-sized frigates. The twelve warships of this size made a very standard circular defensive array on the periphery of the fleet, and the rain on the inside of the fleet was like a large transporter.

This fleet, however, did not hang any flags.

The ships of this fleet sailed in a very tight queue, obviously all elite, and the warships kept trying to bombard them with ballistas around them, deterring the rebel fleets in the distance from not daring to approach, so they swaggered through the rebels' naval blockade, and although the rebels surrounded them in the distance, they did not dare to approach at all.

The fleet was out of range of the harbor and remained in defensive formation, except that one of the large ships raised a flag in the direction of the harbor.

Although Adric is an army general, when he was studying at the Imperial Capital Military Academy in his early years, he also learned the flag language used by the navy.

The admiral next to him said in a low voice, "The other party has already waved the flag several times, and we haven't received your order, we don't know how to reply, we've been waiting." ”

Adric let out an "um", "Ask them to identify themselves." ”

His order was worn, and the Imperial defenders on the tower immediately raised the flag F6, and within a few minutes of Gu·1, Adric replied with the flag on the ship he saw in his telescope.

"We are here for friendship. ”

At this moment, everyone was watching Adric closely, waiting for the order of the current supreme commander of the empire's army. Adric furrowed his brows, his eyes were a little weird, and suddenly showed a smile: "Let them send a small boat to enter the harbor from the waterway." Well, our boats will also go up, block the safe waterways, let only one small boat in, and if they make a rash move, they will fight back immediately!"

Time passed slowly in a tense atmosphere, and the fleet in the distance, after receiving the flag from the shore, quickly separated into a small transport ship, and in the harbor area, the small royal fleet also sent a few warships, blocking the waterway, leaving only a gap.

The other party's small boat finally crossed the waterway and slowly sailed into the dock under the vigilant gaze of the royal fleet, and when it landed, a group of defenders was already guarding the shore, and there were archers on standby in the distance.

A small plank was laid out from the boat, and immediately under the watchful eye of the defenders on the shore, several sailors jumped out of the boat, tied the ropes, and stood aside with their hands spread out, to show that there was no hostility.

Adrick stood on the dock and watched carefully, the sailors on the other side were obviously dressed as Lantisians, with turbans around their heads.

Soon, a few people came down from the boat, all of whom were dressed in tight short robes, and the first one was tall and burly, but the beard on his face was very neatly built, and there were no stains on his turbans, and his leather boots were polished.

The man strode up to the dock with a few followers, slowly walking towards the shore, and at Adric's signal, the defenders got out of the way and let the man go directly to the dock.

As soon as he saw this person, Adric's face suddenly became very exciting, he took a deep breath, and his eyes finally relaxed; "Well, it's this guy, I'll go meet him." ”

Immediately, a subordinate general next to him persuaded, "Your Excellency, you are the commander of the whole army, these people are of unknown origin, or are you ......?"

"No, I know this guy. ”

With that, Adric strode up.

On the dock, the two people walked face to face, this guy saw Adric from a distance, as if he was stunned for a moment, and then the rough face showed a smile, and walked in front of him, without wishing the vigilant eyes of the guards next to Adric, and laughed loudly, "Haha, I didn't expect that it was the famous general Bahu to greet me." Lord Adric, do you need to come out to greet such a small person as me?

Adric stood in place, squinting at each other, and after a while, he sneered: "How can I not welcome the famous 'Storm Child' coming."

The other party suddenly looked a little surprised, and touched his face with a wry smile: "You actually recognize me?

Adrick still stood in place, and said lightly, "The famous 'Son of the Storm, the pride of the Landis Navy, one of the three great masters of the Navy of the Landis Kingdom, and one of the thirty elders of the Legion Medal...... Dear Monsieur Gislent......" At this, Adric's eyes finally showed a smile, "It's also a coincidence, I remember your appearance because...... Many years ago, when you were not famous in your early years, you once went to our country with the military mission of your country, and you also studied the history of war in our imperial academy as an exchange student. Hehe, you must remember what happened when you were studying in Osgiria?"

Adric deliberately slowed down his speech, and said with a slow smile: "That year, in the Imperial Academy, you had a conflict with a group of exchange cadet officers from the Landis Kingdom and our students, and we had a competition in the back alley of Oak Street at night, when a friend of mine had a fight with you, you broke his two ribs, but he broke your jaw......"

The guy named Gislent was stunned for a moment: "Ah, I-remember. It's that guy Green, this mad dog...... Hehe. Your Excellency the Minister of War, were you here at that time?"

Adrick laughed a few times and walked over, stepped forward and hugged Gislent, and when the two hugged in a friendly way, Adrick whispered quickly in Gislent's ear: "That night, I was the one who covered your face next to Green and hit your head with a stick." ”

Ghislent's eyebrows furrowed, with a smile in his eyes, and he said quickly: "I remember, you also kicked me at that time." ”

After the two finished speaking, they looked at each other and smiled, and then parted, Adric looked into Gislent's eyes, "Venerable General Lantis came to our country at such a delicate time...... Your Excellency, please explain your intentions!"

Gislent smiled, "Our standard-bearer has already passed on the meaning, and we are here for friendship...... Of course, for reasons that you and I both know well, we won't be able to make a name for ourselves. ”

Adric took a deep breath and stared at Gislent, "Can you represent your country's position? So, the Kingdom of Lantis is on the side of my emperor's allies?"

"His Majesty the King has a word. Gislent also replied solemnly, "We cannot sit idly by and watch a noble king be ousted from the throne, because it is not in accordance with tradition. ”

Speaking of this, Gislent smiled: "I am the commander of this fleet, and in order to show my sincerity, I have brought a few escorts ashore alone...... I believe that Your Excellency will no longer doubt such sincerity. ”

Adric shook his head: "This reason is not enough. The life of the Children of the Storm, as precious as it is, is not enough for me to risk the destruction of the city to let in your fleet. ”

Gislent looked at Adric's face, and after a moment, he smiled again.

"Is it enough for a divided Byzantine Empire to be in Lantis' interest? ”

After a pause, Ghislent smiled: "Of course, our support is limited...... I have brought with me only my fleet and some transports, which contain the supplies that the army is most needed at the moment, and my army has been ordered not to take the initiative to go to war against the navy of your rebels until it is absolutely necessary.

And we will provide Osgillia with a precious and safe sea transportation line—this is the friendship that I bring to Lantis. But ......"

Speaking of this, Gislent deliberately paused, shut up, and looked at Adric.

Adric snorted, "But...... If we are unfortunately defeated, then you will not recognize us as our allies, and you will even immediately turn to those rebels to help them gain a foothold as soon as possible?

"I'm sorry, but the relationship between the nations is such a thing, we just need a whole force to slow down the expansion of the Odin on the continent. As for whether this force is you or those rebels, it doesn't make much difference to us in essence. You and I are no strangers to this kind of thing. Gislent blinked deliberately: "But fortunately, according to the analysis of our intelligence system now, it is more valuable to choose to support you than to choose to support those rebels."

Adric said "hey", turned his head to look at the guards behind him, and waved his hand, "Tell the fleet, get out of the way." ”

He glanced at Gislent again: "Your ships are not allowed to come near the docks, only the transports are allowed to dock, and they must be under the supervision of my army. ”

"It's a reasonable request, and I accept it. ”

As he spoke, Gislent whistled, and on the transport ship at the dock, a sailor took out a rocket and shot it into the sky.

"Let's go. Gislent looked very relaxed: "I have not traveled far away, and your Excellency must invite me to drink two glasses...... Uh, by the way, I'm unofficial, well, no credentials, no envoys, no official covenants. Haha, Your Excellency, please treat us as a non-governmental business group and spontaneously fund your country...... Therefore, I do not need to meet His Majesty the Emperor of your country. Look at me, I'm not wearing a military uniform. ”

Adrik smiled reservedly: "Let's go, we Byzantines have always welcomed friends...... If you drink alcohol, there is no problem. I remember the kick you kicked me back then. ”

Speaking of this, Adric paused, and his eyes became very strange, "I have a question that I am very curious about: your country's intelligence system, on what basis does it lead to the results that we are more valuable than those rebels?

"It's something that those politicians think about. Gislent waved his hand, "I'm just a soldier who does what I'm told." But personally, I also hope that you can win this war, otherwise...... In the future, we will still talk to those rebels for peace, but I am afraid that in order to make a show and mend the relationship between the two sides, those politicians will also throw me out and use me as a scapegoat temporarily. Hah!"