After Anka returned to the battleship, he ordered Ellanch to go to Bittel's barracks and inform him of his entry into Cetan.

An hour later, as Bittel's trumpet sounded, the Beastmen's forces evacuated the Setan in an orderly manner and returned to the battleship, after which Anka sailed the battleship out of the harbor and quietly anchored on the sea.

Ankka ordered all weapons on the ship to be directed at the harbor to deter Racetam and prevent Kalan's army from taking control of the harbor.

The next day, Kalan's army arrived at the city of King Citan, where they saw the Kades' army, which was also stationed there, showing suspicion and hostility.

Commander Kahlan retorted, "You bastards dare to attack the allies of the great Karan! ”

Bitter slowly unfolded the letter for help written by the king himself, and said, "You can see that we are here to help defend our allies against the Beastmen. ”

"Where are the beastmen? You are a bunch of liars! ”

"Aren't the beastmen roaring? Didn't you hear? ”

The two of them confronted each other in the royal city with their teams, and after their own judgment, they very tacitly concluded that if they started fighting now, both sides would lose both, so they all began to stare at each other vigilantly.

The two knew that all they had to do now was to control their soldiers and not make a sudden move.

During the night, the commander of Kalan's army entered the palace and pulled the king out of bed and asked, "Why do you want to allow the troops of Kades to enter Cetan?" How dare you break the covenant between us! ”

The king trembled and faced the commander, who was much taller than himself, and said, "Where were you when my palace was attacked?" ”

The commander slowly retreated, "It will take time for us to arrive, and you have strongly urged us to only garrison a city far from your palace. ”

"Those beastmen control the northern harbor on your ship, and if it weren't for that, my soldiers would never have let them into the harbor easily."

The commander thought to himself: "Our ship? It seems that the subordinate pirate of the Navy failed in the operation. ”

The king sat on the bed and looked at the commander and asked, "Why don't you go yet?" ”

"Your Majesty, aren't you going to stop us from fighting on your soil?"

"Do I have what it takes to stop it?"

"Since Your Majesty is a smart man, I hope you can make the right choice."

After the commander returned to the camp, communication with the admiral began.

The commander yelled: "Useless sea fish! Your pirates are all a bunch of rubbish! ”

The general said with a displeased face: "I am a naval admiral, and you, as a front-line commander, are not qualified to talk to me like this, nor are you qualified to comment on those warriors who were allowed to join the supernumerary army by the code promulgated by the former king himself!" ”

"You are the admiral of the navy, not my admiral, I ask you to immediately send ships to occupy the northern harbor of Sitan to oppress the Kades army here and get them out of here."

"You should learn how to talk to my boss, have you gone to the military academy for nothing?"

"I only learned how to fight there, but I didn't learn how to flatter officers who were higher than me."

After the two ended the communication angrily, the commander still said to his advisor next to him, "I said a long time ago that these sea fish are a bunch of waste!" The empire should not tilt resources towards them. ”

An advisor said calmly: "Shouldn't you go first to see if the warships in the northern ports are Imperial warships?" In the unlikely event that the Kahlan fleet arrives in a few days and discovers that it is not an Imperial warship, those navies will most likely attack you with this matter. ”

The commander said with a nonchalant face: "My scout told me a long time ago that it was an Imperial warship, and it has always been in combat condition. ”

"Then why don't you catch the beastmen above and tell the king that these are the tricks of the Kades side!"

"A fleet of that size is not easy to fight, and now it's still on the sea, how can you let me go up there and catch beasts!"

"Then if they stop on the surface of the sea and have no supplies, they will leave in a few days."

The commander suddenly said with a worried face: "If the sea fish arrived and didn't see those warships, would it also think that we were deceiving them?" What a hassle! ”

"You should now pay close attention to the movements of the Cades army, I heard that they have another force that has crossed the Western Mountains to our border," said the advisor. ”

"There is no problem for the First Princesses to guard there, besides, I don't think they dare to directly attack the empire itself, and now that they are in the whole territory of Xitan, we know that there are tens of thousands of people, presumably they can't tell how many soldiers they must be bluffing."

(Cades Barracks)

Ankh looked at the map of Sitan and the deployment of the Cades army and said worriedly, "If they reoccupy the northern port, they will probably push us back to the other side of the Tata River." ”

Bittel said: "We also have warships now, and the battle for the northern port should not be completed in an instant, and we still have a lot of time." ”

"The supplies on it can only be transported by Wyvern at the moment, and if we are completely trapped at sea in the event of an attack, our hard-won warships are likely to change hands again."

"Do you want to avoid the loss of your battleship?"

Ankka nodded in response, but seemed to waver in thought, and his expression changed slightly.

"You want these ships to be useful, but you don't want them to be destroyed or recaptured?"

"Well, it's a bit hard to choose!"

Bittel pointed to the port north of Karan and said, "We can get here all the way west, why don't we let these warships disguise themselves as damaged Karan ships to enter the harbor there and take control there?" ”

"Are we ready for an all-out war with Kahlan?"

Bit fell silent in an instant, both of them knew that with the national strength of Kades, if there was no Anka, it would be a luxury to restore the country, let alone start an all-out war with the Karan Kingdom, which has hundreds of thousands of troops and hundreds of warships, and even the pressure on logistics is different.

Ankh got up and said, "Maybe we can consider King Sitan." ”

"What does that mean?"

"If we have a good relationship with the King of Setan and the people of Racetam, so that they will recognize us as their best ally, then even if we fight against Kalan, we can get the help of the nearest logistics supply and the number of the Racetam army close to our national army, and we can also tell those other small countries that our Kades are completely different from Kalan."

Bitter nodded and said, "I'll prepare for the propaganda, but will those wall factions really side with us because we're better for them?" ”

"We should also find an opportunity to really defeat Karan's army with the Kades army, so that those wall grasses will know that our strength is not weak, at least we can shelter them."

(Kingdom of Karan)

Inside Muttar's manor, an angry admiral sat on the fire and waited for his master.

Mutar and his tired son went downstairs to greet the guests.

He took off his top hat and sat across from the general and asked, "Is there something about the general coming here so early?" ”

"How's the boat I let you make?"

"A total of fifteen new warships are stored in the harbor under the name of the Mutar family."

"I'm going to use it tomorrow!"

Mutar handed out a cup of tea and asked, "Is it because of what?" ”

"The pirate forces I control, the pirates you once hired, were not only defeated but also lost their ships after attacking the Sawtooth Coast, and the beastmen used our warships as a camouflage to control the northern harbor of Sitan."

Mutar replied with some nonchalant, "That's strange, the beastmen don't have brains like that. ”

"I'm also wondering if there are traitors in the service of the Cades among us, I've heard that the Beastmen enlisted the help of the Cades Frontier Force an hour after the attack on the King of Cades, and that the Beastmen all left after the Cades sounded the horn of the attack."

Mutar and his son Kobaezan immediately shivered for a while, but quickly concealed it, Mutar raised the tea and said, "Don't think about it, how can Kades have nothing and the resources to control the noble Karans?" ”

"You're right, friend."