The gloomy sky was falling with white rain, and the wind carried the coolness of spring and summer, the fat man put the list in his hand on the table, picked up the wine glass on the table and took a sip, and said to Varisien in front of him, "The Tang people have asked to increase the amount of iron ore trade from the current 20,000 jin in three months to 40,000 jin in three months, this appetite is really not small, have the conditions been negotiated? Moreover, such a quantity of minerals needs to enter from the Gallic side, the Tang people have considered the risks involved, and there is no "The fat man's voice paused, and his eyes looked out the window" The other party said that as long as we provide the goods, they will find a way for the rest!" Varisian replied respectfully, "As an additional condition for trade, Tang Ruyue also made a guarantee to open up the entire southwest region of Central Bia, as long as it is my caravan of the Falcon Empire, it can be unimpeded in the southwest of Central Bia" "It seems that the other party has its own hole cards in Gaul, but also, Gaul was defeated by us by three-quarters, and lost Kyoto, everyone is in danger, and there will be no fewer people looking for Central Bia to rely on!" Finding a way to figure out the list of these people will be of great use to us!, you add this to the terms of the negotiation" The fat man withdrew his gaze from the window, under the blue sky, there was a whole fleet of ships waiting to depart, "Okay, this is the negotiation!" Varisian nodded, his eyes paused on the list on the table, it was the Imperial Admiralty, the list of the first batch of qualifications to enter the Inland Sea that was about to be issued,

The forces on the list have been notified and are preparing, in the next few days, they will sail to the Inland Sea under the guidance of a detachment of the empire, and the biggest harvest this time is naturally a dozen or so imperial forces with the strongest military and financial resources, such as the Hulun clan, the Dylans sea clan, and several giants in the business alliance jointly formed a new business group,

This battle made Varisian quite emotional, and the falcon's technique of killing people with a knife had reached an unfathomable state, and it was first borrowed from the hands of the Putao people. Hit hard the local forces of Putao who were resistant to the empire, so that they really knew that if there was no support from the empire, the local forces would be slaughtered, and then took advantage of the general trend of the empire to open the inland sea, and drove the domestic forces to hit the Gangfei people hard, and half of the 60,000 total troops of the Gangfei Empire invaded the Putao area were inexplicably gone, and the Gangnon invasion troops who felt that the time was difficult had to choose to retreat back to the national border.

In this war that was reversed in the blink of an eye, the Empire did not send a single soldier. It was easy to collect the lives of 31,700 soldiers in Gangfei, not only did not pay a single gold coin, but also made a huge profit of millions of dollars in arms and logistics costs.

These forces that are not on the list are still looking for the remnants of the Congo-Africa army even more desperately, and I heard that the north is going crazy, and in order to grab the head, some powerful forces even join forces to try against the border line between the Congo and Africa. It made the Gangfei army on the other side nervous every day, and thought that the main force of the Falcon Empire was going to attack in a big way

Under the huge pressure of competition, the heads of non-soldiers are like futures, and they are scarce and expensive. The price has been rising since mid-April, and the price on the black market has been speculated to twenty gold coins, and there is a trend towards twenty gold coins, which is the spring of the mercenary world. The high rewards attracted a large number of mercenaries,

And today, an even bigger wave is coming.

Varisien's gaze retracted, his fingers clenched together, as the person in charge of controlling the Putao, he had already received the news in advance,

The Lisbonto Black Market, which opens this afternoon, will have a new bounty heading, a price list for non-officers, squad leaders, a shocking 100 gold coins, 500 gold coins for middle captains, 1,500 gold coins for senior commanders, and 15,000 gold coins for generals (infantry regiment commanders and above) "15,000 gold coins for the head!"

Varisien didn't know how to describe the shock in his heart,

And what caused this qiē was the new standard for entering the inland sea that was about to be implemented after the signing of the table of His Majesty.

In this latest proclamation of the Imperial Admiralty, it was written: "In view of the fact that the Congo-African army has begun to withdraw from the northern part of Putao, and the conditions for a large number of headhunters have become unrealistic, the Admiralty has decided to supplement the previous standard in a more reasonable way, that is, the head of a non-junior captain officer can be worth the head of 50 soldiers, the head of a middle captain can be worth the head of 100 soldiers, the commander can be worth the head of 500 soldiers, and the general (including the head of an infantry regiment) can be worth the head of a thousand soldiers."

Have mercy on these poor creatures, O God!

This is a proclamation that even a murderous butcher like Varisian feels chills in his heart, His Majesty seems to hate the Gangfei army that invaded the north, killed the soldiers, and now he is going to start killing the officers, when he came just now, Varisian saw that the front of the naval department was already crowded,

It seems that the news was leaked out in advance, and many people came to confirm it. It is conceivable that after the announcement of the new standard, the forces of all parties that have not yet reached the standard will immediately form a hunting team with thousands of elite mercenary fighters and shooters as the main backbone, and the nightmare of the non-military officers on the opposite side can be regarded as the real beginning.

April will be a month of panic for people who are just inhuman

Sometimes it's a sin that the head is too valuable, the officer is the soul of a force, and this new announcement of His Majesty does not know how many death sentences for non-officers have been sentenced, because the target is set as a specific individual goal, and the small and medium-sized forces that originally felt that the strength was not enough to fight against the team of 1,000 people, this time they also have the ability to move all, and the war has not ended, but has become another form,

The empire is here, and it really doesn't cost a penny, it's completely a kind of hand-to-hand under the general trend.

In the following days, while negotiating with the Tang people, Varisian paid attention to the development of the whole situation, and by the way, he also followed the instructions of the fat man to visit the Duke of Putao, who had been very depressed recently, and the Duke of Putao evacuated in time in the Battle of Amte, and escaped a catastrophe, looking at the collapse of the Gangfei Army that beat the coalition forces of their own side, in front of these miscellaneous troops of the Falcon Army, it was completely devastating,

The local forces of Putao were completely stunned when they saw this scene, the Falcon Empire's counterattack was so rapid, cruel, bloody, and irresistible. They followed behind some miscellaneous troops to take the opportunity to regain some areas, and also saw how terrible the true heritage of the Falcon Empire was, they were stunned to look at those hideous miscellaneous soldiers, and with great interest used the fishing knife to cut the rope net to brutally cut off the heads of the Gangfei soldiers, with a smell of smell, discussing with their companions how many heads they had harvested today, and looking at the leaders of the miscellaneous troops, they seemed to hold a joint meeting to discuss attacking a certain big fortress tomorrow, because there were more Gangfei troops there, and they could get more heads。 And the supporters of the conference are said to have been the generals of the kingdom who commanded an army of 100,000.

Crazy!

Obviously it is a miscellaneous army, the equipment is not as good as itself, and the training is even more of a mess, how can a pair of Shanggang non-army, immediately become a bloodthirsty beast, not afraid of death screaming forward swoop, and the opposite Gangfei army was pushed down. Too violent, too brutal, too bloody, this is a truly powerful empire with millions of mercenaries. In the north of Obaro, he even defeated the Gallic Empire, one of the three major empires, Kyoto, and killed millions of Gallic troops and swept most of Gaul's borders. But most of these contents are just foreign rumors, and the nobles who make a lot of money behind the imperial sea trade will not take these rumors seriously, just listen to them. That country will not put gold on its face, defeated the enemy 100,000 people, and it is not for nothing that the external propaganda says that it has defeated the enemy 1 million people.

Look at the merchant fleet on the sea, look at these merchants who shout in various tones, who would really imagine such a maritime power as the kind of brutal empire that is stubborn on the mainland and kills people like pushing mountains.

But now it is different, the hearts of the nobles of Putao are in shock, they see that it is just these miscellaneous cards, just the tip of the iceberg of the imperial military power, and they already have enough strength and madness that they cannot match, these crazy water watches are not inferior to the combat power of any country's army, in comparison, the previous arrogance of their own forces, and their attitude of not caring about the authority of the empire is simply a joke, do ants have the qualifications to laugh at elephants? The reason why it was not crushed by a foot was because the elephant did not want to move its foot for the arrogance of an ant.

The empire is this elephant, Putao is just a little ant, following the empire to have a future has become the consensus of the Putao nobles, a few days ago Varisien went to visit the Duke of Putao, that guy after a little awkwardness, has spoken directly in our empire's tone,

Hearing Varisien, he was stunned, who is the general of the empire!

The negotiations with the Tang people were finally finalized, as the liaison officer of the Central Biya Empire in the Falcon Empire, Tang Ruyue was an upright guard and self-stealing, the number of 20,000 iron ores between the empire and Central Bia remained unchanged, and the additional two foreign iron ores were shipped to the Tang people, and the Tang people also made a commitment to open up the southwest region of Central Bia and fully support the merchants of the empire.

In the delicate atmosphere, the time entered the beginning of May and summer, the usual shouting sky was free of spring clouds, and the branches of the trees were chirping, which was really a strange atmosphere, the wind stopped completely, and the ground also showed a faint cyan, the sun flashed white luster in the sky, and under the sun, the mountains on the border seemed to be washed by water, vividly "My lord, something happened again last night!" The adjutant pushed away Fabugares's room with an ugly face, "Who is it this time?" Fabugares turned back from the windowsill with a solemn face, his tall figure was wearing a black and gray general's uniform, revealing a gloomy coldness, decisively abandoning the remaining troops in the north, and leading the main force to evacuate with all his might, indicating that he was a cold person at heart, "It's Captain Ross of the Fifth Infantry Regiment, and Squadron Leader Carola of the Seventh Infantry Regiment." They were both attacked on their way home, and the patrol fought each other with all their might, and although they finally killed each other and took back the heads of the two adults, the two adults could no longer be saved!"

The invasion of Putao was a strategic failure, but tactically, Gangfei still obtained a lot of wealth and food from the north of Putao, which was considered to be a temporary solution to the urgent need of the Gangfei court, as for Fabugares, before receiving a reply from the Ministry of War, he decisively chose to evacuate, which caused many people to criticize him at first, and many people denounced it as cowardice and fear of war, but after the news came out that the Falcon army gathered in the north of Putao exceeded 150,000 people, the voice of accusing Fabugarez also disappeared immediately" As the commander of the First Army, it is the duty of the commander to make a correct judgment at a critical moment!" Zhang Marcos of the Ministry of Military Affairs said a fair judgment. Therefore, Fabugarez's military rank was not promoted, and he was already the commander of the entire Southern Army of the Congo, which originally had 200,000 people.

In the southern operation, nearly 100,000 people were knocked out by the fat man, and now the remaining 100,000 people, a total of ten infantry regiments, are all gathered on the border between the southern part of Gangfei and the Putao region, and the recent events have made the southern army anxious. The adjutant looked depressed, and when he thought of the recent outbreak, he couldn't help but show a trace of panic on his face,

The number of Falcon troops on the opposite side is almost 200,000, and the security on the border between Gangnon and Africa is heavily guarded, and the alert level has been raised, but it still can't stop the frequent outbreak of assassinations of officers. These are real outlaws, professional killers, and one of them, the assassination team named Z, is the most famous, and the people of the Gangnon-military are panicked. It is said that its background is the Falcon Empire's largest assassination group, "Assassin", who once infiltrated the mansion of the general of the 11th Step-up Corps of the Gangfei Southern Army, and took advantage of the opportunity of the other party to go to the toilet after the banquet to kill the infantry commander of the 11th Step-Step Regiment in succession. Adjutant, as well as two squadron leaders, three squad leaders. Almost in a small latrine, the command of this infantry regiment was eliminated, and then he was easily paid 50,000 gold coins from his employer, and his fame suddenly rose, and the price of employment approached 100,000, and he also became a figure that made Gangnon officers look different

There are also some deaths of non-officers, it is simply the news of inexplicable deaths, most of them are civilian, compared with the military officers who are guarded by the guards, the death of civilian officers can be described as strange, in fact, the civilian officers have been affected by the "misreading" storm, and the Imperial Admiralty requires the head of the military officer,

But with all kinds of gossip spread to the country, it became a rumor that the heads of all the officers could be exchanged for money, so all kinds of bizarre situations appeared, since the Gangfei people lost the north, and after the winter, they fell into a large-scale shortage of food, and there was also a mark of people exchanging food for food in the black market of Gangfei.

So there are civilian officers who cut off their heads after being suffocated to death after being drunk, and only then do they know that they were prostitutes and concubines who did it, and some were dug out in the middle of the night and cut off their heads after they died of serious illness and fell into the coffin, and the generous remuneration made the tomb robbers change from stealing and digging property to stealing heads, and there were also people who suddenly fell to the ground and convulsed at work, and black blood flowed from their eyes and ears, and in order to find out the reason for falling to the ground, the person was sent to the military medical office and disappeared that night,

The bloodied military doctor surnamed Dandan claimed that he was attacked by thugs halfway, the officer's body was snatched by the thugs, and finally under the strict investigation of the supervision team, the officer's head was found in the black market, there was no mob attack at all, but the military medical supervisor stole and sold it to the black market, in exchange for a few bags of wheat like chaff, the supervision team found out that the military doctor had a sick wife to take care of at home, the child was hungry and cooing, someone pleaded with Fabugares for the military doctor, after all, he had been in the army for so many years, and there were many people who had been treated, and what he sold was just a corpse"If we can all prevaricate for various reasons, tomorrow you and I will lose all our heads! Since he no longer cares about his status as an officer, let's exchange his head for food."

Fabugarez coldly reprimanded the pleading, ordered the doctor to be hanged in front of all the officers, and then cut off his head, and went to the black market to exchange a few bags of wheat for the doctor's family, that night, a raging fire broke out of the doctor's house, and some people wanted to put out the fire, but they were pulled by their companions, "No need to go, it's useless to save it, and now it's better to die than choking to death eating food exchanged for the heads of their relatives!"

In the chaotic May, the cold under the scorching sun was pervasive in the southern army of Gangfei, and panic began to move from the soldiers of Gangfei to the officer level of Gangfei, so that Fabugares had to give a strict order that all officers must now be concentrated in the camp and sent soldiers to protect them, and civilian officers even asked to report to the camp in the morning and evening, and to be escorted by the army when they returned home.

There was already a hot summer feeling outside the window, quietly around, some beetles and flies were flying, and the faint sound made the fat man a little annoyed, and closed the list of the second batch of inland seas in his hand, and the fat man took out the new chart in the drawer and spread it out on the table,

News came from the Imperial Navy that ten days ago, the last stronghold of the Congo Empire on the southern coast, Port Rondo, announced its surrender.

The Imperial Navy has become the de facto controller of the southern coast of Gangfei, and the fifteen forces that first entered the inland sea have each found their own foothold.

The stronghold ports selected by these forces are close to the control area of the Imperial Navy, especially the Huren and Dyrens tribes, because they are the establishment of the Imperial Navy, so they also set up liaison stations in the ports on the southern coast of Gangfei.

It was like a huge fan opening out to the inland sea with the control zone of the Imperial Navy.

The turbulent era of the Inland Sea of the Empire was just begun. (To be continued......)