Text Chapter 398 Gangze Kingdom
After the earl who led the way left, Angelina leaned into Locke's ear and whispered, "Why don't we go to the Gangze Kingdom again?"
The aroma of Angelina's mouth and lips breathed in Locke's ears, but Locke's heart did not wave.
Angelina has been playing these intimate tricks several times a day for the past two months, and Locke has become accustomed to them.
"It seems that the relationship between the Gangze Kingdom and us is not good, is it really okay?" Locke pointed to the evenly matched garrisons on both sides in front of him, full of gunpowder.
"It's good to ask Brother Wang, I think it's okay. Angelina hugged Locke's neck with a look of indifference.
The tripartite border of the Kingdom of Jose, the Kingdom of Gangze, and the Kingdom of Faustan belongs to the southwest of the Kingdom of Faustan geographically.
And in charge of the western defense line is the garrison legion with the title of Kingdom Shield.
As Faustin's territory grew, so did the strength of the four legions, from five to six.
The garrison corps was stationed in the western line of defense, and this border line was one of the garrison points.
The commander of the garrison legion, the Marquis of West Asia, Locke also had several conversations with this marquis when he was in the royal capital, the West Asian family completely serves the royal family, and Locke has a good impression of the Marquis of West Asia, one of the four marquises.
Stationed here was the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Garrison Corps, whose commander was a brave and capable middle-aged knight, and Goldia Sia was his full name.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, the flame message from the royal capital will be completed immediately. Goldia stroked his chest and saluted.
"Yes. Holding Locke in one hand, Angelina watched intently as the mages who accompanied the army built a magic array.
It is true that Angelina is a magic genius, but in the field of magic communication, her specialty is in the teleportation distance, and the communication array built in front of her is a holographic entity communication.
Inheriting Charlotte's magical legacy, Faustin's domestic magical strength has increased by leaps and bounds over the years, and the high-level apprentices are no longer only Angelina's previous mentors, but have emerged to break through to four, plus Angelina herself, it has reached as many as five.
Two of them were former Charlotte magicians, who did not want to leave their homeland and their old land, so they became Faustin and were granted the title of viscount by His Majesty the King.
After a while, above the magic array, a holographic projection of His Majesty Kensel came, and in the flame curtain, Kensel's facial expression was vivid.
"What's the matter?" said King Kensel succinctly.
Building a magic circle is expensive, and it is often only three hourglasses.
"Brother, we want to go to the Gangze Kingdom for a walk!" Angelina jumped out and took Locke's hand and smiled.
"The kingdom of Gangze?" Prince Kensell looked up, looking ahead in contemplation.
There, on the border between the two countries, the number of troops of the two corps on both sides is more than 10,000 soldiers.
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When the delegation set out again, the number of envoys was greatly reduced in order to take into account the tensions between the two countries in recent years.
"Didn't your brother say that there have been a lot of conflicts with the Gangze Kingdom recently, and you still ask to go to the envoy?" On the carriage, Locke asked Angelina helplessly.
"Because I like it. Angelina said with a grin.
Locke has always tried his best to avoid trouble, and he doesn't want to be held back by unnecessary trivialities.
But since Angelina wants to go, Locke will accompany her.
With Locke's current quasi-knight-level strength, as long as it is not encircled and suppressed by an established army, he has not yet taken the general danger into his eyes.
Don't forget, in Angelina's magic pet bag, there is also a high-level demonic beast-level scorpion dragon lying there.
In the envoy corps, His Majesty Kensel did not have many masters, only a high-ranking attendant-level escort captain.
"I heard that the most famous thing in the Gangze Kingdom is the 'Iron Armor Army'?" Angelina knew what Locke was interested in and took the initiative to stir up the topic.
"Well, I've heard of it too. Locke nodded.
The heavy knights of the Likia Alliance, the light cavalry of the Kingdom of Jose, the ironclad army of the Kingdom of Gangze, and the jungle wanderers of the Karaman Kingdom are all powerful troops in the neighboring countries of Faustin, and their combat power cannot be underestimated.
"I wonder if this 'ironclad army' is stronger or weaker than the 'heavy armoured soldiers' of the Marquis of Torida in the Likia Alliance?" Locke sighed.
With a neat military formation, strict discipline, and a heavy momentum, the ironclad army of the Gangze Kingdom gave them a dismount before the envoys arrived.
Speaking of the contradiction between the Gangze Kingdom and Faustin, it can be traced back to the time when Charlotte had just fallen, when the Gangze Kingdom, whose overall strength was not weaker than Faustin, wanted to grab a piece of the Charlotte distribution issue.
However, the birth of the Earth Knight Rom, the deterrence of the overlord O'Mor Empire, and the strong attitude of the previous King Faustin made this conflict of interests come to an end.
In the years that followed, the contradictions between the two sides were deliberately suppressed by the rulers, but some minor frictions were inevitable.
Coming to the front of the convoy of envoys was a mighty knight in full body armor, with a spear in his hand, quite a general's demeanor.
The envoys came with a letter from King Faustin, a general with the strength of a high-ranking attendant, who did not dare to slack off, and quickly sent someone to pass the news back.
Half a day later, the delegation was allowed to enter the country.
A team of hundreds of people walked on both sides of the high mountain cliffs.
I thought that the mountainous area in the northwest of the Likia Alliance was already very difficult to walk, but I didn't expect the Gangze Kingdom to be even worse.
Locke found that the more remote the place, the tougher and tougher the people who lived there.
More than ten years ago, the Kingdom of Gangzawa was comparable to Faustin, and it was also related to the folk customs here.
Unfortunately, the continuous Ganuru Mountains have blocked the communication and contact between Gangze and the countries in the east, making it difficult for it to use its powerful military power to make any progress in the east.
Being able to hoard a legion of soldiers on the border of Faustan must have consumed a lot of logistics in the Gangze Kingdom.
However, there are pros and cons to everything.
The Kingdom of Gangzawa is able to have the 'Iron Army' that is famous in the surrounding countries, and it relies on the precious ore buried under the continuous Ganuru Mountains.
Every year, tens of thousands of miners visit the Ganuru Mountains to make a huge contribution to the steel export of the Gangzawa Kingdom.
These ores are mainly ordinary iron and copper ores, with very few gold and silver ores, and as for the magic ores, they are almost zero, so they have not attracted too much attention from forces such as the Holy Tower and the Hall of Knights.
The main export countries of these ores are the Kingdom of Faustan in the east, the Kingdom of Jose in the south, the Union of Zungar tribes in the north, and the Seramo hill people in the northwest.
There are no permanent enemies, only eternal interests.
Don't look at Faustin and the Gangze Kingdom, there are constant small frictions every year, and they compete with each other, but in the area of commercial trade, the impact is not great.
After all, everyone hasn't torn their faces yet.
"We're mainly going to get in touch with the Marquis of Chegesi in the Kingdom of Gangzawa and hand over the credentials?" Locke asked in the carriage.
A lot of common sense and international situations about the Gangzawa Kingdom, Locke was clear about it under the popularization of a staff officer.
The Marquis of Che Gesi was one of the several marquis in charge of military affairs in the Kingdom of Gangze, and it stands to reason that he was the biggest obstacle to this trip because of the increasingly intensifying border relations between the two countries.
"Yes, this marquis is still a stubborn warlord. Angelina nodded.
"And we're going to find him?" Locke was speechless.
"The contradiction between our two countries is nothing at all in the eyes of the high-level people, and the marquis is peeping at the Andoha Basin in Monstock. Angelina laughed.
Monstock is a small country in the southwest of the Gangze Kingdom, with a population of more than a million, only comparable to the Likian Alliance.
But the country occupies the rich Andoha Basin, which is not only suitable for growing food, but also for growing a wide variety of magical materials.
Locke nodded in understanding, there are two forces above, the Holy Tower and the Knight's Palace, and the Gangze Kingdom wants to gain control of the Andoha Basin through war, which is tantamount to a fool's dream.
Unless they can have a number of first-level knights, magicians, or second-level powerhouses in a short period of time in their country, to increase their right to speak.
Since it cannot be directly through the means of war, it requires a refined game, the tilting of forces from all sides, deterrence, and seemingly equal transactions to be reached.
There are many kinds of battles, and the killing and wounding of soldiers from both countries is only one of them, and there is also an economic war that Locke has never heard of.
Locke thought that he was not good at these activities of using his brain, so he simply pushed Angelina to pay attention to and complete the trivial things during this mission, and he was happy to be leisure, so he regarded it as a tour.
This kind of unenterprising style has attracted Angelina's frequent eyes.
Behind the rolling Ganuru Mountains lies a slightly flattened plateau, where the inhabitants live in the eyes of Locke no different from the commoners of the Kingdom of Faustin. Some Faustins are unreasonable to call the people of the Kingdom of Gangzawa 'savage mountain people'.
The high-ranking squire of the Gangze Kingdom who accompanied them, Locke deliberately approached and found out that this high-ranking squire had just returned from the plane war.
Locke's quasi-knight-level strength, as well as various battle descriptions of the enlivened fairy world, dispelled the 'doubts' of this knight from another country, the real knights are straight intestines, and this mighty general is also one of them.
It didn't take long for him to have a good conversation with Locke and Angelina.
Knights value their companions, no matter how stiff the relationship between the two countries is, but in the plane wars provoked by the knights' palaces, it is rare for the knights of the two hostile countries to pull each other's backs.
The knight's hall is very harsh on the punishment methods for such vicious and incidental events.
From this, Locke thought of the four marquis of the kingdom of Faustin.
They are all knights above the high-level squire, and there are even official knights, but among the four marquises, Locke recognizes as a knight, and only one is the Marquis of Wood, who is far away from the power circle of the royal capital.
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