Baran Township,

An important trading port in the north of Crewe, and the only port where the Empire communicates with the Goblins, trading with the Goblins here each year is equivalent to a quarter of the total trade with the rest of the Empire.

This is the most complete trade market in the Ailan continent.

The best furs of the orc tribes, highland beef, spices, raw ores, the high-quality silk, fruits, wheat, all kinds of wine in the empire, and the goblins are well-made furniture, fine salt, sake, etc...

No matter what the commodity, expensive and cheap,

All the goods that can be called in the Alan continent can be bought in Balan Town,

If not, you just need to report the characteristics of the product you need, and within a week, you can have as many as you want!

In other words, Balan is a transit point for goods from the East and West Continents.

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Kemitchell Military Port,

Located twenty miles east of the town of Balan,

The Reagan family's own fleet was stationed here, and this fleet also had a name, the Fifth Mixed Fleet of the Empire.

The fleet was formed fifty years ago, and its main mission was to combat pirates who were rampant in the northeastern seas of the Empire.

Pirates, a by-product of the thriving trade.

Most people dream of getting rich overnight,

Playing at sea is obviously the best and shortest option.

The formation of this fleet was prompted by a kidnapping 50 years ago: a group of deranged pirates attacked a village fifty miles east of the town of Balan and kidnapped everyone in the village.

Soon after, two villagers escaped.

The locals of Balan described the scene as if they had escaped from hell, their left eye bleeding, their empty eye full of disgusting maggots gnawing at their wounds, one of them having his tongue cut off, and the other had his luck with most of his tongue left, and their misery was told through the man who had half a tongue.

According to the official records of the town of Balan,

The kidnapped women were kept in cages like animals for the pirates' amusement, the old and the small were used as tools for their killing contests, and the young men, as they are now, were gouged out of their left eyes and their tongues cut out and sold to the orc tribe as drudgers in the mines.

Soon, the tragic plight of the village was spread by taverns all over the country.

Soon after, it reached the ears of the Duke of Vernal, the ruler of Kru at the time.

It was against this background that the fleet was built.

However, the fleet's early performance was not satisfactory, and it was mostly at a disadvantage in the confrontation with pirates, not to mention taking the initiative to find a pirate gathering point and then annihilate it.

At first, the task of this fleet could only be ordinary escort any.

This situation lasted until thirteen years ago.

Thirteen years ago, Duke Nick and Emperor Laubert were pursued in the town of Yekjar, and finally escaped by boat to the town of Sekka with the help of Gusel.

At that time, the escort mission was a mercenary group, a mercenary group that lived on pirates on bounties at sea, and now, the leader of this mercenary group, Colonel Fred, is the commander of this fleet.

It was Colonel Fred who changed the navy in Balan, who changed the fleet.

During the ten years that Colonel Fred was the commander of the fleet, the fleet swept through all the pirates off the coast of Balan, ensuring the security of the sea route between Balan and Seka.

Now, when the coastal villages and towns of Kru Ling mention the navy in Balan, they can't help but give a thumbs up.

The young people of the nearby fishing village are proud to join the navy in Balan.

May 16,

Colonel Fred received an order to blockade the sea area adjacent to the town of Baran.

Colonel Fred then divided the mixed fleet stationed at the military port of Comichel into three groups and patrolled the entire open sea of Balan day and night, prohibiting the passage of any unofficial ships.

Afternoon

The mayor of the town, Baron Winter, received a summons from Duke Nick's Blood Eagle, so he secretly dispatched a squadron of soldiers from the city defense army to be stationed in the western district to monitor the goblins there.

The western side of the town of Baran,

It is a neighborhood that has been built in recent decades at the expense of foreign merchants, and is mostly inhabited by foreigners, mostly goblins and dwarves, and occasionally some adventurous young elves.

On the 17th,

Perhaps Duke Nick was afraid that Baron Winter would not pay enough attention to it, so he sent his own messenger to Balan via magical teleportation, and brought his own letter,

In the afternoon of the same day, ten magicians were sent from Crewe to survey the entire town.

In the evening, the war report of the Hoko Islands reached the ears of Baron Winter through special channels,

Three hours later, a thousand city defense troops mobilized from all over the country were stationed in Balan under the cover of night, and five squadrons of soldiers were stationed in the western district.

Early in the morning of the 18th,

Baron Winter personally arrived in the West End and declared martial law on the entire neighborhood, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving.

In the evening, martial law was protested en masse by merchants, but it was quickly suppressed.

On the 21st, the news of the fall of the Anku fortress came,

In the afternoon, Baron Winter, who had received an order from Fort Kavar in the city of Crewe, led the soldiers of the city defense army to begin driving away the goblins of the western side, and ordered them to move out of Balan at once.

On the afternoon of the 22nd, the Locke Empire officially severed diplomatic relations with the goblins' Clarkley Trading Kingdom, and the goblins in various parts of the empire were expelled by the local government.

At ten o'clock in the morning of the 23rd, the clipper sent by the Fifth Mixed Fleet of the Port of the Michel Military Port in Balan Town detected the traces of the goblin advance fleet.

Colonel Fred immediately sent the news to Fort Kaval.

When Lady Saviara, who stayed behind in Fort Kaval, got the news, she didn't take the time to ask her son who was on an expedition or her husband who was on an expedition to the elven kingdom what to do, but gave Colonel Fred an order directly,

Her order was simple: to defend the town of Balan as best she could.

At half past four in the morning of the 24th,

Balantown's fleet sets sail to take on the Goblin Advance Fleet!

Ten hours later,

The two fleets met near the Dip Islands,

After three hours of fierce fighting, Colonel Fred, who had already won, was betrayed.

Colonel Fred was betrayed by his first mate, Lieutenant Colonel Quincy, and his five giant sailing ships and twenty schooners.

At the same time, this lieutenant colonel was also the deputy head of the mercenary regiment during the period of Colonel Fred.

When the colonel loudly questioned the other party why,

Quincy replied calmly: "I want more for myself, and you can't give me more, and the big people sitting in the castle of Kaval can't give it to me, so I can only get it myself." ”

Colonel Fred was surrounded.

In front was the advance fleet of goblins who had just fled, and behind and on the flanks were former subordinates.

Just when Colonel Fred was desperate, he was rescued by a fleet of pirates, led by the Colonel's 'Buck Pirate Regiment', who wanted to exterminate him!

This scuffle lasted until the next morning.

Eventually, the fleets of both sides retreated separately with the Dip Islands as the boundary.

"Why?"

When it was completely secure, Colonel Fred asked the pirate Buck the same question.

"I want to live like a human being, my brother and I have always wanted to return to the Empire, but I didn't have a chance, because I was born a pirate, so give me a chance, and these brothers of mine also need such a chance. ”

The colonel was not satisfied with this answer at all, but he was silent for a few seconds and then nodded and said, "You got this opportunity!"

On the morning of the 25th,

Colonel Fred returned to the port of Kmitchell with the remnants of his remnants and the 'Buck Pirates' fleet, but one bad news after another awaited him,

First, the news of the assassination of Baron Winter and the evacuation of the city defense from the town of Balan.

Fort Caval then ordered the town of Balan to be defenced, and all the townspeople had to move to the Fedron steppes west of it at a fixed time to wait for receiving.

Soon after, Colonel Fred also received an order to his fleet to rush to the town of Seka for repairs.

"They're going to give up the town of Balan. The colonel muttered to himself after receiving the order.

Buck smiled when he heard this, "This is a wise decision, Balan can't hold it, and, according to my information, the center of gravity of the empire at this moment is not in Crewe. ”

"But there are at least 200,000 civilians in the area around Balan!" said Colonel Fred, bitter.

"You're more of a nobleman than a nobleman!" Buck commented.

"You're laughing at me?"

"No, I'm complimenting you from the bottom of my heart. "So, what about your decision?"

Fred was silent for a while and then said: "You go first, take the main force of the fleet to Sekka Town first, my people will follow you, and besides, I have already reported your affairs, there should be someone in Seka Town who wants to see you, you better put away some of your bad habits, after all, those people are not as easy to talk to as me." ”

"I'll keep it in mind. Buck smiled humbly.

On the 28th,

The two-day migration of the northern territories of Crewe has stopped,

On the 29th, a large goblin fleet arrived in Balan, and the orc expeditionary force landed in Crewe, and Balan was surrendered, and the orcs occupied the second largest city in Crewe with almost no soldiers.

In the afternoon, the two thousand elite orcs continued south,

Two hours later, the southbound unit was about to sack a small village east of the town of Balan when it encountered resistance from one of the troops.

It was Colonel Fred's peasant army.

He disobeyed orders, stayed, and opened the armory of the military port when the orcs invaded Balan, armed some able-bodied civilians, and led them to retreat overland towards the town of Seka,

However, his team marched too slowly, and was eventually discovered by the orc patrol going south.

After a brief engagement, Fred's peasant army was defeated and he himself was seriously wounded, and was eventually rescued by several villagers and fled into the nearby primeval jungle.

...

On June 2, Pedi received news that his family's territory had been invaded by orcs.

At the same time, he also received an order from the military department,

A ridiculous order!

Duke Eric, the Minister of War, personally issued an order ordering him to end the war with the barbarians in the area of the fortress of Koren as soon as possible, and to lead his troops to support the Klan Territory.

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This chapter is going to be written as about ten chapters according to the plan, because there are a lot of characters to be created, but I'm afraid that someone will say that the pace is too slow, so I just pass it directly, and I want to shape it when these characters interact with the protagonist in the later stage.