Chapter 2 Enemy! Attack! Pull!
One week after Brando's army arrived at the Niam River, the first batch of armored ships that Yulei bought were delivered to the north bank of the river.
One thousand ships!
This is just the first batch of armored ships, which is already flush with the current number of armored ships of the coalition forces.
The financial resources of the Holy Fire Sect are really amazing. The coalition forces cannot accuse Taoyuan of being "benevolent to one and the other", because the Holy Fire Sect has already issued a condition of 300,000 gold coins per ship. Faced with such a big deal, the coalition forces can still get from Taoyuan to an iron-armored ship at a price of 280,000 gold coins per ship, and it should be grateful.
As soon as the armored ship was sent to the Holy Fire Sect, they began naval army training.
The Holy Fire Cult does have too many resources than the coalition forces, and they even have a considerable number of naval forces.
This part of the navy was originally the army of coastal countries. After the outbreak of the Black Death, these countries fell apart, and many coastal navy troops also fled to the inland. The military assembly of the Holy Fire Sect this time was unprecedented, and there were also people with amazing military talents among them. Naturally, they could think of the natural dangerous river in Niam, so they paid special attention to the people of Huishui when recruiting soldiers. Among these 230,000 troops, more than one-third of the people of Huishui were from, and at least 20,000 people from sailors were born, which would never suffer any loss compared to the coalition forces.
Although they did not have the help of Taoyuan Navy, their naval training was still carried out in an orderly manner.
The dense ships gathered on the other side of the river were like a large number of terrifying piranhas. After obtaining the armored warships, the coalition forces on the south bank no longer dared to cross the river to provoke. The flame army could finally be proud and no longer live such a frustrating life.
They showed their cruel nature. They practiced sharpening their knives every day and were ready to rush to the south bank at any time.
Especially the vanguard army, which had been humiliated in the past few months, was trained very enthusiastically. As the main general, Nalander abandoned his superior life and ate and drank on the warship. Although Brando clearly stated that he did not care about Parisord's death, Nalander could not pass his own level. As the vanguard army supervisor, Parisord's honor and disgrace were tied to the vanguard army. Parisord's head hanged by the coalition forces has become a joke circulating throughout the continent. He, the commander of the vanguard army, had an unshirkable responsibility.
In addition to using tooth to regaining teeth and using blood and victory to save honor, Nalander couldn't think of any other way to go.
He is a knight who never knows how to water. In just one month, he has tempered himself into a water dragon and made harder efforts than anyone else.
The graceful elegance had been abandoned, and Nalandei had lost weight. The flames in his eyes were burning more and more violently.
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Since the night of the assassination, Yang Zheng has disappeared from the public's sight.
Although the assassination turned invisible under Yang Zhengdi's fierce means, it brought the martial law of the entire coalition to the peak. After a major purge outside the inner and outer city of Crescent City, the daily abortion inspection became very strict. Once there was any abnormality, it would be taken down and imprisoned. If the eight ancestors were not examined, they would not be allowed.
Therefore, it became extremely difficult for the torch spies who were still mingling in the public to obtain intelligence.
And that night, Yang Zheng became the number one person on the blacklist of the Holy Fire Sect. The spies tried hard to dig out all the clues of Yang Zheng, but found that Yang Zheng could no longer be found.
It is well known that Yang Zheng became the commander of the coalition army. But this commander never appeared during training.
Yang Zheng handles business in a low-key manner every day. Kai is recuperating his body, and all the command and coordination work of war falls on his shoulders.
Although the Kaiwodi think tank can help Yang Zheng handle matters, as the commander, Yang Zheng still needs to take more control over the situation of the local army in his hands.
This army took over halfway, and it was even more difficult to command. Fortunately, Yang Zheng's power to kill Pariad that night had made his reputation a peak. Every soldier of the coalition was respectful of Yang Zheng from the bottom of his heart. Yang Zheng's orders were always effectively implemented.
The spies didn't know what Yang Zheng was doing every day, and the mystery made the Holy Fire Sect at a loss.
Generally, in any war, both sides will dig through the situation of the opponent's coach, because a person's personality and command methods are traceable. War is the art of command, and seeing through the opponent's coach will take the lead.
Yang Zheng is like a figure who appears out of thin air. Apart from being on the palm of Jinpalan and having unfathomable force, the Holy Fire Sect does not have any information about him.
This is also the reason why the Holy Fire Cult is reluctant to launch an attack.
However, small-scale temptations have begun.
Outside the water camps of both sides of the Niam River, the figures of each other's warships often appear, and they are tempted.
Generally, the magician will launch several large-scale long-range attacks and quickly evacuate in front of the opponent. Sometimes two small troops meet in the middle of the river. Because neither side has a large force to support them, these two small troops will choose to fight fiercely, and both sides will suffer casualties, and few of them can win completely.
Such a small-scale touch is not only conducive to understanding each other's combat power, but also a good way to train your own troops.
Neither side had ever fought a serious battle, so they could only train soldiers through battles and accumulate experience.
This situation lasted for half a month.
The battle situation has developed to the point where there are more than a dozen small-scale mergers every day, and the number of casualties is no longer a few, but dozens, and sometimes even hundreds of deaths.
Except for the absence of large-scale water wars, the war has opened its bloody mouth and ruthlessly devoured life.
However, under such circumstances, Yang Zheng has not yet come forward.
His low-keyness has made many soldiers in the coalition army feel uneasy, what is their commander doing?
On a late autumn day, the fog is as strong as ever. The cold wind whistles on the river surface, which also rolls the wet water vapor on the river towards the shore. The soldiers stood in the cold wind and shivered. The colder and colder weather told them that the cold winter was not far away. After entering winter, it will be a nightmare for every soldier. The Niam River is a river that will not freeze, but on the river surface in winter, the biting cold will take away the soldiers' lives in a very short time. At that time, falling into the water means death, and no matter how good the water is, it will be the same.
No matter how high the enthusiasm for fighting is, it will be blown out in the cold wind.
On the beacon tower thirty miles away from Crescent City, several coalition soldiers surrounded and stamped their horns. The frozen lips and the cramped bodies looked a little embarrassed and listless.
"Damn it, the weather is getting colder and colder, but we can't cook the fire. How can we live after winter?" A veteran looked at the dusty sky and complained loudly, with a sound in his throat being blown by the cold wind with a trembling sound.
His eyes were staring at a pile of firewood in the middle of the platform, and a bucket of turmeric oil was placed next to it.
The other two soldiers also stared at the pile of firewood. The feeling of being able to see but not being able to light them even more painful, just like a beggar who had been hungry for a few days saw a chicken leg but was in someone else's bowl, and felt even more cold.
A soldier jumped hard with his arms, trying to turn his eyes away from the pile of firewood, and joked deliberately: "Brother Ada, what would happen if we lit this pile of fire?"
The veteran had been reading for a few years and said in a literary manner: "You guys order it, order it, come out of the beacon fire show coalition, you have become as famous as the Queen Youlan of the Great Yan Dynasty, hahaha..."
In the history of the Northern Continent, there was a very large Da Yan Dynasty. It was the peak of the imperial system. However, the last emperor of the Da Yan Dynasty was a tyrant monarch. In order to win the happiness of his beloved Queen Youlan, he once hunted a beacon tower with the queen. Under the queen's spoiled, he lit the beacon tower. As a result, the army of the entire defense line was dispatched. However, this Queen Youlan was the sister of a king of a vassal state at that time, and deliberately placed her next to King Da Yan. This time, Queen Youlan played the beacon fire to the army, which led to a loophole in the defense line. The army of the kings of the vassal state at that time took the capital of the Da Yan King, causing the collapse of the dynasty.
This is a famous allusion in history, but it is appropriate to put it here.
Ada was very proud of his qualities, but he might as well see Brad on the opposite side turn pale, and he was taking out two flints and knocking them in a hurry.
Perhaps because of the stress, Flint didn't hit Mars several times.
But before Ada came to his senses, he shouted, "Brad, you are crazy, just light the beacon and want to chop off your head."
At this time, another soldier, Cage, pushed Ada violently and then went to grab the turbid oil: "Idiot, look at the river, quickly... look..."
Ada turned around and his eyes suddenly widened...
After a moment, a sound of hissing pierced through the sky: "Enemy-attack-la-"
A ball of flames surged into the air, dancing in the strong wind, and then a signal magic bullet flew into the air, shaking the slag.
A soldier under the beacon tower ran towards Crescent City.
Chapter completed!