Section 222 The first salivation ointment war (11)
On the east coast of the Emerald Continent, near the former pearl city of Wangyue City, a huge grotto was built under the ground by troops from many countries. Asturias and Titania have established their own portals respectively, and a fortress is being built on the ground.
In Asturias's teleportation light gate, a burst of energy light flashed, indicating that someone or thing was about to come out of it.
Although he knew that those who could come from there would definitely be permission, because the warning at the other end of the portal was not much looser than here, the magician responsible for portal security was still staring at the portal with all his energy.
A pair of seductive long legs first stepped out from the inside, and then the tall and beautiful body. The face of this body did not disappoint. What's more special is that she had an indescribable heroic spirit all over her body.
"Is it General Leona?" The magician in charge of monitoring the portal operation rushed forward to greet him.
"You can call me Marshal Leona now. I am now the commander of Zhendan's expeditionary force in the Emerald Continent. The Zhendan army that appeared before and after this will be under my command." Leona said that, and walked straight away.
The news of Leona's arrival soon reached the ears of the respective commanders of Asturias and Titania in the expeditionary force. The Valkyrie, who was promoted to marshal because he needed to command the military operations of Zhendan in this war, asked Perseus that he needed more underground space and clearly stated that he was preparing to establish a portal belonging to the Zhendan.
This is of course a good thing, and it means that the Zhendans are ready to invest more in this war.
But there are also bad things. Zhendan people's ambitions are unwilling to be revealed.
However, Perseus agreed to the Zhendan request and allocated enough places.
As the commander of the Asturias Expeditionary Force, he certainly knows more secrets and news than ordinary people. At least he knows that Valkyrie is now very close to the Southern Sect, and behind the Southern Sect, there are also big financial supporters who are supporting them. To meet their requirements, they will invest more in this war. Although it will affect Asturias' status in the multi-national coalition. However, it is worth it on the premise of jointly dealing with the elves.
Because the cabinet and the Queen's husband and his wife's bottom line requirements for the expeditionary force did not regard the struggle for interests as the top priority.
Parsius's primary task was to ensure that the high elves no longer become a huge threat to Asturias through expeditions; the high elves used Asturias as their primary goal because of magic research, so there was nothing we could do about it. If Titania was regarded as the primary goal at that time, Solomon would probably only gloat and would not necessarily plan to eliminate this threat. After all, if there is a choice, it is not necessary to challenge the high elves, which requires benefits and there are endless planes to conquer.
So even if more benefits are given up, Solomon must promote this war and achieve certain goals.
Leona, as well as Saxon and the Church of Light, later sent a joint force to arrive through the portal of Titania, including a prince of Saxon and a cardinal of the Church of Light.
Soon, these guys with their own ambitions and goals began to act-
"The Sindans have been dispatched to attack the Oak Leaf City in the east." Beshof's identity is Parsius's deputy and commander of the naval fleet. He is discussing the movements of these allies with Parsius.
"Then seems to belong to the area of the great elf Fenafen who has visited us?"
"Yes. It is one of the six high elf cities under the jurisdiction of Fenafen, including the Moon-Watching City we now occupy." Bethhof nodded.
"That General Leona, oh, no, do you know about the female marshal?"
"I know, we reminded her, but she seemed to be trying to see the combat power of the Great Elf King." Bethhof smiled.
“What about the others?”
"Saxon and the Church of Light did not have the courage to fight head-on. They chose to go southwest, where there were many human settlements. I think they went to 'liberate' these people. By the way, they spread the faith in the heavens. It is estimated that only these people may accept it in the Emerald Continent." Bethhof said.
Parsius nodded. Saxon came half for profit, half tied to a chariot by the Church of Light. The Church of Light came because of the tempting conditions proposed by Solomon that once the war was won, the higher elves would force the higher elves to agree to the Church of Light to preach here.
"Hmph, don't worry about them. He is so shallow that he hasn't won. He is just starting to preach before he can win." Parsius commented, and he finally asked, "Where is Titania? If the prince saw that the Swordians and the Saxons began to act, he would probably not be able to sit still."
"Yes, he should be planning to attack a city of high elf, but the northeastern Oak Leaf City was taken first by Leona, so he probably had to go west."
"To the west? That may detonate the high elves' counterattack against us in advance. Now everyone is actually accumulating strength. The high elves are waiting for their allies. Every day we have new materials to ship, and reinforcements are also being formed. By the way, have I sent the messengers to urge me back? When will the first batch of reinforcements that the country has agreed to form arrive?"
"It is said that Duke Solomon was inquiring about this matter personally. The Council has agreed to recruit a large number of locals from Fadell, but it has to be at least one month of training and learn to use muskets and basic queues before coming here; but the Duke also decided to recruit a large number of black rock dwarves as the first reinforcements in his private plane, the plane that is rich in black rock."
"Those dwarves?" Parsius sat upright and said in a silence. He had seen the black rock dwarves. These dwarves could not be compared with those dwarves who were now respected as dwarves engineers. The latter had extremely flexible minds and profound knowledge, which played an important role in the kingdom. Except for the appearance of the former, the other ones were too far behind.
In terms of physical constitution, it is like the difference between a normal birth and a premature baby. The biggest difference is that those dwarves have no ability to think independently under the suppression of extreme systems in their planes, and are trained by their kings to become creatures that only obey.
"That's those dwarves." Bethhof said. Although he was a Modor, he successfully entered Solomon's faction. Compared to his previous unsuccessfulness, Solomon valued him relatively, which made him a bridge between Perseus and the Duke of Solomon in the expeditionary army.
The candidate for the commander of the Expeditionary Force was a product of compromise, and Perseus was accepted by everyone as an old minister. Even Perseus believed that Duke Solomon was a suitable candidate than himself, but there were definitely many people who were unwilling to command the Expeditionary Force.
But if Solomon was willing to throw his private property into support of the war, no one would refuse.
Although the black rock plane has its own country and rule on the surface, it is in the political map of Asturias. It was the plane in which the former king Edward promised Solomon that he could enjoy the power and benefits for life. The conditions at that time were the first batch to encourage private development planes, so the conditions were too rich. In addition, only Solomon succeeded in the four opportunities at that time, and gained huge benefits. Others failed because they were either insufficient strength or were so unlucky that they hit the iron plate.
The dwarves in the Black Rock plane had long been subdued by Solomon, and it was a force and marriage. For this reason, the Duke had a special dwarf lover before marrying the Queen. It is said that he gave birth to descendants many years later, but just like another legendary lover, outsiders could not access the specific inside story at all.
So this time, in order to support Perseus in time, Solomon decided to recruit Black Rock Dwarves into an army to enter the Emerald Continent.
"Don't expect them to have strong combat power too much. They are far from comparing with the troops we are leading now. Our army is not only able to use muskets skillfully, but also undergo regular training. They have been trained and have been tempered by combat. And those dwarves, they can't even have enough food in their hometowns, but they can guarantee that they will not be hungry." Bethhof said, "Their function is consumables, of course, the army is also the same, including you and me, and our function is to force the high elves to surrender. The advantage of using these black rock dwarves is that although they are stupid, you,
Maybe I don't know that in the Black Rock plane, those dwarves had the opportunity to use muskets. When the Duke conquered that plane in his early years, he supported the Dwarves' Guards to help the dwarves rule his country. The Duke may have forgotten that. After all, they are dwarves, and some things may be natural, such as mechanical aspects. Those dwarves obtained by dismantling and imitating them. They have the ability to produce muskets and bullets by themselves, so there are quite a few dwarves who can use muskets. If reinforcements are formed, they can come on the stage directly, and there is no need to do one month of training like the Fadares."
"In fact, many of the Fadells can use muskets." Parsius said something that Beshof didn't know and asked him to make a move.
"That is also the masterpiece of our Duke. When Titania and we were competing for the Fadee's belonging, Duke Solomon sold the muskets, well, at that time, the muskets that could only be loaded with bullets to the local indigenous people. As a result, the indigenous people actively resisted Titania, and then after our army entered, the arms trade was cut off. Because the indigenous people could not repay their debts, I, Asturias, occupied their land as compensation, and finally formed
Now Al-Fadell. However, after the rule was established, the indigenous people who still held the former arms were of course unstable factors that were not conducive to our rule and needed to be eliminated. I remember that some of them fled into the mountains and continued to fight with us for several years, but they died in the end." Parsius recalled, "At that time, the troops who went to wipe out these indigenous people who could use muskets were also recruited from the Black Rock plane, but they did not make muskets at that time."
"It doesn't matter if they can make it. The Duke said that there are a lot of black rocks in the black rock plane. It may not be dug for thousands of years, but there are not many metal mines there, and the most important point is that they do not have the ability to transmit planes. Only by relying on us can they go to other planes. If they leave us, they are nothing."
Parsius nodded, agreeing with Bethhof.
Finally he said: "If the Prince Garon really can't sit still, it is likely that the high elves will attack in advance, making the original plan even more messed up. The construction progress of the ground fortress must be accelerated, and the situation here must be reported to the domestic country, and the support agreed upon by the domestic country must be realized. In addition, Mr. Tilramon, we have to find a way to send him to the human race." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!