When the aroma of beef and fine wine began to float over Malen Town, Lin Qi had already led more than a hundred guards including Lu En, escorting ten large vehicles, and slowly headed towards Malen Town. Malen Town has a population of more than 10,000 people
A small town, Mali City, less than sixty miles away, is a large city with more than 300,000 permanent residents and a floating population of hundreds of thousands.
Unlike the barren town of Maren, the city of Mari is the official commercial port of the Caesar Empire facing the Gallic Empire across Lake St. Loon. All legal commodities in the Gallic Empire will be transferred to the Caesar Empire through the city of Mari.
throughout.
Therefore, there are many chambers of commerce here, and commerce is extremely developed. Although it is far inferior to Vias Port City and Dunker Port, it can still be regarded as a small commercial hub. It is precisely because of this that Mali City has stationed a three-man army.
A small fleet of ten medium-sized warships also stationed 5,000 elite soldiers.
In the past few days, Lin Qi has obtained corresponding information about Mali City. The commander of this small fleet is a naval lieutenant colonel from the Caesar Empire; and the person commanding the five thousand elite soldiers is a naval lieutenant colonel from the Caesar Empire.
They are both army colonels. They have been serving here for ten years. Their forces are intertwined and they can be regarded as the real Turkish emperors near the city of Mali.
Sitting slanted on the shaft of a cart, Lin Qi grabbed the tail of a strong horse pulling the cart, pulled off the horse tails one after another, and dexterously braided them into a small whip. While busy with pure
Boring things, Lin Qi turned to look behind the motorcade.
There were a few very faint shadows following the convoy in the distance. Although the sun was shining brightly in broad daylight, unless Lin Qi had such abnormal eyesight, it would be impossible to detect their movements. Lin Qi couldn't help but sneered a few times, they were all one step closer.
Elite assassins who have reached the throne of heaven, these guys' stealth skills are very powerful. No wonder Lu En didn't notice the outsiders sneaking into the construction site.
It was less than sixty miles away, and the horse pulling the cart was fat and strong, and Lu En and others were also quick on their feet. It only took less than three hours to arrive at the sixty mile distance. Lin Qi caught him casually
After asking a person on the roadside for a few words, he led the people to the garrison headquarters in Mali City.
It's interesting to say that in any city in any country, the garrison headquarters of different military services will be as far apart as possible, showing a posture of never communicating with each other. But the city of Mali is a complete
In the first category, the local navy headquarters and the army headquarters share a building. The left side of the small three-story building is used by the navy, and the right side is the territory of the army. The offices of the two commanders are simply combined.
together.
When Lin Qi came here with ten large vehicles, the two top commanders of the Mali City garrison were gathering a few staff to have a gambling fight in the shared office. Of course, their gambling fight would not be the same as Lin Qi's.
Qi caused such bloody evil in the Yun family. They were conducting military chess deductions on a huge sand table covering the territory of the four northwest provinces of the Caesar Empire. The two sides alternated offense and defense to determine the outcome. Every time
The stakes for a game of gambling are just a gold coin for Xiao Bei Qing.
Navy Lieutenant Colonel Noweman, who was nearly fifty years old, frowned and moved a flag representing a thousand heavy infantry to a different position. Then he carefully calculated the situation on the sand table with his fingers and waved it angrily.
There is no doubt that he urgently mobilized a thousand heavy infantry to reinforce the breached defense line, which could delay the opponent's attack for a quarter of an hour at most.
Facing the assault of eight hundred heavily armored beast cavalry, one thousand heavy infantrymen was just a piece of cake.
The person betting against Noveman was the thirty-seven-year-old Army Colonel Kellerman. The tall and mighty Kellerman and the short and shrewd Noveman formed a sharp contrast, but in front of Noveman,
Even if Kairuman's military rank was raised one level, he could only be respectful - who told him to become Noveman's son-in-law ten years ago?
With a reserved smile, he threw the last two flags representing the group of strong archers into the battlefield, and began to completely clear out the remaining defeated soldiers on both wings of Neuman. Keruman said with a deep smile: "Father-in-law, you'd better go and have fun with yourself.
Ship, Army, you really are not this material!"
Nowiman was so angry that his gray beard stood up one by one. He scratched his bald forehead and roared angrily: "Then, let's have a naval battle in this game! You command the Royal No. 1 of Caesar's Empire."
The Seventh Cruise Fleet, I command the Gallic Empire’s Royal First Reorganization Fleet. Haha, where is the battle location, um, how about Lake St. Loon?”
Cairoman rolled his eyes. The first reorganized fleet of the Gallic Empire's royal fleet was really bloody. It was one of the best heavy fleets in the entire Western continent. There were only 200 heavy warships over 200 meters tall. This is Gaul.
The core fleet used by the empire to guard against the Wudalian Island Orc Fleet. As for the Caesar Empire's Royal Seventh Cruise Fleet, although it bears the name of the Royal Fleet, it is basically a local garrison fleet with only seventy ships.
The ships are all small boats of medium size or below.
If it were in a vast ocean with complex sea conditions, Kerulman could still use guerrilla tactics to carry out harassing warfare. But Noveman, a shameless old guy, actually wanted to fight a decisive battle in Lake St. Loon? In such a small water area, he only needed
A single charge from a heavy warship can crush Kairuman's small wooden boat into pieces.
Kairuman was not willing to hand over the gold coin he had just scooped into his pocket. He immediately started talking haha and quickly moved on to another topic: "There is some interesting news recently. Father-in-law, do you know about the town of Malen?"
Bar?"
Noveman blinked: "That small town so poor that he doesn't even have a pair of underwear? I'm not interested. The tax officials in Mali City can squeeze oil out of the sand, but they haven't had any for several years.
The full amount of taxes has been collected from Mullen Town. Is there anything in such a poor town that deserves your attention?"
Grabbing a small wine bottle and ignoring the military order that strictly prohibits drinking while on duty, Kairuman opened his mouth and took a hearty sip of bad wine, and then burped comfortably: "Yeah, originally I was right
There’s not much interest there, but two days ago, a team of scouts I sent out for field reconnaissance training discovered that a foreign chamber of commerce was building large-scale construction projects in Malen Town.”
Noveman's eyes widened: "Is that person stupid or stupid? Maren Town? Are there any valuable specialties there? Are there mines? Is there any strategic significance? I can't even find a woman who is pleasing to my eyes.
How many are going to build a chamber of commerce there? Doesn’t he have too much money to spend all of it?”
Slapping his forehead hard, Nowiman looked up to the sky and sighed: "Oh, you idiot, why don't you come and donate 30,000 to 50,000 gold coins to us? The military budget is always not enough, you know, those stingy people in the military department
The gold coins issued are more than enough to feed the soldiers, but I want to buy a few more big ones, damn, they always say there is no money!"
The angry Nowiman punched the sand table hard: "Look at the Gallic Empire across the way. In the past three years, several of their garrison fleets have added three to more than ten large warships. But what about us here?
?I have been stationed in Mali City for fifteen years, and not a single new ship has been added, and even the annual routine maintenance funds have not been fully released!"
Just as Nowiman was complaining to his son-in-law about sending greetings to the mothers of military ministers, a navy major and an army major broke into the office side by side, and replied in unison: "Pink Lily Family Second Business Officer
Officer, His Excellency Yalin Teges, President of the Bluefin Salmon Chamber of Commerce, requests to meet with you!"
Noveman and Kerruman looked at each other, and they laughed loudly. They hugged each other passionately, and punched each other hard in the chest. Then, with the help of their staff, the two used
He started to take care of his personal military appearance as quickly as possible. After all, during the sand table deduction just now, the two people who had a heated argument took off their general uniforms, and Kailuman took off only a small undershirt.
It's impossible to see anyone at all.
So, when Lin Qi and Lu En walked into the huge office in the middle of the top floor of this three-story building, Noveman and Kailuman, who were well-dressed, with military appearance, and exuding a strong aura, were standing there.
Beside the huge sand table, people were pointing and whispering.
On the sand table, several small ship models were swimming on the water near Malen Town, and a military flag representing a thousand-man infantry brigade was firmly planted in the core of Malen Town. Both of them were
Without even looking at Lin Qi, but through their deduction on the sand table, a strong murderous intention rushed towards them, like a big shark trying to swallow the bluefin salmon represented by Lin Qi in one gulp.
Lin Qi smiled. This kind of psychological tactic was something that Old Man Qing analyzed countless times when he was in the Black Abyss Prison.
What the young man taught Lin Qi was the imperial art of using various situations to coerce opponents. Nowiman and Kairuman were just soldiers. They were still far away from the realm of emperors. They were a naked threat.
, for Lin Qi, the effect is really lackluster.
With a slight cough, Lin Qi took two steps forward and meticulously saluted the two pretentious commanders.
Nowiman slowly turned around. The few stubborn hairs on his smooth forehead were so eye-catching. He put his hands behind his back and looked at Lin Qi majestically: "Bluefin Salmon Chamber of Commerce? It's hard for me to understand.
, why don’t you open a chamber of commerce in Mali City instead of going to Mullen Town?”
Faced with Noveman's doubts, Lin Qi was already prepared. He nodded to Noveman with a smile and walked slowly to the sand table.
He placed the military flags that were placed next to the sand table and used to represent various military services one by one on Mali City. When there was no more flags in Mali City, Lin Qi stopped.
He started and looked at Nowiman and Kailuman with a smile: "Mali City is too small and too crowded to accommodate the new chamber of commerce. If the two adults can allow my chamber of commerce to have a large-scale armed conflict with them,
If we come to seize the land, then I can give up the construction work in Mullen Town."
Noveman's eyes froze, he had met his opponent! There was something hidden in Lin Qi's words that was difficult to deal with.