As the news that the Western Route Army opened the gate of Moyun Ridge spread to Handanar City, the people who were still immersed in the joy of regaining Kornberg County were excited again.
People here don't need to care about Kornberg, after all, it's a provincial matter, but no one cares about Moyunling, which is the northern gate of Handanar County.
The evil ghost on the Moyunling Highlands has always been like a fish bone stuck in his throat. Duke Newman tried many ways, but unfortunately he could not pull out the fish bone.
Now the West Route Army has pushed open the south gate of Moyunling...
The noble lords in Handanar City began to have some new ideas at this time. They were more eager than ever to send their lords' army to the battlefield of Moyun Ridge.
Of course, the commander cannot be any of them.
What they most hoped for was that Surdak could fully mobilize their lord's army. The olive branch was handed over, but there was no response from the West Route Army.
The noble lords in the city are not fools. Of course they know that the commander, Count Surdak, looks down upon the troops in their hands.
But seeing such a big piece of cake sitting there, without running over and cutting off a piece and putting it on their own plates, the lords always felt a little empty in their hearts.
The dining table was filled with exquisite tableware, the champagne had been opened, and the guests had all sat down, but the chef failed to bring the main dish. Not only did he not bring it, he instead gave this delicious and exquisite main dish to the restaurant.
The homeless man outside.
Yes, the nobles in Handanar City feel this way now.
It's a shame not to be able to eat it. Now seeing delicious food falling into the hands of beggars and homeless people on the roadside is simply a humiliation.
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The first people to make money in Moyunling are really the adventure groups who dare to break into Moyunling.
After the Western Route Army invaded the valley, they stood still. In addition to setting up defenses, one of the things Surdak invested the most in was building a city wall at the north exit of the valley. First a wooden wall, and then a stone wall built with rocks.
The actual width of the north exit of the valley is only more than two hundred meters. It is a standard funnel shape with steep cliffs on both sides. It is closely connected with the mountains at the southern foot of Moyun Mountain. These steep mountains are covered with a large amount of vegetation, and there are almost no evil ghosts.
There is a way to get out of Moyun Ridge from outside the valley.
This valley halfway up the mountain is more like the only gourd mouth at the southern end of Moyunling Highlands. To the evil ghost army on Moyunling, this place is a hundred times more important than the mountain pass at the southern foot of Moyunling.
However, such a strategically important place was easily captured by the West Route Army in one night...
Surdak knew that the next step would be a swift counterattack by the Evil Ghost Legion. He did not even think of letting the heavy armored infantry regiment enter the Moyun Ridge Highlands, lest the Evil Ghosts launch a massive counterattack and the infantry regiment would not be able to retreat fast enough.
, were surrounded and killed one by one by the evil ghost legions who counterattacked.
The wooden wall took only three days to build. The middle of the two rows of closely arranged log fences was filled with a large amount of earth and stone. The wooden wall was ten meters high and three meters wide. The wall was connected to the mountains on both sides.
The main reason is that the Western Route Army has enough infantry. When they pick up the sword and shield, they are heavy armored infantry. When they put down the sword and shield, they are extremely high-quality labor.
As long as someone takes the lead and allocates tasks clearly, things will certainly get done very quickly.
Although there were some twists and turns during the construction of the stone city wall, the main reason was the insufficient supply of volcanic ash cement in Surdak, which caused the entire project to be stalled for nearly two days.
There is a special cement factory in Vol Village, and Surdak asked Aphrodite to go back to Vol Village specifically for this matter.
With pozzolanic cement, there is no longer any difficulty in building this city wall. Even the stones on the periphery of the city wall are put into iron cages and then stacked together.
Inside the iron cages are almost a layer of stones and a layer of cement. Each iron cage is two meters square and looks like an ordinary animal cage.
When building the inside of the city wall, it was more casual. Just fill the gap between the two rows of iron cages with stones.
These stones do not need to be polished flat, no matter what shape they are, they use pozzolanic cement to fill the gaps between the stones.
This stone wall actually only took half a month. With the cooperation of 130,000 infantry soldiers, it was quickly built.
It was the first time for everyone, including the soldiers of the West Route Army, the demon hunters from the adventure map, and the merchants from the business group, to see such an efficient project. There were more people than stones on the entire construction site, and everyone was lining up carrying stones.
As the team moves forward, there are fixed routes for exiting and entering...
By the time the evil ghost army on the highlands of Moyun Ridge reacted, Suldak had already mounted three hundred bed crossbows on the forty-meter-high stone wall.
The wooden wall behind the stone wall was not abandoned. Almost all the catapults of the Western Route Army were pushed onto the wooden wall. From here, flints were thrown out through the forty-meter-high stone wall. The flints were just able to fly out.
The latest merit list of the West Route Army is posted directly on the city wall this time...
A great battle has just ended, and the soldiers have accumulated a lot of merits. However, at this time, not many people are willing to redeem their merits, because everyone is once again focusing on the top ten rewards on the merit list.
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As we all know, the biggest hidden danger in northern Handanar County is the evil ghost army on Moyun Ridge.
It is said that this group of evil spirits opened a gate of evil spirits in the highlands of Moyunling.
In the past few years, the Bena Legion once wanted to capture Moyun Ridge and destroy the Evil Ghost Gate. Unfortunately, the expeditionary legions were defeated one after another, and Duke Newman has never been able to do so.
This time the Bena Army recaptured Kornberg. Duke Newman originally only hoped that the West Route Army could defend the Gandael Mountains to prevent the evil ghost army on the Moyun Ridge in the north from taking advantage of the situation, but he did not think about the West Route Army at all.
Not only did he successfully complete the garrison mission, he also helped the East Route Army intercept an advancing evil army.
Not only that, the Western Route Army actually took advantage of the situation and opened the gate to the south of Moyun Ridge after the Bena Army captured Kornberg County.
Looking at the map of Handanar County, Duke Newman couldn't get out of his thoughts for a long time.
During the eight years he has been in the Warsaw plane, he is familiar with every battlefield here.
Thinking of the letters Luther wrote to himself before, I originally thought that the words of praise for Suldak above were just a kind of boast. Who would have thought that what he said was the truth...
Behind Duke Newman stood several staff officers from the war room.
At this time, they had woken up from the shock, and someone immediately said:
"It seems that the epic equipment given to Count Surdak last time was really not in vain. This Count Suldak really brought us unexpected surprises."
Someone else simply came forward and pointed at the map on the wall and suggested: "Your Majesty, since we have captured the entire territory of Kornberg, I think it would be better to return to the northern part of Handanar County and capture the entire territory of Kornberg."
Fight down Yunling."
The several staff officers behind also nodded and agreed:
"At that time, we will open the passage to the north of the Warsaw plane..."
"Currently, only two of the seven counties in the Warsaw plane are still under the control of the evil spirits. However, our Bena Legion is basically a swordsman group. In any case, we are not as fast as the knights of the Cavalry Alliance. We are rushing now.
We won’t be able to take advantage of the best resources in the past, so we might as well go back and conquer Moyun Ridge.”
Some staff members also held negative opinions, and everyone argued endlessly in the room.
"It is impossible for the Bena Legion to return to Handanar County immediately. Kornberg County still needs our legion to garrison. Only when those lord armies arrive can we move to the next place."
Duke Newman was upset by the noise from this group of people. They had no ability in strategic deployment, but when preparing for a war, they were able to fill in the gaps and come up with some good ideas.
At least when they captured Kornberg County, they performed somewhat brilliantly.
So Duke Newman just listened quietly and did not speak.
At this time, the guard outside the door came in and reported to Duke Newman:
"Your Excellency, the envoy from the Knights Alliance is here..."
The hall suddenly became quiet.
Duke Newman came out in front of everyone and ordered the guards:
"Invite them in..."
Then he said to the surrounding staff officers:
"The next step is to clean up all the evil ghost legions in the Kemperto River Basin. This strategy was discussed by me and several other dukes before, so there will be no change in the plan."
He turned to the herald beside him and said:
"Let the logistics department prepare military supplies, and I'll go and see the people from the Knights Alliance."
"Yes, Your Majesty the Duke."
Now that Kornberg County is in his hands, Duke Newman knows that he made the right bet this time, and the wasted years in the Warsaw plane were finally not in vain.
There are no more than ten such rich planes in the entire Green Empire.
The Busman family once relied on the rich products of the Warsaw plane to become the top three lords in the Green Empire.
But Ryan Boothman has made enemies all over the empire. In just a few decades, the Boothman family's ranking among the nobles has dropped from the top three to outside the tenth place.
Now that Ryan is dead, the Bussman family has almost given up on the Warsaw plane, and the road left for the Bussman family is getting narrower and narrower...
I really don’t know how the young Duke Quentin Bousman can reverse this predicament.
But these are not what Duke Newman needs to consider.
What he needs to focus on now is how to divide the big pie of the Warsaw plane. The counties of Handanar and Kornberg alone cover an area as large as two Bena provinces. The mineral resources of Kornberg County
It is extremely rich in resources. Handanar County has large areas of pasture and woodland, and is surrounded by large mountains.
According to the suggestions of his staff, as long as the Bena Army can hold these two counties, it can now send its troops northward, take advantage of the Western Route Army to open the gate of Lemoyun Ridge, advance into Moyun Ridge, and add that land to Bei Na.
The territory of the province of Nanchang.
However, this will greatly reduce the interests that the Western Route Army and Count Suldak will gain.
To put it bluntly, the West Route Army opened the gate to Lemo Yungling, and the Bena Army went to pick fruits...
This was the biggest reason why Duke Newman rejected the proposal of his staff.
Of course, this does not rule out the factor of Marquis Luther. After all, the Luther Army has been stationed in the Bena Province.
Marquis Luther has always been in charge of rebellions within the province...
'Count Suldak, that stage is all for you, you can't let me down!'
Duke Newman thought in his heart.
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The Western Route Army had moved its garrison camp to the valley halfway up Moyun Mountain. Suldak waited here for nearly half a month and did not see any letter from Duke Newman.
The evil ghost army that was driven out of the valley by Surdak has reunited in the past half month.
Now they are hiding in a mountain col outside the north exit of the valley. The magician investigation team has clearly discovered their location. There are almost more than 30,000 evil ghost warriors gathered together.
Of course, so far, the ration problem has been severely restricting the size of the evil ghost army.
The Moyunling highland was originally relatively barren, and now the evil spirits are eager to dig out the grass roots here and stuff them into their stomachs.
The Evil Ghost Hunting Group has not been able to obtain food supplies from the Gandaer Mountains in the past few months, and the mountains in the northern part of Moyun Ridge are dotted with indigenous tribes.
In the past, the evil spirits could drive the group of aboriginal warriors back to their stronghold, and then hunt wantonly in the mountains.
However, there is almost no prey in the northern mountains now, unless the indigenous people are caught and eaten, but this is not realistic at the moment.
It is not that easy for the evil ghost hunting group to cross the northern mountains and hunt in the wild mountains further north...
Therefore, the evil ghost army on Moyun Ridge has been starving recently.
Surdak estimated that not many evil ghost warriors have entered Moyun Ridge through the evil ghost gate in recent months. The reason is that the logistics supply of the evil ghost army is insufficient.
In fact, what Suldak is most concerned about is Duke Newman's attitude. After all, so many noble lords are eyeing the big cake in Suldak's hand...
"The Bena Army has not responded at all, and the noble lords in Handanar City have been unable to intervene." Andrew explained to Wolf Knight Tago in a low voice, and then added: "It seems that Duke Newman is
not bad……"
Carrie Decker sat opposite Andrew, holding a quill pen and writing and drawing on a piece of parchment.
She stopped the pen in her hand and blurted out: "Maybe Duke Newman has taken into account Marquis Luther's thoughts."
"No matter what, it seems that Duke Newman is planning to hand over the Moyunling Highlands to us." Andrew said with high spirits: "Boss, as long as you let me..."
Suldak quickly waved his hand to signal Andrew not to continue drawing his pie.
He hoped that more adventure groups would gather here and eat away at the evil ghost army on Moyun Ridge bit by bit.
It is better to use the strength of those adventure groups to gradually weaken the evil ghost army on the opposite side than to use the useless lord army in the city.
Not only are there no disputes over territorial ownership, but the demon hunters in the adventure group will not go around filling the bellies of those evil spirits...
"Continue to increase the benefits for adventure groups and attract more adventure groups to come and help us."
Suldak pinched the corners of his sore eyes and said a little tiredly.