"He said at the beginning, we are playing with fire. If we are not careful, we will burn ourselves to ashes. How about it? Do you believe it now? But it is already too late. Dalauma has been dedicated to Ms. Strategy by her.
It has become a holy place for Ms. Strategy. Once they send out a large-scale army, the followers of the Red Knight will all join the ranks of their enemies. There are also many believers of Ms. Strategy in their army, especially those who are middle and low-level front-line commanders.
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"He thinks that method is feasible. Since there is no way to curb the rise of Darauma, he will provide her with conveniences and let her develop further. By then, the dukes in the west will definitely be more anxious than them. After all, they have great achievements in the east.
Buffer, and their space will become smaller and smaller, and conflicts will become increasingly intensified. They can just walk behind and watch the show."
"What Elder Fitch said is very reasonable. Expansion and ambition are more likely to destroy a person than suppression, especially the kind of person who has no foundation. One failure may lead to her complete collapse, even if she can't control Ms.'s voters now.
, and it is impossible to be victorious in every battle, which is something even the goddess of strategy cannot do."
"He agrees."
"He also agrees."
"He was wrong."
The Saradas elders all expressed their opinions and fell into a new round of quarrels. This situation has become an inevitable situation for those who want to argue because they all have their own little calculations.
Conard watched with cold eyes and soon discovered that those who held the opposite views had properties in the Northern Isles Plains.
The majority of those who agreed had nothing to do with that place, and there was a hint of happiness in their expressions that could not be concealed, as if they were mocking the elders who had property there.
When they made those decisions, did they act in the interests of the family? If not in their own interests, they might not be able to determine it themselves.
Frances was neither sad nor happy from beginning to end. Her eyes fell on Conrad, and there was not much father-son affection. It was like looking at a dead object or a tool. She slowly asked: "Do I
What’s your opinion?”
Frances didn't lack the authority of the patriarch. As soon as he spoke, the entire city council hall fell silent instantly, and everyone's eyes fell on Conrad.
Conard said with a frightened expression: "There are so many elders there, how can there be any room for him to express his opinions? He is willing to implement all decisions of the family."
"Oh?" Frances's expression finally showed a slight fluctuation, and there seemed to be other meanings in the depths of her eyes. "Even if I am asked to sign an alliance with the Lord of Zalanda on behalf of my family, would I be willing?"
It was just as Uncle Matthew guessed.
Although I have already been mentally prepared and have my own plan.
When that proposal was made, especially if it was made by his biological father, Frances, Conrad still felt an unconcealable sadness in his heart. There was no family affection at all in that kind of family.
Conard forced himself to calm down, bowed and saluted: "It is in the interests of the wrong family. He is willing to go and sign an alliance on behalf of the family."
"That's wrong, why didn't he think of it earlier? They can send people to wait for the opportunity to act according to the situation."
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Duke, just turned around and grasped the key point."
"them……"
The elders present were all old foxes. In the blink of an eye, they thought of the genius of that proposal.
Frances waved her legs heavily, interrupting their praise, "He is tired. I believe that after fighting for so long, we should be tired too, so we will follow the wrong party's proposal. He will personally sign a covenant with the wrong party.
Conrad, although I have merit in that matter, it cannot offset my mistake of arbitrarily mobilizing the First Heavy Cavalry Corps. Starting from the bright moon, our First Heavy Cavalry Corps and the Second Heavy Cavalry Corps will switch defenses and garrison Snow Rock Castle.
, beware of the monster swarm in the Snowflake Mountains sneaking into Omlaran."
After listening to Frances' order, Conrad was in disbelief.
It's not that disbelief, nor the dissatisfaction that those family elders mistakenly believed that he was mismatched.
However, the whole thing not only did not regard him as an abandoned son, but also perfectly matched the plan he had just made to dominate the border and seize the supreme rule of Saradas in a roundabout way.
Guarding Snow Rock Castle is an out-and-out hard job for them. After all, it is located between the Omlaran Mountains and the Snowflake Mountains, and is often attacked by monster groups in the two mountain ranges - Saradas is not the case.
He controlled the largest gem mine and the strongest monster force in the Omlaran Mountains, but he did not completely put that place under his control.
The huge snow-capped mountains with complex terrain are the main reason that cannot be ignored. The other reason is the mages with ulterior motives and the rulers of large cities along the Lake of Steam, who secretly cause harm in the dark. Among them, the Mingta at the mouth of the Mingta River
The city was the most intense, and they were also afraid that the military city of Tethyr, which held a lot of troops, would one day mistakenly target them.
But for Conrad, who had a new plan, it was an absolute blessing.
The sky is high and the emperor is far away. He is far away from Saradas and the elders who can blindly command behind his back. He can do things according to his own will.
Could it be that Frances had a change of temper? Did she look at her differently?
Conrad raised his head, and the mistake was still a pair of cold eyes without any emotional warmth. The little warmth that had just surfaced in his heart was extinguished in an instant.
It was not that Frances had wronged her for seeing things differently, but that she had turned some unfavorable situations into advantages because of her change of thinking.
Even the signing of the contract with the Lord of Zalanda City in person probably had some calculation on his part, or maybe he just didn't think of the root cause.
After thinking about this matter, Conrad's face had the right expression, with gratitude mixed with a little bit of sadness and indignation, "Zuo Ming."
Although Saradas owns the Council of Elders, they have the right to propose and not have the power to veto. Most of the power is in the hands of Frances as the Duke. Once he makes the decision, the whole thing will be settled.
DingTalk cannot be changed unless he changes his mind.
Now that Ferrand Xisi has come forward in person, things have become solemn, grand, and full of ceremony.
After all, the wrong party is not the old Duke of Tethyr, or the largest member of the aristocratic warlords who are often criticized nowadays.
When he left the city, he was accompanied by a convoy of nearly a hundred vehicles.
The place where the covenant was signed was the place where Zalanda and Conrad met previously, and it was the default dividing line between the two territories.
Gavin didn't know the specific process, because he had already returned to the military camp of the migrating army to make initial preparations.
Because they all know that if the Saladas family is stalling for time and wants to truly sign the alliance, it will have to wait until the migrating army really embarks on the migration road and successfully leaves the territory of Tethyr. It will no longer be a mistake.
After the threat posed by the Saradas family.
Before that, they were discussing the details of the alliance, such as the clear demarcation line between the two sides, the border line, the maximum number of soldiers stationed, whether there was possibility of cooperation between the two sides in the future, etc.
Another purpose is to take Zalanda as a hostage to prevent the migratory army led by Gavin from launching an attack on Saradas City in the name of migration. The Is River is their bottom line, so the migratory army can
Operation North Bank of the River Is.
When the covenant between Darauma City and Saradas City was signed was not determined by the people there, but by the migrating army dozens of miles away. Countless pairs of eyes were staring in the air and on the ground.
That migrating army, every move they made touched the hearts of countless people.
August 28, 568 in the Tethyr calendar, is August 28, 1359 in the Valley calendar.
That day was destined to be in Darauma, in the history of Tethyr, and to leave a strong mark in the east.
As soon as the sky dawned, the sound of horns resounded throughout the suburbs of the east gate of Darauma. A number of flying horse knights passed by the huge camp in the sky, loudly delivering orders, "Pack your bags and prepare to set up camp."
, proceed in an orderly manner according to the predetermined order, the lord has an order, and the march target is 20 kilometers tomorrow."
The first cars to drive out of the huge camp were not the side cars.
As for the three tree men, their size, even among the tree men, is outstanding. They are all over 18 meters, close to the limit of giant size. Not only are their heights astonishing, their roughness is also amazing, especially if they are not east.
Half of the body, like broken thorns, is not a humanoid body, but an animal body on all fours. It looks like a giant elephant, with a thick and round body, and its four legs are like huge wooden stakes, each of which is at least as thick as two people holding each other.
The three tree people are called giant elephant tree people. They were all enlightened by Gavin in Misnoel. They were born on the same hilltop. To the east of that hilltop, there is a giant elephant tomb from ancient times.
Thousands of mammoths were buried, and they absorbed the souls of the mammoths to achieve their current size.
The three giant tree men were incorporated into the vanguard army of sidecars. As the pioneers, what they pulled was not a sidecar, but a huge iron pillar.
The iron pillar is two meters in diameter and six meters long. Together with the traction device outside, the weight of the thing reaches a terrifying one hundred and fifty tons.
Combined with the power of the giant elephant tree man, they dragged the thing walking in the wilderness without affecting its speed.
Then it's an alien version of a super giant steamroller.
The function is self-evident, of course, if it is not, it will open the way.
A hundred floor-type chariots loaded with food supplies can carry a large load even if they are on a dirt road, let alone in the soft soil of the wilderness. Even if there are tree people and enlightenment trees to help drag them, the speed will be very low.
It will be very touching.
Simply walking through it is not in line with Gavin's usual behavior, especially after making such huge preparations.
He not only wanted to leave a name and voice, but also wanted to leave a path, a migration route from Tessel to the valley.
Once that thing is done, it will not be a one-time deal, but a continuous one. There will be more Tethyrs walking on the road to the valley along that migration road.
Even the residents of Calishan, Amn, and around the Lake of Steam have Coco follow that road to the valley. Like Tethyr, they are all populous countries, especially the slavery practiced in Calishan.
Slaves revolted and escaped slaves occurred frequently. Asking Gavin to make a name for himself would be fatal to them.
The weight of the giant elephant tree man is already very terrifying, and when combined with the iron pillars weighing down the road, it is very heavy.
They even stepped on and pressed them to completely consolidate the soil wherever they passed, and even the flatness was improved to a certain extent. Before arriving at Ritawen in Amn, there was no flat plain along the way, so they solved the problem.
The soft soil makes it easy for cars to get stuck, but the road is not difficult to walk on.
"Let's move together!" came the command.
The sound of two heavy footsteps disappeared, dust was flying, and the earth seemed to be trembling slightly. The huge special steel wire ropes were all stretched up, creaking and groaning, and the astonishingly heavy road rollers began to rotate.
It started to move forward with a rumble. The moving speed was neither fast nor slow. It was initially set at four kilometers per hour, which was not the walking speed of a normal person.
Everything is very much in a trial run state and must be adjusted according to the actual crowding conditions. Now we seek stability rather than speed. Wait until the operation is normal and then slowly increase the speed. This will not only avoid the situation that the giant elephant tree man will not, but also the migrating army behind.
Not so either.
So the first stage of the migrating army - running-in, the main purpose of this stage is to make the entire migrating army operate smoothly, and to allow the civilians to adapt to the constant pain of return.
Of course, the giant tree man holding the iron pillar of the road was not walking around randomly in the wilderness, but there was a clear path, an eight-meter-wide black passage that exuded a faint smell of decay, stretching endlessly to the
In the distance, they just need to follow that mark.
That marked passage is naturally the work of Luna, the half-moon horse.
That matter was not implemented after the plan was made with the Blood Claw Legion, but was already started after Luna obtained the Corruption Furnace and realized her advantage in opening roads.
The other sections of the road are very doubtful, but there are no migration routes outside Tethyr. They have one way to go, and that is to open a new road on the north bank of the Is River that leads directly to the city of Retavin in the Kingdom of Amn.
If there is no direct commercial route between the two cities, Darauma wants to find two ways to get to Shwetavon.
It is a waterway that runs upstream along the Is River. It is quite smooth, except that the road is a bit long, winding around a big bend, and is nearly 600 kilometers long.
Another land route is to go to Saradas via the Zhasa Road, and then transfer to the Sari Road. The former is 350 kilometers long, and the latter is 280 kilometers long. The total distance is even far between water and land.
It is.
A key issue is that most of the two roads are in the territory of Saradas.
Just the gathering of the migrating army made them all nervous in the east. How could they be allowed to go and borrow the passage?
Is this the main reason why Darauma was stuck by those warlords and nobles? They originally relied too much on the Zhasa Road and the Is River water transportation. They were in the hinterland of Tessel. As soon as the road was blocked at both ends, they were immediately surrounded.
Got up.
Originally, Zalanda pinned its hope of breaking the situation on Gavin's Mys Noel, hoping to use it to divert the enemy's traffic and bypass Saradas's blockade.
But as the migration progressed, they discovered that where could it be faster and more convenient to take the opportunity to open a direct trade route to Shwetavon on the north bank of the Eis River?
The straight-line distance between the two sides is 380 kilometers, and the road initially opened by Ban Yueju totals 410 kilometers, which is basically a straight line.
Following closely behind the Giant Elephant Tree Man was the Vanguard Vanguard Army.
The cavalrymen carried not only swords and shields in their legs, but working tools such as pickaxes, heads, shovels, and baskets. The captains and commanders who had just taken office were giving their initial instructions.
"Their main request is to fill the hole and level the stone."
“When filling the hole, use local materials, mainly gravel, supplemented by soil, one layer of stone and one layer of soil. It does not need to be flush, but it should be a little higher than the surrounding road, and it will be like a bag of earth.
"
"The task of flattening the rocks is given to the spellcaster who can use the soft stone technique. Whether it is the soil and stones that have been casted by the soft stone technique, or the best paving materials, they are all dug out for him to use as repairs and fillers for other potholes.
, give priority to the potholes that appear after the road roller passes, and also lift up the soil bags, leaving them to the giant elephant tree man to step on them."
"A hole was found there and needs to be filled."
"I found one there too."
"A large area has been collapsed there, and a lot of earth and rocks are needed. Quick, quick, quick, our sidecar convoy will be here soon."
Those knights and mercenaries not only showed no resistance to the newly arranged work, but were also very interested in it, because the road construction model completely subverted their cognition.
They were divided into two, with two-thirds in front, looking for obvious ravines along the way, filling them all up, and raising them slightly higher than the surrounding ground, waiting for the giant elephant tree man roller to come over and compact them flat.
The third is at the back, responsible for filling in the holes made by the giant tree man's steamroller, most of which are rodent burrows.
The operation method is exactly the same as before. The initial compaction work is left to the extra giant elephant tree man, who uses his huge weight of more than fifty tons to forcefully compact it back and forth.
As always, ordinary legs and magic legs are in the formation, the former is the main one and the latter is the auxiliary one.
Four kilometers per hour, if it is just used to pay the penalty, it is not amazing. The old man is walking faster than the mule, but if it is added to the road construction, it can no longer be described as amazing, it is simply amazing, and that
It's the starting speed, not the maximum speed.
The dirt road that was formed at one time was much stronger than expected, because there was a behemoth of more than fifty tons following behind it. After walking through it, there was no sign of deformation at all. Ordinary commercial roads may not be able to bear his load.
After a while, the power of the 150-ton press is absolutely breathtaking.
When the road construction team came out and approached Yeyuan, the vanguard vans of the vanguard drove out slowly, dragged by two strong horses. Strangely enough, those vans were not equipped with grooms.
But he moved forward in an orderly manner along the newly built road.