"That also fully shows that their public opinion war has taken effect. Ivanso's enemies were forced to move no longer, so they made this stupid move." Veranika said with unconcealable worry in her expression.
, "Is he worried now? The enemy's temperament is often extremely extreme. After being forced into a desperate situation, he will do things that are harmful to others and not beneficial to himself."
"I'm worried that they will spread the plague toxin on a large scale in Ivanso and turn it into a dead city? Even if they take that city east, the benefits will be greatly reduced?"
"No, those are the legs most commonly used by necromancers."
"Is it because of that concern that they will adopt the current approach of encircling the port, reducing their pressure as much as possible, and looking for new breakthroughs? The warehouse hills will deny them their opportunity. According to their intelligence
It seems that there is not only the location of an ancient dwarf city, but before humans opened up there, there was a group of dwarves who regarded it as their home and lived there for thousands of years.
There is a hidden underground passage that has not been discovered by the world. What they want to do is to find an underground passage that can directly connect to Ivanso. Even if there is no ready-made one, they can find the nearest one, their kobold.
The construction team can also open up new channels."
When they come there, they do not simply detect the enemy's situation, but also receive the latest intelligence and prepare to find new breakthrough points there.
"General Copperfield and Captain Yeshandara have also arrived." Carissa pointed to the two people arriving hand in hand from the east.
The man on the left is tall, swarthy, with a clean shaven head and a thick red beard on the east side of his jaw. He is definitely General Copperfield, the deputy commander of the Conqueror's army.
The one on the right has a perfect figure like a devil, and a face that matches it. There is a faint red scar, which ruins that perfection, but also gives her a hint of fireworks. Is this person just removed from the plague toxin?
Yeshandara.
It was no accident that the two of them came together, but in the past few days, the two sides had been cooperating to promote the anti-crime and evil plan proposed by General Copperfield.
After knowing about that plan, Yeshandara and the others agreed very much and tried their best to help, because they had wanted to do it for a long time, but they had never had the strength and courage to do it. Now it was up to the army of conquerors to do it for them.
Is that something that everyone is happy with?
After all, General Copperfield and the others are not powerful. In this kind of thing, they are far less advantageous than Ye Shantara and the local snakes.
Based on Yeshandara's suggestion, Gavin and the others decided to specialize in one area instead of casting a wide net all over the world, and set their sights on Ivanso's Warehouse Hills as well as Ilip and Pros.
The two port cities form an irregular triangle with Ivanso. The straight-line distance is about fifty kilometers, and the area in the middle is where the warehouse hills are located.
Those two cities have a very close relationship with Ivanso, as they are their unloading and loading points, but the advantages of those two towns on the water are not as obvious as those of Taysil and Simon, because large ships
If you can't drive in, you can rely on sampans for loading and unloading, which will cause a certain waste of manpower and material resources, but it will at least save more than a hundred kilometers of transportation (if you come from Taysil).
But even that flaw can also become their advantage. For example, they no longer rely so much on ports. The long lake line can become their loading and unloading location, and many shady transactions can be completed there.
For another example, there are warehouse hills connected there, where many secret commodities can be temporarily hoarded or stored. The two most typical commodities are the stolen goods plundered by pirates and the slaves prepared by slave traders for secret transfer.
Please ask me to pay the warehouse usage fee on time. Regarding the specific transaction details, Ivanso's necromancers have always been indifferent and even took the initiative to conduct secret transactions with them and get low prices from them.
Commodities, whether stolen goods or not slaves.
As for Yilip and Pros, their ruler Qiu Mo has colluded with those evil forces, and Qiu Mo is an agent supported by those evil forces.
"There are two thieves unions, Purple Mask and Chaohua, who secretly control the city of Pros. Purple Mask is a pirate group with the same name, Lu Zai sells stolen goods, and Chaohua is a pirates' stolen goods agency organization. They have relationships with several pirate groups.
Cooperate secretly and help them carry out the task of selling stolen goods.
The main business in Ilip City is slave trading. It has always been controlled by the Petrified Lizard Human Slavery Group. They have specialized trafficking channels, pirate teams, sales channels, and a full line of services from trafficking to selling. Compared with Pros
City, the situation in Yilip City is the most troublesome, because many citizens have been coerced by them and become their accomplices in the slave trade. Those slaves waiting to be sold are not concentrated in a certain warehouse, but the citizens of Yilip City
At home, Yilip City is the slave trading warehouse of the Petrified Lizard Human Slave Trading Group. How many of the people living there are direct descendants of the slave trading group, how many are ordinary citizens, and how many are slaves waiting to be sold? No one knows
Can't tell clearly."
Copperfield reported the intelligence of those two cities in detail, some of which were provided by Yessandra, and some of which they had collected in recent days. "They are also extremely concerned about the situation in Ivanso.
There have been quite a few movements in the past few days, especially on the sea outside Yilip City, where three three-masted sailing ships have gathered. As long as there is a slight disturbance, they will take all the goods and retreat to the sea immediately. "
"Their existence depends entirely on the attitude of the rulers of Ivanso. Once things change there, they will be the first to bear the brunt." Veranika said with a smile, "So, General Copperfield's plan to cut off the outer branches first
Is it true that there is no arrogance, only in this way can we ensure the maximization of their interests."
Not only her, but also other people did not feel uncomfortable with the current situation in the two cities.
Because the goal was clear, Gavin did not leave too many opportunities for others to speak, and directly dispatched his troops and said: "Because the two cities are too close and have similar properties, there is likely to be contact between them.
Zhu and Keke frightened another city, so they asked for troops and divided into two groups.
The situation in Pross is simple. It is necessary to completely eliminate the two thieves guilds Purple Mask and Chaohua. They have basically investigated their leaders clearly, so they just need to arrest them as ordered.
In that matter, our Avengers have an advantage over them, and he wants to ask us to do so. He will ask Captain Carissa to lead her battle group and three hundred hobgoblin wolf cavalry to support us."
"Then they are obligated to do it. We can't let the Baron do all the work." Yessandra nodded without hesitation.
"After we wiped out the two thieves guilds, we immediately took the captured tongues out of all their warehouses, and then divided the goods inside into two, half of which were captured by them, and the other half was given to Pross.
Citizen." The first half of Gavin's order did not include the province of Renhe
Seizing their goods and confiscating them was not their original plan. They realized that the two cities had a certain strategic role and merged them into one.
The second half of the order is somewhat unbelievable. Why should we give half of the hard-won loot to ordinary citizens?
Yeshandara did not deny that kind of secretive person, and asked directly: "Why do you want to do that? Those two guilds have been operating there for many years, and many ordinary citizens have interests entangled with them. The crimes are no more obvious than those of ordinary people.
The members of the guild are small, and it is true that they are the most merciful in holding people accountable."
Birds of a feather flock together, and Fan Ruina has a jealous temper, while Shantara Ye is not willing to give in too much.
Gavin patiently explained: "Is it because of that that they decided to do that? It is very difficult to uproot such deep-rooted local forces. They often pull up carrots with mud. If they go too deep, it will be very difficult."
Coco will push many people to their wrong side. If they are wrongly blamed, they will hold the culprit accountable. Ordinary guild members must be willing to turn from darkness to light. If there is no culprit to hold them accountable, they can let it go, but this is the limit.
If you do evil again, the punishment will be doubled."
"If not, it would be enough to hold them accountable. Why do you want to give them a share of the stolen goods?"
"For the stolen goods that have been distributed, the Lord will win over those wealthy ordinary citizens. Once the stolen goods they distributed are collected, many people worry that when the evil forces come back, they will be liquidated and retaliated against them.
I will definitely stand in their camp unconditionally, and will take the initiative to report the criminal behavior of those evil forces in the future, and may even take the initiative to report those guild members who hide too deeply."
Gavin imparted his ruling experience to Yeshandara and said, "Their war with the local evil forces has just begun. If they cut off their existing organizational structure, they will lose part of the surface. If they want to win the previous victory, will they be defeated?"
The soil on which they live has been completely eradicated, starting from the human heart."
Yeshandara bowed and thanked him: "I see, I've been taught a lesson. He needs to learn a lot from Lord Baron in that area. He knows what he should do. Simply destroying those evil organizations does not defeat the purpose."
, I really hope that those two towns will be included in the rule."
After those few days of joint action, Shantara Ye realized the biggest gap between herself and Gavin, that is, whether to focus on the pattern.
While his eyes were fixed on the city of Ivansuo, others had already set their sights on the entire Dragon Bay area.
While I was very focused on combating those evil crimes, I was already thinking about how to consolidate the wrong party's territory and occupy it so that there would be no possibility of their resurgence.
As for whether he will lead the army of conquerors to take root there once he conquers Ivanso eastward, as is rumored by the outside world.
At the beginning, Shantara Ye might have been a little worried about this, but with the in-depth contact between the two parties, she found that it was not necessary at all.
For the person in front of me, the Dragon Bay is just a shallow bay, and the flapping of the rocks in it can have a subversive impact on the situation there.
After Gavin completed the layout of Pros' side, he turned around and started mobilizing troops on Yilip's side. "The focus of Yilip's side is not on the shore, but on the sea. Their first target is the three ships."
Three-masted sailing ships are the best if they can be captured; if not, sink them.
Therefore, they also divided their forces into two groups. Thomas, I led half of the hobgoblin giants war group and the remaining hobgoblin wolf cavalry to encircle Ilip. Those who dared to break through the encirclement would be killed on the spot.
Leave half of the remaining hobgoblin giants to his personal command, General Copperfield, and I will lead my sailors to cooperate with them in seizing the ship."
That's why Gavin transferred Carissa and her Goliath regiment, who were very easy to use, to Yeshandara. Their advantage was on land. None of them had ever seen the sea in their lives.
Not to mention going to the sea to seize the ship. In such a narrow place, there are not many troops but precious resources.
"Do you have any questions?" Gavin's eyes swept over everyone's faces.
"No." Everyone replied in unison.
For them, annihilating the local forces in the two small towns with a combined population of just over 5,000 was not a first-rate test.
Although the number of troops they dispatched was not large, they were not the best among the best. Even if they were not from the Avengers and Resistance Army, they were not carefully selected, and none had a professional level higher than five.
The most embarrassing ones are the sailors led by Copperfield, all of whom have opened the professional template, and at least have one or two professional levels. What Gavin needs is not their combat power, but their combat effectiveness.
They have extensive boating experience.
Yilip City is located on the west bank of Long Lake, not the south bank. It has an advantage, that is, it is not far from the mouth of the Bianhuang River.
The river originates from the distant sea swamp and passes through the Thun Swamp. It brings a large amount of nutrients from there. Not to mention the source of Irip City, which is a hundred kilometers away, half of the creatures in the Dragon Lake have benefited from this blessing.
, supporting a large number of species.
Before it was controlled by the basilisk people and turned into a slave-trading city, shallow-sea fishing was their mainstay industry, enough to support the entire city's supplies.
Although it is not a port city, Yilip City is not in a strip shape and is distributed directly on the coastline. Instead, it is like an outland city, huddled together, and the main body is nearly a thousand miles away from Long Lake.
Not only the virtues of Ilip City, but also most of Faerun's port cities are like that. Even if the port is not built directly in the city, the coastal cities usually divide the port area into zones, isolate the port area, and build a large number of city defenses there.
facility.
Because in Faerûn, the ocean is not safe. Not only do all kinds of fish live in it, but there are also a variety of aquatic intelligent creatures, including kind-hearted races like sea elves and murlocs, as well as sahuagin.
Such water demons have amphibious capabilities, are of the same race, and are full of endless hatred. Taking advantage of the darkness to launch attacks on human coastal towns, it is not really a strange rumor.
Although there are many monsters in the Lake of Dragons, there are few traces of sahuagin, because there is a shark tanning nest in the east of the Falling Star Sea, which isolates the group of water demons in the eastern sea. As for the sharks,
The origin of tanning is not a matter of terrestrial races, but involves a long war between intelligent creatures in the east of the water. It can be extrapolated to thousands of years ago and is beyond the scope of tomorrow's discussion.
Three behemoths, in the shape of a Chinese character, lie across the Long Lake, a good distance from the shore.
The most conspicuous thing is the three masts, one tall and two short, which is where their name comes from - three-masted sailing ship.
In the waters around Faerûn, the most common sailing ships range from thirty to fifty meters in length and six to ten meters in width, depending on their size. Not only do they depend on the craftsmanship of the shipbuilder, but they are also very
The materials used to build it, especially the keel and mast, are usually made from a single piece of hardwood.
The three three-masted sailing ships of the Basilisk Human Slavery Group are relatively small in size. The longest one is only about forty meters, and the remaining two are barely thirty meters long.
In addition to three masts, it has nearly a hundred oar openings, which shows that it can not only sail by wind power, but also add a lot of manpower to speed up its sailing. There are more than a dozen large bags covered with oilcloth on the deck.
You don't need to ask to know that there must be a ballista or ballista on the east side.
There are two types of ships traveling through the seas of Faerûn, armed merchant ships and warships. There may be one unarmed merchant ship, so there must be something more terrifying than ordinary armed ones.
"Among the three three-masted sailing ships, the one that is the most troublesome, the most valuable, and the one that looks the largest is the one that protects the bait boat and is used to attract firepower for your main battleship.
The smallest one is the core flagship of the three armed slave ships." As soon as he arrived at the seaside and mentioned the sea-going ships, General Copperfield's whole spirit became somewhat different.
His deep feelings about missing the ocean and missing the ship can be felt by those experienced sailors.
Gavin was suddenly aroused with strong curiosity and said: "General, how can I tell the difference? Can you tell me?"
In his opinion, the escort bait boat that General Copperfield mentioned was their flagship, not only because it was the largest, but also because it had the largest amount of equipment.
Copperfield did not answer and asked instead: "My lord, what do I think is the most important thing in a naval battle?"
"The combination is good, and it can achieve both attack, defense and speed. If the situation is almost the same in other aspects, speed should be the most important factor. It can attack and escape. If the battleship is not destroyed, there will be a comeback.
Opportunity." Gavin thought for a moment and replied. Although he didn't know much about naval battles, he had many things in common, and they were basically similar to human battles.