"That's simple. Leave the fifty cavalrymen he brought to me. They have all been personally trained by ladies and have rich theoretical and practical experience. They will help us reorganize the entire army." Catherine naturally did not refuse.
principle.
That's a bit of a test for them. They don't have the experience to organize such a large-scale army, and they need to learn many things.
"That's all for now. If there are any other issues, they will communicate and negotiate in time." Gavin nodded with satisfaction.
It is best to negotiate a mutually win-win deal because the interests of both parties are different. In many cases, they not only do not conflict but complement each other.
Afterwards, everyone started to discuss the situation in Ivanso. Darvel, Auguste and Erdan had very little room to intervene. Their origins determine that they are better at small-scale elite operations.
, especially the paladins of the Hammer of Justice, let alone that kind of scale of war, many of them have never even seen dozens of paladins dispatched. What they want to listen to is the analysis of Ms. Strategy's first choice, Catherine.
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"The war between us and Ivanso is no longer a simple matter of one city and one place, but involves the entire Dragon Coast and all the cities and forces there.
If we had failed in the war with Ivanso, the mercenaries from those cities would have surrounded us like jackals and would have eaten us to the bone.
If we fail to win, it will be the moment when they are completely united. Not only will they not allow us to continue to attack the city, they will not even allow us to stay there for any longer, otherwise it is not driven by their common interests.
But at that time, no matter whether there is war or peace, the initiative is in our hands." Catherine, as the first choice of Ms. Strategy, is absolutely right, and she looks at the entire situation with a much better perspective than Catherine and Vera.
Nika is very high-minded. Although it has something to do with the changes in the situation, her analysis is really convincing.
Gavin couldn't help but ask: "War, how to maximize benefits? Peace, what should we do?"
"Once we choose to fight, our migration journey will end here. After seizing the east of Ivanso, we must push the army to the east of Boscu City as quickly as possible. No matter what the cost, we must use the most to use that city.
Get things quickly.
Only in this way can we avoid being attacked from both sides and run this place for a long time.
Because if we can swallow the big with a small amount, and if we want to completely digest Boscu and Ivanso, we need at least five years. During that time, we will be able to defend and not buy the territory, because even if we occupy more
There is no way to digest the large amount of cities and land.
In the east of our strong pressure, all the cities on the Dragon Coast will break their previous discrete state, enter the alliance merger state, and form a coalition force to resist us.
If you want to annex the entire Dragon Coast, you must make a century-old plan, because by that time, the Kingdom of Cormyr and Sembia will definitely not turn a blind eye. Even if they do not directly send troops, they will secretly cause obstacles, because
None of them wanted an aggressive new empire to appear at close range.
All of this is based on our victory everywhere. Once there is a big rout, it will be the moment when we are all betrayed, because to the people of the Dragon Coast, we are out-and-out invaders.
We don’t have any mass base there, and some of our current allies will turn their backs on us at that time.”
After Catherine's dismantling, everyone seemed to see the rise and fall of an empire for hundreds of years. Is this normal? It is the inevitable development trend of a power.
"If there is no peace, we will have to continue on the migration path according to the original plan, but if not we can use war as a threat to get benefits beyond the scope of their affordability from the legs of those forces who are eager to drive us away.
For example, a part of the population, limited supplies, etc.
They will not allow us to retain the right to rule the city there, or even allow us to stay in the east beyond a mercenary group or a military organization larger than a caravan.
But we can choose local forces that are closely related to us and hand over the governance of Ivanso to them in exchange for certain privileges and benefits."
After Gavin finished listening, he nodded repeatedly and said: "After listening to the lady's analysis, he had a clearer understanding of the way he came from the east to ask for a way. He knew what he should do, and he was ready to surrender to the necromancer.
What do you think, madam?"
"It's hard to judge when it comes to personal situations." Catherine replied conservatively, "It doesn't make much sense. Our previous plan was very complete. We will know if it is a trap or not. We will know after trying it."
"Okay, he will go and meet the death viper in person to see if the fangs she reveals are poisonous and whether they are deadly seven inches." Gavin no longer hesitated.
Although the two support teams are not large in size, they account for nearly half of them with extraordinary strength.
There is one legend and two quasi-legends in it.
The hobgoblins of Blood Gorge City also selected 3,000 elites and pressed them all to the edge of the Giant Plains. They only needed him to give the command east to rush out.
With their strength, they already have an absolute advantage, and their winning rate has completely tilted towards them. It depends on how they fight to minimize their own losses.
Rather than a miserable victory, Gavin now pursues a glorious victory as great as the annihilation of the Troll Kingdom.
I hope Grace will deny her that opportunity.
The meeting place that Grace chose was Warehouse Hills, an abandoned warehouse not far from Ivanso.
Her way of delivering information is very unique. The summoned ghost she dispatches will deliver the message to the designated person and then be dismissed on the spot.
That means that the information has not been leaked, and Gavin and the others have no way to pass the information back to Grace, so they can go to the designated place at the time specified by her.
Basically, there is no room for error, and any attempt to destroy the enemy will lead to the failure of the rebellion.
Does that mean that Gavin and the others speculated that Grace really had a reason for betraying Coco? After all, as a trap, the success rate is a bit too Buddhist. It took a long time to prepare, but Gavin probably didn't receive my information at all, or in other words, Gavin didn't receive any information from me at all.
They simply ignored it.
Gavin secretly arrived at the location designated by the wrong party in advance, and carefully scouted the place inside and out, but did not find that Ren Hefei# was not even a good ambush location, and there was not enough place to hide troops around it.
There is no magic power fluctuation.
The only thing that can be used is the teleportation tactic, which is to teleport a wave of elite soldiers to surround and kill Gavin.
But the question is, if teleportation is not prohibited, it not only means that Gavin can also use teleportation tactics to send elite soldiers over on a large scale. If it doesn't work, they will run away with just one teleportation, and their plan will also fail.
Doesn't it mean that the death viper really wanted to betray his teacher? Did Yi Wanfu transfer himself and his elite soldiers away from the conqueror's army? Where are they going to send their troops?
But the undead have never been known for their reaction speed. The space they marched through was enough for them to return to the army with their elite troops.
Their poisoning tactics were useless. The chariot village where the conqueror's army was located was shrouded in a temporary nine-ring fog barrier. Teleportation, invisibility and flying were prohibited - but Raymond's leg pen was originally intended to be used on the dwarves. If the fog barrier of Statue City is used there first, it will ensure the safety of the entire army of conquerors. You can't be too careful. As an insurance measure, hundreds of thousands of casting materials are not a waste in that situation. .
As the appointed time got closer, Gavin put all the messy thoughts out of his mind and quickly armed himself to the teeth. Even his extraordinary body was turned on, which would make it easier for him to sense magic fluctuations. Is that the wrong way to go? The only direction to move the legs and feet.
The moment the appointed time arrived, Gavin felt a wave of magic power in the direction of the abandoned warehouse. It was not too violent, but it was also an unusually familiar negative force.
A figure appeared out of thin air not far away. Just from the body shape, Gavin could identify it at a glance. It was Grace, the Ivanso envoy who had been in contact with him several times.
Yes, it is not Grace herself, but a shadow clone formed by condensing negative energy.
That's projection.
That's right. Projection is a misleading illusion cast at close range. It is mainly used for detection or misdirection. If she arrived in person, would it be unnecessary?
Not to mention, is this variant of projection capable of long-distance projection control?
Gavin did not dare to neglect, and after confirming again that there was nothing unusual, he quickly ran towards Grace's projection. The duration of that kind of spell usually did not last too long.
Although it was just a projection, Gavin could read a lot of information from her body movements.
After finding that there was no one around, she was disappointed and relieved at the same time. She didn't show too much anxiety, but when she saw Gavin running towards her, she became nervous and hesitant again.
When he was more than ten meters away from Grace's projection, Gavin stopped and his eyes involuntarily fell on the foot of her projection, which was an inconspicuous bluestone, and bursts of magic power were coming from it.
Obviously, this is a projection anchor point, or a new type of spell that combines preset phantom and projection techniques.
Grace Projection said with a complicated expression: "I didn't expect that Lord Lord would have the courage to come to the meeting. I was afraid that it was a trap?"
"He didn't expect that I really wanted to defect. Can I ask Yidong why?" Gavin is now basically sure that it was not a trap, but that Grace really wanted to ask General Ivanso. Arms was sold.
"Amus has gone completely crazy. He has set up a huge transformation circle in Ivanso. Once he is at a disadvantage in the war with us, he will activate the transformation circle and turn it into a dead land. He is even preparing to To cause death disasters in major cities on the Dragon Coast is an out-and-out act of the devil. Even if we are repelled, it will arouse the anger of Quan Tiandong, who has no interest in accompanying him to hell. "Grace replied quickly.
Rather than trying to persuade Gavin, it is better to say that she is confirming her intention to defect, because the second before she met Gavin, she was in a state of hesitation. After all, the risk of that matter was too great, and the benefits to herself were too great. Small.
"So, I don't know the true face of my teacher Arms." Gavin sneered, not surprised at all by what Grace said.
For a normal person, even if he is not a necromancer, this kind of approach can harm others and not benefit himself, but for a devil, it can be profitable.
He can harvest thousands of innocent souls and drag them into hell to become his precious wealth.
"The true face of his teacher?" Grace asked in surprise, "Isn't he just a powerful necromancer? What's his true face?"
"Do I know if the leader of the Basilisk Human Slave Trading Group, who has been conducting slave trade with me, is a Nadalun Evil Beast Ghost in disguise?" Gavin asked without answering.
"Is Chuck disguised as a Nadalun evil beast ghost? Is there any evidence?" Grace's expression was uglier than eating shit. Although she was in a state of complacency now, what was inside was not her true self?
The soul, except that its appearance looks different from its true form, is generally the same.
"The real projection is proof." Gavin directly played the real projection of killing the Nadaluen evil beast ghost on the three-masted sailing ship to Grace. As for whether she believed the evidence, that was her business.
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"We can infer from this that his teacher is disguised as an Akchaza evil beast ghost?" Grace's projected expression was even more ugly. If the speculation is true, it means that she has been working with a demon in the past few years.
, and for being an accomplice, the body may have been marked by the mark of the devil. If not, once death occurs, it will not enter the normal death process, but like the devil, the soul will be dragged directly into hell.
"The original inference was 30 to 40% reliable, but now it has been increased to 60 to 70%." Gavin did not threaten him, because he was an out-and-out smart man, so he had enough information.
You will come up with your own inference, which is more deterrent than what he said.
"No, no, no, just kill him and you'll know." Grace's projected expression was full of no and sternness, "Behind the abandoned warehouse behind him, there is a secret passage leading to the east city of Ivan Solo, then no
He just discovered when he was investigating Didong recently that no one in Ivansuo knew about it except him.
He had already buried Ivanso's Didong City layout plan in another location in advance. I asked to ensure his safety afterwards. Not only did he immediately hand over the layout plan to me, he also tried his best to destroy the transformation circle and the mystery lock and ban it.
Arms' teleportation ability gives us the time and opportunity to kill him completely."
Even if she surrenders, Grace will not be aware of her conscience, she will just do it for her own sake.
"If he hadn't agreed to my conditions so readily, I'm afraid I wouldn't have believed that he would keep his promise." Did Gavin understand those selfish and evil people too well?
My parents didn’t believe it, let alone an outsider’s promise, “He can give me another choice, he can help me cut off the mark of hell, but otherwise I have to die once and be transformed into the true Netherworld state.
From now on, I will be bound by him and be loyal to him."
"How can he be sure that I have that kind of power?" Grace asked immediately.
Gavin's words really hit home in her heart. There is one biggest problem in the cooperation between the two parties, which is the issue of mutual trust. If that major premise cannot be solved, their cooperation may not be able to proceed smoothly.
Not only could I not trust Gavin, but Gavin and the others were also afraid that they would not be able to fully trust their evil person.
On the contrary, the method Gavin mentioned is more feasible.
She didn't particularly care whether she didn't want to be dragged into hell, facing an unknown fate, or not being human and living as a human being.
Just want to live, just want to be in the material plane that you are familiar with, and have the confidence to change everything with your own intelligence.
Moreover, serving the famous Conqueror Leg Dong seems to be a good choice. There will be many opportunities to put what you have learned to use.
It seemed that Grace had expected such a rhetorical question, and directly played a new real phantom to her, the one that naturally cut off the soul of the six-armed snake demon and returned it to the abyss, transforming it into the six-armed snake demon Night Shadow.
Without giving Grace a chance to raise new questions, she directly launched the demon's true name summons. In an instant, a huge figure appeared in front of one person and one projection.
As always, the sword of the six-armed snake demon Yeying was faster than her mouth. The moment he appeared, the six swords were already slashing towards Grace's projection.
"What an ally?" Fortunately, Gavin was prepared in advance. When he summoned the six-armed snake demon, the designated location was a bit far away, and he called a halt immediately.
Regardless of this, the six-armed snake demon's six swords have already reached the neck of Grace's projection. If it hadn't been a second later, it would have been enough to tear the projection into pieces.
"If you don't want to fight, why would I invite him here?" The six-armed snake demon glanced at Grace's projection with some disdain, and slid behind Gavin at a terrifying speed. She was not in the yong state now, but in the physical state.
Different forces have different powers in different people's legs.
In the case of Taylor and Amanda, the ability to transform reality into reality gave them a chance to be human again, and Daphne also used it as a weapon to seduce Gavin.
But when it came to the six-armed snake demon's legs, it turned into an extremely sharp weapon, which directly brought her strength to a new level, because that power gave her two completely different fighting methods.
In the physical state, with her extraordinary body turned on, she possesses incomparable speed, even surpassing that of an ordinary war horse. The faster the speed, the faster the killing speed will naturally be, especially when facing mixed soldiers.
In the Ye Yong state, it trades speed for damage reduction and spell reduction capabilities that are much richer than those of a main battle tank, and its ability to attack difficult situations is immediately raised to a whole new level.
"Prove to her that he has the ability to cut off the devil's mark. As for fighting, don't worry, it won't be long before I have the opportunity to harvest a large number of high-quality souls." Gavin did not miss the biggest trump card in his lap.
Maintain the highest respect, because the two attitudes, positive and negative, have very different combat effectiveness.