"Karu, we are just a group of human civilians, do we need to be so careful?"
Under the cover of the heavy fog, groups of murlocs stepped onto the beach and quietly advanced towards Bay Town.
The speaker was a male Naga with the head of a fish and the body of a snake. He was ugly, with a childlike face and a slightly arrogant look, but his eyes were full of madness.
He was accompanied by two Naga guards.
"Prince Tiga, please be patient. I will let you enjoy the ultimate killing feast later." Facing the Naga who was traveling with him, the fishman leader Karu looked very humble.
"You understand me, but I don't know whether human blood is delicious or not."
Diga spit out the snake letter and his eyes began to become bloodshot.
At first glance, he looks like a madman.
………
In a rooftop loft somewhere in Bay Town, Tang Jing held a telescope and stared at the beach not far away.
"There are quite a few fishmen coming, over a thousand."
"Huh?"
"Is that the legendary Naga?"
Tang Jing quickly noticed something unusual in the fish-men team, and turned around to tell Xu Chu: "It's best to capture those three Nagas alive during the battle."
His understanding of the alien races in the sea, even the dwarves and elves, is very limited.
It's not easy to catch him alive, but you can't ask him clearly.
"Don't worry, sir!"
Seeing that there were only a thousand or so fishmen attacking, Xu Chu was full of confidence. Although the fishmen were ferocious, their combat power was really scumbag, and they could defeat even first-level weapons.
Not to mention the most elite Guards Battalion.
From the moment the fishmen entered the town, the outcome of the battle was already determined.
"kill!"
When the murloc army all entered the town and entered the encirclement, all the soldiers from the Guards Battalion hiding in the houses came out, showing their sharp edges.
"No, I fell into a trap!"
The fishman leader Karu looked horrified and was about to lead his troops to break out.
But where did you break through?
In front of the barbaric warriors, the skinny fish-men were no different from chickens and dogs. The Chiyou warriors could smash the brains of the fish-men into pieces with one blow of an axe.
"Karu, you tricked me!"
Diga's complexion among the fish crowd also changed suddenly, his pale face became even paler, and he no longer had the excitement before.
"Prince Tiga, I, I don't..."
Only then did Karu realize the existence of Tiga, and he was so frightened that he almost collapsed to the ground.
Don't blame Karu for his change of expression.
If only his clan members were ambushed, they would be dead. But if Tiga was killed and the Naga clan was blamed, the entire fish-men clan would probably be annihilated.
How can we not be afraid?
If he had known this, he would not have dared to take Tiga ashore even if he had given Karu ten courages.
But regretting now is of no use.
In a desperate situation, Karu tried to mobilize the murloc army towards the beach to break out of the encirclement at any cost.
But it's just a mantis trying to act like a chariot.
In this battle, the Guards Battalion showed overwhelming strength. In less than an hour, they wiped out all the murlocs and captured Karu, Tiga and two other Nagas.
After the battle, Kalu and others were kidnapped by Wuhua Da and brought to Tang Jing.
"First introduce yourself to your family!"
"Dear human lord, I am Karu, the leader of the murlocs, and this is His Highness Tiga, the noble prince of the Naga tribe. Please let us go, and you will gain the friendship of both the murlocs and the Naga tribe."
Seeing that he was only captured, Karu, who was already in despair, rekindled hope in his heart.
In order to survive, I kept my posture very low.
The cruel Tiga also wisely remained silent at this time and did not take the opportunity to act arrogantly.
"The friendship between fishmen and naga?"
Tang Jing looked joking, "Are you referring to two consecutive attacks on my territory and killing my citizens?"
"Uh, this is all a misunderstanding..."
She is as thick-skinned as Karu, but she also lacks confidence at the moment.
After all, fishmen have a good reputation.
Seeing that Karu was at a loss for words, Diga stepped forward to save the situation at the right time, "Lord, we can compensate!"
"What should I pay as compensation? Fish?"
"Gold coins, or other treasures."
Despite being humiliated, Diga could still keep his composure, which was completely different from his fiery temper when he first landed ashore. "We, the Naga family, are the nobility of the sea, not country bumpkins."
There is also arrogance in his heart.
"Ransom? This is possible."
Tang Jing liked ransom the most, "Then ask Karu to go back and bring back the sincerity of the Naga tribe."
"Thank you Lord, thank you Lord!"
Kalu never expected that he would be released so soon, and he kowtowed happily.
Diga also quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, this human lord is greedy for money. As the overlord of the sea, the Naga tribe has always had no shortage of gold coins. Most of them are "salvaged" from passing human ships.
Once redeemed, he will definitely take revenge for today's humiliation.
………
"Sir, after getting the ransom, do you really want to let that Naga prince go?"
Xu Chu was a little puzzled.
Judging from the behavior of the fishmen and naga, after redeeming someone, they will definitely wait for an opportunity to retaliate.
Friendship is a joke.
"Of course it's not that simple." Tang Jing smiled and shook his head. He had already experienced the treachery of these alien races once with the orcs. "Be prepared for a second battle."
"clear!"
Xu Chu was relieved.
………
The fish-men incident was just a small episode and did not affect the actions of the Trap Brigade and the Red Flame Brigade. After each arrived at their respective stations, they quickly launched new military operations.
War is the main theme of Chang'an.
With the assistance of intelligence provided by dwarves and elves, the trapping brigade led by Gao Shun took the initiative to launch an offensive against other orc cottages that had previously participated in the attack on Chang'an.
We eliminated these bandits one by one and successfully extended our tentacles to Chaoxia Mountain.
The actions of the Red Flame Brigade are not slow either.
With the intelligence support of the Intelligence Section of the Military Affairs Administration, Lin Shu commanded the Red Flame army, successfully crossed the Gray Water River, and launched a new round of sweeping operations against the enemy territory on the west bank of the Gray Water River.
Not surprisingly, it set off new waves in the Aztec Alliance.
"Oh, the Dragon Lord is here again!!"
"Damn Zunlong Kingdom, it is getting more and more aggressive. We can no longer just sit back and watch."
"It's time to show the unity of the alliance."
"Who doesn't know how to say nice things? The question is, what should we do?"
"How about strategically abandoning Bay County?" A northern lord suggested.
"madness!"
Someone immediately denounced, "This is short-sighted and is feeding a tiger into danger!!!"
"That's right, with Chang'an's growth rate, if we really keep letting it go until Chang'an completely digests Haiwan County, and then want to eliminate it, we will have to pay a price that is ten times or even a hundred times higher than it is now."
"It's time to abandon the North-South bias."
"Now the mainstream territories have entered the village stage, and there are more than 100,000 alliance village-level territories. On average, each village-level territory only needs to donate one soldier, which is enough to assemble an army of 100,000 people."
The Aztecs had reason to believe that such a large army could crush Chang'an.
"Haha, I don't believe that Chang'an can still threaten the safety of our north." The northern lords were not fooled, and they did not want the lords of the Valley Province to take the opportunity to become bigger.
In the long run.
Artificially cultivating a "giant" in the valley province is a far greater threat to them than Chang'an.
Not to mention the northern lords, even the neighboring provinces had doubts in their minds about whether they should support the lords of the River Valley Province in gathering a large army to attack Chang'an.
They all have similar concerns.
"Haha, it's the same argument again. We have said similar things many times before. If this happens every time, it will only allow the Dragon Master to grow bigger."
"Yes, this pointless argument must be stopped."
Seeing disagreements arise again, the lords of the River Valley Province, especially the lords of Bay County, became anxious.
"The reason why the lords outside the River Valley Province are unwilling to fund this military operation is simply because they are worried about the emergence of a new regional overlord in the River Valley Province."
"That's not as good as this -"
"Let the lord who accepted the donation sign an agreement. After the military operation against Chang'an is over, the surviving warriors must be returned to the donor intact." Someone suggested.
"That's a good idea!"
"Haha, this is the "Star Boundary". The agreement is not binding. How to ensure the implementation of the agreement? How to supervise it, and the donated lord conceals the data by exaggerating the casualties?"
Someone else raised doubts.
"This is also simple. Set up a supervisory committee in Folding City and send one or two supervisors to each territory receiving donations to supervise the implementation of the agreement." Someone added.
“Then how to ensure the impartiality of the oversight committee?”
"Even if the Supervisory Committee can perform its duties fairly, there is no guarantee that the lord who receives the donation will be able to faithfully perform its contract. If it really wants to cheat, there is nothing the Supervisor can do."
Yes, it’s back to the state of quantum entanglement.
"In this case, it is a rigid rule that the number of warriors in each donated territory shall not exceed 500, and one supervisor and two military advisers will be sent to each territory. This also solves the problem of military command."
Once the entire alliance starts donating, the size of the army will be close to 100,000.
Command itself is a big problem.
"After the war is over, the supervisors and military advisors will jointly issue a war report. If the donated lord does not return the soldiers truthfully, he can call on the surrounding territories to fight together."
Finally, someone came up with a relatively reliable suggestion.
"Then, what if the lords of the River Valley Province choose to collectively default?" someone asked.
"..."
At this moment, the national channel once again fell into deathly silence.