"Can we purchase grain from the Princess Regent in advance?" Marshall then threw out another possibility.
Whether it is the catch from the Andis inland lake or the harvest from the Northern Fortress from the Kogel Grassland, even if it succeeds, the local food crisis will be solved by then.
Whether it is fish, cattle or sheep, it is not convenient to transport them in the Andis Mountains.
Especially the northern fortress, where the mountains are more complicated and food transportation is very difficult, which takes up a lot of manpower and material resources of the Yongye Army. They can meet part of it for their own use, but Amitabha is not expected to subsidize the Yongye Army.
When all the methods that have been thought of internally are exhausted, one can only focus on the outside.
The regent princess Sofilia they just connected with through Angie Beina is undoubtedly a good choice.
Sean rubbed his forehead with a headache and said: "Food can be bought, but how to transport it back?"
When there was a food crisis in the Yongye Army, Sean immediately thought of buying food from the regent Princess Sophia.
Purchasing grain from her is not difficult, not to mention that the two sides have already crossed paths due to the Spring Thunder Project. Even if there is no intersection, the Yongye Group Army buys grain with real money, and Sophia Liya has no reason to refuse.
Time will wash away many things, such as inheritance, historical traces, and hatred.
Unlike the Odin Orcs, who have always been in a strong position, due to the geographical environment, the situation of the Andis people is getting worse day by day. Even at its peak, they could only harm the military leaders of Manyu. They have been in a weak position in recent years.
His status has always been suppressed by the leader of the Manyu Army.
Even if there are not many military leaders in Manyu who remember the Andis people causing trouble, let alone the Byron League, especially with the slave liberation movement, many former Andis slaves have become members of the Byron League.
part.
At best, many of the ruling classes of the Byron Alliance looked down upon the Andis, regarding them as barbaric people in a barbaric land, and there was no talk of hatred or wariness against them.
But how to transport food back from the plains of Asia Minor was a big problem.
When Sean and Sophia Liya discussed the purchase of grain, it was based on the resumption of the flow of the Jacob River. When the time came, he would add the merchant warships he had prepared in advance to transport the grain back to the Andis Mountains.
Too simple.
But changes within the Andes Mountains completely disrupted the plan.
If you want to transport food by land, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive. The most critical issue is safety.
To put it bluntly, in the Manyu Army, the most valuable thing now is food.
Even in good years, Manyu's military leader may not be able to guarantee self-sufficiency in food, let alone years of war, and the cultivated land is so desolate that many lords and nobles are now tightening their belts, let alone those at the lower levels.
Many of the citizens are already unable to open the pot.
At first, there was at most a small volcano sitting under the butt of Sishui City, but now it is a super large volcano under the leadership of Manyu Army. It is a kind of volcano for official forces like Patram and Philip, as well as the slave rebel army.
torment.
In the beginning, the slave rebels rebelled against the nobles and nobles because of oppression and hunger. Now, the people at the bottom may also rebel against them because of hunger.
The so-called dreams and righteousness are far more important than filling your stomach.
It is an impossible task to transport a large amount of food across the border. At that time, there will be countless pairs of eyes, whether it is wild forces or official forces, they may directly transform into bandits and rob them.
Even among the many forces led by Manyu Army, except for Philip, the first heir who is more serious in racism, including Patram, who is now backed by the Holy Ether Church, they have more or less intersections with the Eternal Night Army.
Maintain an ambiguous relationship.
They were also ruthless when robbing others.
Ultimately, the relationship between the two parties is just interest.
But in this situation, what is more important than a large amount of food?
At most, they just used other names in the process of robbing the Yongye Group Army, and later turned their backs and refused to admit their guilt.
Nobles are the creatures with the least moral integrity and bottom line in the world.
Princess Regent Sophia obviously has a deep understanding of this. When Sean proposed to buy food, her first reaction was to solve the transportation problem herself.
Obviously, she is very aware of the virtues of these lords and nobles. As long as the benefits are big enough, there is nothing they dare not do.
The effect of my reputation as Princess Regent will be greatly reduced once it reaches the plains of Asia Minor, and I will not be merciful when snatched away.
Shifting the blame after the fact is a common tactic used by these nobles and nobles.
"Exchange of interests, aren't you the best at this? Let the people led by Manyu's army help us transport food."
After being nudged by Chad, Skullcrusher Mikey sulked for a while. Now that he heard a new question, he couldn't help but express his opinion.
Undoubtedly, it provoked another round of eye-rolling.
McGee said with an innocent face: "Don't you shout every day that the exchange of interests is an all-win method between forces?"
"The exchange of interests also depends on the situation. For the forces led by Manyu Army, what interests are more attractive than food? Let them transport food, that is, meat buns beat dogs, and there will be no return." Marshall said patiently.
explained.
"Okay, anyway, everything you said makes sense. If it doesn't work, let's muddy the water under Manyu's army again and see if there is any chance to profit from it." Although Skullcrusher Mikey has been making progress,
But it's hard to have any constructive opinions on this kind of thing.
This time, he was completely ignored.
Fishing in troubled waters.
Easier said than done.
Especially this kind of thing that benefits from many forces.
In addition to being at the right time and place, you also need a little bit of luck.
The most important thing is that they have just decided on the strategy for the northern fortress, and they can no longer take the initiative to provoke trouble on the side of Manyu's army.
The Yongye Army does not yet have the ability to benefit from both ends.
"Let's think about it in the long term. This is a backup option. A multi-pronged approach. Let's work together to overcome this difficulty. As long as we get through it, our future will be smoother." Sean waved his arms heavily.
"Yes, we have come all the way from a few thousand people to hundreds of thousands now. What can we do?"
"The Walled City Alliance is not our opponent, nor are the mountain Kentana barbarians. How can we bow our heads in the face of a small food gap."
"There are countless people below watching us. We must not fall first. We must take the lead and tide over the difficulties together."
Everyone cheered and cheered up.
In addition to the strategic direction, we also brainstormed and discussed some locally beneficial things, striving to make full use of available resources.
Viewed from the air, the Yongye Army looks like an irregular mollusk.
Originally the heaviest end was in the direction of the Andis Inland Lake, but as the situation changed, the Walled City Alliance agreed to peaceful annexation, and the center of gravity began to shift.
A new round of screening work began, and a large amount of manpower and material resources began to be transferred to the northern fortress.
Including the Walled City Alliance is also within the scope of screening.
The peaceful annexation of the Walled City Alliance by the Yongye Group Army is not a matter of replacing the Yongye Group Army's flag on the head of Sishui City, but a step-by-step process.
In addition to carrying out a wave of war refugee diversion, the Walled City Alliance still maintains its independence. The relevant government policies are not directly applied to the Yongye Group Army, and are still presided over by Ban Hebrew according to the original pace.
However, Ban-Hebrew now only has administrative power and no military power.
Except for retaining a very small number of local armed personnel to maintain public security, the army that was dispersed by the Kentana barbarians in the mountains did not regroup. Instead, the Yongye Group Army set up recruitment points here, selected elites from them, and dispersed them to various corps.
middle.
It won't take long for the outstanding lieutenants of the Yongye Group Army to train them into excellent Yongye soldiers.
As long as the best part of this part is swallowed, no matter how careful Ben Hebrew is, it will be in vain.
It is worth mentioning that the bloodline stability shown by the mountain Kentana barbarians is far superior to that of the Andis people.
According to the current screening and investigation situation of Yongye Group Army.
In an environment with a high concentration of magic energy like the Grand Canyon of Odin, 60 to 70 Andis people will have unstable blood vessels and develop various complications.
Don't think this is a good thing. The Evernight Army can use this to cultivate a large number of warlocks.
Most of the bloodline instability caused by this kind of external environmental stimulation is malignant. Only a few will be able to awaken as warlocks when the time comes. Most of them don't know what kind of monster they will become, and then their bloodline will collapse and they will die miserably.
Those beasts at the Biological Anomaly Research Institute that failed to return to ancient times are the best evidence.
The proportion of mountain Kentana savages is exactly the opposite of that of the Andis, with only three to four out of ten reacting, and the situation is usually not too serious.
What is more interesting is that those mountain Kentana barbarians who reacted usually did not have pure blood, and most of them still had the blood of Andis and Odin orcs flowing through them.
This directly became a new topic for the Institute of Biological Anomalies.
If they can crack this mystery, their research on magic energy will go a step further.
Sean put forward a bold hypothesis about this. Is this situation related to the origin of the legendary warlock?
According to legend, the ancient Andeans did not have the ability to cast spells. It was not until they frantically purified the blood of an unknown creature and injected it into their offspring that warlocks appeared.
The Andis people's bloodline is mixed with bloodline genes from other species, so they are naturally more susceptible to the influence of external energy.
The Kentana barbarians are an indigenous people born and raised in Ashan, and their bloodline genes have become extremely stable during the long process of evolution, so they are naturally not easily affected.
However, this requires careful verification.
After all, legends are the most unreliable things, especially legends from thousands of years ago, which are even more unreliable.
The war between the Yongye Group Army and the Cliff Clan, a barbarian tribe in the Kentana Mountains, did not end with the annihilation of the Cliff Clan’s invading army, but had just begun.
But the battlefield is no longer Andis Mountain, but the negotiation table.
There are outliers in any race, and Locke, nicknamed Dad, is an outlier among the Kentana barbarians in the mountains.
In a race that likes to talk with their fists, people who are good at using their brains are certainly the outliers among the outliers.
Before the confrontation with Father Locke, Sean really couldn't imagine what a barbarian with the body of a giant bear and a cunning temperament like a fox looked like.
Putting aside his conversation and personality, Daddy Locke is a standard Kentana barbarian who cannot be more standard. He has a figure similar to that of Yale.
There are various scars, both caused by fighting with people and fighting with nature.
His hair has turned gray, and obvious crow's feet have appeared in the corners of his eyes, but his tone of voice and appetite are still scary, just like his courage.
Going to the enemy's territory alone and negotiating with the enemy requires extraordinary courage, and it also shows in disguise that the opponent's current situation is not easy.
With so many prisoners in their hands, the Yongye Group Army has long been aware of the situation in the eastern reaches of the Andis Mountains.
The situation over there is a bit complicated now. The Cliff Clan invaded the Andis Mountains. In addition to the factor of Gergild taking the initiative to send them to the door, there is also a bit of their own helplessness. Even without Gergild, it won’t take long for the Cliff Clan to invade the Andis Mountains.
It is also possible to build your own raft and cross the Great Lakes to invade the Andes Mountains.
The difficult living environment in Dongluan is only one aspect. Since they have been able to take root here for so many years, there is no problem that the output here can barely support them.
The crux of the problem lies in the Kentana Icefield and his fellow clan members.
Although the Kentana barbarians have always looked down upon the mountain Kentana barbarians and regarded them as hybrids, they have still maintained certain contact with each other over the years, exchanging special and scarce products - the Kentana barbarians are not
As rumored by the outside world, it is completely impossible to communicate and trade.
As long as there are logical thinking races, there will inevitably be transactions, but the difference is between backwardness and advancedness, simple and complex.
However, this kind of transaction must obviously be based on a balance between the surplus of property and force. When these two prerequisites deviate, the only thing left is plunder by force.
The compatriots on the Kentana Icefield brought less and less trade to the Kentana barbarians in the mountains, and more and more naked invasions and plunders.
Fortunately, the connections between the barbarian clans on the Kentana Icefield have never been very close. Large tribes with more than a thousand people are extremely rare. Although they are individually stronger than most mountain Kentana barbarians, the latter have
Due to numerical superiority, invasions often fail and are instead annexed by the mountain Kentana barbarians.
The reason why the barbarian clan behaved so abnormally is that the climate on the Kentana Icefield has been somewhat complicated and changeable in recent years. The two major sources of food they relied on for survival, kodos and walruses, had problems at the same time, so they could not take any measures.
The only way to continue the clan is through plundering from outside.
Compared with other Kentana barbarian tribes that have no fixed settlements, the Kentana barbarians with fixed residences in the mountains are naturally the first choice for plunder.
Compared with the Odin Orcs, who are also nomadic people, the survival system of the Kentana barbarians is more fragile and less resistant to disasters. Once any link changes, they will face the crisis of annihilation.
In the past two years, the abnormal weather on the Kentana Icefield has not only shown no signs of getting better, but has intensified. Even the big clans have been unable to bear it and have begun to surge towards the eastern mountains of Andis.
The most terrible thing is that the other party not only has a permanent presence in the east of the Andes Mountains, but also has a tendency to gather and unite.