Hearing the news that Di Kelong led the elite to kill, Akmesser showed a relieved smile and said, "You are the one waiting for me."
Although the two have never met, they have used the battlefield as a chess game and have played the game for so long, so they have a deep understanding.
Just like Dikron knew that Akmesser would not let them go easily, Akmesser also knew that Dixon was not the kind of person who liked to hand over his fate to the enemy, so he would definitely hold a hand.
When the large force was transferred to the Bolton River to intercept and kill, there were still 10,000 elite troops left in the base camp. Compared with the remnants of the slave rebel army, they did not have a numerical advantage. However, Akmeser believed that this was the result of the long-lasting confrontation.
, the best chance to completely defeat Dixon.
Because this time the opponent has a reason to fight to the death.
Di Kelong's real purpose was not necessarily himself, but to besiege Wei and rescue Zhao. He wanted to force him to mobilize the main force in the direction of the Bolton River to return reinforcements by besieging himself.
Akmesser was not prepared to comply with the opponent's wishes, and relied on the existing troops in his hands to fight a head-on battle.
Dikron VS Acmeser.
This is the second round of clashes between two commanders who have risen to prominence in recent years.
The last round ended in Diklong's disastrous defeat due to various reasons including the right time, location, and people.
This time the two sides stood on the same starting line, with almost the same military strength.
Dikron is still the main attacker and Akmesser is the main defender.
A violent storm of attack.
One is kept airtight.
The leader of one is the last elite of the slave rebel army, which is mainly composed of slave gladiators from the past. They have extremely strong individual combat capabilities. After so many years of life and death fighting, they have learned how to cooperate in military formations.
One leader is an elite built by the Kingsley family with a lot of money. The equipment is luxurious and unparalleled in the world. The whole army can wear plate armor. This is the only one. There is no semicolon. They are just mobile steel cans. Even using broken weapons
The threat posed to them by the armored Andis longbow was minimal.
The war was in full swing from the beginning.
This is the collision between flesh and blood and steel.
Both sides refused to give an inch, and there seemed to be a strong smell of blood between their lips and teeth.
This battle lasted three days.
They were evenly matched, and no one could do anything to anyone.
The defense of this tin-canned army led by Akmeser is so strong that even if they stand there motionless, it would be very difficult to kill them, let alone the remnants of a slave rebel army that is not one or two levels poor in equipment.
military.
However, Dikron's battlefield command ability is more than superior to Akmeser's. The entire remnant of the slave rebel army is as flexible as an arm. He has deeply understood the essence of strategy and tactics, making full use of the opponent's slow movement disadvantage to create local and local attacks.
Beat more and eat less, nibbling away bit by bit.
Three days later.
Dikron abandoned more than two thousand corpses and evacuated silently.
Akmeser also paid almost the same price. He looked at the opponent's leaving figure and was helpless. All he had in his hands were heavy infantry. He had no way to pursue them and did not dare to pursue them. Who knew whether the opponent would take the opportunity to attack them?
An ambush.
Akmeiser had planned everything, except that Commander Dikron was beyond imagination and failed to break the opponent's teeth.
If you miss this opportunity, you will never have the chance to eat the opponent again.
Because during the three days of their fierce battle, the family members of the remnants of the slave rebel army had slipped out through the cracks, boarded a boat upstream of the Sanchakou, and were transported to the Andes Mountains.
Di Kelong is still far from being a saint. His kindness is only to those he knows. To those he is not familiar with, he can only say sorry. He is not capable of taking care of so many.
The Bolton River and the wild forces led by the Carter Army were the targets that attracted Akmeser from the beginning to the end.
If Akmeser abides by the agreement and opens up the gap, everyone will be happy. The leader of the Yongye Army does not mind picking up these people together. Anyway, their family has a big business, and it is not a problem to arrange tens of thousands more people.
If Akmeser does not abide by the agreement, then they can only become cannon fodder to attract the opponent's main force, buying time for the remnants of the slave rebel army to transfer the old, weak, sick and disabled.
Di Kelong attacked Akmeser's lair, besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao was only one of his purposes. If he could succeed, that would be the best. If he could not succeed, he would completely suppress them and not give them a chance to make other reactions.
For this personnel evacuation, the Yongye military leader has considered all aspects.
In the end, Akmesser came up short, but as Kelman said at the beginning, as long as the remnants of the slave rebel army completely left the Carter Army, he would have completed his mission, even though it was the worst kind.
The leader of the Yongye Army did not deceive him on this point. The remnants of the slave rebel army evacuated very thoroughly. As long as they could walk, they all took them away. They went up the Jacob River and plunged into the mountains.
Not showing his face either.
Not only did they leave, they also took away all the rebel forces who had any entanglements with them. Those who had no entanglements were also lured away by his herd mentality, and were slaughtered completely by the Kingsley family army.
Suddenly, Carter's military leader was in an unprecedented clean state.
After receiving the news, Archduke Buck, who was far away in the territorial capital, happily said hello three times and immediately sent a commendation order to give generous rewards to all the officers.
As for the fact that the remnants of the slave rebel army were picked up by the Yongye Army leader, there was no mention of it.
The analysis of Commander Yong Ye was not wrong at all. In Grand Duke Buck's heart, the emphasis on the Swamp of Despair had overridden everything else.
As long as the territory can be cleared as soon as possible and the army is mobilized to stand by in the Swamp of Despair, he doesn't care about Dixon's life or death at all.
As long as they obtain their own grain-producing land, they will enter a completely different realm as the tiger enters the mountains and the dragon returns to the sea.
When the time comes, they will compete with the whole world. How can they care about the life and death of a slave rebel leader?
It can be said that this is a happy ending.
Regardless of the leader of the Eternal Night Army or the remnants of the slave rebel army, the Kingsley family got what they wanted.
The only thing that was damaged was probably Akmesser's face. After all, the siege lasted for so long and ended in this situation. This would be an indelible stain on his career as a general.
Soon, Archduke Buck's secret letter arrived again. Compared with the increasingly harsh words before, this time he was full of praise, calling him his shield and sword, and his guardian knight.
The explicitness of the words made Akmeiser wonder if this was a letter written by Archduke Buck himself. However, the seal, handwriting, and special marks agreed between the two in private proved to be entirely written by one person.
For a middle-aged man who has a reserved temperament and never expresses his feelings easily to write such a disgusting letter in his own hand shows how excited he was at that time.
However, the focus of this letter is to re-analyze the importance of the Swamp of Despair to the Kingsley family, and ask Akmeyser to repair the army as soon as possible and rush to the border of the Swamp of Despair to be ready at any time.
Although Archmathera understood the importance of the Swamp of Despair to the Kingsley family and fully felt the urgency of Archduke Buck, he still suppressed his order.
Instead of rushing to the Swamp of Despair immediately, he led his army to sweep back and forth in the war zone, killing all the remaining rebels and not even throwing them into the mines.
In the eyes of rulers like the Kingsley family, those who have tried to resist their rule are corrupt elements, and are not even qualified to become mining slaves again.
Because they are a poison and a plague. Throwing them into the mines will lead to more mine slaves to resist them, and the harm will be far greater than the value they create.
The simplest and most effective way to deal with them is to leave no one behind.
All the old strongholds, regardless of whether they were manned or not, were burned to the ground. Some valuable military locations were left with varying numbers of troops stationed there.
This is a real effort to eradicate the problem and prevent it from becoming a paradise for rebels again.
The remnants of the slave rebel army led by Di Clon taught them a vivid lesson.
If a small illness accumulates too much, it will turn into a serious illness once the right opportunity comes.
If there were not so many rebels in the Carthusian military leader itself, the remnants of the slave rebel army led by Dikron would be rootless duckweeds and would not be able to stir up such a big storm.
Without Dikron and the remnants of the slave rebel army as the main force, all that were left were stragglers. When faced with the largest violent institution, the army, there was no room for resistance.
By the time Akmesser officially set off for the Swamp of Despair, summer had passed and the weather turned cold.
After two hot summers of natural evaporation, the water level in the Swamp of Despair dropped to its lowest point ever, and nearly half of the water was completely depleted.
Many muddy areas have dried hard to a depth of several feet. It may take several years to completely return to dry ground, but it is enough to support adults running around on it.
The Crocodile people have lost their greatest reliance, and their ruling council of elders has been convened countless times, but has never been able to reach a consensus.
There are many issues that trouble them.
For example, what kind of attitude should we use towards the leader of the Yongye Army?
It is obviously impossible for them to merge just like this. Not only the elders would not agree, but most of the Crocodile tribe would not agree either.
In addition to the fact that the leader of the Yongye Army is a strange force to them, the most important thing is that they themselves are powerful enough. They have deep confidence in the warriors of their own tribe, who are more than 100,000 capable soldiers.
The leader of the Yongye Army wants to eat the entire Crocodile Tribe together with their homeland. Why?
Just because they showed off their muscles in front of a few more prestigious elders?
That is wishful thinking.
But they didn't want to completely offend the Yongye Army leader.
After all, the opponent's geographical advantage is too obvious. They can only attack themselves, but they have no way to counterattack.
What's even more terrible is that the other side has been well prepared, and the fleet is frighteningly powerful. Once it enters the Donau River, the crocodile tribes on both sides of the river will be within their attack range, and the furthest one is only a week's voyage away.
The Council of Elders discussed it for a long time, and the only solution they came up with was to delay.
They have always been ambiguous about joining the Eternal Night Army, neither immediately nodding nor immediately rejecting it. Some tribes have shown genuine or false goodwill to them, such as opening up trade rights in some areas.
I don’t know if the Yong Ye army leader fell into the trap, or if they had other plans.
Their warships never left the Death Channel and marched into the Swamp of Despair on a large scale.
However, various types of merchant ships began to come in and out, and there was a gradual increase in the number.
The leader of the Eternal Night Army's trade with Despair Swamp is not the war crocodile skin for which they are famous.
Although crocodile skin has unique patterns, it gets newer with use, becomes softer with use, has super flexibility and many other advantages. However, their relatively small production volume and difficult processing methods make them a relatively rare luxury product.
It will only become an auxiliary for the ladies of the royal capital Valesta to show off their wealth.
The product initially positioned between the two parties was the unique herb in the Swamp of Despair.
The Crocodile tribe has been closed for too long, with few business trips, and has long developed a self-sufficient lifestyle. Even if there is trade, it is only limited to local trade between several towns and villages, exchanging necessities for survival.
Foreign trade products are really scarce, and the only products that can be focused on are products. Originally, spicy fruits can be regarded as a specialty of Despair Swamp.
It's a pity that Sean got the seeds many years ago and even completed the seed selection and breeding. He has already promoted the planting on a large scale. In terms of scale and variety, it is much better than the Swamp of Despair.
After all, the previous environment of the Swamp of Despair was not a perfect environment for them to grow.
But soon Sean discovered another treasure in the Swamp of Despair - the tea tree.
Sean had the habit of drinking tea in his previous life. Of course, he is not a high-end tea drinker who can taste the nuances of various teas.
He regarded it more as a daily necessity to remind himself not to forget to drink more water after busy work. Over time, he developed a habit.
This habit has been brought to this life. Unfortunately, due to the lack of the Han nation, the tea culture in this world has not yet emerged. He has not seen plants similar to the tea tree. The tea he drinks now is all fake tea made from flowers and plants.
Tea, even so, is still very popular among the Odin orcs.
Sean was looking for tea. In addition to satisfying his appetite, he also saw potential huge benefits from it.
Sean is very aware of the popularity of tea among the nomads. It was an important part of the nomadic trade in Chinese history, and was once on par with salt.
This happens because they supplement the relatively single diet structure of the nomads, allowing them to absorb some trace elements that they rarely consume, and they are beneficial to digestion, reduce some potential diseases, and make the body healthier.
robust.
You can survive without it now, but once you adapt to it, it will inevitably become an indispensable part.
In the trade system between the Eternal Night Army Leader and the Odin Orcs, there has always been a lack of a final product.
Salt doesn't count.
The Yongye Army does not produce salt of its own. They use high-priced salt from the Manyu Army. It takes hundreds of kilometers to go from the northern fortress to the Odin Prairie in a roundabout way.
Now even if part of it is saved due to the reflow of the Jacobs River, the 200 kilometers from the Jacobs River to the northern fortress has greatly increased the transportation cost.
When it is transported to the Odin Prairie, even if it is sold at a very high price, the Eternal Night Army Leader will not make much profit from it.
On the contrary, he works for Angie Beina to some extent.
Having your own special product is the way to go.
Unexpectedly, after going round and round, I found a breakthrough in the crocodile tribe.
The Crocodile people already have the habit of drinking tea. Although their method of making tea is really unflattering, they already have a relatively complete tea-making technology and a small area of tea cultivation, which saves the Yongye army a lot.