Great Mountain Range, North Frost Basin. The so-called Great Mountain Range is not just a mountain range as the name suggests, but a series of complex terrains with a huge mountain range running through the north and south of the New World as its core.
A collective name for a large area.
According to the oldest records left by the dragons and elves, the Great Mountain Range was an ancient Mediterranean Sea between two continents in an era before human civilization was born.
However, with the outbreak of a war involving a large number of extraordinary forces in prehistoric times, the two continents quickly moved closer. In the end, not only did the ancient Mediterranean disappear, but even the terrain changed from a sunken ocean to a large mountain range with an average altitude of more than 3,000 meters.
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Later, humans also found a large number of examples of this record. For example, when Lawrence was in college, he heard that several natural history professors from his school had formed many scientific expedition teams into large mountainous areas for scientific research.
A large number of fossils of marine life have been recovered from the mountains.
Also because this area was formed after the collision of two continents in the past, the area of the entire area is not small. If you include the areas that are very close to these mountainous areas and are affected daily, there are about more than 1 million and nearly 2 million square kilometers.
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And this only counts the surface area, and does not include the complex alleyways beneath this rugged surface and the large amount of permanently dark space that belongs to the Underdark.
According to some adventurers who were very lucky and had entered this area, they even saw a lake of 20,000 to 30,000 square kilometers and several prosperous buildings surrounding the lake nearly one thousand meters above the ground.
The city. The whole land looks no worse than some places on the ground.
However, compared with the giant underground cave halls discovered in the Old World, the scale of the underground cave halls in the New World that are now known to civilized races can only be said to pale into insignificance.
For example, the largest known lake beneath the Death Mountain that divides the east and west parts of the Old World has an area of over 300,000 to 400,000 square kilometers, and is surrounded by a space several times the area of the lake.
It is not so much a lake as it is an underground ocean. And under the nourishment of that underground ocean, several real countries have even been formed near the water instead of city-states or tribes called countries.
However, those underground spaces belonging to the Underdark Region are not the only ones with giant cave halls whose internal terrain is similar to that of the surface. In addition to such large cave halls, there are also many slightly smaller ones deep in the earth under the large mountains in the Federation.
The cave hall.
For example, when the intelligent race first opened up the road transportation line through the mountains, the dwarves of the seven major families headed by the Volcano Family completely cleaned up and occupied a cave hall.
Although this cave hall is composed of several small and medium-sized cave halls, the total area is more than 10,000 square kilometers, and it is always facing various attacks from the races in the dark region.
But the various metal ores produced there alone are enough for them to make a lot of money. Not to mention that it can also cultivate many unique local animals and plants that are popular on the surface.
The most important thing is that after the intelligent race occupied this cave hall, the road that could be used by the large wilderness races was cut off.
It is also because of this that the human countries located on both sides of the great mountains of the New World's northern continent were able to build the first land passage across the east and west coasts of the New World that could be used for year-round travel.
At the beginning, the passage was just a passage for various animal-drawn vehicles and humans. But with hundreds of years of continuous renovation, the passage became smoother and more prosperous.
Eventually it became the intercontinental train. This passage has also brought a lot of benefits to the countries on both sides of the mountain range.
The goal of this civilizational expedition is also the same, because the original passages are mainly located in the central and southern parts of the New World's Hokuriku. Therefore, if those northerners want to cross the large mountains, they must take a lot of detours. This will naturally
It affected the development of the White Eagle Federation and the northern part of the New South Wales Republic.
Therefore, after everyone's discussion, people finally decided to set the goal of this civilization expedition to the north of the mountain range to establish a new road channel.
Of course, another point that is undeniable is that the industrial systems gradually established in the north are also eager to obtain a raw material production area closer to themselves.
At least Lawrence had heard on his way here that the factory owners and farmers in Huguang City had donated a large amount of materials and money to the Civilization Expeditionary Force.
Because as long as they win this war, they will be able to obtain a large amount of cheaper raw materials from the developed mountainous areas through water transportation than now.
What's more important is that the large mountain range area is recognized as a barbaric land by the civilized races, so it naturally abides by the development laws. In other words, except for the transportation lines across the large mountain range and the area of one kilometer on the roadside, other areas cannot be moved.
Regions will be distributed as rewards to those forces who contributed in the expedition.
The White Eagle Federation and the New South Wales Republic are also happy to see this situation happen. In addition to considering that doing so can gather more strength in the war, a series of small countries have been fostered in these places to act as a bridge between the two big countries.
The buffer zone is also a very worthwhile thing for them.
Under this situation, many forces, especially those within the White Eagle Federation and the New South Wales Republic, have established territories in this area.
For example, the seven dwarf families headed by the Volcano Family established a small republic with a combined underground and surface usable area of 20,000 to 30,000 square kilometers after occupying the territory in the mountainous area with the support of the two major countries.
Of course, as landowners, the White Eagle Federation and the Republic of New South Wales can naturally obtain the land with the largest area and better comprehensive conditions. For example, the land outside the large mountain range that goes directly out of the mountains from Pine Valley all the way to the east is basically
It has been confirmed that it belongs to the White Eagle Federation.
Even so, the current way of distributing the spoils has given the coalition of civilized races an extremely high morale, so the main force's advancement speed after entering the mountainous area is naturally not slow. But in this way, the rapidly stretched supply line will naturally be
This affects logistical supplies.
In addition, because the front is now gradually advancing into the depths of the mountains, the underground space has also become more complicated. The frontline troops have to face various enemies that appear out of nowhere and from all angles.
attacks, so that the casualty rate skyrocketed.
Lawrence felt this change most at the field hospital in Pine Valley, because after they arrived here, they began to collect casualty records on the battlefield so that they could summarize some important data on battlefield rescue.
As a result, after summarizing the collected information, they easily discovered that the casualty rate increased significantly after the military went deep into the mountains.
There are many reasons for this, but the most important reason is that the guardians of the wilderness race changed their tactics.
Especially after the defense lines set up in the hilly areas outside the big mountain range were breached, they immediately gave up the original practice of building strong positions and then confronting the enemy head-on. Instead, they chose to shrink all their strength back to the mountainous areas and use the region's
The terrain and underground passages form an extremely resilient line of defense in the mountainous area.
Under this situation, the army had to slow down the pace of the attack and instead began to consolidate the rear of their front. Especially after Nora and the others discovered the secret base and passage built by the wilderness race behind their front, the entire front immediately stopped
As I pushed forward, I began to contract.
Soon, the war zones in contact between the two sides calmed down because everyone was shrinking. Only the sound of scattered gunfire echoed above the battle line. However, in this quietness, both sides of the war realized that a storm was about to come.