Next, Liya introduced Yun Xiaohan to the current war situation and the situation around the Gloya region.
Of course, there is too much content to introduce this situation. If Liya were to talk about each one for at least a few hours, it would be too late. So Liya is just making a start here. In essence, the game opens a temporary intelligence system to Yun Xiaohan.
Yun Xiaohan can use the intelligence system to view some of the information that Liya already has on the virtual map.
The information that can be queried is relatively comprehensive. Although most places only have estimated figures, as a data controller, Yun Xiaohan can already outline a situation map in his mind.
In order to save the defeat and face, the Merchant Alliance once again mobilized a large number of troops. The first phase of troops reached 50,000, and there are still 100,000 troops in the follow-up. Counting the 50,000 lost before, the total is 200,000.
200,000 may not seem like a lot, but this is a hastily gathered troops, and most of them are from the Masset area.
Masset City is a player main city of the Merchant Alliance. As the frontline area of the Merchant Alliance and the Empire, the size and status of the Masset area is equivalent to that of Snowman City.
Here we need to introduce the political system of the Merchant Alliance. Although it is alluding to Spain, it is only similar in terrain and some key NPC personnel. The political system of the Merchant Alliance in the game is completely different from the imperial government and is not a centralized government.
The area currently controlled by the Business Alliance - the Silfa Peninsula was a melee zone in the early days. A large number of independent lords fought against each other on this land. However, because the strength of these lords was not very different, they did not appear like the Empire and the North Kingdom.
A relatively powerful super lord would not be able to establish a country.
Such frequent mutual conquests caused the people's livelihood and financial difficulties in each territory to suffer. In order to alleviate the economic difficulties, they began to form offensive and defensive alliances, and the earliest commercial alliance appeared.
The main purpose of the establishment of the merchant alliance in the early days was to jointly protect each other and trade with each other. Later, it gradually added the purpose of suppressing piracy, combating plunder, and abolishing unreasonable toll taxes to protect commerce.
Not many cities joined the business alliance at the beginning, but due to the economic benefits, more and more cities chose to join, and the purpose of the alliance gradually changed to expand business power, monopolize business interests, and suppress business competition from outside the alliance.
Later, due to the continuous expansion of military threats from the Empire and the North, the Commercial Alliance began to vigorously develop the navy, and evolved from a pure economic alliance into an economic-political-military alliance.
Due to the simultaneous increase of external and internal pressure, it was difficult for the small lords to continue to maintain their position. Eventually, all the cities on the Silfa Peninsula joined the commercial alliance, and the Silfa Peninsula reached an alternative unity.
Therefore, not all the business alliances are new business aristocrats, but there are also a large number of old-school military aristocrats. Of course, the old-school here is just a relative term. The old-school military aristocrats in the business alliance are also engaged in business, but their focus is different.
The Business Alliance is a parliamentary system like the Offa Parliament. However, due to the strong business atmosphere and the presence of a large number of profit-oriented parliament members, the Business Alliance lacks control than the Offa Parliament. In addition, the emerging business aristocracy and the old school
The serious opposition between the military nobles made the administrative efficiency of the business alliance even lower.
Moreover, as a business alliance, the Business Alliance does not have as many standing troops as the Empire. They recruit troops more in the form of mercenaries. Therefore, it can be said that the military confrontation between the Business Alliance and the Empire is inherently disadvantageous.
In fact, due to the long-term constant conflicts with the empire, the Masset area is already completely dominated by military aristocrats, and a small number of commercial aristocrats have moved to other areas. Therefore, the economy here is compared to other areas in the Merchant Alliance.
There are certain differences between regions, but military strength also exceeds that of other regions.
For a long time, the Merchant Alliance Council has given more economic assistance to the Masset region than military assistance. There are even a group of business nobles in the Merchant Alliance who feel that as long as the empire is not allowed to invade, they are not that concerned about the war between the two countries.
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That's why the Merchant Alliance seemed so passive and slow to respond in the previous series of battles. It was said that the two countries were fighting a war, but in fact it was just a local war in one corner.
In fact, just looking at the rear support, the Merchant Alliance in the first server provided more support. The Empire in the first server only reinforced 30,000 people to the southern theater (other servers did not capture Sardinia and supported 80,000 people), while the Merchant Alliance supported 80,000 people.
Not only did they provide a large amount of free financial aid, they also provided reinforcements of 50,000 people.
But having said that, there are not all fools in the Merchant Alliance. There are also very shrewd business nobles. They know the importance of the Masset area. The Masset area is located on the passage between the Silfa Peninsula and the mainland, which is equivalent to the Silfa Peninsula.
The throat of the French Peninsula, its geographical location is extremely important.
Although there is the Pyrenees Mountains behind the Masset area, it is not easy to cross this mountain range, but once this mountain range is crossed, the hinterland of the Merchant Alliance will be completely open to the enemy, and once the Masset area is lost,
, the Pyrenees Mountains also became an obstacle to the Merchant Alliance, which meant that the Merchant Alliance lost the possibility of advancing eastwards on land.
Therefore, there are still many smart people within the Commercial Alliance who have proposed increasing reinforcements to the Masset area, but regardless of whether this reinforcement bill can be passed, according to the super wrangling efficiency of the Commercial Alliance Council, it will not be realized in the short term.
And this is Yun Xiaohan's opportunity.
Yun Xiaohan discovered a very important piece of information when checking the intelligence. Due to the heavy defeat in the battle for Sardinia, the fleet directly under the Merchant Alliance Congress lost a large number of warships and transport ships. At this time, the Merchant Alliance was in Masset
The maritime military power in the region and nearby areas is far inferior to that of the Sardinian Territory.
Of course, this difference is only temporary. The Merchant Alliance's shipbuilding capabilities are still much stronger than those of the Sardinian Territory, but shipbuilding takes time, and it is impossible to produce a large number of ships in a short period of time.
Although there is no shortage of ships in other areas of the Merchant Alliance, on the one hand, it is necessary to go around half of the peninsula to reach the Masset area. On the other hand, other merchant alliance nobles may not be willing to hand over their ships to the Parliament. After all, they also need them.
Ship escorts and sea trade, after they finish wrangling with the parliament and negotiate an exchange of benefits, the day lily has gone cold, so the water far away cannot save the fire near.
In other words, at this time, the Sardinian Territory had absolute control of the sea, and Yun Xiaohan even doubted whether the Merchant Alliance would dare to go to sea to fight against the Sardinian Territory's navy.