Chapter five hundred and ninety seventh come to an end
"Roar!"
Deeper in the sea south of Harbor City, a giant dragon let out a high-pitched roar to show its existence. Overlord-level creatures like dragons never keep a low profile. Even if they are recruited from the system, if
Without Richard's forced orders, he would show his true nature from time to time, emitting deafening roars at high altitudes to frighten the surrounding creatures.
The roar of the giant dragon immediately caused a group of seabirds to fly together on the island below. If you look closely, you can see that some sea people are also running around in panic on the island. Generally speaking, sea people rarely stay on land.
, except for going ashore for a short time when plundering human ports, they only come to land when they reproduce. South of the Harbor City, are there any human ports for the Sea Clan to plunder? Obviously, this is a certain port of the Sea Clan.
A clam farm.
Although the giant dragon is still in the air and has not landed, its roar has scared the sea people to tremble. The fear of the giant dragon by most creatures seems to be an instinct engraved deep in their genes. Even the sea people here are afraid of the giant dragon.
It is very unfamiliar, and it is inevitable to have an instinctive fear of the dragon.
The giant dragon in the sky seemed to be very satisfied with its deterrent power, and lowered its altitude slightly. It patrolled the not too big island, and finally flew north again. There was actually an army of similar size there.
A small human fleet.
"Unexpectedly, there is another sea clam farm so close to Harbor City, which can be reached in two or three days, but we have never discovered it."
"General Paul, if it weren't for Lord Richard, we wouldn't even be able to build the Harbor City. How could we be here?"
Although the kingdom's shipbuilding technology is not bad, its exploration of the ocean is not very in-depth. It usually only trades along the coast or goes fishing, and will not leave the mainland for more than a thousand miles. The reason is also very simple.
Under normal circumstances, the Sea Tribe does not move much in the shallow sea areas along the continent, and generally does not actively attack humans. Most of the time, both parties can maintain a peaceful state. However, once the human fleet goes too deep into the ocean,
It will be regarded as an invasion of their territory by the Sea Clan, and they will immediately besiege and destroy the human ships that they think go too far.
The purpose of the Sea Clan's doing this is also very clear, that is, they don't want humans to discover the clam farm in the depths of the ocean. Therefore, humans in the south have been trading and fishing for so many years, and they only vaguely know the location of the clam farm where Harbor City is now located, and here
Benchang can already be regarded as a forbidden area for the Sea Clan. Before the establishment of Harbor City, any human ship that dared to approach would be attacked by the Sea Clan. Most of the time, all the humans on board would be killed by the Sea Clan.
There will naturally be no records of exploration in the ocean.
"That's right. Fortunately, Lord Richard surrendered to the Hai Clan, so we had the opportunity to come here."
At this time, Paul was riding a huge dragon boat heading south, surrounded by several smaller boats. He formed a fleet, carrying 3,000 sergeants and a considerable number of civilians and sailing on the sea.
After circling the island, the dragon returned to the top of the fleet and landed steadily on the dragon boat. A group of sergeants around him immediately brought up a large amount of meat for the dragon to eat.
"There is indeed a bay suitable for berthing in front of the boat. Let the rowers work harder and get to the island immediately before dark."
"Yes, General Paul!"
After being explained by Richard, Neptune showed great cooperation. Not only did he draw a very detailed sea map, marking out all the sea clan's clam farms, he even clearly described the terrain of the islands where the clam farms were located.
It is clear that humans have basically already figured out where is suitable for parking ships and where is suitable for building cities. Most of the so-called marine clam farms are large islands with fresh water and ocean currents passing by, which can provide abundant fish.
Where resources are available, these islands can be used as clam farms for sea tribes, and humans can naturally build forts and station them there for a long time.
In Richard's plan, he would build cities and garrison troops in all the clam farms with fresh water resources. There must be a small port on each island where troops are stationed, and a communication route for wind birds should be established to facilitate mutual communication.
communicate between.
Richard did not believe the Sea King's verbal and contractual surrender. Only by truly grasping the weaknesses of the Sea Clan could he gradually control the Sea Clan. Garrisoning troops in all the clam fields was only the first step. For the time being, he could only rely on garrisoning troops and
The giant dragon came to intimidate the Sea Clan, and in the future he plans to build a more powerful fleet that can easily fight against the Sea Clan on the sea, and can threaten the fleet of any Sea Clan clam farm at any time.
With a powerful fleet and the surrender of the Sea Clan, Harbor City finally unlocked the seventh-level soldier lair, the Sea Dragon Maelstrom. In another year and a half, there will be a fleet on the sea, and human garrisons and fortresses in the clam field.
With the cooperation of Harbor City's system army, the rope to control the Sea Clan will only get tighter. In addition to the elves during the heyday of the Elf Empire, Richard may be the second land force that can effectively control the Sea Clan.
Neptune's surrender may be just a temporary measure to regain strength through temporary surrender, but he doesn't know that time is always on Richard's side.
At this time, Paul took Richard's order and led the fleet to prepare to establish the first stronghold in a relatively critical clam field...
....
Harbor City
The entire city is in a state of excitement. The outer city walls change almost every day. The prototype of a new city has almost appeared in front of us. Materials and personnel from the North are constantly arriving directly at the harbor city through the teleportation array.
It has completely activated the city. Immigrants from the North continue to appear from the teleportation array, and immigrants from the southern part of the Kingdom have also been arriving boat by boat recently. After defeating the Sea Tribe, Harbor City has completely relaxed its restrictions on immigrants.
Anyone can see the restrictions, and a large and prosperous city will rise on this island.
Nearly half a month has passed since the crucial battle with the Sea Clan. After Sea King chose to surrender and fully cooperated with Richard to hand over the locations of all the clam fields, and issued an order for all his men to give up resistance, Li Cha
The police officer did not break his promise. After confirming the accurate location of the clam field and collecting some of the pearl treasures sent by the Sea Tribe, he released the Sea King and a large number of captives.
Neptune left the clam farm with a bunch of defeated soldiers in dejection. When he left, Neptune looked worried and did not have the joy of finally regaining his freedom. Next, he will face greater troubles, whether it is a
Defeat, or declare surrender to a human, will greatly damage his prestige and shake his rule over the entire sea clan. Although he tried his best to downplay Richard's human identity, constantly emphasized his messy titles, and tried his best to exaggerate Li Cha's
However, the Sea Clan are not fools. It is a fact that they were defeated by humans and bowed to humans.
As the king of the Sea Clan, he was defeated and captured by humans, and finally surrendered to humans. He also reached a series of agreements with humans that harmed the interests of the Sea Clan. It seems that this Sea King is not qualified to continue to be the ruler of the Sea Clan.
In particular, the subsequent actions of humans to station troops in all the clam farms have stepped on the bottom line of many large ethnic groups. Although the Sea King has just returned to the sea, in fact, there has been an undercurrent surging among the Sea ethnic groups.
Southwest of Harbor City, where the Royal Court of the Sea Clan is located
A large group of patrol guards are stationed around the royal court, and there are also some bloodline warriors leading the team. Many heads of the sea clan are gathering here to discuss something.
"The King of the Sea will return to the royal court today."
"Is that coward who surrendered to human beings and sold out his position in the clam farm still worthy of being the King of the Sea?"
If someone usually dared to arrange the Sea King like this in the royal court, he would have been accused by the people around him. But at this time, a Sea Clan leader raised a question and was actually echoed by many people at the scene, as well as the rest of the people who remained silent.
The expressions on their faces varied, and they were all obviously thinking about how to face Neptune, who was about to return.
"His Majesty is also accompanied by the elite of the royal court, as well as General Falk, who are also by his side. There are at least more than 400,000 troops beside him, many of whom are patrol guards."
As soon as he said this, everyone who had been shouting for joy just now also fell into silence, and their expressions became ugly.
After Neptune was captured, some of the originally extremely submissive clans became disloyal. Many of them were clans with seats in the royal court. These clan leaders, who originally did not dare to show off in front of Neptune, had even begun to form a conspiracy to fight against Neptune.
Choose a new king from the side branch of the Sai family to restore the glory of the Sea Clan. If the Sea King returns alone, I am afraid that the position of Sea King will not be secure. He will be taken over by several big clans and his cultivation will be abolished.
A lifetime of confinement is the best outcome for him.
However, what these wealthy families never expected was that this Sea King, who lost his army and declared his surrender to humans in public, would actually return with a large army after being released by humans.
Richard not only returned the prisoners to the elite patrol guards under the Sea King, but also returned their equipment. In addition to those who were captured at the beginning, there were also those who were persuaded to surrender by the Sea King himself and belonged directly to the Royal Court.
There are almost 20,000 guards, all of whom are elites wearing armor made by dwarves. Although these patrol guards have experienced a great defeat and have low morale, their interests are highly bound to Neptune.
Although the strength of the confidant generals and some loyal blood warriors has been greatly reduced, they will never be abused at will.
"Not only has he lost the glory of the Sea Clan, but he has also made our Bose family lose face. For the sake of the Sea Clan, and for the sake that your efforts during this period will not be in vain, you must not waver at this time."
The Sea Tribe who spoke was about 40-50% similar to Sea King in appearance, and was obviously a member of the Pose family. Although he originally controlled a large ethnic group, he was a side branch that had basically nothing to do with the throne.
Due to luck, when the King of the Sea was captured and bowed to humans, he was elected as the candidate for the new king by a group of connected sea people. He was also willing to sit in that position and actively cooperated. Everyone danced together for many days.
.
Now the power brought by Neptune's return exceeds their imagination, but he wants to remind those who are doing it that there is no cover-up for their efforts during this period. Neptune will find something wrong when he comes back. There is no turning back when Neptune bows.
When we come back to settle the matter, no one here can escape. We must bite the bullet and continue to support it.
"Who will deal with the elites around him?"
"Let my tribe go up. We will continue to welcome him back according to the original plan. According to custom, the elite of the Royal Court will stop at the outside. As long as he brings a small number of people back to the Royal Court, we will capture him immediately."
"The soldiers under him probably aren't willing to fight for such a loser and coward."
Even if Richard returned half of the Sea Clan army, the gap between the forces around Sea King and the group of people preparing to rebel was not big, and Sea King's command was still a newly defeated army, so they still had some psychological advantages.
The only thing that made them fearful was the elite group of metal armors around Neptune. Although these elites were given a solid lesson by the Northland army on the shore, that was only because the Northland army was too strong. In the sea,
, they are definitely a top-notch ace army, and these Sea Tribe chiefs are a little frightened when they mention this elite force.
"It's better to act according to the plan and try to lure the other party in first."
"Um!"
Hearing that someone was willing to fight against that elite force, the sea tribe present calmed down. They really had no way out and could only go all the way to the end.
But before they could execute their plan, Neptune's order came first.
A distant voice came:
"Your Majesty orders everyone to go out to greet us!"
"Falke led people to surround the royal court and did not come in!"
Although Neptune cannot beat Richard, he is still a qualified chess player. Otherwise, he would not be able to suppress the newly rising priests and keep all the tribes in submission. Although he stumbled for a moment, he is not a group of sea people.
If the bad chess players can get together to plot, then the Sea Clan will have to go through a bloody storm, and the Sea King will not have the time to play tricks with Richard anymore.
