Chapter 590
"Your Excellency is worried about this, it's too far away." Sean laughed and said, "The East Odin prairie is so vast, one of us is in the south and the other is in the east. Even if we eat in one direction, we will have to eat for two years. When will our troops meet together, it will not be too late to discuss this issue. After all, there are too many variables in it. The remnants of the Eastern Odin Empire are not cattle and sheep to be slaughtered. Will not let us steal his prey."
"That makes sense." Grand Duke Cedric nodded, "We will discuss this issue after we meet on the Odin Grassland."
Grand Duke Cedric also knew that plotting the Odin Prairie was not that simple. Those Odin orcs fell in front of the West Odin Empire. Things at the top have nothing to do with the herdsmen below.
But in the face of the Byrons, they will resist the invaders, and if they don't break their spines, they will never want to rule them normally.
"As for the issue of fairness." Sean said flatly, "How can there be absolute fairness in the world? What His Excellency the Grand Duke said just now is not a human factor, but a geographical factor. This is not something you and I can decide. Of course we can't let us pay the bill." So, on this, I have no way to make any concessions, the only thing I can promise is that you have the first right to purchase military equipment."
"Deal." Grand Duke Cedric said without hesitation.
He had already tasted the sweetness of the new weapons provided by the leader of the Eternal Night in the war between the broken blood cavalry and the Xiodin Empire. They were able to conquer the city and occupy the territory of the Xiodin Empire with 50,000 to 60,000 iron cavalry. profit.
In front of this new type of weapon, the old city walls that have been in disrepair for a long time are as soft as tofu, giving the broken blood knight a chance to fight fast.
Otherwise, their achievements on the Miracle Peninsula will be quite limited. At best, they will run around and burn those small towns and towns, and they will be powerless against those large cities.
If you use the old siege mode, not to mention casualties, even if you want to take down a city regardless of the cost, it will take weeks at the fastest, and sometimes it will take months or a year or so, which is very normal.
This new type of weapon is not only a weapon for siege, but also a weapon for defense.
If the Theodin Empire really took retaliatory military action, it would have to rely on the benefits of this new weapon.
Although Broken Blood Fortress had started to decipher and decipher it after the first batch of black powder was obtained, but in the past, financial resources were lacking, and there was no professional talent in this area. Load, basically don't think about it.
Rather than counting on themselves to handle this matter, it is better to pin their hopes on the royal family of Lancelot, and hope that they will share technology after they have made a breakthrough.
In a short time, this new type of weapon still needs to be imported from Yongye Army Commander.
"I need 100,000 barrels of black powder, and they need to be delivered before the spring begins." Grand Duke Cedric continued.
"One hundred thousand barrels of black powder? Your Excellency is going to use black powder barrels to wash the ground." Xiao En knew that the Blood Fortress of Broken Blood would add an order for black powder, but he didn't expect it to be so huge when he opened it.
The barrel here is not a small barrel of 20 to 30 kilograms thrown out as an ordinary trebuchet, but a large barrel for the convenience of transportation and sales, with a net weight of 100 kilograms per barrel.
Grand Duke Cedric opened his mouth and ordered 10,000 tons. If all of them were made into black powder kegs for projectiles, there would be enough for four to five million barrels. Just using black powder kegs to blow them up would blow the crap out of the Theodin Empire.
This is the root cause of the discussion between Sean and Grand Duke Cedric, who paid more attention to the issue of profit sharing and did not worry too much about the monstrous soldiers of the Theodin Empire.
The troops gathered by the Theodin Empire were unprecedented, but Blood Fort Broken was no longer what it used to be.
Without changing the original thinking of war, Ulan Bari rashly sent troops to attack Broken Blood Fort, just asking for trouble.
Just as Xiao En speculated, even if the leader of the Eternal Night Army did not make small moves, Grand Duke Cedric would try every means to lure the Theodin Empire to attack. Before the secret of the black powder was discovered by the Theodin Empire, the Its lethality was brought to the extreme and severely damaged the Theodin Empire.
"What? Is there a problem?" Grand Duke Cedric asked worriedly.
"There is no problem with the output, but the main problem is transportation. It will take more than a month for the river section in the Andes Mountains to thaw, and the demand is too high, so it is difficult to ensure that all of them will be shipped." Sean discussed, "It is too tense before the beginning of spring. , if the delivery date can be delayed to one month after the beginning of spring, it will be safe, we can find a way to ship half of it first, there should be no big problem."
"Then it's decided, 50,000 barrels before the spring, 50,000 barrels a month after the spring, only in advance, not delayed!" Grand Duke Cedric made a final decision, "If I arrive on time, I will pay in full, every month A week later, the price will be reduced by 20%."
"Deal." Xiao En nodded and agreed without hesitation. He still has great confidence in the transportation ability of the Yongye Army Leader.
"The business is over, let's talk about private matters." Grand Duke Cedric said with a smile, "When are you going to propose to little Sophilia? You can't let little Sophilia propose to you, can you?"
"This is under preparation." Sean patted his chest and assured, "This matter was originally planned, but it was delayed due to unexpected events. I will definitely give Princess Sophie an unprecedented wedding."
"You'd better hurry up." Grand Duke Cedric put pressure on Sean. "Now that all the outstanding young people in the Byron League are staring at this matter, there will definitely be countless challengers."
"Then defeat all challengers." Sean was full of confidence.
"It's best if you have confidence." Grand Duke Cedric laughed.
Marrying Princess Regent Sophilia will encounter obstacles, and Sean is mentally prepared for this matter.
Anyway, I am also from the Andes, and I have been obstructed a lot in seeking a baron in the Byron Alliance, let alone marrying the princess of the Lancelot royal family. Once this news is announced, it will inevitably cause an uproar.
In the past, the leader of the Yongye Army was not afraid of wearing shoes with bare feet, and he didn't care about the political fluctuations of the Byron Alliance.
However, as the economic entanglement between the leader of Yongye and the Byron Alliance has become more and more serious, he has to pay attention to the impact of this aspect. After all, the leader of Yongye still needs to collect money from these lords and nobles. boycotting them on commodities will further increase the difficulty of their economic invasion and expansion.
This matter still needs to be carefully planned, and it is necessary to find an opportunity to show more muscles to the Byron Alliance and the importance of the Eternal Night Army Leader to the Byron Alliance.
At that time, it will be the Byron Alliance that needs them from the Eternal Night Army, not the Eternal Night Army that needs them from the Byron Alliance, and everything will happen naturally.
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Balsin Prairie.
Once rich and beautiful, it was called the paradise of Odin orcs.
This winter has been completely reduced to hell on earth.
The endless Odin orc dome camps stretch for hundreds of kilometers.
Horses neighing, sheep bleating, cows braying, and people roaring form a vivid picture of life.
Millions of troops.
It sounds like a simple number, but when it is actually put together, it is absolutely terrifying.
Especially when it comes to Odin orcs.
It not only represents millions of Odin orcs, but also millions of war horses.
Marching and fighting on the vast Odin prairie is impossible without horses. Even those prisoners of war and slaves can be assigned a walking horse, let alone those elite Odin orc warriors who have two horses or even multiple horses. It's normal, because they are very aware of the importance of war horses, so every time they attack a city, war horses will become one of the materials they focus on collecting.
With an army of millions of Odin orcs, it is normal to have more than double the number of war horses.
The number of cattle and sheep had to be increased tenfold based on the strength of the army. Only this base number of livestock could barely support the food, drink and consumption of this huge army.
Even with such a huge herd, the soldiers of Theodin Empire still attack frequently, because if they sit here and don't move, they will sit and eat the mountains and empty space. Not only people have nothing to eat, but even the animals have already gnawed away at the land. It was clean, including the dead grass under the snow, which was also chewed clean by those strong prairie cattle.
If one looked down from a high altitude, the huge barracks of Theodin Empire lay twisted and twisted in the core hinterland of the Balsin Prairie like a monster with many legs.
Every five minutes, there will be an Odin orc cavalry rushing out from any part of this monster with strange screams, or dozens of people, or hundreds of people, or thousands of people, and occasionally tens of thousands of people , crashing into the depths of the Balsin Prairie.
They know what they are going to do without asking.
Here they have only one thing to do - hunting.
This time they were not hunting wolves, nor yellow sheep, or bison, or wild horses. These wild creatures, with an extremely keen sense of smell, ran away cleanly and slowly before the arrival of the Theodin Empire army. , has long been digested clean, and returned to nature.
There is only one target worthy of hunting by the Western Odin Empire - the tribes of the Eastern Odin Empire who have the same face and common ancestor with them.
Similarly, every five or six minutes, there will be a cavalry roaring back, some return with a full load, some empty-handed, and some even lose their troops.
The tribes of the Eastern Odin Empire, in the face of life and death, will not be caught without a fight. Many brave people and tribes choose to fight to the death, which will break the teeth of many Western Odin Empire soldiers who came to hunt.
It's just that they were able to escape once, but they couldn't escape the second or third time... If they can't wipe out all the hunting soldiers of the Theodin Empire, they will lead a stronger encirclement and suppression team in a short time , until there is no dregs left for them to eat—no dregs left in the true sense.
The old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled were killed by them on the spot, and used as nourishment for the vegetation in the Balsin Prairie in the coming year.
Utilizable women, children, and strong men are reduced to slaves, who not only need to serve them, but also satisfy their personal desires.
The same is true for livestock. Those who are expected to survive this winter will be rushed back to the barracks. Those that are too thin will be slaughtered directly, or stewed for meat, or made into jerky for military rations.
As for the bloody scene formed by the massacre, it did not affect their appetite in the slightest.
These Odin orcs who still choose to take the initiative to attack when there is no war are the best of the best.
The Theodin Empire has a relatively primitive military merit reward system. The more valiant warriors and warriors, not only get more spoils, but also get more rewards. The more strategic materials they gather around him, the herdsmen and The more prisoners of war slaves you have, the greater your rights.
At that time, it will be easier to get more and greater military exploits, more trophies and rewards, until they get the approval of their supreme ruler and give him a piece of grassland, and then a small tribe of Odin orcs will appear.
For the Odin orcs, war is a process of shuffling power.
The decayed, the old and the weak, were eliminated in the war, or turned into dung, or became a stepping stone for others to rise.
Brave and mighty, rise up in battle to become the new warrior and ruler.
Therefore, many Odin orcs are delighted when they hear the battle, because for them, this is an excellent opportunity to change their life and situation.
After this war, there will be a large wave of new middle and low-level chiefs and chiefs in the Theodin Empire, and they will be picked up by the Emperor Ulan Bari of the Theodin Empire, and their loyalty will be much higher than the old forces. Become the backbone of Ulan Bari's rule of Nuo's own empire.
Ulan Bari launched an all-out war against the Eastern Odin Empire. Although there are elements of great success, there are also many calculations of his own. Whether it is from the perspective of encroaching the Eastern Odin Empire or consolidating its own rule, there are has far-reaching significance.
In name, the lion family of the Eastern Odin Empire is the orthodox ruler of the Odin orcs and the master of the entire Odin Prairie.
Although the royal court of the Tiger Clan of the Theodin Empire has always been dissatisfied with this point, thinking that this is purely a personal decision of Queen Miranda, the Lion Clan and the Tiger Clan have always had the same inheritance rights.
However, it is an indisputable fact that the lion family has ruled the complete Odin Empire for hundreds of years. Years have helped the lion family to realize this in the hearts of the Odin orcs, just as Odin the Great is in their hearts. divine status.
Ulan Bari wanted to break this cognition, and wanted to elevate the status of the tiger royal court above the lion royal court, so he had to dismantle the lion royal court into pieces and beat them to pieces. He stepped into the quagmire and told all the Odin orcs that the royal court of the lion clan was no longer enough to protect them, and the powerful royal court of the tiger clan was the best choice for the Odin orcs.
In fact, the main purpose of Ulan Bari's dispatch of troops this time was not to unify the Odin Prairie. There was only one purpose from the beginning to the end, and that was to completely wipe out the Lion Clan Royal Court.
As long as the lion clan royal court is destroyed, he will be completely liberated from the three-legged situation.
Even if he knew that there was a risk of being stabbed in the back by the Byron Alliance, it was definitely worth it in the long run.
At that time, not only can the Eastern Odin Empire be slowly eroded, even if troops are sent to attack the Byron Alliance, no one will hold him back.
Another purpose is to consolidate their own rule.
Although Ulan Bari is well-known, his succession time is too short and he is too young. The internal forces of the Theodin Empire are deeply intertwined. Let alone the other big and small tribes, let’s just talk about the eight major tribes directly under the Tiger Clan Royal Court. Of the core tribes, he can only control three tribes, and the remaining five tribes are in the hands of the older generation of chiefs.
They think they have made great contributions to the royal court of the Tiger Clan and Ulan Bari, so they won’t listen to the tune, but they are also very self-reliant. It is quite difficult to mobilize them. In many cases, there is no temptation of interests, so don’t expect them to fully support themselves.
These people have been in high positions for many years, and their appetites have already been extremely greedy. It is too difficult to completely feed and convince them.
Even Ulan Bari, who thinks highly of himself, does not have the confidence to do this. Instead of being angry with them, it is more direct to use war to cultivate a group of new forces that are loyal to him.