Chapter 716

Fortunately, the miracle peninsula is far enough away from the kingdom of death, so the impact is not that great, and the weather is still smooth, which relieves them a little bit of pressure.

Otherwise, the Theodin Empire would have collapsed completely due to successive years of famine.

However, the situation of Theodin Empire is still not particularly good.

The output of the Miracle Peninsula is not enough to feed more than 20 million mouths, so in terms of decision-making, King Ulan Baz will naturally be biased and give priority to those tribes who are loyal to him.

This will undoubtedly become the fuse of intensified conflicts.

The non-directed lineage of the king of Ulan Bari was more closely connected, and he forced Ulan Bari to distribute the grain of the Miracle Peninsula more reasonably by force.

Immediately afterwards, it was exposed that Ulan Bari deliberately used the plague to exterminate his family in the Balsin Prairie, which directly pushed him to the forefront of the storm.

Because the army of death led by Narentoya was considered by countless herdsmen to be the orthodoxy of the tiger royal court destroying the lion royal court, the god Odin was enraged and sent the dead to avenge them.

Ulan Bari, who initiated the Eastern Expedition, is undoubtedly the culprit. Only by using his blood as a sacrifice can the wrath of these dead be appeased.

Because the voices of the opponents were not unified and their power was a bit weak, this matter was not successfully implemented. However, the legitimacy and ability of Ulan Bari's rule have been greatly questioned, and its appeal has declined significantly.

The Broken Blood Fort led by Grand Duke Cedric naturally would not let go of this excellent opportunity, taking advantage of the fire to rob them has already done very well.

In the second year of the war with the Theodin Empire, the border trade was restarted. At the beginning, most Odin orc herdsmen were afraid of the monstrous flames of Ulan Bari, so they only dared to do it on a small scale in a sneaky way.

However, with the crazy advancement of Narentoya's undead empire, the Theodin Empire was in chaos, and Ulan Bari was too busy to take care of himself, so naturally he didn't have the energy to take care of such things.

In the beginning, when the undead empire had not grown up, the trade was relatively normal, and the Odin orc herdsmen needed all kinds of living materials.

However, with the growth of the Undead Empire, Theodin Empire fell into a food crisis, and the main trade product became food.

The original trade ratio was that live animals of the same weight could be exchanged for five to six times the amount of grain.

As the food crisis within the Theodin Empire became more and more serious, the value of livestock depreciated rapidly. In the end, a good horse could only be exchanged for three times its own weight in grain, let alone those cheap sheep, which could be exchanged for twice as much. A little more and it's pretty good.

There are many reasons for the depreciation of livestock.

The main reason is that the grassland area of ​​the Theodin Empire has shrunk significantly due to the attack of the Undead Empire and the weather. As a result, the number of herds in the hands of the Theodin Empire has exceeded the grassland load, and part of it must be disposed of as soon as possible. Otherwise, large tracts of livestock will starve to death.

The difficulty of storing meat can be far above that of ordinary grain.

The more large tribes have a large number of livestock, the more serious this situation is. When they began to ignore Ulan Bari's orders and trade on a large scale, a large number of livestock flooded in at the same time.

However, the amount of food that the Byron Alliance can trade is limited, forming a vicious competition, and the value of the cattle in the Theodin Empire has plummeted, which is only natural.

Even so, in the later stage, many Odin orcs had nowhere to buy their livestock. Because of the rise of the new royal family, the internal situation of the Byron Alliance was tense, and the main holders of food began to hesitate to sell food.

In addition to war horses with high value in wars, this kind of hard currency also has the possibility of successful large-scale transactions. Even cattle that can be used as farm cattle and camel beasts are not worth the price.

After several years of crazy border trade, the number of cattle grazing eaten by the Byron Alliance has reached saturation, and the gap is not as big as before.

In the eyes of experienced farmers, the cattle of the Odin orcs are not the best choice for farming cattle. Although they are not small in strength, they have a bad temper and a dull temperament. It is more suitable for milk production or meat, and it is only a temporary substitute for farming cattle.

When they buy them, they are mostly used as breeding cattle, crossed with local cattle that have been domesticated for many years, and the calves brought up by those cattle are easier to domesticate into excellent cattle.

At the beginning of this year, when the situation within the Theodin Empire deteriorated to a certain extent, a new trade model emerged.

This time, the mode and object of trade have undergone tremendous changes.

The commodity that the Odin orcs brought out was - population.

The first ones thrown out were the mixed-breed shepherds who had lost all their property. They were packaged and sold to the merchants of the Byron Alliance like the cheapest livestock.

Then there are those small tribes that have nothing, which are sold by those big tribes, the whole tribe and the whole tribe. This can not only reduce resource competitors, but also obtain an extra amount of food, so that their own tribe can last for a longer period of time.

In the end, some tribes with some strength, under the leadership of the leader, sold themselves to the Byron Alliance, just to find a way out for their own clansmen. Obviously, they felt desperate for the future situation of the Theodin Empire.

Among them, the new royal family is obviously the biggest eater.

The old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled were thrown to the Kingsley family and thrown into the mines for mining.

Those elite parts were reorganized by the new royal family in the form of mercenaries, ready to be used as cannon fodder in the war against the witches' secret society.

The rise of the undead empire, on the contrary, led to the first major ethnic exchange and integration in the Arshan continent.

Broken Blood Castle is also undergoing a new round of preparations while it is conducting trade with Theodin Empire.

Grand Duke Cedric knew very well that the use of grain trade could only slow down the pace of the Theodin Empire's southward movement. When the situation deteriorated further, another southward invasion of the Theodin Empire would be inevitable.

By that time, the Theodin Empire's army will not be as simple as last time, but will attack desperately and frantically.

Because that would be a way to survive that would risk everything.

The Tiger Clan Royal Court of Theodin Empire has already begun to actively connect and plan this matter. For them, it is not only a way to survive, but also an excellent way to divert internal conflicts.

As long as they can break through the Broken Blood Fortress and let the herdsmen see the hope of living, they will soon forget the original mistakes of the royal court and gather under their tent again.

They have not taken any action for a long time because they are worried about Narentoya's undead empire.

If they were at the critical moment of attacking Broken Blood Fort, Narentoya's undead army would stab him from behind.

The entire Odin orcs are really doomed.

Therefore, the Xiodin Empire used the most common method used by living people to deal with this death empire - sending a team of envoys to negotiate peace with Narentoya, led by Ulan Bari's number one think tank, Skan Bari .

Unexpectedly, Narentoya agreed to the peace negotiation.

The Theodin Empire envoy team led by Skanbari, although they have not met Narentoya, reached a consensus.

However, the emissary team led by Skanbari was not attacked by the army of the undead empire, which was a signal in itself.

This kind of signal, in the eyes of the senior leaders of the Yongye Army led by Xiao En, is a dangerous signal.

This means that Narentoya has not been dazzled by her own strength and hatred, and will weigh the gains and losses like ordinary people, and even use various strategies.

Once the Xiodin Empire reached an agreement with the Undead Empire, the goal, needless to say, must be aimed at the Byron Alliance.

Maybe Narentoya's delay in attacking the Theodin Empire was for a bigger plot.

If the Undead Empire launched a full-scale attack on the Xiodin Empire now, the Tiger Clan Royal Court would definitely not sit still. Under the dying struggle, it would smash part of the bones of the Undead Empire, let alone the broken blood castle. .

This situation is nothing more than a repeat of the old situation in which the Eastern and Western Odin Empires and the Byron Alliance were three-legged and mutually restraining.

The ruler of the undead empire who has retained a relatively complete memory will not be unclear about this.

Even if they wiped out the Theodin Empire, if they want to plot bigger, they still have to attack Broken Blood Castle.

If Sean was in Narentoya's position, he would definitely sit back and watch Theodin Empire and Byron Alliance fight, consuming both sides' strength.

If the Theodin Empire can break through Blood Fortress, that would be great. It would open a door for the Empire of the Undead. Compared to the Strachey family, which has been running Blood Fortress for many years, Theodin Empire is good at attacking. If they are not good at defending, if they are stationed at Blood Fortress, the difficulty of being captured will be greatly reduced.

Even if the Theodin Empire fails, it can greatly weaken the strength of Blood Fortress at the Breach, and it will be much easier for the Undead Empire to launch a war of annihilation against the Theodin Empire.

Even if the leader of the Yongye army had accurately guessed Narentoya's plan, there was nothing he could do.

Although the undead empire is now without the protection of the terrifying undead virus, its power has grown. There are tens of thousands of high-level and low-level undead alone, not to mention the various undead soldiers they resurrected, there are definitely millions.

This is an out-and-out sea of ​​undead. If the leader of the Yongye Army rashly enters the Odin Prairie for an expedition, he will definitely be overwhelmed by those low-level cannon fodder, and he will have no chance to see the mastermind behind the scenes.

The only thing the leader of the Yongye army can do now is to stand still and watch the changes in the world situation, to see if there is any chance to guide the power of the whole continent to destroy this undead empire.

But the difficulty of this is no less than that of the Yongye army leader who sent troops to destroy the undead empire alone.

Like the leader of the Yongye army, there are too few forces that look at things from a certain height, including the new royal family that King Laurie put together. It is not appropriate to simply say that they are short-sighted.

What they hold is the idea that they must first settle down when fighting against the outside world.

Only when the Byron Alliance has truly completed the great unification can it fight against the undead empire, an enemy that is not measured by common sense.

Just when the entire Byron League was in the center of an unprecedented storm, besides this storm, there was another storm brewing on the Dunau Plain.

The two sides are old rivals - the leader of the Eternal Night VS the third fleet of the Commons family.

The place of confrontation is along the coast of the Donau Plain and the eastern sea area of ​​the Endless Sea.

The Arshan continent as a whole is relatively complete, except for the polar wasteland where no one has ever explored to the border, the surrounding area is surrounded by the sea.

The sea has a common name - Endless Sea.

The meaning of this name is clear at a glance, and it means endless.

For residents who have nothing to do with the sea, the general name of Endless Sea is enough, and they have no concept of the sea anyway.

But for people who live at sea all year round, such a general division is obviously not enough.

Therefore, with the Arshan continent as the center, the Endless Sea was artificially divided into several areas.

The Endless Sea surrounding the Miracle Peninsula and the Gemini Peninsula is collectively referred to as the Endless Sea West Sea, referred to as the West Sea or West Sea Area.

Due to the three peninsulas protruding into the endless sea, and the inner sea of ​​Zambia sandwiched in the twin peninsula, which is larger than several military commanders, the coastline here is extremely long.

With more people relying on the sea for food, the maritime industry will naturally prosper.

This is the place where the maritime industry in the Arshan continent is the most developed.

As the leader of the Yongye Army who was born in the mountains, it is hard to imagine that sailing plays a role in life here. Various types of ships are the main means of transportation here.

The people here describe the earth as their mother, raising them up, and the endless sea as their father, who leads them to take risks, find wealth, and develop the endless sea. This place is undoubtedly at the forefront of the entire continent.

Buying a sailboat, gathering dozens of adventurous old sailors, and taking risks in the endless sea is the biggest dream of many men here.

Once they can find an undiscovered island that is suitable for human habitation and open up a new waterway, whether it is inhabited or uninhabited, their worth can increase dramatically. If they can find a large island rich in minerals, Then it is not a matter of skyrocketing social status, but to turn around and change the destiny of a lifetime.

As for going on to glory and prosperity from now on, or making wedding dresses for others, it's hard to say clearly.

There is at least one such opportunity, isn't there?

It is this unique geographical and cultural environment that gave birth to the deformed monster of the Commons family.

If the West Sea is called a fertile soil for sailing, then the South China Sea can be called a sailing desert.

There is basically no buffer between the Huayu Plateau and the Endless Hainan Sea. It is a large stretch of cliff-like coastline, the kind that is as high as three or four kilometers.

Such a wonderful coastline is neither suitable for building a port nor suitable for local residents to go to sea.

What's more terrible is that this cliff-like coastline is caused by the sinking of the high mountains connected with the Huayu Plateau.

These mountains reached the bottom of the sea and turned into reefs, which created a complicated water flow environment here. Even the captain with rich sailing experience dared not venture here rashly.

The complex water environment and tropical climate have caused the prosperity of marine species here, and it is definitely a paradise for marine life.

No matter how dangerous the environment is, as long as it is profitable, some people will sharpen their heads and drill into it.

After hundreds of years of continuous development, the West Sea of ​​the Endless Sea has almost been developed by the Commons family and the North Sea Fleet of the Witches' Secret Society.

Thirty years ago, the Commons family had formulated a great plan to develop the Endless Sea and the South Sea, and then look forward to the Endless Sea and the East Sea, and dominate the sea area around the Arshan continent in a hundred years.

The main mission of the Third Fleet led by Captain Stubbs is to open up the endless Hainan Sea.

It was not a coincidence that the Third Fleet of the Commons family appeared in the Donau River and joined hands with the Kingsley family, but it was in line with the future development plan of the Commons family.

It's just that the plan has been adjusted due to changes in the geographical environment of the Arshan continent.

The appearance of the Third Fleet of the Commons family on the Donau River means that they have grasped a safe passage in the endless Hainan Sea.

The last remaining sea area is the East Sea of ​​Endless Sea, the sea area most closely connected with the Eternal Night Army Territory, which surrounds the Kentana Ice Field, the Eastern Range of the Andes Ring Mountains, and the outer periphery of the Dunao Plain.

During the ancient Andes Empire, it may have been prosperous here.

However, with the blockage of the Jacob River and the flooding of the Donau River, the plains became mostly uninhabitable swamps.

The entire eastern sea area is basically deserted, and there are basically no long-distance ships, only the small boats of the crocodile people are fishing and hunting here.

Affected by the mage towers, the natural environment has become extremely extreme Kentana Icefield, let alone for the time being.

Simply speaking, the waters around the Donau Plain are definitely a paradise that pirates dream of.

It is located in the temperate zone and subtropical zone, and the climate is suitable. The Nujiang River, the predecessor of the Donau River, has flooded for many years, forming multiple estuaries in the Donau Plain, bringing a large amount of organic matter from the Andes Crater and the Donau Plain into the sea. , bringing endless vitality to the ocean here.