Chapter 312 Chapter 165 War Preparations

Chapter 312 Section 165. War preparations

September is the autumn harvest season in the north.

From Bethal City to Plenty City, from Osulund to Breeze City, all the fiefdoms and villages in the northern part of the kingdom began to harvest wheat fields. They had to hurry up. In the north, tomorrow would always be colder than today.

Xingyue Bay is no exception. There is a lively scene of harvest in the farmland to the east. The wheat fields cared for by the druid did not mature early, but there were no insect pests and the grains were full. Annan specially asked Ingrid to save a batch of the best wheat grains, preparing to let the druids cultivate wheat seeds after the rat-man crisis was over.

If they come back.

But many things are not always smooth sailing... The farm area in the northern part of Breeze City ushered in a terrible frost. At first Olmedo thought it was an accident, but the discovery of huge footprints in the limestone mines in the northern part of Xingyue Bay made Annan think that the frost might be related to the frost giants.

Olmedo sent the Knights to investigate and found traces of the Frost Giant in the north of the farm. The grudgeful frost giant initiated this weather change.

Annan invited Olmedo to join forces in a joint battle, as a dessert for the rat-man crisis, regardless of whether the frost giant was the murderer or not - because of the news from the royal capital.

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"The dirty Skaven have dug through the Far North County with their tattered wooden spears and are marching towards Elida County"

"Shit! Do you know the difference between Wangdu and the cow dung I collect every day? They both make me sick!" The worker leaning on the fence shouted fiercely, not caring that the farm fork next to him exuded the smell of plant decay. Stink.

Thanks to the magic newspaper, Xingyue Bay's dung worker expressed his opinion.

A cart loaded with wheat straw arrived. Watching the workers pick up the farm forks and carrying the straw into the cowshed, they listened to the sound of the magic newspaper:

"Star Moon Bay and Breeze City jointly conquer the Frost Giants."

"Why does Lord Annan want to fight the Frost Giants? Aren't the Ratmen coming?"

"You didn't know you came late. Last year, the frost giants came looking for trouble. I guess you are afraid that the frost giants will come again in the winter."

Some workers exclaimed enviously: “They are going to get their third medal!?”

"I guess taking the initiative to fight the giant shouldn't count?"

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"Of course not."

Annan vetoed Ingrid's proposal to design a third medal.

The first two were the "Xingyue Bay Defense Battle" and the "Xingyue Bay Defense Battle". The former are Frost Giants and the latter are Knights. They are all important battles about life and death. This time the conquest of the Frost Giants is just a small-scale battle, and it may be in vain.

Xingyue Bay and Breeze City each sent 500 people. In order not to be laughed at by Olmedo, they sent out the initial five hundred guards, led by Captain Knight and Francois, without elemental creatures - this expedition was for troop training, so it made no sense to have dozens of large elementals following them.

However, the water-powered mill had no time to prepare five hundred sets of exquisite plate armor before they set off, and Annan stubbornly refused Olmedo's paid assistance.

So Annan asked Bronzebeard to use wrought iron to knock out five hundred sets of plate armor first. It weighs less than any equipment manufacturer would dare to say, and its outline has an irregular beauty that artists appreciate.

The advantage is that it is sturdy. The Frost Giant slapped him down, his limbs and head were in tatters, but the plate armor and the chest protected by the plate armor must have been the same as before.

After the armor problem is solved, there is the weapon problem.

Michael is indeed diligent, but just like the homework assigned by the school, the children in Xingyue Bay always play crazy when they get home, and write like crazy on the desk the next day. There was no time to improve it in just a few days, and its power was worrying. Strictly speaking, today's black powder is a combustible substance rather than a flammable substance.

Annan had no choice but to let the soldiers remain as they were.

When a new day came, five hundred soldiers, who stood neatly but looked crooked due to their plate armor, lined up in the square. The pointing fingers of the people around made Annan feel ashamed and wanted to surrender to the Stun Ratmen.

After opening the portal and sending away the five hundred soldiers, Annan threw a few gold coins into the blue dragon, climbed on the dragon's back and rushed to Breeze City.

He went to sign a covenant with Olmedo.

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Breeze City Council Hall.

Under the watchful eyes of Breeze City deputies, Annan and Olmedo each signed a legally binding contract.

"Breeze City and Xingyue Bay have officially formed an alliance. Next, they will cooperate closely in trade, military and other fields."

"We are allies now."

Olmedo looked at Annan's outstretched right hand, thought for a moment, and held it with the same deep hand.

The councilors saw with complex expression that the powerless King of the North had become equal to their city lord. They stood up and applauded. Evelin held the magic stone and recorded this scene.

As the lawmakers walked outside, Annan and Olmedo walked down the steps side by side. He whispered: "I thought we were allies in the study last fall."

"Unnamed organization? Organizations that don't even have names don't count."

Annan got into Olmedo's carriage and went with her to the north gate to review a thousand soldiers.

The Star-Moon Bay soldiers and the Breeze City soldiers were clearly different, which was visible to the naked eye - in order not to laugh offensively, the Breeze City soldiers had to immerse themselves in the sadness of the death of the Eighth Holy Grail Knight.

The magic newspaper that recorded Mel's death radiated outwards from Breeze City, Bethal City, and Plenty City, which was almost the same as Plann's Gift County.

They were the first people besides the people in the capital to know.

The waves caused by the magical newspaper were not only people's shock at what happened, but also their sadness at the fall of the Holy Grail Knight. And rage against the Skaven. Many knights prepared their horses and luggage and set out to the south to avenge their faith.

Until Annan and Olmedo stood on the city wall, Olmedo pulled out her jeweled sword and shouted in the gleaming light: "Invincible!"

"Invincible!"

The soldiers shouted in unison.

When it was Annan's turn, he said simply: "Francois, who serves as the secretary, will record your performance in this battle. Get military exploits. In addition to honor, there is also status waiting for you. But remember, live Only then can we enjoy everything, and the dead will only be remembered."

"Fight for your lord!"

"I'm Jack's spear!"

"Thirty years to the east of the Pulani River, thirty years to the west of the Pulani River!"

"Dear Suni, please wait for my return!"

They tried their best not to embarrass Annan, but they still looked like a group of noisy mercenaries.

"Set off!"

Francois, who noticed that Annan's face was not very good, stopped the soldiers and started to set off towards the snow-capped mountains.

"You have soldiers just like you," Olmedo said with a smile.

“You don’t grow by putting others down.”

"I mean full of freshness."

"Then your soldiers are just like you." Annan shot back.

"You mean rigid and gritty?"

"No, you're all equally flat."

Annan didn't know whether to be relieved or disappointed, Olmedo didn't understand.