Chapter 588

Among all the kingdoms, only the Empire leaders of Gambis, Borui and Rand planned to open up the territory of the southern continent. Pastor tamore wanted to integrate the power of the Lord of NANTUO, but he misestimated the situation of the kingdom of Gambis, or failed to accurately grasp Victor's real intention.

The high level of the church generally believes that it is more important to explore the North Continent than the south continent. The northern wilderness that the Sassanian Empire and Neville are going to recover is a real fertile land. If you sow a handful of green wheat seeds on the red soil, you will be full in the coming year; The ghost forest and Wharton grassland targeted by dodo Kingdom have keel steel, forest resources and flocks of cattle and sheep; The dusk forest in the north of Susi has secret silver, rare herbs and high-quality wood.

The rare resources in the southern continent are still unknown, but there must be no red soil that can grow green wheat. The Northern Wilderness once raised billions of people, where the chosen wizards created a brilliant city-state civilization. In contrast, the southern continent can only be regarded as a barren wilderness. Otherwise, why didn't ancient wizards and city-state Knights set foot in the land of the southern continent? Fish man and golden water can't stop their footsteps.

Moreover, the orc population occupies the fertile Northern Wilderness, and their population size is expanding, which poses the most direct and urgent threat to the human country. The political, economic and cultural centers of the kingdoms are all in the northern continent. Recovering the native land of the Northern Wilderness can not only enhance the strength of the human country and eliminate the great threat of orcs, but also the feelings of knights, nobles and priests for thousands of years. From the standpoint of mankind as a whole, all people, including Lord Gambis, recognize that compared with the North expansion strategy, the South expansion strategy is only a retreat for the kingdoms and churches.

In this case, tamore's ability to mobilize priests and paladins is very limited. He urgently hopes that NANTUO kingdom can unite and successfully open the situation of the southern continent. Borui United Kingdom once suffered losses from the barbarians in the south. They know that it is not easy to explore the southern continent and are very willing to cooperate closely with Gambis kingdom. The comprehensive national strength of the Gambis kingdom is far less than that of the Sassanian Empire, but she has the most powerful political power.

In order to persuade the kingdom of Gambis to accept the strategic concept of South expansion formulated by himself, tamore worked hard. While encouraging the church to expand the scale of templars, he ventured to the South Bank of the great river bay and captured an orc savage fighter to gangbis. He is telling Gambis that the Gorgon barbarians who are equal to the kingdom of Borui can only occupy a corner of the southern continent. How many powerful indigenous aliens are there in the southern continent? There seems to be a difference in national strength between Gambis and Borui. Gambis's idea of monopolizing the development right of the southern continent is impractical. We'd better sit down and discuss the related matters of river crossing and South expansion.

Negotiation? No matter how much discussion, the construction of port on Lake Firth is an inseparable topic.

In the long run, the geographical environment of Gambis is very bad. There is no other direction to expand except crossing the river to the south. In the future, the center of the human kingdom will certainly be in the rich northern wilderness. Even if Gambis becomes the Great Southern Empire, it will not change the natural conditions of the land. There is a gap in population, economy, military and politics between the north and the south. Over time, this gap will only become more and more obvious. Finally, the Gambis empire will not be able to compete with the northern empire.

Victor secretly arranged in the eastern alliance and sought access to the sea, not to form a navy, bypass the nidam Everglades, enter the east coast of the northern wilderness, and compete for fertile red land with the Lords of Sasan and Neville. If Victor had a large colony in the Northern Wilderness and controlled the sea power and Jinshui River shipping power, he did not dare to assert that the Gambis Empire would surpass the northern Empire, at least the power balance between the north and the South would not be unbalanced.

As an important node of the strategy, Lake Firth is bound to win victor.

The Augusts did not know Victor's ambition, but they could see the significance of Lake Firth to the Gambis empire. Jinshui River is an insurmountable natural danger. Gangbis's control of Firth lake can not only remove the potential military threat of the northern lords to the southern Empire, but also significantly enhance the political influence of the southern empire. All the material and personnel exchanges between the southern continent and the northern continent are under the control of the southern Lord. In case of a great disaster in the north, the northern Lord must ask for the support or shelter of the southern Lord. In other words, in order to leave a way back for the family, the northern Lord and the southern Lord must exchange children, so as not to avoid the embarrassing situation that the knight blood of the southern Empire poured into the northern empire one after another.

This is the strategic value of Jinshui River graben. Now the most important thing is the Fisi lake. Whoever can control the waters of Fisi lake can take the initiative in the South expansion strategy of crossing the river. The Western mouth of Firth lake is located in the territory of gangbis. Its port construction conditions are obviously superior to chebman and Randall. Gangbis Kingdom abandoned the plan to build a port at the mouth of Firth lake because it was worried that Rand Empire would take the opportunity to build a port on the Bank of Firth lake.

There must be a port on the shore of Firth Lake in the territory of the RAND Empire, and the Borui army entered the twilight forest front of SUS; The Knights of glory and Neo West; The kingdom of Neville is around for this. They are now taking a flexible strategy because they are worried about angering the divine knights. If they recklessly send troops directly to help the RAND Empire lead to clean up the fishmen and build a port, the kingdom of Gambis will certainly launch a war of revenge against Neo West. But if gombis refuses to let go, he will bear more and more pressure until he gives in.

Borui United Kingdom and Gambis belong to the South expansion Lord camp, and the overall interests of both sides are the same. However, in the short term, the water power of Gambis is far less than that of Borui Kingdom, and there is a big difference in both shipbuilding technology and experienced crew. Gambis needs time to develop the power to block the waters of Lake Firth.

The problem now is that Gambis does not respond to the goodwill of the Borui people and the chief Shepherd tamore, and may bear the military risk of NANTUO alone in the future. At the very least, the grudging borriens must try to hold gombis back.

He took control of the waters of Firth lake, but suffered a military defeat in the South expansion. Finally, he had to plead with Borui United Kingdom to send troops and make major concessions. What's the significance of rushing to occupy Firth lake?

Having seen the barbarian captives sent by Pastor tamore and the four guardians of Gambis, Sylvia, Roland and goron have no bottom in their hearts except victor. They doubt whether Gambis can support the South expansion strategy alone.

Viktori put forward the concept of development strategy and leapfrog tactics in the Jiaxue River Basin of Firth lake, tried to appease the Regent and the three guardians, and strengthened their determination to resist the early construction of port on the North Bank of Firth Lake by external forces.

Although his highness Randall has extraordinary wisdom and has worked miracles many times, and Sylvia and Marquis golon also admit that his strategic and tactical ideas are very exquisite, gangbis crossing the river is very important. They can't believe what Victor says.

Marquis golon praised Victor for his talent in leapfrog tactics without military command experience. On the contrary, he raised his doubts implicitly.

Can the modified warship retrograde on the blood river? Can psychic warriors against first-class barbarians be popularized? You have to come up with something real before we can accept your strategy and tactics.

Victor is full of confidence in the secret method of source blood, and has no definite grasp of the transformation of warships. But it doesn't matter. He just wants to delay.

In short, the lakeside port must wait until gangbis's fleet crosses Firth lake, and then be built and leased by the golden regiment!

In the evening wind, Victor and others walked to the wharf of Carril port. Under the hazy moonlight, a huge warship rowed across the quiet and deep lake and slowly drove towards the trestle.

It is a semi oval shape with a length of 35 meters and a width of 12 meters. It is as high as three floors from the water surface to the side of the ship. Four masts stand tall. The huge sails cover the night wind and push the ship through the waves, just like the giant beast in the Legend of bassac lake, which is inexplicably shocking. A slender and graceful figure stood on the bow yard. She wore a triangular sail hat and only a white fine linen shirt, tight breeches and high top leather boots. She outlined a slender waist and a pair of surprisingly long straight legs. She hung a slender thorn sword on her waist. She was valiant and spirited. She was Princess Roland.

Sylvia's beautiful face showed envy and exclaimed, "it's spectacular for me to see such a big warship for the first time." Turning to see Victor's calm face, her eyes moved and asked curiously, "why? Don't you think it's very imposing?"

Up to 1200 tons, which is far from the 10000 ton ship. Roland is more pleasing to the eye... Victor nodded quietly while his stomach Fei, "baby, I will build a ship that belongs to you in the future, which is more spectacular and powerful than the golden wool... Well, it's called the Dragon butcher."

Sylvia's heart was sweet and took her lover's arm. Dragon Slayer is one of her titles. The ship named by victor will never disgrace the reputation of Dragon Slayer.

Before the ship pulled into the dock, Roland jumped down from the bow, holding a single telescope in his hand, and paced back and forth in front of the people. His deep eyes as beautiful as the blue lake looked at everyone one by one, like the captain who chose sailors at the dock.

"I'm captain Roland August of the golden fleece. If you want to take my golden fleece, you have to obey the captain's orders..." she said modestly and majestically, pointing to the tip of her nose.

Sylvia glanced at her, took up her skirt, jumped and landed on the deck of the golden wool, with light and smooth movement and elegant posture.

Victor picked up trisley's leg socket and held the angry female knight who could not run and fight in his arms in the way of a princess. The breeze surrounded the two bodies, took a step forward and jumped on the golden wool nearly 9 meters high.

Even without fighting spirit, she has the strength of an ordinary knight. Even if she can't jump on the side of the ship, she can avoid Victor's princess. Whether you can hide or not is to show your love in public. Shy trisley blushed. Before the Marquis of Cologne and the Regent jumped up, she broke away from Victor's hug, turned around and flashed into the cabin.

Roland stamped his feet on the trestle, pouted his small mouth, and finally jumped on the ship. When he saw the sailors standing with their heads bowed to Sylvia and taking a respectful attitude of waiting for orders one by one, he immediately ignored his anger and hurriedly stressed: "I'm the captain of the golden wool. You can't give orders to my crew."

Sylvia smiled. The high queen turned into a spring breeze and drizzle, took Victor's arm and said softly: "Captain Roland, I need a decent cabin. By the way, please ask your mate and designer to show my husband the Golden Goat."

Roland turned his anger into joy, took off the captain's hat and bowed his knees gracefully. "I'd like to help you, dear lady... Malena, take this beautiful lady to VIP Room No. 1, which is the best room of the Golden Goat Hair... Baron Haggett, Captain Hansen, take some gentlemen to visit my golden wool. Remember, except the captain's room."

The ship designer and the mate of the golden wool came over. Victor and Marquis golon were about to follow them into the bottom cabin, but Roland blocked their way.

Looking at the captain's hat swinging in front of him, Victor looked up blankly and asked, "what are you doing?"

Roland looked sideways at Victor and the Marquis of Cologne and said contemptuously, "pay! According to the rules of the boat, the guests on board must pay a deposit first. When they get off the boat, they will settle your accommodation, meals and drinks."

"Roland!" Said the Marquis of goron, with a sinking face and suppressed anger.

"Don't be wordy, old man. Pay first!" Roland shouted without fear. Her next sentence exposed her true intention: "if you don't have money, you have to work for me on the golden wool. That's the rule!"

Victor touched his empty trouser pocket and said, "I don't have any money, captain. Can I owe it first?"

"No credit for boarding, no payment for disembarkation."

Victor silently pulled a crystal clear blue diamond from his belt and put it into his hat. Looking at captain Roland with a smile, he couldn't help reminding, "it's worth 750 gold sols..." he added, "this is a deposit. Remember to change me."

The long Princess patted Victor on the shoulder and said sympathetically, "Sir, don't pay when you leave the ship." Then, she said very generously, "this gem is even the boat fare for five of you."

Marquis goron snorted coldly and raised his feet. Just as he was about to enter the cabin, he heard Williams and Roland argue:

"Don't count me... I work on the golden wool to pay for it."

Victor and goron were speechless and followed the mate of the Golden Goat into the hatch.

"Sailors, you don't have to dock. Put down the cable and let the guests' entourage climb up by themselves. Everyone charges... Roland, how much deposit does everyone charge?"

"Five gold sols for each man and 15 gold sols for each woman... Eh, uncle Williams, I'm the captain of the golden wool!"

"Yes, you're the captain. I'm working for you to pay the bill."

"Bob, boatswain, give this new gentleman a bucket and a rag and teach him how to polish my deck!"

"Er... Roland, I don't think the work of cleaning the deck is worth 150 kinsol's wages. I can act as captain. You've been sailing all day. You should find a first-class cabin and have a good sleep. I'll take care of the night voyage... Boatswain Bob, anchor, sail and adjust the route. We'll go to Longqiao town on the West brinor river. Captain Williams will do it himself Steer... By the way, where is the rudder? "

"... uncle, I'm not tired at all. Well, I'll waive your deposit. You're a guest of the golden sheep now... Hey, don't touch my rudder, you new fluff!"

The footsteps on the deck clearly came into the bottom cabin. Marquis goron shook his head and said slightly embarrassed, "Victor, don't worry about those two guys. We do our things."

Victor nodded in silence, suddenly turned around and asked Hansen, the mate of the golden wool:

"Are you from the masked brotherhood?"