Chapter 623

After the meeting, Flemish did not stop and left the fortress with pastor Kent. There were many complicated affairs waiting for him to deal with in the Sassanian empire.

The Duke of Barcelona led Victor to inspect Duncan fortress, introduced the fortification, operation mechanism and construction history of the fortress in detail, and talked about some anecdotes of sword Saint delavin.

In fact, Victor is not a direct descendant of the sword Saint delavin. His blood relationship dates back to the era of delavin. His ancestor was the distant cousin of the sword saint, four generations apart. At present, there are only three descendants of Draven's blood. The testier Paladin family, the Duke of Barcelona and the Duchess of oroxya, and the descendants of the sword saint and four other golden female Knight partners have been integrated into these three blood lines respectively.

In fact, Victor's family pedigree is the same as that of wind Knight Andrea The Countess of Wimbledon is closer, at least they are all Wimbledon. However, it is not wrong that Victor and Hussein have a common ancestor. They talk in two dialects. Victor found an opportunity to ask the mystery of the disappearance of sword Saint delavin.

Usein affirmed that it was a shameless rumor that the so-called murder of her husband delavin before the death of Queen Barcelona. One year after the fall of Queen verotika, Draven left a letter and went alone to the endless forest to find his elves.

The original of this letter has been preserved in the treasure house of the Basilius family, which has its original rubbings. Usein said that if Victor visited the Duke of Barcelona, he and the guardian oroxya would jointly take out the farewell letter written by the sword saint and let him read it.

The Duke of Barcelona's statement is basically consistent with Victor's inference. His own secret method of spiritual blood has entered the soul field. It is almost certain that the knight's blood is inherited from the soul, or from the original will of the Creator - the elemental sea. Of course, all life in the real world has evolved from the element sea, including the elf family. It can be seen that the Elves will not marry ancient knights for no reason. In addition to political and love factors, most of them want to use the affinity between high-level knights and the origin of the world to breed the sun elves.

The life level of the sun elves is very high, which is equivalent to the divine knight. They are also high life close to the origin of the world. The difference is that the divine knight and the Golden Knight feel the call of the elemental sea, while the sun elf is called by the pan conscious spirit of the elf family. The sword Saint delavin was completely transformed into the form of the sun elf. The will hidden in the blood of his soul prompted him to find his elf kindred. The divine Knight verotika suppressed this will. When the iron mountain queen fell, delavin resolutely stepped into the endless forest. His pursuit of the wishes of the elves is like the migration of fish. It has nothing to do with the acquired education. It is purely an instinct of life.

As for the outcome of delavin, Victor did not know. He was glad that he had chosen a road of free will.

At noon, I don't know which hidden corner of the fortress Roland and orokhia got out. Hussein met the family guardian and showed a more intimate attitude towards victor. He took the initiative to say:

"Cousin Victor, do you know that most of the free people in the eastern and central part of the Sassanian Empire have taken refuge in the western territory. According to the rough statistics of the church, 5 million refugees and the free people in the west, the total number of refugees stranded in the western territory is more than 8 million. Although the church tries its best to provide relief, the Western Sovereign governance system has been overwhelmed. The kingdom of Gambis is willing to help Some refugees moved south to avoid danger, which really helped us a lot. "

Hussein's face was ruddy, the amber halo in his eyes faded, and there was a little aloof. His temperament and expression became more vivid and close to the state of a senior knight.

Is this a blue taro potion? No wonder the ancient alchemists listed the blue taro as a super precious material... Victor secretly lamented the magical effect of the blue taro and said calmly: "the territory of the kingdom of Gambis is not as large as the western part of Sasang, and the number of refugees we can accept is also limited, but the refugees have a refuge channel, which is conducive to the stability of the people."

"Yes." Hussein nodded and smiled: "The free people crowded in the West and were terrified. They were afraid that the eastern defense line would be lost and they would become the rations of orcs and monsters. There were rumors in the refugee camp. People fled to Tongji city every day in an attempt to take refuge in the southern countries through the trade routes on the Wharton prairie. The Western Lord tried to recruit tenants from the refugee camp in the hope of appeasing them. Unfortunately, there were too many refugees, he said It is said that as tenants, they will be sent to the front line to fight with the orcs, so only a few people are willing to accept resettlement. There are constant bloody conflicts among the refugees, and the local Lord even sent people to suppress the camp riots. The mercenary army of the human horse hill came forward to open up the ghost forest development point and the refugee channel connecting the western part of the Empire, which can calm people's hearts, and the pressure of the Lord is much less. "

As soon as he changed the subject, he said: "However, although I am the Lord of the Western Empire, there are also four Marquis lords and vassals of vassals. I have no right to give orders to vassals directly, let alone migrate refugees who do not belong to us... How about this? I order my housekeeper to cooperate with my cousin's mercenary corps and stationed priests to select refugees from several large refugee camps in the Duke's main city Choose the migrants and let other lords in the West migrate refugees to my main city. "

Of course, the escape passage is not as simple as a road, but also includes organizational system, logistics supply, safety guarantee and resettlement measures. However, these matters do not need to be personally asked by your highness, but they can be handed over to the following people.

The symptoms of the Golden Knight drinking the blue taro potion: excitement, pleasure, talkative, energetic, and his state of mind seems to have returned to the past.

Silently noting the role of the blue taro potion, Victor said, "my wife, the Marquis Sophia Wimbledon, has the sole right to organize the relocation of refugees to the south."

Wusaiyin was stunned and realized that he was a little out of his temper. He laughed, "OK, let's make a deal."

What have we agreed?

Victor wanted to roll his eyes.

In the evening, Hussein and oroxya left Duncan fortress with the eagle lion knight and headed for marfa fortress in the north. So far, the core fortress of the central theater of the eastern defense line officially changed hands.

Victor stood on the highest observation tower of Duncan fortress and watched the two princes of the balelius family disappear on the horizon. Then he turned his head and looked at the whole fortress.

Duncan fortress was built 600 years ago and completed in 22 years (34 Earth years). For hundreds of years, Sasan people have been constantly repaired. The solid limestone wall has withstood the double test of war and years. The magnificent fortress still stands on the earth and on the Bank of the river. It has been playing a mainstay role so far.

The limestone fortress is 65 meters high and the wall is 38 meters high. The 26 foot wide wall top can allow two carriages to run parallel. There is an auxiliary fort at both ends of the wall, with 44 stone throwing machines and 114 slide rail catapults. Outside the wall is a 30 meter wide moat. A suspension bridge needs to be built in the city tower in the middle of the river so that people outside can enter the gate.

According to Victor's visual observation, the inner ring of the wall covers an area of 15.6 square kilometers. There are diversion canals and artificial lakes, wheat fields, vegetable fields, medicine fields, granaries, mills and stables. This complete set of agricultural production facilities can supply the daily food needs of 5000 people. However, the largest building complex in the fortress is the material warehouse and cargo yard, which are connected with a size of 6 square kilometers, accounting for almost half of the land of Duncan fortress.

In addition to farmland and storage, there are hundreds of blacksmith shops, leather workshops and medicine rooms, as well as three churches, a large number of barracks, and even some shops, taverns and hostels.

There are 12000 garrisons, 8000 mobile cavalry and 3000 craftsmen stationed in Duncan fortress, and their families also live in it. During the war, all the women, children and family members of the garrison were evacuated. The fortress could accommodate 60000 infantry and 40000 cavalry at a time, and the material reserve of the freight yard was enough to hold 100000 troops for 14 months.

It is a town in peacetime and a fort in wartime. The agricultural production system, manual armament system, divine medicine system, defense and attack system are all complete. Victor doesn't believe anyone can break Duncan fortress. Even a legendary strong man like him can easily climb over the city wall without any problem and kill the garrison soldiers wantonly. But the manpower is poor, and his energy and physical strength are always consumed in high-intensity battles. Once he falls into the jungle of knives and guns and flies locusts and arrows, he is afraid that he will die on the spot and it will be difficult to get away. The fine iron gate of Duncan fortress is connected with two giant winches. 90 strong soldiers need to rotate at the same time to open the gate. If the strong man of the golden stage rotates the winch alone, he will face the accumulation of military heavy crossbows and large crossbows. If the soldiers guarding the city remove the iron lock of the gate in advance, it is useless to rotate the winch. The strong man of the golden stage can't lift the fine iron gate with his bare hands? The legendary ogre lords don't have so much power.

The gate could not be opened, and the extraordinary man risked falling, and the raid on the fortress became meaningless.

Fort Duncan is unbreakable and indestructible. It can be called the safest refuge for the eastern defense line.

If you take a bird's-eye view from a high altitude, you will find that there is a garrison Castle around the periphery of Duncan fortress, which is 60 kilometers away from the fortress. Soldiers can march for 5 hours on foot and cavalry for only 2 hours. If it is an urgent March regardless of combat fitness, the support time can be shortened by half.

Twelve sentry camps are distributed between the garrison castle and the fortress. They build a wall with limestone and set up three high-rise arrow towers. They are horns for each other and serve as nodes for warning and heralding. Besides the garrison castle, there are large barracks that can accommodate 1500 cavalry and 1000 infantry. Besides the barracks, there are castles and sentries, which extend outward in layers.

Different types of fortifications, material storage, sentry roads, garrison infantry and mobile cavalry constitute a strict defense system. Duncan fortress is the heart and brain of the whole defense system. With each contraction, troops and materials are transported to various defense nodes like blood. With each expansion, soldiers and materials are concentrated towards the fortress. When the defense node on either side is attacked, she will mobilize idle mobile cavalry and supplies to transfuse blood there.

This is a living defense line. Her life is connected with the Sassanian Empire and the human kingdom.

The strange size of centaurs determines that they do not have the ability to attack the city. Not to mention Duncan fortress, which is a standard castle and a giant camp, they can't break through. In fact, almost all orcs cannot break the fortifications built by the human kingdom. For thousands of years, only the goblin king and the ogre volgan have destroyed the human castle.

The garrison soldiers of the eastern defense line defend the city. When the enemy is strong, they hide in fortifications and stick to them. When the enemy is small, they go out to fight. In fact, they are relatively safe and there will be no major casualties. Fledes proposed to arm 30000 balelius family militias and 10000 infantry. Hussein not only promised, but also took the initiative to increase the number of militias to 40000 and infantry to 20000.

In doing so, the shepherd is basically using the armaments supported by the kingdoms to help the balelius family expand the size of the army.

Since the operational risk borne by the garrison soldiers is limited, why did felides choose to arm the soldiers of the balelius family rather than the militia of the Lords in the east or middle of the Empire?

Duncan fortress and the eastern defense line just reflect the political layout of the shining knights for the whole human country.

Testier and fledes organized hundreds of thousands of exile tenants to explore the Northern Wilderness bordering the eastern part of the Empire. There were no major mistakes in their decision-making, but no one expected that the Sidon centaurs, who had been beaten by each other, would suddenly unite and attack the eastern leaders of the Sassanian empire.

In any case, it is a fact that hundreds of thousands of Sasan tenants were killed and injured, and TESL is to blame. According to the rules of the church, someone must be responsible for the death of believers. The position of the first Paladin family of testier has been shaky. It doesn't matter if testier falls from the throne, for fear that the Knights of glory will lose their power to dominate the church. However, the orc war is not over. What if TESL led the human army to completely wipe out the orc invaders?

The glory Knights have gained momentum, and those dead tenants will be listed as mercenaries who died bravely against the orcs. As long as the human kingdom takes the territory of the Sidon Centaur and recovers its hometown of more than 3 million square kilometers, no one will investigate TESL's dereliction of duty, and no one will care about the true identity of the victims.

Therefore, Flemish's intention to light the red smoke beacon is two-fold. The unknown king of orcs is one factor. On the other hand, the great army of the human country gathered to open up 280000 cavalry and 150000 infantry in the leading theater in the East. There are also 220000 cavalry in the battle area of boulder fortress, including SUS, Borui and Neville. Such a huge human army did not come to the Northern Wilderness to see the play. Whether there was an orc king or not, the war mobilization of the human country was aimed at completely annihilating the orc invaders and easily recapturing the territory of the iron mountain empire.

In fact, testier, friedes and Frederick used this crisis to gather all the strength of the human kingdom to help the Sassanian Empire explore the northern wilderness, including the two families of bacelius and Rex.

King Rex of Neville needless to say, the sassanne Empire and the shining Knights won the Sidon khanate, and the new territory is connected with the boulder fortress. The neville people naturally want to circle a large area of red soil. The relationship between bacelius and Frederick is quite delicate, which should start from the political ecology of the Sassanian empire.

The secular Lord of the paladin represented by the Frederick family guarded the eastern territory of the sassanne Empire, exercised the obligation of the royal family to protect its people, and had the power and position of the royal family. Of course, the Lord of the sassanne Empire should move closer to the Frederick family. However, Frederick's silver blood was not enough to support the knight class of an empire. The Basilius family occupied the rear hinterland of the Western Empire, but they had golden blood and attracted Lord sassanne to secretly surrender to the descendants of the iron mountain queen and the sword Saint delavin.

Frederick united with the glorious knights to defend the land and resist the enemy, holding the great righteousness of the royal family; Basilius spread his blood and maintained the knight aristocracy of the Sassanian empire. The relationship between the two sides is complex, with confrontation on the surface and coexistence in reality.

The Sassanian royal family and the shining knights are one on both sides. Their relationship with Barcelona is the epitome of the secular Lord and the paladin family. The great lords, including Victor, need the strength of the shining knights to fight against the orc forces, but they are afraid of their interference in the internal and foreign affairs of the secular kingdom. Basselius cooperated with the shining knights in military affairs and had internal friction in politics. The iron mountain royal family held back the shining knights, and all kingdoms were relieved and gave political solidarity. The white tower camp was born from this. The two major pastor factions of tamore and Clement also relied on the support of secular lords to gain a firm foothold in the Holy See.

Who can't ignore that in recent hundreds of years, the knight class of the iron mountain Empire has recovered its vitality relying on the Sassanian empire. The contradiction between the two royal families broke out inside without transferring to the outside. Hussein Perselius was modest and low-key, and his vassals did not agree. Moreover, if he really kept a low profile, why did he challenge Sylvia knowing that she was a divine knight?

The war became an opportunity for the two royal families to resolve contradictions, and Hussein's modest and low-key style provided a step for the two sides to shake hands and make peace. Flemish reciprocated by arming the army of the balelius family with the armaments assisted by the kingdoms and churches. It is an obvious political signal - half of the territory of 3 million square kilometers of Sidon centaurs belongs to your balelius. We will jointly promote the North expansion strategy.

The rise of Barcelona is irresistible, the revival of the iron mountain empire is just around the corner, and the political pattern of the human country is rewritten.

In view of this, the shining knights and the Holy See Privy Council do not want to see the iron mountain Empire communicate with the kingdom of Gambis in the south.

It is a foregone conclusion that the strength of the church is inclined to the north extension strategy. They and the Lord of North Extension actually benefit the power of the Lord of South extension to open the situation. Victor felt like eating a fly. You know, for this war, the weapons and armor saved by the people and horses hill are fully one-third less.

However, from the standpoint of the kingdom of Gambis, he had to go all out. The Allied forces won a great victory and occupied the territory of the Sidon Centaur, which was equal to the victory of the tenant system. If the human coalition retreats to the eastern defense line, it will be the failure of the tenant system.

The reason is very simple. The northern extension lords divide up 3 million square kilometers of red soil and do not implement the tenant system. How can they build such a vast new territory?

The eastern defense line is as solid as gold, and the orc King's army will break its head and bleed. The Sassanian empire will not fall, but the victims of the East frontier will be put on the table again.

The size of the kingdom of Gambis is too small, less than one third of the Sassanian Empire, and there is no tenant system. The so-called ideal of crossing the river to expand South and establishing a great southern empire is just a dream.

Holding the limestone wall stack heated by the sun, Victor was thinking about what changes the new political pattern would bring to the human country. At this time, below the fortress, Roland's figure came into his eyes. The long princess was wearing a women's armor of the same style and color as oroksia. From the details of the armor, it was the one on oroksia.

Oroksia is similar to Roland's figure, but only Roland can take other people's Secret silver armor off others' bodies and wear it on his own in a dignified manner.

Not to mention, Roland is full of gorgeous armor and vigorous, just like a female martial god. Siegfried walked with her like a valet. Although the eldest son of the Sassanian Empire has changed his ceremonial armor and put on his knight's war suit

Well, it's still like Roland's attendant.

Just as the church leaders feared the secular influence brought by the mutual alliance between the iron mountain Empire and the kingdom of Gambis, Gambis and the iron mountain royal family could not tolerate the manipulation of secular politics by the shining knights.

The six paladins once murdered the emperor of the RAND empire; As clergy, they are not clear with the wizard organization of the eastern alliance; Without determining the orc king, they lit a red smoke beacon and used the Knights and vassal soldiers of various kingdoms to fight the orcs in the northern wilderness for them.

No matter how many legitimate reasons the shining Knights have, they are unscrupulous and play with the rules. Such an opponent, everyone will feel headache and fear.

The northern and southern empires must join hands to suppress the aggressive arrogance of the shining knights. Unfortunately, Gambis is not the southern Empire, and it is not time for a showdown.

Flanders wants to create contradictions and divide the two political groups of the white tower camp. To keep pace with the northern expansion strategy of the Sassanian Empire, Barcelona had to curl up so as not to become the target of the church. However, both Hussein and oroksia could not resist the temptation of blue taro potion.

Blue taro potion has hundreds of different levels of flavors, which fuse with each other and evolve countless new flavors. Victor had a drink and felt uncomfortable for 17 days. If he was not careful, those strange tastes came out cold. He believes that the effect of the blue taro potion is taste. In fact, it directly acts on people's mind and has a strong attraction to the Golden Knight, so that they can re feel the taste law of the real world, awaken and strengthen the human part of the soul.

Sylvia and Sophia regularly take blue taro potion, which can live to their limit life and unlock more power. This means that the blue taro potion can help orokhia and usein impact the legendary field without worrying about the assimilation of the soul by the elemental sea.

The promotion of orokhia and usein to legendary Knights greatly enhanced the political influence of the balelius family, thus accelerating the division of the Sassanian empire. The northern Empire became the Sassanian Empire led by Frederick and the iron mountain empire with Barcelona as the royal family, and involved the energy of the shining knights. After that, basselius was sure to infiltrate the aristocratic class of the Sassanian Empire and compete with the shining knights for control over sassanne. The Sassanian Empire became a wrestling field and buffer zone for both sides.

When the paladin family and the iron mountain royal family collude, gangbis can eat melons and immerse himself in development.

Secret silver armor is of special significance to high-level knights. Roland exchanges blue taro potion for oroksia's armor. The eldest son of emperor Sasan foolishly followed her and praised how suitable this armor was for Roland.

The blue taro potion belongs to the secret of the Golden Knight. The legendary priest and the eldest son of emperor Sasan never imagined that the two long princesses issued a secret covenant at the bottom of their eyes and noses as soon as they met. Orokhia's armor is the witness of the covenant.

The footsteps of the two men came to Victor's ears. The pro guard alchemical militia came up with a strong man dressed as a mercenary and said in a low voice, "Sir, according to your instructions, I'll bring the mercury man to see you."

The strong man stepped forward and said respectfully, "good day, sir. Hunt, the monkey militia, responded to your call."

Victor turned around, smiled and asked, "hunter, we haven't seen each other for seven years... Where is the leader of the Sassanian Empire? How many people have developed?"

Hunter is one of the third batch of monkey militia made by Victor. He is 10 years old. He followed the old spy Barol to create mercury. Later, Barol assigned it to his adopted daughter MIA to protect her and develop mercury organization in the Sassanian empire.

All the adopted children of the old spy returned to Randall's collar to accept body remodeling and practice the secret method of spiritual blood, including MIA. Her work in the sassanne empire was temporarily handed over to the little spy of the Randall family. Of course, those children are now adults and can be alone.

So far, the scale of mercury has expanded more than a hundred times, infiltrating the bottom of the kingdoms, with complex personnel structure and strong mobility. Victor saw the report submitted by Sasan mercury a year ago. They controlled 29 gangs and 17 small mercenary regiments. As for the current situation of the mercury organization of the Sassanian Empire, Victor was not clear. However, Mercury's strongest force is the alchemical militia he made. Alchemists act as the backbone of Mercury's force. Mercury can't get out of Victor's control.

The sassanne royal family issued a war order, and all the civilians in Duncan fortress were evacuated, while the large and small free civil servants and Rangers rushed to the fortress of the eastern defense line. The priest of Duncan fortress posted the mission to the mercenaries and Rangers in the tavern. Victor sent the monkey militia to the tavern and found the alchemist hunter.

"Sir, mercury leader went to dew town in the west of the Empire... How many people has mercury developed in the Sassanian Empire? I don't know." Hunter shook his head and asked, "do you want me to contact the leader and let him see you?"

Victor shook his head and said, "don't contact him. I'll leave Duncan fortress soon... You go to see him and convey my orders. All mercury spies are transferred to towns and cities in the west of the Empire, sneak into local refugee camps and keep an eye on recording abnormalities."

Hunter thought for a moment and asked, "Sir, what are the exceptions?"

Before he left, the chief frides said that Gambis would send someone to move people to the territory of balelius. After hearing this, Hussein actually ran a fight to control his mood.

He overreacted.

There is a strange phenomenon in this war. The investment and income are out of proportion. The more mobile cavalry, the more casualties, but they may not get the relative benefits. The kingdom of Dodo sent 45000 cavalry and 15000 infantry, even the strength to eat milk. They just kept the ghost forest development point. If the Sassanian Empire succeeded in occupying the land of the Sidon khanate, the dodos might be able to take control of the Wharton prairie; The kingdom of SUS and the kingdom of Borui are the worst. They can hardly get anything. The great thing is to have more Orc "specialties".

The eastern Lord of Sasang has the largest cavalry, with a total of 120000, but no one knows how many cavalry will die on the battlefield. These cavalry are the hard-earned property of the eastern Lord. Barcelona and his four marques have less than 20000 cavalry, all of which will not hurt their muscles and bones. They can get a big cake.

Basselius obtained the greatest benefit. Gambis sent out cavalry and materials to ask for hundreds of thousands of young refugees and some food from the Sassanian empire. Will he change his color?

The refugee population of the Sassanian empire is close to 13 million. I'm afraid Hussein is not reluctant to give up hundreds of thousands of refugees because of his emotional fluctuations. It's because Victor's men want to enter the west of sassanne to organize the migration of refugees.

If he didn't act for the shepherd, there must be a ghost in his heart!

Victor couldn't guess what Basilius was doing. He believed it had something to do with the refugees.

Since the problem of refugees is involved, Victor must send mercury to check it.

"Abnormal situation... Refers to unusual situation. If I know what the abnormal situation refers to, what else should I do?"

He said faintly, "take my words to the leader of mercury intact."