Chapter 250 Meliati has too many cards in her hand
In this way, the war monks of the Salvation Chapter first use scouts to conduct reconnaissance wherever they go. After the cavalry attracts nearby monsters, they then use their vehicles to The fort prevents the impact, and finally the infantry is used to move out of the fort to finish the attack.
Hairy zombies can simulate majestic armored sergeants, while bull spiders and jumping spiders can simulate charging knights.
In fact, in terms of bravery and charging energy, the giant spiders surpassed many extraordinary knights in the countryside.
However, giant spiders and hairy zombies are not as intelligent as humans and know how to cooperate and form arrays to achieve maximum effect, but at least they have added practical experience to the monks.
In this way, in the constant rotation, stabbing and shooting have a real feeling. If you stab at the target a hundred times, you will not get as much experience as actually killing a powerful animal.
This kind of actual combat drill can also dig out problems that cannot be found in normal training.
It is much better to find out now than later when fighting the knights at Castle Joan of Arc.
In this way, in the insect eradication round, the four legions took turns to fight. They were all fully trained and successfully cleared an open space in the south of the swamp.
By the sixth day, the Salvation Group had basically advanced to the southernmost end of the swamp.
The rabbit-skin boots made a clanging sound as they stepped on the cold, hard earth, while the lycanthrope scouts poked at the snow with long poles.
Under the snow, there are many hidden ditches and rivers. If you accidentally fall down, you will not only be drowned, but you will at least get sick.
Because the roads available for traffic were wide and narrow, the Salvation Army could only practice formation changes while marching.
The red and black battle flag of the Salvation Army fluttered in the cold wind, and two thousand war monks marched in neat steps among the green mountains and black lakes.
From time to time, they would squint and look towards the lower end of the leaden clouds.
In front of us are stacks of Tibetan-blue mountains and high peaks rising from the ground, with cracked rocks and shrubs exposed in the silvery white snow.
The remaining snow on the mountain peaks turned into running creeks and merged into ponds and swamps.
The water of Nanze Lake flows out from between the mountains, forming several winding rivers.
It’s just that many mountain passes are blocked by silt and boulders, forming natural weirs and dams, hindering the release of lake water.
Of the originally complicated mountain rivers, only two can still flow.
Riding horses, Horn and Jeanne galloped on the snow. They climbed a hill and looked down from a high place.
The lake water crosses the boulder weir and falls into the shallow river like a slow-flowing waterfall.
On the crystal clear river, occasionally a few pieces of residual snow float.
"The Fort Joan Canal probably receives the river water here from the mountains." Jeanne pointed at the water flowing below with her riding crop and said with a smile.
Horn did not focus on the rivers that were still flowing. Instead, he turned his back to Jeanne and focused on the dry river beds.
The river is covered with wild grass, withered yellow grass blades swaying gently in the breeze, and ruins of dilapidated water conservancy buildings still remain.
Horn squinted his eyes and saw the stones and silt of different sizes. He seemed to see the scene of these rivers once again flowing endlessly.
But now, it is as quiet as a ghost. There are only a few small animals running quickly through the grass, making rustling noises, and they disappear in an instant.
"Witt." Horn turned around, just in time to see Werther panting up the hillside, "Do you know how to repair these water conservancy facilities?"
Hold on a tree next to him. At the oak tree, Werther bent over and looked down the mountain pantingly.
After looking at it for a long time, he straightened up: "This siltation is layer by layer. We can only move away the boulders and silt, otherwise it will be useless to repair the water conservancy facilities."
"Then if we can The silt has been removed, can you repair it?”
“Haha, I can’t.” Seeing Horn’s unfavorable expression, Witte quickly added, “This needs to be done by a professional hydraulic scholar or engineer. , My alumni can do it, but they may not be willing to come."
Turning to look at the other side, Horn asked Witte: "Based on your knowledge, dredging this river can help. Is the environment in Daze Township getting better? "
"If we build a weir upstream of the swamp to slow down the water flow, and dredge the silted river channel downstream to drain the water, the formerly dry Gaotai River can be re-opened.
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By then, the water level of Nanze Lake will drop, forming a height difference with the pond puddles in Beize. We will then connect the puddles with Nanze Lake to form a water network, which will improve the current geographical environment of Daze Township.
However, with so much siltation over hundreds of years, this area is probably a major project that will take ten years. "
"Oh, yes, it's too early to think about this now. "Horn shook his head helplessly, "We can only wait until later."
Today is January 18, 1445, and the three-month agreement is getting closer and closer.
>But Paslik has not told him the specific time of the uprising. Although Horn will not fully cooperate with the duchess, the sooner he knows this important information, the better
“I don’t know if there will be a future.”
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The time has entered early February, but the temperature in the mountains has not dropped at all.
Ice and snow cover the spire of the Cold Spring Castle tower. The snow on the pointed pillars and flying buttresses has not yet melted, condensing into ice ripples, and the ice water rolls down to the ground drop by drop.
Cold Spring Castle, built entirely of black rocks, serves as the political center of the Hema Stone Duchy and is located on the slope of a valley. Cold Spring Town below Cold Spring Castle is the gathering place for commerce and trade and a residential area.
Despite the cold weather, the vendors have not given up their commercial activities and are still selling along the streets.
The most conspicuous thing around Cold Spring Town is not the vendors, but the densely rising black smoke columns.
That is the black smoke rising from hundreds of smelting workshops and the Duke's blacksmith shop.
The five counties in the Qianhe Valley Mountains are famous for their rich mineral resources. Except for the lack of gold and silver mines, there are a large number of various metal mines.
Their minerals cannot be compared with those in northern Norn and the Furnace Highlands, but within the Kingdom of Leia, they are one of the best mines.
The mountain people in the five mountainous counties either work as miners working in the mines or go out as mercenaries. Only a few can work as farmers to provide food.
Because there is less cultivated land in the mountains and the terrain is long and narrow, the living standards in terms of food, clothing and other aspects are far behind those of the four plain counties.
Correspondingly, the per capita iron consumption of mountain people is more than twice that of plain people.
When Melia proposed to conquer Cod Castle, her boar knights all wore three-quarter armor and rode donkeys and mules.
Meliati did not attack cities, but specialized in plundering knight manors and noble farms.
Those militiamen wearing leather armor could not defeat these boar knights, but the real extraordinary knights, they either fled or gathered into Dunjar phalanx and longbowmen.
Fighting is more uncomfortable than eating shit.
Of course, Meliaty's hometown was also in disarray due to the disaster caused by the King of Cod Castle.
In the end, the war weariness within the family of Lord Codfish Castle was too high, so they had no choice but to invite the Lord Norn, a branch of Meliaty's great-grandmother's family, to end the fierce war.
Ten years had passed since that fierce battle. In the Lord's Hall of Cold Spring Castle, Meliati was sitting on a bearskin chair, the cold iron surface reflecting the hot fire.
Beside her, there are four knights sitting, most of them are old knights in their sixties and above, and there is only one middle-aged knight who is only thirty-nine.
Three old men were short in high school, fat but thin, with crooked melons and cracked dates. Standing together, they thought they were clowns.
As for the middle-aged knight, he has a graceful appearance, but he always has an inexplicable sad expression on his face, giving people a feeling that he cannot lift his spirits.
With these four knights, no one would have thought that each of them was a titled knight.
Including Meliati herself, there are a total of five titled knights in the Duchy of Hema Stone.
Looking at the entire Thousand Valleys, the church has two titled knights, namely Knight Templar Commander Berthold and Count Lienna of Marais.
Prince Condai has three titled knights in the imperial company, himself, Alleyne and Alman.
In other words, only by adding the church and Prince Condai together can the number of titled knights be equal to that of the Duchy of Herma Stone.
Most of these four titled knights were knight servants and old subordinates of the old Duke.
They are basically the intangible military legacy left by the former Duke Antoine of Hemastone to the Duchess Meliati.
Antoine, the Grand Duke of Herma Stone, was an old knight during the Hundred Years War and a rare great knight in the world.
Antoine's father is King Gorbor IX of France, his mother is the biological sister of King Heinlock of Leia, and his wife is the only daughter of Vladel, the Chosen King of the Norn.
In a certain sense, Meliati and Prince Condai are actually cousins.
However, since Prince Condai’s grandfather once married the daughter of King Fran, the two can be considered cousins.
The Grand Duke only had one daughter, and Meliati's father was actually an adopted son, so she always called the Grand Duke her grandfather.
Antoine has a very high status in the three major knights. Prince Condai’s connections in the knights, facing Antoine, are at the level of younger brothers.
However, because Meliati has continued to cause trouble since taking the throne, she has used a lot of favors to wipe her butt.
This time she fights against the church, I'm afraid the Knights will cut off from her directly. After all, this is no joke.
But her great-grandfather Norn King Selection’s old team would still give Meliati some face.
At best, this face is just to not favor the gang. If they really want to fight against the church, they can at most provide some supplies secretly, and it is impossible to support Meliyati openly.
At least this way, Meliati's rear is safe.
As the high priest of the Ruoan Party, she can even mobilize the power of the secret party.
Mliarty has too many cards in her hand.
“The lords of Seven Elms Town and Changfeng Castle, and the parish bishop of Oak Castle, sent us a letter of surrender, and the words were almost pleading.”
Seeing everyone gathered, Meliati threw a stack of letters on the table, "What do you think, let's discuss it."
(End of this chapter)