Chapter 719 The Future of Blood Gorge City

The hobgoblins' talent in taming animals is much better than Gavin expected, especially those hobgoblins recruited from the Giant Plains, who have a long history of taming animals.

They not only use cattle and horses to transport goods, but they even tame crows to exchange information.

They are famous for training ferocious wolves to help them guard prisoners and guard the hobgoblin camps, and selecting the strongest ones as war wolf mounts.

Some hobgoblin tribes even train those ferocious carnivorous apes as their fighting beasts.

In the early days, Gavin sent some fey druids to help tame those giant wild animals. After the hobgoblins' abilities in this area were discovered, they gradually withdrew.

Because there is also ancient hostility and hatred between hobgoblins and elves and fey, they attack elves without any reason. On the battlefield, they will even abandon existing enemies and attack elves first, leading to the doom of destruction.

This kind of innate thing is the most difficult to change.

Gavin is not ready to spend too much energy on this for the time being, and it is better to keep a distance between the two.

"The wealth accumulated in the Giant Plains over the years has been almost squeezed out by us. In addition, winter is approaching, and the lord will use troops on a large scale in other directions. Therefore, I want to hold a tribal meeting in the Giant Plains and invite the chiefs and leaders of all the surrounding tribes to participate, sign a covenant of peaceful coexistence, temporarily cease fire, coexist peacefully, and develop together."

Blood Claw has been prepared for a long time.

The hobgoblins themselves are a military race, strictly enforcing tactics and discipline. Those leaders are the strongest and most strategically minded in the war group tribe, and can lead their tribes to implement complex battle plans.

Their racial characteristics themselves are in line with the beliefs of the strategy lady. When Gavin sent a large number of exclusive priests to teach them more systematic plans, strategies and tactics, they naturally eagerly absorbed the knowledge that is useful to them.

They have already started to build their own strategic team, imitating the staff system of the Conqueror Army. Each combat commander will be equipped with one or two staff officers to make plans and provide logistics management and support. Blood Claw has more than a dozen earth elf chiefs of staff around him to help him manage the entire Blood Gorge City.

"This proposal is very good. Blood Gorge City should indeed stop and properly digest and consolidate the current gains. Especially with the help of the super giant road statue, expanding the branch roads of the Giant Plains is the key to your next step to consolidate your rule. I will form a new road construction team to assist you in large-scale road construction in the Giant Plains.

As long as there are dense enough roads, you only need two thousand elite earth elf wolf cavalry, and cooperate with those earth elf militias, it is enough to firmly control the entire Giant Plains in your hands.

Upgrade all the earth elf infantry in your Blood Gorge City to earth elf wolf cavalry. Next, I will draw at least three thousand earth elf wolf cavalry from you."

Gavin positioned Blood Gorge City from the beginning as a large barracks of his own, which continuously provided him with powerful earth elf troops. Since it was formed so quickly, it was natural to draw elite troops from it for his own use.

The advantage of the earth elf wolf cavalry has never been on the plains, but in the rugged mountains and wilderness.

The rocky land with complex and varied terrain will give them the opportunity to show their strengths, and will also be an important trump card in Gavin's hand when fighting against the invasion of the Tukan nomads.

"I also want to turn all the earth elves into wolf riders." Bloodclaw said helplessly, "But the number of wolf riders has never been limited by riders, but by mounts. Only those large-sized dire wolves and dire wolves are qualified to be our mounts.

The number of our earth elf wolf riders can reach more than 2,000, thanks to the giant wild wolves produced on the Giant Plains, otherwise it would be good to have thousands.

In the entire Giant Plains, we have collected almost all the giant wild wolves that can be collected. Where can we get so many wolf mounts in a short time? The 3,000 wild wolves we domesticated are just ordinary Wild wolves can be mounts for goblins, but they cannot be mounts for us hobgoblins. "

"Select suitable hobgoblins and suitable war horses, and form a hobgoblin heavy cavalry of several thousand people. With convenient roads and teleportation tactics, the plains will be dominated by heavy cavalry.

The remaining two thousand hobgoblins will all form hobgoblin light cavalry. You keep one thousand, and the remaining one thousand together with the two thousand hobgoblin wolf cavalry will all be given to me. I will gradually replace their mounts during the use process.

I believe it is not a problem to plunder one thousand suitable wolf mounts from the rocky land and the goblin borderland. "Gavin gave a compromise.

"This is another problem we are facing. Our equipment is seriously insufficient now, not to mention that heavy cavalry is most dependent on equipment. "Blood Claw was surprised and had a sad expression that could not be concealed.

Who doesn't like heavy cavalry?

Especially the heavy cavalry composed of hobgoblins with an average height of two meters. On the plains, it is definitely a torrent of steel, showing their powerful military force, and the deterrent effect is far greater than that of the hobgoblin wolf cavalry.

But this type of soldier really relies too much on equipment.

"I have already anticipated your predicament. The three thousand earth elf cavalrymen assigned to my side, except for the basic survival supplies and mounts, all their equipment will be left in Blood Gorge City. When they catch up, I will arm them separately.

In addition, I have reached a cooperation agreement with the dwarves of the Iron Clan. Their True Shield Trading Company will send a group of dwarf blacksmiths to settle in Blood Gap City within ten days. The iron mines of Colossus City are in Ritavon. After smelting into dwarf stainless steel ingots, some of them will be shipped over to customize equipment for you.

But whether it is the commission for the dwarf blacksmith or the purchase price of the dwarf stainless steel ingots, you, Blood Gorge City, need to pay for it yourself. "

When Gavin solved the equipment problem for the conqueror's army, he naturally took Blood Gorge City into consideration.

"No problem. The Lord has already helped us solve the biggest problem." Bloodclaw nodded without hesitation. With more than 200,000 livestock and the output of more than half of the Giant Plains, he can be considered a wealthy man. .

What they lack is just channels, not money.

Blood Gorge City is developing too fast in the Giant Plains. Now it's not just the monster tribes in the Giant Plains that can't sleep well.

The leaders of the surrounding human forces also began to lose sleep all night, so it was naturally impossible to sell large amounts of equipment to them.

Even Raymond, the city lord of Ritawen City who had been on good terms with Gavin from the beginning, had expressed his concerns intentionally or unintentionally about the rapid development of Blood Gorge City during these few contacts.

Another additional benefit of Gavin's large-scale deployment of elite elite troops from Blood Gap City is to appease them and prevent them from taking more extreme restrictive measures against Blood Gap City.

Blood Gorge City will continue to develop as an important trade transit city.

"Do you have any other problems during your development process?" Gavin asked.

"There is indeed another problem that needs your Lord's help to solve. The elves of Silminster Forest are very angry about us building a city near their forest. They have killed hundreds of our goblin servants who entered the forest to collect firewood." Bloodclaw's There was an unconcealable scowl on his face.

Although they usually do not take the lives of goblin servants into consideration at all, it is one thing to be consumed by them as war consumables, and it is another thing to be killed for no reason, especially the elves lurking in the forest. .

"Are you trying to cut down the trees in Silminster Forest?" Gavin raised his eyebrows involuntarily. This is a big trouble. If it is not handled properly, most of the good reputation he has finally established among the elves will be ruined. .

"No, we fully follow the lord's sustainable development strategy. We just send those goblin servants to collect the naturally dead trees and branches. We have not cut down a single live wood. Most of our firewood sources still rely on the dry dung of the herds. ”

Bloodclaw patted his chest and promised, "I have been working hard to suppress the anger of the soldiers, but if I continue like this, once those elves aim their sharp arrows at the hobgoblin soldiers, there is no guarantee that they will not fight back."

"As long as you are sure that you are not stained with the blood of elves, there is room for maneuver in this matter. I will go to Silminster Forest as soon as possible to contact the elves there to see if we can improve the relationship between the two parties and reach a friendly relationship. Agreement." Gavin attached great importance to this matter and mentioned it as one of the first things to be resolved.

"Thank you, Lord." Bloodclaw bowed and thanked, "There is another thing that I think Lord should know. Not long ago, the Council of the Sixth Regiment of Amn sent a messenger to read out to us the Kingdom of Amn's response to Ownership of the surrounding lands, let us surrender to the Kingdom of Amn."

"Hey, they have the nerve to pick peaches." Gavin couldn't help but sneered, "They don't have a large city within a radius of 300 kilometers, so how can they call this their land? How did you deal with them?"

The Kingdom of Amn, the old neighbor to the north of the Kingdom of Tethyr, has a political system very similar to that of the Kingdom of Sambia. They are both plutocracy.

But there are big differences between the two.

The Kingdom of Sambia is ruled by a general elected by the merchant assembly, which is a bit like a presidential system. In order to win the position of the general, they will form gangs, make crazy promises of benefits, collect political donations, etc. Internal fighting is very serious. .

The Kingdom of Amn is ruled by a group called the Council of Six. They hide their identities from the world and are only known to each other. Therefore, they are also called the Council of Six of Amn, or the Masked Council.

Although no one knows the identities of these six people, one thing is certain, that is, they have the financial resources and powerful power to rival the country.

However, many people know that even these six people are not completely the real rulers of the Kingdom of Amn, but are puppets and spokespersons supported by more powerful beings.

Gavin knew at least two people behind the scenes.

One is Ivicola Sagran, she is an ancient blue dragon. Many people do not know her name alone, but her nickname has been resounding in the continent of Faerûn for many years, in Amn, Tethyr, and Kar. In the Linshan area, it can stop children from crying. When many parents scare their children, they will say that if you continue to disobey, you will be sent to Sharptooth for grinding.

She is the destroyer of the Shane Dynasty, the Scourge of Shane, and has the reputation of "Sharp Teeth".

Speaking of her nickname, we have to talk about the history of the Amn, Tethyr, and Calimshan regions. There once was a powerful and unified kingdom that ruled here for thousands of years and occupied The territory is larger than the Three Kingdoms. Many things in the three countries are passed down from this dynasty, which is the Xia En Dynasty.

From the nickname of Sharp Teeth, you can tell that she is the disaster of this dynasty. She is regarded as the reason that cannot be ignored for the destruction and decline of this dynasty. A thousand years ago, she fought the last battle with the last emperor of the Shane Dynasty, Shane VII.

In this battle, she bit off Shane VII's left arm and right leg, and thus got the most common nickname "Sharp Teeth". It is said that her teeth are indeed more developed than ordinary blue dragons, and they are always exposed, as if she is sneering hideously.

As we all know, the nest of this ancient blue dragon is in the Broken Tooth Mountains at the junction of Tethyr and Amn. There are more wealth than mountains in her dragon nest. Gold coins are the cheapest existence. There are countless gems, powerful magic equipment, and even dozens of artifacts, enough to buy the next country, because she once forced the ancient empire of the Shane Dynasty to pay tribute to her for many years. After its destruction, she emptied most of his palace treasury.

But even the stupidest thief would not have the idea of ​​​​him.

Because her dragon servants, spies and agents are all over the surrounding countries. Before you take action, they will secretly arrest you. Even if you escape by chance and rush into the Broken Tooth Mountains, what awaits you is not a mountain of treasures, but the hideous sneer of Sharptooth.

She is an alternative among the dragons. She is not only interested in wealth, but also in power. She has an extraordinary interest. She is like a shadow, entrenched in this land that has been ruled by the Shane Dynasty for many years, and manipulates the situation here at will.

Although there is no evidence, many people in Amn, Tethyr, and Calimshan firmly believe that there are agents supported by Sharptooth among them. During her dragon sleep, they help her manage her property and land and protect her safety. Although she does not need it, it is always a bad thing to be woken up from her sleep by a little mouse.

The changes in the situation of the three kingdoms over the past thousand years are inseparable from her, because every time their situation changes significantly, this greedy blue dragon is awakening, including the recent half-century turmoil in the Kingdom of Tethyr, which is said to be her handiwork, in order to take her own tribute from the royal palace treasure of the Tethyr royal family.

These rumors cannot be confirmed, but one thing is certain, at least one of the six-member council of the Kingdom of Am is her agent.

The only thing to be thankful for is that this ancient blue dragon is in dragon sleep most of the time, and the active time each time it wakes up is very short, rarely more than half a year.

For more than half a century, no one has seen her huge figure in the sky appearing in the Broken Tooth Mountains.

But in the next ten years, she will enter a period of frequent activity and begin to create her own new history.

Because her thousand-year-old enemy, Shane VII, took advantage of the turmoil of the turbulent years to break free from self-seal, reborn in a shell, and launched a thousand-year revenge on her.

This emperor, who is known as the greatest, smartest, and most tragic emperor of the Shane Dynasty, deliberately created a false death for revenge, and actually transformed himself into a demigod lich.

The secret war between the two will be launched again on the old land of the Shane Dynasty, which will have a profound impact here.

The starting point of this secret war is Amn, where Shane VII infiltrated and controlled the Masked Council. Their masked secret characteristics provided him with an excellent opportunity.

The resurrection of Shane VII is still an absolute secret, or in other words, Gavin has no way to determine whether he has been resurrected now, only that it happened this year.

Therefore, this does not need to be considered for the time being. On the Amn side, they are mainly concerned about the attitude of the six-member council on the surface.

"That's what I answered them, and I drove them away directly." As an outsider, Blood Claw had no idea how deep the water was here, so he took the toughest measures directly.

Gavin thought about it for a moment, nodded and said, "You did a good job. Keep doing this and see what they do next."

The tough attitude towards the Six-member Council of the Kingdom of Am was not simply because Blood Gorge was deep inland, nearly a thousand kilometers away from the coastal area where the main body of Am was located, and they were out of reach.

It was also because two years later, at the beginning of 1361, an event that had a huge impact on the entire west coast of the Faerun continent occurred-the new world of Maztec was discovered by Am mercenary merchant Caudle and his Golden Legion.

When this news spread back to the west coast, all the merchants and pirates went crazy, especially Am, Tesser and Calimshan, who organized a huge exploration fleet to explore the new world.

When the fleet returned several years later, loaded with gold and specialties from the Maztec continent, this gold rush reached an unprecedented peak.

As long as there was a sampan, people wanted to go to the sea and go to the new world of Maztec, as if the gold there could be picked up at will and the danger of the Sea of ​​No Trace did not exist.

In her previous life, Zalanda rose to prominence with this favorable wind.

It is not that she joined the gold rush. On the contrary, she did not join it. Instead, she desperately accumulated strength in Tesser and became powerful while everyone was dazzled by gold.

The shortest route from Faerun Continent to Maztec is 5,000 to 6,000 kilometers, which is full of countless dangers. If it is so easy to reach, it would not have been discovered by the world just now.

Those who were thirsty for wealth only saw the wealth, but did not see the blood stains on it - both the natives of the Maztec continent and the gold diggers.

Only a few people brought back the wealth, and most of the gold diggers were buried in the Sea of ​​No Trace.