Chapter 925 Return to Kronte

These ballistas and catapults are placed on commanding heights around the town gathering point, while others are in a semi-covered state.

Gavin has no doubt that once they appear above the town gathering point, they will be greeted by a violent attack.

If it is just one town or gathering point, this reaction can be explained by chance, but the three along the way are like this, which is inevitable.

Faced with this situation, Awinsa complained dissatisfiedly: "These people are good in everything, but they are a little nervous. Every time they know it is me, they make such a big noise.

If I want to enter the town, I must land on the ground and turn into a human form or go to a designated location and wait for the village and town chiefs to pick me up."

"It is no coincidence that the lady attaches importance to the general. You actually implemented the lady's teachings directly into the rule of the territory. This kind of alert against air raids is far beyond most territories." The complaint of the red copper dragon girl was exchanged for Catherine's high praise.

"This is not my own achievement, but the good implementation of the staff led by Veronica."

While responding to Catherine, Gavin did not forget to take care of the emotions of the copper dragon girl, and patiently explained: "This is not aimed at you, but to prevent trouble before it happens.

What if they are careless because of your patrol, and there are monsters that look like you or directly disguised as you, and launch an air strike against them?

After all, they are on the ground and cannot clearly identify your identity.

Instead of causing unnecessary losses, it is better to treat everyone equally from the beginning.

It is cumbersome to do this, but it is safer and does not give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it.

This is only a temporary measure. As we increase the number of air forces in our hands and build city defense mazes, we will further adjust air control to make everything simpler and more convenient."

There is another reason that Gavin did not say more.

At best, they are migrating to the Battle Valley now. Let alone taking root, even gaining a foothold is still a long way off.

This time, they took advantage of the invasion of the Tukan people and temporarily attracted the attention of the profit-seeking Sambia merchants there.

When the war in the East Region of Despair is over, they will certainly turn their attention to the Battle Valley after they have recovered their energy.

They regard the Battle Valley as their own backyard and will never allow anyone to become bigger and stronger here.

According to the usual nature of those Sambian merchants, they will inevitably contact, hire and arm monsters in the wilderness to pave the way for themselves.

Among them, the Storm King in the Thunder Peak Mountains, who has already fought with Gavin once, is undoubtedly the best target.

The air force in his hands should not be underestimated.

Maybe the other party knows that he has focused his main energy on the East Region of Despair during this period.

He began to frequently send air scouts to spy on the surrounding areas of the Battle Valley.

Fortunately, Gavin hurt them in the last fight, and they were afraid of the series of abilities of the war predators, so they did not air raid the Battle Valley when he was fighting with the Tukan people in the city of Tevram.

Although Gavin has made full preparations here, it should be no problem to delay the other party for a while.

But a fire in the backyard is ultimately a headache.

After the war in the East Region of Despair is over, the first thing to do is to find a way to completely eliminate this unstable factor in the Battle Valley.

"You humans are really troublesome." The copper dragon girl just muttered and did not continue to complain.

After all, the fun gained in these human villages and towns far outweighs the inconvenience.

She also did not want these towns to be destroyed and lose a lot of fun.

Gavin suggested: "Wait a moment, I have heard the neighing of Pegasus. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be Veronica's air guards who are going to catch up to investigate the situation."

The air defense force of the Battle Valley is naturally not only the ground, but also the air mobile force.

The flying dragon army is only Gavin's main air combat force, not all.

In addition to purchasing tens of thousands of war horses from Anfei Village, Gavin later purchased hundreds of mixed-blood Pegasus from there.

Compared with real Pegasus, these mixed-blood Pegasus have a defect-lack of intelligence.

The intelligence of a real Pegasus is not inferior to that of an ordinary person.

The hybrid Pegasus of Anfel Village, because of the hybridization with a large number of war horses, only inherited the appearance of Pegasus, and its intelligence was greatly reduced, only slightly higher than those war horses, but limited.

This shortcoming is a defect for ordinary people, but it is an advantage in the hands of professionals such as Paladins, Rangers and Rangers.

Their animal companion ability cannot be used on those creatures with high intelligence, even legendary professionals cannot, this is not allowed by the divine law.

But these low-intelligence hybrid Pegasus do not have such restrictions.

When the professional level of the exclusive priests of Lady Strategy, the Holy Strategists, reaches thirteen, they will gain the ability of the Holy Mount, which is exactly the same as the animal companion.

However, the main members of the Pegasus Corps of the Battle Valley are still those extraordinary rangers or rangers who are proficient in riding and shooting, and the Holy Strategists are mainly leaders.

Even though Gavin now has the largest church group of Lady Strategy, he cannot use the Holy Strategists as elite soldiers, especially the extraordinary Holy Strategists.

Firstly, the profession is not suitable. The greatest role of the Holy Strategist is to serve as a commander at all levels, so that he can bring his talents and abilities to the fullest.

Secondly, the development time of the Lady of Strategy is too short. Divine power can be promoted through faith and recruited by those general believers, but it takes time for devout believers and exclusive priests to settle.

Many things must be started from childhood, and the concept of faith must be integrated into personal growth and education.

"Okay." Catherine agreed readily.

Although there was no prior communication, she was very clear about Gavin's intention.

He had passed by the new city of Vizeme and did not enter it. He directly patrolled along the Sanhe New Road, just to take her to test the air defense response of the entire Battle Valley.

Many things can be seen from the small, and it is enough to stop.

I believe that after this inspection, all levels of the Battle Valley will further strengthen the construction in this area.

The Pegasus Corps of the Battle Valley did not let Gavin and his team wait for long, and soon caught up.

To be more precise, they have been following Gavin and his team for a while, but they have not been able to catch up. The one who led the team personally was none other than Gavin's chief staff Veronica.

This halfling sacred strategist is currently acting on behalf of most of the affairs of the Battle Valley.

"Greetings, Lord and Lady Chief." Veronica bowed from a distance.

At the same time, several of the Pegasus knights around her landed directly and galloped towards the new village not far away.

It didn't take long for the people who had been hiding in the houses and shelters to come out one after another, waving excitedly at the sky. Even if you can't hear what they say, you can guess.

They must be paying respect to Gavin after knowing his identity.

Gavin's reputation among these immigrants has not fallen because he has completed the Conqueror's Road.

On the contrary, it has increased day by day with the passage of time.

Because Gavin is fulfilling his original promise to let them have their own new home and land.

Although this is not completely free and requires a lot of hard work, at least everyone can see hope.

"How is the land reclamation going?" Gavin is most concerned about the agricultural cultivation in the Battle Valley, which is the foundation of the development of a territory.

The immigrants brought by the conqueror army are still in a semi-militarized state, and most of the living materials are still distributed by the territory.

This state will last at least two to three years before a large amount of wasteland in the Battle Valley can be reclaimed and provide food for the immigrants stably.

Veronica knows the situation in the Battle Valley very well. "According to the latest statistics, we have opened up a total of 83 new villages and towns in the past three months, and reclaimed nearly 400 square kilometers of land.

Now we are making final arrangements based on the crops to be cultivated, and once the season is suitable, we will start sowing immediately.

According to the plan, the first wave will focus on cultivating potatoes and vegetables, those crops with a shorter growth cycle, to alleviate food pressure.

Wait until the middle and end of the year, and then plant various food crops.

It is expected that by the end of this year, it will be enough to achieve food self-sufficiency.

By the end of next year, everyone will have more food in their hands."

Four hundred square kilometers sounds big.

In fact, it is just a narrow and long cultivated land less than five kilometers wide opened up around Sanhe New Road, accounting for less than one percent of the total area of ​​the Battle Valley.

The total area of ​​the Battle Valley is more than 50,000 square kilometers.

Even if Gavin migrated a population of nearly 100,000 people here, the situation of the Battle Valley being sparsely populated could not be changed in a short period of time.

Their patrol route was along the Sanhe New Road.

As they walked, they listened to Veronica's report on the situation in the Battle Valley.

When they entered the Rosaville Road, the original main gathering area of ​​the Battle Valley, they could clearly feel the difference between the two places.

Compared with the Sanhe New Road, which was racing against time, everything here was full of laziness. Whether it was farming or hunting, the pace was very slow.

Seeing Gavin and his flying troops, the reactions were different. Some reacted strongly like the immigrant new village, and more had no reaction.

This not only represents Gavin's control over this place, but also represents the penetration of Ms. Strategy's faith.

This made those sacred strategists more deeply realize that the development of Ms. Strategy's faith has been perfectly integrated with Gavin's territory development.

Gavin's territory expansion process is also the process of the development and popularization of Ms. Strategy's faith.

They did not stay in the Battle Valley for too long, and hurried back to Tevram, where there were still a lot of things waiting for them to solve.

The first thing was naturally to consolidate the results of the war with the Shadow Master Guild.

Although Gavin reached a truce agreement with the Shadow Lord Musk, it did not mean that the competition between the two sides was over.

Those shadow thieves would not easily give up the control of Tevram.

And Gavin and his men would not give up the fight against the shadow thieves.

The way to fight these shadow thieves was very simple, just like before, holding high the banner of justice and law, and fighting against those criminals and thugs.

Even the Lord of Thieves had nothing to say in the face of this situation.

Because the other party was not targeting his believers, if he wanted not to be attacked, he just had to not commit crimes.

It was basically impossible to want a group of thieves not to commit crimes.

Their only way was to hide themselves deeper and change to more covert means of crime.

Faithfully practice the creed of their gods-as long as they were not caught, crimes were not crimes.

This is a good thing for the citizens of Tevram.

The numerous gangs and thieves' guilds in the city have all disappeared, and even the number of pickpockets on the streets has decreased.

This has further strengthened their belief that the thieves' master, Musk, is dead.

Even though the city has just experienced the baptism of war, it is still full of vitality.

As the Furen coalition forces advance step by step on the front line, these Sesk merchants follow closely. War represents business opportunities, especially when there are a large number of free-moving mercenaries.

But they soon discovered that General Gavin is not only a commanding genius, but also a business man. He has reached out to these mercenaries before them.

Their chariots loaded with goods can be seen everywhere.

There are both large, fixed supply points.

There are also small, constantly moving freight points.

As the Tukans began to split their forces and plunder on a large scale, these mercenaries who are good at small-scale combat also found their place.

Or set traps and wait for the Tukans to come to them.

Or multiple mercenary groups will fight together to eat the Tukans who are too far away from their army.

Or hunt down the Tukans who are alone.

Although the performance of a single mercenary or even a mercenary group is a bit insignificant compared to the Tukan army of 150,000.

But the number of mercenaries is too large, more than a thousand, densely distributed throughout the Cesk Plain, constantly causing damage and trouble to the Tukans.

In a few days, the Tukan army felt the pain, forcing them to adjust their tactics again.

Plunder still needs to be plundered, which is the price they must pay for losing their baggage.

It's just that they no longer act in small groups. Each plundering army is at least maintained at more than a thousand people, and at the same time, several teams are maintained to work together and support each other.

Doing so certainly reduces the risk of being targeted by mercenaries.

However, the efficiency of looting is also greatly reduced. It can only maintain the basic supply of the entire army, but there is no way to have a surplus, and life is quite difficult.

After they retreated to the city of Feishant in the heart of the Sesk Plain, they stopped retreating and set up camp here, showing a desperate defense.

The Furen coalition led by King Yasan chose to advance steadily and slowly, gradually compressing the living space of the Tukan army.

Gavin has accumulated enough advantages in the past two months in the desperate eastern region. What they need to do now is to further expand this advantage and make full use of the lack of logistical supplies of the Tukan army to drag them down alive.

Faith can indeed give a person an extraordinary tenacious will, but it cannot be eaten as food and cannot solve the problem of food and clothing for so many people.

Even if the Tukan people did not collapse from hunger, their combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced.

King Yasan would never take a radical frontal decisive battle if he could win the battle in a more reliable way.

After all, the combat effectiveness of the Tukan people is obvious to all. Just the killing Vajra transformed by thousands of killing lamas cannot be underestimated.

The situation where a human warrior is carrying a giant and smashing it crazily, fighting it to the death.

It only appears in movies or games. In reality, a huge body is a huge advantage.

There is no need to describe what will happen if an ordinary person is stepped on by an elephant.

And ordinary elephants are just pets in front of giants, and can be kicked away.

There are only three ways to fight against those behemoths.

Either use a flexible body to avoid all attacks from the opponent.

Or find a way to get the same body size as the opponent. If it doesn't work, narrow the size difference between the two sides to make the crushing less serious.

Or use a powerful long-range attack to kill him and don't give them a chance to get close.

This is not an easy thing, still for the same reason, a huge body means thick skin and flesh, and the ability to resist blows is incomparable.

The crossbow arrows that can penetrate ordinary people will be blocked by their thick skin and muscle layer when they reach them, and the same is true for magic.

Don't forget that these killing knights don't fight purely with their bodies, they are also special professionals with various special skills.

In large-scale field battles, they can best exert their terrifying combat power. With just a kick or a punch, they can take away several soldiers.

The Tukan people clearly know their advantages. They sent out all those highly mobile archers. These killing lamas did not follow the team at all. They were all concentrated around the main army commander, giving the Furen coalition no chance to defeat them one by one.

And Gavin, the chief quartermaster of the Furen coalition and the general of the defense of Teflanm City, neither followed the Furen coalition as a nanny for them, nor stayed in Teflanm City to continue to sort out the law and order, but transferred most of his energy to Kronte.

This is another benefit of controlling a large number of exclusive priests of the strategic ladies. They are both civil and military, and can command operations, charge into battle, and perform logistics supply tasks.

All Gavin needs to do is to build a framework, and leave the rest to them to execute. He only needs to come back to inspect from time to time and grasp the general direction.

When Gavin arrived at Kronte again, the place had become a completely different scene.

The endless tents of the Leathermen had disappeared. After the Tukans crossed the lake and the totem dream was opened, the Leathermen responded to the call and returned to their homeland.

Normally, the land here is far more fertile than the Leatherman Kingdom and more suitable for human life.

But neither the Leatherman witch nor the Leatherman people have any attachment to this place, and they abandoned it without hesitation.

If it had just arrived in the East Region of Despair, Gavin would definitely not understand this behavior.

With the in-depth contact with the Leatherman people, Gavin understood it to some extent.

This is not because it is difficult to leave the homeland, but these Leatherman people, like the Leatherman witch, are too tightly bound to that land.

Only on that land are they unique Leatherman people. When they leave that land, they will slowly become ordinary people in a few generations.

This situation is not unique to the Leatherman people. For example, the half-giant race Goliath is more serious.

Gavin did not make any comments on this, but just respected their living customs.