Chapter 112 The Barren Land

Garin was very excited for intercepting the Paladin troops, and he teleported directly to the barren land of the Western Continent on a whim. Since Gandalf broke through to the legendary level, the distance of group teleportation has been able to cross the Endless Sea and shuttle back and forth between the Eastern and Western Continents.

The coordinate point of this teleportation is the adventurer team sent by Garin a month ago.

This is a ten-man adventure team, led by two seventh-level paladins who were the first to be trained in the cathedral, equipped with four musketeers and two priests. In addition to the eight units from the base, there are also two dark stalkers. The base soldiers are responsible for opening the map, and they are mainly responsible for collecting intelligence.

Garin looked at the detected map and found that the adventure team was currently located in the northern part of the Barrens, at the Sweetwater Oasis near the Howling Caves.

At this time, the night elf Archdruid Naralex should not have entered the Howling Caverns to investigate, and the Druids of the Fang have not appeared yet. Everything is still early, and the Western Continent is still undeveloped.

The Anbu member in the adventure team is named Yop. Because of his gray hair, everyone calls him Gray Yop. He is the captain of Anbu Team 3 and also the most outstanding spy in Anbu.

Through talking with him, Garin discovered that he had made an empiricist mistake. It was true that Ratchet was a port city built by the goblins, but it was still nowhere to be found.

Gray Yop and his companions were brought here by a Kul Tiras caravan. They told the captain that they wanted to go to Ratchet City in the western continent. The captain was puzzled and said that he had never heard of this city. Fortunately, Gray Yop had a rough map given by Garin, and Prince Drake was very helpful. The captain took them westward and came to the coastline in the central part of the western continent. They disembarked from the southern coast and explored all the way before arriving near the Howling Caverns.

The establishment of Ratchet was not until twenty years later, because the orcs crossed west to Kalimdor and settled in the Eastern Barrens, preparing to establish a new orc kingdom, Orgrimmar. Thrall contracted the construction project of Orgrimmar to the goblin merchant Gazlowe.

Because the orc chieftain Thrall gave Gazlowe a good price, he decided to build a port on the coast of the Barrens to facilitate future trade with the orcs.

That's right. At the moment, there are only backward and predatory boars and scattered centaurs in the barren land. They are warlike and barbaric. Considering the profit-seeking nature of the goblins, it is better to trade with the trolls than with them. Without anyone to do business with, there is no need to spend huge sums of money to build a port here.

The goblins didn't come?

It’s good news that he didn’t come.

Ratchet hasn't been built yet. That's good. If the goblins don't build it, I will.

According to Gray Yop's intelligence and Garin's knowledge of this land in his previous life, this land rich in mineral resources is now under the control of the wild boar people.

However, the quilboar's power is mainly in the Razorfen Marsh and Razorfen Highlands in the south. In the north, there are mainly some small quilboar tribes and some scattered centaur tribes, and occasionally there are tauren wandering in the barrens. They have not yet started the migration of the whole tribe.

The wild boar people's territory is my territory. The land-grabbing maniac Garin has started to make his own plans again.

Currently, most of the land north of Ashenvale in Kalimdor belongs to the night elves. They won the War of the Ancients ten thousand years ago, and the whole tribe was blessed by the Red Dragon Queen and possessed endless life. Over the past ten thousand years, even a pig has cultivated into a spirit. The night elves have cultivated for ten thousand years, and there are too many masters, so they are not easy to mess with.

In the central region, Garen vaguely saw the Eastern Barrens. The Barrens and Dustwallow Marsh were beckoning to him again. As for Mulgore and Stonetalon Mountains, in order to win over the Tauren, Garen decided to give them to the Tauren as their new habitat.

This is the eternal theme of Azeroth, war, war for territory. Whoever has the bigger fist can get the land to survive. However, Garen is not a vicious person. He only needs to establish branches in areas rich in mineral resources and does not need to occupy the entire barren land.

The Barrens has not yet been affected by the Cataclysm and is divided into two by the Great Rift. Currently, the North and South Barrens are still a whole. However, this piece of land is too large, so Garin still divides it into the South Barrens and the North Barrens.

He only needed to drive the wild boars to the south of the Barrens, and it would be enough for him to occupy the North Barrens and the East Barrens.

Perhaps I can try a gentle approach and not necessarily use force to solve the problem.

However, now that they have just arrived in the Western Continent, they need to find a place to establish a base first. The original site of Ratchet City on the eastern coast is Garin's first choice.

With his own military strength, it would be a piece of cake to start from the center of the Barren Land, divide the north and the south, and then occupy the north.

What Garin was worried about was using those legions to accomplish the goal of encircling the western continent.

Currently, in addition to the garrison troops, Garen has six legions of troops under his command. The Red Flame Army cannot be deployed in Helm's Deep. Although the Red Flame Army has fought several battles with Garen and is the longest-established army, Omar and his men are still under the instruction of Amor and it will take some time before they can set out.

Moreover, Garin wanted to make the operation in the Western Continent more covert, so it was not suitable to use the Red Flame Legion, which was a mixture of base soldiers and highland soldiers.

The Thunder Legion was newly formed and assigned to Jin Li, stationed in Shining Town, and it was not easy to use them. The Fury Legion and the Rock Legion could be pulled out to fight and use the Wild Boarmen for training.

In addition to the above four legions, there are two legions of troops that Garin has not established numbers for. This time, they are all brought together. The bigger the stall is, the more Garin feels that his troops are not enough.

Between the North Barren Land and the East Barren Land, there is a rushing river that divides the two pieces of land. The name of this river is Nushui River, which is a stream that is not inferior to the Yangtze River and the Yellow River in our great China.

The future site of Ratchet City is at the southern estuary of the Nushui River and the eastern coast of the northern barren land. This is a sunken valley. In addition to the cliff coast in the north and south directions, there is only one road in the west leading to the outside world. It is a treasure land that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. No wonder it will be favored by the goblins in the future.

At this moment, Jialin was in the center of the valley, looking at the sea in the distance, wondering what he was thinking.

The estuary of the Nushui River is half-surrounded by mountains, forming a huge fjord. It is a natural deep-water port with an advantageous geographical location. It can directly attack the Eastern Barrens in the north and threaten the Mud Swamp in the south. By then occupying the islands along the coastline, the sea defense of the Barrens will be impregnable.

The goblins don't do business with the boars and centaurs because they are barbaric, but Galen doesn't care, as long as they have money and enough food. He doesn't care if you rob them or not, because you can't beat me anyway.

Late at night, there was a bright moon in the sky. On the prairie in the barren land under the starry sky, gazelles, savanna lions, cheetahs and chocobos were pacing back and forth. There seemed to be an airship flying in the sky, and the familiar background music seemed to ring in my ears.

And there are those sentences: I can't use this spell, not enough mana, too far, out of range!

My youth can never go back!

Jialin felt his eyes moist, and suddenly he took out a battle flag from his backpack and stuck it in the middle of the valley!

From now on, this land belongs to Duke Tokaral!