Chapter 205. Changes in Drehem
This was to be expected by Kant.
The post station is a must-pass for the stone pass and the sentry oasis.
Whenever people who want to test Kant and pretend to be caravans come to the depths of the desert, they will pass by this flat sandy plain, and the post station that is being built in the middle of the sandy plain can be described as extremely conspicuous.
No one would give up the idea of tempting the station.
What's more, in the area of the possible route around it, 40 desert bandits will conduct non-stop patrols.
When a strange caravan is visiting, these extremely agile and fierce desert bandits will go over to explain that Kant had given an order forbidden to go deep into the desert, and if they encounter a recalcitrant element, they will not mind pulling out the scimitar at their waist, or the short javelin on their back, so that the other party can appreciate the cruelty of the desert.
Even if the caravan guards were strong enough to withstand these desert bandits who were weaker in hand-to-hand combat, it would be difficult to withstand the harassment and attacks that continued day and night.
In this alternative guerrilla tactic, the desert bandits are good at it.
Therefore, they relied on this tactic and continued to harass the unrepentant caravanserais, so that the unrepentant caravans sensed the danger, and after hearing the persuasion, they went to the post station to replenish fresh water and food, and then turned back, not daring to go deep into the Narun Desert, for fear of encountering these vulture-like desert robbers and some unpleasant accidents.
In the early days, the people who came to tempt were real businessmen or some secret agents disguised as merchants.
Therefore, they are very professional in terms of caravans.
In the same way, they can sense that what these desert bandits are saying is not lying, and once they go too far beyond the post station, or touch the bottom line of these desert bandits, then the cruel attack will eventually come.
Either they chose to return to the Solid Rock Pass.
Or they risk their lives to kill the sentry oasis.
There are only these two options.
But no matter how you look at the second option, it is extremely murderous.
After all, after a period of understanding, they knew that the lord of the Narun Desert, Baron Kant, had a heavy cavalry force in his hands, although the number was small, but it was extremely elite, and it was a force that could fight back and forth with those knights in the stone pass.
Naturally, it is the Salander rider who once showed his brilliance at the Solid Stone Pass.
It's just a pity.
Of the 20 Salander riders, only seven survived.
However, these 7 survivors have also been successfully promoted to Mamluks, with the level of top knights, and even in hand-to-hand combat and combat experience, they are stronger than the great knights with extraordinary strength!
The systematic instillation of decades of killing experience is equivalent to spelling it out in a sea of corpses and blood.
The effect is naturally not ordinary!
But judging from the strength of these caravan spies currently being explored, they are at most ordinary people.
Desert bandits can deal with it.
After all, the number of guards in each group of caravans is not too many, and compared to the scale of these 40 desert bandits who can gather in large numbers in a roar, they are completely at a disadvantage, and they also dare not have any thoughts of resistance.
This is the beginning of the temptation, and it is not yet time to tempt by force.
Kant's tight blockade was enough to block the eyes of many people.
However, this is only temporary.
The Sentry Oasis is becoming more and more formalized in the salt trade at the Solid Stone Pass, with more and more silver coins being traded, and the overall profit is rising, which will also attract a lot of peeping greedy eyes.
The temptations will continue.
Once Kant's strength is understood, new temptations will arrive.
Until Kant is understood.
The nobles and merchants were like hellish devils, and they were not weaker in the struggle.
It's greed.
Kant understood them.
So for these greedy guys, he made a choice.
If it weren't for Baron Dylan's help, it is estimated that more spies and spies, even various bandit groups, and violent organizations, would appear in the Narun Desert and move towards the sentry oasis on a large scale, only to have "intimate" contact.
Not beat around the bush.
Now Kant, the pressure is really small.
The desert bandits alone were able to deal with the small caravans that had bypassed the rocky pass and appeared in the Narun Desert.
The fierce bandits honed in the Salander Desert are still like fish in water in the Naren Desert, not to mention that this is Kant's home turf itself, if you encounter an enemy that cannot be solved, with the desert terrain and cruel environment, plus the elite troops that can be drawn from "Drehem", it is not delusional to easily solve the opponent.
Now, in the middle of this vast and cruel Naren desert...
Kant's power is on the top!
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It's a trek again.
Finally, on the last day of the month, Kant returned to the Sentry Oasis.
The long-lost stone walls of "Drehem" appeared in front of him, and the four arrow towers, as well as the tower-like consul hall, were also as tall as ever, with security and stability, and were the cornerstone of Kant's current power.
The fortress allowed him to occupy the oasis.
And the Vicchian marksman, who was the first to sense Kant's arrival, has already passed on the news.
Fatis is leading the way.
The Swadia knights, Swadia heavy cavalry, and Mamluk and Salander riders roared and trampled the sand, splashing the soft layers of sand into a show of their impossibility.
It was the most grand welcome.
"Welcome back, Lord Kant!"
Fatis looked solemn.
And the heavy cavalry behind him looked at Kant with the same eagerness: "Welcome back, lord!" They shouted in unison, and the fire in their eyes made them give the most reverent will of their hearts.
"Okay." Kant nodded.
Looking at these heavy cavalry, as well as the archers on the city walls and arrow towers, their faces were satisfied.
Here are his soldiers!
"Let's go inside." Kant commanded, and entered the "Drehem" surrounded by a large number of cavalrymen.
However, he also found that during the time he was away, although Fatis did not have the authority to upgrade the fortress to become a castle, he still built the "Drehem" according to his own authority.
More houses appeared inside the city walls.
More pedestrians are coming and going on the street, and there is a busy atmosphere everywhere.
Smoke wafts from the salt workshop all day long.
Piles of salt lay on wooden boards waiting to be filled, and a dozen workers were holding shovels and loading these fine white salts into flax bags.
The sugar workshop next to it is also full of green smoke.
It's just that there are fewer goods.
Because of the lack of raw materials, sugar mills are limited.
But thanks to the hard work of the honey and the production of the date palm trees, thumb-sized chunks of date sugar are made, also in flax bags, and then carefully transported to the pantry, where they are ready to be digested internally.
Sugar production has not yet reached a large scale, so the goods produced are consumed by themselves.
PS: Let's have two shifts today, and 4 shifts tomorrow! I'm too tired to travel, and I'm not in a state today... But happily, at 10 o'clock this morning, my boutique badge finally came~