Chapter 640: Maginot Line (I) 4000 Words Compensation
In mid-September, as the last city of the Bona Alliance was pacified by the Sunset Army by extremely forceful means, almost with the lives of soldiers, more than 40,000 Sunset soldiers were killed, and about 50,000 Sunset soldiers were injured in different degrees of battle to pacify the territory of the Bona Alliance, and during this period, the last king of the Molta Kingdom also submitted a surrender to the Sunset Empire, announcing that the millions of Molta people living in this area with high biogas density have all become the subjects of the Sunset EmpireAs for the snake tribes who oppose the sun and never set on the empire, they were burned to death in the underground cave by the Greek firefighters long before the arrival of September.
At this point, the Great Empire on which the sun never sets has finally begun to announce to the outside world that the power of this great empire that rises like a comet has once again pacified a continental region, so that the focus of all the power of the King Continent is on the Great Empire on which the sun never sets, especially several forces established at the junction of the Western Regions of the Central Continent and the Southern Regions of the Central Continent, such as the Blackstone Dwarf Kingdom, the Centaur Tribe, etc., and even the most powerful force in the Southern Region of the Central Continent: the Mechanical Empire, After learning that the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets had captured a piece of the continent in just half a year or so, both its upper magnates and the lower people felt panic and uneasiness, because in their eyes, in addition to the Middle Continent, it is estimated that the next one to be invaded by the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets will be the Southern Region of the Central Continent.
It is also because the territory of the Great Empire that the sun never sets has advanced to the junction of the western regions of the Central Continent and the southern region of the Central Continent, such as the Blackstone Dwarf Kingdom and the Centaur tribe have fallen into a semi-panicked state and prepared for war, and even made many ridiculous things that everyone can understand: For example, the area ruled by the Blackstone Dwarf Kingdom is about 2 or 3 thousand miles away from the Bona Alliance, and some of these 2 or 3 thousand miles of coastal areas should have been the hunting grounds of the Blackstone Dwarf Kingdom, but now, The Blackstone dwarves no longer entered the forest. Even the people of the small ports and villages of the Blackstone Dwarves, which had been established along the coast, began to migrate all to the territories that their own country truly controlled, abandoning the places where they had lived for generations.
Another example is the centaur tribe, whether it is a large tribe or a small tribe, whether it is the elite class or the civilian class in the tribe, now they are terrified by the lore order launched by the great empire on which the sun never sets, and they began to leave the edge of the forest near the junction of the western region of the middle continent and the southern region of the middle continent one by one, and migrated to the depths of the southern region of the middle continent where there are only a few oases.
As for the one known for having the first power in the southern region of the Central Continent, it was jointly established by the dwarf clan and the King Kong dwarf clan, and it is also the current imperial power recognized by the King Continent as having the strongest and most war equipment-the mechanical empire. While the Lovers and Gnomes in the Empire did not abandon their own territory as the Blackstone Dwarven Kingdom and the Centaur Tribes did, the Machine Empire also issued a national mobilization order to mass-produce war equipment, train dwarven warriors and gnome craftsmen, and write a plan called "Homeland Defense" that was intercepted by Sunset informants. It was decided to build a defense line in the eastern part of the empire that was thousands of miles long, relying on the mountains of the southern region of the Middle Continent.
However, to the disappointment of these three potential forces and several other potential forces in the southern region of the Central Continent, September is not outdated. The sun never sets, and the Great Empire sent 1 mission. They respectively sent these three forces from the distribution map of the king's continent, which can be regarded as bordering the new frontier of the great empire on which the sun never sets, or only separated by a powerful territory, and proposed to sign a friendship agreement for a hundred years and mutual non-aggression.
The sun never sets, and the Great Empire will not attack the southern regions of the Central Continent? When all three powerful supreme leaders learned of the news, they all fell into a temporary state of sluggishness, because they couldn't understand that the sun was not setting and they decided not to march anymore! Of course, the supreme leaders of the three central continents and the southern regions would definitely not think that this was caused by the loss of the strength of the army on which the sun never sets, because the intelligence network they had established told the three supreme leaders of the power. At present, the army still has a strength of 500,000 people, and at the same time, as the most terrifying empire of the sun never sets, the main force of the navy that makes all the outer seas of the king continent change color after saying this. Including the Royal Fleet, which is known as the first fleet in the world and is rumored to be able to face any of the 10 fleets of the original ocean overlord Atlanta Empire with the strength of a small fleet, the Sunset Fleet, which is now called the Central Continent King's Inland Sea Expeditionary Fleet, has entered the King's Inland Sea, and the Blackstone Dwarf Kingdom and the Machine Empire believe that as long as they have the heart to oppose the Sunset Empire, the next few days will be the moment to witness the coastline they own being beaten into ruins by the Sunset Navy.
After the sluggishness, what followed was ecstasy, because the three supreme leaders of the power all knew that the Sun Never Sets Great Empire stopped marching or what the reason was, but this is no longer important, the important thing is that the power that his ancestors worked so hard to build will finally not fall into the hands of the Sun Never Set Great Empire (in fact, the Sun Never Set Great Empire will not look at this area, because this area belongs to the Crescent Moon Empire in the Sun Never Set War to establish a division of the King Continent).
Of course, if you want not to be attacked, the 3 powerful forces that are close to the Great Empire of the Sun will inevitably pay a certain price, but fortunately, these costs are acceptable to the 3 powerful forces: the Blackstone Dwarf Kingdom is good at casting dwarven steel, and its area has a large amount of granite and iron ore, originally these 3 things will be sold to the two major human empires and mechanical empires in the middle of the Middle Continent, but in order to ensure that the Great Empire of the Sun does not use its fleet to destroy the coastline on which the Blackstone Dwarf Kingdom depends, The Blackstone Dwarven Kingdom must submit 50% of the Dwarven steel, iron ore and granite in its country to the Sunset Empire every month, and of course the Sunset Empire will buy it at a price 1% more than the exit price.
In the eyes of the Blackstone Dwarves, although it is detrimental to the interests of their own kingdom, at least they will not lose too much, and they will not provide so much steel, iron ore and granite to others, and in the end it is the side that does not set the sun instead of themselves, so after understanding the terms proposed by the Great Empire of the Qing Dynasty, the Kingdom of the Blackstone Dwarves gladly agreed to the request of the side of the Sun, and secretly thought that they were leaving the ore and ore processed products that were originally intended to be provided to the Griffin Empire. All of them were transferred to the hands of the Sunset Empire, but in fact, the Blackstone Dwarf Kingdom did not know that this approach was not only what Sun Lin wanted, but also helped the Sunset Empire to deal with the Divine Light Empire and the Griffin Empire to a certain extent. Because the sun never sets, the future enemies of the Great Empire are these two old forces in the Middle Continent.
In terms of dealing with centaurs, Sun Lin's requirements are more acceptable to many centaur tribe chiefs than the Blackstone Dwarf Kingdom: centaur warriors have always been born with heavy cavalry civilization, and they were originally known as the three ace knights of the Orc Alliance together with the orc wolf cavalry and the black rhinoceros cavalry, and the most important thing is that the centaur tribe is the only one that can switch from elite heavy cavalry to elite heavy archers in a short period of 5 years, so although Sun Lin does not ask the centaur tribe to become a subsidiary race of the empire on which the sun never sets, But he must become one of the core members of the Sunset Mercenary Guild (that is, he can provide a large number of mercenaries, but he does not belong to the nation and race ruled by the Sunset Empire, and the core members of the Mercenary Guild are the vampire clan and the Hawkner Empire in the southwest continent (known for being a strong lightly armed warrior, good at using two-handed swords, and even being able to torture strong orc warriors alone.) Of course, the teamwork quality of the Hawk's light infantry .......everyone understands) and the two-headed ogre clan of the Southeast Continent are a total of 7. In addition, the Dark Dynasty is also interested in the position of the 8th core member of the Mercenary Guild with the Sunset.
In other words, when the centaurs signed this agreement, the Empire of the Sun Never Sets could use the terms of the Mercenary Association to poach a large number of centaur warriors from the centaur tribe, and even the kind that could not be returned after being poached. The only thing that could comfort the Centaur supreme leader was that Half the Sun promised that the Mercenary Guild would only allow the Centaur Tribe to provide a maximum of 50,000 centaur warriors. And the hired centaur warriors have to provide funds to the mercenary. The chiefs of these centaur tribes are to be provided to the chiefs of these centaur tribes in the form of 10 silver coins per tribe for 10 days, once a quarter, according to the number of heads hired by the centaur tribe.
As for the Machine Empire, the requirements of the Great Empire on which the sun never sets are even simpler, just asking the Machine Empire to provide 10,000 dwarves and dwarf craftsmen each!
Of course, this clause was definitely difficult for the Mechanical Empire to accept at first, but as the Sunset Messenger put forward all of this clause, the Mechanical Empire immediately agreed to this clause: First. The dwarves and dwarf craftsmen required by the sun never set were to have research in architecture and mechanics, which means that the great empire of the sun never set was not like stealing the casting drawings of its own war machinery; Secondly, the quality of these dwarven craftsmen and dwarf craftsmen proposed by the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets, although they must be above the apprentice level, they do not need to reach the master level. All you need is a mid-level architect or even a junior level.
In addition to being good at blacksmithing, the second thing that dwarves are good at is the unique city building technique of dwarves, and the same is for dwarf craftsmen, in addition to mechanical skills, trap skills are also what they are good at, and on the streets of the mechanical empire, if you pull out an adult dwarf at random, his city building skills can reach the primary or even intermediate level, and it is the same if you catch a dwarf at random, so the sun does not set and it is said that it provides 10,000 dwarf craftsmen and dwarf craftsmen each, in fact, for the mechanical empire, It is to provide 10,000 dwarf civilians and 10,000 dwarf civilians, and these 20,000 people are only lent to the side of the Great Empire on which the sun never sets for 3 years, and then the Great Empire will let it return to the arms of the Machine Empire, and during the period when it is borrowed, the Machine Empire will also receive a lot of compensation, so the Machine Empire also readily agreed to this clause that seems to be a traitor, but in fact it is just to send some manpower to the side of the Sun Never Setting Empire to work.
Therefore, with the advent of October, the Blackstone Dwarf Kingdom, the Centaur Tribe, and the Machine Empire signed the so-called "Treaty of the Southwest" to establish friendly diplomatic relations with the Sunset Empire, and at the same time, the Maginot Plan of the Sunset Empire was officially implemented.
PS: For the sake of what the sun never sets on the war machinery of the Great Empire, for example: because the dwarves already have the black powder technology, and the dwarfs also have the coal steam engine technology, so the mechanical empire has developed a product of the early industrial era called the steam tank that makes Sun Lin feel very painful a hundred years ago, and has the ability to mass produce it
As for what Sun Lin thinks this thing is very chicken, because the steam tank uses coal as a power source instead of gasoline, and because the shell of the steam tank is extremely thick, the steam tank is an Iron King Eight in the final analysis, and the movement speed is so slow that even the heavy infantry can play overtaking, and at the same time, because the thickness of its own shell is only about 10 cm, the mechanical empire itself does not have the welding technology used by the original world tank, so the skin of the Iron King Eight is completely supported by the internal steel frame. In this case, as long as the stones thrown by the No. 3 trebuchet of the Sunset Empire hit more than 40% of its body, it is estimated that it will fall apart, and if the stones hit 60% of the parts, it is estimated that the steam tank will become a flat shape, not to mention that the future army of the Sunset Empire can be equipped with a Beamon giant beast that will be flattened by a kick.
Of course, this is not the point, the point is that the time from the beginning of this thing to the end of fuel consumption is only less than 15 minutes (coal is to be continuously filled into the steam engine one by one, and the coal occupies the space inside the steam tank and its weight is destined to make the steam tank carry too much coal, because if there is too much coal, the horsepower provided by the steam engine to the steam tank cannot make the steam tank move forward), coupled with the same speed as its king, this goods can be popularized in the army, And what strategic significance can be played?
And Sun Lin thinks that the reason why the steam tank is very painful is because although this thing is called a tank by the dwarves and gnomes, in fact, they are not installed with the so-called guns that are to be equipped with the tank (because the dwarves and gnomes have not developed cannons and muskets), and some only have a huge large chimney that can emit smoke, and this is one of the two combat capabilities of the steam tank: create smoke to cover the dwarven hoplites behind the tank to move forward, Makes it impossible for enemy ranged units to deliver precision strikes on dwarven warriors wearing super-heavy plates; And the second combat capability of the steam tank is self-detonation, because each steam tank carries dozens of black powder kegs in its body. (To be continued......)