Chapter 68: Landing on the Sardinian Islands
On March 16, after more than two weeks of preparation and sailing, a large fleet of more than 30 medium-sized transport ships led by Sun Lin, escorted by 15 Galie and Hawk warships and 1,600 heavily armed Naga Foreign Legion soldiers, plus a total of 1,200 human warriors and various materials, including 20 medium-sized torsional trebuchets and 6 heavy-duty torsion trebuchets that had been disassembled and packed, finally landed in the port area of the Pioneer Island in the Sardinian Islands.
In the Sardinia Islands, Richard's main island belongs to the administrative island, Columbus Island belongs to the commercial island, the purple shirt island due to the good soil quality, rich in purple shirtwood, and in the typical tropical island climate in one year, so with the help of the system, the purple shirt island has now become the largest luxury crop planting area in addition to the New Delhi Peninsula plain, in addition to cotton and grapes, the purple shirt island now in addition to the production of purple shirtwood, but also supply all the cocoa, coffee, sugar, tobacco in the London City trade market, Although coffee and tobacco are not yet on the market, they are already in the backlog stage, and perhaps in the near future, the trade volume earned by the city of London will double again, and the inhabitable Pioneer Island, the smallest of the seven islands of Sardinia, which is closest to the mainland of the king, has become a military base in the Sardinian islands.
With the help of large cranes and more than 3,000 human soldiers, Naga warriors, boxes of sealed wooden boxes were removed from the transport ship and stored in the cargo hold in the dock area. In the process of transporting, no one or a Naga was very careful, because they knew that every box of supplies in it was very precious, and if they wanted to replenish it, they could only wait until the end of March when the transport fleet returned again, and before that, although the fish of the sea near the Sardinian islands were delicious, they could not be as delicious as the white bread baked by the wheat that was abundant in the London area, and that the only food that could be grown on the islands of Sardinia was corn, except for cocoa, sugar, and tobacco. And these staple foods just happened to share the needs of the inhabitants of the Sardinia Islands, to put it bluntly, now the military supplies consumed by Sun Lin's army except for the purple shirt bow and arrows, including food, weapons, stones, etc., all have to be handled by sea, and any food lost for no reason will increase the burden of military supplies, even if Sun Lin transported a large amount of military supplies to Pioneer Island before departure, it is useless, those are all used to prevent accidents!
"I see, it seems that as a Naga patriarch who has been in the Sea Clan for many years, Orison's ambitions finally exploded after receiving a large amount of equipment that the city of London demanded............ Destroy the Kraken people around the Sardinian Island, and then use this incident and the power of our human allies to coerce these shallow sea fish people into signing an unequal treaty with the Na tribe, and indirectly let the Naga led by Orison hold a new piece of fat - control of the northwest seas of the King Continent. ”
"But that's exactly what I wanted, rather than letting potential enemies or other neutrals control this sea, it would be better for our Sea Clan allies to control it, and Orison also promised that if we help them master this sea, Orison will not only assist us as we pass through the coastline of the Ranster Empire, but also protect the traffic of our convoys after we control the coastal areas of the Ranster Empire, and most cost-effective, our help to Orison is limited to the navy. Material and diplomatic are fine, and there is no need to send troops, which is what makes me most satisfied, I don't want to lose the soldiers in my hands because of this battle between the sea tribes............ By the way, speaking of soldiers, have the soldiers recruited in the Sardinia Islands been assembled? ”
"Well, we have assembled in Richard's main castle, with a total of 900 hook and sickle soldiers, 1,200 longbowmen, and 400 chainmail cavalry, plus the 600 hoplites, 600 longbowmen, and 400 commercial cavalry militia we brought this time, the number of people participating in the battle this time has reached 4,100. Due to the large number of people, I would like to ask you, Sun Linmian, if the original calculation of the combat unit with 60 people as a team has been changed to 100 people, because if there are too many captains, the heralds in our hands will not be able to keep busy. ”
"Well, well, then you can reorganize your team in the days we haven't set off. But you've mentioned that, I want to ask, how is the development of flag language in the army? ”
"It's still in the experimental stage, and the military department has done tests, but the effect is not obvious, because most of the soldiers are still recruits, and on the battlefield, they will muddy what they see because of the atmosphere of wartime, so at present, in addition to the longbow troops can always understand the orders issued by the flag, the hand-to-hand infantry does a good job on the march, but as soon as they enter the state of engagement with the enemy, these infantry will not work, not to mention the heavy cavalry, they have no intention of turning after entering the charge."
"Alas............... As for the cavalry, let's promote the scheme of commanding with a whistle in the future, and it is good to be able to do this now. Bobby, you go down and take care of things first, I want to take Snow Out for a walk, it seems to be interested in this land that is different from the New Delhi Peninsula. ”
"Yes!" Although from the point of view of appearance, in addition to being wider than the battleship and not equipped with too many scorpion crossbows and harpoon ballistas, the medium-sized transport ship is actually no different from the general Canadian warship, but in fact, in order to transport the war horse to Sardinia, the medium-sized transport ship has opened up a special place in the internal structure to place the war horse, and thanks to the war horse produced by the system, it is inseparable from the chainmail knight in terms of troops, so in the two weeks of sailing, these war horses did not appear to be sick or dead. It's just that like other soldiers, they are a little seasick and tired of life at sea, so like Sun Lin, including 400 chainmail knights and 50 members of the general's guard, after getting off the ship, they have already brought their mounts to the coastal mountains around Pioneer Island.
"Bai Xue, I haven't come to see you for more than a month, but it looks like you're still as energetic as ever, do you want to go for a walk on the beach together, and you have to fight the enemy on this terrain in the next few months, or even half a year! It's up to you and your friends to do the rest of the way, and although the coastal area is full of hills and forests, when it comes to mobility, it's your friends' cavalry units that are the strongest."