Chapter 389: Siege
On the second day of the reception, Lucy arrived. She was joined by Metalon, who was carrying a suitcase in his hand. With a solemn face, he handed it to Alan and said, "Because of the support of His Highness, she will move here from today onwards." Mr. Allen, I must remind you once again that our noble Highness will not tolerate the slightest grievance. Otherwise, it will not be me who will be held accountable to you, but the royal family, or even His Royal Highness's father......"
"Alright, alright." Lucy snatched the suitcase, reached out and patted the marquis's chest and said, "Teacher, you should go back first, don't you have to receive Alexander's compensation." Go ahead, there's nothing for you here. ”
Metalon glanced at Lucy helplessly and said, "Your Majesty just doesn't want Your Highness to suffer. ”
Shaking his head to leave, Alan stepped forward and said, "Lord Marquis, although I am not a big person. But if anyone dares to disadvantage Lucy, I will fight for her. ”
When Lucy heard this, her eyes turned into crescent moons.
However, Metalon said coldly: "Your life is not worth anything. ”
Then strode away, and Alan glanced helplessly at Lucy. Suddenly, I heard the marquis throw a sentence: "But I feel the intention, and I will tell the truth to His Majesty." ”
That's when you really leave.
Alan grimaced, "He's so harsh. ”
"Of course, Mr. Metalon has always been like this." Lucy shrugged her shoulders, threw the suitcase to Alan and said, "Let's go, I heard you went to drink last night?" ”
"You're very well-informed."
"Hmph, it's not a good thing to call me. You don't know, I'm going to suffocate to death these days. ”
"I think so."
For the next few days, Lucy stayed in the castle's winged tower. Allen is busy recruiting a group of technical talents on Babylon, preparing to pull back his own territory on Heavenly Star. Now that the time is calculated, the Storm City Steelworks and Weapons Workshop should be operational, but the level of weapons that can be produced is limited. Allen hopes that the workshop will at least be able to produce standard guns and ammunition, so he needs talents in this area.
After asking Helsing's butler, Alan was given a small technical team. They include machine tool designers, weapons specialists, and other related assistants. With such a team, their cost is not less than an army of about 100 people, but Alan still signed a three-year contract with them. Now he has people and resources, but he lacks people with expertise in this area.
This team just makes up for his shortcomings, and even in the future, he can cultivate local talents in Heavenly Star, and he only needs to pass on the relevant knowledge in a reasonable way.
A week passed quickly, and on this day, a troop truck stopped in front of the castle. Soldiers jumped out of the car one after another, these soldiers had solemn expressions, and they were quickly silent when they gathered, and everyone exuded the atmosphere of an iron-blooded battlefield, which made Allen quite satisfied. They were an army that had come from the Sirius Legion in exchange for Merlin's military exploits, but the Sirius emblem had been removed from their bodies after this army was handed over to Allen.
However, in this disciplined army, their officer was a middle-aged man who looked rather lazy, he grabbed the bird's nest-like hair, handed a clip to Allen, and said, "This is a list of our team members, identity information." Sir, when are we leaving? I haven't fought in the past few days, and my hands are itching. ”
Alan scanned the information and said with a smile: "Captain Udi, don't worry, the most important thing on the Heavenly Star is war." ”
"That's good, only when there is a war can there be military achievements. With military merit, I can support the old and young at home. After he finished speaking, he patted his head again: "I forgot, we have turned out of Sirius, and we still have a fart military feat." ”
"That's not necessarily, I also have an army, so naturally I will have military merits. Rest assured, we will not treat you badly. ”
Udi nodded, and then introduced Alan to two ensigns and several non-commissioned officers, who were Udi's right and left men, and were also the combat fulcrum of this unit. Officers and soldiers, constituting a complete battle network.
The army that Windsor Bello had brought to Allen was good, and the soldiers were all veterans of the fifth to eighth grades, and each of them had a set of flame soldiers. With this configuration alone, the cost of this army is not something that ordinary families can afford. Not to mention a 18th-grade captain, two 15th-grade ensigns, and a number of non-commissioned officers ranging from 11th to 2nd class.
Eren plans to incorporate the remaining Flame Warriors into this force when he returns. In the end, when thinking about the number of the troops, he gave the name of his own combat skills to this unit.
Aggression is like fire, and every inch of land is contested. He had high expectations for the force.
Two days later, Alan took the fire team, the technical team, and others to the port, ready to leave for Paradise Star to continue his pioneering career. Now that Heavenly Star has officially joined the development number of the Federation, the authorized known families have two other gate valve families in addition to Grant. And Diego had led a team of warlords to form his own hunting group to go to the Heavenly Star three days ago.
It is conceivable that it will not be long before there will be more competitors on that planet.
The only advantage Alan has now is that he has established himself on that planet and has successfully integrated into its society. For him, the most important thing now is to develop his power at a high speed, including territorial expansion, recruiting troops, accelerating economic and military development, and so on. As long as he is far ahead, he is the biggest beneficiary.
Before leaving, he received another message.
Leon had gone to the surface with a family band, which was nothing new to Babylon today. As early as three months ago, the Federation has successively developed a number of ground battlefields. The battlefields in these areas allow the clan's troops to enter, and depending on the region, the task of the clan's private army may be to assist in defense or a series of local wars.
The family private army's expression on the battlefield can be converted into military merits, so that they can be exchanged for various materials needed by the Federation. Originally, wars like this were more about attracting the armies of small families to settle in, so as to integrate their forces to assist the Federation in dealing with the Liberty Gate. But there are also wealthy sons like Leon who want to make a splash on the battlefield. Therefore, after the opening of the ground battlefield, there have been many warbands of nobles who have arrived on the surface.
Now the surface of the earth is also full of gunsmoke, but this human civil war is not ending, but has a sense of intensification.
If you count the war of the interstellar defense line, then this time is definitely the most serious internal and external troubles in the history of the Federation after the Battle of Daybreak. However, in this great era, the power of the individual is quite small, and Alan has no mind to worry about the Federation. So after silently wishing Leon to be able to perform on the surface, Alan boarded the Aurora.
Today, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the Aurora took off from the port apron on time and headed for the Rainbow Bridge on the Moon, and then went to the heavenly star again through the Guò warp channel.
When the Heavenly Star was seen in space again, the ship's system automatically corrected the date, but two days had passed since departure. Although, in Alan's mind, the Dawn had only been in the warp passage for less than an hour.
According to the previous coordinates, the Aurora still landed in the Asr Mountains. Alan considered whether he would have to build a secret landing pad near Sur City in the future to facilitate the passage of the magic spaceship. This is very necessary, as his territory expands in the future, and the resources obtained are abundant enough, he will need the magic energy spaceship to transport the resources back to Earth and hand them over to the family. It is conceivable that the border city of Sur will be bustling and prosperous because of this.
But that's all for later.
After walking out of the Asz Mountains and spending two days, Alan led the team to Sur City to rest. When they entered the city, the residents of the city showed curiosity and wariness when they saw this army, and they were relieved only when they saw that it was the knight Allen who led the team. In their eyes, the city lord Edward and the young knight had already created enough miracles, so it didn't seem so strange to suddenly bring in an army dressed strangely.
Edward placed the Inch Fire Brigade in the camp in Sur City, and ordered a batch of cloaks to be brought so that they would not be too conspicuous when they traveled to Storm City. Eren went to the City Lord's Mansion to exchange information with Edward. The important information that Eren brought was naturally that the planet had entered the Federation's numbering system and was open to several other families as a shared resource.
However, after hearing that a family hunting group like Diego had come to Paradise, Edward seemed very calm. He smiled, "I imagined this situation when you left. Actually, it's nothing, because the planet is huge. Not to mention that it is only authorized to a few families, even if the Federation develops it itself, it may not bump into us. ”
"Unless they're entering near our territory."
"Don't worry about this, because of the vastness of this planet, the Federation has designated areas for authorized hunting groups. Unless some people are too greedy or have other motives, they will go out of their way to find us. Alan said meaningfully.
Edward nodded, "If that's the case, they'll definitely regret it." We were the first developers and have now managed to integrate into the planet and wield some power. If someone really doesn't open their eyes, I have no objection to using the resources at hand to kill them. Otherwise, in the name of the Empire, you can also use the army of nearby nobles to drive out outsiders. ”
"In some of the history books I've read, there are many precedents like this."
"We don't need to pay attention to this part of joint development for the time being, we can seize the time to expand our power. By the way, what's going on in Storm City lately? Alan asked casually.
Edward said solemnly, "I was about to sue you, I heard that Storm City was besieged. ”
Allen frowned and said, "Is it the Black Iron Castle?" ”
"It's not." Edward shook his head. R1058