Chapter 398: The Kingdom of Gangze
After the earl who led the way left, Angelina leaned into Locke's ear and whispered: "Why do we go to the Kingdom of Gangze again?"
Angelina's mouth and lips exhaled on Rock's ears, but Rock's heart was not in a state of turmoil.
Angelina has been teasing these tricks of intimacy several times a day in the past or two months, and Locke has become accustomed to it.
"It seems that the relationship between the Gangze Kingdom and us is not good. Is it really OK?" Locke pointed to the garrison troops that were evenly matched on both sides ahead, full of gunpowder.
"Just ask Brother Wang, I think it's OK." Angelina hugged Locke's neck, looking indifferent.
The trilateral borders of the Kingdom of Jose, the Kingdom of Steel, and the Kingdom of Fostein are geographically located in the southwest of the Kingdom of Fostein.
The one responsible for the western defense line was the garrison army with the title of Kingdom Shield.
As Fostertan's land area increased greatly, the forces of the four major legions also expanded, from the original five corps to the six corps.
The garrison army was stationed on the western defense line, and this border line was one of the stationing points.
Marquis Siya, the commander of the garrison army, had several conversations with this marquis when Locke was in the capital. The Siya family completely served the royal family, and Locke had a good impression of the Marquis Siya, one of the four marquises.
The Second Infantry Regiment of the Guarding Legion is stationed here. The commander of the corps is a brave and capable middle-aged knight, and Gold Siya is his full name.
"Your Highness, the flame message from the royal capital is completed soon." Gold Siya bowed his chest and said.
"Yeah." Holding Locke with one hand, Angelina focused on observing the magicians who followed the army to build a magic circle.
Wen Dao has a series of succession and specialized in art. It is true that Angelina is a magic genius, but in the field of magical message transmission, her expertise is in the teleportation distance section, and the message transmission array built in front of her is a holographic entity transmission.
Inheriting the magical legacy of Charlotte, the magical strength in Fostertan has improved by leaps and bounds in recent years. The advanced apprentice is no longer the only one Angelina's previous mentor, but has emerged and broken through to four. In addition to Angelina herself, there have been as many as five.
Two of them were former Sharlot magicians who did not want to leave their hometowns and left their old lands. They became Fostermen and were awarded the title of viscount by His Majesty the King.
After a while, above the magic circle, the holographic projection of His Majesty Kensel came, and the flame curtain was covered with vivid expressions on Kensel's facial expressions.
"What? Is there anything wrong?" King Kensel said concisely.
Building a magic circle is valuable, and often there are only three hourglasses.
"Brother, we want to go to the Kingdom of Gangze!" Angelina jumped out and smiled with Locke's hand.
"Is the Kingdom of Steel?" Prince Kensel raised his head, looked ahead, and looked in contemplation.
There, on the border between the two countries, the two corpses of both sides were stationed in more than 10,000 soldiers...
When the mission set out again, in order to consider the relatively tense situation between the two countries in recent years, the number of people was greatly reduced.
"Didn't your brother say that he had a lot of conflicts with the Kingdom of Gangze recently? You still asked to go on a mission?" Locke asked Angelina helplessly in the carriage.
"Because I like it." Angelina said with a smile.
Locke has always tried his best to avoid trouble, and he does not want to be stuck in his footsteps by unnecessary trivial matters.
But since Angelina wants to go, Locke will accompany her.
With Locke's current quasi-knight-level strength, as long as it is not a built-in army, he has not taken the general danger seriously.
Don't forget that in Angelina's magic pet bag, there is a high-level magic beast-level scorpion dragon lying.
Among the envoys, His Majesty Kensel arranged not many masters, only one high-level attendant-level guard captain.
"I heard that the most famous person in the Kingdom of Gangze was the 'Iron Armored Army'?" Angelina knew what Locke was interested in and took the initiative to raise the topic.
"Yeah, I've heard of it, too." Locke nodded.
The heavy knights of the Likiah Alliance, the light cavalry of the Kingdom of Jose, the iron armored army of the Kingdom of Steel, and the jungle wanderers of the Kingdom of Karaman are all powerful troops in the neighboring countries of Fostertan, and their combat power cannot be underestimated.
"I wonder which is stronger, the 'Iron Armored Army' or the 'High Armored Army' of Marquis Torida in the Likiah Alliance?" Locke sighed.
The neat military formation, rigorous discipline, and heavy momentum, the iron-armed army of the Gangze Kingdom gave them a warning before the arrival of the envoys.
Speaking of the contradiction between the Kingdom of Gangze and Foster, it can be traced back to the moment when Charlottes had just been destroyed. At that time, the Kingdom of Gangze, which was not weaker than that of Fostertes, wanted to grab a pie on the issue of Charlotte's distribution.
However, the emergence of the Earth Knight Rom, the deterrence of the Sect Master Omore Empire, and the strong attitude of taking over King Fostertan, made this battle of interests end in vain.
In the following years, the conflict between the two sides was deliberately suppressed by the rulers, but some small frictions were inevitable.
Coming to the convoy, a mighty knight wearing full armor, with a long spear in his hand, quite like a general.
The envoys came with King Fostertan's letter of state. This general with high-level attendant strength did not dare to neglect and soon sent someone to spread the news back.
Half a day later, the envoy was allowed to enter the country.
A team of hundreds of people walking on both sides of the mountain cliff.
I thought the mountains in the northwest of the Likiah Alliance were already very difficult to leave, but I didn’t expect that the Gangze Kingdom would be even more so.
Locke discovered that the more remote the place, the more tough the people living there were.
More than ten years ago, the Gangze Kingdom was comparable to Fostertan and was also related to the folk customs here.
Unfortunately, the continuous Kanulu Mountains blocked the communication and contact between Gangze and its eastern countries, making it difficult for it to use its powerful military power to make any progress in the eastern region.
Being able to stockpile a corps of soldiers on the Fostein border must have consumed a lot of logistics in the Kingdom of Steel.
However, everything has its advantages and disadvantages.
The Kingdom of Gangze can have the "Iron Armor Army" famous in the surrounding countries, and what it depends on is the precious ore buried under the continuous Kanulu Mountains.
Every year, tens of thousands of miners linger in the Kanulu Mountains and made great contributions to the steel export of the Kingdom of Steel.
These ores are mainly ordinary iron and copper ore, with few gold and silver veins, and the magic minerals are almost zero, so they have not attracted excessive attention from forces such as the Holy Tower and the Knights' Temple.
The export countries of these ores mainly target: the Kingdom of Foster in the east, the Kingdom of Jose in the south, the Junggar tribe alliance in the north, and the Seramo mountain people in the northwest.
There is no eternal enemy, only eternal interests.
Although Fostertan and the Kingdom of Gangze have constant small frictions and are competing with each other every year, the impact on commercial and trade is not much.
After all, everyone hasn't broken up yet.
"We mainly contact the Marquis of Chegesey of the Kingdom of Gangze? Then submit the letter of state?" Locke asked in the carriage.
Locke has made a general idea of many common sense and international situations about the Gangze Kingdom with the popularization of a staff officer.
The Marquis of Chegesey was one of the military leaders among the several marquises in the Kingdom of Gangze. Logically speaking, he was the biggest obstacle to this trip because of the increasingly intensified border relations between the two countries.
"Yes, this marquis is still a stubborn warfare faction." Angelina nodded.
"Then we'll go find him?" Locke was speechless.
"The conflict between our two countries is nothing to the top leaders. The Marquis peeped at the Andoha Basin in Monstock." Angelina smiled.
Monstock is a small country southwest of the Gangze Kingdom, with a population of more than one million, which is only equivalent to the Likiah Alliance.
But this country occupies the rich Andoha Basin, which is not only suitable for growing food, but also has a wide variety of magical materials.
Locke nodded to express his understanding. The Holy Tower and the Knights' Temple were controlled by them. The Gangze Kingdom wanted to gain control of the Andoha Basin through war means, which was a dream.
Unless there can be a number of first-level knights, magicians, or second-level strong men in their country to increase their voice in a short period of time.
Since we cannot directly use war means, we need refined game, conflicts, deterrence and seemingly equal transactions to achieve.
There are many types of battles, and the charges of soldiers from both countries are just one of them, and there is also an economic war that Locke had never heard of.
Locke believed that he was not good at these brain-using activities, so he simply pushed all the trivial matters he had to pay attention to and complete during this mission to Angelina. He was happy to be idle, so he regarded it as a traveler.
This unintentional style has caused Angelina to roll her eyes frequently.
After the continuous Ganulu Mountains, there is a plateau with a slightly flat terrain. In Locke's view, the lives of the residents here are no different from the civilians of the Forstan Kingdom. It is unreasonable for some Forstan people to call the people of the Steel Kingdom "barbaric mountain people".
The high-level attendant of the Gangze Kingdom who accompanied them, Locke deliberately approached it and found that the high-level attendant had just returned from the plane war.
Locke's quasi-knight-level strength and various combat descriptions of the revitalized fairy world dispelled the "doubts" of this knight from another country. The real knights are straight, and this powerful general is one of them.
Not long after, I had a great chat with Locke and Angelina.
The knights attach great importance to their companions. No matter how stiff the relationship between the two countries is, in the plane wars initiated by the Knights' Palace, there are few cases of hostile knights pulling each other back.
The Knights Hall is very harsh in punishing such viciousness and events.
From this, Locke thought of the four marquises in the Kingdom of Foster.
They are all knights with high-level attendants and above, and there are even formal knight-level existences. However, among the four marquises, Locke recognized as knights, only one Marquis Wood, who was far from the capital's rights circle—
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