Chapter 75: Requirements of the Land of Sand
"Is it 40 million gold coins?" Prince Nicholas exchanged a look invisibly and immediately looked away as if nothing had happened. Nicholas still maintained an elegant posture and nodded slightly, "I think this number of materials can compensate for certain losses. Although it is far from enough for everyone, it is a joint war after all, and it always needs to accommodate each other. So, I don't know what everyone's attitude is, but on behalf of the father and the empire, I agree with the proposal of Duke Nelnas."
"We agree." The speaker was the representative of the Kingdom of Sand. The king of the Kingdom of Sand did not attend the meeting in person, but sent his own first consul. In the eyes of many people, the Kingdom of Sand on the continent of Yara is a mysterious country, hidden deep in the desert, establishing cities next to the oasis, and living a relatively closed life. The history of the Kingdom of Sand can be traced back to the early Third Age, when a group of special semi-element creatures lived freely in the desert and slowly established their own country.
With the outbreak of the War of Gods at the end of the Third Age, no human with a single belief in the entire race fought against each other in the war, countless families were broken, and countless humans lost their land of life. In order to avoid the war, some people were forced to flee into the sea of sand, and most of them died in pain in the drying, but some lucky people luckily found the city of the sand people, and were rescued by the sand people who looked as cold as rocks, and survived successfully. From then on, these humans lived in the sea of sand with the sand people, slowly reproduction and expansion, and finally formed a situation where humans and sand people coexisted.
The people of the sand are not dissatisfied with these humans who suddenly entered their lives. Thousands of years of shared life have made the relationship between the two more harmonious. It can be said that now the humans in these deserts have been completely integrated into the sand people. Apart from the racial characteristics, the other aspects, whether they are clothing, habits, or even the treatment they receive are almost the same. In the Kingdom of the Sand, except for the king and the city lords of various oasis cities, the selection of officials at all levels is completely different from humans and sand people, and they enjoy the same treatment. For example, the current First Consul can be regarded as the most powerful person in the entire Kingdom of the Sand except the king. However, he is a pure human rather than a sand person.
The names of the Sha people are often difficult to pronounce. After all, simple names like Ask are a minority. Most of them are long strings and very strange pronunciations. The first consul once introduced himself before. But no one could remember it. But it had no effect. He seemed to have inherited the inhuman characteristics of the Sha people and did not form an envoy. Instead, he came directly to Neville with six Sha people guards. Therefore, he was the only one who attended the military exchange on behalf of the Sha Kingdom. Without waiting for others to comment, he continued on his own: "And we ask for advance supplies in advance, note that it is not the part that we compensate us, but the war resources you promised, we must have a part."
"Of course. There is no problem." Nelnas still had a stern face, but nodded, "You are responsible for building fortifications in the desert in advance and storing logistics supplies. It is impossible to complete without pre-payment of supplies. Don't worry, we will transfer the supplies to you as soon as possible after they are ready."
"Then we have no objection." The first consul said bluntly: "You and I have fought so many times. We should be very familiar with our way of war in the desert. We will still maintain the previous method of fighting in joint combat, and there will be no change. So, we did not bring our troops. There is really no need for this. As for the number of troops, our country of Sands does not have any so-called conventional troops, and every adult is a qualified soldier. Therefore, we will send all troops on the basis of retaining enough people to maintain the normal operation of the country."
As he said, the combat methods of the Kingdom of Sand are very distinctive. On ordinary terrain, they can fight head-on like human troops in other countries, while on desert terrain, they have their own unique combat methods. In the desert, there is a unique creature called sandworm. Sandworms have bodies of dozens of meters long, and their thick bodies can freely shuttle through the underground of the desert, and the speed of the shuttle is amazing. The people living in the desert have tamed a large number of sandworms thousands of years ago. They originally used the space in their bodies as transportation and transportation tools to serve themselves. Later, when humans gradually integrated into the sandworms, their thinking is relatively flexible.
Humans quickly developed the war use of sandworms. During the war, dozens or even hundreds of desert warriors hid in the body of sandworms and relied on a large number of sandworms to move at high speed in the desert. Once they encountered an enemy, the huge sandworms would bounce out of the sand, swallow a large number of enemy troops into their stomachs and then drill back into the ground. At this time, the desert warriors who had been waiting in the sandworms for a long time would attack the swallowed enemy from all angles and rely on the advantage of local numbers to eliminate all enemies in the sandworms. As a hostile country that often fights, this tactic with extremely small casualties has always been a nightmare for the Faral Empire and the Neville Federation, making these two countries almost unable to step into the desert.
However, if you are a friendly force, this tactic is still very reliable. Therefore, Duke Nelnas and Prince Nicholas nodded almost at the same time and recognized the opinion of the First Consul. However, the two immediately discovered that they were doing the same action, with equally meaningful smiles on their faces looking at each other. Duke Nelnas said: "Since His Highness, the Prince, accused our Federation of too little power, why not ask His Highness to introduce to you how strong the Falal Empire is going to invest this time."
"Of course, I believe that you will not disappoint you." Nicholas nodded to an old knight with white hair beard beside him, and then continued: "The Father taught us that when the world needs us, we should stand up without any cowardice and take on our responsibilities. This is the behavior that a responsible force should do. If it shrinks behind other forces for some reason, it will really lose the demeanor of a great power."
Chapter completed!