Gold is Justice

When it comes to keys, Jelly has determination written all over her face.

Everyone was also happy for Jelly's belief now, while Mochi turned his head to look at everyone and asked, "Where is Sister Mochi? Where did she go? She was still on the way back just now. And Her husband is also absent."

Brad rubbed the back of his head and said with some embarrassment: "They? They should be going to settle down those children."

Mochi tilted his head: "Child?"

"A child of our Isle of Help."

At this moment, a strange face among the crowd finally spoke.Tesla and Mochi also turned their gazes towards this man.

The one who spoke at this time was none other than Thor, the alchemist, one of the five elders on Help Island.

For the people who came from this island of the brave, Tesla has long wanted to ask.Now I just had a chance to ask clearly, and then said, "This is...?"

Ariel, who was reading the report, immediately raised her head and said with a smile: "Sorry, I forgot to introduce. This is one of the five elders on Help Island, Mr. Thor, the alchemist. Mr. Thor, this It is our technical director, that is, Element Gun, the main creator and improver of the Element Factory, Tesla. You can get to know each other first." After hearing the introduction, Tesla was a little embarrassed.But Thor's eyes lit up on the opposite side, and he immediately walked around the table and walked straight to Tesla.The elder, who was not too tall, looked a little too short in front of Tesla, but it didn't matter. He immediately moved a stool and stepped on it, and then grabbed Tesla's hand with both hands again, laughing. said -

"Are you? Oh, I've been thinking about researching this area all the way. Now I finally meet! Mr. Tesla, are you free now? Can you tell me what kind of software you use? The material is used for the grinding process of the element gun barrel? How high temperature is the iron block used to make the gun body? How many times has it been hammered? This hammering method can well eliminate the air bubbles in the iron ore , can greatly improve the strength of the gun body itself! How many experiments did you do before you came to such a conclusion?"

Faced with Thor's sudden enthusiasm, Tesla seemed a little more embarrassed.

However, when he saw Thor take out the foldable element gun, the assembler's eyes lit up all of a sudden.

"This... the elemental gun can be folded?! What a wonderful idea!"

Seeing Tesla's astonished expression now, Thor laughed and said, "I just looked at the novelty, so I made a little modification. But being foldable doesn't mean everything is a good thing. I measure However, after changing the butt to be foldable, the firmness and stability of the gun have decreased, and it is indeed not as good as the one without folding.”

Tesla stroked the folding elemental gun up and down, then nodded, and said, "That's true. The simpler the structure, the less likely it will be damaged. The more complicated it is, the better the concealment will be. At the same time, some discounts on performance..."

Having said that, Tesla seemed to wake up suddenly, then immediately turned his head to look at Thor in front of him, and stretched out his hand again——

"Tesla, Mermaid Song assembler! Mr. Thor, it's a pleasure to meet you!"

Such a simple sentence already represented Tesla's respect and recognition for the alchemist in front of him.Thor naturally laughed too, and shook hands with the assembler again, and the two parties knew each other.

The problem here is solved, and Ariel has almost finished reading the reports.

She frowned, and after thinking for a moment, said——

"I have basically read the information about this city lord, and I believe that the other party should have a little understanding of the strength of our base."

She put down the report in her hand and said slowly: "Since the other party can distribute food to the villagers, then we cannot guarantee that our information will not be leaked. After all, judging from these reports, most of the work in our base area in the past six months has been Stabilize the nearby villages, build elemental factories, and lay the foundation for the base. As for the construction work for the nearby villagers... basically nothing has been done."

Tesla lowered his head a little ashamed. Seeing this, Ariel hurriedly followed up: "Of course, I'm not saying that you didn't do well. In fact, we can gain a firm foothold here in just half a year. A very good result. We are not gods, and it is impossible to do everything well."

With that said, Ariel handed all the information about the sixth siege to Jelly next to her, and said to Tesla, "How are you going to deal with the sixth siege? Did the soldiers say anything?"

Tesla exhaled, and said slowly: "To be honest, President, in the previous five anti-encirclement and suppression operations, we basically only repelled the opponent's attack, and did not form an annihilation battle...so the city lord's The strength of the army has hardly diminished... I know it shouldn't be like this! But many times, we feel a little bit short of success..."

"As for the sixth time now... To be honest, I haven't figured out how to deal with it... I also followed your practice, President, and called all the soldiers for a meeting to discuss what should be done. It's just that now No unanimous conclusion has been reached."

Ariel nodded, and said softly: "It's okay, just because you didn't come to an agreed conclusion, doesn't mean you don't have any ideas, right? What are your thoughts?"

Tesla turned his gaze to Mochi next to him, and said, "Someone said that the blood race can take advantage of the night to attack again."

Mochi also turned around to look at Tesla: "Didn't you say that those people have already prepared holy weapons?"

Tesla sighed, and continued: "Then some people said that the cols should be used for ambushes. Some people think that we should expand our elemental machine factory, and then work hard to make ammunition and elemental guns. We also agree with this point." We are rushing to make..."

Listening to Tesla talking about many methods, these methods seem to pay attention to each item, and each item has advantages and disadvantages.But what kind of strategy should be adopted is indeed more difficult to choose.

Ariel pinched her chin, looking at the topographic map on the table and thinking silently.It was at this time that the jelly next to him also read the battle report and said, "I have an idea. You have never tried to attack the opponent's city in the process of countering the encirclement and suppression before. This time, how about we take the initiative to attack the opponent's city?" How about attacking the opponent's city?"

Hearing what Jelly said, Tesla was obviously a little surprised.However, he was also willing to believe in Jelly's previous qualifications as the commander-in-chief of the army, so he held his breath and listened quietly.

Ariel smiled and said, "How did you come up with such an idea?" Jelly nodded, looked at the map and said, "I've read the reports of the five anti-encirclement and suppression campaigns before, and this city lord obviously hates our mermaid army." We are afraid, so each attack will not go deep quickly, but will encircle and suppress us by building roadblocks and camps, step by step. This situation is not very serious in the first two times, but In the next three times, I was more cautious each time, and I didn’t know who was attacking whom.”

"The opponent's strategy of using defensive methods to attack is the reason why we have not been able to successfully annihilate the opponent's army before. This allows the opponent to have a chance to retreat in case of partial defeat, and the loss is not serious. At the same time, the next attack will also It will become faster and more frequent. Since this is the case, I think we can take advantage of the other party's mentality. Isn't the other party afraid of us and push forward step by step? Then we might as well take the initiative and start a direct confrontation with the other party. "

Tesla shook his head and sighed: "This... method is a good method, but we don't have an advantage in terms of military strength and resources... If we really fight the opponent head-on, the opponent may be able to see through our attack all at once. We are weak, we have no way to hide..."

Jelly nodded: "Naturally. So, my decision is to send a troop to the opponent's main city for a feint attack. We have just entered the era of elemental guns, and the walls of all cities today are basically In the previous style, there was no time to change the height and construction structure of the city wall. Even if we wanted to change it, it would be a big project and would require a lot of money. When we came back, we had secretly seen the structure of the city. The wall on the second floor is basically a circle of earth wall, it is tamped tightly, it may be okay to block some swords and magic, but it is a joke to resist the firepower of elemental guns, especially the power of elemental guns."

At this point, Jelly paused for a moment to see Tesla's reaction.After confirming that he didn't raise any more objections, he immediately said: "Of course, I also know that there are no elemental cannons in our camp. After all, the current conditions are relatively simple, and we still can't produce qualified elemental cannons."

"But we don't need a qualified elemental cannon. We only need to make an elemental cannon that will be scrapped immediately after firing it once. This cannon can directly smash down the city wall, and then let our Soldiers rush in."

"Of course, after rushing in, we don't really want to fight to the death with the soldiers inside. Even our soldiers don't have to rush in. Since the city wall has collapsed, the soldiers in the city will definitely attack in the direction of this gap. In the middle, the defense line in other directions is naturally loose. At this time, we will send another small force to rush in through the opponent's loose defense, and then burn the opponent's grain storage with a fire."

Ariel was taken aback for a moment, and then said with a smile: "After a long time of arguing, it turns out that they want to burn the other party's food?"

Jelly also smiled, but then said with a very serious expression: "The city owner didn't care about the villages near Qiongshen Mountain before, and didn't distribute food when everyone was so poor, but when we came, he Just distribute food, the reason is very simple, that is, the city lord thinks we are a threat."

"Then conversely, if we burn his food, will he still have the energy to distribute it to the farmers outside? If he doesn't distribute food to the farmers, and we go to communicate with those farmers and help them, The farmers will naturally turn to our side. After all, we have never exploited them, nor suppressed them, nor have we treated them as dead."

These words really touched Ariel's heart.She clapped her hands and said with a smile: "Little jelly, you have learned well! You know where our foundation is and where our strength comes from. To be honest, if the city owner is still willing to send out food, then I I plan to meet with that guy to see if we can negotiate. Does anyone else have any opinions?"

Ariel glanced around, and after seeing that no one had any objections, she patted Jelly on the shoulder and said, "Well, go discuss it with the soldiers, after all, we have just arrived, and our soldiers have already arrived. I have been dealing with those enemies for half a year. Maybe they can supplement your plan more perfectly."

"Also, Tesla, is it possible to make an elemental cannon that can only fire one shell within three days? Very good, I believe in your technical strength. Then there is the situation of the enemy's food and grass, Mochi , you and Jelly go out and chat with our soldiers and local villagers to see if we can find any news."

Mochi, who had been watching from the side, was taken aback for a moment, then turned to look at Ariel, and said, "They are afraid of me. If you blame me, they will bite their necks."

Ariel looked at Tesla beside her, who now nodded slightly.

Seeing this, Ariel walked up to Mochi, knelt down, hugged her shoulders lightly, and said with a smile: "Humans are afraid of you because we humans are too weak. The fear of the weak against the strong comes from the strong." Can you promise me that you will be gentle when dealing with humans later? Just like your mother.” Mochi’s eyes were fixed on Ariel, those ruby-like eyes The pupils reflect the elemental lights in the cabin.After a while, she finally nodded.

Seeing this, Ariel smiled again and said, "Don't worry, our mochi is so cute, who would hate it?"

Little Moshu blushed, lowered her head, and stopped talking.

After handing over the military affairs to Jelly, what Ariel has to think about now is the financial source of the entire base.

She said at the moment: "The report just now shows that our base area did not actually have much financial revenue in the past period. The food for our soldiers was purchased from several surrounding villages with previous savings, and some forest resources were collected. The food in the food. Well... There was even a case where you pretended to be merchants and traded with the enemy because of insufficient food. "

Tesla nodded again.At the same time, he looked at Ariel with a little fear in his eyes.

Regarding this, Ariel said very generously: "It's okay, as long as you can survive, you can try any method. I am particularly skilled in doing business with the enemy, so don't feel any pressure."

Hearing this, Tesla breathed a sigh of relief.

"However, our financial situation is indeed not very healthy, and this needs to be reversed immediately. The Holy Night Festival will be in another week. The villagers use the Holy Night Festival to attack us, which itself is also a manifestation of distrust of us. "

Ariel looked at the reports again, and after thinking for a moment, she said, "Tesla, have you thought about the financial income for the new year?"

Tesla looked a little embarrassed, shrunk his neck, and remained silent.

If that's the case, have you never thought about it?

Ariel sighed, and had to say that it was a waste to let such technical talents do financial things.In fact, I shouldn't expect my guild members to be all-rounders, and indeed I should select among ordinary soldiers, and see that those capable soldiers are assigned special positions.

In this case, Ariel glanced at the financial data of the base area, and said: "So, starting tomorrow, we will spend all the money and hire the local villagers to build more element factories. Now we only have one... let's start Set a small goal and build ten more element factories."

At that moment, not only Tesla, everyone present felt that they had heard it wrong?

Ten element factories?Is this equivalent to using up all the money in the base area in one go? !

However, everyone present basically knew Ariel's character. Although they were surprised, not many people immediately raised questions.

Ariel pinched her chin, thinking, and said: "It's the off-season, and the villagers have nothing to do, and they have no way to get benefits from us, so they don't support our work. Yes. That being the case, then we might as well spend a lot of money and ask them to help us build element factories, so that they will bind our interests, and farmers who have jobs will stand by our side. As an emergency, this should change the farmers' attitude towards us in a short period of time."

"And on the other hand, we should find a way to contact this city lord who doesn't like us and keeps trying to encircle us. See if he is willing to be a middleman and sell the magic crystals we mined... "

At that moment, everyone in the entire wooden house was silent.

No one dared to speak, and no one could say anything.Everyone could only stare at Ariel with that kind of astonished gaze, and then continued to wonder if their head was broken, and heard some incredible voice.

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"Originally, magic crystals are only used by mages, and when there are not many magicians, most of the magic crystals that are not 'perfect' will be discarded. Magic crystals themselves will not be mined in large quantities...but now, we have entered the era of elemental machines."

"If you want to run an elemental machine, you need a lot of magic crystallization. After several battles with the Blue Bay Empire, things like elemental guns must have spread throughout the empire. The number of people who want to obtain this kind of mineral resources It will definitely rise...even Hanhai City itself may be a big buyer."

"If we can sell these magic crystals at this time, and then exchange them for various resources...the base area can continue to be maintained, and then leave us enough time to reorganize and develop..."

Tesla next to him couldn't stand it anymore, and said, "President, according to what you mean... are you going to contact our enemies? Do business with our enemies... and then sell our mines to them, Then let them work hard to build elemental guns, and finally attack us in turn?"

Ariel smiled, reached out and patted Tesla on the shoulder again, and said, "Anyway, weapons need to be used by humans. Besides, how can it be so fast to transform from magic power crystals into usable elemental guns? We It will take three days to make a mediocre elemental cannon."

Having said that, Ariel smiled and faced the people in front of her, and after sweeping her eyes, she nodded lightly—"If there is no problem, then everyone should rest first. From tomorrow onwards, we should be very peaceful." Busy, although it is not a battle matter, but you still need to make corresponding preparations."

The meeting was dissolved, and everyone began to return to their dormitories to rest.

After leaving the conference room, Ariel went to the rest area of ​​Suta to check on the children who were unable to follow the islanders to undertake the work of "seekers" because of their injuries.Then he talked with Suta for a while, and went back to his room to rest.

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Although she said it lightly, Ariel knew that the current situation was not easy at all.

Even if Jelly had already discussed with the soldiers how to solve the sixth siege before him, it took a lot of time to plan various plans to successfully defeat the opponent.

Before the action started, Ariel was not idle either.

It took her almost six days to visit all the 52 villages on Qiongshen Mountain, visit the local villagers in person, understand their situation, and then propose to hire them to build together Element Factory.

Ariel knew that it was useless to just talk about being fair. Only by letting the villagers here benefit from the mermaid army's actions could they gather with the mermaid army, and then To be able to tell them how that beautiful world should be created.

To put it more simply, to make life easier for these villagers, even if the Imperial Army sent troops over to threaten them, even if they did not take the initiative to fight on the side of the Mermaid Army, they would remain neutral.

Among the villages on Qiongshen Mountain, there are a hundred people in the larger ones and a dozen people in the smaller ones. The total population is about three to four thousand people.The mermaid army now has almost 4000 troops staying in Qiongshen Mountain, so it is definitely not enough for the villagers to provide food for the mermaid army.

To do this, it is necessary to trade with those rich areas outside the mountains.

Fortunately, the sixth round of encirclement and suppression of the base area at the Holy Night Festival was originally scheduled, but it did not happen for some reason.

The reason why the willingness did not happen was because the city lord was unwilling to send out troops during the festival, and those private soldiers also hoped to live a good year, and then wait until three days before launching an attack.

That being the case, the mermaid army couldn't help it.

At eleven o'clock in the evening on December 1307, 12, when the imperial army was still celebrating the arrival of the Holy Night Festival, and when fireworks were being set off in the city, taking advantage of the explosion of fireworks, the elemental cannon also exploded at this time.

The elemental cannon that could only fire one shot sent the cannonball far into the city from a distant mountain when the barrel exploded. With a loud bang, the towering tower where the city lord lived It was also under the bombardment of shells that the most brilliant sparks of the night bloomed.

The people in the city who were still cheering for the Holy Night Festival just now almost saw with their own eyes that the fire meteor instantly destroyed the sandy wall that belonged to the era of sword and magic, and then saw the flames bursting out of the tower.Immediately afterwards, the blood clan members carried the soldiers of the mermaid army on their backs at night, and sent them into the city one by one, and asked these soldiers to set fire around the city.

The battle lasted until the early morning of January 1308, 1.

In fact, the battle in the first half of the night went smoothly. After the mermaid army set fire to disrupt the entire city, the residents in the city hindered the actions of the imperial army in panic and confusion.

But not long after, the imperial army led by the city lord began to forcibly suppress the residents of the entire city, and anyone who dared to run around in the streets would be killed without mercy.

Under the suppression of blood, the imperial army quickly maintained order in the city.The whereabouts of the mermaid army were soon discovered, and the two sides started street fighting in the city.

Both sides were carrying elemental guns, and the gunshots rang out for a while.Anyway, the Mermaid Army was not as familiar with the situation in the city as the Imperial Army, and had to retreat to the rear after suffering a certain degree of losses.