Realm of Power

The blue waves were rolling, and the two white lines were like dragons coming out of the sea. On the sea surface slightly behind the two white lines, the bow of the huge Imperial Maritime War Fortress Dragon-class battleship cut through the sea water heavily, and the sea water was squeezed away with a crash. Then it rolled back from both sides and hit the half-red and half-black side of the Dragon-class battleship.

Under the escort of two murderous Imperial Dragon Fang battleships, a huge Imperial Dragon-class battleship slowly docked into the sparkling Cairo Port. On the deck of this Dragon-class battleship, Imperial Navy Minister Durst Lun Kai was looking at the growing port in front of him with gleaming eyes, feeling that Cailuo Port had expanded again.

Three months ago, it was not this big. The original seventeen piers have now become twenty-six. Because there is no room for the newly added docks, they have even been opened near the rock wall of the bay. Busy The construction site, the transport carriages coming and going, and the engineering cranes will all Huge boulders were lifted up, and three million dollars were thrown down. The construction speed of the project was not unusually fast. Four of them had already taken shape. Several small transport ships were moving back and forth to carry materials. The other two also used huge stone blocks to build beautiful structures. The arc edge, conservatively estimated, should be completed within a month.

"My lord, is it really worth it for the Navy to invest huge sums of money to expand Cairo Port?"

The adjutant withdrew his gaze from the distant port and asked cautiously behind Dostronkai, "Although the management of Cairo Port belongs to the empire, after all, the land ownership belongs to the Eero people. Since Cairo Port has followed the agreement, Since its inception, backed by the vast plains of the Eero Empire, In the original area, especially since Cornelia, the original largest port, was caught in the war and destroyed, the flow of materials has tripled, and it has become the largest port on the eastern coast. If the Eero people were not interested in this port before, I care about it a lot, but now I’m afraid I’ll just say that.”

"Don't worry, as long as the war between the Ero Empire and the Aden people lasts for a day, they will not show any ambition towards Port Caro!"

Dostelenko smiled coldly, "At any rate, this is also the period of the two countries' military alliance. The Eero Empire and the Aden people have been fighting a war for more than half a year. It is said that the number of casualties has exceeded 300,000, and domestic trade has at least 100% Eighty-eighty by the outlet of Port Kelo From what he said, Emperor Aero knew very well that the Imperial Navy was building a naval port at Port Kelo with the aim of targeting the Navy of Aden. For the sake of a mere seaport, he turned against the empire and cut off his own domestic financial resources. I believe Emperor Aero Not that unwise!"

"What the adults said is"

A look of relief appeared on the face of the adjutant. "The incident of the Imperial Navy's undeclared war and brazen attack on the Kingdom of Aden's Fourth Naval Fleet has spread throughout Obarro. The Imperial Navy has been carrying out extensive construction work at Kailuo Port on the eastern coast to expand the naval port. In addition, the Empire A series of recent attacks on Aden Anyone who is not a fool knows about the kingdom’s military operations. The Imperial Navy’s plan is to use Cairo Port as the fleet support point, and to move south from the Cairo River that runs through the Eero Empire into the waters of Aden. There is still speculation as to whether the Luo Empire will open up the river channel.

As the imperial cavalry advanced for hundreds of miles, the logistical supplies of hundreds of thousands of Aden troops were burned in one fell swoop, doing the Ero Empire a vital favor.

All countries knew that the Erro Empire would definitely open up the river, because the Falcon Empire had clearly stated that it was on the side of the Erro Empire. The two sides even signed a military combat alliance. In order to fight against the common enemy, the imperial fleet took advantage of the river. The behavior of the rivers in the Héro Empire is nothing short of normal! As long as Emperor Erro is still a little normal, he will not fall out with the Falcon Empire at such a critical moment!

What's more, the real purpose of the Imperial Navy's port expansion in Kailuo Port is the Aden Navy.

Who in the entire Obaro doesn’t know what a formidable opponent the desert people are. There is a large desert barrier with extremely hot climate in front of them, and the Aden Sea is rich in resources in the south. The Obaro region has been conquered several times since the days of the Fiya Empire. Desert peoples all ended in failure, and then Feiya The empire was divided, and the war between the Oubaluo countries and the desert peoples continued intermittently for hundreds of years, and it was still the result of no advancement or retreat. The reason for this was not only because of the cruel climate in the desert and the tenacity and good fighting spirit of the desert peoples, but also because of the European Barrow's army was completely unaccustomed to the desert terrain;

The Opalo area focuses on heavy armored battle formations, which involve the mobilization of large armies for pincer attacks.

However, these are completely unfeasible in the desert. The heavy cavalry and heavy infantry that can sweep away Oparo will be dead in the desert. When the large army is hidden in the desert, the shortcomings of logistical supplies will emerge. Obaro is guarding the food. Cavalry, under the scorching sun, It's like being in purgatory. The body under the armor is almost drowned in sweat. The war horse is also sticking out its long tongue. Let alone fighting, it is difficult to even run up a section, and walking lazily on the plains is like being in purgatory. Camel cavalry is like a windstorm blowing sand in the desert.

It was obviously a difficult sand dune area, but these camel cavalry were able to pass through it easily, and they ran as fast as the wind.

The supply point marked on the map was an oasis ten years ago. When the troops arrived, all they saw were a few dry wells filled with stones. In many cases, the troops that invaded the sandbank were dragged down step by step in this way. Damn it! But it was after the establishment of the Kingdom of Aden that the Obarro countries finally gave up their active attack on the desert peoples.

Because although the Kingdom of Aden is mainly a desert country, the place where it rises is the coast of the Sea of ​​Aden at the other end of the continent!

The Aden people were originally a tribe along the coast of the Sea of ​​Aden. They controlled the golden route from the Sea of ​​Aden to Central Asia. Every year, countless supplies and merchant ships entered Aden in this sea area. Sixty years ago, the rise of the Aden navy made it one fell swoop. Defeated the navy of the Nansi Empire that controlled the Aden Sea and established his hegemony in the Aden Sea.

The Aden people, whose strength had greatly increased, then launched a unification war against the entire desert, and eventually turned this sandbank into the Kingdom of Aden. As long as the Aden Sea is in the hands of the Kingdom of Aden, a steady stream of wealth and supplies will follow the Aden merchant ships. The team enters the sandbank. If this line cannot be cut off, another team will The attacks at one end were all in vain, just like the Aden Army was driven out of the Grand Oasis by the Kingdom of Aden despite gaining an advantage in the early battles. The logistics could not keep up, and the Aden Army on the opposite side avoided the important and took the easy. Get away immediately. If you want to catch him next time, it will be easier said than done!

The hot desert weather caused a sharp increase in the non-combat attrition of the Eero Army. In the previous Battle of the Grand Oasis, more than 3,000 soldiers in the Eero Army died due to the heat in the desert. Some fell ill because they could not adapt to the environment. There were tens of thousands of soldiers, and all kinds of unprecedented diseases were rampant, which eventually led to the decline of the army's combat strength. Finally, under the counterattack of the Aden Army, not only did they withdraw from the two large oases they occupied, but they were also defeated in one go. The initial line of war, Cornelia! All the efforts and efforts were in vain! If it hadn't been for the empire's help, the entire war situation would have been overturned.

The Imperial Navy assembled on a large scale at Kailuo Port, and the Aden Navy also issued the highest-level combat order.

In the grand oasis of Poros where the sea breeze was blowing in April, the head of the navy of the Kingdom of Aden, Butoa, pointed to the map hanging on the wall and confidently said to the King of Aden sitting on the throne, "The width of the Erone River limits the Imperial Navy. With the entry of heavy warships, the other party can only enter the inland waterway with the small and medium-sized Dragon Tooth warships. In this regard, the sixty-seven heavy ships of our naval fleet have an absolute advantage. , and when it comes to being familiar with the Sea of ​​Aden, the Imperial Navy is completely blind. His subordinates have ordered to recall all combat fleets and sent people to pay close attention to the movements of a fleet in Kailuo Port! It cannot be hidden. As long as the imperial navy fleet really dares to go south along the inland river of the Ero Empire, then as long as it enters the waters of Aden, our naval fleet will definitely make it impossible to come back! "

"The Falcon Empire Navy is also the overlord of the inland sea, and the Imperial Thunder God is a powerful weapon in naval warfare. Are you really so sure?" King Aden looked solemn, tapping the armrest of the bench with his fingers. The Falcon Empire's participation in the war made The balance of the entire battle suddenly tilted towards Eero's side, especially a handful of The fire burned out Laouwa and made it difficult for hundreds of thousands of Aden's troops to advance or retreat. Fortunately, the supplies stored in Laouwa and Nei had been destroyed by the two fronts when the army attacked Cornelia. , one-third of the supplies were taken out in advance, and Lawua and were burned. This third of the supplies narrowly escaped

Although it was still difficult to supply hundreds of thousands of troops, as many as 200,000 slaves in the Aden army were pushed forward to die, not only did the Aero army suffer heavy losses, but they also lost 200,000 mouths to eat. The logistical pressure is not that great,

The frontline commander Archie decisively ordered tens of thousands of camels from the air force to be transported urgently from the sandbank to the front line. The food purchased by wealthy merchants in Aden in Lisbon was also intermittently transported to the front line. This seemed very dangerous. The gap has finally been partially closed.

In contrast, the large concentration of the Imperial Navy at Kailuo Port put even more pressure on the Kingdom of Aden.

Compared to the Falcon Empire’s war of conquest, the Aden people are more like pioneers of this era

This was Fatty's first feeling when he got the specific information about the Kingdom of Aden. With the Aden people busy transporting food to the front line and having no time to take care of every opportunity to check for outsiders entering the sandbank, the empire's intelligence tentacles finally penetrated the Aden people with difficulty. In the hinterland of the country, the vast and hot sandbank has always been regarded by the Oparo people as a place where devils are exiled. These sandbank people are the descendants of the devil, so they have always coveted the wealth of Oparo.

The intelligence sent back shows that this is not the case at all. In fact, the desert people in the sandbank have always been based in the Aden Sea area in the south. The sandbank is just a horizontal ditch that separates the continent. No matter how big the oasis in the desert is, it can What is the population? How can a large sandbank that does not produce food support a nation that has been fighting against the Obaro people for thousands of years? The Obaro people have always shown off that they are the center of the world, but in the eyes of the desert people, this is just the ego of the Obaro barbarians. Ridicule, yes, the desert people call the Obaro people barbarians, just like the Obaro people once called the Falcon Empire barbarians,

The imperial intelligence officers who entered the hinterland were shocked by the interior of the Kingdom of Aden. In this era of dim civilization, the real light of civilization was actually in the Aden Sea area. This was something that even the fat man did not expect!

The most powerful country in the Obaro region, Kyoto of the Falcon Empire, only has a population of one million people. This is the result of the countless huge resources supplied by the empire.

As for the Kingdom of Aden, there are four million-person cities in the southern sea. Their prosperity is enough to frighten the entire Obaro. A population of more than 60 million is densely crowded on this U-shaped coastline that is only a thousand miles away. Above, there are many ports and cities, and there are not only praises in the domed temples, There are also voices that spread knowledge. Here are the most famous philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers of this era. Aden steel has always been the best forging material in the Obaro region. There is still a continuous war in the Obaro region. At that time, academic research here had crossed the threshold of the Middle Ages.

The education system integrating religion and academics is far more extensive and applicable than the scattered aristocratic elite education in the Obaro region. Even in the Falcon Empire, the similar Sky Temple education model has just started, and here it has already With hundreds of years of inheritance system

The commercial culture driven by the Falcon Empire surprised and shocked the Obaro people. However, the Obaro people did not know how brilliant the commercial culture of the desert people who had been fighting against them for thousands of years was.

The trade routes of the desert peoples have long ago reached the northern part of Central Asia, thousands of miles away. Even the northern grasslands have the shadow of Aden merchants, and they have reached Lisbon, the commercial center of Obarro, in the west. , if we talk about this era, which country’s maritime The foreign trade route has detoured the entire continent, so it is not the Falcon Empire, but the inconspicuous Kingdom of Aden. The nature of the desert people is trade and expansion. When they are on the sandbank, they need to explore new areas. Traveling to various oases to exchange goods,

This custom also applies after they migrate to the coast, but their mode of transportation changes from camels to merchant ships.

On the sea area map of the Imperial Navy Headquarters, the coastline of South Europe Barrow still has a long blank space, and the empire is still spending a lot of money to explore this. However, on the secret map of the Aden Admiralty, the coastline of South Europe Barrow is like an inverted spindle. The coastline is extremely clear, and the distribution map and marked points above are accurate to within one mile. , the fleet of the Aden Navy had explored the southernmost tip of the Barro Coast in southern Europe thirty years ago, and now it is the largest source of slaves for the Kingdom of Aden. More than a dozen small countries have become conquered areas of the Kingdom of Aden. Here The population is being transported to the Aden Sea area by boatloads of Aden merchants. (To be continued. ({〔〔〔8