Warlord: King of All Clans

Norin had no idea what Leo was up to, so she could only stay in the river bend and wait for Leo to arrange his own government affairs.

Another month passed, and Arina arrived at Hewan by train with the Western Territory delegation.

After seeing Leo, Arina's face did not look happy, but rather revealed a sense of resentment.

During this year, the Western Border Rail Corps of Little Noyes built the track from the Tarhan tribe all the way to the territory of the Ashina tribe. They almost fought as they went along, and swallowed up most of the Ashina tribe.

The Ashina tribe is the most powerful of the four tribes on the grassland!

Younger Noyes went on a diplomatic mission to the Ashina tribe to demand the return of the detained Hewan Engineering Corps, but was ridiculed and expelled from the country.

Young Noyes was very angry, and he summoned three thousand elite soldiers from the Hewan, one thousand werewolf warriors, and took with him the cavalry from the Kerait and A'er tribes, and launched a crazy revenge.

As an ally of Hewan, the Talhan tribe could not sit idly by and could only let Ajina lead the armored musketeer cavalry corps to join the battle.

Faced with well-trained modern firearms troops, the traditional nomadic tribes were completely unable to resist and were almost completely wiped out.

Tens of thousands of cavalrymen from Ashina's tribe were chased all over the grassland by a coalition force of less than ten thousand men.

Moreover, Noyce's command style is very mature, and he has deeply grasped the essence of Leo's step-by-step strategy.

Every hundred miles of advance, a legion camp was built and connected by tracks.

Those small concrete blockhouses along the way, with a team of ten stationed there, can withstand the siege of hundreds of cavalry.

The cavalry of Ashina's tribe attempted to harass from behind, but were discovered in advance by werewolf scouts scattered across the grassland. After several ambushes, they suffered heavy casualties. No centurion was willing to take his people to die.

Especially in the cold winter, Noyes the Younger led his troops to raid several major wintering grounds of the Ashina tribe and burned all the winter food and grass.

The people of the grasslands called him a devil, a disaster, and the "unlucky" knight from the North.

Now Luohoubek of the Ashina tribe has sent the Hewan Engineering Corps to the Buck Fortress, saying that he has honestly begged for mercy and is willing to cede land, pay compensation, and submit to the country, and only asks that little Noyes withdraw his troops as soon as possible.

Without winter food and fodder, the Ashina tribe’s war horses could not even fill their stomachs, let alone fight in the wind and snow. The next year, the tribesmen could only ride on cattle and sheep to graze.

Little Noyes's deployment of troops completely disrupted the strategy of the Tarhan tribe, so after Arina arrived at the river bend, she had no good face towards Leo at all.

But as soon as Olivia approached, Arina immediately smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Madam. You are so polite."

Looking at Leo again, his expression changed instantly and he continued to look resentful.

Leo patted her shoulder and said, "Arina, don't be angry. The Western Territory is small. Our goal is the stars and the sea..."

Arina slapped his hand away and gritted her teeth, "Speak human language!"

"Arina, relax. I am not interested in your land in the west. Didn't your father always want to rebuild the Golden Horde? Now is your chance!"

Arina had been deceived by Leo countless times and had long been desensitized. She asked expressionlessly, "You have the final say in rebuilding the Golden Horde? Are you the emperor of the empire?"

"Don't worry, when we go to the southern border this time, the emperor of the empire won't be able to do anything more than me."

A few days later, Grant's delegation also arrived at the river bend.

Leo was much more polite to Grant and had already stated the reason in the letter.

Grant's delegation went upstream along the Anzenault River, passing through Arbroath, Isonbol, and finally arriving at the river bend.

The first time he came, Grant was simply visiting relatives in the countryside, but this time he had become a countryman coming to the city.

Every city in the river bend is ten times smaller than Anhurst, but it still looks like a small town.

But the buildings, workshops and ships here have all changed over time.

Those new three-story villas, five-story buildings, steam sailing ships, modern docks, workshop chimneys belching black smoke, and whizzing trains are all far from the medieval style of the North.

There are even plans to build an iron frame bridge with a concrete base downstream of the Hewan Peninsula!

The river here is only over a hundred meters wide, but it divides the settlements on both sides. All supplies transported from the river bay peninsula to the other side are blocked by the river.

After the iron bridge is built, Hewan can lay the rails to the atrium!

Now the concrete piers in the river have been buried, and a large amount of steel has been delivered to the shore. Looking at the mountains of steel, Grant's eyelids twitched.

It is the most important strategic material in the eyes of other forces, and Hewan uses it to build bridges and roads!

When Grant's delegation arrived at the river bend, Leo did not delay any longer and led the three delegations to the courtyard.

Taking advantage of the Western Territory delegation coming to Hewan, Yue Gechar also came along and went to the Central Court for further studies.

Sitting in the carriage, Yue Gechaer stuck his head out and excitedly looked at the scenery along the gravel road. He shouted to Leo outside: "My Lord Earl, didn't you say you were going to the southern imperial capital? Why are you going to the courtyard?"

Elodie, who was sitting opposite him, looked at Yue Gechaer and chuckled, rolling his eyes and mocking loudly: "You look so ignorant, how shameful!"

His hands, hidden in his sleeves, were twisted together. When the other party was not paying attention, he quietly handed a snack he cooked to Freya, indicating that she should give it to Yue Gechar.

Freya looked at the delicious snacks, then looked at Yue Gechar, then looked at the delicious snacks again, and then looked at Yue Gechar again.

Without any hesitation, swallow it in one gulp.

The carriages at Hewan were equipped with rubber covers and shock-absorbing spring structures, and they traveled on the spacious concrete avenue at a faster but more stable speed than usual.

The convoy of hundreds of people soon arrived at the atrium and came to the portal square.

There is already a team of mages carefully trained by Ai'er here, carefully inspecting a portal base.

The portal base that was originally decorated like a stone sculpture is now inlaid with hundreds of mid- and high-level magic crystals. Amid the magical power, the surrounding mages are shrouded in a layer of colorful light.

After the inspection was completed and confirmed to be correct, the chief mage of the mage team shouted: "Inspection completed, ready to start!"

Following his voice, the portal base vibrated slightly with a "hum" sound, and a green vortex appeared in front of the base.

The vortex grew larger and larger, and finally formed a light gate that was large enough to accommodate the three chariots running in parallel.

In the Imperial Palace Square, at the original location of the teleportation light gate, a green vortex appeared at the same time, attracting the attention of the guards.

By the time Count Bad, deputy commander of the Griffin Knights in charge of the palace's security, and his men arrived, the vortex had stabilized and formed a huge gate of light.

Count Bard's face was gloomy, and he cursed inwardly, "These damn elves, they come and go as they please!"

He did not dare to neglect it and waved his hand, saying, "Hurry and report to His Majesty the Emperor. Well, report to Her Royal Highness the Princess first."

In the atrium, members of Arina's Western Territory delegation and Grant's Odalov delegation were staring at the huge teleportation light gate in amazement.

It was the first time for them to witness such extraordinary power. Looking at the light gate that was like a water curtain, revealing the view of the Southern Territory Palace, they could guess what it was.

On the contrary, the peasants in the river bend were all very calm.

After El opened the portal, he reminded Leo in his mind, "The palace portal has been opened, start your great adventure!"