A luncheon with exquisite food and delicious food ended towards the evening.
During the banquet, Kant and James also had a detailed discussion about the future planning, especially for the new village to be built at the mouth of the ancient passage, and gave them high hopes.
This is Kant's third village.
It is also the third stronghold of power, a powerful castle that is about to develop.
That's right, that new village, Kant intends to build a castle with more significant military uses.
This is a factor related to the distribution of forces. After all, the river mouth is the intersection of the Lion Principality, the Yinpan Kingdom, and the Wilderness. There are also many hidden dark red sects, Resniston River pirates, and fleets of human nations. hidden power.
It can be said that it is at the mouth of the river, which is equivalent to being on the cusp of the storm.
Villages are easy to build.
Development is also easy.
However, it is not so easy to survive the malice and attacks of many forces.
It even tends to be difficult!
A city is a cluster of people's livelihood buildings. Although there are city walls and arrow towers as the outer shell protection, compared with a castle that is all military buildings and can be armed with the most cutting-edge and strongest city defenses, its defense capability is still weaker.
The towering castle is the main body, and there are walls and arrow towers on the periphery as defense lines.
Even if it is broken through.
The castle alone can continue to hold out.
In the feudal era, the castle system in Western Europe was simply a tortoise shell that integrated defense.
In the period of cold weapons, even if you have millions of troops and all kinds of siege equipment, you can face a well-built high-level castle, even if there are only a thousand people stationed, it will not help.
The advantage of numbers has no effect in front of this kind of building made of huge stones.
Even if there are siege equipment, the same is true.
The era of cold weapons.
No army could easily defeat the defenders of the castle and completely occupy this military building with an absolute status in the history of defense when the defenders were united and there were reinforcements.
Only in the era of thermal weapons, that is, after the invention of artillery, did this phenomenon end.
But the castle at that time had already evolved into a bastion.
The city walls are no longer towering.
But it is heavy.
The main body of the castle is no longer huge.
But the scattered military buildings can be closely linked.
Cooperating with the artillery of the defenders and the muskets held by the infantry, with a well-built bastion, it is no problem to resist dozens of times the enemy troops. It is also a powerful performance of European city defense!
The current Kant army is elite, but the number is small, and short-term training cannot achieve a numerical advantage.
This cannot be compared with those forces with historical background.
Kant worried about crowd tactics.
For example, there are 10 natives in exchange for the life of 1 system soldier.
For Kant, it was a loss-making business, because among his powers, the current army has no more than 10,000 people, which is already his limit. After all, his population is only 25,000.
It is equal to 2.5 civilians supporting 1 soldier.
Most of them are cavalry!
It can be said like this.
If it weren't for the salt trade that brought Kant a steady stream of dinars.
If it weren't for the backing of countless worlds of riding and slashing, Kant would have collapsed on his own in the face of the huge military force he was struggling to maintain, completely losing the capital to conquer this world.
The current Kant didn't directly launch the momentum of swallowing and sweeping the Principality of Lions, because he was worried about this reason.
Once the existing trading system is destroyed.
The dumping system for the planned colonies had not yet been established.
The blow to Kant would be fatal. He couldn't maintain such a huge amount of troops. With a maintenance cost close to 100,000 a week, Kant would not dare to take risks easily. It was really like dancing on the edge of a cliff.
100,000 dinars per week.
The conversion is 400,000 dinars per month.
The salt trade is carried out every two weeks, and each harvest is 250,000 dinars.
The monthly financial income is 500,000 dinars, but after deducting the 400,000 maintenance military expenses, the daily food consumption of all soldiers and civilians, and miscellaneous expenses, there are basically not many dinars left.
The possibility of continued violence is not considered great in Kant's plan.
certainly.
Raiders are a must.
The next step is to deal with the siege of many enemies, which will be a tragic bloody battle.
Kant needs to quickly establish a new village at the mouth of the river, and at the same time quickly upgrade the village to a fortress, and finally upgrade it to a castle in the shortest possible time.
This is the reliance that can firmly hold on to the local area.
But others will not pretend to ignore it.
Estuary location, very close to the Reese Niston River.
It can be said that merchant ships on the Reese Niston River, as long as they look to the north, can find new villages at the mouth of the river, not to mention even bigger fortresses or huge castles.
It is estimated that when the fortress is built, the enemy's offensive is coming.
So Kant has to deliberate carefully.
Just build villages.
Then he must supply it with all his strength to upgrade this village to the peak level of the fortress.
If you're lucky, it will be even more foolproof to upgrade the fortress to the initial stage of the castle before the group of enemies react. Therefore, their task load is extremely heavy, and all of them are placed on this city.
"Aaron" is a city in the Sanwaya Mountains.
Will be the back of the new village!
Talk all night.
Kant and James kept discussing until late at night before going to rest.
In the early morning of the next day, there were desert robbers stationed at the mountain pass station, and they had already galloped on horseback, moving at a high speed in the Nalun Desert, preparing to go to the "Drehem" castle in the sentry oasis to deliver orders.
Manid and Jocelyn temporarily garrisoned the "Drehem" castle.
There are currently no abnormalities.
But they haven't let their guard down either.
Manid, in particular, has completely delegated the salt trade to Jocelyn, the former caravan leader, and asked him to carry out the salt trade with Jianshi Pass on his behalf.
As for Manid, he led the troops to inspect the Nalun Desert.
Centered on Sentry Oasis.
Go up to the Salt Mine Station and down to the Central Station.
There are a large number of light cavalry mixed with a small number of elite heavy cavalry, and the torrent is extremely deterrent.
However, there was an effective situation, especially in the salt mine station. These cavalry defeated many small groups of skeleton cavalry who were still trying to infiltrate here, and protected the re-established salt mine station.
And just near the central post station, many spies of all kinds sent by the Lion Principality were also wiped out.
The Nalun Desert is already in danger.
Kant's arrangement is to tear open a hole in this besieged predicament, let his power extend out, and truly touch the sides of the human nations, using the various suspicions and insecurities of those human powers, In exchange for his rapid development in balance!
PS: I wish you all a happy New Year~
(end of this chapter)