Chapter 1457: War Clouds (Ⅱ)

If the Feizhen naval fleet controls the port, the entire Midgard City will be paralyzed, and the urban area, including the Governor’s Palace and the Parliament Building, will be completely threatened by the muzzle of the enemy warship.
If the Fijian Army took the opportunity to go south from Jothamheim and cooperated with the naval fleet to siege Midgard, the hundreds of thousands of residents in the city had only two roads to go, either surrender to the Fijians or fled south. The result was a loss of homeland and a complete defeat.
Sir Nichols and Baron Laval are even more worried about the second march of Fiji.
The total number of regular troops stationed by the Fijian Kingdom in the Jordonheim colony is only 4,000, which is similar to the number of troops stationed in the Midgard colony.
Baron Laval is not afraid of fighting with the enemy on land, but he is powerless to deal with the wind and waves at sea.
The Fijian Kingdom, with the most powerful naval fleet in the world of Vales in this era, is a well-deserved overlord at sea!
At the beginning of this century, the Holy Asan Empire attempted to challenge the real human hegemony at sea, but suffered a fiasco. As a result, the Imperial Navy has not yet fully recovered its vitality.
There are only a dozen or so naval ships in the Midgard colony. Most of them are old-fashioned sail warships. It is very reluctant to fight pirates and smuggle inspections on weekdays. It is simply unable to fight the powerful Feizhen navy fleet.
The only thing to be thankful is that the Fijian military has a long history of internal fighting, the navy and the army have their own systems, and they have a lot of grievances.
The navy general despised the army's land turtle. The army general accused the navy of leading only high salaries. Dirty jobs still depended on the army, but the military expenditure was only one-fifth of the navy's.
The current governor and garrison generals of the Jordonheim colony are all from the Fijian Army system.
The Secretary of the Navy publicly declared that he was not interested in the dispute in the colony of Jortonheim, and he was more inclined to send a naval fleet to defend the interests of the Kingdom in the Grablen region.
Of course, the Graberon colony, located at the southernmost tip of the New World, has always been a private reserve for senior officers of the Fijian Navy.
The Fijian military infighting gave the Midgard people a glimmer of hope. At least for now, it is unlikely that the Fijian naval fleet will block Midgarde. The threat is mainly from their northern neighbors.
In addition to this evil neighbor in the north, Midgard also has a neighbor in the south, which is the colony of Alfheim under the sacred Ashan Empire.
Due to the inconvenience of land transportation, the residents of Midgard and Yalfheim seldom traveled, and usually did not realize that the other side was their own countrymen.
Now that the battle is about to start, Sir William Nichols finally remembers his fellow countrymen in the South. The third strategy for preparing for war with Baron Laval is to strengthen cooperation with the southern colonies, from the owners of the manor in Yalfheim, Purchase military supplies such as grain, cotton, linen and livestock in large quantities to enrich military food, quilts and warhorse reserves.
In the two colonies of the Holy Asan Empire in the New World, Midgard and Yalfheim have different natural endowments and developed different economic models.
The northern climate is cold and the land is relatively barren, but the mineral resources are abundant and the industry is more developed.
The southern climate is mild and the land is fertile, but the mineral resources are barren and the traditional plantation industry is more developed.
On the surface, the economic models of the two colonies in the north and south happened to complement each other. The northerners came to the south to buy agricultural products and industrial raw materials, and instead sold industrial products to the southern market. They just happened to play their respective comparative advantages and form a complete trade chain.
Sir Nichols had the same idea at first, but his compatriots in the South had other plans and soon gave the North Brothers a lesson.
Sir Nickles sent a trade team to the south to buy military supplies. He was met with an unexpectedly cold reception at the Port of Leiden, the colonial capital of Alfheim.
Sir Nichols had expected the Alfheim people to pay attention to their compatriots and sell military supplies at a more favorable price. The local federation of agricultural and pastoral products, an organization controlled by the owners of large plantations, priced outrageously high prices for cereals, cotton, hemp and livestock that the northern compatriots badly needed!
You can't afford it? Then don't buy it.
We can sell it to the Feizhen people in Jodenheim, and people bid higher!
what? You say that this kind of behavior is to make "country difficult to make money" and is an enemy to sell the country?
Sorry, as long as you can make more money, who cares which country you are!
The big planters of Yalfheim were born and raised on a continent far away from their home country. Their emotions towards the home country have long been indifferent. The ethereal fellowship or patriotic enthusiasm does not even include a copper plate in their minds. value!
In fact, this is no wonder. After all, the two colonies in the North and the South are not affiliated with each other, and even a "confederation" is not counted. There is no common interest except for a nominal joint leader-His Majesty the Emperor.
In the eyes of ordinary residents, the relationship between Alfheim and Midgard is the relationship between the two countries. The "nationalism" and the like are in the old continent--especially in the Far East--a new concept that is widely popular, and in the new continent But there is no market.
The time goes back to a year ago. In the fall of 1620, when the colony of Alfheim and the colony of Mossbelheim were in conflict, the Midgards ignored the sufferings of their fellow citizens in the South, let alone Send money to support the Alfheim people.
Now that the time is coming in the winter of 1621, the Meadgard colony and the Fiorenten Judenheim colony clashed for fierce crystal deposits. When the residents of the north were actively preparing for war, the residents of Yalfheim also enjoyed their own peace. In the days, I was very happy to have such an opportunity to blackmail the exorcist Gads, and did not mind using the war threat and survival pressure suffered by the northern compatriots to make a fortune.
This is the status quo of the colonies of the New World, cold and realistic.
However, no one expected at this time that this situation of north-south fragmentation would soon be reversed.
Just three weeks after the passing of the motion equivalent to the declaration of war by the lower house of Fijian, another great power in the world of Valais, "Sea Blue", also exposed the greed and bloodthirsty to the sacred Ashan Empire, this old "mudfoot giant" Fangs.
On December 4, 1621, the garrison commander Sir Louis Jumonville of the Musbelheim colony led the 2,000 elite cavalry from the frontline fortress Duquesne, and joined the twelve jackals of the jackal queen Alpha , Head north into the Brass Pass.
The Brass Pass is the border between Musbelheim and Yalfheim, and also the main transportation route between North and South. The Sea Blue Corps brazenly crossed the border, which in fact constituted a colony of the Imperial Alfheim Aggression!
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