rise of empire total war

Chapter 516 Difficulty
October 1127, 10 in the continental calendar, is the national day of the great motherland in another world.

The second and third brigades of the expeditionary force all landed on the shore, and the soldiers entered the ruined fortress group. They then divided the work under the guidance of the artisans accompanying the army, and some of them used the waste stones and nearby trees to rebuild the camp. Part of it is to go to the beach to build a temporary port where the warship can dock, and also to allow the supplies on the transport ship to be transported to the shore.

Although the soldiers can go ashore in small boats, it is difficult to transport the heavy supplies to the ashore by small boats. Therefore, apart from taking an Ansmara port and unloading there, the fleet can only build a temporary one here. camp out.The first option is obviously impossible, because the expeditionary force is not familiar with this place, and it is very likely that the fleet will get lost before finding the port.

While building the stronghold, Trond Olsen, the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary army, also sent scouts to go deep into the inland to investigate. The trend is even darker. If the Ansmara colonial army relies on their understanding of this area to fight them, they can only fight hastily.

What's more, before they set off, they got a very important thing from the ocean-going merchants who returned to the Wadasia Peninsula. In order to guard against the expeditionary force, the Ansmara people had close contacts with the indigenous tribes on the Zane continent. Maybe they joined forces with them to fight against the expeditionary army. The merchants didn't know much about the native tribes, but they could still get the characteristics of the Zane natives from the few words recorded in the books.

The aborigines on the continent of Zane have many common characteristics. Their warrior equipment is simple and backward. Only chiefs and some nobles can wear chain mail, which is expensive in the eyes of the aborigines, and use sharp iron long swords and strong shields.A small number of warriors at the next level of nobility can also wear chain mail, but more people can only wear leather armor made of rhinoceros hide and other animal skins. Although their weapons are also iron, most of them are iron. Used for many years, it is full of gaps, which symbolizes their military exploits in the eyes of the indigenous warriors.

In addition to the noble class and the warrior class, the ruled tribal people will also participate in the war, because the most valuable thing on this continent is the population, so every time a war breaks out, each participating tribe can pull out a large number of troops, The core of the army is a small number of elite fighters, and the rest are tribal people who fight the enemy bravely with their blood. ), but they couldn’t stand the crowd, and they often fight with each other, and the side with more people wins.

Therefore, when the Vadasian explorers who went to Zane continent to explore returned to their hometown after going through hardships and obstacles, when they wrote their travel notes, they basically summarized the fighting scenes of Zane natives they saw in this sentence : There are a large number of Zanes, brave and warlike, but poorly equipped, like barbarians.

I forgot to mention that Zane native tribes are generally divided into four classes.The first class is the chieftain who is the ruler and those nobles who are loyal to him. They enjoy the best treatment in the tribe and have the most wealth; People with combat effectiveness are exempted from farming and labor since childhood, and only need to train combat skills, or follow people to participate in large-scale wild animal hunting activities, they are the backbone of the tribe; the third class is the vast tribal people, who were born in the tribe Growing up, they have been integrated with the tribe. They are the most basic manpower, responsible for farming crops and hunting, providing food to the tribe, and also picking up the weapons passed down from their ancestors in wartime, and following the warriors to the battlefield; the fourth class They are the lowest and least human rights slaves. They are basically prisoners of war captured in battles between tribes, or the population plundered when they harassed the Ansmara colony.

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"This ghost place is really unexpectedly desolate."

Looking at the yellow sand all over the ground, Bjorn, the captain of the scouting team, subconsciously sighed, "It's no wonder he said that, whether it's in the Vadasia Peninsula or in the holy Kuyavi Empire to the north, everywhere is full of greenery." The endless yellow sand can only be seen in Zane Continent, a tropical place.

Although it has entered October, the daytime temperature in Zane Continent is still not low. If calculated in degrees Celsius in future generations, it should be more than 30 degrees at this time. Zane Continent is very hot during the day, but at night it seems to be... After arriving at another place, the temperature dropped sharply, and the lowest could reach below zero. Therefore, without taking corresponding precautions, many soldiers of the newly arrived expeditionary force could not withstand the extreme temperature changes and fell ill and were bedridden.

Considering this situation, Lieutenant General Trond suspended the next military operation, otherwise he could leave a brigade to continue building strongholds and temporary ports, and send a brigade to continue military operations. Although this is a bit risky, Trond does not Think that the long winning streak will end on such a barren continent.

Cough, far away.

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Stopped and watched the almost endless yellow sand in front of them for a while, the scouting cavalry composed of carbines drove their horses and ran forward again. According to their chief, there are only a few Ansmara colony gathering points located in the On the coast, as a window for foreign exchanges of the colony, although the number of these port gathering points is small, compared with the inland gathering points, they are very prosperous and have a large population. They are the main targets for scouts.And those a large number of gathering points scattered inland are more like castles. There are many colonial troops stationed in each gathering point, and the residents live behind solid walls.

Speaking of which, the expeditionary army knew where Begowo City, the capital of the Begowo Colonial Territory, was located. Begowo City was a coastal port city with a permanent population of more than [-] residents, making it the most prosperous city in the entire Colonial Territory. , is also the place where the Governor lives.The expeditionary force could have gone directly to the city of Begowo, launched an attack from the sea, and occupied the city, but Trond and Sigurd were worried that the Ansmara would fail in their attack if they garrisoned the city heavily. , so I decided to land nearby, and after gaining a firm foothold on the ground, I went to attack Begowo City.

However, what they didn't expect was that the expeditionary army was attacked by abnormal temperatures as soon as they landed. Many soldiers in the army fell ill. Caught in a dilemma.

(End of this chapter)