High Above

The war between the rebel mountaineers to reclaim the Lean Territory ended in a swift rout.

As the last broken soldier disappeared into the depths of the jungle, the pilots of the magnetic storm armor who had no intention of continuing the pursuit realized that they were already standing on the enemy's corpse, and there was no longer a mountain left in the position. civil.

They won a great victory - with one-fifth or even less of the enemy's number, they defeated the enemy who was well-equipped and even had three second-level ascendants.

"Long live!"

Among the crowd, a White People's Magnetic Storm Armor driver from Port Harrison took the lead in letting out a heartfelt cheer.

"Victory!"

"We won!" cheers rang out one after another: "Long live!"

"Long live Ian!"

Cheers resounded throughout the hills next to Leian City. They surrounded their young lord and looked at the man who brought incredible victory with incredible and reverent eyes.

From beginning to end, the magnetic storm armor unit led by Ian only lost one person. This guy was captured by the mountain people because the armor's power unit failed. They wanted to torture the young man into the secrets and details of this new type of weapon. Driving methods.

But to be honest, among the people present, which soldier can understand the principles of these weapons? This is Ian's electromagnetic weapon technology from Earth. The average alchemist does not look at the complete drawings given by Ian, and it will take a month or two just to restore the ideas.

The freed prisoner also joined the cheering crowd.

And Ian also let out a long breath, looking at the direction in which the mountain people fled, with mixed feelings in his heart.

——Finally, it’s over. These mountain people are so fucking annoying.

After defeating the mountain men, Ian can be regarded as a true lord of Ryan - next, whether it is a reward from Nauman City or a noble title from the imperial capital, they will all come together.

From then on, the residents of Ryan City will sincerely believe that he can protect them and can be entrusted with their trust.

Next time, if the mountain people still attack, then Ian can completely pull out a knighthood and more than a thousand militia troops from Ryan City and twelve towns... As long as he can make Ryan City operate smoothly and can afford it. money.

This is the true strength of a barony in Terra.

Moreover, this time the battle plan basically relied entirely on timing and the core troops' trust in Ian.

If there were no rain clouds, it would be impossible to use artificial rainfall and use thunder materials to induce thunderstorms to bombard the mountaineer troops. Ian could only lead the Qingchao and Magnetic Storm teams to attack from behind, while Scott and Lan Dian were facing the front. You need to withstand the pressure and rely on Ian's personal strength to pull.

However, if there is no rain, the Cyclops's light prism system and the city defense's charging rifle can also be used, and the battle will become another way.

In short, Qingchao cut off supplies, and Ian drove the armored team to raid, all based on these loyal White People's guards and Harrison Port mercenaries.

If they were afraid of the number of mountain troops, then it would be absolutely impossible for them to achieve the current results with only the two sublimators, Ian and Qingchao.

After all, Ian couldn't expose his ability as a Rockcast Knight in front of so many people. He had to have others accompany him to destroy the formation of the mountain people, so as to induce the enemy Ascended Ones to chase him alone.

But all bad possibilities have been avoided. Now, in the eyes of everyone in Ryan City and even the mountain people, Ian is simply the 'prophet of thunder'.

Although he is actually a prophet.

"Everyone!"

At this moment, Ian raised his hand, and there was silence in the entire camp - everyone was waiting for the lord's speech: "The battle is over, but it's not time to rest yet!"

"Let us collect our trophies - those armors and weapons, as well as the logistics that the enemy left at the river!"

There was another burst of cheers.

Ten minutes later, the recovery team from Ryan City set off.

This time, Ian's harvest was unexpectedly great.

The weapons and equipment of the mountain people are all high-quality goods from Feiyandi. Although compared with the equipment of the empire, they actually have their own advantages and disadvantages, but after all, they are free things.

Because they were fleeing for their lives, most of the fleeing mountain people threw away their armor and weapons. It is difficult to calculate the number of captured people, but it is more than 500 people. After a little rest, all the soldiers in the Ryan Territory will be able to use Feiyan in the future. Full set of equipment.

This is the alien version of the art master.

The number of heavy weapons was small, and some were partially damaged by the mountain people before leaving, but most of them were intact.

Among them, there are five alchemy cannons and twelve ordinary field cannons, which are all heavy firepower for siege.

If they were facing an ordinary Terran city this time and the opponent they faced was a normal baron, they would be able to win no matter how hard they fought. If nothing else, this artillery piece would be able to directly shatter the city's defenses.

Viscount Grant, a frontline Viscount who had been fighting with the natives for decades, had accumulated more than 20 standing alchemy artillery pieces for so long. He only asked Elder Puder to assemble them during the war. Otherwise, the maintenance cost would be too great.

Ian seized one-fifth of the other party's wealth in one go. I don't know how envious and jealous the old boss would be after hearing this.

But this is war.

In addition, there is also Tie Chen's armor.

Although the arms were partially missing and the cockpit was trampled to pieces, the overall frame was intact and the repairs made it a good armor.

But if he really has to maintain two armors, Ian is a little worried about the element crystal - he can't even use it himself, so where can he get the fuel for the second armor?

There is also Chief Zhenzhou's armor at the river. That thing was cut into two pieces by Ian. It can be repaired if you find a chance to recycle it in the future... Apart from anything else, Ian's own Cyclops was also relatively damaged this time. Seriously, if you can't recycle it and use it as repair materials, you can save a lot of money.

But the main thing is that there is no fuel.

This is the way the imperial capital restricts the strength of local nobles... The production lifeline of element crystallization is generally only given to those trustworthy big nobles, and then the big nobles are the core to control other small nobles. This will only be opened during times of war. supply of strategic resources.

But this problem was solved when Qingchao returned with a large number of captured supplies for the mountain people.

"So many elements crystallized?!"

Ian opened his eyes wide and watched as the blue-haired swordsman carried two boxes over with a proud expression. When he opened them, he saw that they were densely packed with prismatic element crystals, all of which were of standard armor fuel specifications.

"After I saw that the mountain people were defeated, I took my team to the place where I attacked the logistics troops before and picked up two boxes and watched the most expensive items come over!"

Qingchao patted his chest and boasted that he was indeed proud this time and said: "How is it, boss? Do I have made a great contribution?"

"Forget it, of course it does. Your success in sneak attack on the logistics force is already a great achievement, and now it is even more merit upon merit!"

Ian looked at the crystallization of these elements and was filled with admiration: "I can't even think of anything to reward you with."

"No, just give me some bonus." After hearing this, Qingchao became vigilant: "The more meritorious a general has, the more he will be feared by the emperor - I don't want that!"

"What are you talking about? I can't control you yet?" Ian raised his head, he was a little angry and a little funny: "Stop talking nonsense, go and rest."

Just these two boxes of element crystals are equivalent to twice the supplies provided by Nauman City. The last supply of element crystals sent by Blue Lightning was already worth one thousand thalers. This is the official internal price, and it is at least three times higher on the black market. God knows how rare these fuels are.

If these two boxes of element crystals were sold, the thalers obtained would be enough to cover most of Ian's income in Ryan City.

If you include alchemical artillery and armor, it's a huge profit.

In addition, there are also some scattered sublimated weapons harvested... Chief Tiechen's battle ax is also an earth source material, and there are many similar things, which is another sum of money.

But after he was happy, Ian frowned instead.

This is not normal.

Where did the mountain people come from so many crystallization elements? No matter how much the support from Feiyandi is taken, it is impossible for the wealthy people to become like this - is it possible to spend so much money just to arm the mountain people?

There is definitely a secret behind the crystallization of these abundant elements!

"Check! We must check! If nothing else, just grab two more rounds, and the territory's alchemy furnace fuel for the next year will be available!"

Ian is determined to get to the bottom of it and understand why the mountain people have so many crystallized elements.

But now, he hid his doubts in his heart and led the loaded team back to Ryan City.

As soon as they returned to the city, there was another cheer. The residents of the city spontaneously poured into the streets to celebrate the victory of the battle. Most of the residents understood that after this victory, at least before the next spring, they would be able to live a peaceful life.

"Long live the lord!"

"Ian! Ian! Ian!"

"We love you, Lord!"

This time, Ian did not use any medicine - all the soldiers and citizens praised him sincerely and from the bottom of their hearts.

Surrounded by soldiers and citizens, Ian stood on the back of the camel beast transporting the loot and waved to everyone in the city. The cheers instantly became louder.

This is most likely due to appearance - good personal appearance means you are easily popular.

Ian smiled and headed towards the castle on the top of the cliff.

Speaking of which, it is time to formulate a development plan for Laian City in a real sense.

During the recent period, Ian has been preparing war technology, whether it is magnetic storm armor or rechargeable rifles. Although they are useful, they cannot be used for people's livelihood.

However, after knowing the truth about the Nether Crystal Engine, Ian actually came up with a brand new 'new planting industry production plan' surrounding the rich source area of ​​​​Lian. This requires a large amount of building materials and workers, which is just right. Used to restore the post-war economy of Rhian Territory.

In addition, the new planting industry also requires a lot of energy, and the development of a new alchemy furnace core or a 'ley line furnace' can be put on the agenda.

Next, comes the regulation of ‘artificial intelligence’. The Dead Lord and Silver Chip worked together to bring three more computing units to Ian this time. The computing power of the computing units was now enough to support the 'combat artificial intelligence' copied by Ian.

In this way, he can use artificial intelligence to assist in the management of the territory, at least to help calculate taxes and resource allocation.

At least AI won’t line its pockets.

Regarding artificial intelligence-related technologies, Ian wants to discuss the specific details with Adlbert. He is a master alchemist in psychic energy and will definitely have some excellent suggestions.

But then again, Ian has now discovered that the noble lords of Terra don't seem to have too many skills related to development-for someone like him who is an alchemist and can inscribe, he was still in his previous life. Engineers are really in the minority.

Many nobles want to build an alchemy workshop to strengthen the production of their territory, so they can only pay to hire other alchemists to take advantage of the funds, but Ian does not have to.

He is an expert himself, and when the trade routes become clearer in the future, he can also move his alchemy laboratory in the imperial capital.

However, that should be very later. Baron Ryan's laboratory is actually very complete. After all, it is a place where resurrection experiments are conducted. It is temporarily used now, and coupled with the alchemy equipment sent by Isengard, it is enough to support Ian's research.

"The next thing that should be done most...should be to quickly recover the entrance to the Gu Yanfeng Gorge and build a tower camp there to prevent the rebellious mountain people from having evil ideas."

When he arrived at the gate of the castle, Ian could barely recover his thoughts. He immediately felt that there were too many things that needed to be managed in a territory. In addition to these general plans, what he had to do recently were recruiting troops, resuming production, and trying to Popularize some professional knowledge in alchemy.

In Ian's plan, when the new planting industry is launched, Ryan Territory will not need so many planters, or in other words, it will not need so many ordinary planters. What he needs is a group of people who are skilled in sublimation plants. Relevant knowledge and 'skilled workers' of alchemists.

But there’s no rush yet…there’s still time to think slowly.

In the castle, Scott, Qingchao, and Adlbert were all waiting for him.

"Boss, you brought a perfect victory."

Qingchao was the first to speak, and he bowed seriously to Ian: "I originally thought that it would take a few more years for me to truly serve you, but I never thought it would happen so soon."

This blue-haired swordsman has always appeared to be a bit of a mercenary to outsiders, but Ian knew that he was a serious and serious young man who even had a bit of a literary flair in his spare time. This time he led the sneak attack team to complete the task perfectly. His mission is very reliable.

He took refuge in Ian. As a 'retainer', he originally valued Ian's future and made plans to make long-term investments for more than ten years.

Who knew that in less than a year, the harvest seems to be about to begin?

Is Allegiance Investment so good?

"I didn't do anything." Scott shook his head slightly: "It all depends on your new technology and raids."

He even looked a little ashamed, and Adlbert stood behind, not daring to speak.

"It's not just me." Ian looked around at these friends and nodded slightly: "It's our victory. Qingchao doesn't need to say more, Scott, if I didn't have you as an adjutant, where would I have the time to develop new technologies? Don't Don't belittle yourself, think carefully, without you, would others be able to make the right decision and confront the mountain army led by Tie Chen for so long?"

"There will be times when you will be busy in the future. Then I may not be able to see anyone for a week to conduct an experiment. Who do you think can help me with government affairs?"

After finishing speaking, Ian turned his head: "Guying, don't shrink aside. Just smile when you should."

"And now, it is indeed time to start establishing a standard government affairs team - Scott will be my supervisor in the future, Guying will be in charge of the alchemy workshop, Qingchao, you have to think about it too For a moment, do you plan to be the captain of my personal guard, or do you plan to be the future leader of the Territory Defense Force?"

"Huh?" Qingchao was stunned. He didn't understand: "Is there a difference?"

"And you can't have both?"

"Only a child would want to have both." Ian shook his head: "Adults know that one job is enough. Are you sure you want to do both? Let me tell you in advance, the workload is not small..."

"Guards!"

Hearing the faint warning in Ian's tone, Qingchao raised his hand to express surrender.

He used to be a mercenary, so of course he knew how annoying it was for Party A to ask for temporary tasks, so how could he ask for two jobs and find himself in trouble: "I'm actually not good at leading soldiers at all - to be honest, I felt that this beheading raid task It suits me very well, but when there are too many people, I can’t do it. I can’t even remember the names of those soldiers!”

"Um."

Ian nodded slightly. After hearing Qingchao's personal thoughts, he could arrange his work.

"Wait, Ian."

After deciding on the plan, Ian seemed to be planning to go upstairs to continue working, but it was Adlbert who spoke.

The white-haired dead king said to Ian seriously: "Tonight... just don't work, right? Everyone... is very happy outside, and everyone wants to see you."

"Besides, you are actually very tired. Since you won, you should be happy. Would it be better to relax a little?"

He can directly see the state of people's souls, so his opinions are sincere and reasonable.

"Um."

Ian thought about it and thought so, so he nodded and smiled: "Okay. Then I'll go outside and announce that today's bacon and wine... Oh, it seems there is no wine, so the food is free - the Lord's Mansion is responsible for today's victory celebration. All expenses incurred by Qing.”

"All those who have family members who are militiamen and participated in this war against the mountain people will be given two boxes of food. After the territory's financial statistics are completed, there will be additional military pay."

Today's harvest is too much. Ian said this with confidence - this can also be regarded as preparation for future recruitment work. He will need force support for many things in the future, and he must make the people in the territory think that he will participate in city defense. A military or escort is a very beneficial thing.

"As for us...well, let's take a day off today and start official work tomorrow."

After speaking, Ian's expression relaxed - the young man who had been tense since leaving the Imperial Capital and returning to Nanling showed a relaxed expression from the bottom of his heart.

Obtaining territory and developing power...this first step can be considered a successful achievement.

It's time to... have some fun with everyone.

Tonight, Leian City is full of joy.

But some are happy and some are sad.

Having said that, Feiyandi's side was not happy.

More updates for the leader