Lord of War

Sean's team didn't stay in this small village for long.

They just rested for a day, and after purchasing some food from the village, they started their journey again. And the destination of this journey is their final stop - Tonis Fortress.

This huge fortress towering above the Angoroda Mountains cost materials worth tens of millions of gold coins and took a year to build.

The entire fortress is not a simple foundation building, but a magnificent building formed by relying on the direction of the Angloda Mountains. It is different from the two-story structure of conventional fortresses. Tonis Fortress is a rare five-story building, modeled on the ancient ark shelter—of course, this so-called shelter drawing is only designed by latecomers out of thin air. Not really an ark shelter.

But in any case, Tonis Fortress is indeed the most magnificent building on the Miracle Continent so far.

The fortress is composed of five parts: the outer city, the inner city, the outer defense area, the inner defense area, and the fortress area.

From the map, the whole fortress looks like a "T" laid out horizontally. On the topmost horizontal line of the T, the side facing the Kingdom of Dabiang is the outer city, while the side facing the Principality of Ryan is the outer city. It is an inner city, and it is also a city residence——Although Tonis Fortress is the name of a fortress, this fortress is not a complete military fortress. There are also a large number of citizens living here, and its permanent entrance is even more As many as 100,000, it is the fifth largest city in the entire Principality of Ryan.

And the vertical line below the T is the real core area of ​​the entire fortress.

This building complex is built on the hillside, and the outer defense area is connected to the inner city, but the fortifications on the city wall can take care of the outer city. That is to say, once the enemy breaks through the gate of the fortress and enters the outer city, the fortifications in the outer defense zone can be put into use immediately, thus bringing extremely lethality to the enemy; When street fighting is launched in the inner city, the outer defense zone can still play a very high role in defense assistance.

Moreover, in the outer defense area, there is a vast area where a thousand cavalry troops can charge and fight. Asuna spent a lot of money to level the terrain. As for the inner defense area and the fortress area further back, they were built with complex maze-like buildings. These two places are the real meat grinding battlefields of the Tony Fortress. If the fortress area cannot be completely taken down, it cannot be regarded as completely occupying the entire Fortress of Tonis.

This fortress can accommodate more than 300,000 soldiers in total, which is four times the number of soldiers that can be accommodated by the Saint-Drones Fortress. However, for a fortress of such a size, the number of soldiers for daily maintenance, patrolling, and vigilance has naturally reached an astonishing level-at least 30,000 soldiers are needed per shift to complete the guard, patrol, and vigilance of the entire fortress. And daily maintenance, according to the three-shift system of the military code, this fort needs 100,000 soldiers to work every day.

It can be called the best in the world.

It's just that this fortress has never experienced any war baptism since the day it was built.

The Principality of Ryan is also famous all over the world because of this fortress.

The Tonis Fortress can be said to be the core of the entire Tonis Territory. It is the shame of the Kingdom of Darbion and the honor of the Principality of Ryan! Its existence keeps the rear of the entire Principality of Ryan in a safe and sound environment. As long as this giant fortress is not breached, the Principality of Ryan will never be invaded by the Kingdom of Dabion.

And how easy is it to break through this fortress?

At least with the military power of the Kingdom of Dabion, this is an impossible thing to do.

It took Xiao En a month and a half to lead from Danaville to Fortress Tonis, which was not too long, because he had to pass through the territory of an earl and a viscount. The viscount's territory is the one that Asuna exchanged with him at the beginning, but after so many years, this viscount doesn't seem to be very good at management, and his territory is smaller than when Asuna gave it to him Quite a few, and after so many years, he is still a viscount, and his future can be imagined.

The Principality of Ryan and the Kingdom of Dabion are now in a honeymoon period of peace—in fact, even if the Kingdom of Dabion wants to have peace, it will not work, because the border is connected with the Tonys of Asuna. In the current situation, they were completely terrified by the Marquis, so now they dare not provoke the Marquis at all, fearing that she would have another excuse for war.

In order to avoid this situation, the border garrison of the Kingdom of Dabion abruptly withdrew 50 kilometers from the border, which made Asuna dare not take the move even if she wanted to provoke it. And it is impossible for her to blatantly let the army go deep into the territory of the Kingdom of Bion, which does not conform to the traditional rules of the game. If the Kingdom of Dabion is just a weak country, then it does not matter for Asuna to do so, but Darby The Kingdom of Ang is not a weak country. Once a war is launched, it is impossible to end it in a short time.

And once the army is dragged into the quagmire of war, Asuna and the Principality of Ryan behind it will fall into the pressure of public opinion if it is unreasonable.

Although there is no so-called United Nations in this country, there is a large group of sharks. With the Principality of Ryan so powerful, even if other countries do not intervene, the Millennium Covenant Empire behind it cannot allow the Principality of Ryan to grow. The annual tribute paid by a dependent country is quite considerable, so the Millennium Covenant Empire can sit back and watch the Principality of Ryan swallow the Angoroda Mountains, but it is impossible to sit and watch the Principality of Ryan swallow the Kingdom of Dabion, and then change from a principality to a kingdom.

This is the reason why Asuna needs to find a suitable excuse to go to war against the Dabion Kingdom. Only in this way can the mouth of public opinion be blocked, and the mouth of the Millennium Covenant Empire be blocked. As for the final outcome, Asuna is very confident that before the Millennium Covenant Empire officially intervenes, she will break through the capital of the Dabion Kingdom and annex the entire Dabion Kingdom.

Therefore, in the current situation where the two countries maintain friendship and peace, Fort Tonis did not close the trade gate to the Kingdom of Darbion, which caused the daily inflow of the entire fort to reach tens of thousands. Under such circumstances, it is naturally not too noticeable or too difficult for Sean and his troops to enter the Fortress of Tonis. The garrison of the fortress obviously regarded them as mercenaries of a certain caravan, or something else. , anyway, after paying the entrance fee to enter the city, they didn't come in to embarrass them.

Although it wasn't the first time he had come to Tonis Fortress, when Sean entered the fortress again, he was still shocked by its spectacular scene again.

The entire inner city is full of prosperity.

When Xiao En's troops entered here, it felt like throwing a stone into the sea, that is, after splashing a small splash for the city's traffic income, it was gone. Compared with a team like Xiao En with less than 150 members, hundreds or even thousands of large mercenary groups or mercenary groups can be found everywhere. It's just a slightly bigger water flower.

The area of ​​the inner city is quite large, and the main roads are all avenues that can accommodate eight carriages abreast, and it is obvious that extremely detailed consideration and planning have been done when the city was built, and the whole city looks extremely clean and tidy. The speed of the carriage on the main road is not fast. The slack phenomenon of carriages that is common in ordinary cities is completely invisible here in the Tonis Fortress. Besides, except for military reports, the inner city of Tonis is not allowed to enter. Anyone who rides a horse in the city will be punished for a felony.

If the destination you want to go to is a bit far away, but you don't have a carriage, you can take the rental carriage that Lord Qiandao wanders around. This kind of horse-drawn carriage is similar to taxis on Earth, except that the horse-drawn carriages in the entire fortress are all products under the name of Asuna, so the income in this aspect naturally belongs to Asuna—and it is an exclusive business. It is not allowed to open such a horse-drawn carriage dealership here.

After all, to maintain the operation of such a fortress, Asuna's expenditure is actually very large.

And the reason why this fortress city is so popular here is naturally because of its excellent security effect, and the residents' life safety is guaranteed. On the street, at every intersection, there is a soldier wearing chain mail, wearing a silver-red robe, and holding a long dagger standing guard, and on the roofs of some houses, there are soldiers in the same attire, but the weapons in their hands It's not a long spear, but a long bow.

In addition, there are watchtowers at intervals in the inner city. This watchtower can observe the surrounding situation within 200 meters, and next to the watchtower is a base station. According to the patrol route, the patrolling soldiers must sign in every time they pass by a base station to ensure that there will be no mistakes in the patrol. Moreover, there are about ten soldiers stationed in the base station, and they can provide emergency reinforcements for emergencies within a radius of 200 meters.

Moreover, there are bonfires in the watchtower. Once a major event occurs within the jurisdiction of the watchtower, the soldiers in the watchtower will light the bonfire immediately. After that, all the soldiers nearby will block all the passing by the watchtower, and wait for the fortress troops to come out to deal with the situation.

This is Fortress Tonis, a rich and well-defended fortress.

Sean walked the streets of the fortress with his troops, and while telling Cecilia and others about the situation of the fortress, various situations, and special buildings, he walked towards the hotel he remembered. People around were surprised that Xiao En knew this fortress so well, and even the soldiers on guard and patrolling were equally surprised, because Xiao En actually knew this fortress better than them. One point is indeed very doubtful.

But looking at Xiao En's actions, it didn't seem like a spy, so although these soldiers were puzzled, at least they didn't come up to stop him. Of course, it was impossible for them to act as if they hadn't seen anything. Soon a soldier followed Sean and waited for him to enter, but he didn't say anything to disturb Sean's team, and he kept a relatively appropriate distance. You can hear what Sean is saying without disturbing Sean.

From this point of view, it can be seen that the quality of the soldiers in Fortress Tonis can be seen.

When Sean came to an inn and opened a room for everyone to stay in, the soldier kept watching for a while, and he turned and left after confirming that there was no problem. However, Xiao En believed that there would soon be more professional soldiers watching the movements of his army, and within ten minutes, information about him entering the city would appear on Asuna's desk.

"Okay, let's take a rest first." Sean said.

"What about you?" Cecilia asked.

"I'm going to the City Lord's Mansion to meet our future Lord."

"Now?" Everyone was surprised.

"Of course." Sean nodded, "Okay, you don't have to go, I can do it myself. ... This time, things should go relatively smoothly. You don't have to worry so much. Next we may If you want to live here for a while, if you have nothing to do, just go and visit this city."

After finishing speaking, Sean left the hotel, and after asking a soldier about the location of the Santo's Mansion, he walked directly towards the Santo's Mansion.

Sean believed that Asuna would soon receive information about his movements, combined with his previous familiarity with the fortress, if he asked to meet at this time, Asuna should have no reason to refuse. This step is the small change Sean made.