Mage Joan

At five o'clock on the morning of September 7, Lieutenant Colonel George Vaasa received news from the Assa Scout ahead.

About six miles away in the southwest, a suspicious team was found among the jungles, with a total of more than 20 rides, all of them carrying weapons, half of them were wearing casual clothes, and the rest of the knights were wearing the armor of the Navy Colonial Corps.

Various indications indicate that the opponent is likely to be a scout squad attached to the Musbelheim border guard and shouldering the mission of cross-border reconnaissance.

The next question is, how to deal with this courageous group of sea-blue people?

In fact, this problem is far more complicated than it seems on the surface, and it involves a geopolitical game involving the whole body.

As we all know, between the colony of Yalfheim in the Ashan Empire and the colony of Musbelheim in the azure kingdom, there is a brass mountain range with an average elevation of more than 3000 yards, which is oriented east-west.

Due to the steep mountain range and the jungle, there are many beasts and even monsters. The brass mountain area has been regarded as an extremely dangerous restricted area by the indigenous people living in the north and south since ancient times.

The old world colonists who migrated to Yalfheim and Mossbelheim have been pioneering and reclamation for many years, approaching the Brass Mountains from the north and south.

When the footsteps of colonial expansion reached the foothills of the Brass Mountains, they were forced to stop, and neither side dared to take great risks to cross the mountainous mountains. Therefore, the Brass Mountains acted as a barrier, separating the two colonies from the north and the south, forming a natural Borderline.

With the increasing number of immigrants from the New World, the lands on both sides of the Brass Mountains have also been reclaimed. First, a colonial stronghold was established. Over time, it gradually developed into villages and even towns.

There are trades where there are people. The grains, spirits, woolen cloth, cotton cloth and tobacco produced by Yalfheim are very popular in the vast area south of Brass Mountain, and can be sold at twice the price; Conversely, the gems, precious metals, spices, coffee, and cocoa beans that are abundant in the Mossberheim region are also sought-after in the Yalfheim market.

Driven by interests, businessmen of the two places naturally have a strong demand for mutual trade, and the brass mountains between the two colonies in the north and the south have become a major obstacle to blocking trade exchanges. Break through this channel.

After some in-depth investigation, the explorers were pleasantly surprised to discover that the dense forest in the middle of the Brass Mountains hides a wide pass, and a little clearing can open up a wide avenue for four carriages to pass side by side. Commercial road running through north and south.

If we compare the brass mountain range in the direction of east and west to a row of neat and dense teeth, then the passage found by the explorer is like the only gap in the toothbrush, so it is visually named "Broken Valley", which is later People commonly known as "Brass Pass".

"Broken Tooth Valley" as the only gateway to and from Yalfheim and Mossbelheim not only has irreplaceable commercial value, but also a military strategic place of great strategic value.

As early as the beginning of the last century, the ruling authorities of the Ashan Empire and the Aquamarine Kingdom realized the importance of the Valley of the Broken Tooth, and sent colonial garrisons to establish border defense positions on both sides of the pass, all trying to control this main traffic route.

The colonial authorities of the two sides have sharp conflicts of interest, and over time it is inevitable that they will breed hostility. Military frictions, large and small, have occurred from time to time.

By the beginning of this century, the long-standing conflict between the two sides was finally intensified, and a local war broke out for the dominance of this trade route, which was later widely known as the "ear war" by the residents of Alfheim.

This war actually ended in a tie between the two sides.

The Sea Invaders were escorted back to the south of the mountain pass by Sir Castes, but the Yalfheim garrison did not have enough troops to pursue the victory and kill the mountain pass, let alone conquer the vast land south of the Brass Pass.

The mother countries of the two colonies did not want to continue to bleed for this trade route in the New World, so they signed a paper agreement to temporarily suspend the border disputes and share the trade benefits.

In the blink of an eye, 14 years ago, the border dispute between Yalfheim and Mossbelheim has not yet been resolved.

The two sides also held several meetings at the governor level in an attempt to negotiate border demarcation, but in the end they could not reach consensus.

The historical problem of the border demarcation of the Brass Pass has persisted to this day. The two sides have only reached a verbal compromise. They have agreed to use the broken tooth valley as a boundary. Without advance communication, the border guards of both sides shall not enter the fifty-mile range around the broken tooth valley.

Due to the lack of written constraints in the above agreement, whether to admit it or not is entirely at the discretion of both parties, it is inevitable that there will be a dispute of "publicly speaking, publicly speaking, and rationally speaking."

For example, at this moment, the navy soldiers appear in the disputed area. They may think that they are marching on their own land, and the military of Yalfheim has no right to interfere.

From the standpoint of Lieutenant Colonel Vasa and his officers and men, it must be determined that the actions of the other party are illegal border crossings, otherwise it is equivalent to recognizing that the disputed area near Yamaguchi is the legal territory of the Hailan.

From this standpoint, Lieutenant Colonel Vasa had to resolutely fight back against the provocation of the navy military.

Considering that the enemy’s area is overgrown with forests, which is not conducive to heavy cavalry assault, he assigned the task of dealing with this sea blue scout to the Asa Hunter who was better at woodland combat. Magni personally led the horse and led fifty Under the cover of the forest, the Sa people are quietly approaching the enemy troops and siege them.

Magni patted his chest to ensure the completion of the task, but for safety reasons, he also made a request to Lieutenant Colonel Vasa.

"Can you borrow Joan for me? With him in charge of aerial reconnaissance and spell support, don't even want to escape from those sea-blue villains!"

"I have no opinion, but you have to ask for Joan's opinion."

Of course Joan would not refuse Magni’s request, and immediately turned into an eagle to take off, flying out in less than ten minutes in the direction indicated by the scout, and saw a group of humans eating around a campfire in the forest. Figure.

Joan first blessed himself with "invisibility", and his convergence wings quietly landed on a large tree near the glade. He leaned over and peeped through the leaves to confirm that the group of people around the campfire was the sea blue that was scouted. cavalry.

A total of 24 intruders, half of them in navy uniforms, and some in cloaks, are not like soldiers in terms of manner, but rather like civilian officials.

What made Joan even more surprised was that this group of people had a fire in the forest during the day, and they didn't seem to worry about the fire and smoke exposing them.

There are no sentry posts in the surrounding trees, which is not like a trained professional scout.

Are the military discipline of the navy forces so loose?

Joan secretly suspiciously.

He glanced inadvertently at the crowd below, and he was surprised to find that this group of people... actually had a cook who was grilling small steaks in a hot pan roasted by a campfire!

The scent of butter, pepper, rosemary and roasted meat mixed with the enticing aroma filled the forest.

Joan, who was secretly observing, was greedy with this fragrant smell and could not help swallowing her saliva.

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