Master Tongtian

Chapter 345 Southerners are too rich (13)

The territory of Crescent Town is only 35 kilometers long and wide.

Less than 20 minutes after receiving the military information, Rosen piloted a newly built aircraft and landed in the sky of Crescent Fortress.

Because the construction cost has been greatly reduced, and the land is very barren, the Crescent Fortress is built on a very wide area, with a length and width of more than one kilometer.

Also because Rosen has become an independent Golden Baron, the upper limit of 1,000 guards does not exist.

In fact, as long as Rosen has enough money, he can raise as many as he wants.

He is not short of money now, but he is short of safety.

Therefore, 2,000 more people were recruited, reaching a scale of 3,000 people, to form a new rifle corps to deal with the threat of ice dwarves.

In the center of the training square.

As soon as he landed and left the cabin, Legion Commander Hamia immediately waved to a group of elite soldiers around him.

"Surround the magic weapon and guard it at all times. Except for the lord, no one is allowed to get closer than 50 meters."

Rosen walked straight to the command barracks, and the chief and deputy corps commanders headed by Hamiya and Watson followed closely behind him.

Angelou was not there.

Because he is from the south and has good water qualities.

Rosen sent him to take 500 elite warriors who could swim and the most useful ones to rush to the Feiyu Islands in advance.

Also going were the third apprentice Anweniya and Master Lydia to avoid any accidents on the way.

After all, what we have to take over is a new territory with strong people, and simple canonization documents are definitely not enough.

On the way, Rosen asked: "How many ice dwarves have come?"

Hamiya had already found out clearly: "A hundred thousand people came, a mixed army of warriors and civilians, of which there were only 10,000 formal warriors."

Rosen's eyebrows twitched slightly when he heard this: "One hundred thousand~ This means everyone who can fight has come."

There are 1.3 million ice dwarves in the Frost Land, and the number has reached 100,000, which means that all the ice dwarves with some strength have arrived.

It also shows that the food shortage is really to a certain extent. If we don't succeed in grabbing a wave, there will probably be a tragedy of cannibalism in the clan.

No, it must have appeared.

Hamia continued to introduce: "We just captured a beast king prisoner from the tunnel and asked for some information."

"He said that the leader this time was a great warrior named Asak, who brought at least 400 beast king wizards under his command, and asked us to surrender quickly."

At this time, a group of people had arrived at the command barracks.

Rosen naturally sat in the main seat, while the legion commander and deputy legion commander sat on both sides of him. Staff, clerks and other civil servants were on one side, ready to serve the lord at any time.

"Bring the Beast King prisoner here, I want to ask him personally."

"Yes, Lord."

Soon, an unlucky guy was escorted by two elite middle-level warriors wearing thick leather armor inlaid with steel and carrying repeating rifles.

Hamiya introduced: "This is the giant rat beast king, who specializes in digging holes. His giant rat, which was bigger than a calf, has been killed by us."

Rosen carefully looked at the kneeling ice dwarf below, and saw that he was only wearing a pair of pants that covered his knees, but he had no clothes or shoes. He showed a skinny figure, which was much thinner than the ice dwarf he saw last time. Much thinner.

But even though he is thin, his strength is still there.

Although he was forced to kneel on the ground, his upper body was upright. After seeing Rosen, his eyes showed deep hatred.

Rosen was very curious: "It's obviously you who invaded my territory, why do you hate me? Shouldn't I hate you?"

The giant rat beast king shouted in jerky common language: "Because you are despicable!"

"Where's the meanness?"

"Because you don't dare to stand upright with our warriors, but hide behind the high wall! Not to mention digging up the high wall, even the earth has been polluted by your evil spells!"

He dug all the way, digging all the way to a depth of thirty meters underground, but it was still solidified by the petrification technique, which made people feel deep despair.

Rosen knew this because it was what he ordered.

With the Divine Iron Core, the value of mana was greatly depreciated, so Hal took the construction mage and the Divine Iron Core to petrify an entire mountain and a 50-meter-deep base.

Now when they saw the appearance of the ice dwarf, everyone laughed.

Several legion commanders looked at the giant rat beast king of the ice dwarves like a clown.

Hamiya mocked: "You can do this too, and no one stops you from doing it?"

The ice dwarf gritted his teeth and said nothing, but he could not hide the despair in his eyes.

I thought that by launching an army of 100,000 people to go south, they would be able to grab a large amount of food and take it back.

To this end, they spent several months preparing everything, doing everything they could, and headed south excitedly, crossing the dangerous Snowy Mountains with great hardships.

But I didn't expect that at this last moment, I would encounter a cliff wall that was higher than the highest cliff in the world!

It's like when shit hits the mouth, and an iron stake is driven into the asshole, not to mention how uncomfortable it is.

Seeing such a giant rat beast king, Rosen knew that the ice dwarf army was unable to break through the cliff wall, and if it could not break through, it would not pose any threat to Crescent Town.

After thinking for a while, Rosen made his decision.

"We in Crescent Town are a peace-loving town and are never afraid of fighting, but fighting is the last method we will choose."

"I want to talk to your leader Asak, so I will let you go back to report."

"If he is unwilling to communicate, tell Asak that I am the mage who threw the giant beast on the moonlight battlefield, and the mage who fought against the evil god in the mine with Trunks, the White Wolf Beast King."

"If he wants to fight, I will fight to the end! But if he wants to solve the problem in other ways, I also welcome it."

After saying this, I saw a look of surprise on the face of the giant rat beast king: "Ah, it's you!"

"you know me?"

"I've heard about you"

The hatred on the giant rat beast king's face became much lighter: "You are a strong man worthy of respect. I will tell the leader the exact words."

Rosen waved his hand: "Let's go up to the cliff wall."

Soon, the group arrived at the top of the cliff wall, escorted by about 300 elite soldiers carrying submachine guns.

This cliff city wall is really high. Not to mention standing on the top of the mountain, it is eighty meters high and fifty meters wide. Its foundation is deeply embedded in the mountain. Just looking at it makes people feel... despair.

Not to mention mortals, the Ice Emperor was speechless when he saw it.

Standing at such a high place, using binoculars to observe the valley in the distance, you can see that there are densely packed ice dwarf warriors stationed in the valley about 3 miles away.

After a little counting, I found that the number may be less than 100,000, but it's not far off.

Rosen placed a long-lasting dandelion on the giant rat beast king: "Jump, you can float back to the military camp in ten minutes."

The giant rat beast king climbed up the battlements, jumped up, and floated toward the valley with a whirring sound.

On the city wall, Rosen glanced at the thirty large petrified steel cannons placed around him. After a little calculation, he knew that when fired from the top of the mountain, high-level rune shells with high power could easily land on the ice dwarf camp, which would be enough to attack the ice dwarf camp. It causes astonishing damage.

He said: "If the negotiation goes unfavorably later, fire a few cannons near the camp to show these dwarf miners how powerful we are."

If you can't be scared anymore, fly a plane and use a cannon to plow the opponent's camp.

"Yes, Lord."

Hamill waved his hand, and the artillerymen began to adjust the muzzles.

After waiting for more than half an hour, a group of ice dwarves rushed into the valley.

There were about thirty people in this group of ice dwarves. They were all wearing clothes and pants, but they were all barefoot and had no hats, let alone cloaks.

This group of people are also relatively tall, and they all have mounts, either giant bears or white wolves.

The one at the front rode a group of weird horses with long horns and wore iron armor with exquisite craftsmanship. He should be the general of the ice dwarves.

Soon, these ice dwarves ran wildly and finally stopped in an open space 200 meters away.

An ice dwarf riding on a big white wolf ran forward a little further, stopped more than a hundred meters away, and shouted at the city wall.

"Master Rosen~How did you become a lord?"

It was none other than Trunks, the White Wolf Beast King who had fought alongside him.

Rosen used the voice of the collective soul and laughed loudly: "Our great lord saw my talent and thought I could be a lord, so I became a lord~"

After finishing speaking, he added: "Besides, he is a lord blessed by gods, and his territory has a god-given stone."

Trunks did see the tall beam of light in the distance, and was shocked in his heart. He shouted again, "Did you build this wall?"

"To be precise, it was cultivated by a group of human mages who have the same goals as me. How about it? Are you very tall?"

"It is indeed terrifyingly tall."

Trunks sighed and turned back to the tall dwarf wearing animal skin clothing.

"The leader, he is the evil god killer, giant beast butcher, and the human race's genius mage Rosen. He is a very difficult character."

The tall dwarf is called Asak, a great warrior, and the temporary supreme commander of the ice dwarf army this time.

Why temporary?

Because he was elected by various tribes, after the battle, his identity will be gone, somewhat similar to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

He nodded to express his understanding, drove his horse forward, and shouted to Rosen in jerky Common Tongue.

"Lord of the Southerners, we didn't mean to rob you this time. It was because we were hit by a disaster and had nothing to eat!"

"As long as you can give us a batch of food, we will go back immediately!"

Rosen immediately responded: "Then I won't give it!"

Asak raised his hand and pointed at the ice dwarf camp behind him: "The wall you built is indeed thick, but if our army of 100,000 troops presses up and attacks with all our strength, we can always break through!"

"Once we break through this high wall, can you stop us?"

Rosen laughed: "Don't panic, let's take a look at the good things I have prepared for you first!"

As he spoke, he waved to the artilleryman next to him: "Fire five cannons near the camp, each shot 10 meters apart, using high-level pyrotechnic shells."

"Yes, Lord!"

After the order was passed, the artillerymen immediately borrowed the sights, quickly adjusted the muzzle, and then inserted high-level pyroblast shells.

"fire!"

The commander of the artillery regiment shouted loudly.

‘Peng Peng Peng Peng Peng~~’

Five dull blasts occurred one after another, and a black shadow ten centimeters in diameter was vaguely seen flying out of the muzzle, flying towards the ice dwarf camp in the distance at high speed.

About three seconds later, five huge flames with a diameter of more than ten meters suddenly rose from the ridge near the camp.

After five or six seconds, a loud noise that shook the earth came back, and even the ground was shaking faintly.

It's five high-level flame spells that explode with fireballs!

The ice dwarves under the city wall didn't know what was happening at first. When they saw the flames coming out of the camp behind them, their gray-blue faces suddenly lost their blueness and turned gray.

Rosen laughed and said, "I have prepared tens of thousands of these. Not only can they hit you 10 miles away, but they can also hit you wherever you want. It's useless even if you hide behind the mountain!"

In fact, I prepared only 50 of them, because this thing is extremely expensive and very difficult to manufacture. The cost of one piece is as high as 1,000 kronor.

But when two armies confront each other, the priority is to attack the heart.

Asak shouted with a look of reluctance: "Can't you still break through the mountain?"

Rosen waved to the commander of the artillery corps.

Ten seconds later, there was a "bang" sound, and the shell drew a parabola in the sky, crossed the ridge, and exploded behind the mountain.

"Did you see that this good thing like me can even turn corners?"

The blue color on Asak's face completely turned to earth color.

He took a deep breath and his tone became much softer.

"Baron, we really need food. No matter what, we would rather die fighting than starve to death without food!"

Rosen expressed his thoughts.

"I can give you food, as much as you want."

"But we must exchange for ores~black iron, mithril, thorium, resonance crystal, or various specialties from the Frost Land, as long as they are useful to us, we can exchange them!"

As soon as these words came out, the look of despair on the ice dwarf's face faded a lot, and then they got together to discuss.

Trunks said: "Chief, how about we change?"

Another giant bear beast king immediately shouted in opposition.

"What to change? He is scaring us. In my opinion, we can't be intimidated by them, we still have to fight!"

"Yes, we must let these despicable Southern soft-footed people know how powerful we are!"

"Chief, the Ice King told us that the soft-footed people in the south are very despicable, and they will definitely mix despicable poison in the food they trade!"

"But with such a high and thick city wall blocking us, how can we fight?"

There was a beast king who came up with an idea.

"Of course we can't fight him head-on, but we can use soul curse to deal with that lord. As long as he is cursed to death, the opponent will definitely be in chaos."

Trunks exploded when he heard this, and roared: "Hode, the other party is a God's Lord, and there is a God's Stone in the territory. Not only is it useless, it will also attract golden divine punishment!"

"How could it be useless? It worked last time."

Trunks laughed angrily: "Last time it was a sneak attack! This time we are attacking from the front, can it be the same?"

"If you really want to attract divine punishment, will you bear the burden alone? Everyone must bear it together!"

"I think you are just afraid of death!"

"I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid of dying in a meaningless battle!"

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Asak raised his hand to silence: "Things are completely out of control. Pray to the Ice Emperor and seek his guidance."

So, a group of ice dwarf beast kings began to pray to God.

After a few minutes, the beast kings opened their eyes one after another, and their opinions were unified.

Trunks said, "God agrees to the deal."

The new problem will come immediately.

A beast king said: "We don't bring so much ore, and it's such a long way back and forth. How can we trade?"

Trunks said: "Chief, why don't you ask the lord opposite?"

Asak nodded, turned around and shouted at the city wall.

"Lord, we agree to the deal. But we didn't bring any ore, and we're so hungry that we can't stand it. You have to give us food first."

Rosen felt relieved and immediately laughed: "It doesn't matter if you don't bring any ore, trade it with us for the iron weapons in your hands!"

"I won't bully you. According to the price in our highlands, a 4 dira iron knife will be exchanged for 150 dira potatoes!"

The ice dwarves looked at each other in shock.

There is no reason to exchange weapons for food. If after the exchange is completed, the opponent turns against you and there are no weapons on hand, then wouldn't it be in vain?

But having said that, the price is really good.

They ice dwarves are very good at mining. There are more than a dozen large-scale rich iron mines being mined in the Frost Land. There is so much iron that almost everyone has several iron knives at home.

An iron knife worth 4 diras can only be exchanged for 10 diras of food in the Frost Land, but here it can be exchanged for 150 diras of potatoes.

The difference is a full fifteen times, which is very exciting.

One of the beast kings said: "How about we change?"

The other beast king said: "Don't worry. I heard that people in the south pay attention to bargaining when doing business. We must do the same."

"Yes, yes, you have to shout louder."

The leader, Asak, naturally wanted to make more money, but he was afraid that the price would be too high and the deal would fall apart. If he apologized shamelessly, even the current price would be gone.

So, he asked: "Sages, how much do you think is appropriate?"

Trunks immediately said: "I think we can shout 200."

"200 is less, at least 250?"

"Isn't 250 too high?"

"220?"

"240, right? If it doesn't work, you can make a counter-offer."

So Asak shouted: "Iron knife for 4 diras, potatoes for 240 diras!"

Rosen immediately laughed, knowing that it was done.

he shouted back.

"I know that you have suffered a major disaster and have problems eating. I also feel very sympathetic."

"Let's do this. This year's transaction is based on 4 diras of iron for 250 diras of grain, so as to help you alleviate the disaster. But next year, I can only do it at 150 diras, otherwise I will lose a lot of money!"

After hearing this, the expressions of the ice dwarves suddenly softened greatly.

"Hmm~ This Baron is not bad."

"I told you he was good, but you just didn't listen to me."

"Don't speak too early. Who knows if he will lie to others?"

After hearing this, the leader Asak felt a little grateful.

"Thank you very much, Baron. Let's go back and prepare the iron sword."

Rosen was also happy.

"Okay, I'll go back and prepare food. But please remember, no matter how many iron knives you bring over, I will have enough food to exchange for you!"

"In fact, I have prepared 100 million diras of food!"

In fact, it's far less than that, but this thing doesn't allow him to shout. The only way to bluff people is to shout louder.

Sure enough, the unsophisticated ice dwarves across from them were shocked when they heard this, and even the leader Asak could not keep calm.

A group of hillbillies looked at each other.

"How is it possible that there are so many? Is this a lie?"

"I think it's possible. Because if I hadn't been full and sustained, I wouldn't have had the energy to build such a high wall."

"How can a southerner be so rich?"

"I heard that there are so many people in the Golden Land that if everyone peed into the North Sea, all the floating ice in the sea would be melted away."

"Hey, do you think people in the South are so rich, will their shit be mixed with gold?"

"Isn't this possible?"

In a bunch of nonsense, the impression of the golden land's invincible wealth was deeply engraved in the minds of these country bumpkin ice dwarves.