Realm of Power

Thick black smoke shrouded the sky over the port. The fleet's flagship entered the port. As the huge white sail slowly lowered, the hull of the huge Dragon-class battleship quickly decreased. The heavy hull pushed the waves to both sides, causing waves to rise. A burst of white water waves, the Dragon-class battleship slid hundreds of meters on the sea at the entrance of the port, and then docked steadily at the port.

"We must win, we must win"

Amidst a burst of cheers, Commander Urcondo of the North Sea Fleet walked down from the deck of the flagship ship. Behind him were several strong sailors. The dilapidated scene in front of him made him frown slightly.

"Why did these guys go too far?" Urcondo muttered dissatisfiedly. What appeared in front of him was a hellish scene of almost ruins. There was almost no one that looked intact at the front of the entire port. Houses were filled with collapsed rubble and bloody Austinites’ corpses everywhere, extending from the ship docking point to the civilian area a hundred meters away. It was as if they had just experienced a tragic earthquake. Everything It's like they were all crushed

"It's too tragic." Urcondo shook his head slightly. Although he had given the order to attack civilian areas, his execution was too thorough.

A group of falcon soldiers are cleaning up the corpses on the street. The solidified blood on the ground is still shocking after being washed by the sea water. There are also a large number of corpses piled next to the ruins on the left, with bright red blood. Almost half of the collapsed earth wall was completely transformed into a shocking red wall

"Commander"

Seeing Urcondo coming down, Bellus, who was in charge of commanding the landing, stepped forward to salute him with a serious expression. The landing force commander seemed to be in good mental condition. As Urcondo's most trusted subordinate, Bellus Si has always had a careful and sharp mind. He is also a master of the Guards. He is the commander who is best at assault operations in the fleet.

After discovering that the fleet began to bombard the port, he keenly realized that the reason for the fleet's brazen bombardment of the port should be to isolate the guard towers guarding the key points. He immediately gave up the unrealistic plan to attack the center of the port and instead Gather troops to attack the isolated sentry tower on the east side. Although the first wave of landing troops only has more than 300 troops, it is more than enough to deal with an isolated sentry tower.

Just when the Austinites in the port were stunned by the bombing and had nothing to do, the 50 defenders of the sentry tower guarding the important area had quietly changed hands under the attack of the Falcon Army.

"The gate of the port was opened, and the troop transport ship full of soldiers had the opportunity to rush into the port safely." Urcondo came over excitedly and patted his shoulder. "You did a great job. I knew you would understand." My bombardment intention, how is the overall situation in the port now and how many enemies are resisting?"

"It's going very smoothly." Belushi smiled confidently and said, "Most of the areas controlled by the Austinites have fallen into our hands. Now there are only more than 300 people in the building in the center of the port. Our two A heavy infantry squadron is advancing there and has broken through their outer earth wall. If nothing goes wrong, I believe it won't be long before we receive good news. Before that, please come and take a look at these things.

Belushi's face was rosy with excitement, and he mysteriously brought Urcando to a pile of cloth bags about three meters high next to him, and pulled out his sword with a cry.

With a flash of cold light, the sword blade quickly made a slit in front of the bag. White powder as fine as sand fell from the sky like a waterfall, with a thin white trail flowing from the gap in the bag to the ground.

"What do you mean?" Urcando glanced at Belushi in confusion. These white powders looked a little unusual, but Urcando didn't think of anything for a moment.

"Commander, please take a closer look at what this is." Belus looked solemnly, picked up some with the long sword in his hand, and then spread it out in front of Urcondo's eyes, saying, "Commander, isn't he always working for the fleet?" I have been worried about supplies and food issues, but now that I have these, I believe the Commander’s eyebrows can relax.”

"Isn't this all fine wheat? How is this possible?"

Urcondo stared at the fine white eyes for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and glanced at the large and small piles of cloth bags like this in the port. There were at least a dozen piles, and even if a pile weighed a thousand kilograms, it was only the current amount. What I saw was more than 10,000 kilograms, and there were many piles of debris covered with tarpaulins. I believe that even if it wasn't food, it would never be that bad.

"My dear, this is such a brilliant victory." Urcando's face flashed with ecstasy. He didn't expect that his insistence on going his own way would actually reap huge rewards.

"Even if Austin's rebels don't concentrate the entire main city's supplies here, at least one-third of the supplies are at the port." Urcondo visually checked the amount and grinned widely. , as a person who has a certain understanding of the internal situation of the Austin people, he knows very well what this huge batch of materials piled up at the port means to the Austin people living in this barren ice sheet area.

Just take the fine wheat grain in front of you as an example. There is no wheat on the ice sheet. The only way to get it is to buy it at a high price from the inland. After several merchants resell it, the wheat grain that is very common in the inland reaches the ice sheet. It has become a luxury food that only high-ranking nobles can enjoy.

For Austinites, a marine race who are accustomed to eating fishy food, this thing as white as snow is simply unimaginably beautiful food, including wheat-scented toast and various exquisite and tempting pastries. , is the most important finale recipe in a noble banquet,

Urcondo once attended an Austin banquet. At the banquet, the type and quantity of food baked with exquisite wheat grains was not only a symbol of the status of a noble family, but also an invisible rank.

For example, the royal family’s banquet requires more than twenty kinds of wheat-flavored food. The duke’s family must be able to bake at least ten kinds of food, while the marquis must bake eight kinds of food. Even the lowest first-class viscount must ensure that they bake at least ten kinds of food at his banquet. There must be at least one, otherwise no one will be willing to attend his banquet, and others will also think that such a person is an ignorant country bumpkin.

The reason why wheat food is so rare is not only because this crop is not produced in the North, but also because merchants from the inland only come along the returning sea current around March and July, and every time the ships arrive, Quantities are very limited,

The hoarding of tens of thousands of kilograms of fine wheat grains in front of him made Urcando have to wonder whether the rebels had piled up all the fine grains in the main city here. In fact, his guess was also different from the real thing. Not far away, these fine wheat grains were cobbled together by the rebel leader Duke Langla. They were originally going to be shipped from the port to the port of the Lubang people. Who knew that before they could be loaded on the ship, Beihai quietly attacked The fleet is done in one go

"Order, the troops that are encircling and suppressing are gathered immediately and everything here is transported to the ship." Urcondo seemed to have thought of something. He changed his original intention of establishing a strategic point here and instead ordered all the troops to return to the ship quickly. command

"Commander, we don't want this port anymore?" Belushi looked at Urcondo with a confused expression. "According to the previous plan, wasn't it necessary to seize a strategic point to attack the main city of Austin by surprise? Why just now? Retreat immediately after making some progress."

"It's not that I gave up, but that I have succeeded." A sneer appeared on Urcondo's lips, pointing to the supplies piled up at the port. "Although I don't know what the rebels are planning, but for strategic purposes, move all the supplies here." Leaving is enough to touch the opponent's lifeline and make the opponent furious and looking for someone to fight for.

And the funniest thing is that the other party may not even know who we are. If we were slapped on the forehead with a stick, the angry rebels would definitely gather all their troops and come running to fight for our lives.

Staying here will only be a fruitless and bitter battle for us, and the final result will be retreating into the sea. It is better to withdraw before the opponent reacts, and then leave the dozen Willandra flags we brought. , I believe that this fire will soon be ignited between the rebels and Veerandra, wouldn’t it be a good outcome to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and tigers?”

"But what if Willandra asks questions?" Belushi was silent for a moment, and said with a slight frown, "Although Willandra's navy is very weak, there have been eyes in our side recently. Wandering near the main port, the other party seems to be taking precautions against us. It is impossible for the other party to be unaware of such a big movement of the main fleet leaving the port. I believe that as soon as we return to the port, the other party will do everything possible to inquire. "

"Haha, then tell him directly that we helped him to fight against the rebels. I don't believe that he would have the guts to turn against us in such a situation."

Regarding Belushi's worries, Urcondo curled his lips disdainfully and said disapprovingly, "That guy Austin Carlos is trying to win over us and monitor us. It wouldn't be a day or two. If it weren't for the fact that we still need to With the cover of a local force in Austin, I had already sent people to sink the North Sea sailing warship that was always wandering outside the main port."

"Woooo" a long bugle sound sounded over the port,

"Order the troops to board the ship." Urcondo stood at the height of the port and took one last look at the port shrouded in the sunset.

In the quiet world, some pale red sunsets drag out long red light shadows in the streets and alleys. The muddy blood on the ground has been twisted into red ice cubes in the cold.

In the cold wind, the Falcon soldiers carried piles of supplies onto the transport ship docked at the port. In addition to the troops that finally surrounded the center of the port, the Falcon soldiers who were cleaning up the loot in each street had already assembled at the port.

Following an order, they lined up neatly and stepped onto the deck leading to the ship's side (To be continued)

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