Lord of the Oasis Chapter 121: .Wind on the coast of Mannheim
Summer is over.
Although the coast of Mannheim is close to the Nalen Desert and has never had four distinct seasons, the many races living on the coast can still perceive the eagerness of summer, which has begun to fade.
A breeze from the sea of stars blows across the coast.
The leaves of the trees swayed in the wind, and when they sensed autumn, they turned pale yellow within a few days.
Autumn is almost here.
However, taking advantage of the autumn wind, there are also sails full of wind on the sea of stars, full of sails hanging on the mast, and driving the merchant ships full of goods to the fertile Manhai from the open sea the coast.
The port of the Royal Capital of the Greymane Kingdom also has a large number of merchant ships entering and leaving.
And there are quite a few.
On both sides of the stone pier, all kinds of merchant ships are moored.
The coolies composed of the bottom gnolls are neatly loading and unloading goods for the merchant ships on the dock.
In the shopping mall of the dock, you can see businessmen of all ethnic groups.
Gnolls, lizardmen, including elves, humans, and even orcs.
They are all discussing eagerly or negotiating fiercely. The straightforwardness, honesty, friendliness, and cowardice of the race have evolved into businessman-style cunning without leaving a trace on the faces of these businessmen.
In order to earn a few more big silver coins.
This gleaming, round silver piece is something that any race will flock to.
Including these gnolls.
The royal port of the Graymane Kingdom, as the only deep-water port on the entire coast of Mannheim, even if the gnolls are not good at ocean navigation, relying solely on berthing fees and commercial taxes, they will eat full of oil.
This is the advantage of maintaining a monopoly on the coast of Mannheim.
The only port that can berth and receive a large number of merchant ships and maintain huge commercial trade is this port in the royal capital.
This is something that the Lizardmen have always brooded about.
They are good at sailing and ocean-going trade. In their lizardmen kingdom, there are only two small ports, and the number of merchant ships that can be docked every day is pitiful, and even large merchant ships with deep drafts cannot berth a few.
It is incomparable with the Royal Capital Port, which can accommodate at least 50 large merchant ships.
But the two races have a long-standing feud.
In order to ensure their trade, the lizardmen choose to compromise.
But the conditions offered by the gnolls are that while leasing a wharf at high rents, a huge commercial tax is also collected for each trade. The conditions are extremely harsh, and they are almost blatant extortion.
There has also been a war between the two races.
The population of Greymane Kingdom is 40,000.
The population of the Lizardmen Kingdom has reached 70,000.
Although Greymane Kingdom's infantry is the strongest in the army, the Lizardmen's crossbowmen are not bad either.
In addition, the Lizardmen have their own navy and several fierce pirate groups that they have secretly cultivated. When the war started, they blocked the port of the royal capital, and made the Kingdom of Graymane, which completely relied on tax collection, to avoid rats.
Because no one can do anything to the other, and each is afraid of the other's strength, they rely on this practice to continue.
Until the Elf Council came across the ocean and established a colonial city on the east side of the Mannheim coast, although the number of people was only a few thousand, it was able to fight well and had a very strong fighting force. The overlord Lizardmen Kingdom suffered a lot of losses. After negotiating, they pinched their noses and acquiesced to the existence of elves.
The fragile peace created by the three clans also continued because of mutual jealousy.
But this morning.
5 warships slowly entered the port of the royal capital.
The streamlined hull accurately cuts into the side of the pier and slowly docks.
The many merchant ships moored at other piers were all puzzled. They swept across the blank flagpole with no race or power marked. Some shrewd merchants suddenly turned pale and their hearts beat a little faster.
There are many pirates in the Sea of Stars.
Includes gnoll pirates who like to jump overboard, wear chainmail and wield a two-handed tomahawk.
Usually let these murderous pirates jump to the deck, and the robbery can be declared over, because there is no merchant ship of any race that can defeat these strong and burly gnolls on the deck.
Like the burly gnoll warriors who are queuing down on these five warships.
If a businessman has a sharp eye.
You can even see familiar faces who have robbed you.
Just then, the entire port received news from the Kingdom of Graymane, claiming that for the stability of the Xingchen Sea and the safety of many merchants coming to the port of Wangdu, the pirate group of the same family had been recruited and reorganized and included in Graymane Among the kingdom's troops, this ferocious gnoll pirate group will not appear on the Xingchen Sea in the future.
The new young businessman may believe these words.
But for those veteran businessmen, they secretly sneered.
This ferocious gnoll pirate group has been traversing Xingchenhai for so many years. If there is no backer behind it, it is absolutely impossible, and the only backer who can fully support this pirate group composed of gnolls may be the only one.
However, it's always better for the merchants without this pirate group.
But for the lizards and elves, they were all in awe.
As a force that has taken root on the coast of Mannheim, they naturally understand that this pirate group, all composed of gnolls, is actually the force that the Greymane Kingdom secretly deployed in the sea of stars.
Now it has been recalled directly, claiming to have been recruited for adaptation.
It is equivalent to handing over the rights of Xingchenhai to others. How can this be believed by others.
After all, I have mastered the deep-water port of the Royal Capital Port. If I lose control of the Xingchen Sea, there will be an endless stream of incidents, which is enough to make the Kingdom of Greymane, which relies solely on the port, be very busy.
There are some things that cannot be done by explicit means.
Just like the Lizardmen's merchant ships, why are they often plundered.
And some merchants who depend on the port for a living and befriend the gnoll are also patronized by the pirate group.
These are hidden truths.
Losing these means is equivalent to losing some partners, and even for businessmen who have formed a good trade relationship, they must carefully consider whether they should be friends with other races.
The port of the Royal Capital is indeed under the control of the gnolls.
It doesn't mean that it will be held firmly in the hands of the gnoll all my life.
The coast of Mannheim is rough.
But to the upper echelons of Greymane, it's just a way to distract the enemy's line of sight.
Recalling these more than 300 fierce pirates is also part of their plan, because these fierce gnoll pirates will join forces with 1,000 elite gnoll warriors and 2,000 gnoll warriors drawn from the army. Form an expedition force of 3,300 people, cross the Naron desert, go to the opposite strange world, and plunder enough resources to come back.
This is a plan they have been planning for ten years. If possible, the Greymane Kingdom will even extend its territory to the south of the Naron Desert, conquer the local humans, and create a rear that belongs to the higher gnolls.
They are terrestrial creatures.
The vast, rough sea is not an ideal battlefield for the gnolls.
The undulating deck is no match for the heavy earth.
The high-level gnolls of the Greymane Kingdom, after contacting and fighting with the lizards and elves, had to admit the reality that although they were on land, the frontal army was invincible in the field battle.
But on the sea, it is not the opponent of the Lizardman navy or the elf navy at all.
Flexible, good at water, Lizardmen who prefer crossbows.
A elf family with high wisdom, various extraordinary spells, and excellent archery.
These burly and high-level gnolls have nothing to praise except for close combat, or after the shamans used all kinds of simple sorcery to fight more violently.
That's right.
Even if they come out on their own, they are not suitable for the sea.
So make strategic decisions.
Since I am not suitable for the sea and cannot have a strong navy, then I will give up the hegemony of the Xingchen Sea, stick to the only deep-water port on the coast of Mannheim, and move my power towards the human kingdom south of the Nalen Desert. Extend, create their own land hegemony, or even conquer the human kingdom to become a colony, but take the opportunity to develop and devour the coast of Mannheim.
The gnolls are not afraid of the Nalun Desert. They can endure the heat and cold, marching during the day and night, and unexpectedly attack.
So the 300 most elite Gnoll pirates are recalled.
They are tried-and-true elites who fight every day against the Lizardmen and Elf navies.
In addition to the 1,000 elite gnoll warriors stationed in the capital city-state, 2,000 heroic gnoll warriors, and a few shamans who have mastered extraordinary powers, they are enough to conquer the human kingdom.
Of course, this is a conquest force that will not leave until a month later.
The first to pass now is the 300 most elite gnoll pirates.
Capture the already recorded sentry oasis, lead the low-level gnoll tribe in the Naron desert, and create an outpost, and the expedition force composed of the remaining 3,000 gnolls can set off without fail.
This conquest of the human kingdoms must not fail.
And in the minds of the upper echelons of Greymane Kingdom.
Even 500 weak human soldiers can't stop 50 ordinary gnoll warriors.
Although human soldiers also have long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows, the level of shooting is not as good as that of the elves, and the level of melee combat is really poor, and they can't even be like the lizardmen. Dodge, wait for an opportunity.
Practical examples have been shown.
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But most of the time, when the ferocious gnoll pirates jumped on the deck of human merchant ships after resisting the shot of feather arrows, then this means that a massacre is about to begin.
Humans, really weak.
300 of the most elite gnoll pirates, enough to capture the Sentinel Oasis.
Perhaps, it can also drive the low-level gnolls living in the desert to launch a general attack first.
A realm that can easily slaughter humans without the arrival of the main force of Greymane Kingdom.
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