Power and Empire Chapter 3815: Will and ambition (9)
The yellow sand covers the ground in front of you. Even with the most adequate preparation, plunge into such an endless sea of sand is a test for anyone.
The wind blowing on his face is hot, and Cottris feels that his mouth is also full of bitter grains of sand. Needless to say, other imperial soldiers have arrived here from the Boca Oasis in just over a day. At the time of the year, all the imperial soldiers were accompanied by a camel to travel. Even so, the imperial soldiers who are not used to riding camels can’t wait to sublate all the sand here into the sea of Koninia
It’s a pity that in this overwhelming desert, this idea is just a dream. Cotellis spit out the sand in his mouth, stopped on a dune, and looked into the distance through the looking glass in his hand. The boundless yellow-brown, like the end of the world, are all confused yellow with no end in sight,
"Guramisu, they said that you are also a sought-after figure among the smuggling merchants. Why did you think of being a guide for our imperial army this time!"
Cottris put down the looking glass in his hand, half-jokingly said to the guide beside him, that he was a middle-aged man with a darker face, and his skin was indeed dark red, which looked like a layer. Cocoon, his eyes pierced with a spirit of energy, which is the traces of years of exposure in the desert. This middle-aged man is called Guramisu. He is a very famous guide in the Boca Oasis. The Boca Oasis at the entrance of the Oasis Commercial Route is not only a cargo distribution center, but also a gathering place for a large number of desert guides
These desert guides are very familiar with the routes of the major oasis. Father and son want to continue, and even live on it for several generations. Since the Kingdom of Aden closed the trade routes, the desert guide’s life has been quite difficult. There is no caravan. They are meaningless. Many desert guides have left the Boca Oasis, but Guramisu still stays in the Oasis
All year round to discuss life in the Boca Oasis. Guramisu has a wife and four children in the Boca Oasis. He spends most of his life in the desert. He has been a caravan since he was eleven. It’s been more than thirty years now. It’s not that he doesn’t want to leave the Oasis, but leaving the Oasis means that he needs to start from scratch. In the desert, he can sniff out where there is water with just his nose. He is everything. The caravans are all premium guides who compete at high prices, and he will be useless after leaving the Oasis. At this time, he almost relied on being a guide for the smuggling caravans.
"Polu Palace said, if I lead you, I will no longer be held accountable for leading the smuggling caravan." Gulamisu's dark and chapped face showed a touch of embarrassment, and frankly stated that he was just a The famous guide, he doesn’t care about the war of the empire, the Adenites. He only knows that the empire is controlling the Boca Oasis. His state basically represents the state of the vast majority of desert people. They don’t care about who rules them. , Follow whoever can benefit! The desert people are the characteristics of the wall and grass, adults don't need to worry about it at all!
If the adults really want to worry, you might as well worry about the runaway Joe! Guramisu whispered
"Jomus? It's the general Aden who left the troops directly and ran away." Hearing Gulamisu's words, Koteris smiled disapprovingly, and patted the sand on his body. A character like that, I was afraid. I don’t know where I’ve gone, what should I pay attention to!
Looking at Koteris’s disapproving face, Guramisu’s face was very serious. "I’m just a person who depends on a desert guide for a living. I don’t know anything else, but I know the most terrible thing in the desert. Yes, it’s not necessarily when the sky is full of sand, because it can be seen from a long distance, and you can avoid it in time or be prepared to deal with it. It’s really scary, but it’s actually dunes that don’t seem to move. Stands differently, just like thousands of years. In fact, at night, sand dunes are moving. A moving sand dune can quietly submerge everything under the dust. That is the most terrifying"
"Moving dunes...you mean Joes?"
The corners of Koteris’s smiling mouth froze. He did not expect that Guramisu would give such a high evaluation to the Aden escapee
Even if you’re an imperial soldier who has experienced many battles, has seen a sea of dead mountains and **** battlefields, and you feel that you will be silently crushed under a huge sand dune. It has nothing to do with guts, it is entirely the awe of the mystery of intelligent life, Guramisu will have sand dunes to describe that Joe? After more than a day of contact, Cotellis knew that Guramisu was not a person who likes to talk, but was very simple and sincere. In addition, Guramisu really knew this desert well. The word "reliable" is Gula. Misu, it's no wonder that many smuggling caravans will also look for Gulamisu. The fact that the guide sits on the ground and raises the price is nothing new in the Oasis, and Gulamisu has never had such a record.
"Your Excellency may not know what this Joe has done" Guramisu's eyes flashed and he let out a long sigh
"I heard that he once caused tens of thousands of desert people to die in the Boca Oasis!"
Cottris showed that he didn’t know everything in time, because this Joe was so famous, and he was one of the leaders of the Aden Army stationed in the Boca Oasis. Since the empire wants to occupy Boca Oasis, Qiaomus is an existence that cannot avoid the past, and the Empire also made the decision to place the breakthrough in the 19th Army of Qiaomus after knowing the details of the Boca Oasis. Did it really ignore anything? Koteris felt tight. He fought against Joe's Nineteenth Army that night, and his empire's Ninth Banner in Istanbul was also among them, and he won without feeling any pressure!
Is that kind of people still a strategy? What a joke! Hundreds of thousands of people fought in the Great Oasis between the Eero Empire and the Kingdom of Aden. . . . . What does it have to do with a guy who runs away from the beginning
The hearsay is killing people. Many desert people have never left the desert in their entire lives. Naturally, they have never heard the true statement of the outside world. They can only imagine with their own imagination, and even been deliberately propagated by the people of Aden. Distorted, Koteris looked at Guramisu with a sad look in his heart
"This is what the Eero told you, right" Guramisu glanced at his mouth with disdain, and said with an expression he had known for a long time
"The Eero people did mention this Joe in particular!" Koteris nodded in surprise,
"Then the Ero people have told you that their fiasco in the Oasis was led by Joe!" Guramisu's eyes are bright
"This...what are you kidding me! The Erot suffered a fiasco in the Oasis because the logistics supply could not keep up, and was eventually defeated by the Aden army." Koteris felt that he heard the most ridiculous thing of the year. A joke, my mouth suddenly laughed. It turns out that Cotellis’s perception is like this
What's the connection between the fiasco of the Eero and this Joe!
This is actually not to blame Guramisu's ignorance, after all, he is just a low-level guide, how can he understand the foregone conclusion of the battle of hundreds of thousands of troops fighting to death!
Cottris felt that he had to tell the truth about the situation. He stretched out his hand and patted Cortlis on the shoulder, indicating that the other party was wrong. He sneered and said, "It's not like this at all, although I don't know you from What do you hear in the deliberately distorted rumors of Aden people, but the real situation is not what you think"
"I was in the Oasis at the time, and I don’t know how the outside world commented on that battle, but as someone who experienced it personally, I will tell you what I know." Guramisu's face became solemn and he took a deep breath. He said word by word, "Jomus spent four years in the Boca Oasis. I was a guide in his caravan. I have to say that Joe is a very generous owner. He never owes money and treats anyone People are very kind, and Qiaomusi reported one hundred and fifty people as five thousand to the Aden Ministry of Military Affairs, which reduced the burden on Polu Palace, so Polu Palace was also trying its best to help him conceal it.
Qiaomusi's business in the Boca Oasis is a breeze. In just a few years, he has controlled 60% of the market in the Boca Oasis. Otherwise, it is impossible to start from the Boca Oasis. Thirty thousand deserters were quickly recruited to resist the attack of the Erot Army!
These desert people have civilians, mercenaries, adventurers, and even sand thieves. Finally, they use the flesh and blood of the desert people to drag the Eero army for two days before entering Poka. Oasis, for the people of Aden, people like Qiaomusi are a scum, and they burned the Aden Kingdom’s decades of hard work in the Boca Oasis. As a regional defense, they fled before fighting, which directly led to the Erot Empire army. In the Great Oasis, if it were not for the Aden Kingdom to organize a counterattack in time, the Erot Army might have reached the Gulf of Aden in one go.
Even the Erotians thought so at the beginning, so no one cared about this job until the Erotians found out that it is not terrible to send 30,000 Oasis people to death. For the Erotians who have already killed the red eyes, kill Tens of thousands of desert people are not a big deal, but the large-scale infectious disease caused by more than 30,000 dead bodies exposed to the scorching sun directly caused no one to live in the Boca Oasis
In the next two months, the Erotians also had to bypass the Boca Oasis to transport supplies. The distance increased by more than a hundred miles in the desert, and the transport team alone had to consume three-thirds on the way. First, it greatly depletes the transportation capacity of the Erotians, which directly leads to the accumulation of large quantities of materials on the border, but they cannot be transported to the front troops in time
If this were the case, it would not be enough to bring down the Eero army, which was in full swing at the time, but the Eero army had just moved into the mezzanine zone of the Oasis. It was because of the so-called massacre that offended the entire Oasis. Oasis princes, as well as desert peoples who seek life in the desert, among the 30,000 desert people who were killed, not only the people from the Boca Oasis, but also the people from other large oasis, involving 24 deserts in the large oasis Nation, in fact, the army of the Erot Empire was crushing the territory, the army of the Kingdom of Aden lost ground and lost its troops, and was defeated on the whole line. No matter how you looked at it, they were powerless to defend the big oasis.
This was an unstoppable situation at that time. Even if the people of Aden wanted to restore it, they couldn’t do it. However, the massacre caused the wind to reverse. The tribes in the desert that were planning to surrender refused to surrender to the Erot Empire, and even The special envoy of the Eero Empire who had been sent to persuade them was cut off. The logistics line was invisibly elongated. The various races in the desert that could have been gathered also refused to surrender. Without surrendering, although the Erot Empire Army marched all the way, it was empty cities and materials could not keep up. Soldiers were entangled by the plague and wanted to get supplies from the big oasis, but there were empty spaces, and even the water sources were poisoned. The Luo people's vigor was finally consumed by the desert, and the Aden army succeeded in counterattack in one fell swoop, killed more than 100,000 in battle, and was driven out of the Oasis!
The imperial army’s raid on the Boca Oasis was entirely temporary, and it broke out quickly, directly overwhelming Joe’s 19th Army, so this should not have had time to launch preparations, but it may have been. When it was activated, the three words Polu Palace flashed through Koteris’s mind. All the guides were provided by Polu Palace. If you move a little bit inside, the tens of thousands of imperial troops that have driven into the great oasis will be covered by yellow sand. Buried copies! Hope it's too late!
"Thank you very much for what you said, I need to report this Job to the top immediately!"
Cottris’ breathing was a bit short, and he even felt a little numb in his scalp. If what Guramisu said is true, then this Joes is too difficult, and Cottris even suspected and blocked The Fifteenth Army of Aden, which had a **** night in the imperial army, may be just a cover. The Adenites were the key person to block the imperial army. It may be this Joe! Not the 15th Army Corps
Cottris did not dare to delay, and immediately wrote a secret report to the messenger. It was not until the messenger left under the **** of a squad of fifty imperial troops that Cottris turned around, and the sky gradually turned around. The darkness sinks, as the last golden sunset sinks into the line of yellow sand in the distance, the heat of the day begins to disappear
There are lights on the horizon in the distance, like a river of stars in the sky at night~IndoMTL.com~ It is a famous star oasis in the thirteen large oasis, two distances from the Boca Oasis One hundred and sixteen miles, the Grand Oasis ranked third in order from east to west. This is a cross-point attack. The major oasis is a desert area. In theory, as long as the supplies are abundant, it is directly from the Boca Oasis to the Gulf of Aden. Yes, there are no restrictions on the geographical mountains. Opening the Boca Oasis is equivalent to opening the passage of other large oasis. Cottris took the four thousand imperial troops under his command to rely on 10,000 in the team day and night. With the powerful transportation capacity of 3,000 camels, it took only a day and a half to reach this beautiful star oasis,
After a two-hour break, Cotellis began to attack, and the Imperial soldiers put on the armor again at this moment.
Star Oasis, on the south side of the Aden Garrison Oasis, with a force of 11,000 people, intelligence about the Star Oasis flashed in my mind, Cotellis began to slowly raise his right hand, spreading out in the dark Soldiers, the earth seemed to be covered with black at once. In this suffocating black, dense layers of cavalry, war horses and war horses are almost connected by horseshoes. They start to move forward at a constant speed, and the ground makes a low and low sound of rumbling, scraping. The night breeze across the desert blows like countless sand and dust moving!
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