A few days after calm returned to the northern district, things happened in the south.
Fatel's orcs were led by General Upfapu, and this time they brought the Imperial Fourth Army.
The Empire's plan to attack the Phoenix Kingdom had been discussed as early as a year ago.
The Phoenix Kingdom is a new and small kingdom, but its productivity and influence have made some scholars and officials very worried.
Especially in the area near this small kingdom and on the north bank of the Luna River, the fatel currency has a tendency to withdraw from circulation without realizing it.
Fatal's willingness to allow currency to flow abroad is a system that has been established since the founding of the country. By expanding currency influence, there will be some special benefits. Because currency itself will naturally be concentrated into the hands of a few people due to social activities, the currency gap generated in the process must have a source. This will give rise to a type of trade specifically designed to obtain currency, and most of this type of trade will require foreign parties to pay excess amounts. of gold, silver and copper, this difference is enough to fill the empire's annual coinage gap.
This form has been maintained for two hundred years. Private minting of coins by a few lords' territories will not arouse the empire's vigilance. These small currencies are difficult to spread their influence and cannot even be used for trade between two cities.
But the situation with Phoenix coins is completely different. This kingdom uses its powerful product output capabilities to drain the gold and silver coins in surrounding areas, forcing people in these areas to start using Phoenix coins.
If it is just a partial use of Phoenix coins in an area, then as time goes by, the problem becomes more and more serious.
When a region is short of money, the only way to ensure circulation is to sell exported goods to make up for the shortfall.
There is nothing wrong with this behavior, but after the scale is increased, from a macro perspective, the Fartel currency from further away is gathered around the Phoenix Kingdom, and then slowly absorbed by the Kingdom.
Scholars who have gone abroad to conduct relevant investigations believe that if this situation continues, in less than five years, the bulk trade between most areas of the mixed-blood belt and the surrounding areas of the small kingdom will not be able to change into a mixed trading method of gold ingots, silver ingots and Phoenix coins.
Once the mixed-blood belt gets used to this form of trading, Fatal will fall into a state of currency scarcity without external gold and silver supplements!
And this thing is not the future, it is already happening!
In the past year, the imperial merchants' external purchases have exported more money than expected. The prices of private goods along the eastern part of the Luna River have been falling. This drop is caused by insufficient money.
So we must fight and eliminate the source of this bad momentum.
As for the small kingdom still fighting the demons, the empire also knew about this, but did not believe it. At most, they could only destroy a few small groups of demons.
And even if the small kingdom has a greater contribution, it is not worth mentioning compared to the survival of the empire itself.
For these reasons, the Kingdom began to actively communicate with the lords along the route half a year ago.
Several lords offered relatively high prices, and the lord of Pangxuncheng took the opportunity to stumble. However, after several months of back and forth, the negotiations were finally settled.
General Upfapu is the third prince of Fatel. He has no chance to inherit the throne because of his blood relationship, so he is called a general.
The Fourth Army Corps he led was one of the imperial city's garrison units.
Of course, it is not learned from a small kingdom. The imperial city garrison is an exclusive troop garrison mechanism spawned by the needs of a large territorial country. It will concentrate most of the mobile forces within the territory for management near the royal city to avoid being overcrowded in certain places that are far away. Soldiers respect themselves.
The number of the Fourth Army is probably less than 100 million, about 50,000.
The reason why I use approximate numbers is because, for well-known reasons, the number and establishment of the Imperial City garrison are somewhat inconsistent.
In short, when the troops were sent out, there were about 50,000 troops.
The population of the Phoenix Kingdom may be 400,000, but this population will definitely not be able to raise 50,000 soldiers. Therefore, even if a legion cannot win quickly, it can at least remain undefeated and figure out a way later.
The mobilization of 50,000 troops was not an easy task. Fortunately, Upfapu had actually fought a war and handled the matter in an orderly manner.
We need to requisition ships and civilians first, and we don’t want them to arrive in one trip, but we can’t divide them into too many trips, otherwise too much time delay may cause some trouble.
In the end, one hundred ships and five thousand accompanying soldiers and civilians were requisitioned, not counting temporary civilians.
Fifty thousand people were transported by sea ship, and a few dozen ships could tow them all away. However, the river ships were not that big, and a hundred ships had to be divided into two trips to transport the people to the Pangxuncheng sub-port.
General Upfapu also arrived here first with the first batch of soldiers.
The sub-port of Pangxun City is a new port, outside the city on the east side of Pangxun, so that the army will not pass through the city, which is more in line with the interests of Lord Puncture, and Upfap can understand it.
But after the first soldiers landed, this understanding quickly turned to anger.
Since we are still waiting for the follow-up troops to arrive at this stage, there are not many restrictions on the troops arriving in Hong Kong first. Some soldiers will choose to go to the city to drink and have fun.
If there are too many people there, bad things will happen.
On the third day after arriving in Hong Kong, Upfapu received the report and went out to the camp to see that there were more than a dozen orc corpses hanging on the city wall!
There was no attack on the spot, and a messenger was sent to question Lord Impaler.
I soon got the answer: just kill someone to pay for your life.
Although it is natural to kill people to pay for their lives, it is a bit disrespectful to kill the people of the empire without informing themselves first.
However, what is even more annoying is that after assessing the situation, I found that I still have to endure it!
Pangxun City has a city wall formed by natural mountains. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the shell of a fortress. These mountains have been operated for many years and have many underground military tunnels. Add the two together, even if Pangxun City only has more than 3,000 troops, it will be very difficult to break through Pangxun City. .
It's just that it was difficult to attack the city, so it didn't matter. After all, Pangxun City itself had more than 200,000 people and it was a city near the water. It really gained a lot of benefits. The problem is that once hostility is shown, it will be difficult to prevent the impaling lord's actions, and Upfapu's own life will not be safe.
Similar to the mage level system, although the level division of assassins is not so clear, the seven stars also represent the highest assassin level, which is enough to assassinate the king.
Even though it is much more difficult to take the leader's head in the military formation than it is in normal situations, the possibility is by no means zero. This is the place where the impaling lord can be found, which adds to the opportunity.
If you decide not to fight, the next thing will become more and more troublesome.
Considering that the soldiers will soon be forced to fight for their lives, it is impossible to punish the soldiers who left the camp now. We can only add a rule that "no leaving the camp without valid reasons".
However, a legion trains together in the royal city, and everyone is acquainted with each other. It is not difficult to find a "legitimate" reason. Even if there is not one, how strict can the guards at the camp gate enforce it?
Within two days, dozens of people gathered to seek revenge.
I don’t know whether the revenge was successful. Anyway, when Upfapu received the report again the next day, dozens more corpses were hung at the city gate!
My own soldiers were killed continuously by the small lord's people. If they were eaten alive without any reason, I would be afraid that the soldiers would not have the morale to fight when they reached the front line.
Upfap sent an official mission to demand compensation from the Impaling Lords.
At this time, the second batch of troops and a small amount of baggage had already landed ashore, but they were temporarily unable to move due to the matter at hand.
