lizard lord

Chapter 197 Two Principalities
The familiar of the beholder is a crow, which can speak human words normally. After seeing it, Tang Zhao felt quite envious. He still can't talk to people normally.

"You're a lot stronger than before, which is good."

[If you can take the initiative to talk to me, it should be because something important happened, so let's hear it. 】

"Norton Castei, he is a complete humanist. He wants us foreigners to get out of the human territory. He has been suppressing our forces for a while, you know that?"

[I know, but the situation we encountered is not particularly serious. 】

Crow's voice revealed a bit of excitement: "We can wait for the situation to deteriorate further, but I'm sure, he has no good intentions for us!"

[Perhaps you are right, but what do you want to do with me? 】

Tang Zhao took a wait-and-see attitude towards this, because the beholders themselves had persecution paranoia, and they would associate it for no reason even with unrelated things, thinking that it was plotting to harm them.

Considering Norton's own character and standpoint, it is probably true, but it is not certain whether it is really that serious, and the beholder will exaggerate.

Anyway, Norton's subordinates are indeed making things difficult for the Hermes Chamber of Commerce at present, but it is still within the acceptable limit, and both parties are doing things within the rules and regulations.

"Originally, I was at odds with Earl Luford, because he hindered me from making money, but now it seems that the exclusion of our race is more worthy of vigilance than business obstacles. I am considering joining forces with that guy for a short time, Contain Norton first and then talk about other things."

The implication is to ask Tang Zhao and the others to choose sides as soon as possible, at least to stand on the beholder's side.

From the current point of view, it is true that he cannot cooperate with Norton Castei, but to be honest, Earl Luford may not be better than Norton.

From the human point of view, Norton is still a good feudal nobleman. First of all, he firmly opposes the use of human beings as slaves. In this regard, he is tit-for-tat with Earl Luford.Earl Lufford is more of a pure businessman. He will lean towards whichever side can bring more benefits. He is very accurate in morality and highlights the one who is immoral.

The beholder is similar in this respect, but he performed slightly better than Earl Luford. After all, as a foreigner doing business in a human city, he didn't want to make things too sharp and make people jealous. Earl Luford didn't have such concerns. These two are masters of the same level without morality.

Some people have been suggesting to Tang Zhao to find an opportunity to cut off the beholders, because they think that beholders will be targeted by humans sooner or later, and this is an unwelcome race.

[Personal suggestion, neither of these two is good for our long-term development. 】

"It's just the lesser of two evils. After Norton's matter is resolved, I will continue to fight Earl Luford."

[Let me think about it again. I suggest you do the same. The matter is very complicated, and even involves the succession of the Oran throne. As a foreign race, it is absolutely useless for us to intervene too early. 】

The negotiation failed, and the beholder persisted in persuading him a few more times, but he could only give up after seeing that it didn't work.

The two sides parted unhappily.

After the beholder left, Tang Zhao immediately called Bourne and the others, saying that there was something important to discuss.

Concisely and concisely told the truth about the beholder, Tang Zhao looked at everyone.

[First of all, we all know that the persecution paranoia of the beholder has reached the level of paranoia. According to my opinion, his cooperation proposal cannot be accepted.He may include us in the vigilance target, and the possibility of being framed by him again at that time, it is not too much to speculate in the worst case. 】

"In other words, could there be another war after Karak Solma?"

[I can’t say, but I think a new round of armament strengthening should start. I discussed it with Princess Julia. The situation in Oran is now more serious than we imagined before. There is a high probability that a war of succession will break out. Guaranteed we should act. 】

Immediately, there was a lot of discussion, and generally speaking, they were more supportive of Tang Zhao's words.

All the races present have experienced real wars and have a deep understanding of the devastation and impact of wars.They don't want war to happen to them again, and one of the best ways is to deter others so that others don't dare to do it.

After confirming to strengthen the armament again, everyone began to discuss the details.

Different races have different equipment and weapon requirements. The dwarves are the race with the best equipment because they have a rich reserve of weapons and can get ready-made ones from the Dragon's Blood Pass.

The second is the elves. They are mostly rangers and spellcasters. The armor they wear requires light weight and relatively low cost. Not very short of equipment.

The kobolds and lizardmen lacked the most equipment. Their arming plan started from scratch. Even after several months of slow equipment, the level of equipment was still not comparable to the former two.

There are only a few elites who have complete weapons and equipment, and most fighters have only minimal weapons and equipment.

For a period of time to come, Karak Solmar's weapon production capacity will be supplied to kobolds and lizardmen in large quantities, and the remaining production capacity will be allocated to refined armor and gunpowder weapons for foreign trade depending on the situation.

The evaluation of artillery and muskets is not bad. The current number of weapons and equipment is far from enough, and more quantities need to be produced.

Especially artillery, this thing has a powerful lethality against simple siege weapons and infantry. Now most races do not have the ability to produce artillery. The damage caused by the city wall is very advantageous.

In addition, the composition of the city defense army has also undergone some adjustments. The original technical arms are in charge of dwarves, the frontline troops are in charge of kobolds, and elves are rangers, supporting guerrilla warfare and wandering outside the front line.

In addition, the number of bear people is very small, and the lizard people are newly added. The goblins are mainly responsible for logistics coordination and forest patrols.

Now that some changes have been made, these races have played their respective advantages and mixed into various square teams.

The elite force for melee combat is the lizardmen who are equipped with spears, bucklers and javelins, and wear heavy armor.

Elves and dwarves exist as technical arms. A heavy infantry is good at using technical equipment, and a flexible shooting skill is super high, which can complement each other to a certain extent.

There are still a large number of kobolds and a small number of elves as auxiliary existences, playing their roles.

Since the number of lizardmen is not so large, some teams use kobolds instead, and their combat effectiveness is slightly weaker.

The number of soldiers remains basically the same. Now with their population, maintaining a [-]-man troop is already full of soldiers, and it is quite difficult to maintain. Tang Zhao and others prefer elite soldiers rather than crowd tactics, maintaining the current scale , Just upgrade the equipment, the current number of people is more than enough to protect themselves, and they have no desire to attack in the short term.
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After the meeting, Tang Zhao approached the Erwin family again.

[You plan to go to the countries in the west of the mainland, this is your freedom, but I personally suggest that you stay in the settlement for a while, I have some things to verify. 】

"As a reward for helping us, of course there is no problem, but I want to know in advance what you need me to do."

[You don’t need to do too much, just live here with peace of mind. You may be assigned some labor tasks within your ability. The workload is definitely not too big, and the danger is also very low.Afterwards some human civilians may come to my settlement, and I hope you will manage them for a while. 】

Now it is a rainy day. I don’t know what will happen to Oran in the future. I should make some preparations in advance.

Erwin is a bit indecisive in character, but his ability is not bad, at least it is no problem to manage hundreds of people. After all, he has been the mayor of the town and has a good reputation.

"That's it. If there are not many people, there is no problem. I think I can manage it well."

Erwin didn't refuse too much, and agreed directly.

[You can discuss the specific matters with Bourne, I have informed him in advance. 】

Having said that, Erwin still hesitated: "Can you tell me one more thing, is Oran going to war again?"

[I can't control the situation, and I can't guarantee how things will develop, but I suggest that you be prepared to go to war.Speaking of this, can you satisfy my personal curiosity, how did you get involved with the mermaids in the sea, they are not an extroverted race that will take the initiative to contact people. 】

"Being friends with them is indeed a very lucky thing. In fact, they were indeed quite wary of me at the beginning, but my territory is very close to theirs, and we often have contact. We became acquainted with each other every time we went back and forth. stand up"

[Understood, please write a letter to the senior mermaid you met there. Ningfu and the others are currently traveling in Oran, and some young mermaids who do not want to go out are in Yintao City. Both parties are still in safe condition. 】

Ning Fu entrusted him to deliver the letter before leaving, and also told Tang Zhao the approximate location of the mermaid territory. After the war against the sahuagin is over, it will not be difficult to deliver the letter.

Erwin naturally agreed, and the two chatted for a while, and then separated, each busy with their own affairs.
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After the matter was resolved, Tang Zhao originally planned to take a long vacation for himself, and then eat all kinds of stuff until he could evolve.

Evolution requires more than 200 tons of various flesh and blood, plus nearly a thousand blood cores, obviously not a small number.

Now the settlement is very short of meat, and there is no way to allocate that much surplus. Even if it can be allocated, it will take a while for Tang Zhao to eat all these foods.

His digestion ability is indeed very strong, but the digestion speed is not abnormally fast, it is still at the level of ordinary creatures.

After weighing things up, Tang Zhao added a new activity every day—hunting in the mountains.

On the one hand, it is to allow himself to evolve faster, on the other hand, it is to fill the gap in the lack of food in the settlement. In the end, he wants to free up some meat to raise certain creatures.

After the efforts of various races, several griffin cubs have been collected and are being domesticated by the goblins. They are growing at a high speed and will become combat power in a few years.

Compared with vultures, griffins are more irritable and difficult to tame, but their average size and combat effectiveness are much stronger.Tang Zhao had seen the role that vultures could play in war before, and was quite envious of similar creatures. Now he had to raise a few under the pressure of food supply.

Even if they can't form combat effectiveness in the last one or two years, they will have griffins to use in a few years, which is incomparable to Oran's exaggerated number of griffon riders, but it is better than nothing.

Not long after that, when Tang Zhao was living in the mountains with peace of mind, a message came from the western elf settlement, causing waves to stir up waves in the originally peaceful settlement.

With the efforts of Olivia, the western elf settlement established a preliminary connection with the southern elf kingdom.The two sides did not agree to get rid of the previous enmity, but they also had envoys and preliminary trade and technical exchanges, and they were no longer as disconnected as before.

The southern elf kingdom also knows that the current situation in the western elf settlements is not optimistic. Although the intensity of the elf civil war is even greater than the long beard war in the past, in the current situation, the same clan should help each other. There is not much territory left, this ancient race cannot withstand another large-scale attrition, and the failure of the war will make the elves lose the possibility of recovering their vitality.

Therefore, the southern elf kingdom, which is relatively easy to handle, decided to help its own people. A large amount of supplies went upstream from the Dewar River, entered Karak Solma, and then transferred to the elves' territory.

In addition to supplies, the Elven Kingdom has also dispatched many elf rangers, elf spellcasters, and even elite falcon cavalry. Already rare.

The elves who completed the mission in Oran were sent there directly, which saved a lot of effort.

That's why the elf envoys came here. No matter what, they had to pass through Tang Zhao's territory, and they had to say hello to the local administrators in advance.

Besides, there are other things that make Tang Zhao care a little bit.

[That is to say, there is friction between the Principality of Keluo and the Principality of Nirn, and then the Principality of Nirn wants to use the power of the elves to attack the Principality of Keluo from the side]

The Principality of Keluo has prosperous magic, and its land is located in the southwest of the western elf settlement. It is the force that supported the elves verbally before, and only maintains a dispensable cooperation with the elves on paper.

The Principality of Nirn is further west than the Principality of Colo, and it is not bordered by the elves' territory. It is also a country with developed magic and alchemy, but the organizational structure of the two is completely different.

Nirn claims to be the successor of the ancient Ostia Empire, proud of inheriting and restoring ancient magic, and to a certain extent, it does retain the essence of the Ostia Empire.Although magic is prosperous and mages have great power, the holders of secular power are still traditional nobles, and the two sides restrain each other to a certain extent.

On the other hand, Colo is completely ruled by mages. The ruler is a mage council composed of mages from various factions. The organizational form and economic system of the entire country are completely for mages. They also carried out experiments on living people that were banned by the country, and these mages were quite dark, and the entire mage class was full of conspiracy and struggle.

(End of this chapter)