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Farming in a Parallel World and Becoming a God-Chapter 1230 - 676: Seizing the Opportunity to Expand_3
Chapter 1230: Chapter 676: Seizing the Opportunity to Expand_3
The Crown Princess’s command center was right in Luji Town.
At that time, Luji Town was established as a frontline outpost to withstand the evil within King’s Forest. As the national power of Komeer Kingdom flourished, they had pushed this line of defense up to the High Corner Fort in the Stormhorn Mountains, but its role as the main concentration of defense in King’s Forest has never changed.
It is also the most important transfer center of the King’s Forest. It is called Luji Town not because it’s a market by the road, but because it is a convergence point of roads. Taking any road in King’s Forest, one can find branches leading here, connecting no fewer than eight major and minor roads of the King’s Forest.
It is the largest glade in King’s Forest, and along these roads, there are more than a dozen forest stables spread out, where most of the first mounts of the Purple Dragon Knights of the Komeer Kingdom come from.
Half of these forest stables belong to the Royal Family, and when the horn of war assembly blows, these royal stables become the best gathering places for those stables.
Not only the Purple Dragon Patrol Team that patrols the King’s Forest would rapidly gather here, but also the militia and hunters from the nearby villages and towns were also summoned to converge upon Luji Town. Those gathering here were not just young people from the King’s Forest and surrounding towns, even those from other regions of the Komeer Kingdom also came, bringing their own equipment and food upon hearing the news.
The propaganda slogan of the Komeer Kingdom was simple and serious, "Luji Town is calling."
This was no longer just a mobilization; in the voices of those young people shouting this slogan, Gaven also felt a sense of responsibility and honor.
"Your Majesty, would it be possible to reveal your true objective?" Gaven sensed something off the very next day—this didn’t seem like a preparation to encircle the Secret Hunting Sect, nor did it look like preparations for a comprehensive purge of King’s Forest.
He had previously fought a jungle warfare with the Dwarves Elf in Mir Forest and was very aware of the particularities of jungle warfare. Human wave tactics are useless here, especially for the Purple Dragon Knights, who simply do not have the chance to employ their martial skills. They can only patrol along the trade paths and have no way to charge into the forest for combat.
There are two major points for conducting deep forest operations.
One is the extensive collection of intelligence. You have to lock down where your enemy is before you can dispatch troops. You can’t possibly engage in carpet-style searches for the enemy, can you?
Even on the plains, this is impractical, let alone in the vast primeval forests. Often times, if the enemy is just ten meters away and you lack the corresponding natural abilities, you wouldn’t even be aware of them.
The second is to call upon professionals suited for moving through dense forests, such as Druids, Rangers, Hunters, Archers, and so on. If there were natural races, that would be even better, forming elite combat teams for special operations based on intelligence.
In such primeval forests, the enemy villages, societies, and strongholds are definitely not too large, and there’s no need for a large army to be dispatched.
But none of these two factors are present on the Crown Princess’s side. What they have is the urgent training of the new recruits who have gathered, according to the standards of the Purple Dragon Knights.
The Crown Princess is not someone void of military common sense to make such basic mistakes.
"Even if you didn’t ask, General, I was prepared to discuss this matter with you," Tainalasta said gravely, "I believe that within a month, this news will spread throughout the entire Felen Continent. Have you ever heard of the Endless Wilderness?"
"The Endless Wilderness?" On hearing this name, Gaven couldn’t help but be shocked, a lightning bolt seemed to strike through his mind, parting the mists, and suddenly the Kingdom of Komeer’s unusual behavior found its perfect justification. They were not truly gathering troops for the King’s Forest; it was merely a convenient pretext. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
Misunderstanding Gaven’s reaction, the Crown Princess immediately dragged him into using a Teleportation Spell, transporting them into a war room decorated with three enormous military maps.
One of them was naturally of the Kingdom of Komeer and its neighboring countries.
Another was of the entire Felen Continent, which Gaven also possessed a copy of, but his lacked the level of detail in comparison; this map was clearly updated in real time, with marks like Conqueror Path, Blood Gorge City, Colossus City, and City of Faith noticeably written in a delicate hand with a tone of strength, revealing that it was undoubtedly the work of the Crown Princess herself.
The last was a world map of the entire Toril.
The Crown Princess pointed at the upper right corner of the Felen Grand Map and said: "The Endless Wilderness is here, much vaster than what most people can imagine. Only a small portion of it lies within the Felen Continent, with a larger part extending into the Kartu Continent. Combined, it is said to be larger than the whole Felen Continent. In this boundless expanse of wilderness and grassland, resides a nomadic race known as the Tukan People."
This race, known as the horseback race and also praised as the ’people of ten thousand tribes,’ is said to dwell in ten thousand Tukan Tribes throughout the entire Endless Wilderness.
When these tribes unite, it spells the beginning of a disaster for their neighbors.
Fortunately, such occurrences are rare, only happening during famine or when a talented and powerful Leader arises among their tribes. Otherwise, they spend most of their time warring against each other over more fertile pastures.
This situation ceased ten years ago when a tribal Leader named Yamun led his Tribe to rise, conducting southward and northward campaigns for more than a decade. He annihilated and assimilated countless Tukan Tribes, establishing his own Royal Court in the Endless Wilderness and being honored as Khan Yamun, proclaimed as the sovereign of all Tukan People, with all Tukan obeying his orders.
Last year, when the All Gods descended, although the main events took place in Felen, the Endless Wilderness was also affected. Countless livestock froze or starved to death, plunging this nomadic tribe into a collective famine.
Under the call of Khan Yamun, they rallied this spring, swept southward past the Soaring Dragon Great Wall of the Far East Dynasty, and only just managed to stave off collapse after looting expansively.
Although this year’s harvest in the Endless Wilderness is good and the spoils looted from the Far East Dynasty at the beginning of the year have helped them recover some vitality, surviving the winter independently remains extremely difficult, and many Tukan may freeze or starve to death.
Now they are like bloodthirsty wolves who’ve had a taste of human flesh. They will not sit idly by waiting for death. At the onset of this autumn, Khan Yamun once again issued a call to arms for war.
But this time, they did not head south because the Far East Dynasty was waiting at the Soaring Dragon Great Wall with hundreds of thousands of troops ready for battle. Instead, they set their sights on the Felen Continent, on us. Right now, tens of thousands of Tukan People are surging towards us."
The Crown Princess finished briefing Gaven in one breath about the background of the Tukan People, seemingly worried that he was unaware of the world’s political situation. She circled the locations of the Felen Continent, Kartu Continent, and the Endless Wilderness on the World Grand Map to help Gaven understand.