Chapter 483 I come for peace
The winter wind finally reached the Emerald River.
At this time in previous years, the river had already formed ice that could be walked on.
But the situation is different this year. The people of Lane have put a lot of thought into breaking the ice and lighting fires, just to prevent the Emerald River from freezing.
Fragments of ice are now covering the surface of the river. It looks frozen, but when you step down, there is a hole.
Angor Watson is not someone who only knows how to lead troops. He knows very well that the war between the two countries is a contest of national strength, and now the orcs are in an awkward situation.
They are short of food.
As a kingdom with many mountains and little land, and which mainly relies on planting, the orcs are already very short of food.
Now that a large number of young men are dispatched and consume a large amount of food every day, the orcs cannot last long.
If they hadn't robbed a city in Lane and gotten some supplies, the war might have ended long ago.
The orcs also know this, so recently they got a group of mages from nowhere and are casting spells from a long distance to freeze the emerald river.
There were blizzards and hail every day, turning the river surface into patches of solid ice.
But the Lane people are not polite to them. Who is afraid of whom in a war of attrition? Can you orcs have more mages than us humans?
Who told you that priests can't use fireball?
Both sides threw a lot of magic, all towards the river.
And now that both sides have aerial reconnaissance means, do you want to find a way around it from upstream and downstream? It's useless. The airship can scan a hundred kilometers of river in half an hour. The same goes for Ryan's jet flying scout, but its endurance is shorter.
The war has entered an era of full-picture vision that no one has experienced, and tactics on the battlefield must keep pace with the times.
Although Ryan has the advantage temporarily, Tianshi is on the orcs' side.
Ange Watson stood on the top of the city, facing the biting cold wind, and his heart was colder than the north wind.
The weather this year is too cold, so cold that it is abnormal. On weekdays, the temperature at this time is only ten degrees below zero at most, but now it is thirty degrees below zero.
The river water was freezing too fast. The Lane people had worked hard for so long, but it seemed they could only watch the river water freeze.
Most people can't understand why the temperatures are so low this year and think it's due to divine intervention, but many astrologers are already prepared.
For a whole kingdom of unclean chants has disappeared.
There have never been such terrifying regional changes. Scholars who study climate have made various predictions, and the Great Cold Wave is one of them.
Now it seems that those scholars who talked about severe droughts and earthquakes will be slapped in the face.
But no matter how many climate scientists you kill, weather change has become a fact. Large-scale and wide-scale ice melting methods cannot continue forever. According to Ang Watson's calculations, if Ryan persists for ten days at most, the Emerald River will be completely frozen. If he wants to melt the ice by then, he will probably not have enough manpower. .
When the river is completely frozen, the orcs will definitely launch a decisive battle before winter completely sets in.
Ange Watson could already guess the outcome.
Lion suffered heavy casualties, but held the Emerald River defenses and pushed back the orc army. But the premise is that troops from other borders must be mobilized, and it must be ensured that other borders will not be invaded.
Once the other side starts fighting, Ryan's losses will be even greater.
However, the final result is that the orcs will be repelled. The most they can do is vent their inner hatred and anger and then retreat. They may not even be able to save the city on the other side of the river.
Both sides suffer, everyone loses.
Ange Watson knew the outcome from the start, and he worked constantly to avoid it.
Thinking of this, Ange Watson punched the city wall angrily.
"Damn it, why are you refusing to sell me the battleship?!"
Angor Watson has seen the power of Amberxiu's weapons, and the most powerful war weapon is undoubtedly his Kuroshio. Although he heard that the Kuroshio had crashed, he still had other battleships.
A battleship with an absolute speed advantage is enough to control the sky of the entire battlefield, that is, you are the only one who hits others, and others cannot fight back at all.
No matter how powerful the opponent's commander is, he can't make all the orcs grow wings.
With the absolute weapon advantage, Ange Watson was confident that he could drive these orcs back without much loss.
But Amberxiu just didn't want to sell it.
That **** lich dares to make war fortune stained red with blood!
How could Ange Watson not guess what Amberxiu was thinking? This lich just wanted the two countries to keep fighting, so that his weapons could sell better.
The jetpacks used by individual soldiers alone cost Ryan millions of gold coins, and the cost of this thing would not exceed 50,000.
But Ryan's Alchemist just couldn't imitate it, and even caused an explosion when he took it apart for research, and was charged a damage fee by the lich.
That's right, it's the cost of damage compensation.
Because these jetpacks are "rented", and the rent is calculated based on flight time, each jetpack has a device to calculate the startup time, and every minute is calculated in gold coins.
The longer this battle goes on, the more the lich earns.
The undead are the undead, they have no morality, no kindness, only naked interests, even the lich who claims to have saved the world is no exception.
Ange Watson felt more and more that His Majesty the Emperor was right. His brother should not have cooperated with this lich in the first place. Allen was really bewitched by this lich. The Watson family was all bewitched by this lich. destroyed.
Just when Ange Watson was deeply angry but helpless, the city was suddenly shrouded in shadow.
Ange Watson subconsciously raised his head, thinking that the orcs had started to unleash a large-scale ice storm again. He was about to alert the soldiers below, but found that what was covering the sun in the sky was not the clouds brewing the ice storm, but several ships. Huge flying battleship.
"Is that the Lich's Kuroshio? No, how come this is bigger than the Kuroshio?!"
Ange Watson's first reaction was that the orcs had no idea what price they paid to let the lich sell the battleship to them.
Although Ange Watson was surprised, he did not panic at all. He quickly returned to the castle and gave orders to his followers. All jetpack scouts return, and ground troops move into bunkers or stay mobile as much as possible to avoid being targeted by these warships.
At the same time, Angor Watson opened the magic mirror and directly contacted the lich who just cursed fiercely.
After seeing Amberxiu's skull face in the mirror, Ange Watson immediately said: "Does Master Ultraman think that we Ryan can't afford the price? Can those extremely poor orcs buy yours?" Battleship, and we Lane people can't afford it?”
Amber Xiu chuckled and said, "Don't be nervous, my old friend. When did I sell battleships to the orcs? I just rented some small airships for reconnaissance, and they don't have weapons on them."
"This is a battlefield. I'm afraid I don't have time to test each other with you, Master. What are those huge warships in the sky? Don't tell me that you are here for sightseeing."
Ange Watson has clenched his fists.
At the beginning of the war, the Kuroshio had appeared several times, each time causing great losses to the Lane people. If all the warships in the sky had the same powerful combat power as the Kuroshio, then there would be no need to fight this battle. They could just abandon the city and escape. Perhaps they could evacuate before the city's defense magic circle was broken.
"You really misunderstood. Ange, I did not sell these battleships to the orcs, and they did not appear on the battlefield to launch an attack on Ryan. On the contrary, I came here for peace today."
At this moment in the sky, Amber Xiu was sitting in the cockpit of the new battleship, looking at the empty surroundings, feeling a little emotional in his heart.
Damn psychotic goddess, ruined his Kuroshio.
That is the real battleship. The several newly built battleships now are just shells, without various weapons and carrier-based aircraft. The sum of several battleships is not as good as the Kuroshio.
It's just larger in size and looks bluffing, but in fact it will be exposed as soon as you use it.
But Amber Xiu is here to bluff people, and this effect is enough.
Seven giant battleships flew across the sky, blocking even the sunlight, which was enough to scare the orcs and Lane people below from doing anything.
Not only Ange Watson was frightened, but the orcs were also contacting Amberxiu and asking him if he had received money from the Lane people.
It has to be said that both parties have the same idea in this regard, which shows how deeply rooted in the hearts of the people is Amber Xiu's character.
Across the magic mirror, Amberxiu said to Ange Watson: "Today I am not here to use weapons, but to teach Ryan how to shake hands with the orcs and make peace. Ange, I hope that Ryan and the orcs can temporarily cease fighting and continue fighting. It will only continue to shed innocent blood.”
Ange Watson was stunned. He thought he heard wrongly.
Isn't this lich waiting to make war fortune? Seeing the war in quagmire, when he was about to make a lot of money, how could he stop it at this time.
Angor Watson thought of a lot in an instant, but still didn't understand what Amberxiu meant, so he asked directly: "Ultraman Master, what exactly do you want to do?"
"It's just to maintain world peace. Isn't this what I have been doing? I was the one who mediated the war between the dwarves and the elves, which saved a war and saved millions of lives. The Githyanki came from the star realm It was me who ended the invasion, and even the war in the depths of the ocean came to an end quickly because of me..."
What Amber Hew said was so natural that it made Ange Watson feel uncomfortable.
When a lich claimed to maintain world peace in front of the paladin, Ange Watson felt that the world was crazy. What's even crazier is that Ange Watson couldn't think of how to refute it for a while. At least half of what the lich said was true.
Damn it, unknowingly, this lich became a hero who saved the world.
Wait, something's wrong, he was almost taken to the ditch.
Ange Watson reacted immediately and asked: "Ultraman Master, what did you just say? Are you ready to stop this war?"
Amberxiu sighed and said: "Although the grudge between the orcs and Ryan can no longer be resolved, and the hatred between the two countries has lasted for thousands of years, I still don't want to see too many innocent lives sacrificed. So, I'm here, I I hope both parties can accept my mediation.”
Ange Watson:…
This lich actually said that he didn't want to see innocent lives sacrificed. It was like Tiger saying that he was going to become a vegetarian, but he couldn't make it up.
But at least the lich didn't come to throw undead bombs at Ryan, and Ange Watson breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ultraman Master, what do you mean by mediation? Can you make the orcs retreat and return the land that belongs to Ryan?"
Amberxiu glanced at Ange Watson. Among the three Watson brothers, Allen was probably the stupidest one. The general opened his mouth to ask the orcs to return the land. Is this lion really a paladin when he opened his mouth?
Fortunately, Amberxiu had already collected information and said to Ange Watson: "Ange, according to historical records, the land on the other side of the Emerald River originally belonged to the Orc Empire. We just occupied it. Not only the city on the other side of the river, but also the city you are in now belongs to the orcs. "
The Lion Empire continues to expand externally, eroding the territory of its neighbors bit by bit, so it has its current huge territory and can support a huge population.
It's just that this bad debt happened many years ago, and the land that has been occupied for hundreds of years naturally becomes Ryan's.
Ange Watson said with a straight face: "It was the orcs who violated the original non-aggression treaty, which led to Ryan's counterattack. This land already belonged to Ryan. Master Ultraman, you want to say what you said before?" , then I can only say that the Orc Empire was built with the help of Ryan."
"Yes, the great Holy King Arthur Lane helped all races establish their own kingdoms, hoping that all races could live with freedom, equality and dignity. But what has Lane done in the past seventeen hundred years? Your fanatical race ism and religious fanaticism are madly harming your neighbors. If Arthur Lane were still alive and saw your behavior, he would be so disappointed..."
Amber was angrily interrupted by Ange Watson in the middle of her words.
"How dare you mention that name! I seriously warn you, the name of the Holy King is not yours to say. Master Ultraman, I respect your knowledge and deeds, but I warn you very seriously, the Holy King is not your name. It's a tool to perform rhetoric, this is blasphemy and a declaration of war against the entire Ryan!”
Amberxiu looked at the angry-looking Angor Watson, but he didn't expect that he was still a fan of Arthur. Amberxiu thought that he was just like that iron-blooded general, a ruthless and ruthless type who ignored tradition.
Facing Ang Watson's anger, Umberto said calmly: "You actually know the truth in your heart. You are fighting a war and letting the blood of innocent people dye the emerald river red. And I, the undead, am saving the world. In order to be less Sacrifice and give up my interests. Ange, who is blaspheming the Holy King between you and me?"
Ange Watson gritted his teeth. This rhetorical question made him unable to answer, but the fact that he could not argue did not mean that Ange Watson would be convinced.
"Ultraman Master, you and I both know that you only have wealth in your heart. No matter what you do, the fire of your soul burns out the rusty smell of gold coins. So why not waste everyone's time? What is your so-called mediation? What means?"
Amberxiu felt a little emotional. Compared with Allen, Ange Watson was not only older, but also had much more mature views, which could not be shaken by just a few words. So Amberxiu did not waste time and said straight to the point: "I am going to hold a meeting and invite the Elf King, Archdruid, Dwarf King, Orc King, and your Emperor of Lane to attend.
"I would like to emphasize one last time that I am here just for world peace. So I will invite all kings to participate in this peace meeting to completely resolve everyone's disputes. My goal is to eliminate war so that everyone can live and work in peace and contentment."
After saying these words, Amberxiu transmitted a delicate small box to Angor Watson through the magic mirror.
"Bring this gift to your emperor. This is the invitation I sent to him. After reading the contents, I think he will understand my good intentions."
(End of chapter)
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