What's wrong with building a steel torrent in a dungeon?

Spring has arrived, and no one knows when the elves will launch harassment tactics. For the Troll Empire, the earlier they can plan, the better their chances of winning.

Looking at the boat carrying Sankara leaving, Christina showed a rare look of worry.

"Sister, are you worried about the Troll Empire?"

Christina nodded, and then said, "You know the fighting power of the elves, not to mention that this battlefield is still in their homeland. Even if they have firearms..."

Christina felt a headache when she thought of the elven army's rain-like arrows.

The arrows shot by the elven archers are not only extremely powerful, but also incredibly accurate.

Even a musket cannot guarantee a 100% chance of success if prepared, let alone a troll.

"Don't worry." Fran comforted Christina, "Since the trolls can survive under the hegemony of the Elf Empire, they must have their own unique abilities. We must believe in them. Moreover, they are our comrades who fight side by side with us, not our puppets. What we ultimately hope is that they can rely on their own strength to defeat the hegemony, rather than relying on our blood transfusion."

"Alas... I am just worried! After all, we are dealing with elves."

"Don't worry, sister." Fran said, "I'm not completely unprepared. In order to deal with jungle warfare, the military research institute has also designed special weapons. The layout against the elves has already begun."

"But City Lord..." Katarina said, "I'm not really worried about the trolls. They've been able to fight the elves for so long, so holding the elves back shouldn't be a problem. The key is, what about the dwarves? This time we have to face not only the Northern Alliance, but also the Chinese Alliance. In terms of naval power alone, the pressure from the dwarves is greater than that from the elves."

Dwarf

Fran fell into deep thought.

Unlike the Elf Empire, where class divisions were severe and the lower-class people were full of resentment, the Dwarf Empire was peaceful on the surface. Even the lower-class people at least had no problems with food and clothing, and their dignity was guaranteed.

This can be seen from the entertainment venues in various countries.

In all kinds of top-notch entertainment venues, you can basically see elves, and there are quite a lot of them. However, there are almost no dwarf girls in entertainment venues. Even if there are, many of them are gray dwarves who are forced to dye their hair to pretend to be dwarves.

It is true that the elf girl is stunningly beautiful, but the dwarf girl is not much inferior.

Loli and stuff...contrast cuteness and stuff...loli mom and stuff...human nobles like this.

The difference in entertainment venues also reflects that the living standards of dwarven citizens are generally much better than those of elves.

Although the prosperity of the dwarves is built on the blood and tears of the black orc slaves, the prosperity is real. As the beneficiaries, the dwarves will naturally not easily betray their country, let alone their gods. Even if they do, the price of betrayal is much higher than that of the elves.

There is indeed no shortage of rebels in the history of dwarves, such as the gray dwarves.

The reason for the rebellion of these gray dwarves was not economic problems, but the attempt to study the gift of the dwarf god - the steam core. They were a group of scholars with a strong thirst for knowledge, but there were too few of them to take up the banner of resistance.

The wind can’t blow in, the rain can’t drift in, yet the Dwarf Empire is still very powerful. This is the tricky part about it.

As for the black orcs.

At first, Fran did want to use them as a breakthrough point, but the dwarves must have already thought of what Fran could think of. Therefore, they had long since erased the history of the black orcs and eliminated their culture, leaving them without writing or language, and completely becoming vassals of the dwarves.

Some black orcs even feel that they are born slaves of the dwarves. Some black orcs identify with dwarf citizens and are more fanatical about the dwarf gods than the dwarves themselves.

That's all.

The dwarves also forcibly divided the black orcs into different ethnic groups based on the depth of their skin color (although Fran couldn't tell the difference), and made these artificially divided black orcs attack each other, abuse each other, report each other and rob each other of their interests. As a result, before they even had any idea of ​​resistance, the fight was over.

In this situation, training a group of black orcs who know how to resist is almost impossible. Fran can only ask the Beast King to slowly find a way to attract the ambitious people among the black orcs.

"As for the dwarves, we can only let them go first." Fran said, "Fortunately, they are only providing supplies this time and are not interfering with matters such as recruitment and training. It is clear that the dwarves' purpose is only to assist the elves and draw our attention to the Holy Roel Empire. They do not intend to get too deeply involved."

"After all, the elves and dwarves are still wary of each other. It's impossible to eliminate the struggle for supremacy that has lasted for nearly a hundred years." Katarina said.

"Then is there any way to sow discord between them?" Christina asked.

"It's difficult." Catalina said, "We have already provoked them once. Now their attention is focused on our emerging force. I'm afraid it will be difficult to provoke them a second time."

It was Catalina who was behind the last divisive plot.

Before preparing for the naval battle with the dwarves, Katarina told the elves that while they were fighting a life-and-death battle with Fran in the Fruman region, the dwarves were quietly expanding their territory in the Inya continent. By then, no matter whether the elves won or the city of Aurora won, it would not be good for their side, but would benefit the dwarves instead.

Finally, Katarina used the winner of the infrastructure competition as bait to make the elves withdraw their troops from the Feruman area and open up some trade restrictions. This prevented Fran from being attacked from all sides and allowed her to engage in a naval battle with the dwarves with peace of mind.

The reason the elves agreed to Katarina was because they didn't want to see their old rivals, the dwarves, take advantage of the situation. But now that the dwarves have been dragged into the water, the elves no longer have such concerns.

"But..." However, at this moment, Catalina changed the subject and said, "It's not completely impossible."

"How to say?"

"All cooperation is based on interests," said Catalina. "Once we find that the benefits are not worth the cost, then such cooperation will naturally not continue. Since we cannot break their alliance, we might as well attack one of them with all our heart and soul. If we hurt that one, he will naturally withdraw. In fact, we did just that."

Fran nodded.

Their current strategy basically revolves around the elves.

The elves were the initiators and also borne a greater price. Therefore, as long as the Northern Alliance paid a greater and more tragic price than the Chinese Alliance, such a fragile alliance would naturally collapse.

After all, the elves were not philanthropists and would not do anything that would harm themselves and benefit the dwarves. In order to curb Fran, he ended up losing everything. This was too stupid.

As long as the difference in power between the three forces is not too great, there will never be a solid alliance.

The intrigues and deceptions among the three forces are really fun.

In particular, all three forces seem to believe that time is on their side.

Chapter 294: Brother! Don’t be impulsive!

A few days later, huge steel locomotives suddenly appeared near Leopold City, and this scene immediately attracted the people in the city to stop and watch.

What?? The train goes to Leopoldstadt?

For a moment, the merchants in Leopold City were extremely excited, and the people were telling each other the news.

On the night the train arrived in the city, the housing prices in Leopold City actually rose by 20%, and long queues formed in front of various real estate sales stores.

The railway under Fulan has been in operation for two years, and the surrounding residents have already had a fairly intuitive concept of the role of trains. As long as the tracks are laid wherever they are, the economy of that place will take off, and all kinds of goods will flow in endlessly.

Today, a long black dragon has been completely built from the port of Biesund in the south to Minsk in the north. Unsurprisingly, the cities along the train route are developing rapidly, which makes residents in other places envious. They have written to the authorities hoping that the railway tracks can be laid to their hometowns.

Leopoldstadt is not too far from Vienna and is an important economic and military town, so there have always been rumors that a railway track will be laid there. However, this rumor has been circulating for more than a year, but there has been no follow-up.

Because there are so many rumors, even if someone occasionally sees the mysterious construction site and brings it back to the pub to brag about it, they are often ridiculed.

But when the people were not prepared, the railroad tracks had already been built, and the new station was set up a few kilometers away from Leopoldstadt. It must be said that the European Railway Bureau was not only efficient, but also kept it very secret, so that most people did not know about this.

The news of the train's opening spread quickly and soon reached New Vienna, shocking the elves and dwarves.

They knew that Fran was preparing to build a large-scale project.

However, they were not worried, but happy, because it meant that Fran was shifting its strategic focus here and starting to compete with New Vienna, so naturally they would have no time to develop their maritime power. This was also the purpose of their funding Margaret.

In order to further stimulate Fran and get her to invest more resources in this area, they also specially held a grand military parade in New Vienna. At the military parade, teams of newly recruited soldiers appeared on the New Vienna Square with new firearms.

The scene was very... chaotic for a while.

Despite several months of training, these captured men were still skinny and shaky. Some of them couldn't even lift their guns, let alone march in unison! As a result, when the square formation came out, it looked like a noisy procession in a vegetable market.

Many soldiers couldn't even stand the military posture for several hours and fainted. The scene was filled with laughter.

This made the elf instructor's face green with anger. In desperation, he could only let the soldiers of the Vienna Legion or the Northern Alliance put on the clothes of the new army and temporarily serve as a troop to avoid being ridiculed again.

However, although the military parade was not satisfactory, it at least revealed a lot of information to the outside world.

First, New Vienna already has a considerable army.

Second, this new force has been equipped with a large number of firearms and has begun firearms training.

Regardless of its combat effectiveness, at least the shell has been built and the equipment has been delivered. I believe that everything will be prosperous and stable in the future.

This military parade obviously seriously "irritated" Fran.

However, the intensity of Fran's reaction seemed to be a little beyond their expectations.

Soon after the train was opened, a large amount of building materials was transported to Leopoldstadt.

Just when everyone thought that Fran was going to start a large-scale construction to transform Leopold City into a super steel fortress, they discovered that these building materials did not stay in the city, but moved forward without stopping.

Where is this going to be built?

After leaving Leopold City, the road ahead is flat and there is no defense. Is Fran going to build a steel wall on the map?

Soon Fran gave them the answer.

These building materials were pulled eastward by carts and horses until they reached the border of the Duke of Tualatin, where they stopped. Then a large number of soldiers from the Construction Corps took their positions and began skilled engineering construction. Looking at the appearance of this building, it is clearly a military camp!

Not only that, many European Railway Bureau workers also appeared next to these Construction Corps soldiers.

Fran wants to extend the railway to the edge of Duke Tualatin's territory!!

For a moment, the entire city of New Vienna was shocked.

Duke Turadin is an old man over 70 years old. He has made no achievements in his life and has no say in either Old Vienna or New Vienna. However, his duchy is very special because it is located in the middle of the areas controlled by Fran and Margaret.

Because Fran and Margaret did not break up publicly, the two sides still acted together under the banner of the Holy Roel Empire. Since there was no quarrel and no military disputes, there would naturally be no national borders or military ceasefire lines.

Fran 'tacitly' used the Dukedom of Tualatin as the boundary and did not take another step forward, and the two sides maintained superficial peace.

But now Fran has built a military camp on the edge of the Dukedom of Tualatin, which is like putting a sharp knife in front of New Vienna. It is clearly a provocation!

It's just a provocation.

The key point is that if one day the train reaches the new military camp, it means that Fran's army can reach the border of the Dukedom of Tualatin directly from the city of Orila within two days, and can also transport a large number of heavy artillery.

By then, the entire Holy Roal Empire of the East will be defenseless, and Fran can attack the city of New Vienna in an instant as long as she wants.

Moreover, there are too many military camps! To fill them up, at least 40,000 to 50,000 people are needed.

Fran, do you want to fight?

Such oppression was something that neither the elves nor the dwarves had expected.

I just want to provoke you a little, you don't have to make such a fuss!

For a time, the whole of New Vienna was shaken, people were in panic, and rumors of war immediately spread in the city. Especially in the dormitories of the new army, most of these unfortunate recruits were captured! They had no will to fight, and only wanted to save their lives. On the night the news came, a large number of recruits fled.

Not only the people of New Vienna, but also the elves and dwarves were extremely worried. They had to take action, otherwise, by the time Fran had assembled her army, they would all be driven away.

The current time may not be enough for the elves and dwarves to complete the transformation of the fleet. They must come up with a countermeasure.

Fortunately, perhaps Fran was also afraid that she would push the Northern Alliance and the Chinese Alliance too hard, causing them to directly send troops to station in New Vienna, thus triggering a plane war.

Fran then issued a statement saying that her action was only for training new soldiers and was not directed against any country. She also hoped that certain countries would not extend their hands too far and cause unnecessary disputes.

This is telling the elves and dwarves that you can support puppets as you wish, but do not lead the army to the Holy Roll Empire, otherwise we will fight to the death.

This made the elves and dwarves breathe a sigh of relief.

It seems that Fran doesn't want to make things worse, but she just drew a bottom line for the Northern Alliance and the Chinese Alliance. Once this bottom line is crossed, the troops of Orila City will launch a ruthless attack to the east.

While they were trying to comfort Fran, saying that they were only helping the people with construction and had absolutely no military purpose, they were also quietly changing their strategic deployment and increasing investment in Margaret's sphere of influence to deal with Fran's army.

Chapter 295 Bandit Meeting

New Vienna Military Headquarters.

The envoys of the Northern Alliance and the Chinese Alliance gathered together to discuss how to deal with Fran's sudden "stationing of one million troops".

Led by the Elf Commander Alfonso and the Dwarf Commander Odysseus, a group of younger brothers from the Northern Alliance and the Chinese Alliance sat on both sides of the hall. The Duke of Normandy, the original owner of this place, sat in an inconspicuous place, quietly listening to the discussion of these outsiders, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.

"What on earth does Fran want to do by making such a statement at this time!" The dwarf Odyssey tapped the paper on the table heavily with his fingers.

Odyssey's behavior was as if he had just learned about this.

"They are warning us not to send troops in, otherwise they will fight us to the death." Alfonso said unhappily.

She knew why the dwarves pretended not to know. According to the previous division of labor, the dwarves were only responsible for supplies. There was no problem with the supply of supplies, but something went wrong where the elves were supposed to be responsible, so they deliberately used this method to blame them.

"Fight us to the death?" Odysseus said disdainfully: "Then let her try and see!"

Humph! You dwarves are not the ones who are fighting to the death, so of course you are happy about it. Alfonso gave Odysseus a subtle look.

Although the two sides are allies, the dwarves are obviously happy to see the elves and Fran fighting each other. This is equivalent to paying the elves to bleed with Fran!

"Don't forget that our real goal is not to defeat Fran on land! But to attract her attention." Alfonso said: "Our plan has just begun, and we must not let the situation escalate. It is not good for us to start a war now. Time is on our side! ! ! "

Odysseus knew that the elves would not fight with Fran. He signaled Alfonso to continue. This meeting was proposed by Alfonso, so he must have already made a plan.

Seeing that Odysseus was no longer arguing with him about the matter of full responsibility, Alfonso cleared her throat and began her speech.

"I think you all should still remember the undead scourge that occurred two years ago. At that time, when the entire main plane was about to be slaughtered by the undead, it was Her Majesty Margaret who stood up and turned the tide. She used the power of the Holy Roel Empire alone to stop the undead scourge and killed Arthas!"

"Victory is glorious, but at what cost! The entire Holy Role Empire is in ruins, people's livelihood is in decline, and starving people are everywhere! The country is in danger, and the lives of all living beings are hanging in the balance. But at this time, Fran, as a vested interest, took advantage of the situation and occupied Vienna, the capital of the Holy Role Empire!"

"Those who carry firewood for the people will not let them suffer from hunger and cold!" Arthas said, "We should not and cannot forget Margaret's contribution! So... we should do our best to help Margaret and the suffering people of the Holy Roll Empire."

The elves still speak in such a high-sounding manner, although everyone knows what is going on behind this.