612: Chapter 192: Accumulating Wealth (Part 2)_1 612: Chapter 192: Accumulating Wealth (Part 2)_1 There was one advantage in choosing to advance through wilderness and remote mountains.
It benefited Red Spirit, because rare metals were often located in such isolated places.
Although they hadn’t discovered a mithril mine as large as the previous one on their journey, Red Spirit frequently discovered small amounts of rare ore due to its keen senses.
The Qin City Army progressed intermittently, gradually moving towards the City of Florence.
Another month passed, and the Ryuzakinus Continent had fully entered spring.
As the temperature gradually increased, the earth and all things began to recover.
Plants sprouted, and slaves responsible for farming, both moners and nobles, began their work in the fields.
During this month, Glacis never had a full meal.
Of course, Ye Yinzhu wouldn’t always starve him.
After a certain period, he would return to the Milan Empire Border East Wind City through the Spatial Teleportation Formation to obtain some food from Jinse (Gold) for Glacis to consume.
This was enough to maintain his physical strength.
Although they hadn’t looted in this month, the Qin City warriors still reaped considerable rewards.
Not only did the cooperation of various troops bee more proficient, but they also obtained a considerable amount of rare metals, including a Krypton Gold the size of a finger.
“We’re finally about to arrive; even I’m starting to feel eager.” Oliveira jumped down from his dragon mount and landed beside Ye Yinzhu.
Ye Yinzhu slightly smiled and said, “Are we close?
What’s the situation up ahead?” As he spoke, he raised his hand, manding the Qin City warriors to temporarily halt the march.
Oliveira squatted down, spread out the sheepskin map, and pointed out a region on the map.
“We’re currently here.
Moving forward, we’ll enter the Capital Market Zone of the Flore Empire.
I understand your intention to launch a surprise attack on Florence, striking at the very heart of the Flore Kingdom.
If we can inflict a severe blow on the Flore royal family, Flore’s Army will crumble on their own.
I’ve studied the map carefully and personally reconnoitred the terrain up ahead.
Things aren’t as simple as we imagined.”
“Oh?
What did you find?” Ye Yinzhu’s face turned serious.
They can be said to be deep within enemy territory right now, and they needed to act cautiously.
Even if they have the Spatial Teleportation Magic Formation, even with the Life Storage Gem’s effect, they can only transport a maximum of two hundred people at a time.
For the Qin City Army, which prises more than three thousand soldiers, it would take two days to pletely evacuate,
Oliveira said, “The Flore Kingdom has two major market zones, the foundation of the entire nation.
One is situated on the Nor Plains, made up of fifteen large cities forming the southwest market zone.
Originally, there were twenty cities, but we plundered five.
The other zone is centered on the City of Florence, stretching outwards and covering nearly fifty thousand square kilometers—the Capital Market Zone.
The Flore Kingdom is considered a medium-sized nation in the Ryuzakinus Continent, with a land area of about 1.2 million square kilometers.
Although the wealth of the flore kingdom’s capital market zone is the largest, it has a drawback—for us, it’s too dense.
In the southwest market zone, the distances between each city are at least hundreds of li apart.
The twenty main cities cover nearly three hundred thousand square kilometers of fertile land, enpassing the entire Nor Plains.
This capital market zone does not have fewer large cities than the southwest market zone, yet they occupy only fifty thousand square kilometers.
Can you figure out what that means?”
Ye Yinzhu nodded and said, “You mean to say, the cities in the Capital Market Zone of the Flore Kingdom are very close to each other, making it easy for them to assist each other, right?”
Oliveira nodded and said, “Exactly.
My offspring have surveyed the area; it’s impossible for us to directly attack Florence.
To reach Florence, we have to pass at least three cities.
There are over twenty major cities surrounding Florence, supporting and protecting the capital like many stars surrounding the moon.”
Ye Yinzhu said, “So we either have to attack other cities first or disregard the other cities and rush straight to Florence?”
Oliveira said, “That’s true.
Even though the Flore Kingdom is currently depleted, there must be city defense armies in each city to maintain order.
At the bare minimum, each city should have three thousand city defenders.
The more than twenty cities would have a total of sixty thousand.
Including the Royal Guard in the capital of Florence, which is expected to exceed ten thousand, the maximum number of enemies we may encounter could reach seventy thousand.
Whether we first loot the surrounding cities or directly rush to the City of Florence, the Flore people could easily rally within the City of Florence—due to the city’s powerful defenses—to resist us.
Ye Yinzhu, we only have more than three thousand people after all, and although they are strong, they can’t withstand the enemy’s human wave tactics.
Attacking the capital of Flore can undoubtedly unite the Flore people against us; even the Civilians of Flore will bee our enemies.”
With Oliveira by his side, Ye Yinzhu had significantly reduced chances of making mistakes, even the greatest manders are not infallible.
After listening to Oliveira’s words, Ye Yinzhu realized the severity of the situation.
He sternly said, “If that is the case, we need to act cautiously.
It seems that the City of Florence isn’t easy to attack after all.
Let me think.”
Oliveira did not interrupt Ye Yinzhu’s thought process.
On various details, he saw things more prehensively than Ye Yinzhu, but when it came to overall control and grasp of the war situation, Oliveira could only sigh in admiration.
The two of them plemented each other perfectly.
Ye Yinzhu pondered for a full ten minutes before speaking again, “Since delving deep into the City of Florence could end up in us getting surrounded, let’s continue with the guerilla warfare we had initially embarked upon.
Based on the reports from our Horned Hawk Knights, Flore’s 400,000-strong army in front doesn’t seem to be mobilizing, merely training and recovering in place.
Even if the light cavalry attempted to rush back here from the front lines at Western City and Nuoding City, it would take at least half a month.
This half-month period will be more than enough for us to achieve a lot.
It seems we can’t be too greedy, though.
We might not be able to cause a total collapse of Flore Empire this time, but we should at least hurt them enough for them to feel extreme pain.”
As he was speaking, a faint smile appeared at the corner of Ye Yinzhu’s mouth, “Brother Oliveira, what do you think would be the reaction of the Buddha King if a city in the capital market zone was plundered by us?”
Oliveira’s eyes brightened, “He would certainly mobilize all the available troops in the vicinity to the capital.
Who wouldn’t be afraid of their nest being raided?
This would leave the defense of the peripheral cities in the capital’s market zone weakened, providing an opportunity for us to attack.
Without directly attacking Florence, we can hover around the outskirts pillaging.
What we gain would be huge.”
Ye Yinzhu decisively waved his hand, “Let’s proceed this way, starting from the outskirts.”
After careful discussion, the Qin City Army was once again on the move.
After two solid months of rest and recuperation, the morale of the Qin City soldiers had reached its peak.
When the dawn of the next day arrived, they appeared seemingly out of nowhere in front of a peripheral city in Flore’s capital market zone.
As they had predicted, due to the mobilization of the main army to the frontlines, the defenses in the capital market zone were extremely weak.
There were less than three thousand soldiers in this city.
They didn’t even need to deploy War Behemoth Glacis.
With two volleys from the Horned Hawk Knights and suppression by the Tree Spirit Druids, they successfully breached the city.
Another round of plunder ensued.
To Ye Yinzhu’s disappointment, however, the number of nobles in this capital market zone was even less than those in the southwestern market zone.
Despite gaining considerable loot, it paled in parison to what they had gained from the major cities in the southwestern market zone.
This was in spite of the plundered city being larger than Nuoding and Western City.
The densely packed cities in the capital market circle were, of course, the best protection for Florence, but it made it all the more convenient for Ye Yinzhu and his men to plunder.
In the southwestern market zone, it took at least five days to plunder the next city, but here, it only took two days before they could visit the next city.
According to the tactical arrangements of Ye Yinzhu and Oliveira, they didn’t venture deep into the inside of the capital market zone, and continued to loot from the outskirts.
They plundered everything within each city, entirely depleting it of all its wealth and resources, not even sparing the food supplies.
After they finished looting the third city in the capital market zone, the Horned Hawk Knights reported that ten thousand light cavalry soldiers from Flore’s 400,000-strong army at the front were rushing day and night towards the capital, evidently having received the news.
Upon receiving this news, Ye Yinzhu and Oliveira’s confidence swelled.
It would take twenty days for the army to rush back from the frontlines; twenty days in which they could plunder how many more cities?
Thus, they ordered the Horned Hawk Knights to continue their reconnaissance and carried on with their actions.
They greedily stripped Flore Empire of its wealth.
…
Kusler, with his army, made no effort to hide as they rushed towards the City of Florence.
The ten thousand light cavalry soldiers were traveling day and night, moving at incredible speed.
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