Chapter 381 The Weird Sea Blue Man

At five past ten in the morning on September 7, Lieutenant Colonel George Vasar received a message from Asa scouts ahead.

About six miles to the southwest, a suspicious-looking team was found in the dense forest. There were more than 20 riders in total, all of them were armed, half of them were in civilian clothes, and the rest of the knights were wearing the standard armor of the Sea Blue Colonial Corps.

There are various indications that the other party is likely to be a scout team belonging to the Muspelheim border guards and shouldering cross-border reconnaissance missions.

The next question is, how to deal with this group of bold sea blue people?

In fact, this issue is far more complicated than it appears on the surface, involving a geopolitical game that affects the whole body.

As we all know, between the Alfheim colony belonging to the Ashan Empire and the Muspelheim colony belonging to the Seablue Kingdom, there is a Brass Mountain Range running east-west with an average altitude of more than 3,000 yards.

Due to the continuous and steep mountains and jungles, there are many beasts and even monsters. The Brass Mountains have been regarded as extremely dangerous forbidden areas by the aborigines living in the north and south since ancient times.

The colonists of the old continent who migrated to Alfheim and Muspelheim have continued to open up wasteland for many years, approaching the Brass Mountains from the north and south respectively.

But when the footsteps of colonial expansion reached the foothills of the Brass Mountains, they were forced to stop. Neither side dared to take huge risks to cross the high mountains. Therefore, the Brass Mountains were like a barrier, separating the two colonies from the north and the south, forming a natural borderline.

With the increasing number of immigrants in the New World, the land on both sides of the Brass Mountains has also been reclaimed one after another. Colonial strongholds were established first, and gradually developed into villages and even towns as time went by.

Where there are people, there is trade. The grain, spirits, cloth, cotton cloth and tobacco produced in Alfheim are very popular in the vast area south of the Brass Mountain, and can be sold at twice the local price; On the contrary, gemstones, precious metals, spices, coffee and cocoa beans, which are rich in the Muspelheim region, are also sought-after items in the Alfheim market.

Driven by interests, merchants in the two places naturally had a strong demand for mutual trade, and the Brass Mountains between the two colonies in the north and the south became a major obstacle to blocking trade exchanges. Business travelers in both places urgently needed a road Break through the channel of this natural moat.

After some in-depth investigations, the explorers were pleasantly surprised to find that there was a wide pass hidden in the dense forest in the middle of the Brass Mountains. After a little clearing, a wide road could be opened up for four carriages to pass side by side. The commercial route running through the north and south.

If the east-west brass mountains are compared to a row of neat and dense teeth, then the pass discovered by the explorers is like the only gap in the gum bed, so it is vividly named "Broken Tooth Valley", which is later It is commonly known as "Brass Mountain Pass".

"Broken Tooth Valley", as the only gateway to and from Alfheim and Muspelheim, not only has irreplaceable commercial value, but also a military important place of great strategic value.

As early as the beginning of the last century, the governing authorities of the Ashan Empire and the Ocean Blue Kingdom realized the importance of Broken Tooth Valley and sent colonial troops to establish border defense positions on both sides of the pass in an attempt to control this traffic artery.

There was a sharp conflict of interests between the colonial authorities of the two sides, and hostility inevitably arose over time, and large and small military frictions occurred from time to time.

At the beginning of this century, the long-standing conflicts between the two sides finally intensified, and a local war broke out to compete for the dominance of this trade route, which was later widely known by the residents of Alfheim as the "Ear War".

The war actually ended in a draw for both sides.

The sea blue invaders were driven back to the south of the pass by Sir Custis, but the Alfheim garrison did not have enough troops to take advantage of the victory and chase them out of the pass, let alone conquer the vast land south of the Brass Pass.

The home countries of the two colonies did not want to continue to shed blood for this trade route far away in the New World, so they signed an agreement to temporarily put aside the border dispute and share the trade benefits with both sides.

In the past 14 years, the border dispute between Yalfheim and Muspelheim has not yet been resolved.

The two sides have also held several governor-level meetings in an attempt to conduct border demarcation negotiations, but in the end they were unable to reach a consensus.

The historical issue of border demarcation at Huangtongshan Pass has persisted until now. The two sides have only reached a verbal compromise. For the time being, they have agreed to use the Broken Tooth Valley as the boundary. Without prior communication, the border guards of both sides are not allowed to enter the Broken Tooth Valley for activities within 50 miles of the surrounding area.

Since the above-mentioned agreement lacks written constraints, whether to recognize it or not is entirely at the discretion of both parties, and it is inevitable that there will be disputes about "the public says the public is right and the woman says the woman is right".

For example, at this moment, the sea blue soldiers appear in the disputed area. They may think that they are marching on their own land, and the Yalfheim military has no right to interfere.

From the standpoint of Lieutenant Colonel Vasa and his officers and men, it must be determined that the actions of the other party are illegal crossing of the border, otherwise it is tantamount to admitting that the disputed area near the mountain pass is the legal territory of the Hailan people.

From this standpoint, Lieutenant Colonel Vasa had no choice but to resolutely fight back against the provocative actions of the Navy.

Considering that the area where the enemy is located is densely forested, which is not conducive to heavy cavalry assaults, the task of dealing with this sea blue scout is entrusted to the Asa hunting cavalry who is better at fighting in woodlands. Under the cover of the shade, the Sa people quietly approached the enemy army and surrounded them.

Magny patted his chest and promised to complete the task, but just to be on the safe side, he also made a request to Lieutenant Colonel Vasa.

"Can you borrow Joan for me? With him in charge of aerial reconnaissance and magic support, none of those sea blue villains can escape!"

"I have no objection, but you have to seek Joan's own opinion."

Of course, Joann would not refuse Magni's request, and immediately transformed into an eagle and soared into the sky, and within ten minutes of flying in the direction indicated by the scouts, he saw a group of humans eating around a campfire in the clearing figure.

Joan first blessed himself with the "invisibility technique", retracted his wings and quietly landed on a big tree near the forest glade, leaned over to peek through the branches and leaves, and confirmed that the group of people around the campfire was the sea blue that the scouts had discovered cavalry.

There were 24 intruders in total, half of them wore navy blue military uniforms, and some wore cloaks. From their demeanor, they looked like civilian officials rather than soldiers.

What surprised Joan even more was that this group of people lit a fire in the forest in broad daylight, and they didn't seem to worry about their whereabouts being exposed by the fire and smoke.

There were no guard posts placed on the surrounding trees, it was really not like well-trained professional scouts.

Is the military discipline of the sea blue army so loose?

Joan secretly became suspicious.

Looking across the crowd below him inadvertently, he was surprised to find that in this group... there was actually a cook who was frying veal steaks in a frying pan heated by the bonfire!

The smell of butter, pepper, rosemary and barbecue, mixed into a seductive aroma permeates the woods.

Qiao An, who was observing secretly, couldn't help swallowing his saliva because of the delicious smell.

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