"About three thousand...it is equivalent to one tenth of the three free city coalition forces. It can be regarded as a considerable force..."

Vared nodded, feeling a little confident.

At the same time, while Valed and Felix were discussing this matter, south of the Claw Coast, the planner, executor, and the strongest man in the area, the Duke of Custer of the Principality of Ostland, were also making final preparations for his plan.

Young, young, and there is also youth. Young is the greatest capital of all young people. Although Custer has never said something similar to others, he has regarded this principle as a guide. Especially after his dead ghost father, the Duke of the Principal of Ostland, this young man with long chaotic golden hair seemed more active.

At the age of thirty-two, Duke Custer, at his prime, has a strong body like a bull, a vigorous energy like a wild dog, a loud cock's voice, and... from his new master, the cunning and eloquence given to him by the evil god Xin Liezhi.

It was precisely with this ability that Caster convinced the nobles and the most important forces of the country in just two months. Under his leadership, the entire Osterland showed a pathological excitement. Everyone was actively preparing for the war. Everyone was discussing the dividends after the victory of the war. Everyone was fantasizing about how much wealth and rewards they could get.

In addition to the necessary defense forces - the legion of goblin plunderers, giants and ogres who were in the Eastern Mountains, all the troops in Ostland have been fully mobilized. The soldiers, officers, knights and nobles all went to Fellsburg with a smile on their faces. This important northern town in Ostland is also the closest Ostland stronghold to the Claw Coast.

This fanaticism, excitement. After Duke Caster led his group of guards, the tall, strong, and wise warriors who came from nowhere, arrived at Felsburg, this reached its peak.

All the soldiers cheered and surrounded their Duke, pushing him onto the already built platform. They begged the Duke loudly to speak - his speech seemed to have magical power, fascinating all the Osterlands.

Duke Caster smiled, his beards were raised and he looked very excited. He wore a Knight's plate armor in the Bull Knight style, a full set of armor in black, a medal, a ribbon and a cloak. He was dressed no different from the respected Bull Knight. However, he was more burly and had a more solid appearance - which was also in line with the aesthetics of the Osterland people.

He had strong steps and flexible movements. He walked to the center of the platform with great strides, then raised his head and said loudly:

"Soldiers of Osterland, knights, warriors and soldiers!" After just this sentence, the long-lasting applause and cheer sounded from the high platform. Even Duke Caster could not control such a situation. The soldiers in the audience had a long time to stop. Then they listened to Duke Caster continuing to say:

We Ostronauts have the vastest territory of the empire. But this territory is the most barren of the empire. We Ostronauts rushed to the front line every time the chaos invasion battles, but we received not honors and sufficient rewards, but unjust contempt such as "countrymen" and "remote countryside". This is unfair! Stupid and extremely shouldn't happen!

So, we Ostrlanders must rise up and work hard. We must expand our territory and proliferate our property. We must rise up and catch up, and we must change all this. Otherwise, no one will take us seriously!

Unfortunately, however, we are trapped inland, the south are our allies in the empire, the west is a huge and difficult to cultivate the primeval forest, and the north is the Skiev Kingdom, which is even more barren than us. We are as if we were put into a pocket and it is difficult to perform our fists.

Fortunately, this pocket has not been tied up yet. The direction of this untie is the northwest, the borderless land of the Claw Coast, and the best gift given to us by the God Emperor Sigma!

There is the sea outlet that our inland country dreams of, which can provide us with a large amount of wealth brought by navigation trade. It is also the best channel for our Osterland to expand externally! In name, it should also belong to Osterland's territory. However, for hundreds of years, it has not provided us with any benefits - these wealth has been stolen by those ardent merchants! This channel for external expansion has also been blocked by those trash merchants!!"

"Rebel!"

"heresy!"

"A bastard!!!"

Hearing Duke Caster say this, the soldiers of Osterland all roared like this. They raised their swords, spears, halberds, and muskets in their hands. They shouted like this. They wished they could rush over now and kill all the enemies separating Scarten and occupy the city.

"That's right!" Duke Caster also shouted: "They have occupied the gifts given to us by the God Emperor. And we Ostlanders will never agree! This is the goal of us, the warriors gathered here! We are going to Scarten and seize this city!"

After that, people cheered loudly, and the sound shook the sky, and birds disappeared dozens of miles away.

A total of 50,000 soldiers were gathered. They were all professional elite troops. Standard spearmen equipped with super spears, long halberds, small round shields and breastplate, long halberds, and long halberds. Musketeers equipped with musketeers, swordsmen and great swordsmen, archers and crossbowmen.

In addition, Osterland's proud heavy shield spearmen, as well as Osterland's Bull Knights, as well as a large number of Northland dwarf mercenaries, cannons and mortars also provide this army with more diverse tactical choices.

Not to mention the Chaos Warriors who participated in the battle under the name of Duke Caster's personal guard...

"Our pirate troops are more suitable for chaos, melee, and jumping gang battles, and are not very suitable for combating in open terrain."

Meanwhile, in the secret office of the Snake Scarlet Club, Vared and his clan uncle Felix were calculating the power they had.

"Fortunately, our pirate troops are pretty good in equipment. I spent a lot of money to customize them with exquisite armor and weapons in the Imperial style, as well as the latest styles of long-barrel smoothbore guns and lightweight steel cannons."

Felix still stretched out his finger and thought: "Our troops are equipped with breastplate armor, enough to form a gun and halberd array that is no different from the Imperial standard requirements. At the same time, we also have five hundred well-maintained long-barrel smoothbore guns and fifteen light guns. This is enough to ensure our strength."

"That would be great." Vared nodded: "So, what we need to calculate now is how to get the greatest benefit in this chaos with our army, right?"

"It's true." Felix nodded: "Before this, I had two plans, one of which was the Liberty City coalition that supported Scarton, Norden and Enl Grande. The price offered by the Scarton Council was very good. They claimed that if my three thousand troops joined their army, then all the conflicts I had with them before would be written off. After that, all the merchant ships in the three free cities, each of the benefits obtained by each ship were distributed to me by five percent."

"This is really... so generous that you can't be more generous." Vared said.

"That's true." Felix nodded: "But their promise of seeking medical treatment in a hurry can also be seen from the side that their strength is at a disadvantage. Supporting them is likely to lose all their money."

"Then another plan is to support Osterland, right?" Vared asked, "How are their prices?"

"Their price is bad...if that can be called the price." Felix shook his head: "I have had contact with Ostland, too. They claimed that they would take over everything on the Claw Coast. They asked me to reorganize my privateer fleet into the Principal Navy of Ostland. Give me an Earl, and there are many fancy rewards."

"Anyway, it's nonsense." Vared summarized the above statement.

"That's right, it's nonsense." Felix laughed and agreed with Valed's statement: "They want me to work hard for them. At the same time, they want to take away my most important thing, my fleet. At the same time, I see what they mean, they seem to want to take away all the wealth of Scarton on the pretext of receiving the official's reincarnation...all this is something we can't tolerate."

"Then, this plan should be slightly changed...to change it to how we should make a profit among the coalition forces in the Free City," said Vared.

"That's why I came to Scarten in person," Felix said.

There are not a few people who agree with big pirates like Felix. This uninhabited land, named "freedom", is the area where a large number of outlaws and marginal people who wander outside the order rely on for survival. Pirates, mercenaries, thieves... none of these people want the Principality of Ostland to seize control of this area.

At the same time, the other two countries adjacent to the Lizard Coast, the Principality of Nordland and the Kingdom of Skief, were quite disgusted with Osterland's behavior of eating alone. Due to the friendship of the same Sigma Empire, the Principality of Visenland did not make excessive protests. On the other hand, the female Tsar Katerina of the Kingdom of Skief openly gave Enl Grande a reinforcement of 2,200.

The southeast coast of Lizhai Sea is covered with dark clouds and storms are coming. A big battle is inevitable. Vared, sitting in the secret office of the club, looked at the map and said in a shocking voice: "Otherwise, we will do it alone! Uncle Clan, have you ever thought of being the governor of a free city?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe to (this site) and reward. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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