.One Hundred and Seventy-one, the first battle of Jiafu

The cold wind blowing from the north twitched the dark clouds all over the sky and rolled quickly towards the southern sky, making the sky look extremely dark and quiet. But occasionally one or two lonely migratory birds make lonely calls and fly helplessly towards the warm south.

Beneath the lead-gray sky is a undulating mountain valley, with mountains and ridges everywhere, dense forests and thundering streams, and countless green cypresses and pines scattered among the cliffs. Under the shade of trees, silver-white flashes occasionally appear between the valleys, which are clear lakes and gurgling streams. They are dotted with thick shade and cover, and are spent on large-scale renovations. In short, it is not unreasonable to say, 'If you want to be rich, build roads first. At least the roads built on the Kanto Plain are pretty good, they are the ones we just walked through before..."

Miss Ryuki Mitsui continued to shrugged her shoulders with emotion and replied with a pout.

"... But the problem is that this mountain road connecting Kofu and the Kanto Plain is relatively secondary because Kofu is barren, has few products and small passenger and cargo flow. At that time, in order to appease the old samurai who had lost power, my father handed over all the engineering construction positions in charge of this road to Shishi Laozun Sakai Naomasa and his group of hereditary flag books...a group of greedy bastards who were insatiable.

The result was good. As soon as the project funds were transferred, there was not a stone on the road, and they were fed up their own pockets first. They divided them into layers and finally only about 10% left. The quality of the road was naturally conceivable.

When this inferior highway was first repaired, it seemed to be very glamorous, so Sakai Naomasa then started a banquet and celebrated, and forced the nearby people to raise money to build the merit monument to keep their name... After only two months, the merit monument had not been carved, and the road was already torn to pieces - let alone a carriage like you, even goats and donkeys could step out of the pit."

She raised her hand and waved her fist, saying indignantly, while Feili raised her eyebrows in surprise, and then asked, "...Since there was a problem so soon... have you been leaving it alone since then and there has been no rework and repair?"

"... Of course, I have to rework and repair it, but the problem is that the more I repair it, the more I miss it."

Miss Ryuhime Mitsui continued to sigh helplessly, "...Because this place is relatively remote and lacks commercial value, the Osaka Business Association has basically not touched the poor tyrants in this mountainous area since the usurpation of power, so these old-time relics still control this. Then the shogunate wanted to repair the road, so he could only find these local snakes to be responsible for it. Unexpectedly, these poor people followed Sakai Naomasa and others and came up with the way to make money from this dilapidated road. From then on, every few months, they would issue documents to their superiors to request funds, and pay a lot of money to the people, and set up checkpoints on the road without authorization...

Then, as soon as the money obtained from various channels was obtained, they divided up and stuffed it into their pockets, then sent a few tenant farmers to the road, symbolically filled the pit with two shovels of sand, roughly flattened and completed it as soon as it was repaired. Then, the people and the passing merchants and travelers had to pay for their money to celebrate. When the next heavy rain came, repairing such a crude road would naturally be washed away, and they could also make money by the name of road construction... The only problem is that according to this approach, no matter how much money the shogunate invested in it, this mountain road would not be built."

"... So you felt overwhelmed and simply gave up this mountain road with little commercial value. You no longer allocated funds for repair and rework, but let it slowly weather and collapse, and be encroached on the road by thorns, weeds and small shrubs?"

Feili raised her eyebrows and sighed, "...This kind of over-refreshing approach... can be said to be a waste of food because of choking."

"...There is no road in this world, and when more people walk, it becomes a road... If there are many travelers walking on this road, then even if you step on it, you can step on the road. If there are very few travelers walking... Then why do we need to maintain and maintain this useless road?"

Miss Ryuki Mitsui immediately refuted Feili speechlessly with extremely pragmatic words.

Unfortunately, no matter how sharp the eldest lady's language is, this difficult road is still so difficult to walk. What's worse is that after mobilizing all the soldiers to jump into the mud to push the cart to pull the fibers, finally letting the baggage vehicle pass through this low-lying section, the front was completely out of reach.

Divide-Separation-Line

“…It seems to be a landslide…and just in the last few days”

Feili struggled to squeeze through the gap between the carriage and the load, and got to the front of the team, observing the natural obstacle that blocked the entire mountain road - on the hillside on one side of the road, a deep ditch that was crushed by falling rocks.

Then, at the end of the groove, more than a dozen huge rocks were stacked in a mess among the valleys. Between the cracks of the huge rocks, there were many trunks and branches, and there were long loud howlings on them, and a big black bear with a hideous face and shiny fur... Well, it was the deputy commander of the giant bear army who had not appeared for a long time. Mr. Druivini, who had forgotten how to turn back into a human form, carried the beast trainer on his neck, Grena (Gre, ran up from behind in a breeze, shaking the soldiers and vehicles blocked along the way.

Divide-Separation-Line

It is said that since the Xiangrui left the Mazka continent, Mr. Druivini, who had lost all the bears and Koala's subordinates, has been living a very boring life. He can only curl up in the small cabin and eat, sleep, or tinker with Grana with some games that he had long been tired of playing.

After finally landing in Edo, the giant bear army was unpopular everywhere. Life was very cramped and there was nothing fun. Even if there were occasional banquets and social events, Feiri would not dare to bring a big bear to the banquet. The houses in this place were made of thin wooden boards, bamboo poles and paper, and they looked light and not strong enough. If you drag a big bear at least one ton in... Everyone should wait for a banquet in the ruins.

What's more, since he has been eating, sleeping and sleeping for some time, Mr. Winnie seems to have gained a lot of fat again...

In order to find a playmate and minion, Mr. Winnie went to the Edo Zoo, but was disappointed to find that there was no bear there. However, he found that the oriental pseudo-girl, Kuroshima Hitomi, who had transformed into a panda, could understand his bear roar, so he happily pestered Kuroshima Hitomi for a few days, so that Kuroshima Hitomi ran away with his butt when he saw him... Please make up for what happened in the middle...

A few days ago, when he went to the Nikko Tosho Palace, considering that there were not many strong men in the rear, he left Mr. Druid Vini again, which made him very unhappy. This time, he went to Kafari for business, and Mr. Vini said he would come with him no matter what. Feili calculated and found that at most one or two days, the main force of the Giant Bear Legion could return to Edo from Nikko, so there would be no gap in force. Besides, in order to subdue the guards of the Naserel Empire who had "departed from the organization for a long time", in addition to rewarding, he also needed this violent bear to demonstrate... so he agreed.

At this moment, Mr. Druivini played the role of a super engineer and a pioneer. He ran to the front of the blocking stone pile with his limbs and ground. He first put down the cute and delicate little Grena on his neck, and then stood up and grabbed two huge rocks larger than his own, carried them to the soft and gentle slope next to them and inserted them hard, then replaced the other two... After this, in less than five minutes, nearly a hundred tons of huge rocks had been cleaned up, and the logistics convoy could continue to pass.

Miss Ryuki Mitsui's eyes were straightened.

"…hiss…What did this guy grow up with so much strength? He could simply use it to replace giant stone throwers and heavy siege artillery."

"...Hehe, this small workload is nothing to Mr. Winnie. When the war in the Thirteen State Colonial of the New Neserel, his record was exaggerated."

Feili boasted proudly, "...The Elf Air Force sent four green dragons to bomb the bombing, and our army suffered heavy casualties and was almost defeated. Only Deputy Chief of the Corps of Winnie roared and stood up, jumped up and grabbed the tail of a green dragon, causing the poor green dragon to fall and die, and then threw it into the air to smash the other green dragon from the air... How strong do you think is he?"

"... Can even dragons throw themselves away? What a natural divine power this is?"

Miss Ryuki Mitsui covered her mouth with a handkerchief with a look of surprise, "No wonder Guijun chose such a beast that doesn't know how to speak human beings as the deputy commander of the army. I initially thought it was a mascot."

"…Uh…This…Mr. Winnie is not an ordinary black bear who breaks corn on the cob in the field. He is actually a big druid who forgot how to turn back into a human form. He is also a successor to the famous druid family of Sword Bay with a history of 3,000 years. He has been officially enthroned by the Neseril Empire. He can be regarded as a noble among the nobles in the druid circle..."

When Feili heard this, she immediately explained in a bit of sweat, "... But Miss, you are right, Mr. Winnie really doesn't know how to speak human words. Because he, the big druid, is really too aristocratic, and has already been unable to tell whether he is a human or an animal..."

Divide-Separation-Line

Perhaps their difficult journey finally moved God. After passing this pass blocked by huge rocks, Feili and his group found that they had finally walked out of the towering mountains and entered the eastern edge of the relatively gentle Jiafei Basin. And Jiafu City, on the banks of the Buwuchuan in the distance, was already at the end of the horizon about five or six miles away, looking hazy and distant.

Unfortunately, in this mountainous area with higher altitudes, autumn dusk always comes very quickly. Their small team did not have time to go far away, and the sun quietly set behind the foothills. So, before the redness of the sun was painted by the sunlight on the distant hillside completely dissipated, the mist wind swam down the twilight towards the bottom of the mountain, driving away the last trace of warmth left in the day. The shadow of the mountain peaks in the distance was also crushed, allowing the ground to cover the darkness at an extremely fast speed.

Faced with this situation, Feili and others who were not familiar with geography naturally did not dare to take the risk of walking on the night road, so they had to camp and stay in a small village called Katsunumacho at the foot of the mountain. After wandering around the town, they found that the houses in this place were even more dilapidated than those in Kanto, and they were simply a cattle shed. The residents had already run away, and it seemed that they could not prepare any decent food.

However, the cooks found a large area of ​​grape orchards that are rare in this country, with many raisins scattered in it, and there was even a pretty good wine cellar in the garden... So Feiri happily ordered the "on-site transfer" (on-site recruitment) again, so that soldiers who were already tired of eating sour vinegar rice balls and dried salted radish changed their tastes.

Unfortunately, they seemed destined not to have a peaceful supper. In the twilight that was not yet dark, the soldiers had just raised a bonfire and a heart-wrenching shout from a sentry came from outside the village.
Chapter completed!