Mount & Blade: Wind of War - Chapter 608

c595 Encirclement

Not to mention the Light Empire, the Mage Kingdom and the Holy Empire also gave it authorization and cooperation.

In a sense, if the Merchant Alliance can really rely on its own strength to resist this plague this time, then they will almost be able to embezzle one-third or more of the total assets of the mainland human race.

However, Rhodes expected that they would not be able to do it: a country that was about to be destroyed would use what means to enforce an agreement with him?

What’s more, business agreements like this have a time limit. Rhodes didn’t dare to write too much to these businessmen, lest they frighten them and cause changes, so he only wrote a ten-year agreement.

However, a world war may not be completed in ten years.

Marquis Angel, who knew Rhode’s temperament and behavior best, quickly reacted after his initial greed and ecstasy. He immediately secretly sent all his family members to Gushan Castle. After knowing this, everyone had to sigh:

“Marquis Angel was able to establish a business alliance, and he has indeed studied the trading methods of merchants to the extreme.”

Using more than 500% of profits as bait, and with the endorsement of the mainland’s most powerful person and the national credit of each country, Rhodes successfully cashed out a large amount of gold coins from within the merchant alliance, and then converted these gold coins into doctors, medicines, and the army. , mages, all pressed onto the frontline battlefield, forcibly surrounding the expansion path of the Skaven.

Its efficiency is so high that, except for the Empire of Light, almost no other political power on the entire continent can achieve this level.

It can only be said that as long as the bags of gold coins lifted are large enough and numerous, the efficiency of businessmen is indeed unmatched by the general administrative system.

The Skaven originally wanted to spread secretly and continue to spread the plague. When the plague broke out in full, the horrific plague would sweep across the continent, causing billions of deaths. At that time, the world war would begin. , Rhodes and others fell into an absolute disadvantage.

However, due to early exposure, both the Skaven and the plague were suppressed within the country by the Merchant Alliance’s troops before they could spread.

The reason why they chose to invade this country was because they believed that the country’s political system was loose and its operation efficiency was low. However, they did not expect that, stimulated by money, the business alliance’s operation efficiency was so high that it was second only to the Bright Empire, which had just been founded. It’s not even slightly behind, but almost on par.

Facing the Skaven plague, Rhodes did not have any solution for the moment. The response method he used was to advance all the soldiers and civilians in waves, and no one was allowed to retreat at all. Anyone who disobeyed the order would be put on the spot. Kill.

This method of physical epidemic prevention is simple, crude and cruel but effective. Troops from all over the world come from all directions at the fastest speed, conscripting any civilians they encounter on the way who are going in the opposite direction and killing them on the spot if they refuse to obey.

Even if this method cannot completely avoid the spread of the poison, it can at least slow down its spread and buy more time for the mages behind to crack it.

The plague magic of the Skaven is very terrifying, but the response speed of the human race in this world is fast enough and timely, so that they will have no time to fully utilize the power of this magic, and they will have to go to war.

However, after the battle started on the front line, Rhodes was surprised to find that the Merchant Alliance’s army alone could not defeat them.

Rhodes originally thought that a race like the Skaven, which was proficient in killing weapons such as plague magic, would have lower physique, strength and even intelligence.

However, after actually fighting through the war, Rhodes discovered that this was not the case.

These ratmen have excellent engineering and military capabilities. Although most of them are indeed low in physical strength, they are numerous in number. Moreover, they have created a magic stone spear that is no less powerful than the rifles probably used during World War II on Earth. The cold weapon troops of the merchant alliance in this world are simply crushed by generation differences.

Fortunately, due to the extreme depletion of resources, these Skaven have not invented weapons such as machine guns and cannons. Otherwise, at least in terms of military war, there is really no way to fight.

A war between two worlds usually starts with the army. High-level transcendent beings or forbidden spells/nuclear weapons on both sides will not attack the other side from the beginning unless you are absolutely sure that the other side does not have it.

Plague magic does not fall into this category. People like Rhodes, Spasoyer Dogan, and Prinsk do not count. If Prinsk had not stopped Link and Vilkarian from exploring the rat world, then that It counts.

The king cannot see the king, the giant horned rat god will not easily leave his own world and come to this world, and neither will the sixth-level saints of this world without gaining enough advantages.

“It is most beneficial for us to procrastinate. We are still in the stage of improving our strength. Even the potential of the sixth-order saint has not been fully developed. As long as we control the army and want to fight a war of attrition, we can accompany them and fight. In five or ten years, our power has reached its relative peak. We joined forces to kill the giant horned rat god, which just happened to devour their world and increase the power of our own world. ”

Rhodes held the battle at the front, and this high-level meeting was held through the projection crystal. With the help of two holy dragons, Prince spoke much more forcefully. Spasoyer’s face was still pale and he coughed slightly from time to time.

He is now assisting the elven mages to conduct an in-depth analysis of the desolate poisonous fire. This desolate poisonous fire has the same source as the Skaven rat plague. If it can be analyzed to a certain extent, it can be completely eliminated in the form of magic or divine arts.

Of course, Spasoye is an elven warrior, and his greatest contribution to this research is that he was surrounded by mages for research.

“The research of human mages and elven mages should not be carried out on two fronts. The elites should be concentrated, and resources and authority should be concentrated. This is not a private matter of one race. This is a war that concerns everyone in this plane world. If the detoxification divine arts or magic are developed earlier, thousands of people can be saved. Explain the truth to them clearly. At this time, we should not be wary of each other.”

Rhodes has been at the forefront of the battlefield, so he is the one who knows the terrible degree of the Skaven rat plague best. Fortunately, the government and the army intervened quickly and suppressed it in time. Otherwise, once it breaks out, it may really be out of control.

As time went by, half a year later, the Rhodok Holy Heavy Crossbowmen Corps of the Bright Empire in the northern wilderness also officially entered the battlefield.

At this point, the coalition forces of various countries gathered again, recreating the heyday of the human coalition forces in the battle to seal the demons at the Viar Volcano.