Lord of the Oasis

A lunch of exquisite and delicious food ended near evening.

During the meal, Kant and James had a detailed discussion about the future planning, especially on the other side of the ancient passage, the new village that was to be built at the river mouth.

This was Kant’s third village.

It was also the third stronghold of his force, a powerful castle that was about to be developed.

Kant intended to build that new village into a castle with more prominent military uses.

This was related to the distribution of his force. After all, the mouth of the river was where the Dukedom of Leo, the Silver Platter Kingdom, and the Wildland intersected. There were also many hidden forces, such as the Crimson Sect, the water bandits of the Resniston River, and the fleets of various human countries.

It could be said that just by being at the mouth of the river, it was equivalent to being at the center of a storm.

It was easy to build a village.

It was also easy to develop.

However, it was very hard to survive the malicious attacks from many forces.

A city was a cluster of civilian buildings. Although there were also city walls and arrow towers to protect the outer shell, compared to a military castle that could be armed with the most sophisticated and sturdy city defense, a regular city was still slightly weaker in defense.

The towering castle was the main body, and there were city walls and arrow towers as defense lines.

Even if it were broken through, the castle itself could continue to resist the enemies.

In the feudal era, the castle system of Western Europe was like a turtle shell that strengthened defense.

During the period of cold weapons, even if there were millions of soldiers and all kinds of siege weapons, facing a well-built high-level castle, it would be still very hard to break through the castle despite only a thousand soldiers were guarding it.

The advantage in numbers was useless against such a huge stone building.

Even if there were siege weapons, it would be the same.

In the cold weapon era, no army could easily defeat the defending soldiers of the castle and completely occupy this military building that had an absolute position in the history of defense.

Only in the era of thermal weapons, which was after the invention of cannons, did this phenomenon end.

However, at that time, the castle had already evolved into a prism.

The city walls were no longer tall.

However, they were thick and heavy.

The main body of the castle was no longer huge.

However, the scattered military buildings could be closely connected.

With the cannons of the defenders, the firearms of the footmen, and a well-built prism, it would not be a problem to defend against tens of times the enemy. It was the strong performance of European city defense!

The current Kant’s troop class was elite, but they were few in number. He could not achieve an advantage in troop size with short-term training of soldiers.

This could not be compared to those forces with historical foundations.

Kant was worried about the sea of people tactic.

If 10 natives were exchanged for the lives of one soldier from the system, then it would be a loss for Kant.

For Kant, it was a loss-making deal. Because in his force, there were only 10,000 soldiers. This was already his limit. After all, his population was only 25,000 people.

It was equivalent to 2.5 civilians supporting one soldier, and more than half of them were cavalry!

If it was not for the table salt trade that brought Kant an endless supply of denar or the countless “Mount and Blade” worlds backing him up, Kant would have long collapsed in front of the huge military force that he was struggling to maintain. He would have completely lost the capital to conquer this world.

This was the reason why Kant did not launch a direct attack on the Dukedom of Leo.

Once the existing trading system was destroyed or the planned dumping system for the colonies had not yet been established, it would be very troublesome to Kant.

He could not maintain such a huge army. With the maintenance fee of nearly 100,000 denars per week, Kant would not dare to take risks. It was really like dancing on the edge of a cliff.

100,000 denars per week.

That would be 400,000 denars per month.

The trade in table salt was conducted every two weeks, and each time it yielded 250,000 denars.

The monthly revenue was 500,000 denars, but after taking out 400,000 for the maintenance of the army and taking out all the food that the army and the people consumed on a daily basis, as well as the miscellaneous expenses, there was basically not much denar left.

The possibility of recruiting huge number of soldiers was not high in Kant’s plan.

Of course, he still needed to recruit more soldiers.

The next step to deal with the siege of many enemies would be a bloody battle.

Kant needed to quickly build a new village at the mouth of the river. At the same time, he also needed to quickly upgrade the village to a fortress, and finally level up to a castle as fast as possible.

This was the only way to secure the area.

However, others would not pretend to ignore it.

The mouth of the river was very close to the Resniston River.

If the merchant ships on the river looked to the north, they would be able to discover the new village at the mouth of the river. Furthermore, it was a bigger fortress or a huge castle.

It was estimated that once the fortress was built, the enemy’s attack would come.

Therefore, Kant had to discuss it carefully.

If the village was built, then he had to give it his all and upgrade this village to a very powerful fortress.

If they were lucky, they could upgrade the fortress to the early stage of the castle before the enemies could react, it would be easier to deal with the enemies. Therefore, their task load was extremely heavy and all of it was placed on this city.

“Aaron”, this city in the middle of the Senwaya Range would be the backing of the new village!

They talked all night long.

Kant and James discussed until late at night before they went to rest.

In the morning of the next day, there were Desert Bandits stationed at the mountain pass posthouse. They had already spurred their horses and galloped in the Nahrin Desert. They were ready to head to the Lookout Oasis, “Drondheim” Castle, to deliver the order.

The “Drondheim” Castle was temporarily guarded by Manid and Joslin.

There were no abnormalities at the moment.

But they didn’t let down their guard either.

Manid had completely given the authority of the table salt trade to the former leader of the trade caravan, Joslin, and asked him to replace him in the table salt trade with the Stone Pass.

As for Manid, he led his troops to patrol the Nahrin Desert.

With the Oasis Lookout as the center and from the salt mine posthouse to the central posthouse, many troops were deployed.

The large number of light cavalries mixed with a small number of elite heavy cavalry was extremely intimidating.

However, these troops were indeed put in use, especially at the salt mine posthouse. These cavalries defeated many small groups of skeleton cavalries that were still trying to infiltrate here, protecting the newly built salt mine posthouse.

In the vicinity of the central posthouse, there were also many spies sent by the Dukedom of Leo.

The Nahrin Desert was already in danger.

Kant’s plan was to tear a hole in the predicament of being besieged, allowing his power to spread out and truly touch the side of the human countries. Using the various suspicions and instability of the human forces, in exchange for his rapid development in balance!