While the Great Xia Dynasty was preparing for war, the Mediterranean Sea was in turmoil again.
On the 10th of May, Queen Kalia of Atlantis issued an invitation to the feudal lords of the Mediterranean Sea, inviting them to Atlantis as guests to discuss the development of Atlantis' technology.
In ancient times, the Atlantis Empire was drowned by a monstrous flood and buried at the bottom of the sea, becoming an unsolved mystery in history. A year ago, with the help of Ouyang Shuo, Atlantis was able to reappear in the world.
However, compared to the unimaginably massive Atlantis Empire, Atlantis was merely a small corner. It was less than one-thousandth of the empire's heyday.
In the library of Atlantis, there were a large number of documents and records about the empire's history and civilization. Even the heir of the royal family, Kalia, was fascinated by that magnificent civilization.
Kalia proposed to gather the power of the entire Mediterranean Sea to explore more underwater relics of the Atlantis Empire, so as to crack the technological civilization of Atlantis and make it reappear in the world.
As soon as the news spread, many people naturally responded.
Even Caesar, who had ulterior motives, could not resist the temptation and was prepared to accept the invitation.
All of a sudden, the Mediterranean Sea became extraordinarily lively. As a result, an unprecedented underwater expedition was launched, making the Mediterranean Sea the focus of the entire world.
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On the 12th of May, Base City.
Under the cover of the night, Base City was like a deep-sea giant beast. It retracted its fangs and silently lurked at the entrance of the Mediterranean Sea, using its cold eyes to monitor the ships entering and leaving the Mediterranean Sea. It was very much like a three-headed hellhound guarding the gates of hell. It was terrifying, and no one dared to provoke it.
The sea breeze blew, bringing with it a fishy smell.
Even at night, the Port of Gibraltar outside Base City was still brightly lit. Thousands of merchant ships with sails and flags of various countries docked at the port.
Every merchant ship at the port was a giant ocean-going ship that carried the dreams of the merchants.
The port was bustling with people, and it was extremely noisy.
More than ten taverns with different characteristics were lined up along the port, emitting the fragrance of wine. It was crowded, and it provided the most suitable entertainment for the merchants and sailors.
As it was the throat of ocean-going trade, there were elegant taverns with pure oriental characteristics, as well as boorish western taverns. Most of them were products of the blend of Eastern and Western cultures.
In the tavern, reserved Eastern merchants and enthusiastic Western merchants could be seen gathering together, talking about business deals. The hustle and bustle lasted until the next morning before it came to an end.
Without exception, these taverns were one of the strongholds of the Blacksnake Guards.
For Black Snake, who used to be an international mercenary, mixing in such a noisy environment where Eastern and Western people mingled and alcohol and women played the leading roles was like a fish in water.
The Black Serpent was too familiar with this environment. Even with its eyes closed, the Black Serpent knew who it could get effective information from and who had ill intentions.
Taverns had always been a well-informed place. Merchants traveled all over the world and were knowledgeable. Even the slightest bit of news that they might accidentally leak could be turned into an important piece of information.
Just through these taverns, the Black Snake Guards could obtain large amounts of international intelligence.
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9 PM, Desert Star Tavern.
Among the dozen or so taverns, the Desert Star Tavern located on the westernmost side of the pier was not very eye-catching. The only difference was that the owner of the tavern was a black man from a nameless small country in the African continent. Of course, no one would look down on the owner of the tavern. Anyone who could open a tavern at the Base City's pier was someone with great connections.
In an ordinary room on the second floor of the tavern, Black Snake was meeting someone.
At this moment, the entire tavern seemed normal, but in fact, it was under the secret surveillance of the Blacksnake Guards. Even the owner of the tavern was a member of the Blacksnake Guards.
The dimly lit room would always give rise to some unpleasant associations.
"Did you bring it?" Black Snake asked.
Sitting opposite Black Snake was a Berber from Rabat, the capital of Morocco. He was in his thirties and was covered in a black robe. Even his head was wrapped in a black scarf, so his appearance could not be seen clearly.
If he was from the army, he would definitely be able to tell from the way he sat that he was a soldier.
The mysterious man said in a hoarse voice, "I've brought what you want. Where's what I want?"
Black Snake smiled, took out a wooden box, and pushed it to the man. "Open it and take a look!"
The mysterious man hesitated for a moment, but still opened the wooden box. He saw a diamond the size of a pigeon's egg lying quietly in the wooden box. Even in the dark night, it was still shining with a charming and bright light.
"It's this!"
The mysterious man was obviously a little excited.
The corner of Black Snake's mouth curled into a smile. Without seeing how he moved, the wooden box was closed again and returned to Black Snake. "You've seen the thing. It's time to show me what I want."
The mysterious man looked at the wooden box obsessively. Without hesitation, he gritted his teeth, took out a scroll of map from his arms, and said with a trembling voice, "It's this."
Black Snake took it, glanced at it roughly, and carefully put it into his storage bag. "You should know what the consequences of deceiving us are."
When the mysterious man heard that, fear flashed across his face. Of course, he knew that the person in front of him was a demon. He said with a trembling voice, "You can verify it. If there's a mistake, I'll die a horrible death."
"Good!" Black Snake smiled, handed the wooden box over, and said, "It's yours."
The mysterious man hugged the wooden box.
Black Snake said, "Remember, if you dare to leak any information, your wife and children will be thrown to feed the sharks."
"Yes! Yes! Yes! " The mysterious man secretly wiped his cold sweat. Without staying any longer, he immediately bid farewell and disappeared into the vast night.
Seeing this, a man beside Black Snake said, "Sir, are we really letting him go just like that?"
Black Snake was expressionless. "What else do you want? Kill and rob, destroy the corpses to destroy the evidence?! There's no reason to take back what the Black Snake Guards have given away. "
"That diamond is worth tens of thousands of gold." The man was a little excited.
Black Snake's expression turned cold, and he said lightly, "Even if it's priceless, we can't break the rules. His Majesty can't stand his subordinates messing around. If I find out that anyone has any crooked thoughts, don't blame me for being ruthless. "
"Yes!"
When the surrounding Black Snake Guards heard this, their foreheads were all sweating.
Black Snake shook his head and said with some disappointment, "I say, you guys have been following His Majesty for so long, can't you be a little more promising? Our Majesty wants to be the world's overlord. Don't embarrass me every day like a group of country bumpkins who haven't seen the world. "
"Sir, you're right." The subordinates were sweating profusely.
Black Snake said, "Alright, I'll be leaving first. Keep a close eye on that kid. Don't cause any trouble."
"Yes, Sir!"
…
After leaving the tavern, Black Snake made a few turns and entered the city.
Compared to the hustle and bustle at the docks outside the city, it was frighteningly quiet inside the city. As early as eight o 'clock at night, the curfew in the city had been implemented. There was not a single person on the streets.
In the entire city, only the City Lord's Mansion was still brightly lit.
After half a month of preparation, the preliminary preparations for war were basically complete. More than 80% of the war resources had been delivered, and the four major armies were also ready to set off.
In the City Lord's Mansion, after dinner, Ouyang Shuo gathered all the generals for a pre-war meeting. The participants included Bai Qi, Shi Dakai, Huo Qubing, Ma Chao, Lu Bu, Alvaro, Lu Meng, and Jia Xu.
A map of Morocco was hung in the middle of the war room.
Morocco was a long and narrow strip from north to south. All the areas that were marked on the map were the northwestern coastal areas. Only four of them were clearly marked.
The capital, Rabat, was located to the north-northwest, right at the bottom of the arc. Not only were there 250,000 imperial guards stationed in the capital, but there were also two million players living there.
There were more than 200,000 combat professional players, and more than 80% of the players in Morocco were gathered there.
Less than a thousand miles south of Rabat was the famous garden city of Casabianca.
Of course, Casabianca was only a feudal city in the game. According to the information obtained by the Black Snake Guards, Casabianca's regular army did not exceed 50,000.
Further south was the famous port city of Agadir, which was the largest territory in Morocco. The territory's army was already very close to a regular field army.
Apart from these two large territories in the south, the other small territories had long since been annexed and no longer existed.
The last enemy worth paying attention to was Tangier, which was located at the northernmost part of Morocco. Just like the base city, Tangier guarded the chokepoint of the Strait of Gibraltar. The territory was dominated by the navy, and the army supplemented it.
At the moment, the navy in Tangier was not enough to pose any threat to the Mediterranean Fleet.
No matter how they looked at it, the most threatening and difficult to deal with was still the capital, Rabat.
Although Rabat was a coastal city, the expeditionary army had crossed the ocean to come here. How to smoothly transport the army to land without being detected became the first problem they encountered in this war to destroy the country.
After all, this was an army of more than 300,000 soldiers, not a small skirmish of two or three thousand. It was almost impossible to secretly transport them to Morocco in batches without being detected.
After detailed calculations by the division of operations, with the current conditions of landing and fighting, sending four field army corps to the front lines was the best they could do at the moment. If they increased the number of troops, they would definitely not be able to hold on and would immediately be exposed. It was truly crazy to attack a country with such a great disparity in military strength.
Because of this, the expedition this time would be personally led by Ouyang Shuo, with Jia Xu as the strategist, Bai Qi as the deputy general, Huo Qubing as the forward general, and Alvaro as the rear general. The lineup could be said to be top-notch.
After more than half a month of reconnaissance and discussion, the overall battle strategy of the expeditionary army to attack Morocco had gradually become clear. It could be summarized as: advance by land and water, attack from multiple points, and directly attack the enemy's base.
The military meeting at night was the final arrangement of tasks before the battle.
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