Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 739: Edelweiss’ Homeland
The biggest significance of capturing the buffer zone to Jialan is not to completely block the resource belt, but to completely surround these precious resource islands and isolate them from the West Wind Drift front.The most important significance is: the buffer zone sea area, which was the boundary of the former Edelweiss collar.In order to resist the westerly drift, Edelweiss established the buffer zone that the Yellow River has just captured in front of the most important resource zone.

The seven islands in the buffer zone were built. When they were first built, the facilities on them were not as they were now after being abandoned and destroyed by Mirage. Instead, each of them could be called a military fortress. Even now, the ship girls can still On these islands, you can find a series of facilities built by the people of Edelweiss Collar.

Although these facilities are not as good as the Mobile Deacon House, they are still representative works of the human construction industry at that time. When necessary, they will self-destruct and explode, thus turning the entire buffer zone into ruins, which is the legendary scorched earth.Therefore, it is not difficult to see from the information transmitted by the destroyers ahead that most of the islands in the entire buffer zone were self-destructed by humans. In order to hinder the mirage's attack, large numbers of Edelweiss people left their homes and stayed away from their hometown.

However, the scorched earth tactics failed to buy time for reinforcements from the Edelweiss collar, because... there were no reinforcements behind them, and the rest of the governors were watching the show silently, in Sun Shadow Orchid.Of course, it is very difficult to find the original culprit today. Except for a few people who have witnessed it, most of the truth has been lost in the dust of history.

After learning that Jialan had recovered the buffer zone waters, the most excited person was Haikongxing.This sea god, who is very noble in the entire federation, would have rushed to Violet Island in excitement if Huang Jiang hadn't stopped him in time.Fortunately, Haikongxing knows the importance. Now Jialan has suppressed all the troops in the Violet Sea, and she is the only combat force in the rear besides the six-drivers on Cycad Island and Yubari on Jialan Island. It is a very risky move for the only combat force that can move freely to leave Xuerong Island without authorization.

"Is there any resource belt left..." Haikongxing looked a little disappointed after talking to Huang Jiang. According to normal and logical views, outward development will always be pushed out bit by bit, so when After she learned that the buffer zone waters had been restored, she naturally thought that the resource zone had also returned to Jialan's embrace.Although this was impossible in terms of speed and efficiency, her inertial thinking made her subconsciously think so, which was why she was so excited.

Because for Hai Kongxing and many Edelweiss survivors who feel guilty, their greatest guilt may be that Edelweiss has lost so many resource islands that are very important to the Azure Federation.This sense of guilt makes the Edelweiss survivors the most industrious group of people in Jialan Territory, and a large number of elites among them even form the backbone of some industries in Jialan.

Huang Jiang naturally also knew the thoughts of the Xedong survivors, and their thoughts continued to spur Huang Jiang to continue to advance.There are actually three motivations for Jialan's external expansion. One is the domestic demand of the Huangjiang River, which is to become the governor and gain enough living space for the ship girls. The second is the driving force of the large capital that Jialan has gradually formed. They are eager to I hope that Jialan can become a territory with enough influence so that their property can be strongly protected, their factories can be more competitive, and they can get enough raw materials. In this regard, even Huang Jiang personally Established groups also have such needs.

The third reason is naturally the wish of these Edelweiss survivors and the pride of other Jialan people.The former is to atone for sins, and the latter is to prove to their original selves that their choice is correct. The most representative of them are probably those immigrants from outside. When they first came over, they were forced to come because of the pressure of life. Arrived at Jialan collar, which looked like a desert of civilization at the beginning.

Whether it's domestic demand or external factors, Huang Jiang's behavior is in the interests of Jialan.Of course, in this world where the superficial parliament is still feudal, Huang Jiang's own interests are often the interests of the territory. However, given Huang Jiang's origins and sitting in this position, if everything is based on personal interests, He couldn't do anything with peace of mind.

"There is no way." Huang Jiang said to Haikongxing, "My troops are only so small, and it is impossible to annex the sea area of ​​​​the resource belt where Mirage is stationed at one time. The only way is to cut off their supplies first, and then a little bit more. of annexation.”

Haikongxing had completely come to her senses and turned back to the calm Poseidon. She shook her head gently and said: "I'm afraid it's not that simple. The reason why we bypassed the resource zone and captured the buffer zone so easily this time , I’m afraid it’s also because of other factors.”

Huang Jiang was not surprised. Anyone with a bit of normal strategic awareness could see the details at a glance. He briefly described the conflict between Lan En Territory and West Wind Drift.

"Lan Ling... they finally took this step..." Hai Kongxing said without any surprise. "What? Do you even know that?" This surprised Huang Jiang. You must know that although Haikongxing has been awake for a few years, her impression of other high-level human beings except the governor is still more than 30 years ago.

Since Haikongxing can say such words, it means that the original governor was aware that the Lann family was trying to break through the existing class and become the governor's family.

Thinking about it this way, the Lan family is really not simple.When all the governors knew their thoughts, they could still achieve the current situation.

"But this is not unexpected." Haikongxing thought for a moment and said with a smile.

"How do you say this?" Huang Jiang asked doubtfully.

"It's completely different now than before. At that time, the Governor's family did not pose any threat. Of course they would do their best to prevent the Lann family from becoming the new Governor's family." Haikong Xing said, "But now, the Azure Federation has risen. The two emerging forces have impacted the traditional aristocratic rule. Compared to Mandala and Jialan, they are naturally more willing to accept a large family from a traditional aristocracy to become the first vanguard to break through the existing class."

"This is the trend of history." Haikongxing said indifferently, "If the Azure Federation wants to survive the impact of the mirage, the rise of the civilians cannot be stopped. Sooner or later, the governor of the civilians will appear, but you and Sa Andre's presence hastened that process."

These words sounded familiar to Huang Jiang. After thinking about it carefully, it turned out to be a bit like historical materialism.The development of history is inevitable, and the emergence of heroes only accelerates this process...

Okay, is that what he said? After so many years, Huang Jiang has almost forgotten it, he just feels that way.

"Can Firefly and the others...can stop the main force of Mirage?" Haikongxing asked worriedly.

"So we must first capture a few aluminum mine islands and completely loosen the shackles of the aircraft carrier." Huang Jiang said seriously, this is the next goal of the ship girls.

(End of this chapter)