Chapter 1781: Bargaining

At this time, Egypt.

After some bargaining between Dike and Jiang Xuan, the action plan was finally determined.

Britain would send troops to take back the three mineral veins previously given away from the hands of the French.

And in return, Jiang Xuan would help capture the two port cities that were actually under control and sold to Britain.

This matter was very simple for Jiang Xuan; it was merely a matter of issuing two orders.

One of these two port cities needed construction, and the other needed the various factions within the city to be dealt with.

These two ports were already controlled by the Longyan, and once Jiang Xuan's orders arrived, the construction speed of the port that needed it increased significantly, and no so-called pirates came here to harass them.

As for the factions in the other port, that was even simpler.

Jiang Xuan issued the order that day, and the British were able to use these ports to dock their ships that same day.

The speed was simply terrifying.

On the other side, Dike was leading the British Army in battle.

Such a deal was a huge loss for them.

Although the Longyan Army helped them hold key locations, this did not reduce the pressure on the British Army by much.

It was just that there was a little less support.

Seizing mineral veins was not attacking a city; it required fighting in the mountains.

This was a very painful thing for the British Army.

Mountain warfare was extremely difficult for them; they did not have the portable cannons developed by the Longyan Army and could only fight with muskets and cold weapons.

Without better equipment to fight with, there were no very good ways to conduct operations.

This battle could only enter a war of attrition, depending on who could not hold on.

Meanwhile, while Dike was leading the British Army in a great battle against the French troops.

Under the pretext of covering the British Army and intercepting the French Army, Jiang Xuan led the Longyan Army in what was, to date, the largest and most magnificent march in Egypt.

This time, Jiang Xuan led the Longyan Army south along the Nile River, crossed the Sahara Desert, arrived at the other end of the French Colonial Area, and began to advance into the French Colonial Area from there.

In one fell swoop, they occupied the French Colonial Area.

What Jiang Xuan sought was never those four tiny mineral veins, but the land of the entire French Colonial Area.

That was why he had previously sent Nashadier into the French Colonial Area to find tribes that could cooperate.

Such a large-scale march by the Longyan Army did not attract the attention of the British or the French.

They had all focused their attention on the struggle for the mineral veins between the two sides.

Naturally, the French did not notice the danger from within their own colonial area.

At this moment, Nashadier had already successfully united with the Wahala Tribe.

Nashadier was currently on his way to the Sugela Tribe.

For him, this journey was destined not to be peaceful.

He had offended the Mistress of the French garrison commander, Lady Luo.

For the French garrison commander, this was an absolutely intolerable matter.

Now, this entire French Colonial Area was already plastered with information about his wanted status.

Nashadier had become a criminal.

He knew all of this; after leaving the Wahala Tribe, the road ahead was definitely not going to be peaceful.

However, Nashadier was not afraid.

He would return to the Sugela Tribe in the posture of a general.

There were many people intercepting Nashadier along the way, but no one could stop his pace.

These people were all beheaded by Nashadier one by one.

In the Wahala Tribe, Nashadier had also gathered a circle of Warriors who did not fear death; these people formed a unit with Nashadier.

Sugela Tribe.

Shawn took the day's news and found Marina and Alina.

"Look, look at the good work you and your stupid sister have done."

"That madman who offended Lord Ika is coming back; he will get us killed," Shawn said in despair.

Marina looked at the newspaper, which was writing about Nashadier's deeds, and the corners of her mouth turned up.

Seeing that Nashadier was not only fine but had also pulled together a team of over a hundred people and was now rushing to the Sugela Tribe.

Alina snatched the newspaper away and, looking at her sister who was still giggling, said angrily: "Marina, have you been driven crazy by this man!"

"He offended Ika; even if he is a general, he has no army in his hands now, and it is impossible for him to contend with the French troops."

"He will definitely die; you must forget him!"

Marina looked at her sister and pointed to the information written on the newspaper.

"Who says he has no troops? He now has a unit of over a hundred people and is rushing here; those French soldiers have no way to deal with him now."

Alina did not even know how to refute her sister.

"Over a hundred people..."

"His enemies have forces several times his size, ten times, or even a hundred times stronger than him."

"What can his unit of over a hundred people do?"

"How many French troops can they fight?"

"Sister, you need to face reality; Nashadier offended Ika, and now he has also killed many French soldiers; those French soldiers will definitely not let him go."

Marina looked at her sister; she simply did not know how powerful and terrifying Nashadier was.

Even the British, who were more formidable than the French, could not defeat his troops.

Even the Spokesperson of Britain has suffered setbacks at his hands.

Not to mention the current French troops; these troops will sooner or later be conquered by Nashadier as well.

"Sister, just wait and see, Nashadier will come to the Sugela Tribe, and even those French people won't be able to stop him."

"However..." Marina looked at Shawn and chuckled.

"Brother-in-law, since you care so much about Nashadier, why not care more about your father? I heard that the French are currently at war with the British."

"The French are already experiencing a shortage of troops, and those French people are planning to threaten these chieftains to force them to conscript young men from their own tribes for the battlefield."

Shawn's pupils constricted, and Marina covered her mouth and laughed upon seeing this expression.

"If this matter is true, given your father's personality, would he agree to let his own tribesmen risk their lives for the French who enslave them?"

"Or is it that you already know the answer?"

"Shut up!" Shawn's expression changed drastically, and he shouted angrily.

On his desk already lay that envelope from Sugela, a letter from his father.

The content of the letter was exactly as Marina had said: the French were coercing Sugela to gather the young men in the tribe to join the army.

This was simply a humiliation.

Even if this war were won, their Sugela Tribe would gain no benefits whatsoever.

This was merely maintaining the interests of the French.

Yet the cost of all this had to be borne by tribes like theirs; no one would accept such terms if offered to them.

Marina sneered: "Brother-in-law, you are now the old chieftain of the tribe; even if the old chieftain issued the order, it is you who must execute it."

"As long as you dare to do it, it is your reputation that will be damaged."