The boundary between Lord Wein and Xu Yi's territory was mainly a river that came from the border between the Principality of Constantine and the Black Rice Wasteland, finally flowing into the endless sea. It was called the Abundant River, which meant a rich river.
This Abundant River wasn't that wide, but after Xu Yi took over this territory, he imitated the Rum River outside Banta City. He widened the Abundant River and built a dam near the mouth of the river, making the narrowest part of the river fifty meters wide and the deepest part twenty meters deep.
In the beginning, there were many people in the New Flyer who didn't understand why Xu Yi wanted to change the Abundant River on such a large scale because he had invested over five hundred thousand gold coins to change this river.
To most people, this wasn't a necessary expense at all.
However today, when Count Wein led ten thousand of his most elite troops to the banks of the Abundant River, looking at this incomparably wide and bottomless river, he found that Xu Yi's method was just too far sighted.
With this natural barrier, his subordinates couldn't fly over at all, so naturally they couldn't attack New Flyer's territory.
Five days ago, Count Wein received a statement from Xu Yi.
In the statement, Xu Yi rejected Lord Wein's request of "not selling military magic machines to the other lords of the Principality of Constantine". He also said that since this territory belonged to him, Count Wein didn't have the right to take it back.
As for the businesses of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, Count Wein didn't have the right to take them at all.
Xu Yi's words were very impolite, directly saying that Count Wein's idea was wishful thinking.
Seeing this statement, Count Wein flew into a rage. In just five days, he gathered ten thousand of his most elite troops to invade Xu Yi's territory.
To him, the New Flyer only had less than two thousand guards and half of them were left on the Black Rice Wasteland. The guards on Xu Yi's territory were only around a thousand guards, so it was impossible for them to stop his army.
However, in the beginning, they met the giant obstacle of the Abundant River. It was even hard for them to enter Xu Yi's territory.
Looking at the factories and beautiful houses on the other side of the river, as well as the smooth roads on the land, Count Wein gave a strong snort. There was an uncontrollable look of greed in his eyes.
Actually, he already had the idea of swallowing the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
The great value of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was something he knew best as someone who had been neighbors with the New Flyer for a long time.
He was very clear that if he could completely control the New Flyer, then in the Principality of Constantine, he would become the strongest lord, even stronger than Duke Stantine.
But before, Count Count Wein felt that his strength wasn't enough, so even if he was drooling over the New Flyer, he could only endure it.
However, after defeating Fran Count and the other lords, Count Count Wein's strength had increased by several times. His confidence had also increased and he even believed that he had the strength to easily defeat Duke Stantine.
However, when the four lords joined forces to counterattack him, it made him realize a problem.
The reason why he could easily defeat Count Fran and the other lords was because he had the military magic machines provided by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It made the battle strength of his soldiers far surpass that of the other lords, which allowed him to charge forward in a triumphant manner.
And the reason why the four lords who attacked him made him suffer his first defeat was because their subordinates were also equipped with the military magic machines provided by the New Flyer, allowing both sides to stand on the same starting line.
From easily defeating the opponent to being evenly matched, the difference was that they didn't have the military magic machines.
Count Wein understood this point better than anyone else.
So after careful consideration, Count Wein gave Xu Yi the unreasonable request of not allowing the New Flyer to continue selling military magic machines to the other lords in the Principality of Constantine.
Count Wein didn't expect Xu Yi to agree, or rather he hoped that Xu Yi wouldn't agree. Because this way, he would have enough excuse to attack the New Flyer and swallow the New Flyer.
As long as he could control the New Flyer, he would have the advantage in equipment and could easily defeat all the other lords in the duchy. He would occupy the Principality of Constantine and become the next Duke Stantine.
He even had the confidence to fight his way out of the Principality of Constantine and defeat all the countries on the continent, becoming the new overlord of the continent!
But before realizing this grand goal, he had to solve the problem in front of him.
"Where's the ship?
Is it not here yet? "Count Wein impatiently asked his confidant beside him.
He and his ten thousand subordinates had been waiting by the Abundant River for an entire morning. They were waiting for the ships from other places to transport their soldiers across this damn river.
"We've already gathered some ships, but there aren't many. I'm afraid ….. I'm afraid there's no way to transport all of us at once." The confidant replied with an awkward look.
"My Lord, why don't we try to cross the bridge directly?"
Count Wein looked in the direction of his confidant's finger. His eyes fell on a wide bridge that spanned the Abundant River not too far from here.
With just one look, Count Wein's face sunk. He slapped his confidant's head and angrily scolded, "Are you an idiot?
Don't you see the row of Magic Bazookas and Magic Repeating Crossbows on the other side of the bridge?
If we charge over like this, do you believe that we won't be able to cross the bridge even if we all die? "
The confidant rubbed his head and muttered, "It can't be that exaggerated, right?
It's not like we haven't used the Magic Bazookas and Magic Repeating Crossbows before, they aren't so strong that we can't deal with them. "
"Nonsense, the Magic Bazookas and Magic Repeating Crossbows we're using are all provided by New Flyer, they definitely wouldn't give us the best.
I'm certain that the Magic Bazookas and Magic Repeating Crossbows they use are much stronger than ours. "Count Wein continued reprimanding him.
"Then again, the losses from charging across the bridge are too big. If we go across the river, we can minimize the losses.
In the end, they have too few people, right?
Do you understand? "
The confidant nodded, "I understand, I understand. Sir lord really is wise."
Count Wein gave a cold snort and turned to look at the other side of the river with knitted brows.
Although he made it sound easy, he knew that even if he had an absolute advantage in terms of numbers, they would still suffer heavy losses if they wanted to break through the Abundam River.
But as long as they could control New Flyer in the end, then they could bear any losses.
After all, these subordinates were just commoners that were forcefully recruited from the territory. If they died, they could just recruit more.
As long as they had enough power, they could conquer a bigger territory and have more people.
A mere ten thousand people was nothing much.
"Sir lord, someone is flying over." The confidant on the side suddenly raised his hand and pointed at the distant sky.
"Flying over?"
Count Wein was taken aback. He looked up and saw a person flying over at high speed. After a moment, he had already crossed the wide Abundant River and landed in front of Count Wein's army.
When the person landed, Count Wein took a closer look and froze again.
This person was actually Xu Yi!
"Sir lord, can you come out and talk to me?" Xu Yi's gaze shot towards Count Wein's direction until it landed on Count Wein's face.
Seeing the faint smile on Xu Yi's face, Count Wein's heart skipped a beat and his expression changed.
He suddenly realized that he had overlooked a very important issue.
When calculating the battle strength of the New Flyer, he had only included the guards of the New Flyer, but he had completely ignored a very important factor that could be decisive in a traditional battle on the Sines. That was the existence of magicians!
Because the Principality of Constantine was small and the average quality of the population was low, there weren't many magicians in the duchy and there wasn't a single Great Magician.
Even if Lord Wein had many soldiers and their strength far surpassed before, there wasn't a single magician in his army. This was because all the magicians in the Principality of Constantine had been recruited by Duke Stantine and Duke Stantine didn't allow other lords to recruit magicians.
Now that he saw Xu Yi fly over the river, Count Wein immediately thought of this serious problem.
Compared to him who didn't have any magicians, New Flyer had a large number of magicians.
Not mentioning anything else, just the Magic Research Institute of New Flying Chamber of Commerce had a total of four hundred and sixty three magicians. The lowest was a Fourth Grade Magician and there were a hundred and seventeen of them that were Sixth Grade Magicians or higher.
There was no need to mention that New Flyer also had a super heavyweight existence, which was Great Magician Camilla!
Thinking of the thousand magicians in New Flyer that were Third Grade and below in charge of the magic machine cores, it was certain that in terms of magicians, not only did New Flyer far surpass Count Wein, they even surpassed the entire Principality of Constantine!
Even this young Frestech Chamber of Commerce's chairman Xu Yi who looked harmless with a sunny smile was actually a powerful Ninth Grade Magician!