Chapter 275 Blocking the Passage
The sun shines on the earth, and caravans from the Allied Forces are slowly moving on the road leading to the northern rebels.

The connection between the rebels and the coalition forces is not close, largely because of the inconvenient roads between the two sides.

There are intermittent mountains, dense and dangerous forests, and impassable swamps.
Various complex, dangerous and impassable terrains separate the two sides, with only a few safe passages explored by the former Knight Kingdom.

Most of these safe passages are blocked by fortresses. It can be said that as long as these fortresses are controlled, all connections between the rebels and the coalition forces can be controlled.

However, due to being located in dangerous terrain, the maintenance costs of these fortresses are not low. Therefore, although the United Forces have the ability to control all of these fortresses, due to various internal factors, these fortresses were eventually handed over to the rebels by the United Forces.

In the past, no one really cared about these fortresses. After all, there was no benefit in building them, and they even cost money, so Locke was the only one who could be responsible for them.

But ever since Roland Jiuqi developed, and he brought together local factions to form a joint chamber of commerce, the fortress has become very prosperous.

With a large number of caravans coming and going, it would be profitable just to collect taxes. Therefore, both the local and border factions became interested in the fortress.

As a result of the struggle between the two factions, the fortress was divided into two, with the local faction and the border faction each controlling half.

Due to the United Chamber of Commerce, Roland, who was trusted by the local faction, was constantly persuaded by the local faction and reluctantly deployed the army of Jiuqi to the fortress controlled by the local faction.

The local forces saved money on maintaining troops, and Roland also successfully extended his tentacles to these fortresses.

In a fortress located at the mouth of two mountains, blocking the passage, everything seemed to be as usual, which was of course impossible.

"Alas, why is it closed early? The sun hasn't even gone down yet."

A businessman shouted loudly as he watched the city gate slowly closing in front of him.

"Don't close it, I haven't left the city yet."

Before he could say a few more words, a loud noise came from the front.

Hearing the sound in front, the businessman was curious about what was happening ahead, so he quickly climbed onto the truck and looked at the situation ahead from afar.

And the moment he looked over, his heart stopped instantly.

At the city gate, a group of soldiers armed to the teeth were quickly taking over the city defense, and the merchants at the city gate retreated to the rear in fear.

The reason for fear, apart from the soldiers, was probably the dozen or so guards who died tragically at the city gate.

Seeing this scene, the businessman immediately reacted and realized that something big was about to happen, so he had to hurry up.

Just as he climbed down in a panic and was about to command the caravan to escape, a large number of elite soldiers filed out from both sides of the street and surrounded everyone in the caravan. A knight exuding a powerful aura walked out and shouted.

"The whole city is under martial law. Please do not wander around. Otherwise, don't blame our weapons for being ruthless."

That being said, the besieged Chamber of Commerce was still somewhat confused about the situation.

Seeing this, the knight shouted again.

"Everyone has it!"

"boom!"

Following the knight's voice, the soldiers surrounding the merchants struck their shields and took a step toward him in unison.

Facing the murderous intent coming from all directions, everyone in the encirclement immediately fell silent. "Don't worry, everyone, you just need to wait here for a while, it will be over soon."

With that, the knight turned and left, leaving the soldiers surrounding them.

Similar situations are happening all over the city.

All city gates, important buildings, and major traffic arteries were forcibly taken over by legionnaires. Public places and crowded areas were also restricted in place. Patrol teams appeared on the city streets, putting the entire city under compulsory military control.

Since the legionnaires were originally the garrison of the fortress, they easily took over the entire city.

The only conflict was the legion soldiers' strangulation of local supernatural beings.

However, these strangulations did not cause any particularly loud noise. With a few explosions and roars, the local faction members in the fortress were eliminated one by one.

The entire city was now completely under the control of the legion soldiers.

After the legion soldiers took control of the situation, the old Qi officials who had arrived here in advance as merchants from the United Chamber of Commerce quickly took over the operation of the city.

They moved out all the food, gold and silver that they had prepared in advance, and bought the goods of all the merchants in the city at market prices.

Of course, you are not forced to buy it, and you don’t have to sell it if you don’t want to.

But the fortress has been closed and no merchant is allowed to go to the rebels. If they don’t sell, they can only transport the goods back.

Therefore, after careful consideration, most caravans decided to sell their goods on the spot.

As for causing trouble, looking at the elite soldiers patrolling the city and the extraordinary people who appear from time to time, there are few fools who dare to cause trouble.

After clearing out all the caravans, the legion soldiers quickly strengthened the defenses of the fortress. At the same time, they transferred and sent away all the purchased Chamber of Commerce materials, leaving only food, weapons and equipment and other war supplies.

Roland didn't like to gamble, because the standard for the legionnaires to strengthen their defenses was that they could hold out for half a year while being attacked from both sides and besieged by the local faction and the intervention forces of the coalition forces.

At the same time, similar things were happening in other fortresses.

The fortresses controlled by the local faction were taken over one by one by the soldiers and officials arranged in advance by Roland.

The border area faction skipped the takeover process and directly closed the borders, imposed martial law, sent away the merchants, and strengthened defenses.

Today, to the west is the chaotic and dangerous border zone with the Silver Empire, to the north is the towering Dragon Ridge Mountains, and to the east is an impassable dead zone and dangerous green tide. The only channel connecting to the outside world has also been completely controlled.

On the day of the Black Rock City coup, the newly formed War Council quickly cut off all contact between the rebels and the outside world.

As long as they hold these fortresses, it will be difficult for the outside world to discover their internal situation. Even if the news of the civil war spreads, they will not necessarily interfere. Moreover, even if they do interfere, they are not clear about the situation and may not be determined to interfere in the civil war.

Unless Eleanor was crazy or insane and was determined to interfere, Roland was absolutely sure that these fortresses could hold out until the end of the civil war.

As for the inside, after closing the only passage, it means that the local factions have also lost their escape route. Roland can close the door and beat the dog, killing all the local factions in one go.

Even if some escape, there won't be too many that slip through the net.

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(End of this chapter)