Time spent together with family always passed quickly. Especially after the New Year, before he knew it, late January had arrived, and Zhang Tie had spent nearly a month at home.
During that month, aside from being with his family, Zhang Tie had also kept an eye on the situation in the Ice and Snow Wilderness.
For the Holy Light Empire, launching an expedition to a place like the Ice and Snow Wilderness and sending its fleet out in winter was clearly not a good idea. During winter, the two ports where the Holy Light Empire's expeditionary fleet planned to stop and resupply along the way were already frozen over, which would create enormous difficulties for the fleet's supplies. The Ice and Snow Wilderness lay at the northernmost edge of the Weiyi Subcontinent, near a vast uninhabited expanse of ice plains. Under the northwesterly winds prevalent in winter, the sea churned with towering waves, and a fleet sailing against the wind would be slowed considerably. Not to mention the possibility of encountering icebergs drifting down from the north. At night, a moment's carelessness could see a drifting iceberg at sea severely damage or directly ram a warship to the bottom.
The merchant ships and traders traveling between the Sacred Ice Island Kingdom and the Western Continent closely watched the Holy Light Empire's movements. After vast amounts of gold coins had been scattered about, the Sacred Ice Island Kingdom's intelligence network on the Western Continent began operating at high speed. Information about the Holy Light Empire's expeditionary fleet converged on Saint Petersburg almost every day.
After weighing intelligence from all sides, High Priest Shalin judged that the Holy Light Empire's expeditionary fleet would set out in mid-February or early March that year, and no later than late March.
With that, Zhang