Chapter 576 Argument 2
“Everyone!” Abar shouted to his loyal subordinates.
"I have called you here this time to determine the next step of the strategy."
The great chief's tone was extremely serious, and there was a trace of eagerness and anxiety in his heart. , this is a good time that the orcs have never encountered in a thousand years.
The Kingdom of Aldo in the south of the Rocky Mountains was once the overlord at the western end of the continent, but the status of this overlord was closely related to her royal power. At the height of Aldor's kingship, Jingyao's influence far exceeded the territory it de jure ruled. To the northeast of the kingdom, after passing through the Nerodan Corridor, there is a vast desert. This desert is dotted with many oases like a string of pearls. Human city-states survive tenaciously on the oases. These city-states once surrendered When the Kingdom of Aldor was powerful, the Kingdom's Watcher Legion guarding the Inner Rodan Corridor provided them with protection. For hundreds of years, under the leadership of Aldo, the human coalition has penetrated into the grassland several times and crushed the forces that tried to unite the orcs, leaving the grassland in a state of fragmentation.
But a hundred years ago, Jingyao's royal power began to gradually decline. Especially in the last fifty years, Jingyao's dominance over the country declined so rapidly that when the current king Nedro XVII succeeded to the throne, the kingdom's In the territory, separatist lords such as the Giles family and the Veblen family were strong enough to resist the royal family. The decline of the center of power has also affected places outside the country's borders. The royal family is exhausted from maintaining domestic rule. Naturally, its support for frontier armies such as the Watcher Legion is not as good as before, and the Watcher Legion has to shrink itself. The power returned all the way from the prairie and desert oases to the Rodan Corridor, the northeastern gate of the kingdom.
After losing the joint suppression of humans, Zarg, who once led the orc tribes, took advantage of the situation and rose up, vowing to pick up the glory of the legendary king's tent and recreate the glorious history of the orcs' fight against the Gubera Empire, and this For once their goal was greater than what their ancestors had done - to penetrate the human world and dominate them.
After countless battles, the orc tribes around Zarg have surrendered directly or indirectly to the rule of the royal tent. The area radiated by the great chief’s influence is huge and vast, reaching as far north as The endless ice field stretches from the Rocky Mountains and the oasis human nations to the south, to the Lucky Forest to the west, and to Gabela, another large human nation, in the east. This grassland in the northwest of the continent has been firmly under the control of this orc leader. among.
After ruling the grassland tribes, the King's tent must find a new goal. The glory of the orcs must not be limited to the grasslands. This is the unanimous view of everyone in the King's tent.
But where to expand in the next stage, everyone has differences.
One group believes that the orc world should continue to be unified. The grassland in the inland is extremely vast. The grassland in the north of the Rocky Mountains is only a part of it. The grassland seems to extend endlessly to the inland of the east, and the east There are still large and small orc tribes wandering on the grasslands. At the same time, the Lucky Forest located in the west of the grassland also has a branch of orc civilization - forest orcs who are accustomed to fishing and hunting. This faction believes that all the orc tribes on the mainland should be gathered under the rule of the king's tent first. However, this faction also has differences on whether to conquer the forest orcs first or to attack the inland grasslands.
The other faction believes that Wangzhang now has enough power to attack the human world - of course the orcs call it revenge. Wangzhang once promised to give the surrendered tribes a beautiful and prosperous life, allowing them to To thrive on the land that retains milk and honey, the promise must be fulfilled. If you continue to subjugate the poor relatives on the grassland, you can receive a few sons. Only by bringing the rich human world under your rule can you fulfill your promise. After losing the protection of the Watcher Legion, the oasis countries have faced the attack of the orcs several times. In addition to offering large sums of wealth each time, some have even secretly expressed their surrender, which means that the orcs have penetrated deep into the south. The springboard of the human world, while Aldo in the west and Gabela in the east are also facing crises of varying degrees. The caravans traveling to and from the grasslands bring even more joyful news to the people in the royal tent. The spirit of the human world The leader, the Church of the Lord of Light, is deeply involved in the religious disputes in the Corner Bay. In the past, when human nations had internal or external conflicts, the church always played the role of mediator. Coupled with religious reasons, To a certain extent, it plays a role in uniting the human world, but now they probably don’t have the energy to do so.
Isn’t this a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?
"Infiltrate into the lucky woods to the west!" "No, we should continue to attack the grasslands in the east."
"You are all wrong. Aldo is just a big fat sheep now. If you don't eat, you will get nothing."
"I think it is better to fight Gabela. It is said that Gabela is located in the center of this land. , Controlling the center of the continent has great advantages."
"Idiot, do you want the surrounding humans to come and attack us?"
When Chief Abar said After asking his own question, the tent was filled with all kinds of suggestions, and everyone was expressing their own opinions.
"Great Chief." Eugene, as the caravan manager of the king's account, supports taking control of the Lucky Forest first. "I think we still need to accumulate our wealth first. With wealth, we can buy more Iron armor weapons are used to equip our warriors. Although we orcs are brave, we are still made of flesh and blood. We will still suffer from human swords. Only by having the same equipment as them can we use our advantages. There are endless treasures in the Lucky Forest. In particular, animal furs are deeply loved by human nobles, and they are willing to pay for them with gold. Plants that can be used as medicinal materials can also be exchanged for a lot of wealth. With the Lucky Forest, we can trade them with humans. The money we get will be used to buy human weapons, and then make our warriors stronger, making it easier to attack the human world.”
"What Chief Eugene said makes sense." Great Chief Abal nodded, seeming to agree with him.
“Father!” Aguirre was anxious. He supported attacking the Gabela Empire first. "The conflict between the two princes of Gabela is very sharp now, which also means that their country's power is dispersed. The major lords of the empire are waiting to see who will get the throne. If one of them wins, then the empire will be restored. With only one backbone, it will be difficult for us to attack Gabeira."
"Aguirre is right," the chief also nodded.
(End of this chapter)