Politics has always been dirty.
Xu Lai didn't know that the stronghold camp had once again assembled a large group of troops to deal with him.
What he didn't even know was that this large group of people was divided into three forces, and each force had its own ideas.
Xu Lai only knew that he had a pretty good life these two days.
After two days of raiding thousands of kilometers, the orcs' wild buildings were cleared away, and two of the orcs' forest farms were destroyed.
You know, it is much more difficult to grow a dense forest in the wild mountains than on the Pingfeng grassland.
The bloodthirsty tribe had no idea how many years of cultivation it took before they finally built several forest farms.
Although the orcs in the forest farm have long since withdrawn into the city, the forest farm they have cultivated for many years has been handed over to Xu Lai.
Xu Lai couldn't take away the resources in the forest farm and quarry, so he simply burned down the two forest farms.
It is a pity that there is too little wood in the quarry. Even if Xu Lai invested a lot of wood, it would only burn down the buildings in the quarry. The stone cannot be burned.
After running around for two consecutive days, Xu Lai was almost exhausted.
However, the results of the battle were not much. In addition to encountering some wild monsters that the orcs had no time to clean up, there were only some big-eared monsters that were in a panic and those old orcs and old ogres that had no time to escape.
Xu Lai's whereabouts are almost completely under surveillance.
This is not surprising. Xu Lai is burdened with a blood feud curse. As long as there are enough ogre priests and they continue to perform rituals, his traces will always be exposed to the eyes of the ogres.
In this case, no matter which direction Xu Lai wants to go, as long as the ogres in that direction are allowed to hide in the town in advance, Xu Lai can only return empty-handed.
This was the conclusion Xu Lai came to after he suddenly turned to a nearby village and directly killed all the ogres in the village when he was going to the stone field.
So, Xu Lai’s harvest in these two days is really not much.
In addition to obtaining tens of thousands of units of stone and wood and escorting nearly 5,000 hard workers from various camps back to Kuba City, all the knight followers who were about to be upgraded have finally advanced. Reached level 6 knight.
However, the advancement of knights is extremely slow. After killing so many orcs, although they are all old, weak, sick and disabled, after all, the number is here, and Xu Lai is somewhat disappointed that only two have advanced.
After Harris and the others cleaned up, Kuba City finally came into the hands of Xu Lai. This city, the base camp of the orcs, was indeed very valuable.
The half-orcs in the orc tower and the ogres in the ogre fortress have all been recruited.
But the Wolf Fighters in the high-end wolf house and the thunderbirds in the high-end wall nest still have quotas, and there are still a lot of quotas.
This is not a monster. In fact, the lord of Kuba City did not authorize these high-level lairs to go out.
There are more than 60 level 7 Thunderbirds and one hundred and twenty level 5 Wolf Fighters in the lair.
Xu Lai has recruited all these guys. Anyway, after Harris plundered the gold coins in the whole city, Xu Lai now has more gold coins than he can fit in his space backpack.
If you don't need to drop it, you can only put one gold coin in one position and put it in the supply truck, which would be too much of a loss.
What's more, Xu Lai knows that there will definitely be a war coming, and the top priority now is to continuously concentrate his strength.
Therefore, Xu Lai did not keep the high-end weapons and equipment collected from the city lord's mansion, but gave them all to Harris for redistribution.
However, Xu Lai did not take these Thunderbirds and Wolf Fighters with him. Instead, he gave them orders to defend the city and threw them into the base camp.
In this case, as long as Xu Lai leaves Kuba City far enough, his morale will not be affected by these stronghold creatures.
If we were to defend the city, the loss of morale would not be worth the extra high-level combat power.
In addition to recruiting troops and weapons and equipment, Xu Lai used the stones and wood obtained by destroying Mercury Town, and the stones and wood seized from forest farms and quarries to invest in the construction of Kuba City.
In the past two days, Harris has led people to complete the reinforcement of four city gates.
The orc cities have never been attacked before, so the base camp and city gates are almost all for show.
The city gate has now been upgraded to a reinforced city gate. At least Elvi can no longer open it with one hand. After being blessed by the Holy Knight, she may be able to try it with both hands.
After the city gate is reinforced, more high-level arrow towers will be built.
The blacksmith shop has also been producing these days. The previously damaged catapults and crossbows have been repaired, and more than ten crossbows, or two or three catapults, will be produced every day.
The team of hard workers is also accelerating the integration. Everyone is divided into four regions: southeast, northwest, and southeast according to camp first, then race, and finally according to number of people.
Anyway, after the city is broken, hard workers like them will never end well, and Xu Lai doesn’t have to worry about anyone being lazy.
As for the traitor, let’s not talk about how the orcs sneaked into the city. The city gate is guarded by recruited soldiers anyway. Even if there is a traitor, there is no way to open the city gate.
Setting fires was even more useless. Xu Lai had set fires before, but the result was that the house was made of stone and could not be burned at all.
The huge Kuba City can only support their population of less than 10,000 people, so it is not too difficult.
In other words, even if they are besieged, these people can still rely on this city and persist for a long time.
When the houses in the city are demolished, they can get many stones and wood.
The wood is used to repair the city gates, the stones are used as ammunition for the catapults, and the extra arrow towers are used to deal with the flying units and long-range units of the orcs. Xu Lai even built the characteristic building of the stronghold, the Temple of Heroes, which is a place used by the orcs to worship their outstanding ancestors.
It also has a special function, that is, when the hero visits, it can increase the hero's strength and constitution by 1 point.
Of course, all the Halls of Heroes in the entire stronghold camp have this function, and they only have this function.
Through the Hall of Heroes, the hero can only increase 1 point of strength and 1 point of constitution. It will be the same no matter how many times he visits, just like the mercenary camp in the wild and the Garden of Truth.
Orc heroes only need to visit a few specific cities. There is no need to build them in every city. This thing is expensive to build, one is 10,000 gold coins.
It was because Xu Lai had so much money that he couldn't take it with him, and he didn't have the opportunity to go to other stronghold cities, so he built such a Heroes' Shrine.
For him, 10,000 gold coins in exchange for 1 point of strength and 1 point of constitution was a very profitable deal.
Needless to say, physique is a precious attribute that represents life.
Strength represents basic attack and basic load-bearing, which are also crucial.
Due to the gap in strength attributes, if Xu Lai didn't charge, he might not even be able to defeat the level 4 ogres in the stronghold.
In fact, the opponent's strength is much stronger than his, and he can easily block Xu Lai's attack, and even use a little force to directly repel or knock Xu Lai away.
It is said that one force can defeat ten societies. In the magical world, every bit of power represents a huge gap.
Furthermore, because heroes require too much experience, their upgrades will not be as fast as those of ordinary warriors.
So they must try their best to find various ways to supplement their attributes.
Otherwise, even if your ability allows you to lead many high-level warriors, these high-level warriors may not be convinced by you.
Just like when Xu Lai was the honorary leader of the Temple Knights, the actual commander was still Pierce, who was just a BUFF provider.
Now that he has the opportunity to build and visit the Hall of Heroes, he has permanently more than countless imperial heroes with these two valuable attributes.
However, Xu Lai considered all aspects, but did not consider staying in this city forever.
The base camp city seems to be pretty good, with high walls and strong defenses.
Not only does it have its own underground water supply, Xu Lai has also built several big-eared monster canteens. Not to mention how good the food for the people inside is, at least these thousands of people will not starve to death.
But in China, there is an old saying that goes without an army that must be saved, there is no city that must be defended.
Xu Lai and others knew that there would never be any other troops crossing the Pingfeng Mountains all the way to rescue.
This is the army that no one can save.
The fact that no one came to rescue was not because they expected the rescue troops to defeat the enemy, but because there was no hope.
After running around for two days, Xu Lai finally stopped, took a break and took a breath.
However, even though he himself had rested, Elwey, as Xu Lai's strongest mobile force, still had to work hard around Kuba City to conduct necessary reconnaissance.
After two days of rest, the buildings, city defenses, and supplies in Kuba City were basically sorted out.
In addition to the gold coins used by Xu Lai to advance, build the Big-Eared Monster Canteen, high-level arrow towers, and strengthen city walls and gates, Xu Lai also had 250,000 gold coins in his space backpack.
In fact, there should be more. A lot of gold coins and rare resources were found from the homes of various ogre priests.
But Xu Lai transferred this part to Harris, and also transferred the position of city lord to him.
In this way, although Harris is not a noble, he can still command the city's recruiting troops.
Harris is not a hero after all. Even if he becomes the city lord, those heroic buildings cannot be built.
Therefore, Xu Lai could not give up the city lord to Harris from the beginning. If he gave it up now, Harris would be aware of Xu Lai's thoughts.
"Your Excellency, Hero, are you planning to leave?"
As expected, no one in this world is a fool.
It is estimated that Harris had already guessed Xu Lai's thoughts, otherwise he would not have taken those hard workers to please Xu Lai unrestrictedly from the beginning.
Harris must have guessed a long time ago that Xu Lai would not be able to stay in the wilderness for a long time, nor would he be able to take them away.
Xu Lai really had no choice, he nodded and said:
“I haven’t gone out in the past two days, but there is no movement from the orcs.
The more this happens, the more I On the contrary, I became more and more flustered.
No matter what, what is coming will always come, and the only thing we can do is to prepare ourselves to face this storm.
I will stay here to accompany you to accept the baptism of this storm.
But staying in the city cannot take advantage of the mobility of the cavalry, so I have to station outside the city. "(End of this chapter)