The investigators who climbed up the ruins were still reporting on the movements of the defenders and commanding the catapults to hit the Saiyue City defenders on their heads.
More than a thousand civilians gathered by Baron Saiyue began to flee one after another as early as the city wall was broken.
At this point, Baron Saiyue and his army have been completely abandoned by the people.
Except for the knights of his own family, peripheral members, and the soldiers recruited from various buildings, who still maintain their combat effectiveness, the other soldiers recruited also have no will to fight.
Jimmy, who has tens of thousands of troops on the opposite side, can smash the entire city with just his catapult.
And it was impossible for Jimmy to push the catapult into the city. The nearest one was nearly a kilometer away from the remaining walls of the city.
At a distance of one kilometer, although the charge of the knights was imminent, Jimmy deployed a full 5,000 pikemen and heavily armored pikemen on the front line.
A defensive front of 5,000 people, even if it is only stacked three or four layers, can easily span about one kilometer.
There are only about a hundred knights on our side, including those who can ride horses.
The cavalry, which is less than two hundred, may be able to charge in, but they will definitely not be able to get out.
It's hard to even rush in, even if it's just a point, but the opponent's thousands of shooters are no joke. One volley can kill many of them.
However, at this point, Baron Saiyue may still have a chance to charge. If he doesn't, he will either be killed by a catapult, or his morale will collapse and he will collapse without a fight.
Either way, it violates Baron Saiyue’s chivalry.
Therefore, while the main force was still there, Baron Saiyue raised his flag, gritted his teeth and launched a charge.
As a commander, Baron Saiyue had no scruples at all. He charged at the front alone, closely followed by the knights of the Saiyue family.
The bravery of the Saiyue family finally boosted their morale a little. Those with horses followed closely, and the infantry without horses followed closely.
The charge launched at this time was ultimately in vain.
The ruins inside the city seriously hindered the speed of horses, so that after the knights rushed out of the city gate, they still could not speed up their horses.
Aini, who had received the notice early, set up the crossbow truck, and the crossbow arrows the length of a gun barrel roared out.
At the same time, the crossbowmen and archers were also shooting arrows with all their strength, and the rain of arrows struck the small exit at the city gate crazily.
The knights in the front row are all heavily armored and can basically ignore the attacks of arrows.
But the ballista, which does extremely high damage and has the ability to break armor, is prepared for them.
Baron Saiyue, the bravest and most luxuriously equipped, finally fell to the spearmen standing in the front row.
The horse speed that he managed to pick up sent him and a heavy-armored spearman whom he rushed to, to the Elysium together.
Jimmy sighed. He has been leading the knights for Count Aini. He has a very good relationship with most members of the Saiyue family.
At this time, seeing this well-connected family fall down in front of him, he couldn't help but feel sad.
However, he did not dare to delay at all. In order to reduce casualties, he adopted the strategy of catapult bombing, which cost him a lot of time.
"Luo Lun, order your troops to enter the city immediately and kill all members of the Saiyue family, young and old."
Xu Lai thinks that the ignorant baby does not need to be taken care of, and will be delivered to him when the time comes. In the orphanage of Qingfeng City, it is impossible to remember what happened when you were a child.
But even though Xu Lai didn’t think that the children who had their own consciousness could do anything, he still wanted to keep them as a warning to all other nobles.
But when Jimmy arrived, he completely ignored Xu Lai's last sentence.
In any era, in any world, it is actually about eradicating the roots. The only difference is whether you have the ability and whether you are ruthless or not.
Yu Lan previously gave Jimmy two tasks through the magic message stone.
The previous task has been completed, and the next task is to build more villages in Saiyue City.
Because Xu Lai wants to move all the herdsmen west of Hard Rock Castle to the rear.
Xu Lai is not Aini. Aini uses the grassland people as consumables, but Xu Lai does not want to waste these ordinary people and productive forces in the quagmire of war.
At the same time, Jimmy also knew the reason why Xu Lai was so anxious. The grassland was about to face a more difficult and larger war than before.
It can be said that the reason why Jimmy betrayed Aini was not only because he was interested in Xu Lai's development, but also because he had already expected such a day.
It’s just that he didn’t expect that this day would come so soon.
Jimmy cannot stay in Saiyue City for too long. Xu Lai needs to complete the unification of the entire grassland as soon as possible.
Xu Lai can do this by himself, but after reunification, he cannot manage the resources of the entire grassland alone.
It is said that it is easy to conquer a country but difficult to defend it. There is a reason for this.
To unify the grassland, Xu Lai only needs to fight wherever he is dissatisfied.
To coordinate the resources of the entire grassland, at least one thing is necessary. He needs to know who is in charge of each place and each matter. It is not reliable. Can the tasks be executed well when they are dispatched?
Xu Lai didn't know anything about these people before, and he had to complete these things quickly in a short period of time. However, he couldn't send so many of his own people, so he had to rely on outsiders.
Jimmy is a local snake and the first person to surrender. Xu Lai doesn't rely on him and has no one else to rely on.
Therefore, after Jimmy dealt with the mess here, he still had to bring enough manpower to follow Xu Lai to clean up the aftermath.
There are several things to do in the aftermath. One is, as mentioned before, to transfer the farmers and herdsmen on the front line, let them hide in the rear, continue to engage in production work, and prepare for a long-term war.
The second step is the construction and upgrading of the frontline fortress. It is impossible to stop the orcs coming out by relying solely on the fortress-level stone fortress built previously.
So, Stone Castle must be upgraded.
Xu Lai has already prepared some upgrade materials, and has brought the most critical heart of the barrier with him. He also has enough money reserves. The only thing missing is a large number of manpower and basic resources.
The remaining materials from the demolished walls of Kaunaston Castle need to be transported to Stone Castle by changing their transportation route.
Su Ya also received notification in Qingfeng City that a large number of basic materials, as well as all the pharmacists that could be hired, and the ingredients for Aini's formula were already being packaged and transported to Hard Rock Castle.
The first batch of experimental drugs, Aini’s pharmacist, has already prepared a batch.
Tested on orc slaves, if you just take the medicine, you will die almost instantly.
But if the medicine is integrated into the meat, it will need to wait for the meat to be digested in the orc's body for a period of time, and it will take about 2-5 hours to kill.
The final test was to first let the cattle and sheep eat the poison, and then throw the live cattle and sheep to the orcs.
This poison is the slowest and takes at least one day to take effect.
And in the past two times, the poison killed him instantly at first, and the second time, he died suddenly within a minute after the poison was applied.
This last time, when the poison was active, it tortured the orc for nearly half an hour before killing him.
Because there were not many orc slaves, and they were still used to make poison, Xu Lai did not dare to let them go for experiments. Two orcs were used in each of the first two experiments, and three orcs were used in the last experiment. A total of seven orcs were all poisoned to death.
But of the three orcs in the last experiment, one ignored it, one hired a priest to release the detoxification spell, and the last one kept using healing spells to treat it.
The priest's detoxification technique and the shaman's detoxification technique are not the same. One is a holy light spell and the other is a natural spell.
The former has a more immediate effect, while the latter has a slower effect, but can get rid of most toxins.
It's just that although the two are not completely equal, they both use spells for treatment, so there is generally not much difference.
The orcs who used the detoxification technique had an effect. They lay on the ground for one more day and did not die until the third day.
It can be seen that this poison, as Aini said, cannot be removed by ordinary magic. It is more like a curse and has always been entangled in the body of the orc.
Xu Lai knows the curse better, because he still carries a curse that even the Crimson Archbishop of the temple cannot lift.
Unfortunately, Xu Lai’s experimental samples were too few and he didn’t have enough time.
Otherwise, he must prepare more samples and use detoxification techniques twice, three times or even higher times to try.
The effect of detoxification on orcs is not obvious, but the effect of healing on orcs is very obvious.
After using healing to restore the orc's health to full value for the first time, the orc persisted until the 45th minute before his health bottomed out again.
After the second treatment, I persisted for more than an hour.
The third time was even worse. I started in 2 hours, and the fourth time I had to endure 6 hours.
By the fifth time, it was no longer clear that the orc's health had dropped, but the orc's health could not be seen to increase.
The priest in charge of treatment said that the overall decline should continue, but the speed is too slow, and it takes a long time to observe to draw a conclusion.
There was no sixth time, because Xu Lai and the others did not have that long time to observe, so the one who detoxified on the third day was killed together.
Their flesh and blood cannot be reused, because the bodies of these orcs have obviously developed resistance to this poison.
Using their flesh and blood to make medicine will be much less effective.
But fortunately, what Xu Lai needed to prove has already been obtained, which can ensure that this poison is very effective on orcs, and the method of use is no problem.
The cattle and sheep, who were also experimental subjects, had nothing happened after three days.
However, if cattle and sheep fed poison for more than 3 days are used for experiments, the effect will be worse.
Although these poisons are not absorbed by cattle and sheep, they are indeed not good things and will be excreted by cattle and sheep over time.
Therefore, it is necessary to continue the experiment, and it is necessary to continue to strengthen the poison.
In order to maximize the effect, Xu Lai planned to transport all the pharmacists and materials to the new Hard Rock Castle.
The new Stone Castle will serve as a new front line in the battle against the orcs.
A large amount of poison will be synthesized here, fed into the mouths of cattle and sheep, and then handed over to the orcs through Aini.
It is estimated that it will be difficult to succeed twice, so you must prepare enough reserves for the first time.
So, in addition to various materials, Xu Lai was also collecting cattle and sheep, and asked Wei Yihong to send a caravan to help transport them to the new Stone Castle.
As for Aini, of course Xu Lai would not let him escape. He only created the illusion of a prison robbery and was secretly imprisoned by Xu Lai.
Palame is at the stronghold and has no way to get detailed information on the grassland.
In addition, I can still maintain smooth communication with Aini every day, so there is nothing wrong with him.
Besides, everything that should be talked about with the orcs has been finished. After signing the covenant, Parame will have to come back soon.
It’s just that Aini originally promised the Beast King to send his eldest son to study, but now he can’t do it.
Fortunately, the Beast King does not necessarily want Aini's eldest son. After all, this eldest son will inherit the Aini family in the future.
After Aini agreed to send his second son over, the Beast King didn't say anything. Originally, this was the condition requested by the orcs, and Aini proposed it alone.
Aini’s eldest son has been killed by Xu Lai, and of course he is not willing to let his second son die.
Even if he was willing, Xu Lai was still afraid of revealing any information by sending this person over.
So Aini used the excuse that the grassland had been blocked by Xu Lai's army and could not act, and asked the Beast King and his troops to come to the grassland to pick up the people in person.
The spies on the orc side also learned that there was a big move going on in the grassland recently, and Xu Lai was sending troops to the third front, but they did not delve into this issue.
On the contrary, Xu Lai's actions also greatly stimulated the orcs.
Especially Aini reported to the orcs that Xu Lai had received news of the reconciliation between the stronghold and the swamp, and was hoarding a large amount of war resources such as food, cattle and sheep, arrows, crossbow bolts, stones and wood.
This is also true. There are even invisible sword masters who have come close to the Stone Castle to investigate.
If Xu Lai hadn't thought the infantry was slow and packed Yu Lan and Giselle into the New Stone Castle, and were discovered by Giselle who had the True Sight Gem, they might have been infiltrated into the castle. Inside.
Xu Lai didn't know how much information the orcs had stolen, but fortunately, the drug manufacturing site was secretive and had all kinds of precautions in place.
Even the poison masters and assassins who prepare the poisons only know that they are preparing poisons. As for how to use these poisons and for whom, they do not know.
Apart from Xu Lai and the others, Aini is the only one who knows the whole story.
Aini only knew the part that he knew. Xu Lai’s specific arrangements only involved the parts that he needed help from, and the rest was not very clear either.
He has been monitored by several people 24 hours a day. Even if he goes to the toilet, he is accompanied by someone on either side. It is impossible to secretly reveal the information to the orcs.
Everyone is busy, Xu Lai is even busier.
He took Jilong and the officials recommended by Jimmy and ran around, using the angel army to capture cities of different sizes one after another, and then reorganized them on the spot.
He could only stay in a city for two or three days at most, and sometimes the officials he had just appointed would be assassinated just after leaving, and he would be busy going back to put out the fire.
In troubled times, Xu Lai, who used heavy codes and was exhausted from running, but still failed to fully integrate the grassland resources, had no choice but to fight through a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Hundreds or even thousands of heads were hung on several prairie cities at once.
It's just different from the past. These heads are no longer hungry civilians who refuse to pay taxes, but usually high-ranking nobles and their relatives.
Some nobles are very innocent, because the assassination of the chief executive may not have come from their instructions.
But Xu Lai had no time to slowly look for the murderer. Once this happened, the local nobles and their whole family would have no choice but to go to the highest place to enjoy the cool weather.
While Xu Lai was killing hundreds of people, the officials stationed in various places were finally able to successfully carry out the tasks assigned to them by Xu Lai. (End of this chapter)