Looking at the debris on the ground, Xu Lai was so angry that he didn't want to speak.
Wang Chaoqiang said with a smile: "If you pick it up, you should be able to recycle some."
Xu Lai did not expect to make a fortune from the war, but this time the war really made him The losses were heavy.
Not to mention the tens of millions of gold coins used to make the poison, the bounty offered by Xu Lai alone is probably worth tens of millions.
Fortunately, not many people died this time. Most of the civilians were recruited from the farms, and the remaining living people were basically resurrected.
Some of the victims whose bodies could not be found, or who could only make way for other more important units, totaled only a few hundred.
In addition to the higher pension costs for mercenaries, the recruitment of soldiers and farmers will actually be lower.
But mercenaries do not need Xu Lai to bear the burden of their future lives, and Xu Lai has to provide future protection for all those who died in the Qingfeng Legion.
Although Wang Chao said that he could still recycle a little bit, Xu Lai knew better.
The ruins in front of you have some value besides digging out the heart of the castle.
There is only a little bit of rotten wood and rotten stone left, which is still worth a shitty amount of money.
Xu Lai turned back to Wang Chao, Tahan and the others: "Go, but don't kill these orcs anymore, capture them all.
After they were captured, the leader was killed. Those who resisted were killed, and the rest were tied up, and I asked the slave traders to transport them away."
Since the orcs left things to restore his blood, Xu Lai had no choice but to let the orcs do it themselves. He returns blood.
At this time, Xu Lai actually regretted releasing the two Doomsday Judgments. These two spells were very powerful and covered a wide range.
Apart from the surviving orcs in the ruins of the base camp, there were only some lucky ones and high-level orcs alive within the coverage area of his spell.
Xu Lai had bought orc slaves to test medicine before, and he knew very well that orc slaves were a relatively popular species.
There are three reasons. These orcs are strong and work hard. One orc can be used as two or three adult men.
Secondly, the orcs do not have high requirements. As long as they can have enough to eat, they are willing to work hard.
Unlike human slaves, they are always thinking about escaping because they are illegal.
As long as the human slaves run away, the world will be brighter for them. How can I be your slave with peace of mind?
The orcs are different. Even if the orcs run away, they will only be killed by the peace officers, patrols and mercenaries, or sold to another owner.
Thirdly, the living environment in the wilderness is too difficult, otherwise Sachs and the chiefs would not have bothered to fight their way out of the wilderness.
These orcs, in their own tribe, are equivalent to the private property of the chiefs and elders, no better than slaves.
The most important thing is that although you do the same work in the wilderness and in human territory, you can at least have enough to eat by working for humans.
You can even sleep in a room with several people, without having to endure the wind and rain. If you are lucky, you can occasionally have sex when the host's family has some happy events.
Relatively speaking, human landowners also prefer orc slaves.
Because once the orc slaves start to resist, even if they are handcuffed and shackled, it will not be easy for ordinary landowners and slave owners to deal with them.
But these orcs, as long as they are fed and don't need to wear warm clothes, they will be content enough and obedient.
Food is not valuable anyway, so why bother provoking these peaceful orcs to resist? Even a fool will settle the bill.
However, the orcs Xu Lai bought before were all around level 3, but the orcs at this time were all around level 6 on average.
Orcs are different from other people. Orcs are mainly strong in their physical strength.
If you are a mage, no matter how high your level is, you are not afraid. If you just set up a magic lock, your magic power will be about the same as that of ordinary people.
The physical strength of high-level orcs is extremely terrifying, and heavy steel shackles may not be able to control them.
This means that once these high-level orcs resist, it will be difficult to control them and the risk will be relatively high.
If that didn't work out, Xu Lai wouldn't mind going to the wilderness and asking the chiefs there if they were willing to redeem these high-level orcs.
Even if the redemption price was one or two times higher than the recruitment price, he estimated that the orc chiefs would be willing to buy it.
There is no way, after this battle, there are not many soldiers left in the entire stronghold camp.
Not to mention dealing with the invasion of Xu Lai, towers, or swamps, even dealing with the barbarians in the wild land is not enough.
On human territory, there are horse thieves, mountain bandits, water bandits and pirates of all ages.
In the territory of the orcs, due to poverty, there are more bandits, including barbarians, goblins and the like.
Oddly enough, Xu Lai didn’t say before that he would surrender without killing, but none of these orcs refused to surrender.
It made Xu Lai think that they were tough, but it turned out that they simply thought that Xu Lai would not spare them.
As soon as he spoke, the orcs fell to their knees, even the chiefs did not hesitate at all.
In fact, this is not surprising. Before Xu Lai arrived, most of the orcs had been hungry for several days.
Even if Xu Lai doesn't need the Doomsday Judgment, these guys will have no ability to resist at all.
The price of not having enough to eat is that someone who originally had a lot of strength can't even use it now.
The logistics soldiers brought by Fang Chao are not of a high level, and they would never dare to touch these high-level orcs.
But today, the orcs in front of me are either dying or paralyzed in the ruins, refusing to move.
The logistics soldiers had no choice but to take out their own allocated holy water and carefully pour some of it into them.
Some took out their own rations and gave one or two steamed buns to the orcs.
They really have no choice. Affected by the Doomsday Judgment, even the high-level orcs have only a trace of blood hanging on them at this time, and they look like they are about to die at any time.
If they don't replenish their health in time, they may die in the next second.
Nowadays, these orcs are no longer enemies, but property, and dead property is worthless.
As for feeding steamed buns, it’s not because I’m afraid they will die.
The orcs are generally in relatively high physical condition. They can survive being starved for seven days and nights, let alone three days.
However, they are now lying on the ground pretending to be dead, looking completely uncooperative.
If you don’t give them food, it will take several people to carry these orcs, which is a waste of manpower.
It’s impossible not to lift them. Each of these things is more than two meters tall. Even if all the equipment is stripped, they weigh hundreds of kilograms. How can a low-to-mid-level warrior be able to move them.
Giving them a steamed bun will not only make them full, but also help them regain a little strength.
In this case, they can be allowed to tie themselves up, follow the large army back to camp, and carry the equipment themselves.
You don’t even need to find anyone to watch it.
The hungry orcs had stars in their eyes. I heard that everyone was giving out several more steamed buns when they returned to the camp.
There are even meat steamed buns inside the steamed buns. The orcs can’t wait to get their wings and fly into human cities now.
Of course, there are also those who are disobedient. Even if the morale of the recruited orc warriors is reduced to zero, as long as there is no threat of diplomacy, these guys will resist to the end.
Of course, apart from giving experience, these guys have no other use.
Even the lowest-level farmer can stab these high-level orcs to death with the help of god-level offensive skills with a casual sword.
Xu Lai felt a little pity, but there was nothing he could do. Fortunately, the orcs recruited were loyal and most of them died in the camp. Those who could escape here were basically orcs who grew up naturally.
Xu Lai notified Su Ya and Wei Yihong directly, asking them to find ways to organize more slave traders and middlemen.
If you simply look for slave merchants, you will definitely be squeezed to death by low prices without even thinking about it.
And Xu Lai had just fought with the chiefs in the stronghold. Even if Xu Lai was willing to trade with these chiefs, they would not dare to come.
So, we must find those so-called middlemen to deal with both parties.
Of course, this kind of intermediary must have a little foundation of trust on both sides, or be the kind that has a reputation that can convince both parties.
There are not many such people and they are not easy to find, but as far as Xu Lai knows, there are many people in the empire who specialize in this kind of business.
Xu Lai did not necessarily do business with these middlemen, but with these people around, the slave traders could not suppress him.
By the way, Xu Lai also called Wei Yihong and his caravan over.
He doesn’t have much loot here, but there must be a lot of loot from Reina. The drops from the Behemoth beast alone are worth at least dozens or millions of gold coins.
Thousands of behemoths, recruiting tens of millions of gold coins not counting rare resources, and dropping loot worth hundreds of thousands or even millions of gold coins are really too rare and ordinary.
In addition to these drops, the weapons and equipment used by the recruited orc warriors and the spell materials left in the camp are all relatively valuable.
Even the corpses of giant wolves, evil wolves, and Kodo beasts would be worth several times more if they were alive.
Now that the battle is over, Xu Lai also needs to immediately replace these things with resources that are useful to him.
The person who is the fastest and most experienced in handling these trophies is naturally Wei Yihong.
“Lena!”
“Knight Commander, please give me your orders.”
Lina in the silver armor responded with a serious look.
Xu Lai smiled and waved his hand, saying: "Don't be nervous, the battle is basically over."
Lina blinked her eyes and said to Xu Lai: "Really Why do I think it’s not the case?”
Xu Lai’s eyes froze and said, “Why do you think so?”
Lina shrugged and said, “I heard. , you transferred a large number of villages, towns and farmers to the rear, and you are willing to allocate land and housing to these people, which requires a lot of money.”
Xu Lai said doubtfully: "I spent a lot of money, but I also killed many nobles and seized a large amount of manors and land.
These manors and land will be abandoned if we don't send people to plant them. It's a pity that there isn't much arable land in the grassland area."
Lina nodded and said, "I know that because there isn't much arable land in the grassland area, so you are willing to provide these people with supplies to go to safety. The region is even more valuable.
But I remember that you are a person who never wants to suffer.
The orcs have caused you so much, are you willing to let them go?" br>
Xu Lai shook his head and said: "So what if you are unwilling, can I still chase them and beat them?
I would like to force them to sign an unequal treaty for me.
But the wilderness The land is vast and does not have many resources.
Even if I have brought enough food, I don’t have the time to waste on this.
We all know that there are still a few months left for the devil. It must be done.”
The original half-year period was about to come, but Kerrigan was severely punished by the Pope, and the losses were quite serious.
After the demon army has rested, it is hard to say whether they will come to attack the grassland or directly attack the imperial capital.
The temple side judged that they would attack the imperial capital, otherwise they would not need to send millions of believers all the way here.
“You have so many things to deal with, you definitely don’t have time.
What if we make this trip for you?”
Xu Lai swallowed. If someone made this trip for him, it would really make the orcs feel threatened. These guys might really be willing to surrender and pay tribute.
Now that the strength of the stronghold is severely weakened, to put it bluntly, if Xu Lai is willing to spend time and energy to defeat the cities one by one, he can really wipe out the orcs.
The orcs are not good at dexterity and are extremely short of siege equipment and defensive equipment.
The main forces attacking and defending the city, the cyclops, thunderbirds, rocs, golden eagles and orcs, all suffered heavy casualties.
If Xu Lai can use some more tactics to win over a group of people, suppress a group of people, and unify the wilderness to become the king of beasts, there will be no problem at all.
But again, he didn't have that time.
Even if he and Reina set out together, splitting the troops into two groups and running through the entire wilderness, it would take at least a month or two.
Back in the underground city, Xu Lai only set fire and threatened at the same time. It was impossible to really bulldoze the twelve main cities one by one.
Besides, there was nothing wrong with him at the beginning, so he could easily open the gate of time and space at any time even if he had to go back before the end of the month.
But it's different when you go to the stronghold. There is no underground passage connecting the stronghold to the grassland.
Xu Lai did know a teleportation array, but the problem was that he couldn't conquer the wilderness with only a few people.
“I can’t give you much help, and although the orcs have greatly damaged their vitality, there must be troops left to defend my hometown.
You only have more than 3,000 knights, so don’t risk it This is dangerous."
Unexpectedly, Lina shook her head and said: "We are not only these knights, but also the Eighth Knights.
We will set off together and bring enough food and grass.
Don't worry, we won't touch the orcs' high city and stronghold. We will only attack the orc tribes as a small team.
Their wolf cavalry suffered heavy losses, and we paladins can heal each other, so they can never defeat us.
When they are forced to bear it no longer, they will naturally be willing to sign the unequal treaty you mentioned. "
Xu Lai hesitated again and again, but said: "It's too risky, there is no need. "
However, Lina said firmly: "Yes, and it must be necessary.
I brought millions of believers here, but these believers now have no land, no food, and no shelter.
I know, Bishop Duer also told me that you have started preparations in advance.
But no matter how prepared we are, it is impossible to accommodate so many believers.
Furthermore, the cultivated land area of the grassland is also small. The arrival of believers will inevitably divert a large amount of the resources of the grassland people.
You, the lord, may be needed to take care of them for a long time to come.
As knights, we can't do much to help you. The only thing we are good at is fighting.
In addition, I am also a little selfish. Both of our knights have joined a lot of new recruits.
At this time, the orcs who were seriously injured were suitable for them to experience. "(End of this chapter)