Lina persuaded Xu Lai, so Xu Lai handed over the responsibility of counterattacking the stronghold into Lina's hands.
But these two knights have more than 6,000 people at full strength. No matter how much dry food each person carries, they can only last for a week to half a month at most.
As for the seizures in the wilderness, let’s not mention that they lost a lot of food and grass on the grassland.
Even if it is not lost, there is not much to eat in a poor place like the Wilderness.
Xu Lai has been there before and has a lot of experience. He really suffered a lot there.
There are far fewer wild animals in the wilderness than in the grasslands. The key is that even the water sources are unstable. Even the villages and towns where the ogres live do not have wells.
In addition, when sleeping at night, even with a marching tent, I can't have a good rest. I feel neither at ease nor at ease.
After thinking about it, Xu Lai took out a space ring from his arms, which was the different-dimensional space ring.
He handed the ring to Lina and said: "Keep this ring, it can be connected to the warehouse in Qingfeng City.
In the warehouse, enough food and food have been stored. Clear water.
If you arrive in the wilderness and still lack any resources, please contact me in advance. I will send them to this warehouse when they are ready. ”
The effect of the interdimensional warehouse ring is far beyond that of ordinary artifacts, and can even be called a super artifact.
Ordinary space rings, no matter how big or powerful they are, even if they are infinite The one in space is not as good as this kind of ring that can be replenished at any time.
Of course, this kind of ring also needs to be used with remote communication props.
Lina. There was no refusal, she knew very well how important this ring was to the two knights
Carrying the life and death of more than 6,000 knights on her shoulders, she could not refuse such a responsibility.
The ring is rich in all kinds of living supplies. After joining Pierce's Eighth Knights, Lina and the others can head into the wilderness.
However, in order to cover them, Xu Lai also decided to let Elvi and the angel troops follow them for a while when they set off.
But that was a few days later. It would take at least 3 or 4 days for Pierce to arrive with the Eighth Knights.
What Xu Lai needs Lina and the others to do now is to capture those orcs.
Because Elvi and the others were stationed at this large passage before, the orcs were looking for new ways out, and they had already fled all over the mountains and plains.
Most of Xu Lai's men are recruiting knights and have subjective initiative. There are only those knight officers who have been transferred to the Knights and the recruited knights.
Some of these people are still new recruits who have only participated in this one battle with the orcs and are not suitable for acting alone.
In addition, the orcs are not without any resistance, and it is not suitable if the number is small.
His own team, no matter how it is divided, can only consist of hundreds of teams at most.
The knights of the Third Knights are all professional knights with independent combat capabilities. With some recruits and some support staff, they can form an independent team.
Xu Lai's tens of thousands of knights can only form a team of more than a hundred. The third knight's 3,000 knights, coupled with 3,000 logistics personnel, can form more than a hundred teams with both combat effectiveness and transportation capabilities.
Xu Lai has air supremacy. Pegasus, Pegasus knights like Elvy and Silver Wing, can fly in the sky and guide the teams.
There are also professional reconnaissance knights like Jian Yuan, who can search out the orcs even if they hide in the mountains.
Xu Lai sat on the front line and stayed there for several days, catching thousands of orcs of all levels one after another.
In addition to the thousands of orcs captured near the base camp, Xu Lai escorted tens of thousands of mid- to high-level orcs back to Hard Rock City at one time.
Original Stone City, which was once deserted and only had civilians besides soldiers, is now bustling with activity and there are many more people.
After agreeing to Lina, Xu Lai issued a new administrative order, requiring officials at all levels to send back those people who had been sent before.
Of course, people have finally gotten used to living in a new place, and now they have to send them back, which is really a bit of a hassle.
It’s hard to do anything, almost half of the grassland, Xu Lai can’t let these places remain vacant.
It turned out that those people were more familiar with the topography here, and the foundations laid for the previous village construction were still there.
Moving them back is the easiest way to adapt.
What's more, when they first moved, Xu Lai only told them to move for a period of time, and most of them still wanted to return to their original land.
In addition, Xu Lai promised to continue to support them, not only providing food supplies back and forth, but also providing materials and grain seeds to rebuild the village.
Most people are unwilling to leave their hometowns, and would rather return to the place where they originally lived.
With the conditions promised by Xu Lai, most people chose to move back.
There are also people who are reluctant to part with newly opened land, pastures, etc.
Xu Lai also followed them, and he would never fail to fulfill his promise before.
So, this relocation is based on the principle of voluntariness.
If they are willing to come back, officials at all levels, village chiefs, and town chiefs need to organize people and guards.
If they were unwilling to come back, they would still keep the previously cultivated wasteland. Xu Lai promised to fund the houses they built and continued to complete the construction.
And these people will be relocated back, and the land, houses, etc. provided for them will be directly transferred to the believers brought by Duer.
The arrival of these millions of believers is definitely a huge opportunity for the grassland.
However, in order to obtain this opportunity, the first thing to do is to place them well.
There are millions of believers, and no city on the grassland has the ability to accommodate them, including Qingfeng City where Xu Lai is located.
Under Xu Lai's once-and-for-all arrangements, the city walls of Qingfeng City were built far beyond the control range of the Castle Heart, which also cost him a lot of extra manpower and material resources.
But even so, Qingfeng City cannot accommodate these millions of people.
Moreover, millions of believers consume an astonishing amount of food every day.
Even if each person only consumes one unit of food a day, it still only starts at one million units. As a result, the profiteers in the Southern Empire have raised the price of food 4 or 5 times.
Duer and the others knew that this was a huge burden for Xu Lai, so Lina took the initiative to ask to go to the wilderness.
The temple took this matter very seriously. The Eighth Knights led by Pierce quickly passed by Stone City without even entering the city to see his old friend.
With millions of believers, Qingfeng City left some of them, about 100,000 people, and then recruited some of them to join the army in the name of Qingfeng Legion.
In this way, the city plus the military camps outside the city accommodated a total of 120,000 people.
The remaining believers must be dispersed and distributed to various cities.
According to Yu Lan and Ji Long's calculations, believers will fill the cities that have moved back in units of thousands.
On a larger scale, several cities that were greatly affected by the war, such as the castle-level cities that Xu Laigang took back, will be received in units of 10,000 people.
Konaston Castle and Stone City, the only two big cities on the grassland, second only to Qingfeng City, have to bear more. Count Aini fought several battles, Xu Lai also fought several battles, and even in the past few months, Jimmy led people to fight against the orcs and wolf cavalry.
Because of these warriors, Fort Kaunaston suffered a huge loss in population and took the initiative to receive more than 60,000 believers.
But Stone City is basically an empty city. Even if some of the previous people move back, the number of people will still not be too many.
Because this is already an elf city, the battle between the elves and the undead is not going smoothly, and Reina and the Elf Queen have also reached a cooperative relationship.
Stone City will accommodate some elven refugees, which can be regarded as a fire that the barrier camp retains on the human side.
Xu Lai has no objection to this. Although the refugees accommodated by Stone City will not leave the barrier camp, they will join the grassland and become Xu Lai's subjects.
Xu Lai has not yet established a country, and it is too early to talk about subjects, but the elves in the Stone City have already paid their allegiance to Xu Lai individually.
Obviously, the future Stone City will be a city where elves and humans live together.
Most people would not be willing to settle here if they had a choice.
But the believers had no choice. Duer personally escorted a team of 300,000 believers on their way to Stone City.
Of the 300,000 people, 100,000 were divided among the stubborn stone city, and Xu Lai planned to build two more cities for them with the remaining 200,000.
The two cities were built at both ends of the forest on both sides of the Stone City.
Firstly, it is more convenient to obtain wood resources, and secondly, it can also become a horn with the Stone City.
The location of Stone City is right in the center of the grassland, and it will definitely become the core city of the grassland in the future.
Then, it is necessary to arrange two satellite cities for Hard Rock City.
Just in time, Xu Lai broke through the base camp left by the orcs.
This base camp has a way of escape and is a castle-level stronghold city.
After Xu Lai destroyed the stronghold heart, he obtained two base camp-level castle hearts.
With these two castle hearts, both cities can be directly upgraded to base camp-level cities, and each can accommodate 100,000 people. It is not a big problem.
In the current stubborn stone city, in addition to the returnees who arrived first from nearby cities, there are also the caravans brought by Wei Yihong and the merchants who came after smelling the smell.
With the war between the grassland and the stronghold, the merchants felt as if they had all disappeared in the past few months.
Now that the war has stopped, these guys have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
Of course, Xu Lai, who had suffered serious losses, also needed the help of these businessmen to make a good comeback.
In fact, even without these businessmen, Xu Lai's capital was enough to support this war.
As long as we win the battle against the orcs in the stronghold, it will be worth it no matter what the cost.
With the momentum of the orc invasion, Xu Laicai was able to quickly unify the entire grassland.
Otherwise, apart from a few of the hundreds of cities on the grassland that were won over by Jimmy, Xu Lai would have to conquer them one by one.
Because of the invasion of the orcs, most nobles did not dare to fight against the orcs, and chose to surrender directly, leaving Xu Lai to resist the orcs.
Now he successfully defeated the orcs, not only slaughtering hundreds of thousands of orcs, but also captured more than 10,000 orcs.
Now, those nobles did not dare to resist even more. After all, Xu Lai had directly destroyed the coalition forces in the stronghold camp. It would not be easy to destroy their whole family again.
At this time, Xu Lai's dominance over the grassland far exceeded that of Aini, truly reaching the highest level in history.
Anyway, Xu Lai is also a low-ranking person, so the title is on the grassland and he no longer has any say.
Just like before, Jilong gave him a statistical report.
It clearly records the performance of officials at all levels appointed by Xu Lai and the nobles who remained during the period of the orc invasion.
Xu Lai has also just transferred the city lords of major cities, the political officers, military chiefs, tax collectors, etc. he appointed based on this report.
Those who perform well should be promoted, those who perform poorly should be raped when they should be raped, and those who blatantly disobey orders should be arrested or killed.
Not even the major city lords, the former nobles, dared to resist the administrative orders issued by Xu Lai.
Even the guards in the city are still in the hands of these city lords. Once Xu Lai's order comes, they can tie themselves up.
At this time, they accept punishment, which is at best imprisonment and fines. Even if they really have to be executed, they can only accept it willingly.
Because no matter how Xu Lai punishes him, it will not harm his family, but if he dares to resist, he will go directly to the crematorium without discussion.
The merchants who came to Stone City were extremely interested in the trophies related to the orcs.
It is the tattered leather armor worn by the orcs, and they are willing to pay a higher price than the intact fur.
First of all, during this period of time in the grassland, due to the war, no special products have been produced for half a year.
The merchants in the south can also obtain some furs from Qingfeng City due to shipping.
They, traditional land merchants, have not been out for much activity in the past few months. Even if they occasionally go out for shopping, they have not received any good things.
And Xu Lai killed more than 5,000 Behemoths. Even if some of them were recruited Behemoths, he still had 2,500 Behemoths in his hands.
The materials on Behemoth's body are not as famous as those of the Dragon Clan, and their practicality is not as extensive as those of the Dragon Clan. At least the blood, internal organs, etc. are of little use.
However, Behemoth's fur is an extremely light and tough armor material.
Behemoth's sharp claws are the best materials for making armor-piercing arrows, armor-piercing bows and other armor-piercing weapons.
Although Behemoth meat is not as effective as dragon meat and has the powerful effect of breaking through qualifications, it is also a good material for making physical potions.
Just these Behemoth beasts, it is easy to clean them up, break them down, and sell them for 20,000 to 30,000 gold coins each.
In addition to Beamon, there is also the one eye of the Cyclops, the heart of the Thunderbird, the heavy weapons held by the orcs, and the raised Kodo beasts.
Everything is a good treasure that can be sold at extremely high prices in the three empires of the east, south and north.
On the contrary, it was the orc warriors that Xu Lai had high hopes for. These merchants really kept the prices down.
The price of a level 7 orc berserker is not even as good as a level 2 ordinary orc, how can Xu Lai accept this.
Of course, Xu Lai couldn't refute the other party's reasons for a while.
Because they said that once these orc berserkers start going crazy, the entire caravan will not be able to control them.
No matter how Xu came here, he couldn't find any lower-level orcs at all.
Those with low levels, low physical fitness, and poor equipment were all burned to ashes by the fire of doom. (End of this chapter)