Chapter 536 The Great Crisis
The investigation of the Hell Tree is not something Long Yi can help for the time being. It requires the power of the spy lurking in the Black Dragon Empire, but one thing can be confirmed. This time, the spy will definitely have to take some trouble.
Everyone left, but Long Yi kept frowning and didn't know what to think. As he walked this way, Long Yi suddenly stopped and said to Nime and Dandy 233: "I still have a question to confirm with the emperor, you can go first."
The dragon returned and Cry was puzzled.
"I have a question, can you tell me?" Long Yi asked.
"What's the problem? Nothing in this Black Dragon Empire is confidential to you." Kree asked with a smile.
"Do you know the situation of that spy lurking in the Black Dragon Empire?" Long Yi asked.
"He..." Cry shook his head with a wry smile, "If I hadn't found my father told me about this two days before his death, I wouldn't even know his existence. My father knew everything about him, who he was, whether he was a man or a woman, or a young man, or what position he held in the Black Dragon Empire, no one knew about these, and I could not directly contact him. I could only pass the message to other spies, and I didn't know how they contacted me."
The dragon nodded, which was very consistent with the old emperor's style of doing things.
"I guess this spy has a certain status. The news he sent to us several times before was impeccable in terms of speed and accuracy. And this time, even as soon as there was an action, news came from there. He must hold an important position in the army." Long Yi said.
"I don't know, I can't guess who it is."
Cry shook his head and said, but then he looked at Long Yi's face carefully.
"Long Yi, you came back specially, not like asking me questions, but more like confirming the answers to the questions. Did you know what?" Cry asked.
"No, I don't know anything. I just have a guess in my heart. This guess made me a little unhappy, but I don't have the answer yet." Long Yi said.
"Can I know?"
"Wait until I confirm it first, but I will tell you. If you tell you now, your smart head will definitely think too much of useless things."
"All right."
The appearance of the Hell Tree cast a shadow on the border, and the fluctuations of the power of hell made the White Dragon Empire feel an inexplicable threat. On that day, the White Dragons bombarded the Hell Tree three times. However, the Dragon Breath bombarded the Hell Tree. Not only did it not cause any damage, it made the Hell Tree even more lush!
Then, the intercontinental beetle missile arrived immediately, and the unprecedented explosion exploded a gap in the canopy of the Hell Tree. However, after the impact, the scattered dragon power was immediately absorbed by the Hell Tree. Not only did the damaged part recover quickly, but it even allowed the Hell Tree to grow a circle!
In fact, this result was expected. However, some postures must be done well.
Seeing that the Hell Tree had been tested, Jacques knew that this time, Rongka actually brought good things to him. Then, Jacques ordered the Hell Tree to start spreading steadily along the border, and more hell trees rose up. On the border of the Black Dragon Empire, there were wailing waves.
At the beginning, Jacques tried to let the undead army live under the hell tree, because the power of hell under the hell tree is a natural nourishment for the undead. However, when the undead army came to the hell tree, the hell tree suddenly went crazy, and the infinite roots rolled up one by one and dragged them directly into the ground!
It turns out that the Hell Tree actually treats the lifeless undead as food!
So Jacques decisively replaced the garrison of Hell Tree with a black dragon.
However, under the influence of the power of hell, the temperament of the black dragons gradually became irritable. Some black dragons rushed towards the direction of the White Dragon Empire without control and were then beaten into sieve. The corpses of the black dragons fell to the ground and were immediately entangled by the rhizomes of the hell tree.
In seven days, nearly hundreds of hell trees have been on the border. However, there have been thousands of black dragons that have been lost in the past few days.
These black dragons were unable to control their own killings under the influence of the power of hell and were eventually killed. And their fate was no different, they all became nutrients from the hell tree.
What happened one after another had to make Tyrian alert, and he reported it to Jacques. At first, Jacques didn't care.
But a few days later, there were more than 300 hell trees, and the black dragon had lost 6,000! Jacques finally realized that this hell tree is not a big tree to enjoy the cooldown! It wants to eat meat completely!
For this purpose, Jacques issued a special order to the Hell Tree, requiring it not to affect the spirit of the Black Dragon. But this order is useless, as impractical as if you ordered a warrior not to breathe.
"I knew that this old bastard Rongka was not kind to me! Tillian, go and see if there is any way to control it. It is best to make this thing completely obey me!"
Jacques secretly gave orders to Tirian.
After receiving the orders of Tyjac, Tyrian immediately began to study the Hell Tree. Obviously, although the Hell Tree has strong abilities, it is not a life with higher wisdom, and it can only act according to its instinct. In front of it, it must follow Jacques's orders. But there is a prerequisite, that is, it must ensure its own nutrients.
The Hell Tree makes creatures confused and issue certificates to fight, which is a means of obtaining nutrition.
Tillian carefully studied the structure and command composition of the Hell Tree and conducted large-scale experiments. Finally, he developed a potion that would modify the Hell Tree to a certain extent and could reduce the hell power released by the Hell Tree.
"But, there is a side effect," Tillian said.
"What side effects?" Jacques asked.
"The Hell Tree will have a certain degree of resistance to energy," said Tillian.
“How much has it dropped?”
"About 30%."
“Use it!”
"Your Majesty, please think carefully. If it drops, this will give the White Dragon Empire a chance." Tillian didn't seem to want to use this potion very much.
"Tirian, what you are thinking about is not long-term enough! If you don't use this potion, it won't take long. The black dragons on our side will become madmen! Then how can such a group of madmen who don't obey orders and fight, and still want me to win?" Jacques said.
"All right!"
Tillian immediately injected the potion into the Hell Tree. Sure enough, the hell power cast by the Hell Tree was much lowered. However, because the White Dragon Empire no longer attacked the Hell Tree, he had no idea how much the defense power of the Hell Tree had decreased.
In a blink of an eye, severe winter is coming.
In the past three months, with the spread of the roots of the Hell Tree, the Black Dragon Empire has successfully advanced nearly a hundred kilometers to the White Dragon Empire. However, it was already severe winter and the land was frozen, which made the Hell Tree growing in warm areas very uncomfortable. Its roots have entered a dormant state and cannot continue to spread.
The White Dragon Empire also noticed this and started a counterattack.
At the beginning of the counterattack, both the White Dragon Empire and the Black Dragon Empire noticed that the defense of the Hell Tree seemed to have dropped a lot! In the past, the white dragon's breath hit the Hell Tree, which was basically difficult to cause any damage, but now it will actually blow up the crown of the Hell Tree to create a gap!
what does that mean!
This means victory!
The White Dragon Empire immediately began a counterattack. The White Dragon began to saturate the borders of the Black Dragon Empire with its extremely long range. The White Dragon Empire performed enhanced surgery on every white dragon almost day and night. Almost every white dragon had a terrifying range of more than five kilometers. Under this extreme range, any target exposed to the range of the Hell Tree will be destroyed in an instant. At this time, the defense of the Hell Tree was reduced a lot, and even the Hell Tree could not resist this level of attack!
However, the Hell Tree has extremely strong self-repair ability. As long as its root system is not damaged, it can recover no matter how severe the damage is. However, the recovery speed is proportional to the Hell Tree's own speed of obtaining nutrients.
The roots of the Hell Tree are already getting nutrients in the land like plundering. This means that wherever it takes root, there is basically no nutrition. The defense power is reduced, making it extremely difficult for it to obtain nutrients by absorbing dragon breath!
In the end, a hell tree turned crazy, and countless roots soared into the sky and began to attack all creatures within its range, whether it was a black dragon or an undead. Anyone who was pierced by its roots would wither quickly! Turn into its nutrients! Make its branches and leaves flourish!
This huge change was unexpected by Jacques!
It turns out that this is the true face of the Hell Tree!
However, for Jacques now, this kind of thing is no longer what he cares about the most.
An unprecedented crisis has erupted around him.
Because of the bloody attacks launched in the country before, the population of the Black Dragon Empire dropped by almost 70%, and the largest of these 70% were agricultural producers. Without their support, all the food in autumn was destroyed in the fields, and the livestock raised had returned to the mountains.
At this time, the Black Dragon Empire had reached an unprecedented level of food shortage.
In particular, the Black Dragon Empire has to bear the food rations of 300,000 black dragons!
At the beginning, the black dragons could still go to the mountains to find food themselves. The amount of food required by a huge black dragon with a body length of 20 to 30 meters was astonishing. And the 300,000 black dragons quickly exhausted all the food in the nearby mountains and forests. In order to find food, the black dragons had to fly further, but the harvest was pitifully small.
Even if the black dragons were like this, it would be even more difficult to guarantee the food of ordinary humans. There was a large amount of food stored in the imperial city, and Jacques had never been worried about food, so he never thought that the food problem would become his biggest problem.
In fact, food shortages began to appear half a year ago, but at that time Jacques had not gone crazy enough to attack his own people. Now, all crises have erupted in a concentrated manner.
At this time, the Black Dragon Empire was experiencing a very serious scurvy. The soldiers were all thin and listless. This directly led to the second wave of escape.
This time, those who fled were those soldiers who were once loyal to the Black Dragon Empire.
People always have to eat their stomachs before they can talk about loyalty.
At this time, among the combat troops of the Black Dragon Empire, there was almost no human being except the Black Dragon Knights.
Jacques is an excellent warrior. Since he was a normal human, no one could deny this. However, an excellent warrior does not mean that he is also an excellent emperor, nor does it mean that he is an excellent strategist.
He didn't even know the importance of food in a war!
At this time, the only rich people in the imperial city were spending their lives every day. In order to prevent someone from sharing their food, they fired almost everyone in the family. But this meaning is actually not important. Because there are no vegetables or meat here at this time. The only food is also worm-eaten or even moldy.
There were countless gold, silver and treasures hidden in their homes, which they secretly hid in the emperor's search. But at this time, they could not exchange for any fresh food, because no one opened the market in the entire imperial city.
"Why is this happening? Aren't there always been small countries importing food from us?" Jacques roared angrily.
"Because we sent black dragons to attack those countries before, they have all contracted and the fields are deserted. They have no ability to export them anymore," said Tillian.
"What else! Where is there food!" Jacques shouted loudly with red eyes. He hadn't eaten meat for a long time. A few days ago, he even ran to the mountains outside the city to find a rabbit to eat. But as a black dragon, a rabbit is not enough for him to eat!
"I'm afraid there is only the fertile federation." Tillian said.
"We go and grab... No, we can't grab it. Attacking the Woye Federation will make them no longer have food for me. Use my gold coins to buy food! Buy meat! Buy vegetables! I want to eat meat! Eat meat!"
Jacques was like a wild beast at this time, repeating mechanical sentences in his mouth.
Spending money to buy things sounds easy, but economic and trade is not that simple.
At this time, the economy of the Black Dragon Empire had collapsed, and unprecedented inflation made the gold coins of the Black Dragon Empire completely worthless. The same food. At this time, even the black dragon coins that were ten thousand times more likely to be able to buy the same amount of food as before.
When Jacques heard the terrifying offer, he was immediately furious.
"A bastard who takes advantage of others' danger! Attack the woe federation for me! Snatch all their food!"
However, before that, the army of the White Dragon Empire had long been stationed on the periphery of the fertile federation.
Protecting food means protecting one's own lifeline. Jacques doesn't understand this truth, but Cry understands it.
At this time, the members of the Woye Federal Parliament were almost scared. Although they had long guessed that such a day would happen, when this day really came, they still frightened them.
If surrender could bring peace, they would have surrendered long ago. But these members of parliament are not fools. They know very well that the Black Dragon Empire is a bottomless pit and they have no credibility at all.
The White Dragon Empire, which was waiting for work, dealt with a group of Black Dragon Empires that were not full. The result of this battle would not be beyond anyone's expectations. Tens of thousands of shattered black dragon corpses were left on the border, and the Black Dragon Empire was defeated again.
This time, the battle for food was even more tragic than the previous ones, and the black dragons were as hard as they were. For the black dragon, death would be a big deal and rebirth, but the torture of hunger was more painful than anything else.
But even with such a desperate impact, the Black Dragon Empire still failed to gain any advantage.
In this way, the hungry black dragons had to leave.
At this time, the White Dragons were happy. The White Dragon Empire had extremely abundant food, and the fertile federation of mechanized farming harvested unprecedented food. Most of the extra food was given to the White Dragon Empire, and some were sold to the small countries at low prices. Another result of the bumper grain harvest was that the animal husbandry industry was developed, and various meats were also sent to the White Dragon Empire.
On the other hand, the aquatic products supplied by the sea people are still far away, and they are still changing in various ways. Even when they were on Dragon Island, these white dragons did not feel that the food supply could be sufficient to this extent.
Seeing the comparison between the White Dragon Empire and the Black Dragon Empire, Long Yi had to admit that it was an extremely correct choice to agree that it was an extremely correct choice to hand over the mechanical equipment to the Woye Federation, and only there can we take advantage of the mechanized farming in a short time.
The successive victory of the war committee realized that it was time to launch a counterattack.
The Hell Tree cannot exert its strength in winter, and the Black Dragons are so hungry that they lose their combat effectiveness. If you don’t counterattack at this time, when will you counterattack?
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