Chapter 54: Going South
In the history of changes on this planet, the history that took place on the eve of the great change of the empire was always a bit confusing and has always been the object of future researchers who tried their best to explore.
The civil strife that occurred in the West Coast leopard tribe at that time - "the rebellion caused by two elves", was a very important historical node. It was the origin of everything and the cause of the incident. Its status in this series of historical changes was like the initial fuse, igniting the bonfire of the great changes that occurred in the orc wasteland afterwards, and pointed out the way for history.
The most important significance of its history is that the "Elf Incident" made the Leopard Tribe located on the West Coast seriously weak, giving the best opportunity to expand southward with the Holy Emperor who was eyeing him at that time.
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Zhang Quan felt that the orc nobles on the grassland were not good birds. The patriarch of the Catman tribe, Carters, not only betrayed his master, but also wanted to bite him back, trying to create rumors to drag the entire Leopard Tribe Alliance to the edge of the war with the civil strife of the Claws. He also ran to his side for help while not forgetting to humiliate himself. It was really not a good thing.
And that tragic Odylus may be the only person among the orc nobles who have some character. When he was finally betrayed by his relatives, he even cut all his brothers to death with a backhand, which was also the same ruthlessness.
In short, it is easier for orcs from the bottom to get along with, and they know how to be grateful, but they won’t be so righteous. Oh, there may be another race of orcs who are relatively easy to get along with, that is the Taurus. The Taurus’s focused personality and love of labor technology make Zhang Quan feel a little fond of.
But then again, although Zhang Quan had no good feelings for Carters, something happened to his neighbors in the south. Zhang Quan had to catch up with such a lively trip. As a ruler, he always had to put the interests of the group first. If he didn't take the heavenly teachings this time, he would suffer. He had long wanted to put some hands on the fertile land in the south.
Although war is not Zhang Quan’s first choice to solve problems, it often has to be admitted that he is the only way to solve problems. Including the problems of the Kedishan tribe itself, it is probably necessary to solve them in the worst case.
War can bring victory, prestige and power. Under the deterrence of invincible forces, many hidden dangers also have no chance of attack. As the human patriarch of an orc tribe, it is difficult for Zhang Quan to find a way to improve his prestige more directly and effectively than victory. The idea was decided, and the next day, the soldiers of the Base Mountain Tribe began to mobilize. Zhang Quan prepared weapons and armor and set the order of the march. At noon, the soldiers of the tribe began to set off.
And Zhang Quan himself, as the commander-in-chief, also remembered from time to time what he had discussed with his orcs last night:
"What are the exaggerations of collusion with foreign tribes and betrayal of orcs? They are all hateful cats and people are adding fuel to the fire. It's just that those nobles need a righteous reason when they want to annex the leopard tribe. We orcs don't value this. You are a human, but we all love you sincerely!"
"Are you worried about those noble orcs?"
"Oh, yes, those noble orcs always like to fool people with orc glory, god of war doctrines, etc., but that is the self-righteous kings of the tiger and lions care about this the most. They have always wanted to crown the emperor of the orc empire, but other tribes can't eat their own set.
Except for being vassals within their sphere of influence, no other tribe obeyed their orders. The orcs on the wasteland always fought and annexed each other. Even the Popes on the Temple Mountain had no choice, let alone them.
Orcs will only unite when fighting against foreign invasions, which was decades ago. Moreover, on this wasteland, only the priests in the Temple Mountain can make everyone believe it.
Therefore, you don’t have to worry about your human identity at all. If you want to talk about the human businessmen walking on the wasteland, they are the guests of the nobles of various tribes!”
In short, the orcs under his command did not take his human identity seriously, which made Zhang Quan feel that he was completely in a false alarm. This once again made Zhang Quan feel that in the orc society, there was undoubtedly a huge gap in the cognition of the orc nobles of the upper class and the lower class orcs.
According to his ideas, his high-ranking scholars were naturally all low-ranking orcs in this society and were born revolutionaries.
But no matter what, this incident always reminded him to some extent!
The army of the Base Mountain tribe went south, and the composition of the war soldiers seemed strange to the orcs of other tribes.
The Tartar of the Base Mountain Tribe was regarded as the spark of scientists and engineers by Zhang Quan, and he would never want to take it out on the battlefield and be used as cannon fodder. Therefore, the formation of war soldiers in this tribe is less than the strong war race. After all, there are very few real strong war orcs under his command, and only a few hundred Bill Bear men can join the war soldiers as vanguards to use them.
Even so, it greatly affected the progress of the tribal mining industry, because even though the mining industry of the Base Mountain Tribe has partially used the strengthening of machinery from the earth, the main force of mining is still the largest orcs.
Zhang Quan had already regulated the mining industry under Gailon's reminder. Through the previous experiment, the thin rats were not inferior to the labor effect of the tall orcs in digging this slight sect, and to a certain extent, their enthusiasm for labor was higher than that of the orcs of other races. So he simply let all the excavation work in the mines, which seemed to be the most useless orcs in the tribe take over. Only in the transportation, loading and unloading process can they use orcs of other races of tall and large races do it. In this way, the main force of miners in the base mountain eventually became rats.
The number of rat people in the tribe has grown a lot during this period. Many of the tribes around them are dumping garbage and throwing the excess garbage people to them in exchange for food and supplies from Base Mountain. When they hear that the tribe of Base Mountain is hungry and food is so hungry that even the rat people have to buy a large amount, they are so happy that it seems like the New Year is over.
In this way, with the continuous increase in the number of rat-man labor positions in key production positions such as city building and mining, this poor orc race finally became an irreplaceable and valuable race in the Base Mountain Tribe, instead of lying underground all day long and actively and passively isolating the entire orc society. This is obviously of great help to improve the status of this orc race in the entire tribe.
Of course, the labor volume has increased, and the food of rats is also changing. They are no longer rats who go to the snow to the ground to eat grass roots all day long, but a new generation of rats whose staple food and meat are consumed, with the consumption of a large amount of staple food and meat, and even the physique of the race is gradually increasing.
Finally, the soldiers of the Base Mountain tribe mobilized a total of 600 centaurs, 800 dog-headed infantry, 300 bear-man heavy infantry, as well as other winged men and centaur scouts, a total of more than 1,700 war soldiers, and more than 1,000 baggage teams composed of a few centaurs and most sheep-headed people, carrying the entire army's food, clothing, food, food, and more than 800 large camel beasts. Oh, I forgot to mention that in this army, there is also an engineering team composed of 300 adult strong rats. This is a special force of experimental nature created by Lord Zhang Quan for a moment.
There is something wrong with the war soldiers like the tribe on the base. It has to be said that the strength of the main orc troops is not enough when facing the head-on battle with the orcs. Not to mention the worried high-level players under Zhang Quan, even Zhang Quan himself lacks confidence.
He had seen the mighty power of the Taurens charging forward when fighting with the strong bears. At that time, the untrained Taurens under him were still the ones under his own jurisdiction. When they went south, they were probably the real strong fighting race in the wasteland - the Leopards. Then, the elite orcs they met on the battlefield should have had such strong head-on combat ability. He felt very unsure.
So the Iron Hammer Tribe, the friendly tribe of Base Mountain, came in handy at this time. Under the conditions of the owner from Base Mountain personally requesting and promising the above-mentioned good steel armor and weapons as rewards, the Iron Hammer Tribe sent a tribal warrior of mercenary nature, and the 300 elite taurens were handed over to the Base Mountain Tribe to follow the team south.
There are also more than 1,000 mercenaries from other "friendly tribes" to add up to more than 1,000 mercenaries, most of them are centaurs, Doug and Sheepheads. They all gathered from all directions under the "calling" of Base Mountain, gathered with the army of Base Mountain tribe and headed south to set off.
On the way, the troops passed by the Southwest Pige Alliance, which was once the enemy of the Base Mountain Tribe but now also became a "friendly tribe" of the Base Mountain, and another 600 Pige elite soldiers joined.
So, when we finally walked out of the sphere of influence that the Base Mountain Tribe had worked hard to operate in more than half a year, the size of the entire army had rapidly expanded to nearly 5,000. On this barren and rarely visited wasteland, it was vast, like a sleeping dragon suddenly awakened, roaring to the land in the south and spreading its fangs.
Chapter completed!