372 Three-light policy
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The sky is high and the clouds are light, the scorching sun is in the sky, and not long ago, it was still hot and cold in the alternating spring and summer, and it has only been a few days to enter the midsummer season.
Xiao Feng stood on the roof of the off-road vehicle, holding a telescope and observing a castle in the distance.
It has been seven or eight days since they entered this basin from the mouth of the gourd canyon, and in these seven or eight days, they have attacked and fought everywhere, and have broken through the castles of the orcs, a total of five large and small, rescued more than 20,000 humans, and captured more than 3,000 orcs of all colors.
Those captives and orcs have been escorted to Huluzui City, where under Yingran's unified control, some of them will be transported to the back of Rushing City, and the other part will stay locally, raise the city defenses, or build ships and fortifications.
The original small Huluzui City has now doubled in size, and the abundant human resources have allowed Yingran to dare to play a big role and double the scope of the original city wall.
At the foot of the hill near the castle, there was a large gravel area, which was a very suitable quarry, and the stones were brought back by horse-drawn carts, and several waterwheels were repaired by the river, and the stones were polished and polished, which would be very suitable materials for building the city.
Coupled with the continuous cement sent from behind, the speed of the construction of this city is very large, of course, the captives of the orcs played a very important role, it is said that in these two days alone, more than a thousand died of exhaustion.
But no one takes these orcs seriously, they treated humans like this before, and it is already merciful for humans to cut them down without catching them, and to let them survive for a few more days.
Anyway, this world is like this, and Xiao Feng has no intention of instilling too much benevolence and morality in the people of this world.
The city in front of them was more than twice as large as the cities they had captured before, and the city walls were also higher, more than eight meters high, and the pig-headed people entrenched in this big city.
These pig-headed people are not easy to gnaw on bones, unlike the kobolds and werewolves they encountered before, these pig-headed people are the main source of heavy infantry in the half-orc alliance, dare to fight, and are warlike.
They are guarding this city wall, but it is very difficult to attack, plus a few days ago, they have already attacked several castles, and the pig-headed people in this castle have already received the news.
Seeing them appear outside the city walls, the pig-headed men all shrank back into the city, closed the gates, and stretched out their positions on the walls, waiting for them to attack.
Xiao Feng had already seen all the movements inside and outside the city wall through the drone, there were about 5,000 pig-headed people stationed in this city, of which 2,500 were soldiers, and the other more than 2,500 were civilians, and there were a lot of human slaves under their control.
Xiao Feng specially used drones to make a general observation and statistics of the two concentration camps in the city where humans are imprisoned, and this city is home to almost 20,000 human beings, which is a city of great strategic value.
Presumably, it is also because the pig-headed people have super combat power and contribute a lot to the alliance, so they will be assigned such a good city and so many human slaves, right?
The crops outside the city wall are also very good, the endless plain, there are rivers in the middle, there is no flood, and there is abundant river water to irrigate the land, it is no wonder that the crops outside the city wall grow so well.
Using a drone to observe the situation of the pig-headed defenders in the city wall, Xiao Feng basically knew in his heart, his previous guess should be correct, and now the orcs are really in a state of insufficient troops.
For example, this city, according to the size of the city, normally speaking, at least 10,000 soldiers are required to guard the city, but there are only more than 2,000 soldiers available in this city, and the other 2,000 are civilians, women and children.
However, unlike the kobolds, the old and weak women and children of these pig-headed people, but relatively speaking, compared with humans, these old and weak women and children can also raise knives and go into battle.
So in this way, even if there are 5,000 defenders of this city, this is still not very abundant.
So where are the other soldiers? Xiao Feng thought about the pig-headed people who were strangled and killed when he defeated the orcs before, as well as the pig-headed people who were captured by him, there were only more than 10,000 in total, which was not enough to bring such a big loss to the pig-headed people's race.
So it seems that the Half-Orc Alliance is using troops in other places, so most of the pig-headed people in this city have been transferred.
From this point of view, not only this city, but all the cities in the entire gourd basin should be the weakest time, and his previous judgment was not wrong at all.
It's a good time to take advantage of his illness and want his life!
Xiao Feng planned to prolong the time of sweeping in this gourd basin and bring as much damage to these orcs as possible.
"My lord, what now?
Xiao Feng stood on the roof of the car, observing the situation on the other side of the city wall, and he didn't say anything for a long time, and Kyle and Bloom, who were waiting on the side, couldn't wait any longer.
In the past few days, they have won many battles against the orcs, although the bullying are some of the old, weak, sick and disabled, but it has also greatly boosted the morale of the human soldiers.
Of course, it is a good thing that morale is available, but the city opposite is thick and thick, and the defenders of the city are still pig-headed people with explosive combat effectiveness, Xiao Feng didn't plan to let the soldiers gnaw such hard bones.
"Don't worry, by the way, find a local farmer to come over. ”
In the past few days, Xiao Feng and the others have built five castles and rescued many human captives, some of which were sent back to Huluzui City by him, and the other part was taken by him and became a new baggage soldier.
These people are all strong people selected from the captives, or they are veterans who have been soldiers before and have experience, Xiao Feng doesn't need them to go into battle, he only needs them to be responsible for the transportation of baggage, and it is enough to liberate the original three thousand baggage soldiers.
And these 3,000 heavy soldiers were also trained according to very high standards in the past, but this time after being tempered and polished on the battlefield, they will be an elite soldier when they go back, and they will be trained on behalf of each other, but Xiao Feng advocates the training mode very much.
On the battlefield, even if you practice every day, you haven't experienced a few actual battles, which can make soldiers grow faster.
Now his team has swelled to more than 10,000 people, including 6,000 regular troops, more than 4,000 captive-turned-baggage soldiers, and more than 1,000 half-orcs who are responsible for repairing bridges and paving roads, building camps, and ready to push to the front to act as cannon fodder.
Fortunately, their material preparations for this Northern Expedition were very sufficient, and during this time, a lot of food was captured in the Orc Castle, so it was not a problem to feed more than 10,000 people.
Soon Kyle found a human who had been liberated from a nearby werewolf castle and came to Xiao Feng's side.
Xiao Feng pointed to the golden crop field in front of him and asked the local farmer, "What kind of crop is this?"
He doesn't know much about the crops in this world, and he knows the few that are the few local crops that the black elf Marcus brought in, as a staple and sideline supplement, and he really doesn't know the crops in front of him.
The farmer glanced at him, then quickly lowered his head: "My lord, this was not originally our human crop, it was a crop that these orcs brought from their hometown, and it is said to be their staple food. It's called Rough Oats, and it's only been cultivated here in the last few years, and we've been helping them grow it since we were captured by the orcs. ”
As soon as he heard the term rough oats, Xiao Feng was stunned, could it be that it was a crop similar to oats on the earth?
Oats are not widely spread in China, and Chinese people prefer white flour and rice as staple foods, but in developed regions such as Europe and the United States, oats are one of the staple foods of Europeans and Americans, just like wheat.
This crop, very hardy, not high requirements for the environment, easy to plant, is very widely planted in Northern Europe and woolly bear countries, and the nutritional value is very high, the crude fiber content is high, the content of various mineral trace elements is extremely high, very conducive to human health, in recent years, with the healthy diet culture in the country gradually popular, oats this food has also begun to quietly become popular.
And could this rough oats be the cousin of the oats on Earth? If so, it would be too much of a coincidence, right? The orcs actually called this crop brown oats? Could they have gotten it from humans?
Xiao Feng's mind was a little confused, but he quickly shook his head and threw those thoughts out of his mind.
"How is the yield of this crop? Is it difficult to grow, and how does it taste?"
"My lord, this crop has a very high yield, and it is cold-tolerant, waterlogging-resistant, and does not have high requirements for the natural environment, but it tastes very poor, but the nutritional value is very high. In the last two years, many newborn children in the camp have survived eating oatmeal. And this kind of rough oats, basically can be harvested twice a year, adults, you see these, that is, we planted before the winter last year, and now it is ripe, and it is time to harvest. ”
Hearing this farmer's description, Xiao Feng was basically sure that this so-called rough oats must be the cousin of oats on the earth, and they can actually be harvested twice a year, which is a very good supplementary crop.
"Kyle, organize the baggage squad, come to the front and start harvesting these rough oats, leaving none of them for the orcs in the city. In the future, before we attack a city, we will first harvest all their crops, and burn all the cities we can't harvest, and all the cities we have captured will be robbed... ”
Xiao Feng almost said that he had killed everything, and a new three-light policy was formed.