Chapter 1020: Residency
Before the Western Odin Empire sent troops, it was preliminarily estimated that the Eternal Night Army had at least 30 to 500,000 Odin orcs in the Odin grassland.
But after seeing for himself the difference between the Eastern and Western Odin steppes, Scambarge thinks they greatly underestimated the number.
The number of Odin orc vassals under the command of the Eternal Night Army on the Odin Steppe is not affected by the speed of their collection, but by their ability to provide support in the disaster year.
This kind of offering does not need to be fed, as long as they barely survive.
All they need to do is spread the word on the savannah, and countless Odin orcs who are like moles, struggling to survive, will come to their door, exchanging their allegiance for a chance to live.
Never overestimate the character of a person in a disaster year.
In order to survive, they will lose a lot of the qualities that they originally cherished, including human nature, and their allegiance to other races, especially the strong, is naturally not difficult to bear.
Once the number of Odin orcs in the hands of the Eternal Night Army leader exceeds one million, it will be very easy to pull up a cavalry of more than 100,000.
If the two sides can't get along, start a war on the Odin steppe.
When the Theodin Empire is facing, it is only afraid that it will not be the elite legions led by the Eternal Night Army, but the vassal army formed by their former compatriots.
If their equipment is as elite as the ranger in front of them.
This crusade will become a new nightmare for the Western Odin Empire.
Scambarge had always thought that he had been overestimating the strength of the Eternal Night Commander as much as possible, and for this reason he had attracted the resentment of many people like Ori Lehok in the Western Odin Empire.
In the end, Skamba found himself still underestimating the strength of the Eternal Night Leader.
"I am Prince Skambari, the uncle of His Majesty's Ulaanbari, the supreme ruler of the Odin Empire, and I have come with His Majesty's kindness to ask to see your lord, Lord Sean. Once again, Scambarge revealed who he was.
"We have been ordered to come to escort His Excellency Prince Skambari and to prevent unnecessary conflicts and misunderstandings. The Kentana barbarian knight at the head spoke in a fluent Odin orc language, "all of you stand aside, Prince Scambarge is the honored guest whom the lord has named to see." ”
With the order of the Kentana barbarian knight, the Eternal Night Orc Rider, who was still showing off his might, became very restrained, and retreated behind the Kore Beast cavalry like a tide.
As Scambarge said, if this Eternal Night Orc Ranger wanted to hurt them, it would not have waited until now, and when the two sides met each other, they had already launched an attack, instead of surrounding and not fighting.
They chose to do so because they naturally had scruples.
What they cared about was not whether they could beat Scambarge and his party, nor was it because they cared about the old love of the same family.
It's that the military regulations of the Eternal Night don't allow them to do so.
The result of rash revenge will only bring disaster to themselves and their own people, who do not want to live that precarious life again.
"You've got word we're coming?" said Scambarge, who couldn't help but ask the captain of the Kentana Barbarian cavalry.
"Everything that happens on the grassland can't be hidden from the eyes of the lord. The captain of the Kentana barbarians looked as a matter of course, "Everyone, please come with me, the lord has sent someone to prepare everything, and in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, you better lower your bowstrings." ”
"Uncle Wang. Ozhlehok whispered reluctantly, and lowering the bowstring was tantamount to pulling out half of his own minions.
"Don't worry, if they have the intention of harming us, they don't need to make such trouble, just obey their arrangement and let our people put down the bowstring. "Scambarge doesn't have that many concerns.
The envoy is such a special job, when he goes to other people's territory, he puts his life in the hands of others.
The only thing they can rely on is the analysis of the personality of the Lord of the Eternal Night Army in the past, and the temperament they hope for each other, which has not changed much in recent years.
Judging from the few experiences of the Theodin Empire in dealing with the Eternal Night Lord, the lord of the Eternal Night Commander has nothing to do with brutality, and is more like a merchant than a lord in many places.
At least they won't take the initiative to kill the messenger when the situation is uncertain.
"Everyone, obey the Prince's orders and remove the bowstring. Ozhlehok reluctantly obeyed Scambarge's suggestion and took the lead in lowering his bowstring, and the other Odin orcs could only obey the order when they saw this.
"Everyone, please come with me. The captain of the Kentana barbarians led the way in front, while the other Kore cavalry split in two, guarding the Theodin Imperial cavalry in the middle.
"Let's go. Scambarge looked like he was at peace when he came, completely obeying the other party's arrangement.
Half-escorted and half-escorted by the Kentana barbarian Kore Beast cavalry, Scambarge and his party soon arrived at the other party's station.
A cursory observation along the way makes it almost certain that this is not a nomadic tribe, but a permanent military camp.
The main body of the military camp is wooden, and it is more appropriate to grow it than to build it.
Between the woods, there is no trace of splicing at all, mixed like a whole, and the low wooden walls are full of life and are sprouting.
At least the same number of troops are stationed in this permanent military camp.
In the distance, the smell of food came from the military camp.
Not to mention those Odin orc soldiers, even Scambarge and Ozhile and Ke couldn't help but take a few deep breaths, trying to distinguish the ingredients in the fragrance.
Mutton is definitely there, as are wild vegetables commonly stewed in the grasslands, and in addition to that, there is a fragrance that is unfamiliar to most of the Odin orcs.
As a nobleman of the Theodine Empire, Scambarge knew about this fragrance, which was rice incense, made from an aquatic grain with white flowers.
This food crop is rarely seen in the steppe, and is mainly found on the Huayu Plateau and the Danube Plain under the command of the Eternal Night Army.
The captain of the Kentana barbarians who was parallel to Scambarge took a deep breath and smiled at them: "You are lucky, just in time for our weekly improved meal, this week is mutton stew with whole mutton soup, this kind of rice can rarely be eaten here, the two main ingredients of yellow sheep, there are many on the grassland, but the rice has to be transported from the Huayu Plateau for thousands of miles."
No matter what purpose you are coming with, at this moment, for us, you are our guests, guests first, come, notify down, let our guests eat this meal first, allocate more manpower to the cooking class, work overtime, make more food, then you don't have to be so troublesome, steam more rice, or noodles, you can make a full stomach. ”
When Skambari on the side heard this, he shook his head again and again: "How can this be done? As guests, how can we rob the host's food? You only need to set aside a place for us to live, and our people will prepare their own meals." ”
"How can you be allowed to bring your own food when your lord has personally ordered us to entertain good guests?" the captain of the Kentana barbarians also insisted, "from the moment you set foot in our garrison, everything you need should be prepared by us. ”
"There is no need for the two adults to fight, before you come back, we have received a notice from the lord, we have added a few more stoves, the food made is double, the rice and steamed buns have already been steamed, it won't be long before it will come out of the pot, you just let go of your stomach to eat, today is enough, but everyone is a person who has survived the disaster year, know the taboos, just eat enough, don't be too greedy, if the stomach bursts, this account can be compared to my head." A Kentana barbarian, who was more like a butcher than a cook, hurriedly greeted him with a shovel-like vegetable shovel.
"I can't guarantee this, who made your brothers' cooking skills become better and better recently, and they can't help but eat two more bowls of white rice and pickles, let alone a big meal once a week. The captain of the Kentana Barbarians replied solemnly.
"Although I know that you are saying strange things, and I think that the usual food is unpalatable, but you can think differently, because what we make is unpalatable, how much food is left for our station every day?"
"Don't be poor with me in front of the guests, let your people prepare the meal, and if there is anything, we will talk about it when we are full." ”
"Well, right away. ”
Scambarge originally wanted to be polite with the captain of the Kentana Barbarians.
But the other party didn't give them a chance at all, and it didn't take long for a big pot of yellow, orange and orange mutton stew, a whole mutton soup like **, and a big steamed bun with white flowers to come up.
In addition to the mutton soup, the other two kinds of food are very unfamiliar to the Odin orcs brought by Skambari.
But the enticing aroma of rice emanating from it silently told them that it was probably a supreme delicacy that they had never tasted before.
"Mutton stew is limited, only one per person, whole mutton soup and white flour steamed buns are enough, not enough to add their own take, although we do not limit how much to eat, but it is forbidden to waste, so, pay attention to some when you take it. "Captain of the Kentana Barbarians was the first to pick up two large, deep iron lunch boxes that were somewhat similar in shape to stainless steel, and were the first to line up in front of the large pot of mutton stew.
And there was a person standing in front of the cauldron, it was the chef who had a bad talk with the captain before.
I saw that the head chef's shovel-like shovel flipped over, and the whole two shovels of mutton stew arrived in two lunch boxes in the hands of the captain of the Kentana Barbarians.
These two shovels, just like the scales, are almost the same in appearance and size.
The captain of the Kentana barbarians stuffed one of the iron lunch boxes into Scambarge's hand and said: "Our station, a little far away from the territory, has just been established not long ago, and all aspects are relatively simple, after receiving the meal, I will find a place to solve it myself, and ask the prince to take a moment, and when the belly problem is solved, I will take you to meet the lord." ”
"Lord Sean, right here at your station?" Scambarge took the hand of the iron lunch box and couldn't help but shake it, with a look of surprise that could not be concealed.
"To some extent, but not exactly, when you see it, you'll know what's going on. The captain of the Kentana Barbarians said vaguely.
He was a sincere man, and he had already taken a big spoon and began to pull the mutton stew into his mouth, and he was hot while eating.
On the other side, the orcs of the Western Odin Empire led by Ozhle and Ke still looked struggling, not knowing whether to eat or not.
Some of them happened too quickly, they hadn't fully adapted to their current situation, and they were instinctively a little wary of these Eternal Night Leaders, especially in the hateful and hostile gazes of the Eternal Night Orcs.
Who knows if the other party will be adulterated in the diet, something that should not be adulterated.
But the smell of rice wafting in the air is too tempting for them.
They don't remember the last time they smelled such a sweet smell of rice.
"Don't let down the kindness of the host, just eat. It was still Scambarge who took the lead in letting go of himself, picking up a huge iron lunch box and putting food into his mouth.
Originally, I just wanted to put on a show and dispel the concerns of Ozhile and Ke, but I never thought that with the first bite of food in my stomach, I couldn't stop.
A long time ago, Scambarge had heard that the Eternal Night Warlords had a unique accomplishment in this piece of food, and the same ingredients, in their hands, were often endowed with completely different tastes.
Today I saw it.
Yellow sheep is the most common and main ingredient in the Odin grassland, and it occupies an extremely important position in the diet of the Odin orcs.
But what makes it occupy the main position is its stronger reproductive ability, faster growth rate, but the taste is much worse, especially the strong fishy smell, even if it is fully cooked, it is difficult to suppress, and many Odin orcs are difficult to like even if they eat it for a lifetime.
The biggest shortcoming of yellow mutton has been perfectly solved in the mutton stew in front of me.
The fishy smell was not completely suppressed, but mixed with the aroma of rice and various wild vegetables to form a new flavor.
This new taste is still dominated by the fishy smell of yellow sheep, but it is much milder, and after chewing in the mouth, the rice flavor becomes stronger and stronger, until finally, the fishy smell is completely covered.
Not to mention, the wisps of clearly discernible energy contained in the yellow mutton have just turned into a warm current that spreads in the body.