Inside the exchange, everyone was waiting outside, and only the captain of the wood spirit walked in alone.

"Hello dear friends, welcome to you, the friendship between humans and aborigines lasts forever, I wonder how the war on the front line is going?"

The salesman at the door greeted him very warmly, and the captain nodded implicitly, and replied noncommittally: "I hope to be able to exchange it for a thousand rounds of ammunition and fifty muskets today." ”

The salesman's enthusiasm did not accept it, and the salesman said with the slightest enthusiasm:

"Haha, yes, a thousand rounds? That's a big number, but as you know, the price of a thousand rounds of ammunition is not low. ”

"This time we brought five catties of Mithril, plus a twenty-mile piece of land on the outskirts of our wood spirits. ”

"Oh, that's great, come on, let's go through the formalities, just yesterday a batch of ammunition came in, at most the most dry and fresh. ”

The wood spirit reluctantly followed behind this person and walked towards the exchange, those Mithril were collected by almost the entire wood spirit tribe from various places, the gray swamp is still relatively rich in Mithril, although it is far less than the sacred mountain range, but it is also a lot, a large part of these five catties of Mithril are jewelry or totem ornaments used by the wood spirit itself, and the wood spirit almost used his last trace of strength in order to buy weapons.

As Lelouch's officials estimated, whether these aborigines of the ash swamp are willing or not, when war happens in front of his eyes, whether it is mineral deposits or land, they will become something outside the body, they will refuse harshly at first, and then slowly try to sell a little land, and then slowly unscrupulous in the end, after all, the current human beings seem to occupy less than one percent of the entire ash swamp, which can be said to be minimal, and the entire ash swamp seems to have too much land to sell, and it seems that it does not hurt to sell a little more at the moment。

But the actual situation is that in the case of each aborigine, you sell a little, I sell a little, unconsciously, it only took half a year, the human race has controlled almost the entire outer area of the ash swamp, the wood spirit sold today is only twenty miles, but the other races, the most has even been sold to a hundred miles, if the wood spirit can enter other people's territory to check the statistics, you will find that the entire ash swamp jungle area, has been forced to shorten a section inward.

In this section of the land, full of felled woodland, countless timber became the raw materials for the development of human colonies, charcoal, building materials, colonial trade materials, human beings cut down almost the entire periphery of the gray swamp like locusts, and now, in the eyes of the aborigines, the actual situation that humans control less than one percent of the land has become, humans control one-tenth of the entire gray swamp, and now, human beings are finally about to show some of their fangs on the gray swamp.

The aborigines of the Ash Swamp will not see, less than half a month away from the colony, a steel road is being built overtime, countless workers are busy around him, and at the final point of this road, on the periphery of the White City, the dense human race has begun to gather, after losing most of the military pressure, Lelouch decided to mobilize a full army of 50,000 people to the Ash Swamp, plus the colonial escort in the early stage, there will be 65,000 elite Terran soldiers in the entire Ash Swamp, plus a full 300,000 immigrants, the land of the Ash Swamp can not be as dense as the God-given land first, and it may not even be as good as the Central Province, but Lelouch also does not intend to rely on the immigrants of the Heaven-given Lands to control the Ash Swamp.

Lelouch is ready to rely on the human remnants of the Grey Swamp, as well as some races close to humans, during this time Lelouch has been planning the introduction of some new species, Lelouch still wants to try the imperial society composed of multiple races, the 300,000 immigrants sent to the heaven-sent land, are more like guides, they will become leading engineers, teachers, monks, officials, These 300,000 people will become the propagators of civilization in the new territory of the Grey Swamp, and with these people, the new human group born in the new Grey Swamp will be the core population most loyal to the human empire.

As for the all-round crushing of an era, the aborigines of the gray swamp don't even know that humans have occupied one-tenth of the entire gray swamp without much effort, and countless large and small fortress facilities have been built on these lands, and simple roads have also been built in all directions, as long as the support population in the rear arrives, the colony will change greatly in an instant, and those various human remnants who have been counted in the secret will also be arranged to relocate at the same time, and the current migration is still voluntary, and when the road in the rear is linked here, the humans in the gray swamp will be forcibly relocated into the colony whether they want to or notAnyway, sooner or later, humans will fight with the aborigines of the Grey Swamp, and these humans are a dead end if they are placed outside, so it is better to forcibly absorb them and become tiny cogs for the development of the empire.

After half a year of direct investigation, the colonial officials estimated that there were still no less than three million people in the entire Ash Swamp, a total of four million human beings, and it would definitely not be good news for the other forces of the Ash Swamp, and such a change would take place in a very short time without their knowledge, and all this, just wait until the first train arrived after the railway was completed, and it would be like a powder keg that was ignited, and at that moment it would undergo a completely different change from before.

...

The construction of the railroad tracks did not make Lelouch wait too long, and after another month, the train to the Ash Swamp Colony was finally repaired, on the same day that it was repaired, inside the majestic railway station of the White City, the continuous army got on the train one after another, most of them were garrisons, but the number of the Guardians was also quite a lot, and even the ratio almost reached a one-to-one level, the situation of the Ash Swamp was much more special, and if you wanted to control the Ash Swamp, Huairou means were not very reliable, Lelouch needed to use the flames of the Guardian Army to clean the entire Grey Swamp of the Charm and Spirit, the garrison was used as a garrison force, and the Guardian Army was a fanatical cleansing and offensive force。

In addition to the soldiers who continue to enter the carriage, Lelouch also specially mobilized two hundred dragon vulture knights, as well as the latest, one hundred steam robots, which are mainly used as the core garrison force and experimental troops, hoping to measure the combat effectiveness and defects of these steam robots in the changing environment of the ash swamp, so as to upgrade the robots in all aspects.

The amount of these 100 steam robots is still very secret, after all, this is the secret weapon of the human race, and Lelouch doesn't want him to be exposed so early, now these steam robots already look like a giant sweat wearing steel armor, although the two smoke rushes behind him are constantly spitting steam, and the movements are not agile, they can only be regarded as the flexibility of normal ordinary people, but his size and strength are uniquely powerful.

The power provided by the latest magic crystal is extraordinarily huge, refining a hundred forged steel is strong, plus a lot of guards are directly installed on the skeleton of the machine, and the armor is semicircular, the entire steam robot looks like the Terran Pyro in Interstellar II, but the body of these steam robots is not red, but the light gray paint is used, and the weapons in the hands are also in addition to the giant knife, the big shield plus a giant axe or sledgehammer behind the back, and in the right hand of the steam robot, a small fire-breathing device is also specially installed, this device may not be able to spray too far flames, but it is still no problem to play ten meters, and the fire oil stored inside, which can also be used three times in a row.

In any case, this mass-produced steam robot located in the final combat test stage is still very powerful, but the internal operator is relatively large, even the thinnest human being, there are about six or seven meters, which greatly limits the internal design of the steam robot, but this is also a matter of no way.

"Zifeng, I don't know how long you will stay in the Gray Swamp this time, you can decide on the affairs over there, the empire will transport everything you need for you in the rear, and in the face of those Middle-earth natives, those who are useful to humans can choose the opportunity to stay, and those who are hostile or have little effect will either be expelled or let them become the nourishment of the earth. ”

"Shenzi rest assured, Zifeng knows what to do. ”

For the management of the gray swamp Lu Lu Xiu also thought about it for a long time, and finally chose Wang Zi Feng, Wang Zi Feng is from the church, although he is a gentle faction in the church, but he is definitely a church person, and the people of the church are absolutely worthy of the four words ruthless when they do things, in the face of the complicated gray swamp, Lu Lu Xiu is the fanatic who needs them, these church fanatics, even this time out of the army, the number of the religious guards has been greatly increased, and the banners of these religious guards have been changed from the original white background to a red background.

The armor also carries a lot of red clothing, which looks a lot less dignified and sacred, but more cruel and fanatical.

"Alright, let's go, I'm here to wait for your good news, after the Ash Swamp is occupied, we will have the strength to launch a final battle against Mordor. ”

Lelouch said his final goodbye, accompanied by the roar of the steam, the long train started, and the train was one after another, the whole or were linked together, and the countless locomotive heads in the middle worked together, so that this narrow locomotive city could move into the distance, a population of 300,000 people, 50,000 legions, a total of half a month to relocate, half a month is already a miraculous efficiency in Middle-earth.

If the people of the Ash Swamp know that the human race will deploy 300,000 people here in two weeks, then Hu Zihao will definitely completely break through the final bottom line, no, not the final bottom line, but have crossed the lifeline of all the aborigines of the Ash Swamp, the Ash Swamp is only so big, leaving the Ash Swamp, these Ash Swamp aborigines will no longer have any place to stay, whether it is the Inland Sea or the Sacred Mountains, or even the former prairie, they will all be under the direct jurisdiction of a certain big force.

That's why the beastmen are so excited to unify the Grey Swamp in a short period of time, but their approach is too brutal and direct, causing almost all other races to unite against it, and the current Beastmen also have a little bitterness that they can't say, but these hardships are completely due to the interference of the Terrans, if there is no intervention of the Terrans, maybe it is really as early as half a year ago, the Beastmen have already unified the entire Grey Swamp.

The Beastmen are actually somewhat similar to the combination of various humans and beasts, they have a large number of half-sheep people, but also extremely strong minotaurs, and even tall elephant people, lions and tigers, etc., but their numbers are relatively small, and most of them are the existence of the leading class, and as for whether there are other human races, it is impossible to investigate for the time being.

The common denominator of the beastmen is that everyone is physically strong, and they deserve to be the first in Middle-earth in terms of strength, but their intelligence is so low that they have such great strength, but they have never once appeared on the most important stage in Middle-earth, and they will always be an insignificant supporting role.

Just as the train full of human immigrants and armies was speeding across the land, far away in the center of the gray swamp, a particularly bloody battle was going on, and the half-sheep people rushed up with rudimentary spears or swords and shields, and in their ranks there were also a large number of minotaurs, huge elephants carried huge war drums behind them, and werewolves rode terrifying rhinoceros to advance like tanks in the ranks.

On the other side of them, there are thousands of strange species, the most of which are those green wood spirits, but they also have the existence of some cat people, kobolds, elves, and even rat people, and there are many more other species, and the aborigines are not without powerful warriors, at least those tall bear people in leather armor, who are not weaker than the elephant people.

In the face of the overwhelming army of beastmen, the wood elves raised their bows and muskets, the elves raised their slingshots, and the cat people climbed the giant tree, ready to throw stones.

The battle for hegemony in the Grey Swamp is still fighting fiercely between the two groups, and such battles are one after another, but now, none of them may have imagined that a third more powerful force is about to appear, and the master of the Grey Swamp will be redefined at this moment.

On the one hand, there is a rain of arrows and a sea of people, and on the other hand, there are trains on the vast plains and a very expanding colony, and the story of the gray swamp only begins at this moment.

(End of chapter)