There are twelve oases on the periphery of the kingdom of Gus, seven of which are natural permanent oases, and five are temporary oases fixed by the country of Gus at great expense, and these oases form the outer line of defense of the country of Gusi, which is also a natural line of defense that the other six countries do not have.

As long as these twelve oases are defended, if the other countries want to attack the Guth country, they will have to face two choices - if they don't defeat all the outer oases, but only get through the few they encounter, then the forces of the other oases can go around behind them and give them a hard blow.

If they were to uproot the twelve outer oases one by one, the amount of troops and time they would consume would be quite staggering. And in a war like Arsa, the biggest problem is logistics, the more troops are invested, the longer the time consumed, then the greater the pressure on logistics replenishment.

Gusi doesn't even have to fight with the opponent, as long as it drags on for time, it can drag the enemy to death.

Therefore, since the official establishment of this outer defense line of the Gusi Kingdom eight hundred years ago, no force has ever attacked the Gusi Kingdom.

And now, the Sand Tooth Nation is going to challenge this legend.

Because they knew very well that the available soldiers of the Gus Kingdom were only 30,000, and it was a joke to want to settle the twelve outer oases. Without the defense line of the outer oasis, if you can attack the Oasis of the Gusi Country with superior forces, then no matter what the result is, the Gusi Country will be finished.

At least that's what the other five countries think.

Therefore, the 50,000-strong army of the Sand Tooth Country marched a hundred times more ambitiously, while the vanguard troops of the other five countries followed closely under various banners.

The Ninth Outer Oasis is facing the direction from which the Sand Tooth army is coming.

"The Demon Teleportation Array, this is indeed a good killing move, but Lord Nicholas, as far as I know, the maximum size of the Demon Teleportation Array is 1,000 people at a time, and it will take at least three hours to recharge after teleporting once. If we only invest 1,000 troops at a time, even if we can take the Sand Tooth Country by surprise, it will not have much effect on the outcome of the war! Harley calmed down after a moment of agitation.

"As long as we kill the generals of the Sand Tooth Country, they will be scattered into a plate of sand, what are we afraid of at that time!" Ryan had great hopes.

"Not really!" Harley looked at Ryan solemnly, "A crystal-level powerhouse has died in the Sand Tooth Kingdom here, and the person they led this time must be at least one crystal-level." It is even possible that two of the four crystal levels in their country will come, and only one will be left in the domestic town. In such a situation, even if the lord of the country personally stepped out, it would be impossible to kill the opponent's leader in a short period of time. What's more, even if we were clean, how could a thousand of us stop the counterattack of the crazy army of 50,000 within three hours before the Demon Teleportation Array could be used again? ”

"You have to know that if we want to play the biggest role in these thousand people, we have to do our best. If all these 1,000 people are lost here, then what's the point of killing the other party's general? If you just send a thousand war slaves to harass, it will be even more meaningless, except for giving the other party a little chaos, it will have no effect! ”

Ryan immediately fell silent, he also knew that he was not good at this point, so he had always been quite convinced of Harley, and now when he heard Harley say this, he looked at Tang Dou with the eyes of the future, hoping that Tang Dou would have a good idea.

Tang Dou really smiled: "If it's just like this, how can I boast about Haikou." The teleportation circle is just one card in my hand, and the other is ......"

He said, clapping his hands.

Smack!

The applause contained soul power, and it made a strange sound that spread throughout the outer oasis of Nine.

After a few seconds of silence, in the midst of Harley Drion's stunned expression, the earth began to shake, and countless sandmen rose from the ground, one after another, but in the blink of an eye, the entire Oasis Nine had been completely encircled.

Then these sandmen began to rush towards a virtual target under Tang Dou's roar.

These sandmen are not of high rank, only bronze, but there are very many of them, and as far as Harley and Ryan can see now, there are more than 10,000.

"That's the first move. Then, here's the second trick! ”

Tang Dou's howling changed again, and the sandmen immediately dispersed, vacating a clearing, and then several of the sandmen rushed into the clearing, hugging each other.

Next second!

Rumble!

The sandman exploded, creating a three-meter-diameter crater in the ground.

"The self-explosion of each sand golem has the power of a bronze ninth-level full blow, I can control ten thousand sand golems at a time, what effect would it be if you said that so many sand golems rushed to the camp of the Sand Tooth Country together and exploded directly?" The corners of Tang Dou's mouth hooked up into an evil smile.

Harley came to her senses from her stupor, "This is, the Night Elves' natural warriors?" ”

Tang Dou stretched out his index finger and shook it, then smiled playfully: "You just treat it as it!" ”

"I can summon these golems three times in a short amount of time. That is, 30,000 of them, but only this kind of sand golem prepared in advance can explode itself, and it will not work if it is summoned later, but every sand golem has the strength of about the fifth level of bronze, there is no vital point, and it will only disappear if the whole body is scattered, but it is just missing arms and legs, losing a head or something, and the quicksand on the ground will quickly replenish their bodies. And every one of them will keep fighting as long as they are still on the ground! ”

Tang Dou clapped his hands snapped. All the sandmen immediately turned back into quicksand and fell to the ground without a trace.

"Now, Master Harry, do you think there's hope?"

Hallie's eyes lit up, and her body couldn't help but tremble with excitement: "Lord Nicholas, I have a plan!" ”

"As it happens, I have one too! Why don't we write it in our hands and see if it's the same? Tang Dou said with a smile.

The two of them used their own means, wrote a few simple words on the palms of their hands, and then spread out their palms.

Tang Dou's palm reads "Use your example as bait", while Hallie's palm reads "Lure the enemy and behead".

The two looked at each other and smiled, feeling that the heroes saw something in common.

"Are there any restrictions on this kind of sand puppet, my lord?" Hallie asked.

"Indeed, there are, and there are quite a few, one is the preparation time, it took me half a month to prepare 30,000 puppets, and the other is that these puppets all need to use energy crystals, I almost used up all my inventory to get enough of these 30,000 puppets. And only 10,000 can be summoned at a time. If there are more energy crystals, then maybe I can summon 20,000 at a time, and after three summons, 60,000 sand golems, I can use the sand to kill half of the guys in the Sand Tooth Country. Tang Dou said with some annoyance.

Harley didn't know Tang Dou, otherwise he would have known that Tang Dou was crying poor, so she thought about it and gritted her teeth: "Ryan and I can still make up five thousand standard white crystals, and we can also collect them from other families, and it shouldn't be a problem to take another twenty thousand." Is that enough? ”

"One hedron can summon three sand golems, you can do the math!" Tang Dou smiled and said, "It's completely enough!" ”

This thing summons the sand golem with the energy spar extracted from the water of eternity, which is completely unprofitable, and now this is a powerful fool Harry.

It's a pity that only he knows what this thing is about, and even if Harley knows that he was fooled by Tang Dou, he will have to bleed.

The only pity is that in Arsa, the energy spar is not a hard currency, for various reasons, the energy spar is not a strategic material in various countries, at most some large city defense equipment will be used. Because there are quite few places where Arsa produces spars, and there is no trade with the outside, after a long time, the rune system here is too similar to the development outside, and the rune system of Arsa is quite advanced in terms of energy return utilization and natural energy absorption.

Tang Dou got a lot of inspiration in this regard, and improved Lin Xiao's Blood Alliance knight uniform.

Because of this reason, the energy spar is really not too important in Arsa, and all the major families have collected and stored it, that is, to use it in the large city defense equipment, but if there is a sand golem, Harley feels that it is no problem to take out the energy spar.

"That's it. I'll leave the collection of energy crystals to the Harley family master, and I'll continue to prepare the sand golems here. Lord Ryan, the matter of going to invite the lord of the country will be left to you, so let's act separately! Tang Dou clapped his hands and said.

Harley and Ryan both nodded excitedly, and then began to figure out how to lay it out - of course, it was Harley who was pondering, and Ryan was just thinking about silly fun.

After three hours of "charging", Tang Dou asked Harley, Ryan and Crowe to go back first, saying that he was going to continue the layout in Oasis Nine.

After Harley and Ryan returned to the backyard of the government hall, Harley suddenly came back to her senses and slapped her head: "Fooled!" ”

"What? What's wrong? Ryan immediately asked nervously.

Harley smiled bitterly: "It's nothing, you go and invite the lord of the country, I'll go find the other heads of the family." ”

Ryan looked at Harley a little inexplicably, then shook his head and walked away. Hallie waited until Ryan left, then smiled bitterly: "This guy, let me do what offends people!" ”

Crow didn't say a word the whole time, completely treating himself as a humanoid background, and at this time he finally couldn't help but speak: "He's just a cunning person!" ”

Hallie looked at Crowe and chuckled, "But we just need a cunning guy!" ”

"Is it like the old Aresta?"

"You think he's like Aresta?"

Crow pondered for a moment, then shook his head: "Others may think so, but at least I don't. He's just as cunning and just as dangerous as Aresta, but by his side, I at least know I won't be sleepless! ”

Hallie smiled meaningfully and left without saying anything.

Crowe shook his head, spread out his palms, looked at the small note that Tang Dou had stuffed into her before, looked at it for a long time, and it was not until a long time later that she suddenly woke up, and then tore the small note to shreds, and completely burned the pieces to ashes, and then got up to leave.

And in the outer oasis of the nine.

Morian stood beside Tang Dou and reported the situation respectfully: "Now we have refined 100,000 energy crystals, but these energy crystals can only be used on rune puppets, what the adults thought before could not succeed, because this energy crystals are not stable, and if they are not put into the core rune array of the rune puppet, the energy will dissipate quickly." ”

"In addition, the search team found another tungsten steel mine, but it is very difficult to mine! According to what the adults said before, mining with rune puppets can indeed greatly improve efficiency and safety, but our own cost will increase, and the consumption of energy crystals will be astronomical! ”

"Don't worry, Snow Maiden said that her former master used it even more ruthlessly than it does now, and she didn't see any movement in the water of eternity, so we can use it now. The energy of refining the water of eternity only needs to pay some labor costs for us, as long as we are careful enough, it is very safe, but if we open a mine, it is still safe to use rune puppets, and that cost is not counted! And I have another reason for doing this, which is to let the rune golems use it more, so that I can find all kinds of problems and make it easier to improve! ”

Tang Dou waved his hand, indicating that the consumption of energy crystals was nothing.

Morian nodded: "Adults care about everyone's safety, and everyone is grateful. But if there is nothing to do for a long time, I am afraid that it will breed inertia. The environment in Avalon is so good that after the first construction was over, we needed less and less manpower. However, the population in the workshop is increasing, and there will be more and more idlers by then! ”

Tang Dou rubbed his chin: "Don't worry about this. Now you feel that there are too many idlers because most of them are coolies, but now that there is enough labor, you naturally feel that there are too many. How's the school I asked you to prepare? Drive all the people of the right age to the school, whether it is farming, smelting, forging, runes, these are all taught publicly, as long as everyone's knowledge is raised, the new workshop can do more, and there will naturally be no idlers at that time! ”

"My lord, although this is very good, but if they have more, they will be unstable!" Morian cautionarily reminded.

The strategy of fooling people does not mean to make people stupid, but to make people ignorant. If you don't have too much insight and knowledge, then you won't have extra thoughts.

Tang Dou laughed; "Morion, you have to understand, they're all in Avalon, and I control all of Avalon, and anyone who is rejected by me will be kicked out of that place. And I give them freedom, give them work, give them wisdom, give them offspring and hope, and if they still want to turn against me, then whatever I do, it makes sense, right? ”

Looking at the smile on the corner of Tang Dou's mouth, Morian understood.

The Source of Life space belongs to Tang Dou, when everything a group of people have, even the air they breathe, is given by others, how can they resist?

After saluting Tang Dou convincingly, Morian returned to the Source of Life space. (To be continued.) )