Chapter 216: Harvest

With Ron and his pawns, and Quill and Kerry with their Flying Bears, Tigers and Leopards respectively, the battle was actually coming to an end.

They just rushed in to make up for the leaks, after all, there were only a few cavalry, and they could defeat and scatter these groups of migrating ogre tribes, but it was really impossible to completely kill them, and they had to rely on the last group of foot soldiers to complete the combing.

The two armies of the Tiger and Leopard Army and the Flying Bear Army are actually not enough now, and the loss rate in the previous battles is between two or three percent, and it is impossible to replenish it in the wilderness.

It stands to reason that it is difficult for an army to maintain morale and combat effectiveness if it does not carry out a period of rest and replenishment after experiencing two or three percent losses, but the morale and resilience of the army under Richard are already much higher than the army of this era.

"Kill!"

The enthusiasm of the soldiers is quite high, and they are unconsciously speeding up the pace without the urging of the officers, after all, the ogre, an enemy with a very high military merit value, basically has no ability to resist at this time, most of them have been scattered, and the scattered ogres cannot fight against the human army that has been formed into battle, which is simply a military merit given away for nothing.

On the flat ground in the middle of the wilderness, the sound of killing was incessant, and the light of the illuminated fire was about to illuminate half of the night sky, and the relatively thin and weak humans were chasing down ogres who were much bigger and burly than them, and the picture looked a little comical.

Compared to the human warriors who shouted to hunt down the ogres on the plains, there were still a large group of humans huddled in the darkness in a dark stone hut shanty, trembling in the dark, listening to the sound of battle outside, but not daring to make any movements.

"Uncle Tom, the ogres and kobolds out there don't seem to be any more?"

In the darkness, a young man seemed to sense something, and was a little nervous, wanting to get up and find out something.

"Don't go out! Dangerous outside. ”

However, before the young man could get up, he was pulled back by a middle-aged man on the side.

"However, there should be no ogres guarding outside, and we may be able to escape."

"Where do you want to flee in this wilderness?"

Compared with the impatient young man, old Tom obviously thinks a lot more, and he can hear the movement outside clearly.

Originally, these craftsmen who were captured couldn't go out easily, according to the rules set by the ogre, in the workshop composed of this stone house shanty, to create weapons and armor for the ogre, their safety is guaranteed, out of this place, it is very likely that they will be killed by the ogre directly as a reserve food,

Now the ogre craftsmen and guards in the original workshop don't know where to go, plus the movement outside, something is obviously going on, it sounds like an army is coming,

It's just that in Old Tom's opinion, it is not appropriate to move at this time, even if he runs out of the chaos, can he still escape hundreds of miles of wilderness and return to the Northland.

"Bang!"

"Ahh

Just when everyone was frightened, the simple and rough door of the stone house was pushed open heavily, making everyone who was already frightened unconsciously exclaim.

However, the next scene calmed everyone's minds, and the person who pushed the door open was holding a torch in his hand, and through the torch, it could be seen that it was a human soldier in battle armor, not a vicious ogre.

"Tadd, step, step..."

More human warriors followed, and some crossbowmen quickly seized key positions and were vigilant.

"Don't move, squat on the ground!"

The human soldiers who came in were not gentle, the smell of blood on the soldiers of the Flying Bear Army who had just fought had not yet dissipated, and many of them still had bright red blood stains on their blue and white cloth armor, which looked particularly hideous.

These humans who were captured by the ogres were already in a panic, and naturally they were very obedient to these soldiers who suddenly came in, and obediently squatted on the ground and did not dare to move.

"My lord, there are no ogres found in this place, it seems that all of them are humans."

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The leader of the troops was a commander, he thought that there might be a lot of ogres hidden in this place to enrich his military merits, and he was fully prepared, but he didn't expect to come in and find that it was all humans, and he couldn't help but burst into foul language.

In fact, the significance of bringing these humans back is much greater than the significance of chopping off a few more ogre skulls, but who calls him a pure martial artist, the focus is more on how to obtain more military merits.

However, at this point, he couldn't ignore these people, and after making sure that there were no ogres, he simply called for a personal question.

"Who are you?"

"My lord, we are all people who were captured by ogres a few months ago, please take us home."

"Please take us home!"

As soon as the person who was called out for questioning said the word home, the people below who had been cowering couldn't help but shout, who wouldn't want to leave here and go back to the human world.

"Stop, stop!"

"What are you doing here?"

After questioning, this Du Tong probably also understood the situation, after understanding, he did not like these people, this group of people actually helped the ogre to build weapons and armor and siege equipment and other things, which in his opinion is simply a collaborator, fortunately he is not a tyrannical person without brains, although he is angry, but not to give some irreparable orders, only let people report the situation here.

The dawn of the morning and the night of fighting should have been a time when everyone was tired, but Richard's Chinese army tent was quite lively.

"Lord Richard, we've gained a lot this time!"

"Yes, there are millions of livestock alone."

"If all these livestock are sold to the royal capital, they can be exchanged for hundreds of thousands of jinnars."

In Richard's tent, many high-ranking officers sat together, excitedly discussing the gains of the battle.

The middle of the wilderness was the base place chosen by Grugash, and it was not surprising that so many livestock could be raised, and most of the livestock were cattle and sheep for slaughtering and eating meat, and there were some large pack animals.

It is a pity that although the ogre belongs to the nomadic civilization, they almost do not raise horses, they mainly rely on pack beasts for migration, and most of the horses as mounts cannot bear the weight of the ogre, cannot be ridden, and are not as good as cattle and sheep as meat, resulting in no horses available in the huge wilderness.

But even so, it is definitely a lot of harvest, hundreds of thousands of jinnar can't be sold, not to mention whether so many livestock can be transported to the Central Plains to sell, just such a large amount of goods, once put into the market, it is estimated that the price will be smashed and dived.

But these beef and mutton, the Hunter family itself has a demand, to improve the lives of the soldiers, and the meat consumed by Richard's royal griffins is also a huge amount, with this harvest, at least for a long time, Richard does not have to worry about meat supplies, and saves a lot of money.

"Lord Richard, our army has found a large number of humans captive by ogres during the cleanup."

"How many are there?"

"At least fifty or sixty thousand people."

Just when everyone was excited about this harvest, Richard heard another good news,

Fifty or sixty thousand people is not a small number, and there are still a large number of craftsmen among these living human beings, no matter how bad they are, they are all young and strong people who can work, and directly supplement the population of the territory to make the Demon City a lot more lively, not to mention that there are a large number of craftsmen, to a certain extent, the meaning of harvesting these tens of thousands of people who have been captured by ogres is far above those million head of livestock.

"Give them some food and take care of them."

"Yes, sir."

Richard's ideas are not as superficial as ordinary officers, in his opinion, these craftsmen do things for ogres as a last resort, and the knives are all on their necks, where is right or wrong. Now these people are in his hands, but they are precious treasures, so naturally they must be taken care of.

What the? You say these people came from other lords of the Northlands? I'm sorry, since I rescued it from Richard, it's from the Hunter family, and it's still impossible to pay it back, so there's no possibility of spit out the benefits in this life......