Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Ogre Tribe
There is an unspoken rule in nature.
That is, if you want to take ownership of a territory, you have to defend it against the attacks of other races. Only then will the other races recognize your ownership of the land, or they may attack you again at any time. In other words, if the ogres want the other races to recognize their ownership of the new territory, they must fight off the human attack head-on and secure their rule over the land with blood and death, otherwise the battle for the territory will continue for a long time.
There's a lot of borderlands in the wilderness.
If it is a small-scale group of people, basically no one cares, but once it is a large-scale group migration, it will disrupt the original balance.
Humans will not allow a large ogre tribe near the road, unless they are scared and take the initiative to avoid this territory, clear out the monsters in other areas, and open up another road. Most of the roads between cities are not occupied by ethnic groups, because the large ethnic groups that originally occupied the vicinity of the roads have all been cleared by humans from generation to generation, and this is how the trade routes are opened in the wilderness. Creatures in the wild will remember a lesson, and even if they are migrated, they will avoid key points of the road.
Ogres taking over this place is a challenge.
They swear ownership of the land to other races, and there is nothing like a show of force to defeat humanity.
After all, this is a wilderness, not a cultivated field, and if humans fail once, they will basically not be endlessly engaged in the battle to expel them, because there is no interest in making them fight, at most it is to build a guard tower defense line on the border. If it is the land that has been cultivated for generations, then the struggle will become endless, and the determination of mankind to protect and cultivate the land is unmatched by any race.
This has happened many times.
Deciduous City was founded by the half-elves to drive out ogres, who fought for hundreds of years to protect the land, dealing with the attacks of ogres, orcs, and mountain dwarves. It wasn't until all the nearby races had anything to do with them that the other races were forced to recognize the half-elves' rule over hundreds of kilometers of Fallen Leaf City. Only when the other races dare not provoke you again can you truly own the land, and then you can claim your ownership of it to the other races.
Otherwise, they will only laugh at you mercilessly, attacking your territory when you are weak or not looking.
Those human beings who live in the wilderness, although they have established villages, can only be said to live in the wilderness, not the masters of the land in the wilderness.
If you want to carve out a territory in this world, it is impossible to pave the way without blood.
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Sauron saw the battle banner of the ogre tribe the next afternoon.
Actually, it shouldn't be said to be a battle flag, just something made of a circle of stones, and in the middle of it stands a wooden pole with the bones of a humanoid creature stuck in it.
It's a sign.
It means that from here it is the territory of the ogres, they have the right to hunt in this territory, and other races enter it even if they invade their territory. It's as if Sauron, before entering the boundaries of Whitehorse City, he will see a huge stone monument road sign with the words Whitehorse City engraved on it, as well as the emblem of a war horse.
"Looks like it's really an ogre tribe." Yas's expression was stern.
Only the ethnic groups that make up the tribe will have this kind of enclosure, proving their ownership of the land with some signs. It's a bit of a war against the other races, and you either have to fight them back, or you have to admit their dominance over the territory. From now on the land belongs to them, and they have the right to dispose of you if you enter it. In other words, in their understanding, the human caravans that pass through the territory are food delivered to their doors.
Because it's their territory.
Dragons are the same before they build their nests, they leave their own scent within their territory, and other creatures dare not approach them at will.
"Cut it off!"
A man who was obviously an officer of Whitehorse City whispered, although Whitehorse City did not have the strength to expand into the dangerous wilderness, but it could not accept the ogre's behavior of occupying the land as king. If it's somewhere else, it doesn't matter, but if it's near White Horse City, it's equivalent to touching their scales. Cultivating the wilderness is not just about being strong, you also need to have cultivated land and warriors who can protect the civilians, otherwise you will be able to repel a wave of enemies and then the population will decrease for various reasons.
It took hundreds of years for White Horse City to expand from a territory of tens of kilometers to hundreds of kilometers now.
Even so, there are still monster attacks on the edge of White Horse City, and there are still creature activities such as jackals in the forests, mountains, lakes, etc. within the territory, and they will attack the established villages from time to time. As long as it is a place where you can't cultivate the fertile land, the creatures in the wilderness will always multiply, and if you kill this group, new births will be born, and if you expel this group, other things will migrate over. It takes at least twenty years for humans to train a qualified warrior, and ordinary civilians have no advantage over monsters.
Bang!
The heavy flagpole fell to the ground, and the army of Whitehorse continued to advance.
Since the ogre tribe enclosed here, a large-scale gathering place of the tribe will inevitably be established.
In other words, it is a plug.
The ogre tribe is different from the wandering ogre tribe, they are at least a few hundred or more, don't look like a small number, but all of them are first-class warriors. And the ogre tribe has its own heritage, they know how to forge weapons, make zuò leather armor, domesticate wild beasts, and capture slaves on a large scale. Ogres capture large numbers of kobolds and goblins as their own slaves, while mining, forging, serving, and serving them as a reserve of food.
An ogre tribe of 500 people would have to occupy at least 50 kilometers of land to ensure adequate food.
Because their staple food is meat.
The adventurers and the scouts of the army are all scattered, and the large groups will not wander around, they will definitely establish a gathering place.
It's best to fix them before they're finished, or Whitehorse will face a siege!
The expressions of all the adventurers were much stricter, and the original two-person team expanded to five, and Sauron teamed up with three other adventurers to form a five-person team to explore the plains. Ogres are dangerous creatures, their skin is as tough as ordinary leather armor, and they have a thick body of fat that cannot hurt their internal organs with a crossbow shot. You can't fight hard against ogres, it's best to have someone to fight together, consuming their bodies before finding a chance to kill them.
The further you go inside, the more traces of the ogre's activity become.
When Sauron and the others saw the ogre's trail, the qiē in front of them had already stiffened their expressions.
It was a camp halfway up the mountain, halfway through, and at the foot of the hill tall ogres could be seen cutting down logs, and the osre warriors of incredible strength carried hundreds of pounds of logs up the hill alone, and then nailed them into the ground with the cooperation of the other ogres. The ogres were completely cracking the rocks, groups of kobold slaves were clearing the stones under the whip, and traces of the furnace could be seen in the distance, and kobolds were forging weapons for them.
Ogres don't need elaborate equipment, they just need enough iron weapons to turn into a terrifying threat in no time!
"Look!"
Yas took out his monoculars and glanced at them, and said with an ugly face, "Look at the ogre warriors on guard over there." ”
Sauron didn't look good at a glance, because he saw an ogre warrior wearing armor all over his body, holding a mace of one or two hundred pounds in his hand, and heavy armor on his shoulders and chest, it was not the kind of armor refined by humans, it looked more like something that some third-rate blacksmiths smelted with iron ore and cast directly, a shoulder armor weighed twenty or thirty pounds, and ordinary people couldn't afford to wear it at all, but this weight was very easy for ogres.
"This is definitely the work of a two-headed ogre wizard!"
Sauron put down his monoculars and said in a deep voice, "Ordinary ogres don't have that much intelligence, it's good that they didn't eat those captives. Only ogres who have advanced to become wizards know how to rule and domesticate. ”
The cottage is already half done.
The construction of ogres as labor was very fast, and although the whole cottage looked a little shabby, it was built of thick logs, but it was very sturdy and sturdy, full of primitive and rough atmosphere. There are wooden poles on the mountain walls with the corpses of goblins, kobolds, lizardmen, and gnolls. Sauron saw almost all of the sapient creatures in the wilderness, who had been held as slaves in the villages, toiling under the brutal rule, and at a slight slowness the ogres would laugh and wield their leather whips, often cutting off half their lives and then being thrown into huge cages by other ogres.
It was filled with a reserve of food.
Near the edge, there was a huge cage that seemed to hold something.
There are a lot of ogres!
There are four or five hundred of them just in front of me, and it is conservatively estimated that there are close to eight hundred ogres here, which is a large group of ogres, which may have been passed down for hundreds of years, otherwise there would not be so many of them. Ogres are an extremely xenophobic race, and if it weren't for the ogres born in the group, the ogres in other wildernesses could be their food.
Some of the ogres of different tribes have a feud and often kill each other when they meet!
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