After a long time, Sandtooth roared viciously: "Rock City...... Are they looking for death? ”

"Your Highness, we must fight back." Withered Tooth reminded him.

Shafang slightly suppressed the anger in his heart and forced himself to calm down: "How's the army assembled?" ”

"That's exactly the other thing I'm going to report to you." Withered Tooth frowned, and his expression became solemn: "Since last week, Crazy Tooth City has successively accepted a large number of refugees from surrounding villages. Xintong Village, Ningguan Village, Busu Village, Yuzhai ...... There are more than a dozen villages, large and small, and the total number of refugees exceeds 8,000. ”

Shaya couldn't help but gasp: "So much? ”

"yes!" Dry Tooth sighed: "Among them, Xintongzhai and Ningguanzhai are big villages, and the rest of the villages are small in scale and have few people. They were all attacked by the Niu people, the stockade was breached, and many people were taken captive, but they were lucky enough to escape from the chaos and finally come to Wild Tooth City...... Now that the houses in the city are basically full, if this continues, there will be big problems. ”

"You mean grain?" Sand Tooth asked.

Withered nodded worriedly: "The original inhabitants of the city are about 27,000, and the annual grain stock is based on 30,000 people. Under normal circumstances, there is a four-month supply period, and there will be a slight decrease in supply in winter. Considering the fixed share of each village handed over each year, and the time it takes for them to be transported from different places, the grain in the warehouse can basically be balanced and there will be no famine. But now that so many refugees have come at once, the problem has become troublesome. ”

Sha Tooth sat sideways in the chair, his right hand clenched into a fist to support his chin, and pondered: "According to the current quota, how long can the food in the city last?" ”

"Two and a half months, no more than three months at most." This is the number that Withertooth has long counted: "It is a time of war, and the soldiers must be fed." The ration for one of them is equivalent to the usual consumption of two women. ”

"It won't take as long as two months, one month will be enough." Enraged, Shafang's face was fierce: "Pass on the king's order, complete the general mobilization of the clan within a week, and the standing troops of each village must arrive in Crazy Tooth City at the specified time. There were 30,000 people in Rock City, and the king sent an army of 30,000 to sweep them away in one fell swoop! ”

With the strength of the Crazy Fangs, so many people were sent at once, and it was inevitable that a considerable number of pig women would be added to them.

Withered Tooth has always been the main battle faction, but unlike the King of Crazy Teeth, who is easily impulsive, he is more calm and cautious when dealing with things: "Your Highness, I am worried that the food supply is insufficient, and there may be problems. Can I ask for help from other tribes? Also, can you get Your Majesty's support? ”

An angry expression froze on Shafang's face. He sighed: "It's hard...... It's not like you don't know that we don't have a very good relationship with other tribes. My throne comes from my father's enthronement, not from my inheritance. In order to obtain this fief, my father forcibly divided a village with a total population of 70,000 from other tribes, and provided a large amount of grain for me to build a city. To put it mildly, it has offended all the tribes in the clan that time. Even though I am a prince, no one buys my account. For so many years, if it weren't for my father's pressure on it, they wouldn't have recognized me as the king of wild fangs. ”

"But this time it's different." Withered Tooth patiently persuaded: "The Niu people are menacing, they have a great appetite, if we can't hold on, it will be the turn of other tribes immediately." ”

Sha Fang glanced at the withered tooth standing in front of him, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Not everyone is as discerning as you. ”

"What about Your Majesty?" Withered Tooth no longer insisted on his point of view: "You are his eldest son after all. ”

Sand Tooth looked down at the floor under his feet, very irritated: "Father is very sick, and the situation in Fangfang City is very complicated right now. When I left, Fangs was under martial law...... Aku, I'll just tell you about these things, you just need to know for yourself. ”

A bad chill rose in the withered tooth's heart, and he still refused to give up his persistence, so he tentatively said: "Then the queen ......"

Shaya waved his hand and interrupted his question weakly: "Don't think about it, it's useless." We're on our own now, and no one is going to help us. ”

Withered Tooth was silent for a few seconds, with a bitter face, and barely squeezed out a smile: "I understand." I will now send a messenger to issue an order to all the villages. ”

Shaya nodded: "Go ahead, let me be alone for a while." ”

The mother's angry face seemed to still linger in front of her eyes.

The news of the attack on the territory was so terrifying that the nervous brain had not been able to rest for a moment since then.

The population was lost, the villages were destroyed, and there was no good news to soothe me.

Rushing all the way back from Fangs City, the physical exertion is extremely high.

The reports heard from Dry Tooth still didn't make it easy, and the situation was more tense than ever.

Sand Tooth has never felt so tired as she does now.

He needed to rest, at least a good night's sleep.

……

At night, most of the City of Wild Teeth was shrouded in darkness.

It's a time when there's no light at night. Only the big people could afford to use oil lamps, and the lower-ranking officials had no access to this luxury. At night, the source of light is mostly fires, or torches. The northern barbarians have a special affection for lipocarpic pine, which is the best material for making torches because its torso is very resistant to burning.

The gates of Crazy Tooth City are closed, this is a city after all, and the city lord is not a visionary poor man like a small village leader. When the city was first built, Shaya spent a lot of money to buy iron from the Niu clan, and tightly covered all the city gates, and the door bolts with amazing scale were also made of steel. Compared to other cities of the Pig Tribe, it has a strong defensive capability.

Eve, midnight, late night, early morning...... When the first rays of sunlight rose on the eastern ridge, the guards who had been on duty all night yawned, extinguished the torches around them, rubbed their eyes, and dragged their heavy steps to prepare for the change of guard.

Outside the city is a hill, with a strong appetite for food, and the people of the pig tribe are frantically demanding from nature and destroying vegetation like crazy. It is already loess in the sky, and it is difficult to grow weeds even in summer. In fact, it is good that at least in the event of an invasion by foreign enemies, the entire front of the city can be seen without any obstacles.

To put it simply, there are not enough obstacles to hide people.

A large group of soldiers walked down the wall and came to the rest area, which was located behind the base of the wall.

There was boiling water in a few large cauldrons, and you could see a few small bones stewed inside. It was shaved cleanly, and there was not a trace of flesh in sight. God knows what animal these bones come from, and the pig people rarely think about it. They only care if the bones are fresh enough? Is there any oil in the soup?

There were more than three hundred soldiers resting here, and they were familiar with the shape of these bones in the soup pot.

This is a very terrible thing, which means that the soldiers have seen these bones many times, and some people even took advantage of the cook's inattention to quickly scoop up and suck a few mouthfuls of bone marrow.

Cooks with large pots and stoves have almost no conscience. They like to cut back, and they like to cut it down. If anyone questions this, it is logical to answer, and there is no delay in refreshing and neatness.

"That's how I cook. If you have an opinion, you can go to the official and tell me, but it's useless to tell me. ”

"That's all the food I have allocated, what can I do? I also want to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, but what can I do with only grass roots and bark? Why don't we change the two of us, you will be the cook, and you will make it for me? ”

"If you can't eat, you can't do it, young man, you just accept your fate! In the next life, you will have a good baby, and you will be born a prince, and you will have whatever you want to eat in the future. ”

Gags, laughing and scolding, shouting and venting a few words unhappily, and squatting in the corner and looking somewhere in a daze if they are satisfied with reality. At the base of the wall stood a large group of rough men facing the wall, taking off their pants and exposing their bare asses to pee on the wall, talking unscrupulously about women and special parts of their bodies. Fights are a common occurrence among soldiers, and the thin one will always be the target of bullying, taking a few hits from time to time, being given various insulting nicknames, and having to be responsible for all kinds of heavy physical work that does not belong to him.

Messy and dirty picture, this is real life.

The bone broth is ready.

The cloudy color makes people lose their appetite when they look at it, but today it was okay, and the soup was covered with a lot of vegetable leaves and some lumpy plant roots. Watching the cook take out a bag of salt and sprinkle a handful in the soup, the soldiers immediately gathered around with a smile and crowded to compete for the right to receive food first.

Salt is a good thing, and it's expensive. Crazy Tooth City is far from the sea, and salt is more expensive than grain.

This is the breakfast area of the soldiers defending the city, and after eating, the shift changes.

Rednose is the captain of the City Guard squad, and he is also a tall and strong man. He has the thick skin and thick legs and feet characteristic of the pig people. According to the pig people's point of view, the red nose is undoubtedly a beautiful man, but the tattered nose destroys this wild beauty.

He only has the right wing of his nose, and the left one has been cut off from his childhood, revealing a large hole.

His father was a worshipper of the god Hog, and his lifelong dream was to become a sorcerer. Unfortunately, he did not have the ability to comprehend words and communicate with the gods, and was destined to be an ordinary person.

He is so persistent, his unfulfilled wish must be fulfilled in his son no matter what the cost.

He was two years old.

Father had a dream. In the dream, he heard the gods talking.

"Your son must only have half a nose, otherwise he will never be like you, and he will never be able to be a great wizard."

The father swore that these were the exact words of the gods in his dreams. When he woke up, he pulled out his knife and cut off half of his son's nose. Far from causing panic, this crazy behavior was unanimously approved by everyone in the neighborhood.

Even if the gods say that you are a woman, you must honestly cut off what you shouldn't have, put on a skirt, forget the gender given to you by your parents, and honestly live the rest of your life as a woman.

My father was hired to go on the war the following year and died in battle.

The mother was taken away by another strong man and never returned.

No one likes the ugly red nose, he has been in the slums since he was a child, he has a very wild temperament, he always rushes to the front in fights, and he is not afraid of death. The big fist is the basic condition for the survival of the pig society, he grabbed food with savagery and ferocity, so he became an adult, passed the army assessment, became a warrior, and was usually quite majestic among the soldiers, and was appointed as the head of the ten.

In his life, Akanose was only interested in three things: food, women, and powerful opponents.

The portion of breakfast was not much, a bowl of soup per person, a piece of heterozygous pasta. The bread area is about the size of an adult pig's face, two fingers thick, and it is impossible to eat enough, enough to eat a second meal until noon.

With a large bowl and bread between his fingers, he squatted on the steps leading to the city wall and gulped. Today's soup contains more than usual, a plant tuber that grows in the summer, with a slightly bitter taste, but rich in starch, and tastes a lot like the wild taro of civilization.

For the soldiers of the City Guard in Crazy Tooth, every meal is the equivalent of a war. Everyone wants to eat more, and the phrase "eating in the bowl and looking at the pot" is a good way to describe them. Fights are also common, with losers forced to hand over food and wait hungry for the next meal to be brought back by a helper...... Similar things happen almost every day, and the thousands of heads above are helpless, not because they don't want to take care of it, but because they can't manage it, so they just let it go like this, and they can save it.

No one dares to mess with Red Nose, this guy is a madman who doesn't want to die when he fights. He was so hard that he broke the bones of several people, and no one has beaten him since.

The soup in the bowl quickly bottomed out, and Red Nose stuffed the last bit of bread into his mouth and chewed slowly with unspeakable regret. He felt that food had a special magic that made him feel alive, far from old age and death.

A hand came from the side, holding a piece of bread in his hand.

Rednose raised his head and looked in the direction of his arm, and saw a man of his own stature, with an apron wrapped around his waist.

"I'm not full! Take it and give you another piece. "His smile is sunny and his curved fangs are beautiful.

Red Nose took the piece of bread, opened his big mouth and took a bite of it, and after determining the possession of the cake in this almost unreasonable way, he looked at the other party with a puzzled gaze: "Who are you?" I haven't seen you before. ”

"I'm the new cook." The brawny man in the apron grinned, "My name is Broken Tooth." ”

"Why did you give me this piece of bread?" Red Nose didn't feel any malice from the other party, which made him a lot more relaxed, and he wasn't as vigilant as he was just now.

"You look a lot like one of my former brothers." Broken Tooth kept wiping his hands on his apron, and his smile was gentle: "He's like you, he always eats fast and often chokes. ”

The heterozygous dough cake disappeared in Red Nose's mouth at an alarming speed, and he nodded vaguely in response, "...... Thank you, I owe you a personal favor. ”

The smiling face of the broken teeth began to blur in the red nose eyes.

He then heard Broken Tooth say something inexplicable.

"It's good for you to get a good night's sleep."