Chapter 0036 - Hindsight
There are still black blood stains on the thin stabbing sword, and the torn clothes and abrasions all over the body during the fight show a bit of heroism, and Zhou Qingfeng after the fight is even more murderous, and the drink in his mouth is short and clear, which makes people have to be convinced.
The combat effectiveness of the goblins and villagers is poor, and the battle depends entirely on the ability of the commander. However, the gains in exchange for a bad battle are huge.
Zhou Qingfeng completely seized two complete light trebuchets, and even the human craftsmen who operated the trebuchets did not run away, and they were all caught by him - to be exact, the craftsmen saw him, a human adventurer, crying and shouting and running out to take refuge.
These artisans come from a city outside the Black Forest called Coldwind Castle, which is said to have a population of tens of thousands and is one of the larger cities in the Northlands. They were tricked, kidnapped, and threatened by the Bann Church into the Black Forest, where they became slaves to the goblins.
Zhou Qingfeng became the liberator of mankind in the minds of the craftsmen, and they almost fell to the ground after being tortured, bowing their heads and praying for the hero's help.
"These artisans are better than the waste of Black Pond Village, right?" Zhou Qingfeng helped the craftsmen up one by one and asked their names briefly. There were five of them, and there was a middle-aged man named Wilson who looked calmer and was assigned as the team leader to command the others.
"Bring the trebuchet away, we may be able to use it later. Bring the vehicle behind us and we'll evacuate immediately. Old Borg, you take someone to erase the traces, and don't let those goblins track us down. Zhou Qingfeng ordered.
The carts were pulled by cattle and horses, and even wolves, which were peculiar to goblins. The wolves refused to accept the drive of the humans and had to be killed on the spot. The wolf corpse can also give the villagers more food, and the wolf skin can also keep out the cold.
A hasty inspection of the convoy of supplies included a cart of field equipment, a cart of horse feed, a cart of dried meat, two carts of rye flour, and a box of gold and silver coins. These were prepared for the troops besieging the White Crow Village, and the gold and silver were to reward human traitors.
Wilson, the head of the artisans, said that the Bann Church had purchased them from Coldwind City at a great expense for the Black Forest operation. In order to control the Black Forest, those cultists tried their best to take out all the money they had accumulated over the years and gambled on it.
The Black Forest is so poor that all supplies have to be purchased from the outside world, which is extremely expensive. If the desired goal is not achieved, the Bane church's power in the Northland will be severely damaged—the power without money will be like a rat crossing the street.
It is said that the cost is so huge that it can be called a fateful action, so every step must be carefully studied and carefully arranged, so as not to fall short. But such an important logistics baggage team is only protected by two bear goblins, which is also too careless.
Judging from Wilson's description, this 'carelessness' is reasonable. The 'God of Tyranny' has just been resurrected, and the Bane Church has not many people, and there are only about a dozen core members in the Black Forest.
Even in the face of a 'large-scale fight', this manpower is far from enough. Otherwise, the people of the Bane Church would not want to use the power of the goblins to achieve their goals, which is really no way.
Now that a baggage team has been damaged, all the good things in the team are cheaper than Zhou Qingfeng. The accompanying villagers circled the convoy several times, one by one rejoicing, and their morale was once again high, and they looked like 'warriors'.
Zhou Qingfeng had to take discipline seriously again, asking the 'warriors' to shut up and not divulge any details of this operation. He kept all his men shut down with just one sentence - the more the rest of the people in Kuronuma Village knew, the less you would share.
Just coerced and lured, half-deceived and half-deceived, Zhou Qingfeng led the team to return to Heinuma Village before dark. The people of the village were naturally amazed, but no matter how much they asked, the 'warriors' in the team did not speak, and the word 'discipline' popped up when they were asked.
Just went out for a trip, and there was such a big harvest in half a day, and the villagers suddenly blushed. Immediately, hundreds of people flocked to Zhou Qingfeng's tent, crying and shouting to become a subordinate of 'Master Hugo'.
If you can't become a subordinate, you just need to give food and be a slave.
The noise and shouting could not be contained, and people kept trying to rush into Zhou Qingfeng's tent. Now that the village is running out of food, the hungry villagers are desperate to survive.
"It's really not easy to raise these more than 300 people." Zhou Qingfeng arranged fifteen waste wood 'warriors' outside, and only with light crossbows did he block the villagers who kept coming.
To be honest, he must have meant not to raise any waste. But in this situation, you have to raise it if you don't raise it, at least half of it. At the same time, let the other half not starve to death and not rebel.
"Boil porridge first and eat a big pot of rice." Zhou Qingfeng called Rubio and appointed him as a temporary steward, opening a certain amount of grain to appease the restless villagers.
Waiting for a bowl of gruel to be served, Uncle Zhou ordered the expansion again. He asked fifteen 'warriors' to be the team leader, and recruited twenty team members each. The recruits began to work - repairing the village of Kuronuma.
Making tools, filling roads, cleaning up garbage, building fences, digging wells and toilets, doing laundry and cooking, in short, the work is not finished. Whether it was good or not, Zhou Qingfeng personally checked it and decided whether he could eat enough.
Lao Tzu, this is creating jobs!
As long as employment is stabilized and there is food and clothing, the masses of the people will not make trouble. Naturally, Zhou Qingfeng's current position was stabilized.
There was nothing to say all night, and for the next two days, Zhou Qingfeng simply stayed in the village to train his subordinates, and after falling asleep, he used the information network to collect intelligence, win over the low-level civilians, and did not go out to rob again.
As for the goblins, it was only two days later that this matter was confirmed - a baggage team transporting trebuchets on their side had not arrived at the front line of White Crow Village from Stucco Village for a long time, and it should have been robbed.
The speed of the reaction is staggering.
The first to notice that something was wrong was not the goblins who stayed in the Grey Village, but the human traitor Old Xius, who was in charge of besieging the White Raven Village.
This jungle wanderer has fierce and treacherous eyes. For his own benefit, he can betray anyone without hesitation. This time, he thought that the Bane church had a better chance of winning, so he did not hesitate to raise the butcher's knife against his own kind.
On the night of Zhou Qingfeng's successful robbery, Old Xiusi scolded angrily in the camp outside White Crow Village. The baggage team escorted by the two bear goblins will not only bring the trebuchets that will destroy the wall, but also a batch of tents.
The Black Forest is cold during the day and even colder at night. Goblins have to take shelter in the woods, and humans need a warmer place to live. Old Xiusi rushed to the White Crow Village with fifty of his men lightly, and spent the night in the field by campfire.
Such hardships seriously consumed physical strength and had a great impact on the war. Supposedly, the tent should have been delivered the next day, but Old Xius waited until night, and all that came was the cold wind, and nothing else.
"Damn the goblins, they're going to be delayed." Old Xius's first suspicion was not that someone was blocking the road, but that he felt that it was the laziness and confusion of the goblins that caused the logistics to not be delivered.
After all, those goblins have always been unreliable.
Mid- and low-ranking goblin soldiers and officers will only scream 'Okeok'. Their goblin language has only one pronunciation, and all meanings are represented by changes in tone, which outsiders can't understand at all.
Goblins who can speak the lingua franca are high-level, but what they are best at is dancing to the gods and praying to the gods. Asking them to do something complex, co-ordinated and organized, is bound to mess up.
On the second day of the siege, Old Hughes did nothing. His men were all pale, so they could only burn the bonfire again to avoid the cold, and on the third day, they hurriedly sent people back to the plaster village to supervise the transportation of materials.
There are several Bane Church pastors in Grey Village who are in charge of logistics, and they are also angry when they hear that supplies have not been delivered to the front line, and they also think that the laziness of the goblins has caused a big deal.
So the pastor of the church hurriedly sent someone to investigate where the baggage team had gone?
After a whole day of investigation, the old Xius's men and horses continued to stay up in the cold wind all night, miserable. Lacking food and clothing, many adventurers fell ill from the cold, and suffered non-combat losses.
On the fifth day after the start of the battle, before the official battle began, an investigation report was put into the goblin old shaman Zur. In front of Greyskin, a human force has attacked our baggage team, causing heavy losses.
As for who attacked the goblin baggage team?
The goblins who survived the escape were indescribable, but they had a profound effect - there was a human teenager who was armed with a rusty stabbing sword. He's the worst!