Chapter 0030: Intelligence
Rubio led the people, carrying torches, and shouted loudly in the village under the banner of 'Lord Hugo'. Soon, the idea of 'robbery and embezzlement' became known to everyone in the village.
The profiteers of medicinal herbs did their best to threaten and insult the villagers who participated in the robbery in the afternoon to take the initiative to hand over the smuggled goods, and the benevolent Lord Hugo would not be held accountable.
It's just that everyone in the village is watching the excitement. Those who have been blessed are silent, and they do not run away or turn themselves in, but hide in their huts, hoping that they will be safe as ostriches.
Zhou Qingfeng was originally worried that these brainless fools would connect with each other and organize against him, but he still looked down on them. The reason why a foolish people are foolish people is that they don't understand reverence and rules at all.
Now is the time to erect rules and discipline for them.
After nightfall, Todd fell into a coma, and it was up to luck to see if he could survive it. The old dwarf tossed for a day, and after nightfall, he happily dissected the corpses of the three sludge monsters, without the slightest fatigue.
Zhou Qingfeng was tired. He pitched a tent next to the old gnome's hut, spread a pile of hay inside the tent, and lit a bonfire outside the tent, and slept like that.
After a tiring day, I slept deeply, and the information network turned on.
Ciric continued to train a dozen Darksun cultists in its small divine domain, condensing faith and bestowing divine magic.
Zhou Qingfeng collected information from the red information stream. His network can only cover a dozen human villages in the Black Forest, so it is convenient to know the latest changes that are happening in the Black Forest.
The goblins of the Magru tribe have officially launched an attack on the human villages of the Black Forest, and it is said that they have organized an army of tens of thousands of goblins in an attempt to drown out the human resistance.
As a traitor to humanity, the old Xiusi of the Mortar Village joined the goblins' attack on the White Raven Village with dozens of subordinates, and even the commander. The village of White Crow was under siege, and the small village of only one or two hundred people was surrounded by countless goblins.
As for the Black Swamp Village, no one paid attention to it. Even though it was very close to the marching route of the Magru tribe, the goblins just didn't come, obviously knowing that it was poor and miserable, and that there was no oil or water at all.
Zhou Qingfeng looted Rubio's warehouse, and the materials in his hand were much richer than before. He questioned more than 100 civilians in various human settlements with small favors, and the information gathered was analyzed uniformly, but the conclusions he came to made him scratch his head.
The threat from the Magru tribe does not seem to be as strong as it seems.
A huge tribe of more than 100,000 goblins mobilized 10,000 troops, and this mobilization number is only afraid that it is still mixed with water. At present, out of the fifteen human villages, except for the five who betrayed, only the White Crow Village was attacked out of the remaining ten villages.
The other human villages were only slightly disturbed and on high alert, with no special movement.
Shouldn't this group of goblins only mobilize a few thousand troops, but claim to be 10,000?
When Cao Mengde fought the Battle of Chibi, he also led more than 100,000 horses, known as 800,000 troops, and the frightened Eastern Wu almost surrendered.
Zhou Qingfeng is full of modern thinking, and he will not easily believe the enemy's propaganda when war breaks out. Old Hughes of the Grey Village became the 'Leader of the Way', and the civilians of the village were forced to supply logistics for the Magru tribe, after all, the goblins also had to eat and drink Lazar.
When the 'Holy Light' descended on the Grey Village, many civilians prayed for a war that was raging. Zhou Qingfeng easily collected more detailed and true information, which was convenient for him to assess the enemy's combat effectiveness.
The villagers of White Crow said that the goblins outside the village were 'too numerous', but the villagers of Stucco Village provided a more accurate figure, and they were responsible for transporting rations for about 1,000 people to the front line – in fact, it was a few kilometres of forest paths, not far away.
One person's ration can probably satisfy two or three goblins, which means that the number of goblin armies besieging White Crow Village is three thousand. Moreover, these 3,000 troops are still grinding, and only seven or eight hundred actually arrived at the front line in one day.
The specific number of troops, even the goblins themselves do not know, after all, they do not count, and the number of mobilization is a nest.
Zhou Qingfeng recalled the goblins he had seen with his own eyes, and thought to himself: "These goblins may really not know how to count, and it is impossible to play any too complicated tactics." Their wars are like large-scale fights, that is, relying on the strength of troops to play a wave of waves. ”
If you can beat it, you will fight, and if you can't beat it, you will disperse.
It's as simple as that.
Goblins are supposed to have a strong presence inside, but their terrible organization dooms them to have a lot of vulnerabilities that can be exploited. As long as these loopholes can be seized, it may not be impossible to bring down the war provoked by the Maglu tribe.
Zhou Qingfeng rewarded several civilians in the stucco village and gave them some food - he found that he could only transmit simple items such as food and clothing in the information network now, and other things were limited by rank and could not be caught.
He also paid special attention to the little girl named Sophia in the stucco village, and provided her with a pair of cowhide boots and a roll of linen. The shoes are adult and Sophia is too big to wear, but it's better than nothing. The linen cloth was rolled up in the hand, barely a glove, to keep warm.
"Thank you, good Samaritan." Sophia's voice was soft and soft, she liked the things sent by Zhou Qingfeng very much, she could eat and dress warmly, and she quickly regained some vitality. "How can I thank you? I don't even know your name yet. ”
"My name is Victor, and I don't need anything from you to thank me. I just hope you live. Zhou Qingfeng didn't expect this little girl to do anything, life was already too hard for her.
"But I'd love to do something for you. My mother said that receiving favors from others will never last long, and no one will always raise a useless person. Sophia said pitifully, "I'm actually worried, worried that you'll abandon me." I don't want to go hungry anymore. ”
Alas, Zhou Qingfeng sighed ......, "I'm actually an ordinary person." If you want to repay me, tell me about the situation in the stucco village. Didn't you say that there were goblins in the village? What's new with them now? ”
"Ah, I know that." The little girl shouted happily, "The old Xius of our village has decided to join the Maglu tribe, and there is a man named Zur. The gray-skinned goblin shaman has arrived in our village.
The goblin shaman was very old, and he had a skeletal staff in his hand. The whole village was terrified and frightened in front of it. I heard from the kitchen maid today that the old goblin wants us to deliver two trebuchets to Raven Village tomorrow. ”
Trebuchet?
"Where's the trebuchet?" Zhou Qingfeng asked. With the ignorance of the goblins, it is absolutely impossible to make a war weapon like a trebuchet.
"It seems that the Bane Church got it, and they built an armory factory on the territory of the Magru tribe. I saw a few church people coming to the village today. Some are very fierce, and their eyes can kill; Others are mentally depressed, like slave laborers. ”
Deliver trebuchets tomorrow?
Zhou Qingfeng's mind showed a map of the plaster village in the Black Forest to the white crow village, and there was only one road between the two villages. This may be an opportunity.