"These vampires! A good iron tire bow, which could be exchanged for two beef fans a few days ago, has now turned into two bags of coarse grain, and it is still unshelled!"

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The strength of the 'Hill of the Brave' skyrocketed, and its temper began to rise.

Not only did the number of powerful samurai over there multiply - the people who had been trapped in the mud swamp before were elite;

Moreover, the manpower that can be mobilized has also increased considerably: with the supply of cheap and sufficient weapons in the Thousand Caves and Hills, the number of craftsmen, raw material gatherers, convoys and bodyguards saved is definitely not a small amount.

Now not only does she have the energy to explore the hinterland of the kingdom, but she also begins to reevaluate her new neighbor next door: the mage and her army of kobolds.

The kobolds have been sending teams to catch frogs and pick loaches in the muddy swamps in the north, and they are also scratching and pulling rags in the shacks and piles all over the thousand caves and hills, and there are some half-hung patrols, all of which are blatant activities that cannot be concealed, so the number of people can be approximated.

The camp sent elite spies to find out the bottom and came up with a statistic: kobolds eat only a quarter of humans, and they are not picky eaters.

By identifying the clothes and appearance of each dog head, it is judged that about 500 dog heads have been working outside for a long time.

And also count those who mine and smelt iron in the holes. With the level of human technology, it takes about 300 people to work in the cave all year round - the steel output of the Thousand Caves Hill has long exceeded the imagination of the Brave Hill, so this is a rather conservative number.

Mage Tesfil is not very active these days, and Brave Hill judged that she was assisting the kobold in production, otherwise she would not be so productive.

In calculating the pathetic physical strength of kobolds, four kobolds are equivalent to the physical strength of one human, then 1,200 kobold miners, blacksmiths, and carpenters are shrunk in the hole.

In short, the most conservative estimate is that the occupants of the Thousand Caves and Hills are as high as 1,700 kobolds in total, only a lot more!

Saying that they are summons of mages, everyone can only say hehe: the necromancer who likes to play the tactics of the sea of people the most, there are only a dozen skeleton soldiers that can be effectively controlled, and the top ones are said to be able to summon a hundred, but many of them have lost their flexible control, and they are just stupid and stupid.

Therefore, this Tersfil mage is either hired by the dog head to serve as a façade, or he is a puppet.

Now the three giants of the 'Hill of the Brave' have finally gathered: the Prophet Lady, the mercenary captain Siva, and the local nobleman Baron Cavin.

After several people discussed, a new strategy was formulated: unite the kobolds, secretly control their expansion, and take the initiative to attack the demons.

At the same time, speak with the battle record, continue to ask for support from the surrounding kingdoms, it is best to kill the demons in front of them, suppress the number of kobolds next door to a number that can be handled, and when the demons are destroyed, you can calmly consider the threat of kobolds.

The easiest way is to control the food of the dogs' heads, so that they will not have enough to eat and starve, and they will not have the strength to do things, and at the same time force them to spend all their energy on logistics production, and have no energy to do some other tricks.

So there was the opening scene, the price of grain in the hill of the brave skyrocketed, and there was a reverse worker-peasant scissors difference.

Although Xu Kunlun was very unhappy, the situation in front of him was okay, and there was even a surplus of food.

Where are there as many kobolds in a thousand caves and hills as there are 1,700, and there are only 1,002 tata-ras plus cannon fodder. When Ushiida left, he left behind some teeth—after all, he had a shelf life of half a month—and the number of demon corpses he collected from adventurers one after another, and the population increased by more than two hundred.

The ore is all picked for nothing, and there are not so many miners needed.

The assembly operation of the factory, coupled with the steel frying method, the steel filling method, and a few simple woodworking machine tools, more than 300 dog-headed craftsmen are enough.

Not to mention dozens of degenerate captives and demon believer captives, their craftsmanship is already very good, Xu Anping also tailored a set of 'quality score progressive treatment reward and punishment regulations' for a few of them, no one dares to be lazy, with them as technical consultants, the product quality is very stable.

The spies calculated that "the 500th dog head went out to catch the field chicken", because the weather was too cold, and the dog head hated the sun, who wants to go out in the winter, especially the cow king is not at home.

But those 'terrifying Homo erectus' are not easy to fool, so everyone has to draw lots and take turns to go out, whoever is unlucky will go up, and there are only two or three hundred people outdoors on weekdays.

Nearly half of the dogheads are left, some of them are attending cram schools in the kobold primary school (with Brother Xuezha Long as the principal), and some are working with Xu Ping'an and them on a research group - Xu Anping's iron cannon trial production, Tesfeier's artificial nitrate field, and even the legendary Guan Renxiu pyrite sulfur refining project......

Logistics director Xu Ping'an calculated an account:

"Production and scientific research can still be maintained, but the manpower is not rich at all - except for a few scientific research outlets and schools, the other kobolds will either go to the swamp to replenish food, or build weapons for those humans in exchange for food, by the way, now even escorting convoys is our job. It's a headache to not be able to squeeze out manpower to form a combat unit, and for the first time I found that there are not enough kobolds!"

Now, a few people can only hope for Ushiida in the distance.

He took nearly a thousand dog heads to the beach to 'enjoy the sun and beach bikini', and left me and other model workers to climb the science and technology tree, this has no conscience!

So a few people lived in luxurious wooden villas, appreciating indigenous paintings and sculptures, eating 'imported steaks' and local fruits, and criticizing Ushii Taguchi.

The newly patched town of Saka, the bridgehead of the human counteroffensive.

The triumvirate of humanity, the last remaining nobleman of the kingdom of Trem, Cavin II, is studying the map.

On the parchment, several wooden blocks symbolizing human strongholds, crossed the Swallowing Rock River, stretched all the way to the south, and were finally blocked outside a fortress, one of the two largest strongholds of the demons: the Black Castle.

Baron Carvin was the former lord of Lynbrook, which of course had now fallen, but most of the men were evacuated safely, even though he paid for the lives of his two sons. Such a noble lord with great military achievements, although he is more than half a hundred years old, his body has been diligent in exercising for many years, and he is still as strong as a young knight.

It's a pity that his gray hair and blind eye reveal the brutal war he has experienced over the years.

"Not enough, still not enough, this is not something that a thousand warriors can conquer, even with the lizardmen...... Well, kobold, with those alien-supported catapults, I'm still not sure. ”

There were only two people in the room, one of the Big Three, the old woman known as "Lady Prophet," listening to his chatter.

"Your Excellency, wouldn't this be too pessimistic, we have already set up a strong camp there, and dozens of catapults are attacking day and night, and the other side does not even dare to leave the castle. ”

Baron Caven shook his head: "I'm not worried about the castle itself,"

He stepped forward and clicked on the map:

"The royal capital is just behind the black castle, and there are two smaller castles around it, the number of monsters is incalculable, although they have never supported each other so far, but the total number cannot be exaggerated, I dare not pay too many casualties here.

"Also, I don't trust kobolds, especially since they are ...... as many as we are."

The Prophet sighed, mutual distrust was a problem that the two races could not get around.

The baron frowned and made a decision: "Inform the mage, it's time for her to make a sacrifice, our food is not gratuitous!"

The Prophet was hesitant, and this was a dangerous sign, very dangerous.

"Lord Kavin, please be careful! I don't question your wisdom, but it's just that we shouldn't make enemies now, especially at this juncture. ”

Baron Cavin's face was very bad, and his large, rough hand tapped a few times on the hilt of his sword: "Well, I know what you're worried about. ”

The room was dimly lit, and several braziers were burning and crackling.

The baron lowered his head and wandered slowly around the room with his hands in his hands, his white hair flickering in the firelight, and the heavy steel armor on his body bumping lightly, making a slight clanging sound.

"Then take a step back and ask them to send men to attack the two small castles around the royal capital......"

The Prophet hesitated......, "Isn't it too reluctant?"

The baron laughed, and with his knife-like face, it was a little gloomy:

"No, you don't have to ask them to occupy those two little castles, just surround them. I have only one request - let the demons have no time to take care of it, there is no extra strength to cause chaos for our troops, and the rest is whatever they want, and the logistics can even be handled by us, that's all!"

It's just that he didn't say one sentence: by the way, consume the huge kobolds, there are no zombies there, all of them are mid-to-high-level creatures!

Niu Ida, who didn't know anything about this, was still fishing for shipwrecks in Samri Harbor.

Although the leaky wooden boat with the head of the dog did not dare to go to sea, it was still no problem to salvage a sunken ship near the shore -- dozens of boats went into battle together, filled the ship with stones, and then tied the wreckage of the underwater ship with ropes, and then the small wooden boat threw away the stones in the ballast, and dozens of small wooden boats floated dozens of centimeters.

Relying on this afloat power, you can pull up the heavy underwater shipwreck little by little.

A bunch of small boats divided into two groups, taking turns to do this, can pull the wreck up a little bit.

Most of these boats were destroyed by fire on the dock when the demons attacked, and they have only been soaked for a few years, and the water depth is not large, and the state of preservation is okay.

Niu Ida led the dog-headed army to toss for two or three days, and fished out two single-masted fishing boats and a two-masted cargo ship, piggybacking on them, and also obtained two traffic boats with a length of about four or five meters.

Seeing the real thing, he completely dispelled his contempt - these three, two, small and five boats were technically mature, and although the sails and masts were finished, the broken hull alone was exquisite and complex enough.