"The offensive captured one hundred and ninety-three orcs, of which thirty-six were too old and weak to be sacrificed to the ancestral spirit, twenty-eight were added to the orc mercenary team, thirteen pieces of chain armor, eight cuirasses, twenty-one chain armors, one hundred and three pieces of simple leather armor, all of which have been put into storage, and a number of iron weapons were seized, all of which have been returned to the furnace for refining, two hundred and thirty-one bags of wheat, twenty-eight pounds of coarse salt, ninety-three pieces of cotton cloth, 1,300 pounds of edible parts of various types of jerky, goblins and jackals have been burned on the spot, iron pots, hoes and other utensils, and seventy-eight mountain people have been rescued- Misha took a piece of papyrus and reported to Link.

Link sat on a chair and wrote and drew with charcoal on a piece of papyrus, while paying attention to Misha's report, stretching his frowning brow with his palm from time to time, Link sighed, withdrew his hand from his forehead, and reached into a cloth bag placed on the wooden table, Misha reported the casualties of the orc mercenaries, while looking at the ruby in Link's hand that emitted a charming halo, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva from time to time.

Noticing Misha's small movements, Link smiled secretly, playing with the delicately crafted ruby brooch in his hand, the red halo of the gem and the cold touch of the silver buckle made Link a little drowsy, and took out a delicate dagger inlaid with large pieces of turquoise from the cloth bag and began to play, the silver scabbard of the dagger had turned black, obviously a long time, and the cooked cowhide wrapped around the handle had been soaked with dried sweat, and it was a little hard to hold in his hand.

"You must always have mercy on me. Link muttered to himself as he read the inscription on the dagger's scabbard.

The valuables in the cloth bag were all seized from the three orc tribes that had been recently conquered, and they were all the trophies of the previous rocky orc tide south to Cormier, including some Cormier nobles' family heirloom jewelry and even magic items, these valuable items are all high-quality, and the inferior ones have long been exchanged by the orcs for smugglers to exchange various materials.

Playing with the various jewelry in the bag, Link was still calculating the various materials existing in the commune, although the materials captured in several battles seemed to be a lot, but in fact it was only enough for the commune to maintain, three battles plus scattered new mountain people, the population of the commune was nearly three hundred, counting the hundreds of people who died before, the actual increase in manpower was more than two hundred, but there were more than three hundred slaves of various races captured, and there were more than seven hundred slaves in the commune, counting the mercenary brigade of more than five hundred, the number of aliens in the commune had made Link secretly vigilant。

The last few battles have been based on the mercenary brigade of Yin Soul City, and the newly formed mountain infantry team of the commune is mainly based on training, and the orc mercenary captain has been asking to expand the mercenary team, but Link refused, Link knows the truth of power in the barrel of the gun, and intends to expand the core force of the commune, and can only use the orc mercenaries, how can they continue to make a big difference.

If you want to expand the core force, sufficient manpower is essential, there are two main types of human beings in the rockland, one is the criminals and their descendants who have been exiled from Cormier to the rocks since ancient times, and the mountain people's villages established by kinship or geography, and the other is the policy of the barons of the rocks implemented by Cormier in recent years, which will make the powerful adventurer or the second son of the nobles who have no inheritance rights as the barons of the rocks, and the barons of the rocks will open up the rocks with their own strength, similar to the behavior of the British in Link's previous life to open up overseas colonies, the territory of the barons of the rocks is getting stronger and stronger, and it will eventually feed back to his home country, making Cormier more powerful。

As the orc tide moved south, the castles of the barons of Iwadi were uprooted by the orcs one by one as a possible obstacle, and the homeless people recruited by the barons from Cormier were either taken into slavery or fled to the depths of the mountains, and the original mountain people were able to avoid the orc tide due to their obedience in the past, but after that, due to the shortage of materials of the non-human tribes in the rocks, the monsters began to shear their sheep, and the remaining stockades were often survived by virtue of their in-law relationship watching each other, and more of the stockades were breached, or they collapsed on their own, and the mountaineers fled to the depths of the mountains。

How to get the escaped mountain people to join the commune is the problem that Link is now facing, although the commune is now facing the dilemma of material shortage, but Link believes that manpower is still the most important, the prosperity of manpower means a strong opportunity, as long as the commune gradually becomes stronger, the current shortage of materials will be solved.

The escaped mountain people formed small groups of families and neighbors, and there were circles within circles, and it was difficult for outsiders to infiltrate them, and Link had tried to send some mountain people into the mountains where the mountain people were hiding to persuade them, but with little success.

After a little thought, Link understood what the mountain people thought, the living conditions of the rocks were bad, that is, there were villages with in-laws relationship, and there were also many dirty, not to mention the persuasion of the strange mountain people with empty mouths and white teeth, and now the situation was unclear, the lords of the baron of the rocks were very envied by the mountain people before, but in the blink of an eye, those powerful adventurers were overwhelmed by the orcs, and those lords had no good end, and now the commune is dealing with the inhuman tribes in the rocks one after another, and everyone is not sure what the fate will be.

On the one hand, Link squeezed out some supplies to send to the fleeing mountain people to form a good fate, and on the other hand, he put his mind on the heads of those mountain people's villages, which were besieged before, and the commune reinforced them, and the situation of annexing the villages was unavoidable, if there was no disaster of overturning, the mountain people villages of course still wanted to maintain their independence.

It is not difficult to storm the village, but it will inevitably cause casualties among the mountain people, which will definitely affect the process of integration between the mountain people and the commune, and plant the seeds of disaster.

"What do they want?food?cloth??women?" A mountain leader looked at the orc mercenaries who were showing off their might outside the wall, and hurriedly asked his subordinates who had just returned to the wall from the hanging basket.

The short and fat subordinate wiped the sweat from his forehead and said breathlessly: "Dignitaries! Mainly men and women, but there can also be old people and children, and the number is smaller, and the family is the unit." Seeing the leader's blowing beard and glaring eyes, he hurriedly added: "They exchanged spearheads and iron weapons, and promised to come to the rescue in the future." ”

"What's the price?" the leader asked, with a roll of his eyes.

"At least ten households, twenty spearheads, ten iron pots, ten shovels, no bargaining. ”

The leader's mind moved, and dozens of people exchanged these iron tools, which was a bit of a loss, but now the form is compelling, and it is not necessarily a good thing to have a relationship with the emerging forces in this rock land.

"Changed. The leader gritted his teeth.

Link looked at the mountain people who left the village with a large bag and a small bag and smiled slightly, using the newly made iron tools of the commune to semi-force the mountain people to exchange the population with themselves, which can not only improve the proficiency of the commune iron tool making, but also solve the problem of manpower.

Children are the hope of the future of an organization, and there is no future for organizations that can't treat themselves well to organize fresh blood, the children in the commune are all sent to Niata's literacy class, and in the future, Link also plans to set up more basic disciplines such as engineering and arithmetic, and train the children to become technical talents, and the old people also have various experiences in surviving in the rocks, these experiences are very valuable assets, besides, Link still has a covetous heart for the mountain village, and in the future, these exchanged families will be living teaching materials for the peaceful evolution of the mountain village.

Link plans to do his best to support these families to live a better life than before, and then let them go back to speak out, so that the original mountain people's village will collapse from the inside, and envy the villagers who live in them will join the commune on their own.

"Don't suffer from widowhood, suffer from unevenness. Lin Kewen muttered a sentence and ordered to the orc mercenaries: "Go, go to the next stockade, and go through all the four nearby stockades today." ”