The sharp arrow of "whoosh" shot through Ant-Man's head, and it spun around a few times before finally falling to the ground and dying.

"Good!" Nelson cheered a few times, but was embarrassed to see that no one of the more than 300 soldiers had responded to him, so he had to shut his mouth in a sneer.

Victor put away the double silver shortbow, smiled and patted Nelson on the shoulder and said, "We won." ”

"My lord, we won!" said Nelson grinning.

Ant-Man's blood stained the earth green, hundreds of Ant-Man corpses lay across the valley, and strong war mastiffs shuttled back and forth, piling Ant-Man's corpses in one place. A rocket ignites the pile of corpses, and the flames erupt, and the stench of heat forces Victor to retreat. This is the last group of Ant-Men in the territory, and Victor can only burn them on the spot, as there will be no more Ant-Man to devour their corpses.

Instructing the militia in charge of cleaning up the battlefield to keep the fire under control, Victor left the valley with a large force. Coming outside, Victor took a deep breath of fresh air and exclaimed, "It's finally over." ”

After 7 months, Victor took the lead in purging the ant colony from his territory. In the future, Victor only needs to intercept and kill the retreating Ant-Man Collar.

In this ant plague, the villages under Victor have been damaged to varying degrees, more than 1oo people died or are missing, more than 10,000 acres of purple cane forests have been destroyed, only the west side of the territory still has less than 3o acres of purple cane forests, at the same time, Victor has also lost more than 3ooo square kilometers of territory, and the losses can be described as heavy.

However, Victor's gains were just as great. Due to the ant plague, all the troubles in the territory were swept away, the crisis of the displaced people was eliminated, and Pinghu and the Mithril Mine fell into the hands of Victor. Moreover, the upper limit of the soul fire and the reserve of funds of the Alchemy Tower are increasing every day, and now he has 467 spirit monkey militia, 71 barberry militia, 236 auxiliary soldiers, 61 war mastiffs, and 113 alchemy crows.

Victor also managed to take control of the mountains on the west side, and built a fortress and a complete production system there, as long as the resources of the mountains were not exhausted, Victor could obtain a steady stream of weapons, food, medicinal herbs, meat, fuel, swift birds, etc.

Politically and diplomatically, Victor became the hereditary viscount of the kingdom and had the basis to recruit knights. He has formed a close alliance with the York family, and if he is attacked by Ant-Man again, he will use the military power of the York family to continue to weaken the ant colony and strengthen himself. Using Mithril to establish secret trade relations with its eastern neighbors can help deal with possible blockades and isolation of the kingdom, as well as using the domain of Count Chebman to realize the strategic idea of the caravan moving eastward.

It can be said that the prospect of the future exhibition is already a sea and a vast sky, and Victor only feels refreshed and energetic.

"Quack" An alchemy crow flew from the east, flying in a circle in the air, Victor's eyes lit up, and he smiled at Nelson: "Someone from the east is coming, it should be the materials and gold coins promised by the Chebman family, you take someone to take a look, and then pull the materials to Pinghu Village." ”

Nelson answered, leading the thirty or so alchemy militia to the east. Victor returned to Pinghu Village with the rest of the alchemy militia.

On the way, the purple cane forest that was originally endless is now a dilapidated and barren scene, broken and rotten purple cane can be seen everywhere, and the ground is also pitted, but Ant-Man has dug out the roots of purple cane. If you want to restore the purple cane forest, it will take at least 3o years.

"Renault, you have also loaded the gathering and planting skills, the purple cane forest has been destroyed, is there a way to grow barley, wheat and other crops on these lands?" Victor frowned and asked the alchemy militia for advice, the purple cane forest was destroyed by Ant-Man, vacating millions of acres of land, Victor would not sit idly by and watch these fertile lands overgrown with weeds and thorns.

"My lord, there is no way. Renault's answer was as simple and affirmative as ever.

Victor was speechless, the land that could grow purple cane could not grow crops, but this was the truth.

Purple cane is the food of forest people, and it has a special characteristic, that is, the root system is particularly long. The rhizome of purple cane is close to 1 meter, and the roots are up to 5 meters long, and the annual rain alone can meet the needs of purple cane growth. Human crops and vegetables cannot, they can't survive without adequate irrigation. Therefore, human farmland is distributed near rivers and lakes.

The Heishui River runs through the Centaur Hills and has a length of 87 kilometers in Victor's Territory, forming three large lakes and two small lakes, which are the main source of water for Victor's Territory. The Heishui River is relatively shallow, less than 1 meter at its deepest point, so it has no shipping value, but it is enough to irrigate farmland. Due to the limitation of hilly terrain, Victor can reclaim up to 5o acres of farmland along the banks of the Heishui River.

5o acres of cultivated land sounds like a lot, but the output is pitiful. The agricultural technology in this world is very backward, and in order to maintain the fertility of the land, farmers practice a simple grass rotation system, that is, half of the cultivated land is planted with grass, and half of the cultivated land is used for crops, which is used alternately. The grain yield per mu of cultivated land is almost 28o catties, of which there are 14o catties of seeds, and the real grain output is 14o catties. 250,000 acres of cultivated land can harvest 175oo tons of grain every year.

Ordinary people in this world have a lot of strength and can eat, adult men need about 1.5 kilograms of food a day, the most terrible thing is that here is 16 months a year, 36 days a month, an adult has to eat o.8 tons of food every year. In other words, a territory of 9ooo square kilometers can only feed 2oooo adult men by farming alone. Counting women and children, there will be a shortage of food after 3oooo people.

That's why the lords of the Centaur Hills cut down the purple cane forests, planted alfalfa and drought-tolerant rye on those lands, supplemented the lack of food by raising cows and goats, and regularly organized gathering and hunting activities for the lords. If Victor takes the same measures, the optimal population size of the territory cannot exceed 4oooo people.

"Renault, can sweet potatoes be planted here?" asked Victor expectantly.

Renault shook his head, "My lord, sweet potatoes also need water. ”

Hundreds of thousands of acres of purple cane forests are worth millions of gold soles, but now they can only grow cheap pasture grass and raise cattle and sheep, but at this point, Victor had to sigh, "Well, then plant grass to raise cattle, cow tendons, cowhide is still very useful." ”

By the time Victor arrived at Pinghu Village, Nelson was already waiting for him.

"My lord, all the supplies and gold coins sent by the Chebman family are here. Nelson greeted him with joy and said, "4o ox carts, 4o healthy cows, 4o cows, 2oo sheep, 120,000 pounds of wheat seeds, 10,000 pounds of salt, 40,000 gold soles and 1 pound of pure gold." ”

These materials were proposed by Victor to the Chebman family to offset the 10,000 gold soles, and the most valuable thing was the pound of adamantite gold, although they were not enough for 10,000 gold soles, but they were the most desperate materials for Victor. This time it can't be regarded as Count Chebman's stinginess, if it weren't for Victor's insistence, he would rather give 50,000 gold soles than use supplies to offset it, the lords close to the centaur hills have more or less suffered, it can be seen that there will inevitably be a shortage of food for a period of time in the future, and in this case, money may not be able to buy food.

Victor handed the wooden box containing the pure gold to an alchemy militiaman, motioning for him to take it back to the secret base, but saw Nelson staring at the wooden box with his eyes, and couldn't help laughing: "I have this fine gold I can use, and the next time I trade with the Chebman family, I can consider forging two adamantite battle axes for you." ”

"Thank you, sir. Nelson rubbed his head in embarrassment.

"This is what you deserve, if it weren't for you, we wouldn't have a single purple cane left. Victor nodded, and said, "When these goods are unloaded, you take ten two-wheeled carts to pick up Lilia, and they should also be out." ”

"Yes, sir. Nelson excitedly said that he had been waiting for this day for a long time.

After a while, Nelson left with a dozen militiamen, and Victor turned his head and ordered: "Jack, you take 15o people, first clean up the ruins of Pinghu Village for me, drag all the wreckage to the brick kiln village as fuel, restart the giant brick kiln, and produce ordinary green bricks."

Shak, you take 5o militia, 8o auxiliaries to clear the ruins of the hill camp, where you will build a blacksmith shop, produce farm tools, refine cane sugar, brew purple cane wine, and make coffee.

Morey, you take 15o people to choose a location at the mouth of Pinghu Lake and build a camp that can accommodate 1ooo people. ”

Watching the alchemy militia start to act, Victor was full of confidence in the future, in order to rebuild the territory, he brought out a full 5oo alchemy humans from the mountain fortress, this will be the first time that alchemy humans have merged with ordinary people on a large scale, and Victor no longer needs to hide it.

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Wearing an elegant long dress, Lilia stood in front of Victor's lords and said coldly: "Lord Victor has cleared the Ant-Man in the territory, and now it's time for us to return to the territory! I know that some of you are afraid, some are unwilling to leave Black Castle Town, and some want to betray Lord Victor! Make your choice, those who are willing to go back with me, stand behind me, and those who are unwilling to go, stay where they are, Lord Victor will not embarrass you." ”

The crowd suddenly stirred, and the members of the War Bear mercenaries stood behind Lilia first, then Merlin came out and bowed respectfully to Lilia, standing behind her, Dean and the rest of the village chiefs also stood up, the guards, the members of the division system stood up one by one, then the women and children, and finally nearly two hundred people remained in place.

Everyone looked at these people coldly, only Dean lowered his head with a flushed face, and most of the people left behind were the villagers of the brick kiln village, and they were also his subordinates.

"I'm glad you came here. Lilia said lightly to Dean.

"Ma'am, I'm sorry, I didn't expect these people to ......." Dean was ashamed to himself, and only his group members and their families stood after him.

"It's okay, it's a good thing. This is the case of the fire refining real gold that the adults are talking about. ”

Lilia sighed faintly, most of the villagers in the brick kiln village are free people who have just joined the Victor Domain, they have not experienced the offensive and defensive battles of the hill camp, nor have they joined the division of work system, and they have no family members, so when the monster swept the territory, they will naturally choose a more powerful lord, not to mention that the York family has been wooing them. Lilia knew this, but she didn't expect Dean to choose to return to the territory, he was the target of the York family's focus.

"Lilia, the clerk of the House of York will not lend us rations, not even our carriage, but Mistress Nicole has gone to look for him. Old John came over with a wooden prosthetic leg and whispered angrily in Lilia's ear.

"I see. ”

Lilia's indifference surprised Old John, how this girl had become different from before.

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