"Are you saying that there are actually a lot of humans who have escaped?" Ziggy was particularly sensitive to this news, not to mention that when humans escaped, the chances of being caught back on the grassland were very small, so many people, there were always one or two who ran back, right? The residents of human towns occasionally rescued some humans who escaped from the grassland. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

How is it that the officials of the Holy Odin Empire have almost no news about this matter?

It stands to reason that the people of the empire are captured as slaves by foreign races, which is a slap in the face of the empire! But the entire Holy Odin Empire's large-scale robbery of the steppe orcs in the northern territory of the empire is only described by the innocuous word "harassment".

The army of the Holy Odin Empire not only did not fight back against the steppe orcs, but launched thirteen wars against the hill dwarves, mountain dwarves and elves one after another, and the dwarves and elves never harassed the empire, why did they fight the elves and dwarves instead of the steppe orcs who posed a threat to the empire?

Ziggy couldn't figure this out.

If you can't figure it out, you don't think about it at all, but the next news that Kirton said made Ziggy grit his teeth, the steppe wolf orcs are very cruel to the old and sick, and these useless slaves are directly eaten by the steppe wolf mounts thrown to them......

"Is this the retribution for the enslavement of the forest orcs by humans?" Ziggy thought to himself, the human slave traders were also cruel to the old and sick of the orc slaves, either burying them alive or burning them.

"In fact, it is not only the old and sick of human beings, but they also treat the old and sick of other races. Ziggy and Daddy Chuck's faces were a little distorted, and Kirton added, as if to illustrate that such phenomena were common, and that humans were treated equally with other docile race of steppe orcs, which further illustrated how much of Kirton's logical confusion was that herding sheep was almost stupid.

This is not a trivial matter, so many humans on the grassland are treated as slaves, and some of them may be relatives of the villagers, you know, this is not an isolated case, there are so many relatives of the villagers in Grizzly Bear Village who were taken away as slaves by the grassland orcs, what about the dozen or so villages around Tucker Town?

Kirton's description language is confusing, combined with the descriptions of the outsiders in those villages, Ziggy sorted it out, in the north, there are at least three human cities like Silvertop City, Fire Seal City and Blue Moon City that have been captured by the steppe orcs, these three cities contain countless human towns and villages, so many villages have been destroyed, so many humans have been taken away as slaves by the steppe orcs, and Kirton was taken away as a shepherd slave by the steppe orcs after one of the cities was breached.

It is unbelievable that the entire empire officially used such an innocuous word as "harassment" to describe the steppe orcs!

If you don't ask, you don't know if you ask, and if such news spreads, I don't know what the result will be.

"Village chief, you have to find a way to save them, they are all our relatives!" Ziggy was worried, but Daddy Chuck fried the pot first, and Daddy Chuck's eldest daughter should be forty-five this year, and Daddy Chuck has been counting it! But now that he heard about the way the steppe wolf orcs treated the sick and the elderly, his heart was in turmoil on the spot, the average life expectancy in this world is not high, and it is already considered a high collar to live to forty-five, and even fewer people like Daddy Chuck who live to more than sixty.

Seeing that Daddy Chuck is also in chaos, Ziggy can't help it, this matter can't be rushed, just rely on the eight people under him, even if he goes up to fight hard, there are only nine people, how can this person save the Terrans who were captured and plundered by the steppe orcs?

Now the top priority is how to hold the Grizzly Bear Village, if you can't hold the Grizzly Bear Village, you will also be captured as a slave!

Ziggy can't say these words to Daddy Chuck, nor to the villagers of Grizzly Village, so he can only wait for Biden and his group to come back and convene them for a meeting in the evening!

For those villagers outside, Ziggy felt that it was impossible to keep it secret, as long as Kirton walked out of the door of the village council hall, he would definitely be surrounded by the villagers, and Curton would be bald if he asked a few more words, not to mention that Daddy Chuck also heard it......

Forget it, let him go, it's better to let Kirton deal with the villagers by himself than with himself.

The steppe wolf orcs used the old and sick of humans to feed the wolves, which was too big for Ziggy to want the news to spread, but he couldn't stop it.

Kirton was a little incoherent and logically confused, maybe there weren't many things the villagers could ask clearly, and this matter didn't spread so quickly?

......

In the evening, the men who had gone out to sell sheep came back one after another.

The sale of sheep went more smoothly than expected, those nobles didn't care about the money at all, and some nobles almost fought in order to rush to buy sheep!

What's going on?

When I asked, I found out that the three provinces north of the Holy Sword Pass have been harassed by the steppe orcs all year round, and the food is okay, but the meat is very scarce, and the farmers' livestock are all in captivity, which is easy to be snatched away by the steppe orcs.

Due to the long-term shortage of meat, the nobles could only transport meat from the Holy Sword Pass, which was time-consuming and laborious, and the cost was still very high.

Ziggy didn't know how high the cost was, but the quantity was very small, because the distance was long! It was inconvenient to transport, and it was convenient to cut it into pieces of meat after slaughtering and transport it, but it stinked when it was transported over such a long distance.

The price of thirty or forty silver coins for a sheep, that is Zige's impression of the hinterland of the Holy Sword Pass Empire, at first he was afraid that no one would buy it if the price was set high, but it seemed that the price was set low.

Price increase!

Tomorrow a sheep will be sold for eighty silver coins, and I will buy it or not.

So, the next day, sure enough, those nobles were a lot more sensible, and they didn't fight to buy sheep, and some nobles' housekeepers and cooks were too expensive, so they didn't buy them, although the sheep they brought out were sold, but they were also sold for a long time, and it seemed that eighty silver coins were already the upper limit of the price.

After the first two days of sales, there are only 90 sheep left in the temporary sheepfold.

Early in the morning of the third day, after Biden, who acted as a temporary mutton dealer, took the sheep away, there were only more than 30 sheep left in the temporary sheepfold.

Seeing that the number of sheep was so small, Zigger's hanging heart finally let go, and if he worked hard tomorrow, all the sheep would be sold!

In this way, even if these sheep are snatched by the steppe orcs, it is not a big deal, and the losses have been minimized.

Ziggy's worries are not unfounded, there are many tribes of steppe orcs, there are more than a dozen large tribes, and even more small tribes, if not two hundred, there are more than a hundred.

There is only one Hegus Department that has established trade relations with Grizzly Village, and the other steppe orc tribes can come and rob if they want to, and the chance of Grizzly Village being robbed is still very high!

Sheep sell slowly, this is no way to do it, the differential treatment of the class must be established, with the differential treatment, people know the preciousness of the shares of the cooperative, now the sale of sheep is slower for the sake of the future, if everyone can get the shares of the cooperative casually without effort, then who still works hard for Ziggy?

On the morning of the third day, after everyone left, Ziggy climbed to the watchtower and chatted with Jack when he was bored, he had a plan in his heart, he needed the help of Jack the archer, in fact, on the second day of starting to sell sheep, this plan was formed in Ziggy's mind, and today Ziggy asked Biden and a few of them to sell sheep in the town to get money, and they ordered some bows and arrows in the weapons shop in the town.

Let these villagers hold hoes and dung forks and fight hard with the orcs, it will definitely not work, the combat effectiveness of the kind of armed peasants is too low, even if they have a certain combat effectiveness, do they dare to face the orcs of the steppe minotaur tribe more than two meters high? I guess I don't dare!

The steppe werewolf orcs are not so tall, but they are wolf cavalry, even more terrifying, those armed peasants are not so frightened that they pee their pants when they see the wolf cavalry!

But let them shoot from a distance with bows and arrows, and they will definitely be able to shoot one or two arrows, and the human brain is so easy to deceive itself, and at a distance, the enemy will not be so tall, and the courage to shoot one or two arrows, those armed peasants should still have it.

This was the only quickest way Ziggy could think of right now to increase Grizzly Village's defenses.

To teach the villagers archery, Jack the archer is the best teacher.

After talking to Jack, Ziggy told Jack his thoughts, and Jack agreed, this is indeed the only way to solve the lack of firepower in Grizzly Village, and then the two of them began to discuss this matter.

Jack the Archer is also very comprehensive, for the archer class, the cost is low, and the physical fitness of the soldiers is not high, unlike the shield swordsman and the giant swordsman, who need a tall figure, the only thing required by the archer class is arm strength, but arm strength can be trained the day after tomorrow.

Then the archers must be powerful after the wall is built, otherwise they will not be able to shoot two arrows, and the steppe orcs will rush to them, and the armed peasants will immediately have to raise their hands and surrender.

There are not enough people standing on the watchtower, and the villagers can stand on the roof of their homes to shoot, but the manpower is limited, and the construction of the fence can only be two people high, and standing on the roof can shoot the enemy from 50 meters away.

"Jack, keep a closer eye on the sentry in the past two days, why do I think these two days have been too peaceful!" After chatting about serious things, Ziggy and Jack the archer began to talk nonsense, Jack shot the bow and arrow accurately, but his mouth was a big colander, what handsome swordsman Lawrence had several sons with the tavern landlady before he got married, what shield swordsman Broadbent's little Tintin was very small or something, Ziggy almost bit his tongue when he heard it, and quickly changed the topic.

"Sig-sama, look, orcs!" Jack suddenly snapped his eyes and pointed to the right side of Zig's body, shouting.

Zig looked in the direction he was pointing, and sure enough, several orcs came out of the ruins of Beihe Village, there were about three or four of them, all werewolf orcs.

"Siggy Lord, you are a god, you know that the orcs are coming!" After many unexpected performances, Jack has long admired Ziggy, and in the eyes of this young man, Siggy is not only a good lord, but also a mysterious master.

The person who came was none other than the werewolf orcs of the Hegus tribe.

After Ziggy looked at it carefully, he was very sure that the Ministry of Hegus was here to trade and not to rob, and there would be no conspiracy.

Why?

Because these orcs not only lit the agreed three fires by the river as a trading signal, but behind them, they were also followed by a huge flock of sheep, when the sheep came out of the snow, the ruins of the entire Beihe Village were drowned by a flock of sheep in Baihuahua, looking at this, the number of sheep brought by the Hegus Department this time was not eight hundred but one thousand......

"I'll go ......" Ziggy almost scolded his mother when he saw such a large flock of sheep!