After this matter was decided, Xia Qi immediately began to prepare.

In addition to preparing grain and grass, there are also supplies for winter.

At present, the Great Summer has come to autumn, and autumn is the shortest season of Great Summer, with a total of less than three months.

On the contrary, the winter of Great Summer is not only very long, but also very cold.

However, because the summer is also very long, there is plenty of sunshine, and with the addition of farming bonuses, the harvest of crops is still very high.

After Xia Qi's warrant reached Li Chuan's hands, a group of generals gathered together, and after listening to Li Chuan read the above content of the leader, everyone did not show surprised expressions.

Because according to Li Chuan's guess, they are most likely going to spend the winter here.

Therefore, after confirming Xia Qi's order, everyone began to discuss.

"Shall we take advantage of this time to take down a few more cities?"

After all, there is still a period of time before winter, even if they don't fight, when they are discovered by those orcs, the other party will definitely fight.

Instead of being passive and defensive then, it is better to take the initiative now.

The generals unanimously agreed, and then their eyes fell on Li Chuan.

Seeing this, Li Chuan first coughed lightly, and then said: "There are still nearly three months before the beginning of winter, I mean, we will take one or two more cities before the winter." In this way, we can attack and retreat and defend. ”

Even if you encounter any accidents, you can retreat much more calmly.

However, Li Chuan did not say this sentence, because it would affect morale.

The Eastern Expeditionary Army had just won a big victory, and the morale at this time was high, and after receiving Li Chuan's instructions to attack, they immediately began to prepare.

After leaving 300 human soldiers and the wounded to guard the city, the rest of the troops quickly gathered with food and grass and advanced towards the next orc city marked on the map.

As the days passed, the temperature began to drop gradually.

Yi Zong, who went out to supervise the hundred officials, had already sent the first batch of official inspection reports of the city back to Great Xia City.

During this time, he inspected a total of three cities.

One of them is a corrupt official, a cool official, and a mediocre official.

The corrupt official among them is undoubtedly the city lord of Yangcheng.

After Yizong's investigation, the city lord of Yangcheng embezzled a total of 3,000 taels of gold and 300 gold coins during his tenure.

The three thousand taels of gold were the proceeds of his corruption under the rule of the royal court, and the gold coins were the proceeds of corruption after the annexation of Great Xia to Great Xia.

Nowadays, in Bactria, two sets of currencies are co-authored, copper coins and gold coins.

One gold coin can be exchanged for a constant, i.e. a thousand copper coins.

In the last time he reclaimed the wasteland, he made a total of 100 gold coins.

Seeing this, Xia Qi was extremely angry and laughed, what kind of person is this, for the sake of only a hundred gold coins, he wantonly loses the credibility of a local government and the country.

However, now even if Xia Qi wants to scold this Yang City Lord, there is no way.

Because the city lord of Yangcheng has been beheaded by Yizong and several big families in the fish and meat towns in the city, and all the private property in the family has been confiscated.

It's also because Daxia didn't sit in a row, otherwise looking at Yizong's posture, he would have to cut off a few more heads.

In addition to inspecting the hundred officials, there is another thing that is to build roads.

If there is no road, it is undoubtedly time-consuming and laborious to move in the forest, and it is not conducive to the spread of news.

Therefore, it can be said that road construction is imperative.

However, this road was not needed to be built from New Stone, in that case

It's a long time, and the time it takes to cut down trees is not a small amount.

When the cats were chasing the rat people before, it was said that there were three types of terrain on the side of the orc forces: hills, wilderness and swamps.

And that swamp is the one that connects to Lake Daxia.

According to the spies, it took almost five days to walk north along the swamp to the vicinity of the previous hyena camp.

The bad news is that spies have found a significant number of orcs operating in the swamp.

Therefore, if Great Xia builds a road along the swamp, it will definitely be noticed by those orcs and will come to disrupt the road construction process.

So Xia Qi's plan was to build a road a little farther away from the swamp all the way to the north. Then wait until the distance is about the same, and then extend east to the side of the orc forces.

In this way, the construction time can be greatly reduced, and the privacy can be guaranteed as much as possible.

Soon, the matter of building roads was on the agenda.

On the side of the orc forces, the Eastern Crusade army began to attack the second city.

Compared to the previous orc city, the size of this city is also about the same, and even in terms of military strength.

As always, there are four elephant men out of the way.

With the four elephant men and the absolute superiority in troops, there was no suspense in this battle at all, and the furious offensive instantly crushed the defending forces.

On the side of the orc forces, with the fall of two cities one after another, and the whereabouts of several grain transport teams sent are unknown, they finally sensed that something was wrong.

Immediately afterwards, after several groups of spies were killed by the Red Fox Archers, the news of the fall of the front-line city finally spread back to the rear.

"Our two cities near the western border have been taken by other orcs!"

At this time, it was a burly and tall lion man who spoke.

Hearing it, it was in a very irritable mood right now.

When the orcs present heard this, they immediately made a mess.

"I have a clan leader in a border city, and I want to know, where is it now?"

It was a wild boar man who spoke.

Logically speaking, it would have been a fantasy for a boar man to question a lionman, but it happened right now.

The boar man who questioned him was the patriarch of the boar people.

Unlike ordinary boar people, this boar man is more than four meters tall, which is a little taller than the lion man who spoke before, and his body is also very large.

It is also because of this that the lionman who spoke did not become angry.

"As far as I know, none of the orcs in the two cities escaped alive." Lionman said.

And the patriarch of the wild boar people, who heard the news, exploded all at once.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible! You must give me an explanation for this matter! ”

In terms of numbers alone, the number of wild boar people is not small, and in the entire orc world, the population is definitely above average.

But the problem is not this, the point is that the leader of the boar people killed by Chuck is the younger brother of the boar man patriarch, and the strength of the boar people is second only to it.

Besides, it had killed so many of its people at once.

In this regard, the lion man sitting there also said with a stinky face: "The border city itself is at risk, and in order to confirm this information, I have also lost several batches of spies!" ”

"Besides, when you were choosing the candidates, you rushed to go, and I didn't force you!"

Speaking of this, the lionman glared directly at the menacing boar man patriarch.

"Also, don't think I don't know that you boar people have been working on food by virtue of being border leaders! So long down, by you

The amount of food deducted adds up to a lot, right? ”

As soon as the lion man said this, the patriarch of the wild boar people, who was still unavailable and swore not to give up a moment ago, immediately weakened.

Why do you want to go to the border city?

Of course, it's not because it's safe over there, it's mainly because of the food.

Although these orcs in the east have formed a force, the fundamental food problem has not been completely solved.

Under this premise, once you go to the border city, you can have an advantage, that is, the grain transportation team will regularly deliver food supplies to the border city.

As long as you become the leader of the border city, if you want to deduct some food resources, isn't it easy?

Only this time, because of the attack of the Great Xia Eastern Expeditionary Army, the wild boar people suffered heavy casualties.

And the worst thing is the hyena people, even the queen was killed.

In this way, the front-line cities, which were originally sought-after, suddenly became dangerous.

Before that, the boar people had done this kind of thing.

The lionman had apparently known about this for a long time, but it had been turning a blind eye until then.

Although they have formed an alliance among their various ethnic groups, they are not monolithic, and if they are too strict, they are prone to contradictions and lead to the split of the alliance.

As long as the other party doesn't go too far, then it simply doesn't know.

If it weren't for the Boar People Patriarch being so aggressive this time, it wouldn't have exposed this matter in public.

After a short period of embarrassment, the patriarch of the wild boar people cheekily spoke: "Let's not talk about the problem of food, let's talk about the current matter. There are other orcs bullying us, we can't pretend that this didn't happen, what race is the other party? ”

The lionman obviously didn't intend to completely tear his face with the boar man patriarch, and after seeing that the other party was no longer clamoring for him to talk to him, it didn't bother to hold on to the matter anymore.

"According to the spies' report, the enemy orcs found so far are elephant people, fox people, werewolves, bear people, kobolds, and minotaurs."

In fact, the lionman is hiding one thing, that is, there is also a lion man on the other side.

However, it believes that spreading the news of the lion people is not conducive to the unity of the alliance.

Because after learning that there were also lionmen on the other side, the first thought at that time was that there were other lionmen who had conquered other orc races, and now they wanted to attack them.

If it were to spread the word, the alliance would have to fall apart.

As soon as these words were said, the atmosphere of the scene suddenly became subtle, and the one who reacted the most was the elephant patriarch.

It could never have imagined that there were other people in it.

All of a sudden, the eyes of the orcs fell on the elephant patriarch.

As by far the largest orc in the orc world, the Elephant Terran is very threatening and destructive.

If there is an elephant tribe on the other side, then the elephant tribe on their side had better be willing to fight, otherwise they will have to pay a heavy price if they want to restrain the elephant people on the other side.

Feeling the sight of the orcs, the elephant patriarch frowned, and then said, "I need to think about this matter. ”

Among the orcs, the Elephant Men are still relatively docile, and coupled with the scarcity of numbers, they usually do not take the initiative to attack other orc tribes, let alone fight with their own kind.

Obviously, it doesn't want to do this kind of thing, but in the current situation, it has to think about something else.

After all, they are members of the Alliance.

According to the original agreement, the alliance provided food and safe resting places for the Mahouts, who were also obliged.

When necessary, assist the alliance in defending and defeating foreign enemies!