"Children, do you see? Our good sons, they are working with their lives for the survival of their children. "The previous orc emperor took his child, who was about to enter the growth period, through the spell of orc sacrifice, in the rear of the battlefield. Watching tens of thousands of orc men in their prime attack the Greene Fortress one after another. He was then killed by the defenders of the city in a variety of ways.

Among the orcs, as the king of the orc race and the absolute leader of the empire, it is the lion man who is characterized by a golden retriever all over his body. For orcs, every golden lion is a natural leader.

It is not surprising that the Orc Emperor and his eldest son are both lionmen.

Bows, javelins, magic, vindictiveness...... There are all kinds of ways to kill orcs from a distance. The high efficiency of the human side corresponds to the fact that the orc side is basically unable to cause casualties on the other side.

“...... See. The young lion boy bowed his head and squeezed the words out of his teeth in grief.

But even the little lion knows that there is no way around it.

Even as a young man, he understood that this was not the first time it had happened, and it would never be the last. And it's not something that will take long to happen – it happens every few years.

"But why is this happening? Why do they have to die to protect the lives of their children?" But even if they knew, it didn't mean they wouldn't have doubts. Even if it is "inevitable", even if it is "fate", even if it is "unrelated to oneself", it does not mean that it is acceptable.

"Because we are poor. We can't bring them enough food. ”

"Why not? We might be able to eat less......"

"It's useless, kid. Do you think a pot of sand alone can extinguish a fire in a brazier? ”①

"That'...... What should we do if we don't want this to happen again?"

"The Southern Expedition. This is the fate of the orcs......"

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"Your Majesty, we have arrived at Bangyue City. The words of Nicholas, the orc emperor's personal attendant. The orc emperor Regus, who was immersed in memories, "called" back to reality.

At this time, they came to the north gate of Bangyue City, which originally belonged to the Spring Lord, and now this Bangyue City has also become the front line of confrontation between the Orcs and the Spring Leader and the support team.

Hundreds of years ago, the Orc leadership agreed to develop a series of plans to increase the Orc military's strength, such as strengthening the discipline and training intensity of the army throughout the country. It also raised the salaries of the orc army, and provided every orc who aspired to join the army with a primary fighting spirit suitable for the cultivation of the orc race on an equal footing -- in short, it was to improve the strength of the orc army in the general direction.

Because the resources available to the orcs were limited - the expenses to increase the strength of the army were provided by the royal family and the treasury.

Because it is a country that favors feudalism, if the military wants to get more military pay under the condition of relatively limited resources, it can only reduce the benefits they can obtain at the central and high-level levels under the premise of not harming the interests of civilians as much as possible.

By the way, it needs to be mentioned here again. Because the food possessed by the orcs is limited, they can only improve in the direction of elitism as much as possible.

And such measures. With each decade, the overall strength of the national army has increased year-on-year. The Orc Empire also spent more and more on the army - which made the royal family poorer and poorer, and eventually had to take something out of the treasury to subsidize the military pay and ordnance directly or indirectly (for example, by trading money with people from other countries and places to obtain food).

Therefore, hundreds of years later, in fact, the orc empire has reached a situation close to the limit. Therefore, the southern expedition of the orc race is actually only a matter of time. However, the reason why it was chosen to go south at this time. It is indeed closely related to the Alliance of Hundred Nationalities - I will not mention it here.

The strength that the orc clan has accumulated for hundreds of years and secretly accumulated can be said to have taken out all of it in this southern expedition. So. This is the strength to quickly break through the Greene Fortress and advance at high speed to capture a small part of the territory of the Spring Lord.

Hundreds of years ago, the Orc Empire was not as powerful as any two of the three empires combined. However, the current orc empire has the strength to shake the three empires head-on - of course, it is only a hard regret.

Not only that, because every orc of the Southern Expedition has a will to die, and they all have a simple, but extremely firm belief in their hearts. So their morale is also very terrible.

All in all. This southern expedition was predestined when the plan began to be implemented hundreds of years ago. Moreover, what all races except the orcs did not expect was that this time the southern expedition. For the orcs, it was really a ruined operation.

From top to bottom, from royalty to commoners. When they reached this limit, they reached an agreement - no other race could know that they were gambling on their own fate for this operation.

Yes, it is oneself - the "self" of every orc.

If you don't know the amount of this...... Why don't you guess how many people are there in the orcs, a race with reproductive ability comparable to that of the human race, and whose infighting is much lower than that of the human race?

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No one can understand what kind of state the orcs are in at this moment, yes. As the Orc Emperor, Regus knows this very well. No one knows the plight faced by the orcs. What's more, they don't know the strength of the orcs today.

Because he didn't understand the current strength of the orc race, he felt that if the orc race and the Hundred Races Alliance were hostile, they would die a simple death, and the people who didn't even have the possibility of causing harm to the alliance were actually the majority-Regus knew this very well.

So even if he didn't intend to make the orc clan history, even if he had intended to reach an agreement with the alliance through peace negotiations, he knew that now was not the right time to negotiate - five words can explain the reason: weak countries have no diplomacy.

Regus knew that the orcs were now impoverished to the point where there was no way back - even if it was their own choice.

For the orcs, it is necessary to bring the necessary resources for their race to survive through this southern expedition. However, this is not easy.

At least, Regus recognized this when the cardinal of the Illuminati under the city came to invite Regus to peace talks.

PS: Actually, this is what "a drop in the bucket" means, but there is not much water in the barren land where the orcs are located, so ...... (To be continued.) )