Taking advantage of the bumper harvest, there are many enemies who attack the area under the actual control of Liang En's territory, ranging from old opponents such as Wolf Yi and Xiong Yi to Ainu people who believe in demons.

Fortunately, as Liang En had guessed before, the local environment was simply not enough to support large-scale tribes or similar existences, so these enemies were average in terms of quantity and quality.

They often use tribes as action units, and the number of people mobilized each time is 30~70 people, and under normal circumstances, they cannot pose much threat to the various barrier areas, and can only focus on the grain that has not yet had time to be harvested.

What's even more interesting is that these attackers have a variety of complex relationships with each other, so it is often seen that two groups of attackers meet each other and then fight first, and then Liang En and his side pick up the bargain behind.

However, it is precisely because of this disorder that Liang En needs to defend almost 24 hours a day, because the attacker will attack anytime and anywhere, day or night.

It can even be said that night is the key time for this group of enemies to attack, because there are many monsters that are nocturnal, and they have a greater advantage at night.

The guys lacked the ability to attack fortifications, so there were not many casualties when Liang En forbade his subordinate troops to leave the fortifications at night.

The only payment is that a lot of grain was spoiled by the attackers, but fortunately, the grain on the periphery has been harvested as soon as possible, plus some guys who are too greedy and too deep into the interior have been successfully intercepted, so the overall loss is still within an acceptable range.

"We've lost the equivalent of 600 people a year's worth of food." A week after the launch of the large-scale offensive, several officers began to report on the week's fighting.

"We have killed more than 1,900 barbarians and more than 800 monsters, and we have determined that at least 300 monsters and more than 200 barbarians have died due to infighting, and we have also taken in nearly 1,000 local natives who fled to us."

Those local natives can be said to have borne the unwarranted disaster, originally they didn't want to get involved in this war, but they didn't expect those barbarians to rob as long as they were on the road.

The surrounding natives also knew about the situation on Liang En's side, so after being attacked and judging that there would be a steady stream of attacks in the future, they immediately moved to Liang En's territory to seek refuge.

And as soon as Liang settled their old and weak women and children, he immediately had an additional guerrilla force of up to 300 men, which was a little less organized, but had an advantage in skirmishes.

In fact, with their support, Liang En and the others will be able to take out the monsters and barbarians who infiltrate the territory alone.

Of course, the main force to clear out this scattered group of enemies was the elite militia, and even Liang and Ao Lei would take turns fighting the attackers with the only standing army they had.

It's a pity that the combat effectiveness of this group of guys is really disappointing, even the strongest demon beast couldn't block Liang En's three swords, and all his life was destroyed by his sword.

"Weasel?" Looking at the weasel that had just been like a ball of wind, but now turned into a scythe-like claw, Liang En, who had heard that a strange wind was attacking, and who hurried over, recognized at a glance what the guy he was holding in his hand was.

With more than 300 years of cultivation, the weasel can become a big monster in Yingzhou, but in the hands of Liang En, it is only a slightly tricky enemy-

This monster is not Liang En's opponent in terms of cultivation, attack power, and even the speed that he is proud of, so it is natural that he will be cut down with a sword after two or three rounds of fighting.

"It's just time to make some equipment, although you can't use it yourself, but it's a good choice to reward your capable subordinates." With that in mind, he took the body of the scythe back into his cave, and then led his troops towards another anomaly.

Something like this happens almost every day, but unfortunately, except for three or five transcendent creatures, the rest of the creatures are just some beasts that have been strengthened by spiritual stimulation.

Fortunately, the quality of the fur of these animals is good, and it can be regarded as a small harvest for Liang En, at least from the perspective of pure price, the fur obtained this time is enough to make up for the loss of food and ammunition consumed.

Finally, after tossing for half a month, the monsters that came down the mountain one after another finally became fewer, and from the statistical results, they killed more than 2,700 barbarians and hunted more than 1,500 monsters, while their own side only paid the price of 27 sacrifices and more than 100 injuries.

Most of the sacrifices came in the clean-up work, as it meant that the troops would leave the fortifications and go into the field and face enemy ambushes, so casualties naturally occurred.

This initiative greatly reduced the loss of food, and in the end they lost the equivalent of 950 people a year's food, but only a maximum of 400 people's food for a year were taken.

True, interception does not significantly reduce losses, but it reduces the amount of food taken away by the enemy and further reduces the future potential of the surrounding barbarian forces.

In a way, the surrounding barbarians were a complete failure for Liang En's invasion, as the amount they lost was far greater than the amount they gained.

Not to mention that the mountain ghosts have also mobilized to set up ambushes around them, which will further reduce the supplies that the barbarians can obtain and carry out larger-scale destruction against them.

The most important thing is that they have completed the harvesting and warehousing of all crops, so that the grains that have been successfully harvested this year have been returned to the warehouse, and the core work of autumn prevention has been completed.

"We should be able to establish ourselves on the island completely." Looking at the warehouses full of grain, Liang En and Ao Lei breathed a long sigh of relief at the same time.

Although Liang En has his own access to food, that thing can only be used as an emergency, not as a long-term strategy, so this season's grain harvest is related to the success or failure of island development.

Once it is judged by the imperial court to be a worthless pioneer land, it will be difficult to obtain both materials and personnel in the future, and there will be no such kind of personnel and material input as now.

Of course, as a man who likes to prepare for the future, Liang En naturally does not pin all his hopes on these fields—in the tropical climate of the island, he uses ants to grow the equivalent of 2,000 people's annual rations.

Now that the island has a bumper harvest, most of this grain is used by him to raise more ants, and only 300 people a year of grain are put into the cave sky he carries with him as an emergency reserve.

"I think we can have a celebration to celebrate our victory and this year's big harvest."

At the meeting the day after the end of the war, Liang En came up with an initiative.

After all, it is very common to hold ceremonies during the harvest in autumn every year, and local officials will also take this opportunity to organize various celebrations to unite people's hearts.

Especially since the war affected almost all the people without serious casualties, it was only fitting that there was a big celebration after the war was over.

"Let's do it." Ao Lei nodded. "Hopefully, this celebration will allow everyone to get out of the shadow of this half-month war as soon as possible and smoothly move on to the next stage - I think I have some excess substandard gunpowder that can be used to make fireworks."