After Minister Zuo returned to the royal city, he reported the results to Talos, although there were only 1,500 tons of food, it was better than nothing, and it was impossible to really eat the hundreds of thousands of human captives, so Talos nodded and agreed to the exchange.

The gates of the city of Tetalia were opened, and a series of bruised, vegetable-faced humans streamed out, along with the human captives and some orc officials, who had come to receive food.

When some of the human captives saw the human soldiers outside the city, they immediately ran over, hugged their compatriots and cried loudly, and at this moment, all the human soldiers, regardless of the country's soldiers, deeply felt the meaning of the name human.

The soldiers immediately distributed clothes and gruel to the captives who came over and were liberated, the orc kings were short of food, as captives, they must have no orcs to give them food, their bodies were in a state of hunger for a long time, they could not be fed at once, otherwise they would be supported to death, and there were also medical soldiers who were injured to treat their wounds, in short, they were busy.

Andy (Anti), Cullen and other high-level officials also stood not far away to check the situation, except for a few people who felt that they used food to save some useless prisoners, the others felt angry when they saw the miserable appearance of the captives, especially Cullen, the queen with an excess of justice, almost couldn't help but draw her sword to attack the city, and forcibly endured the anger in her chest, and the high chest fell together, and took the initiative to go down to help place those prisoners, and under her influence Andy (Antti) and others also went over to help.

The swamp orcs, who had received a little food, once again survived for a few days, although the city was once again starved of food after half a month after the province was besieged, and this time without any outside assistance. Some orc reinforcements dared to come from the south, but they were blocked by the Southern Route Army more than a hundred kilometers away, and they could not advance an inch, but they dropped a lot of corpses under the blows of Ouyang Yu and the Southern Route Army.

On the seventeenth day the city began to starve to death. The first to starve to death were mainly the elderly and children, who were already sick, and the city was crowded with more than a million people, whose daily excrement was not disposed of. Clean water sources were also limited, many people had to drink untreated muddy water, sanitation was not improved, and plague began to spread in the city.

At first, the dead were buried in a centralized manner, but as time went on, more and more people were either starved to death or died of the plague, and the soldiers in the city were too hungry to choke and didn't bother to move, so that the corpses could not be disposed of, and the streets and alleys were full of people who had been starved to death.

The climate of the dark swamp is a tropical humid climate, hot and humid. This exacerbated the rate of decay of corpses, which often began to decompose within a day or two, and the smell of corpses permeating the city, which in turn exacerbated the rate of the spread of the plague and the increasing number of infected people.

On the twentieth day of the siege, some of the orcs in the city who could not survive reached out to their own kind, Anakin was a very ordinary orc gangster, and together with three companions, he was a notoriously annoying ghost in the town where he lived and the nearby villages, and since he was a child, he liked to cause trouble and was afraid of death, and he only bullied the weak. Not daring to fight with the powerful, he did not escape the actions of the coalition forces, and was forcibly sent to the city of Titalia along with his three companions.

In the city of Tytalia, which lacked food and clean water, Anakin and his three companions did not fail to think of slipping out of the city. Moreover, the soldiers did not care about the orcs who wanted to escape from the city of Tytaria, but the coalition forces that became a net were laid to prevent any orcs from leaving the city of Tytalia.

Dense minefields and a wide belt of quicksand and three layers of barbed wire, this is a defensive belt specially laid by Ouyang Yu at the request of Andy (Anti). Not only can it prevent the residents of the city from escaping, but it can also prevent the defenders of the city from running out to carry out a sneak attack. And even if the orc reinforcements break through the defense line of the Southern Route Army, wanting to enter the city through the death zone of Guò can also play a role in slowing down and blocking.

Every orc who tried to escape was shattered by the mines. With the example of death, the other orcs chose the latter between dying immediately and waiting for death slowly.

Anakin and his three companions leaned against the wall of an alley, opposite which was an orc woman with a child of five or six years old in her arms, who was also leaning limply against the base of another wall, the child in her arms also hanging its head listlessly.

Anakin was so hungry that his eyes wandered around, hoping to find anything to eat, but unfortunately, everything that could be eaten had been eaten a few days ago, even the rats and cockroaches had been eaten cleanly, and he accidentally saw the child in the arms of the orc woman opposite.

Anakin stabbed his partner next to him, but found that the partner didn't know when he had died, and he thought in shock: "I can't just die silently, I want to live, I must live!"

With a strong desire to survive, Anakin staggered to his feet, called two other companions to the orc woman, and snatched the child from his arms, and the orc woman shouted weakly, "What do you want, give me back my baby!"

Anakin kicked the orc woman in the face, and the three of them quickly disappeared around the corner of the alley with their children, and a few minutes later the green smoke of a fire and the sound of boiling water rose from the corner, and the orc woman seemed to realize something, and crawled towards the corner with her weak body.

It took the orc woman thirty minutes to climb the alley, which was less than a hundred meters long, and as soon as she poked her head out of the corner to see that she was stunned, Anakin and his two companions had already cooked her child, and were munching on the child's small amount of meat.

"Ah......h

The orc woman suddenly shouted and didn't know where the strength came from, and suddenly got up from the ground and ran over to push away the three of Anakin, holding the child's severed head and crying loudly, crying for a while staring at the three of Anakin and shouting: "I curse you not to die well, I curse you to be eaten too!" After the orc woman shouted these words, she stared at the three of them motionlessly, and the resentment revealed by her red eyes was like an evil spirit crawling out of hell, which made the three of Anakin feel chills from the bottom of their hearts.

After a while, Anakin found that the situation of the orc woman was a little strange, and he boldly stretched out his right hand and shook it in front of her eyes, only to find that the orc woman was dead, Anakin kicked the corpse down and left with two companions just now but found that his stomach was still hungry and screamed, the amount of meat for a child was not enough for three people to eat, so he hit the idea on the corpse of the orc woman again, and the three of them looked left and right and found that no one found the situation here, so they all pounced on the corpse of the orc woman like a ghost.

There are not a few orcs like Anakin who do this, the difference is that some people eat corpses and some people eat living people, at first these people were afraid to eat carefully, and when they found that no one cared at all, and some soldiers were also emboldened when they did this, and blatantly extended their poisonous hands to their own compatriots.

The lack of food, plague, and cannibalism caused the population of the city of Tytalia to decrease rapidly, and by the thirtieth day of the siege of the city of Tytalia, the population of the city of 1.5 million was less than 200,000, and there were dead or eaten bones everywhere, and half of the remaining 200,000 people had gone mad, and the remaining half could die at any time if they had not had much time to live.

Although Talos's palace has its own small grain storehouse, it has been out of food for several days, Talos, who once tried to restore the glory of the orcs ten thousand years ago, sat weakly on his throne, and his strong hunger made him think only of bread, meat steak and wine, and these are only available to the human coalition outside the city, and he has not eaten anything for three days and three nights, and it doesn't matter what face or glory he has, only to live, only to continue to live with enough food is more important than anything.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, the orcs have opened the door and surrendered, they have surrendered!" a herald shouted excitedly outside Andy's (Anti)'s tent.

"Oh, go and invite Karen and all the generals to the big tent for a meeting!"

"Yes!"

All the men soon arrived, and as the nominal supreme commander, Karen sat on the throne, and Andy (Antti) sat on her left hand side, and she said loudly: "Everyone, I think you have all heard the news that Talos, the king of the swamp orcs, wants to surrender to us, do you think you should accept their surrender, and if so, what conditions should be set to limit them, lest the swamp orcs fight us again after we retreat?"

There was a heated discussion around all the people in the tent around these three issues, some advocated not accepting the surrender and continued to kill until all the orcs were killed, and some immediately refuted, believing that the surrender of the swamp orcs could be accepted, but all the swamp orcs must be turned into slaves, and then scattered to various parts of the continent to serve the human race for generations to atone for their sins, so as to prevent the possibility of the orcs rebelling again after surrendering.

The second point of view is supported by the majority of the people, and Karen and Andy (Anti) are also inclined to the second point of view, but Andy (Anti) knows that this is impossible, no one wants to be a slave or the kind for generations, not to mention that with the general unruly character of the orcs, if she really wants to get all the swamp orcs into the humans, I'm afraid there will only be more trouble, so she plans to come up with a way to get the best of both worlds.

At this time, a general spoke: "Your Highness, why don't you invite your sister, Her Highness Catherine, to discuss, if it were her, she might come up with a good solution." (To be continued......)