Chapter 37: The Trumpet Has Been Sounded

Compared with the heat in the desert, the barren continent thousands of miles away has experienced the most cruel winter. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Orcs are called orcs instead of orcs because orcs are much weaker than demons. Orcs are more like humans than humans.

They also have planting, and werewolves, tigers, bears, and people don't all eat meat, and when they don't have meat, they still eat barley. Orcs were at war with humans, and orcs did not devour human corpses.

Orcs are first and foremost human beings, not beasts, and the difference between them and humans, in addition to the difference in appearance, is that orcs also have many beast instincts.

For example, bears have super strength, and werewolves have a keen sense of smell and strong endurance.

The three major races of orcs are bear people, minotaurs, and werewolves, with the bear people having the highest force value and the werewolves having the largest number.

Black Rock is a minotaur. As a fifth-level warrior, Heiyan awakened his own racial talent and trampled on the bull, and with the bronze stick in his hand, the tribe where Heiyan was located became one of the most unprovoked existences in the vicinity.

Hei Yan remembers that when he was a child, the cold winter came in November, but now, there will be snow and ice in September. Faced with the cold winter that was coming earlier and earlier, the bronze stick in Heiyan's hand was helpless.

Seeing that some people have starved to death, for such a year, it is often the old orcs who starve to death first, then the children, and then the women, and finally the samurai.

There is no way, the warrior must be saved, if the warrior starves to death, it is to save more children, and in the end the orcs of other races will snatch the prey, and if there is not enough food, the tribe will face death. This is the naked law of the jungle among orcs.

There is no unified king among the orcs. Some tribes are one by one, and the difference is that some tribes are very large and have a high force value. Some tribes are weaker. Each race has its own king, and it also has its own guardian spirit.

The annual winter attack on the Tulip Principality is a military alliance initiated by several large races and echoed by various tribes.

Kuroiwa, who has participated several times, is well aware that sometimes, fighting purely for the sake of fighting has nothing to do with winning or losing. If you are a soldier, you will inevitably shed blood and die. Rather than starve to death in vain, it is better to die on the way to open the barrier for the people.

Every year the blood-watered land produces the most beautiful flowers. Only the orcs who are selected through war will constantly survive the fittest. After two to three percent of the orcs are killed in battle, the remaining food can be guaranteed to eat.

As one of the three major races, the minotaurs have always been the main force in the battle. The tribe of Black Rock is one of many Minotaur tribes that have been scattered. There are various inextricable links between the various Minotaur tribes.

This year, the tribe of Black Rock was blocked by heavy snow, and it took more than half a month to get out of the valley. After gritting his teeth and leaving most of the food for his people, Black Rock left his hometown with a hundred minotaur warriors and ran to the battlefield where the orcs were fighting.

Along the way, there is an endless stream of orcs who have the same purpose as themselves and rush to the battlefield. The familiar tribes greeted each other a few times, and more unfamiliar tribes just kept a certain distance from each other and moved forward silently.

In the evening, I found a sheltered valley, and today I have walked more than seventy miles, so I will live here tonight. The daytime is too short, and the temperature drops so much as soon as it gets dark that if you don't set up a tent quickly, you will freeze to death at night.

The tent of the minotaur is very simple, the tent sewn by the animal skin, cut down a few large trees as a skeleton on the spot, and after the skeleton is built, the animal skin is put on the trunk, it is a simple tent.

I remember that there was no war between orcs and humans in the past, and there was also an exchange of goods. But what did the orcs get in the end? Many times, after the farthest journey, a cartload of the best furs was transported, and in exchange for a cartload of moldy grain, the warriors in charge of the escort on the road always had something to eat, and often returned to the tribe, and most of the carts were left.

But you know, when you go, the orcs also have to bring their own rations. After such calculations, Hei Yan was furious to find that he and his people transported a cart of animal skins, minus the consumption, in exchange for a dozen bags of grain.

As the flames rose, there was a little more warmth in the tent. Drinking hot water from a large pot, Kuroiwa pulled out the barley cake in his backpack, and a wooden stick passed through the center of the cake, grilling it next to the flame.

Soon the fragrance came out, and this is the only time of the day when I am most relaxed, especially when I hear the cold wind howling in the canyon and look at the orange flames in front of me, which is full of inexplicable satisfaction.

Black Rock has always liked to watch the flames beat, and no matter what time it is, as long as there is a fire, he has confidence.

Looking up at his own people, the Minotaur is a silent race, unlike the fox people, they like to talk, many times, they express their emotions with simple words, and even sometimes pat their shoulders with their hands, which is a good expression of feelings.

Several fighters were participating in this kind of battle for the first time, and this time it was not known how many would return. Even Kuroiwa wasn't sure if he would come back. His best friend lost his life three years ago and was buried on the battlefield forever.

If he hadn't pushed himself away desperately and blocked that huge crossbow arrow for himself, the current Black Rock would have rotted so much that there would not even be any bones left.

Humans can't defeat the orcs in terms of force, so they think of a way in tools. Crossbow arrows with arm-thick weights, not to mention that most of the minotaurs are equipped with leather armor, even iron armor can't carry it. The thing that Kuroiwa regrets most in his life is that he didn't get his friend's body back.

I heard that now the legion of the orcs has crossed the Dongshi Grand Canyon and is deadlocked with the human race in the area of the Prancing Horse River.

I've finally fought the East Stone Grand Canyon, and I don't know how many orc warriors have died here. Every year, tens of thousands of warriors remain here forever, and by the following year they have become white bones.

Then it was trampled into powder by the marching orcs, and year after year, it is said that it was dug down one meter, and the white bones of the orcs were all below, and this canyon was also called the Gorge of White Bones.

Heiyan's friends stayed in the Gorge of Bones, and this time they can finally get out of the Gorge of Bones, and to the south is the land of the Terrans, where the climate is much warmer and the products are much richer because of the high mountains.

It's not that the orcs don't work hard, and not all of them are lazy, and neither is the Minotaur tribe of Black Rock. Everyone is working hard to plant, and the men are working hard to hunt, but that's it, the food in the tribe is still not enough to eat, it's not that the orcs are not diligent, it's that the climate is too cold!

Let the orcs simply store enough food for the winter, no matter how hard they try, the food will never be enough. Because of the harsh environment, there are no more people in the clan who are more than sixty years old.

The Terrans, who are indulgent and hard-working, occupy the best land on the continent, and it is also the most extensive land. I don't remember when the war started. Greedy humans always offer the lowest price in exchange for goods in the hands of orcs.

Heiyan also pulled furs, walked through one shop after another, and even walked through three different cities, but after paying the city gate tax, he reluctantly found that no matter where he was, he was given the lowest price. The food exchanged that time was not enough for the soldiers to eat on the return journey.

When the empty grain cart returned to the tribe, many people cried. In order not to damage the integrity of the skin, so that the merchants could not find a reason to suppress the price because of the holes in the arrows, the orcs strangled their prey alive with nets.

You must know that many of them were beasts of prey, and for the sake of this wagon, two warriors were seriously wounded, and one of them completely lost his right arm, and could no longer draw his bow and arrow. That's it, but it can't get enough food for the tribe to eat!

Ever since I heard that there had been a conflict between orcs and terrans because of the extreme injustice of the exchange, such news kept coming, and eventually, when the heir of an orc tribe was killed, the warriors of the tribe bloodied the town, and the war ensued.

Since you can't get the fairness you want in exchange, then use the weapon in your hand to get it. There is no right or wrong in this war, just because of the difference in race, because Hei Yan heard that if it is a human race, a skin in Hei Yan's hand can be exchanged for several carts of food.

When the morning again looked at the faint red in the embers of the campfire, the time of the day to rest was over.

It is estimated that you will be able to rush to the Gorge of Bones this evening, and the day after tomorrow will be on the battlefield, and your 100 people will be incorporated into the legion of the Minotaurs. The previous arrival of several super tribes heard that they had obtained a lot of food, looked at the dawn in the sky, shook the weapons in their hands, and Heiyan seemed to have heard that the war horn was already blowing.

As the military commander of the Tulip Principality and the supreme military commander of the war in the west, Bird hadn't slept well for days. looked at the generals in the camp with bloodshot eyes, and there were only gasps one after another in the camp, and no one dared to speak.

This is the worst year, the orcs have gone crazy, as far as the eye can see, the mountains and fields are full of black oppression of the orc army, it seems that the orcs of the entire barren continent have come here.

As the first line of defense, the Gap of Bones has been lost, and the steep peaks on both sides of the Gap of Bones are natural barriers, and after decades of war, Bird has repaired the fortifications of the Gap of Bones to a very strong one.

With the cliffs on both sides, Bird chose the narrowest part of the canyon, just over 300 meters wide, and built the strongest military fortress in history with huge stones.

It was a staggering thirty meters high, and now that the fortress was lost and fell into the hands of the orcs, it would become a giant hand that grabbed the tulips with a little trimming.