Pushing open the door of the lounge, I couldn't believe my eyes, the dwarven warrior Bernd, who had been very unwelcome, stood in front of a map of the distribution of underground caves, pointed a wooden stick at the branches of the caves above, and laid out the battle plan, Karantso sat on the side, one hand on his chin, listening with relish.The orc warriors on both sides of the wooden table listened very carefully to the dwarf Bernd explaining the battle plan.I vividly remember the last time I was here, the dwarf Bernd was a drunkard, sleeping on an oak barrel.Bernd was privately despised by the orc warriors, and some would even try to beat the dwarf Bernd while he was sober.Why didn't he see him for a few days, how did his relationship with these orc warriors become so harmonious?
Seeing me coming, the dwarven warrior Bernd stopped, and the orcs turned their heads to look at me in surprise, as if they thought that I was in the underground cave at this time, as if it was an incredible thing, Karantso bowed slightly and beckoned to me, and there were more than forty orc warriors crowded into the small lounge, including five young orc warriors.I could only lean over and sit next to Karantso in full view of everyone.Even though the lounge was so crowded, no orc dared to sit next to Karantso, and no one dared to sit on the bench next to her."
Mr.
Bernd, you can continue!"
Karantso reminded from the side.The dwarf Bernd coughed lightly twice, then painted all the main tunnels of the cave in red, circled a large red circle on it, and then said: "I lead the first team to take charge of this area, this cave is too close to the underground storage room, my initial plan is to drive all the goblins who live within ten kilometers around the altar to the depths of the cave, this cleaning work is estimated to last for a long time, so I need twenty orc warriors who are used to the life of the underground cave." ”Hearing the dwarf Bernd say this, some of the young orc warriors immediately raised their hands, saying that they had completely adapted to life underground and the way they fought in the underground caves.The dwarf Bernd hurriedly said, "Wait for us to group them later, let me assign the task first!"
”"The leader of Karancuo is responsible for leading the second team to open up the passage between the altar and the underground entrance, there are dozens of large and small natural caves along this tunnel, and there are many forks, and the terrain is also very complicated, I suggest that you push all the way over, and directly destroy all the goblin tribes with fire phosphorus bombs for more than five hundred people, large and small cave branches, all of them can be blocked, and too large branches should be cleaned along the line."
The dwarf Bernd said to Karantso.Karantso sat next to me and nodded, and said, "Do you need a prisoner?"
”Bernd said categorically: "No, we don't have food to feed these useless low-level creatures, kill them all, let them know that this area belongs to us, and drive them deeper into the caves, where there are no more mineral deposits in the mountains, and only by migrating deeper underground can we squeeze out the surplus value of these goblins." ”His tone was decisive and without the slightest hesitation.Bernd continued: "These guys are like gophers, the female goblins will keep multiplying, nest after litter, super reproductive, this goblin population is too large to be a threat to us, so whether they are hostile to us or not, our priority at the moment is to keep their population down." ”After saying this, the dwarf Bernd glanced at me and was relieved to see that I nodded to him approvingly.Looking at the cobweb-like myriad branches of caves on the walls, I realized that I had overthought it.It can be said that here, the goblins occupy an absolute terrain advantage, many small stone crevices and tunnels, and strong orcs cannot pass through which narrow caves, so many times, it is also necessary to block some branch tunnels.Bernd then began to introduce the method of blocking the branch of the cave: in fact, the most labor-saving method is to find a place with a large amount of limestone in the rock formation, and directly use a fire phosphorus bomb to blow up the cave, but the disadvantage of this method is that if you don't run fast enough and find the detonation point well enough, you are likely to bury yourself alive.Moreover, it will damage the structural strength of the main road to a large extent.Another way is to block with stones, which is obviously not very good, and those goblins are not stupid, as long as they are willing to spend some time, they can naturally clean up the stones in those tunnels.Another way is to set traps in the tunnels and hang the corpses of some goblins in the tunnels to intimidate them, but under normal circumstances, these cowardly goblins would not dare to continue on this path.Bernd carefully explained the personality traits and living habits of the goblins, and only in this way can they know themselves and their opponents.Finally, he talks about how to prevent goblins from blowing arrows with paralyzing toxin, of course, the best way is to wear a hard leather armor, most of the goblins' poison needles are made of a kind of fruit soaked in venom from the fruit of the beakweed, this thin and sharp fruit is very suitable for making blow arrows, but the only drawback is that it cannot break the armor.However, even in full-cover armor, some joints and seams could not defend against those blowguns, so the antidote was also necessary for the march.In this regard, the orc old witch doctor Zewang is better at preparing antidotes, and the most important thing in Xinliu Valley is all kinds of magic herbs, and it is still very simple to configure some orc-style antidotes, and I have been prepared for this for a long time, but the orc warriors don't think that those blow-arrows are terrible, but after Bernd said this, those orcs listened very carefully.After the dwarf Bernd laid out his battle plan, he began to divide into groups.Bernd himself led a team of orc warriors in charge of clearing the area around the altar of the goblin tribes.Karantso led a team of orc warriors in charge of opening the passage to the underground entrance.I didn't think the orc warriors would be willing to be placed in Bernd's group, but on the contrary, almost all of the young orcs were eager to join Bernd's fighting team.I was very puzzled by this, and secretly asked Karantso about it, only to understand the reason for this situation: three days ago, there was a fierce fight on the side of the storeroom, and a team of goblin robbers actually opened a tunnel three hundred meters long from our feet, sneaked into the warehouse area, and used poisoned arrows to turn over four orc warrior guards, and two orc warriors were cut throats on the spot.It was the time when Karantso was brought to the imperial capital by me, and the young orc warriors had little combat experience, and they were completely stunned by this sudden turn of events.The goblin robbers always burrowed into the cracks of the barrels before the orcs could find them, and then burrowed back into the dug holes, leaving the orc warriors with nothing but a few goblin corpses.At this time, the dwarven warrior Bernd stepped forward, and after he used his musket to steadily kill several goblin bandits, orc warriors began to follow in his footsteps and began to kill goblins together, but at this time, the goblins, seeing that they could not conquer the storage room, absconded along the dug tunnel.Orc warriors want to take advantage of the victory, and at this time, they need a captain with rich combat experience.The dwarven Bernd stepped up and led the orc warriors in pursuit of the fleeing goblins, and his ruthless treatment of the goblins won the support of the orcs who wanted revenge.Then, using the steel pipes inserted into the stone wall for warning, he pursued all the way down the cave, and finally caught up with the fleeing goblins, who hid in the narrow stone crevices, and Bernd had the orcs bring a bucket of corpse oil, and then stained the feathered arrows with grease, lit them, and shot them into the stone crevices.The corpse oil burned the cracks in the stone walls, and hundreds of goblins were directly scalded to death by the hot and explosive stone chips.According to Karantso, the crack in the stone was stained with corpse oil, and in some places the fire had not been extinguished, and had been burning on the rock for two days and two nights.Through this battle, Bernd soon established his prestige in the hearts of these young orc warriors.Moreover, Bernd's style of acting is extremely ferocious in dealing with the enemy, which is more in line with the appetite of young orcs, so the young orcs unanimously believe that joining Bernd's combat team will be more open when fighting.On the contrary, the orc warriors are in awe and fear of the leader Karancuo, especially for the younger generation of orcs, Karantso's prestige is much higher than that of the old orc Zewang, which makes these orc warriors unable to let go of their hands and feet.This time, the young orc warriors chose to follow the dwarf Bernd, while the adult orc warriors with some combat experience chose to protect Karantso.Due to my unexpected appearance, the strength of Karantso's combat squad was invisibly strengthened.This time, Karantso mobilized all the combat power of the entire orc village to participate in this operation to exterminate the goblin tribe.There are more than 100 orcs in the orc village, except for the old people and children and some orcs who cannot participate in the war, there are less than eighty orcs who can act as warriors, of course, there are still more than a dozen people left in the quarry of the circular valley to guard hundreds of barbarian slaves, although those barbarians have not mutined for a long time, but it is impossible not to leave a single orc guard.So there were only sixty-five orc warriors who actually entered the underground cavern, but in the end, there were still twenty warriors guarding the large warehouse, the altar, and the blood pool of demonic blood.So there were only forty-five orc warriors who could really be called, and these orc warriors were divided into two groups.The presence of Ruka and I on the Minotaur strengthened the strength of Karantso's squad, so we expanded the number of orc warriors from the Dwarven Bernd battle squad to twenty-five, while Karantso's battle squad consisted of only twenty people, plus five female orc warriors.Outside the grain warehouse, the orc warriors lined up to receive four basin-sized baked wheat cakes and ten kilograms of cured cooked beef, which were the battle rations for the coming week.Each orc warrior needs to receive a crossbow and two pots of short-feathered bolts, ten throwing spears, an ironwood shield, and a one-handed axe.No one resisted the crossbow arrows these days, and the five-shot bolts were like a reaper against a tidal wave of goblin bandits.Two days ago, the orc warriors captured a young goblin outside the warehouse, this goblin claimed to be Gigiru, who had come to deliver news to us that a group of 500 goblin bandits wanted to ransack the underground warehouse, in fact, the day before, this goblin bandit group had been annihilated by the dwarf Bernd and the orc warriors.Bernd and Karantso had two different opinions about the young goblin captive: Bernd thought that the young goblin should be killed directly, and perhaps the goblin was a scout who probed the underground warehouse, because the news it brought was in the past tense, which meant that he did not provide any valuable information.Karantso, on the other hand, knew Gigilu and thought he could want to keep him in custody and interrogate him severely.After all, Gigirous was our biggest supplier of magical copper before, and he once led us to exterminate some goblin tribes.After all, Karantso is the leader of the orcs and has the absolute right to speak, so the young goblin survived, but his life has not been easy these days.The young goblin Giroud, locked in a cage of a small beast only two feet high, could only curl up and crouch in pain with his hands on his knees.There were some finely crushed wheat cake crumbs and an iron pot with a little water on the outside of the cage, the water in the iron pot looked muddy, and there were even some tiny fish and insects tumbling inside.No wonder Gigiru would rather endure hunger and thirst than touch the sewage in the iron pot, if he really drank this sewage, maybe it won't be too long, his stomach will be occupied by those terrible parasites, maybe it will be even worse then, it is an adult goblin with a lot of life experience, he has seen many companions die because of this, at this time, naturally he refuses to deal with those muddy raw water.He hadn't closed his eyes for two days and two nights, and in such a cold iron cage, drowsiness came like a tide, but before he could fall asleep, his head or arm would touch the barbed railings, and he would be pierced with blood by those iron thorns.Gigirous was tormented in an iron cage, his eye sockets sunken deeply, and his foul eyes bloodshot.There is a small boss on the wall of the dim cave, on which is placed a faint oil lamp, which is boiled from animal fat, put it into an iron bowl, and then put a cotton core into it, only a little cotton core is exposed on the edge of the bowl, and then ignite it, so that an earthen oil lamp can burn continuously for a week without adding oil, of course, this needs to control the fire to a minimum.There is no wind in the cave, so there is no need to worry about the fire being blown out.When it saw me coming out of the darkness, its eyes widened excitedly, ignoring the iron thorns on the railing of the iron cage, holding the railing with both hands and shaking the iron cage vigorously, and crying loudly to me in the unfamiliar imperial Chinese: "Thank you Goddess Celine, Lord Jijia, you finally appeared, I am Jijiru of the Pandawang Goblin Tribe, your goblin friend Jijiru!"
”"Gigiroud, why are you here?"
I stood in front of the iron cage and looked at the exhausted goblin Giroud, who had been tortured, and I vaguely remembered how he looked when he was young three years ago, and three years had made his body strong and strong, and he was wearing very decent linen clothes, and it seemed that life must have been very comfortable during this time.Gigilul's imperial Chinese is very bad, and without waiting for it to answer, I frowned and said to it: "You don't know that our relationship has been very tense recently, and we don't seem to have any business dealings recently, I haven't received your tribe's magic copper mine for a long time, I heard that there are still many goblin robbers who want to plunder the materials in my underground warehouse, at this time you appear near my warehouse, are you not afraid that my soldiers will misunderstand you?"
”In fact, a misunderstanding has been created, and if it can't come up with something of value, it's hard for me to let it go in front of these orc warriors.Gigiru wept bitterly and said: "All the red copper and copper ore in our tribe have been exchanged for food, and the tribesmen in the tribe have been looking for new ore veins in the depths of the cave recently, and I really don't have any red copper until I find new ore veins." ”The words of these cunning and greedy goblins are not very credible!
Then Gigirous said to me, "Your orc warriors must have misunderstood me, and I have not come here to trade copper, but to report to you!"
”"Actually, your information doesn't work, the day before, the five hundred goblin bandits caused me some trouble, and they have all turned into barbecue, and now it is likely to become a delicacy in the mouth of the cave spiders!"
I said to Gigiru, in this underground cave, we gradually found that the goblins also have some natural predators, such as those cave spiders hiding in the cracks of the stone, Gigiru heard me say this, finally collapsed, howled, despite the blood on his hands, knelt in the iron cage and pleaded with me: "Lord Giga, please release me from the cage, stay in this cage, I may die, those orc warriors are very rude, they don't listen to any explanation from me." ”Then he blamed the orc warriors who had abused him, saying, "How can they do this to a great Pandawang Clansman?
”Perhaps it knew that it would die if it knew it was worthless, so it added: "No one knows the situation in the underground caverns better than I am, and I am willing to show you the way, and together with your warriors we will exterminate the goblin tribes that are hostile to you, and you can obtain any wealth in those tribes, and I know where they buried their treasures." ”He winked at me again, even in this situation, the Pandawang goblin patriarch Jijiru still did not forget his greedy nature: "You can give me those goblins who don't resist, and I can let these goblin slaves mine deeper in the cave!"
”I smiled and said to Gigiru, "Okay, just do as you say, as long as the goblins survive the battle, all of them will be given to you as slaves!"
”Gigirous sat in an iron cage and cried out loudly: "You are a devil!
”The cracks in the damp and cold stone walls of the cave were covered with light brown moss, and I followed the orc team into the depths of the underground cavern, and across a small puddle in the cave, an orc warrior walked in the front, holding a pine torch in his hand, but this torch was slightly improved by me, and the linen soaked in pine oil soaked in some corpse fire oil, so that the torch continued to burn for more than two hours.