my age of magic

Chapter 659

Pushing open the door of the lounge, I couldn't believe my eyes. The dwarf warrior Bernd, who was originally very unpopular, stood in front of a map of the distribution of underground caves, pointing at the caves above with a stick. Branch, laying out the battle plan, Kalancuo sat aside, resting his chin with one hand, listening with gusto.

The orc warriors on both sides of the wooden table listened very carefully to the dwarf Bernd's explanation of the battle plan.

I clearly remember that the last time I came here, the dwarf Bernd was still a drunkard, lying on the oak barrel and sleeping soundly.Bernd was privately despised by those orc warriors, and some even wanted to beat the dwarf Bernd when he was awake.

Why did he not see each other for a few days? How did his relationship with these orc warriors become so harmonious?
Seeing me coming, the dwarf warrior Bernd stopped, and the orcs turned their heads to look at me in surprise, as if they thought it was unbelievable that I appeared in the underground cave at this time. Beckoning, there are more than 40 orc warriors crowded in the not-so-big lounge, including five young orc female warriors.

I could only bite the bullet and lean over and sit next to Kalancuo under the watchful eyes of everyone.

(Even if the lounge is so crowded, no orc dares to sit beside Kalantso, and no one dares to sit on the bench beside her.)
"Mr. Bernd, you can continue!" Kalancuo reminded from the side.

The dwarf Bernd coughed twice, then painted a cave main road in red, circled it with a big red circle, and said: "I lead the first team to take charge of this area. The storage room is too close. My preliminary plan is to drive all the goblins living within ten kilometers around the altar to the depths of the cave. A cave-dwelling orc warrior."

Hearing what Bernd the dwarf said, some young orc warriors immediately raised their hands, expressing that they have fully adapted to life underground and the way of fighting in underground caves.

The dwarf Bernd said hastily: "Let's divide into groups later, let me assign the task first!"

"The leader of Kalancuo is responsible for leading the second team to open 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. The terrain is also very complicated. I suggest that the road be flat. Push it over, and directly use fire phosphorus bombs to destroy all the goblin tribes with more than 500 people. If the branches of the caves can be blocked, they will be blocked. If the branches are too large, they must be cleaned along the line." Dwarf Bernd said to Kalanzo.

Kalancuo sat beside me and nodded, and said seriously, "Do you need prisoners?"

Bernd said categorically: "No, we don't have food to feed these useless low-level creatures. We will kill them all, let them know that this area belongs to us, and drive them into deeper caves. There are no more mineral deposits in the nearby mountains, and only by migrating deeper underground can the remaining value of these goblins be squeezed out."

His tone was decisive, without the slightest hesitation.

Bernd went on to say: "These guys are like gophers. The female goblins will keep multiplying, one brood after another, with super reproductive ability. The number of this goblin group is too large, which is a threat to us. , so no matter whether they are hostile to us or not, our current priority is to suppress the population of their ethnic group."

After saying this, the dwarf Bernd took a look at me and was relieved when I nodded to him in agreement.

Looking at the cobweb-like picture of countless large and small cave branches on the wall, I realized that my previous thinking was a little too simple.It can be said that here, the goblins occupy an absolute advantage in the terrain. There are many small rock crevices and tunnels. Strong orcs cannot pass through those narrow caves. Therefore, it is very necessary to block some branch tunnels in many cases. .

Then Bernd began to introduce the method of sealing off the branches of the cave:

In fact, the most labor-saving method is to find places with a lot of limestone in the rock formations, and directly use fire phosphorous bombs to blow up the caves. He himself was buried alive.And it will damage the structural strength of the main road to a large extent.

Another method is to block them with stones, which is obviously not very good, and those goblins are not fools, 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 up traps in the tunnel and hang some goblin corpses in the tunnel to intimidate them. Under normal circumstances, these cowardly goblins would not dare to continue on this road.

Bernd explained the characteristics and living habits of the goblins in detail. Only in this way can we know ourselves and our enemies.

Finally, he talked about how to prevent goblins from blowing darts with paralyzing poison. Of course, the best way is to wear hard leather armor. Most of the poisonous needles of goblins are soaked in venom from the fruit of black grass This thin and sharp fruit is very suitable for making darts, but the only disadvantage is that it cannot break armor.

But even wearing full-coverage armor, some joints and seams cannot defend against those darts, so antidote is also a must-have medicine for marching.

In this regard, Ze Wang, an old orc witch doctor, is better at preparing detoxification potions. What Xinliu Valley lacks most is all kinds of magical herbs. It is very simple to configure some orc-style detoxification potions. I have already prepared for this, but the orcs The soldiers didn't think those darts were so terrible, but after Bernd said this, the orcs listened very carefully.

After the dwarf Bernd laid out the battle plan, he began to group.

Bernd himself led a team of orc warriors to clear the area around the altar from the goblin tribes.

Kalancuo led a team of orc warriors to open the connection channel with the underground entrance.

I thought that the orc warriors would not be willing to be assigned to Bernd's group, but I didn't expect that on the contrary, almost all the young orcs were eager to try and were willing to join Bernd's combat team.

This made me very puzzled, and I secretly asked Kalancuo, only to understand the reason for this situation:

Three days ago, there was a fierce fight in the storage room. A group of goblin robbers actually opened a 300-meter-long tunnel from under our feet, sneaked into the warehouse, and used poisonous arrows to poison the four. Two orc warriors were guarding, and two orc warriors had their throats cut on the spot. (It was the time when Kalancuo was brought to the imperial capital by me)

The young orc warriors didn't have much combat experience, and were completely stunned by this sudden change.Those goblin robbers always got into the crevices of the oak barrels before the orcs came up, and then drilled back into the dug holes, so that the orc warriors had nothing to do with them, leaving only a few goblin corpses.

At this time, the dwarf warrior Bernd stood up. After he stably killed a few goblin robbers with his musket, the orc warriors began to follow in his footsteps and began to kill the goblins together. Conquer the storage room and abscond along the dug tunnel.

The orc warriors want to take advantage of the victory and pursue it. At this time, they need a captain with rich combat experience.The dwarf Bernd stood up and led the orc warriors to chase down the fleeing goblins. His treatment of the goblins was extremely cruel, and this move won the support of the orcs who wanted revenge.

Afterwards, he used the steel pipes inserted into the stone wall for early warning to chase all the way along the cave, and finally caught up with the fleeing goblins. Those goblins hid in the narrow stone crevices, and Bernd let the orcs He brought a bucket of corpse fire oil, and then covered the feather arrow with oil, lit it and shot it into the crevice of the stone.

Those corpse fire oil burned the cracks in the stone wall, and hundreds of goblins were directly scalded to death by the hot blasted debris.

According to Kalantso, the crevices in the rocks were covered with corpse fire oil, and the fire in some places has not been extinguished until now. It has been attached to the rocks and has been burning for two days and two nights.

Through this battle, Bernd quickly established prestige in the hearts of these young orc warriors.

Moreover, Bernd's behavior style is extremely cruel to the enemy, which is more in line with the appetite of the young orcs, so the young orcs agree that joining Bernd's combat team will make them more relaxed during the battle.

On the contrary, the orc warriors respect and fear the leader Kalancuo, especially for the younger generation of orcs, Kalancuo's prestige is much higher than that of the old orc Zewang. Let go.

When grouping this time, the young orc warriors all chose to follow the dwarf Bernd, while the adult orc warriors with some combat experience chose to protect Kalancuo.

Due to my unexpected appearance, the strength of Kalancuo's combat team was virtually strengthened.

……

This time, Kalancuo mobilized all the combat power of the entire orc village to participate in the operation to exterminate the goblin tribe.

There are more than 100 orcs in the orc village. Apart from the elderly and children, there are also some orc girls who cannot participate in the battle. There are less than [-] orcs who can serve as fighters. Human slaves, although those barbarians have not mutinied for a long time, but it is impossible not to keep a single orc guard.

Therefore, there are only 65 orc warriors who actually enter the underground cave, but in the end there will be [-] warriors guarding the large warehouse, the altar, and the blood pool of demon blood.

Therefore, there are only 45 orc fighters who can really be called, and these orc fighters are divided into two groups.

The appearance of me and the tauren Luka has strengthened the strength of the Kalantso team, so the orc fighters in the dwarf Bernd battle team have been expanded to 25 people, while the Kalantso team has only 20 people, and there are five female warriors in addition. Orc warrior.

Outside the grain warehouse, the orc warriors lined up in a long line, and each person could receive four washbasin-sized baked wheat cakes and ten kilograms of marinated cooked beef. These are the battle rations for the next week. They came for the grain in the underground warehouse and the cooked beef cured with salt. Unfortunately, they didn't get even a piece of cake or a piece of meat. Instead, they were wiped out in the cracks in the rocks two kilometers away. .

Every orc warrior needs to receive a strong crossbow and two pots of short-feathered crossbow arrows, ten flying spears, an iron-wood shield and a one-handed axe.

Now no one resists those crossbow bolts. This five-shot crossbow bolt is like a harvester when facing the tide of goblin robbers.

Two days ago, the orc warriors captured a young goblin outside the warehouse. This goblin claimed: Jijiru, he is here to send us a message (there is a 500-man goblin robber group who want to loot the underground warehouse, in fact The day before, this group of goblin bandits had been wiped out by the dwarf Bernd and the orc warriors).

Regarding the young goblin captive, Bernd and Kalancuo had two different opinions:

Bernd thinks that it is enough to kill this young goblin directly. Maybe this goblin is a scout who inquires about the reality of the underground warehouse, because the news it brings is in the past tense, which means that he did not provide any information. news of value.

Kalancuo knew Jijiru and thought he could be imprisoned and interrogated severely.After all, Jijilu was our biggest supplier of magic red copper before, and he once led us to wipe out some goblin tribes.

After all, Kalancuo is the leader of the orcs and has the absolute right to speak, so the young goblin survived. However, his life is not easy these days.

……

The young goblin Jijiru was locked in a small animal cage that was only two feet high. It could only curl up its body, hugging its knees with its hands, squatting in pain.On the outside of the iron cage were some finely crushed wheat cake slags and an iron pot filled with a little water. The water in the iron pot looked very turbid, and even some tiny fish and insects kept rolling inside.

No wonder Jijirou would rather endure his hunger and thirst than touch the sewage in the iron pot. If he really drank the sewage, it might not take long before his stomach would be infested with those horrible parasites. Occupation, maybe it will become even more miserable at that time. It is an adult goblin with rich life experience. It has seen many companions die because of it. At this time, it is naturally unwilling to be with those turbid raw water.

He hadn't closed his eyes for two days and two nights. In such a cold iron cage, sleepiness came in waves like a tide, but before he fell asleep, his head or arms would touch those barbs. On the railing, blood was dripping from those iron thorns.

Jijirou was tortured in an iron cage. His eye sockets were deeply sunken, and his dirty eyes were bloodshot.

There is a small ledge on the wall of the dark cave, on which there is an oil lamp with a weak flame. Go in, only expose a little bit of cotton wick on the side of the bowl, and then ignite it. Such an earthen oil lamp can burn continuously for a week without adding oil. Of course, this needs to keep the flame to a minimum.

There is not much wind in the cave, so there is no need to worry about the flame being blown out.

When it saw me coming out of the darkness, it opened its eyes excitedly, ignored the iron spikes on the railing of the iron cage, grabbed the railing with both hands and shook the cage vigorously, crying loudly to me in the unfamiliar Imperial language Shouting: "Thanks to Goddess Celine, Master Jijia, you have finally appeared. I am Jijilu from the Pandawan goblin tribe, your goblin friend Jijilu!"

"Jijirou, why did you appear here?" I stood in front of the iron cage and looked at the exhausted goblin Jijiru who had been tortured. I vaguely remembered how he looked like when he was young three years ago, Three years had grown his body firm and strong, and he was dressed in decent linen, and it looked as though he must have lived in ease during that time.

Jijilu's imperial language is terrible, before it can answer, I frowned and said to it: "You don't know that the relationship between us is very tense recently, and we don't seem to have any business dealings recently. It’s been a long time since I received any magic red copper ore from your tribe. I heard that there are still many goblin bandits who want to plunder the supplies in my underground warehouse. Now that you appear near my warehouse, you are not afraid of my subordinates. What misunderstandings will your soldiers have about you?"

In fact, a misunderstanding has already been caused. If it can't come up with something of value, it will be difficult for me to let it go in front of these orc warriors.

Jijiru said bitterly: "All the red copper and copper ore in our tribe have been replaced with food. The people in the tribe are looking for new veins deep in the cave recently. Before we find new veins, we There is really no red copper at all."

There is not much credibility in what these cunning and greedy goblins say!

Then Jijilu said to me: "Your orc warriors must have misunderstood me. I came here this time not to trade red copper, but to report to you!"

"Actually, your intelligence doesn't work. The 500 goblin robbers caused me some trouble the day before, and they have all turned into barbecue. Now it is very likely to become a delicacy in the mouth of cave spiders." !" I said to Jijilu, in this underground cave, we gradually discovered that the goblins also have some natural enemies, such as those cave spiders hiding in the crevices of the rocks...

Hearing what I said, Jijirou finally collapsed, crying loudly, ignoring the blood on his hands, kneeling in the iron cage and begging me: "Master Jijia, please let me out of the cage quickly!" , If I stay in this cage, I may die, those orc warriors are very rude, they don't listen to any explanation from me at all."

Then he blamed the orc warriors who had abused him, saying, "How could they treat a great goblin chief of the Pandawan tribe like this?"

Maybe it knows that if it has no value, it will die, so it added: "No one is more familiar with the situation in the underground cave than I am. There are hostile goblin tribes, you can get any wealth from those tribes, I know where they bury their treasures."

He winked at me again, even in such a situation, Jijiru, the patriarch of the Pandawang goblins, still did not forget his greedy nature: "You can give me those goblins who don't resist, and I can make these goblin slaves Dig deeper in the cave!"

I smiled slightly, and said to Jijirou: "Okay, I will do as you said, as long as the goblins survived the battle, all of them will be given to you as slaves!"

Sitting in the iron cage, Jijirou cried loudly, "You are such a devil!"

……

Light brown moss grew in the cracks of the damp and cold cave walls. I followed this orc team into the depths of the underground cave.
Across a small puddle in the cave, an orc warrior walked in front, holding a bunch of pine torches in his hand, but this torch was slightly improved by me, it was covered with pine oil The linen cloth was soaked in some corpse fire oil, which extended the burning time of the torch for more than two hours.

(End of this chapter)