Treebeard became a demonic tree man. He did not lose his memory, but became a dark creature like the Darkleaf King.
Except for him, almost all the tree men who participated in the battle were left behind and were restrained as before.
Saruman and the Darkleaf King had no intention of wasting any money. The two of them worked together and used the dark power contained in the dark rings to erode them all into demon treants, a total of eighty-five demon treants.
When the erosion is complete, the number of demon tree people has reached more than 140.
This number can be considered a not weak legion for large units.
After discussing with Saruman, the Darkleaf King led the demon tree people into Fangorn Forest, assuming the responsibility of peripheral defense and searching for the tree people.
The outer circle is only one or two hundred meters away from the cutting circle on the edge. Although it is not long, this distance is enough to meet the progress of the orc troops' cutting down. It is impossible for the tree people to escape and scatter throughout the forest, even if they are unwilling to do so.
Organize more manpower again to break through this line of defense.
Because of this distance, the Demonic Tree Corps and the Orc troops formed a rapid support for each other.
The troll Eliger did not stay where he was, but went into the depths of Fangorn Forest alone with a mace.
He wants to go along the Fangorn Forest to the upper end of the Misty Mountains, and conquer more trolls within this range.
He needs his own army, so that he can relieve the great master's worries, and he can better attack Rohan in the future.
Ashgar did not continue to wander in Fangorn Forest. He retreated from the front line and returned to Isengard Fortress with his warg cavalry.
Rather than aimlessly continuing to wander deeper, he has a more important task, forming and training a new army in Isengard.
In Essinger Fortress, there is not just one Rift Valley Arsenal embedded underground. To be more precise, the entire Essinger underground is connected to each other like a Rift Valley.
In such an interconnected underground arsenal, there is not just one Mother Tree of War, but four.
Every day, the total number of dark orcs that can be born is about two hundred.
There are not a few in number. If they assume the role of auxiliary soldiers, then they do not need special training, but if they want to serve as qualified soldiers wearing armor and serving as soldiers, then more rigorous training is required.
At least they must learn how to fight, how to tear their enemies into pieces, how to defend Isengard's glory and the interests of their master.
Therefore, they need training, training of new recruits.
There is also the Beast Mountain, the source of monsters created by Zhang Ziyu with flesh and blood.
The Beast Mountain is gradually giving birth to more wargs, shaggy boars... and trolls. These beasts and monsters also require more training and management.
One month passed, and under the continuous nurturing of the mother tree, there were five to six thousand more dark orcs in Essinger Fortress.
Some of them were included in the auxiliaries to build weapons and armor in Essinger Fortress, while more new orcs were incorporated into the combat troops by Ashgar.
Thanks to the wargs and long-haired wild boars born in Beast Mountain this month, the former hatched about 500 and the latter more than 300.
In addition to the captured wargs and shaggy boars sent from Fangorn Forest from time to time, the number of cavalry mounts has reached a thousand.
Based on these, Ashgar built an orc cavalry and a combat force of 3,000 people.
However, as the number of orcs and monsters in Isengard increased, a problem also appeared in front of Zhang Ziyu, and that was the problem of food.
Isengard is a good place. It is located in the north of Rohan. To the north is the Misty Mountains and the territory of the elves. To the south is Rohan. You can drive directly from Rohan to Gondor.
Such a position just forms a double-team situation with Mordor in the east, making Rohan and Gondor enemies from both sides, and the elves are not much better. As long as Saruman here in Isengard frees up, he can
interfere with them.
This is why Sauron spent a lot of effort to bewitch Saruman from the Eye of True Knowledge, and even made Saruman think that he and Mordor could rule Middle-earth.
The good thing about this location is that it can be located in the heart of all the countries in China and Earth, making it easy to do things.
But naturally, it has a very big disadvantage, that is, the space for development is limited.
Saruman is a wizard who knows how to fight with a hammer.
He wanted to make things happen with Sauron, but he just knew how to fight and had no strategy for development at all.
In such a place, food is the most scarce thing, because they have no extra place to grow food, so the army they support must be small.
Saruman used magic to create an army of orcs, and then let the orcs plunder Rohan to obtain supplies.
In the short term, this is no problem, but there is no doubt that he will soon reach his limit and be unable to support more orcs.
As for his "ally" Sauron, this guy's lair is in Mordor, surrounded by mountains on three sides. The towering mountains of Mordor are no less impressive than the Misty Mountains.
On the west side, it borders Gondor and Rohan. The continuous mountains have only a gap in the canyon, Minas Morgul, where Mordor built an impregnable fortress called the Black Gate.
With the towering city walls, endless orc troops, and the evil eyes that monitor everything all the time, almost no army can break through here.
There are no mountains in the east, and the road is smooth all the way, relying on the plains erupted by the Doomsday volcano. The land is extremely vast, and the soil is more fertile than anywhere else in Middle-Earth.
In addition, Sauron captured a large number of human slaves to farm in this area, and his richness of products could overwhelm humans and dwarves. This is also the direct reason why he can support hundreds of thousands of orcs.
With such a gap, Saruman, a fool, thought he could join forces with the opponent and took the initiative to cause trouble.
The original trajectory was directly messed up by a tree man, his house was stolen, and then he was stabbed to death by his men.
Now that the food problem has been exposed and Zhang Ziyu wants to play games, naturally he can't play like this.
"Ashgar, you brought the cavalry back to plunder the population of Rohan. The surrounding land needs people to cultivate, and the food must be accumulated."
"As commanded."
Ashgar received Zhang Ziyu's order and immediately set off from Orthank Tower, leading his troops southward towards the Rohan Kingdom.
The warg cavalry and the shaggy boar are very fast. They are strong, extremely tall, and more powerful than ordinary horses.
In less than a day, they arrived in the land of Rohan.
Rohan is a human steppe kingdom. Its vast pastures and plains make it rich in horses.
Over the years, this kingdom has another famous name, the Kingdom of Hussars.
The number of their knights is very large, and their combat effectiveness is not weak.
On such a national battlefield, the galloping knights of Rohan will be an invincible torrent of steel.
However, the advantage of the terrain now cannot stop the orc cavalry.
And this time, their goal was not the cavalry, but to rob more people and supplies.
Not far away, I could already see a village with slowly rising smoke.
Ashgar raised his machete high: "Charge, bring the population back to Isengard and dedicate it to the master."
"kill!"
The orc cavalry rushed towards the village like a torrent, and the sound of the beast's hooves hitting the ground was like an earthquake.
When the people of Rohan saw the torrent of steel in the distance, panic swept the entire country.