Allen was thinking, not whether to help these people, but how to deal with them.
After walking around the stronghold in the canyon, Allen found almost no young men over 15 years old and under 50 years old. It can be said that what was left behind were real old women and children.
Wilderness Town was replenished with people from three villages brought by Hank, plus Allen brought back some of the fleeing northerners, and it was basically in a saturated state. If you want to place them near Wilderness Town, you have to relocate them in the surrounding areas.
Just open up a village not far away.
Although Allen has always had this idea, and had previously asked the craftsmen rescued from Orc Town to start this job, Allen made a rough estimate and found that there are at least two thousand to three thousand people hiding in this canyon.
.
It is simply unrealistic to put them all in one village, so they must be asked to build a village from scratch. This is too difficult for these women. Some heavy manual labor, if they are forced to do it, will easily happen.
accident, but the problem is that Allen can't spare more young adults to help them.
"Auston, I can help you find a suitable place to live, but I want to ask, do you have to live together?"
"Sir, it's not necessary. These people come from different places, um..."
As Auston spoke, he quietly observed Allen's expression, wanting to see if the lord meant to be embarrassed, but he didn't see anything else from his pity-filled eyes.
"If possible, I still hope that you can let people in each place live together. They will be familiar with each other and help each other settle down faster."
After Allen heard that they didn't need to be relocated together, he didn't feel so embarrassed. He nodded and said to Auston: "Okay, then go inform your friends and let their tribesmen prepare to move.
While the Dongyi people are now looking elsewhere, we still have enough time. If we wait for them to come back and really take root in this land, it will be too late to do anything by then."
Auston was greatly relieved when he heard that Allen agreed to help these people. Then he bowed gratefully to Allen and said, "Thank you for your help, we will get ready right away."
Allen nodded and observed this hidden canyon.
This is a canyon that appears in the center of two hills. If you want to enter, you must first find a crack in a small forest, and then face several forked roads before you can finally reach this canyon.
There are very few places here that can accommodate residents. About three thousand northerners are hiding here, making this canyon look very messy and crowded. However, if it is only used as a temporary hiding place for a small army, this place is simply perfect.
Looking at the terrain here, Allen considered whether to place a cavalry brigade here in the future to detect enemy intelligence and implement harassment tactics if there was an opportunity. After all, Fatis had told Allen before,
These Dongyi people were very rough in their use of cavalry and their strength was very weak.
While Allen was thinking, Alston had already gathered with his friends. If these people were adults who had experienced the vicissitudes of life, they probably would not accept Allen's advice so easily.
Help, or even not rashly ask a stranger for help.
They had only been in contact with Allen for a few days, and they had only heard of Allen's reputation from their fathers before. However, it was precisely because they were now at an age where they worshiped the strong and could trust others. In addition, this
They passively inherited the pressure of managing the tribe from their parents, which also drove them to cling to Allen's straw at this moment.
It's just that things are not going so smoothly in their hands. They are young and easy to trust others, but before they start to grow beards, it is difficult for them to be trusted by others, even if their father was once the leader of these people.
Moreover, the news these young people brought back was too painful. The annihilation of the entire army meant that at least one pillar of each family died. In some families, two or three were even killed on the first day here.
At night, Allen almost managed to fall asleep amidst the sounds of crying.
And those people who were too grieved simply could not trust the heirs of their lords as before.
Under such circumstances, it is normal for Alston and the others to find it difficult to carry out their work. The vast majority of people took courage that they did not have before and rejected the relocation proposed by Alston and the others.
It is difficult for these people who have not received much education to leave this relatively stable place. Most people do not think about what they should do if there is no food. What they are thinking about at this moment is,
The enemy is extremely powerful. It is very safe here and there is plenty of food. I can hide for a day.
In such an ideological atmosphere, these young people spent a whole day, but only a few hundred people were willing to leave with them.
Seeing all this, Allen was forced to temporarily lend his men to Auston and others, and at the same time told these young people that if that still didn't work, they could consider using force as a deterrent.
If he had a choice, Allen was not willing to use such methods, but his unwillingness did not mean that he did not understand. After he came to Middle-earth, the journey was smooth and he did not experience too many intrigues, but he
In my previous life, I had seen a lot and had a certain understanding of human nature.
Coercion by force must be more effective than greeting with a smile, because fear is a very strong driving force for human beings, but the side effects of doing so are also great. As long as you use it once, you are likely to become addicted and will become addicted to anything you face.
The priority is to use violence to solve the problem, because violence is really useful.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But Allen doesn’t want to let himself become like that. Violence represents absolute oppression and will sow the seeds of resistance in the hearts of the oppressed. No one will
Knowing when these seeds will turn into towering trees will inevitably lead to chaos and more violence, and then a vicious cycle will be formed, causing more power and energy to be wasted in internal friction.
Therefore, Allen never wants to use violence to solve problems.
It's just that he really doesn't have much time to waste here with these people. After dealing with these things, he has to rush to Changhu Town, but he is unwilling to let go and leave these people here to wait for their inevitable death.
As a result, Allen, helpless, began to try to let his men play the role of villains.
Sure enough, under the threat of swords, things went a lot smoother. It only took two days for most people to be ready to move. In the end, the remaining two to three hundred people fought against the threat of death.
Not wanting to leave here, Allen stopped forcing them. If the number of people was very small, they could survive here permanently. There was still land that could support hundreds of people.
After leaving enough supplies, Allen took the others and left under the hesitant eyes of those people. Of course, Allen would not really kill these people because of their lack of cooperation, just scare them.
Based on the map in his mind, Allen knew that this canyon is about a hundred kilometers away from Heidelberg. This is a straight-line distance. If we move these old and young people now, it will take ten or eight days to reach it.
Within Heidelberg's sphere of influence.
Allen doesn't have that much time. At this time, the Dongyi army led by Ashur is likely to have approached Changhu Town. He needs to rush there as soon as possible and participate in the war as soon as possible, otherwise he who provides the information
, it’s hard to tell if the enemy hasn’t reached the place first.
For this reason, after leaving the forest in front of the canyon, Allen handed over two thousand old, young, women and children to Fatis, asking him to take these people to rest in Heidelberg first, and then move to Wilderness Town from the dense forest road.
And asked Fatis to convey his general thoughts on the placement of these people to Jamila.
In Allen's impression, the population ratio of Wilderness Town at this time has been seriously imbalanced. More than half of the young people have been recruited into the army and have been brought to the front line in Heidelberg.
If you want to stay, you can leave a tribe of about a thousand people in the village near Laodukou. Most of the people rescued from the Orc Town at that time were young and middle-aged men. After all, the old, young, women and children with weak bodies would have to live in such an environment.
, simply can't survive.
With the addition of these women and children, they can definitely form a family for the second time. In addition, on the Malhebi side, the people of Hongye Town have completely migrated here and have not suffered any major losses. If they are willing, they can
Accept some people.
As for the rest, Allen plans to pass them all through the Woodland Kingdom and place them in Changhu Town. There is truly a lot of waste there, and everyone, whether young or old, can find a suitable job.
After making arrangements, Fatis led a large migration team with fifty cavalry and Allen's order and began to march towards Heidelberg, while Allen took the remaining cavalry and his own guards.
, began to run towards Changhu Town.
A few days later, Allen crossed the rushing river from a ford and headed towards the long lake along the forest. At this time, Allen suddenly saw the figure of the elf at the edge of the forest.
These elves were specially sent by Governor Thrand Yin to investigate the area of Running River. From Changhu Town to the dense forest road, these are the areas that the Woodland Kingdom needs to be responsible for.
Originally, these elves were well hidden and would never be discovered by Allen and others who were running. After they recognized Allen, they came out to say hello to Allen. At the same time, they also conveyed a message to Allen.
The kingdom is well prepared to deal with enemy invasion.
Apart from the fact that they looked familiar, Allen did not recognize the identity of the elf in front of him. After all, they were all handsome men and beautiful women, and it was easy to be fooled. Faced with the greetings of the woodland elf, Allen did not stay too much, but
He nodded to this reconnaissance team and headed towards Long Lake along the bank of the rushing river again.
Two days later, Allen and his party finally approached Long Lake, and from a distance saw the defensive camp built by the dwarves at the angle between the west bank of Long Lake and the north bank of the Jungle River.
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At this time, this defensive stronghold had been built by the dwarves. A simple dock connected the camp to the Long Lake and the Jungle River. An arrow tower was placed on both sides of the dock. The dwarf warriors on the arrow tower,
Always keep an eye on the Dongyi people who have just begun to gather on the other side.
At this time, several small boats were setting off from the dock of the camp and rowing in the direction of the dense forest road. If nothing else happened, they should be preparing to inform the humans on the dense forest road that the enemy was already stationed near Long Lake.
In addition to the dock, this camp has two other gates. One is open to the southwest, and the gate of the camp is connected to a simple bridge across the dense forest river. It is quite close to the Black Forest, allowing people to
The elves in the Black Forest Mountains entered the camp defense as quickly as possible, or sent soldiers to support the elves who were good at fighting in the forest.
Another one was opened in the north, so that the dwarves coming from the direction of Gushan can enter the camp more conveniently. After all, after the Dongyi people approach, it is too dangerous to go backwards in the river. After the war begins, the land route may be the dwarves.
The only choice.
The walls of the camp are surrounded by rough logs nearly three meters high. Behind the wooden walls are wooden frames made by dwarves, which allow the dwarves to easily resist enemy attacks on the wall. At the same time, these wooden frames
Part of it is buried deeply in the earth, increasing the wall's ability to withstand impact.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Every other distance on the wall, there is a five-meter-high arrow tower. The soldiers on the arrow tower can also overlook the surrounding environment to prevent the enemy from launching a sudden attack on the camp.
Outside the wall is a trench with a width and depth of about two meters. The trench is densely packed with extremely sharp wooden thorns. If a person falls into this depth, he will inevitably be injured by these wooden thorns. At the same time, the trench is still far away.
The river is very close. As long as the dwarves are willing, they can dig out the river at any time and introduce the water into the ditch to form a simple moat.
Since part of the edge of the camp was replaced by a long lake and a dense forest river, nearly a thousand dwarves, with the help of hundreds of humans, completed the preliminary construction of this huge camp in the past few months.
The next step may be to build some trebuchets or some platforms that can accommodate repeating crossbows.
Of course, Allen paid the dwarves to make these things. After this war, the new Changhu Town will be built on the basis of this camp. These city-defending weapons are more and more important to Allen.
The more the better.
At noon that day, Allen led his men through the simple bridge over the dense forest river and entered the camp. Also arriving at the same time as Allen was a goat cavalry led by Qili, who had just returned from patrol.
Kili came here from the Lonely Mountain a week ago with dozens of goat cavalry. At this time, all the dwarves who originally lived in the Iron Hills had migrated to the Lonely Mountain. Thorin, who had put down a big thing on his mind, left
A large number of dwarf cavalry were sent out.
Their main task was to patrol the running river waters from Changhu to Gushan to prevent the enemy from crossing the river silently. Qili divided the cavalry into several teams. His team had just returned from patrolling.
After seeing Allen, Qili, who had just settled his mount, waved to Allen. At the same time, Mr. Balin, who received the news, also walked out of a barracks in the camp, and behind Balin was
Dyne Ironfoot.
"Alan, here."
There was no need for Kili's shout. Allen, who had just gotten off the horse with a sweaty face, immediately saw his dwarf friends.
He asked his personal guard captain Horimion to take the other soldiers to settle in the human living area of the camp first, while he strode towards his dwarf friends.
At the same time, he said loudly: "My friends, at this dangerous moment, it is really reassuring and happy to be able to see this camp and see your presence."