There was still black blood on the thin stabbing sword, and the damaged clothes and scratches all over the body during the fight showed a bit of prowess. After fighting for his life, Zhou Qingfeng looked even more murderous, and the orders he gave were short and clear, which made people believe him.
Both goblins and villagers have poor combat effectiveness. The battle depends entirely on the ability of the commander. However, the rewards of a bad battle are huge.
Zhou Qingfeng completely captured two complete light trebuchets. Even the human craftsmen who operated the trebuchets did not escape. He caught them all. To be precise, the craftsmen cried when they saw him, a human adventurer.
Shouting and running out to seek refuge.
These craftsmen come from a city called "Cold Wind Castle" outside the Black Forest. It is said to have a population of tens of thousands and is one of the larger cities in the North. They were lured into the Black Forest by the Bann Church through deception, bǎng jià, threats and other means.
The forest has become the slave of the goblins.
Zhou Qingfeng became the liberator of mankind in the eyes of the craftsmen. They were so tortured that they almost fell to the ground, bowed their heads and prayed for help from heroes.
"These craftsmen are better than the waste in Black Marsh Village, right?" Zhou Qingfeng helped the craftsmen up one by one and simply asked their names. There were five of them in total, and there was a middle-aged man named Wilson who looked calmer and was
Assigned as team leader to direct others.
"Carry the trebuchet away, we may need it in the future. Take the vehicles behind, and we will evacuate immediately. Old Borg, take people to erase the traces, and don't let those goblins track us." Zhou Qingfeng ordered
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The animals pulling the cart include cattle, horses, and even wargs that are unique to goblins. Those wargs refused to accept the driving of humans and had to be killed on the spot. The wolf carcasses can also provide extra meals for the villagers, and the wolf skins can also keep out the cold.
After a quick inspection of the supplies in the convoy, there was a cart of field equipment, a cart of horse feed, a cart of dried meat, two carts of rye flour, and a box of gold and silver coins. These were prepared for the troops besieging Baiya Village, of which the gold
Silver is to reward human traitors.
Wilson, the head craftsman, said that the Bann Church spent a lot of money to purchase these from Cold Wind City for this operation in the Black Forest. In order to control the Black Forest, the cultists tried their best to take out all the wealth they had accumulated over the years.
put all one's eggs in one basket.
The Black Forest is extremely poor, and all supplies must be purchased from the outside world, which costs a lot of money. If it fails to achieve its expected goals, the power of Bann Church in the North will be severely damaged - a power without money is really like a rat crossing the street.
ah.
It is said that the cost is so huge and it can be called a fate-determining action. After all, every step must be carefully studied and planned carefully to avoid failure. But such an important logistics team is only led by two bugbears to protect it. This is too careless.
But judging from Wilson's description, this "carelessness" is reasonable. The God of Bào Zhèng has just been resurrected, and the Benn Church does not have many people. There are only a dozen or so core believers in the Black Forest.
Even in the face of a 'large-scale armed battle', this manpower is far from enough. Otherwise, the people of Benn Church would not want to use the power of goblins to achieve their goals. This is really no way.
Now that a baggage team has been lost, all the good things in the team are cheap for Zhou Qingfeng. The accompanying villagers circled around the team several times, and they were all happy and their morale was high again. They looked a bit like "warriors".
Zhou Qingfeng had to impose strict discipline again and asked all the 'warriors' to shut up and not reveal any details of this operation. He told all his men to keep quiet with just one sentence - the more other people in Black Marsh Village know, the more likely you are to know
The less points you get.
With such coercion and inducement, half-blinded and half-deceived, Zhou Qingfeng led the team back to Black Marsh Village before dark. The people in the village were naturally surprised, but no matter how they asked, the 'warriors' in the team did not speak.
In a hurry, the word 'discipline' popped up.
After just one trip and such a huge harvest in half a day, the villagers were immediately jealous. Immediately, hundreds of people flocked to Zhou Qingfeng's tent, crying and demanding to become 'Master Hugo's' subordinates.
If you can't become a subordinate, as long as you have food to eat, you can be a slave.
The noise could not be suppressed, and people kept trying to break into Zhou Qingfeng's tent. At present, the village was running out of food, and the hungry villagers were desperate to survive.
"It's not easy to raise these three hundred people." Zhou Qingfeng arranged fifteen good-for-nothing 'warriors' outside, holding light crossbows to block the villagers who kept coming.
To be honest, his original intention was definitely not to raise any waste. But under the current situation, he had to raise him even if he didn't want to raise him, at least half of him had to be raised. At the same time, he had to keep the other half from starving to death and not being frivolous.
"Let's make porridge first and then eat a big pot of rice." Zhou Qingfeng called Rubio and appointed him as the temporary housekeeper, releasing a certain amount of food to appease the restless villagers.
After waiting for a bowl of gruel to be eaten, Uncle Zhou ordered another expansion. He appointed fifteen useless 'warriors' as team leaders, and each recruited twenty team members. The recruited people started working - repairing the black marsh.
village.
Making tools, filling roads, cleaning up garbage, building walls, digging wells and toilets, washing and cooking, in short, there is endless work. Whether it is done well or not, Zhou Qingfeng personally inspects and decides.
Can you have a full meal?
I am creating jobs!
As long as they maintain employment and have enough food and clothing, the people will not cause trouble. Naturally, Zhou Qingfeng's current status will be stabilized.
There was nothing to say for the next two days, and Zhou Qingfeng simply stayed in the village to train his men. After falling asleep, he used the information network to collect intelligence and win over the lower-level civilians, without going out to rob again.
As for the goblins, it was only two days later that they confirmed this - one of their own baggage convoys transporting trebuchets had not arrived at the front line of Baiya Village from Gumui Village, and it should have been robbed.
The slowness of this response is truly staggering.
The first person to notice that something was wrong was not the goblin staying in Gray Mud Village, but the human traitor Old Xius who was responsible for the siege of White Crow Village.
This jungle wanderer has a pair of fierce and cunning eyes. For his own benefit, he can betray anyone without hesitation. This time he believed that the Bane Church had a greater chance of winning, so he did not hesitate to raise a butcher knife against his own kind.
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On the night that Zhou Qingfeng succeeded in his robbery, Old Xius was yelling angrily in the camp outside Baiya Village. The carriage team escorted by the two bugbears not only brought the trebuchet to destroy the solid wall, but also a batch of
tent.
The Black Forest is cold during the day and even colder at night. The goblins have to hide in the woods to avoid the wind, and humans need a warmer residence. Old Hughes took fifty of his men and rushed to White Crow Village lightly, and that night they were in the wild
Suffered a hard night by the campfire.
This kind of suffering severely consumed physical strength and had a great impact on the war. It was supposed that the tent should be delivered the next day, but when Old Hughes waited until night, only the cold wind came and nothing else came.
"Damn goblins, they must have delayed things." The first thing Old Hughes suspected was not that someone was blocking the road and robbing. Instead, he felt that it was the goblins' laziness and confusion that caused the logistics supplies not to be delivered.
After all, those goblins have never been reliable in their work.
Middle and low-level goblin soldiers and officers can only yell "Oke Oke". Their goblin language only has this pronunciation, and all meanings are expressed by changes in the tone, which is completely incomprehensible to outsiders.
Goblins who can speak Common Language are all high-level, but what they are best at is dancing and praying to the gods. Let them do complicated work that requires coordination and organization, and they will definitely mess up.
On the second day of the siege, Old Hughes did nothing. All of his men looked livid, and they could only burn the bonfires to avoid the cold. On the third day, they quickly sent people back to Huimi Village to supervise the transportation of supplies.
There are several priests from the Bann Church in Stupid Village who are responsible for managing logistics. When they heard that some supplies were not delivered to the front line, they also cursed. They also thought that it was the laziness of the goblins that ruined the event.
So the church pastor quickly sent someone to investigate where the baggage train had gone.
After a whole day of investigation, Old Xiu Si's men and horses continued to stay up all night in the cold wind, suffering unspeakably. Due to lack of food and clothing, many adventurers were frozen and sick, and suffered non-combat losses.
On the fifth day after the war, the official battle had not yet started. Instead, an investigation report was placed in front of the old goblin shaman Zul. Grayskin - a human force attacked our baggage train and caused heavy losses.
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As for who attacked the goblin baggage train?
The goblins who escaped and survived couldn't explain it clearly, but they had a profound impact - there was a human boy whose weapon was a rusty thin stabbing sword. He was the worst!