Chapter 793 What Determines Victory or Defeat Is Something without Combat Effectiveness (Monthly Tickets Will Add More Updates)
The news of the war with the Dark Lord Sauron spread throughout the Blackfoot settlement, and some orcs immediately expressed their dissatisfaction, denouncing this as a very stupid act, and some orcs thought it was betrayal. The thousand orcs who followed Zhao Mai back told what they saw, including the conversation with Sauron's messenger and the subsequent process of Commander Tverdo accepting the challenge. When they heard that there was still hope of victory, most of the orcs became quiet.
“The Greatest Battle of the Settlement Ever in Mordor,” is a more palatable title than “The Overthrow of Sauron,” even though the two are essentially the same thing. Even if there was no large-scale escape of the orcs, the Blackfoot settlement was still in chaos for a while. Knowing that they could not defeat Tverdor, the orcs challenged Daryl and others to a battle in an attempt to control the middle level of the Blackfoot settlement.
This kind of battle takes place more than a dozen times every day, causing the Blackfoot settlement to basically stagnate. If Zhao Mai does not have Z worms, then he will definitely have no troops to use and will be in a dilemma. Challenging according to the rules of the orcs was the legal basis for him to declare war on Sauron. If he banned the orcs' rules in his settlement, he would lose his legitimacy. Regarding the current situation, he couldn't intervene directly. He could only let Xiaohua sneak into the arena and apply healing spells to Daryl, Duchart and other orcs to ensure that they could win smoothly.
Orcs leave the settlement and Zhao Mai to go north every day, in twos and threes, or on the road alone. By monitoring the bugs, Zhao Mai can clearly know their location, number and direction. As long as he gives an order, the jumping dogs all over the territory through underground tunnels can quickly attack and kill these orcs. But he could never give this order.
"I pay too little attention to the settlement. It's a normal reaction for them not to believe me." Zhao Mai said to Xiaohua: "Even among the orcs, there is no such thing as as long as I am strong, I must be right. "
"The vast majority of orcs still decide to challenge Sauron with you, which is good." Xiaohua will always comfort Zhao Mai, she said: "As long as you don't fail, there will always be followers. As long as you win. , your reputation will spread throughout Mordor. After all, your opponent is Sauron."
"No, this has nothing to do with the opponent, it's just my problem." Zhao Mai scratched his head and said: "When I came to this world, I felt that I was invincible, so I did whatever I wanted to do without really focusing on it. The only time I calmed down. , I’m just looking at Saruman’s research results. After all, this is not watching a movie, and we can’t wait for the ending with a game mentality.”
"Then don't be half-hearted next time." Xiaohua pinched her waist, looked at Zhao Mai with big eyes, and pointedly said: "Don't be half-hearted!"
"I intervene in all aspects of forces not to balance the influence of the world's will. If I had been whole-hearted from the beginning, I am afraid that I have really become Sauron's general now, leading the army to happily attack Gondor." Zhao Mai Deliberately changing the topic, he smiled and shook his head: "This concludes the experience and lessons learned. How are the preparations for the Z-worms?"
"The attack can begin."
While the Blackfoot settlement was still resolving its internal conflicts, the Z-worms had already begun to take action. Incubation rooms, refining rooms and jumping dog pools appeared on the surface, and countless bugs began intense construction work. In order to expand, Z-worm needs everything that can be used, and when it is operating at full capacity, the consumption of resources is also very huge.
The soil spread on the ground showed its terrifying side. While it continues to maintain the normal functioning of the ecosystem it maintains, it begins to eat the earth. The soil is getting thicker and drilling deeper into the ground, as if a sieve is filtering the earth's minerals. Iron, copper, and coal are certainly useful, but are ordinary stones and sand useless?
Using stone to make armor and shields is a method that only Z insects can accomplish. Grind it into powder and compress it, then dip it in adhesive and continue to compress and shape it. This is how the stone armor shield is made. In terms of hardness, it is definitely not as good as steel products, but it is easy to shape, extremely cheap, and easy to mass-produce. Under Zhao Mai's prompts, the armor and shield imitated the carapace shapes of some creatures in nature, using the structure to increase strength and reduce weight, and they immediately became easy to use.
They are all consumables anyway, so Zhao Mai directly distributed unlimited quantities of these stone products to the orcs in the Blackfoot settlement.
Constantly nibbling downwards to make the most of everything, inevitably causing ground subsidence. In this aspect, Xi soil is like a huge beast, opening its mouth and digging downwards to eat. As a result, earthquakes became a common occurrence, occurring dozens of times a day. However, the soil is "soft" and can disperse and resolve impact forces both horizontally and vertically. Therefore, the intensity of the earthquake is very low and can only be felt slightly.
The created army of springtails attacked directly east under Zhao Mai's order, first killing the Goblin Beast Fang forces in one direction. When Zhao Mai was wandering in the north, preparations for the eastward attack were being carried out in full swing. For the first large-scale offensive operation, Zhao Mai did not have any good plan. He could just rely on his numerical advantage to directly swamp him. What kind of leapfrog tactics, what kind of division and encirclement, what kind of pincer encirclement, these concepts have been taught, but it is hard to say what the Gardener Dragon will become when executed. Even Zhao Mai only heard of his name but didn't know his secrets. Fortunately, there are plenty of opportunities for practice. As long as he is on the ground, Zhao Mai is not afraid of expending effort.
"So, Xi soil is the key, right?" Gardener Long came to Zhao Mai for the third time before attacking. It can be seen that they were not sure. "As long as the soil is paved over, sooner or later it will be ours?"
"It can be understood this way." Zhao Mai said: "Be prepared in advance. Once the war starts, you will have to take care of the front and rear at the same time. It will be very busy. Never think that the war reserves are enough, because once the war starts, the consumption will be difficult to control. . But fortunately we can afford it.”
Gardener Long really wanted Zhao Mai to go to the Eastern Front together, so that they would be confident of winning. However, Zhao Mai still needs to control the Blackfoot settlement and arrange for the orcs who were forcibly recruited to settle down as soon as possible. At the same time, news came from the surveillance bug that Sauron was building a fortress in the north. It seemed to be closing off the northern part of Mordor, using city walls and fortresses to block Zhao Mai's army, and also firmly locking the activity area of the two halflings.
Sauron's power shrank and his power became very concentrated. With the support of his will and magic, the mountains can change their direction, the earth can change its shape, and masonry, stone, and steel can be piled up and built as desired. If Zhao Mai were at the scene, he would even feel that this scene seemed familiar. If psychic powers and alchemical creations are used, the scene of Zhao Mai building a fortress will be exactly the same as Sauron.
Zhao Mai was also very anxious about the upcoming battle, but it was not his inner thoughts that determined the time for the war, but the expansion speed of the soil. Every day, a newly born Gardener Dragon comes out of the incubator and immediately goes to work cultivating the soil and expanding the soil area. The Z-worm's expansion speed exceeded Zhao Mai's expectation, so Sauron on the opposite side could not even imagine it!
There were no special signs. The gardener dragons thought it was time to fight, and the war began.