Chapter 532: A Powerful Enemy Is at Hand, a Civil War in the Wilderness?

"I didn't make it, Your Highness. This is the first time we have seen this thing."

These rough guys who only knew how to wield swords and guns had never left the wasteland in their lives, so they naturally shook their heads when they heard this.

But I have to say that the wolf soldier who was brave enough to offer the treasure was really courageous. Not only did he take a step forward, he even rubbed his hands together excitedly.

"But smell it, Your Highness! There are fresh fruits stuck on top of the cream. It's fragrant and sweet. Look! There seems to be a layer of blue jam inside."

...Okay, this group of hungry wolves may have robbed a cake shop and presented the six-inch cakes sold separately as treasures.

Asibao definitely didn't want to eat it in order to maintain his character, but this kid may have succubus blood, and the description is too tempting.

"Well, since you are sincere, I will give you this face."

So after making a classic arrogant declaration, Asibao lowered his head condescendingly and took a small bite.

There were a lot of people competing in the cake shop at that time, so the completeness and exquisiteness of this cake was probably the highest among all the trophies.

So that all the wolf soldiers opened their mouths wide and drooled.

"Your Highness, how does it taste?"

"..."

Asibao didn't speak, nor did he look up at them. Instead, he coughed lightly and turned around.

Leaving behind an unclear "It's okay", he took the cake alone and left quickly.

The wolf soldiers were left looking at each other, confused as to what His Highness meant.

After hesitating for a moment, he wiped his mouth and continued patrolling.

At the same time, after twisting and turning into an alley, I made sure that there was really no one around.

"Damn it! It's so delicious!"

So when Asibao reappeared in front of everyone, he was already empty-handed and pretending to be strolling around.

Pretending to be on patrol, he strolled around outside, but unfortunately he couldn't find a shop with similar pastries.

I could only return to my station dejectedly, preparing to seize the time to handle today's official duties.

But before that, he had killed countless people and was experienced. He asked casually first.

"By the way, now that we have hundreds of thousands of troops gathered together, we must be careful about the plague. Have all the human corpses been disposed of?"

Unexpectedly, the staff officer on the side lowered his body, but his expression was strange.

"Your Highness, we...have no human corpses to dispose of."

"Um?"

Before Asibao could raise his head in confusion, the staff officer quickly explained.

"Your Highness, the people stationed here are all pioneers. They really won't leave their bodies when they die, Your Highness?"

Asibao was shocked and almost slapped the table and stood up.

"You said these are all pioneers?"

He took a deep breath and instantly understood what the strange feeling he had noticed before was going on.

In the past, when he ordered the massacre of a certain tribe, what he got would definitely be a hideous and bloody ruins filled with minced meat and mud.

However, in today's war, it is clear that the number of enemies is unprecedentedly large, but the final settlement is also unprecedentedly tidy.

Because the so-called pioneers did not leave any corpses behind after they died. Apart from the blood spattered when they were stabbed, it could be said that their deaths were quite clean.

But why?

Why are there only pioneers in such a huge settlement and such a huge city?

You must understand that according to Asibao's investigation, it is true that the pioneer forces make up the majority of the joint organization of the High Tower Community, but the natives of the Barbarian Plains are also an important component.

Could it be that there are some strange rules in this city that he doesn't know about?

For example, only pioneers are allowed in, but all members of the mountain tribe will be expelled?

Also, if you calm down and think about it now, the victory of this majestic city was too smooth.

It was as if he just led a group of people to charge casually, and then triumphed all the way, and achieved the final victory like an overwhelming force.

Is this all normal?

While thinking about it, Asibao even had the absurd feeling that this city was given to him as an apology and compensation by the pioneers out of mercy.

After all, the city's defense facilities were so strong, and so many granaries and houses were built, obviously to be able to defend the territory longer.

And with this level of infrastructure, let alone 10,000, even an army of more than 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands should be able to easily accommodate it.

Therefore, all the main forces are invested here, no matter whether active or passive, and every method is used to let the main force of the grassland army fight fiercely with them here to prevent the enemy from going deep into the barbarian plains and causing greater damage. This is in line with the basic requirements of strategy and tactics. behavior, right?

However, the current situation is that there are only 10,000 people here, and the highest level of 10,000 cannot exceed level 50. People who can't get out in front of themselves and the Fox King.

Even the very threatening Iron Bastards, there are only four here!

All of this combined, it doesn't look like they are deliberately trying to deal with themselves, but rather like a bait!

But what's the point of bringing yourself in?

It seems that apart from giving himself a strong city and giving him more than ten days of food rations, nothing else has changed.

Asibao couldn't understand the behavior of this group of humans, but his instinct made him keep thinking and trying to figure it out, until his head started to hurt.

In a daze, he even came up with the idea of ​​abandoning the city, just to be on the safe side, and lead the large army directly back to the woods.

However, his reason told him that it was impossible. Now that he had food, clothing and shelter, who would be willing to squat in the wild? The Fox King and Ox King will definitely oppose him.

And during the day, even if I repeatedly emphasized it, the situation was still constant when the large troops were marching in the forest.

If you really go to the wilds to set up camp and bury pots to make rice, there might be some trouble!

...Forget it, no matter what conspiracy they have, I just do my own thing well.

So on the second day, the Wolf Prince personally led his army out of the city, divided into several teams, and started a carpet-like clearing of the solid walls with the powerful city as the center.

There were many gains along the way, but it was similar to what he thought. All those they caught and killed were pioneers, not even one of them was a tribesman on the barbaric plains.

Such an abnormality made Asibao, who was about to have a heart attack, frown more and more tightly, but the Fox King and Ox King, who didn't think so much, were getting happier and happier.

There is no way, these pioneers have exploded so many gold coins!

What's this? So sweet, take a bite.

What's this? It's fun, have some fun.

What's this? Nice to wear.

The conscience of heaven and earth, this group of orcs who climb on the ice and lie on the snow on the grassland, either migrating or blowing strong winds all year round, today is like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden!

...It’s just that Grandma Liu was a bandit. Not only did she want to rob and kill the two princes, but she also wanted to take back the twelve golden hairpins to be the wife of the village.

As the military front extended, they also discovered several pioneer cities that, although far smaller in area than powerful cities, were equally strong.

Unfortunately, it was already afternoon. To be on the safe side, the Wolf Prince asked all the scouts to return to the city tonight.

So they failed to obtain more information, so they left in a hurry and returned to Hancheng to report.

"Well, four cities..."

After drawing their coordinates on the still very sloppy map of Manyuan, Asibao took another bite of the pastry known as "Pioneer Milk Cake".

Although these four cities are very close to Han City, the farthest one only takes more than four hours to reach.

However, considering that siege is a relatively time-consuming and labor-intensive task, and the army's advance through the mountains and forests will inevitably be slowed down.

Therefore, if we still adhere to the principle of "no marching at night", the people sent there will definitely not be able to come back after the battle is over.

Under such circumstances, it was unreliable to rely on brave messengers walking alone at night to barely maintain contact with the larger army.

At the operational meeting that night, Asibao raised this concern.

Although the Fox King and the Ox King were tired of his "pedantic" behavior of always looking forward and backward, they still expressed their respect for His Royal Highness.

"We don't necessarily have to win four cities in one day. We can be more conservative."

"Yes! Let's concentrate our forces and take down the nearest southern one first, and then see what kind of reaction the humans have!"

Asibao thought for a moment and nodded slowly.

This is great, it can only be said that they are indeed brothers. After Silla's powerful city, Baekje's Yangcheng also fell into the hands of Wang Tingjun.

However, like all the previous battles, those killed were all pioneers without leaving corpses, and the capture was a lot of food, drink and fun.

"So many again?"

If money and silk can move people's hearts, then in the barren wasteland these food and clothing are money!

Therefore, the eyes of the Fox King and the Ox King were almost red. After all, since the wolf disaster last year, they had not had such a fun meal for a long time.

Moreover, the grasslands are all miserable, and the chief’s family has no surplus food. How can these damn upright monkeys be so wealthy? Every warehouse is so fat!

The treasure chests of two cities have just been opened. At least the amount of food and grass obtained is already far ahead of the previous plundering of a large area of ​​​​the wasteland.

So much so that they couldn't help but sigh when they got together.

"No wonder the Deep Forest Kingdom is always robbing Huiguang next door of money and food. Sure enough, these farmers are rich!"

The Wolf Prince was relatively calm. While eating pioneer milk cakes, he successfully got the clues he wanted in Yangcheng.

After taking out the documents in the city hall and looking through them, he discovered that although they were both members of the community, the relationship between the two cities' forces was not good.

And it's not just each other, they are also scolding other members of the community, from human city-states to orc tribes.

And some are good, some are bad, and there are a lot of conflicting points in the evaluations.

Asibao closed his eyes and connected all the clues in his mind.

Finally, after combining all the things that he felt were abnormal before, an answer that could explain all the problems came to light.

--civil war!

In fact, wolf plague is essentially a kind of civil war.

It was a unified war in the wasteland where three large tribes proclaimed themselves the royal court, leading countless servant tribes to kill other voices.

So if the wasteland can do it, why can't the barbarian land do it?

The so-called community has only been established for more than half a year, and many places have just begun. It is normal to fear a full-scale war.

Moreover, no matter how strong the Wang Ting army is, they will not be able to annex Manyuan in one go. The first wave will be hit only in these areas on the border.

So why should members in the north pay the price for members in the south?

Why should a city-state located on the border put aside hatred for the safety of others?

Haha, it's impossible that they really formed an effective joint organization, don't be ridiculous!

After the enlightenment was successful and the mental illness was cured, A Xibao felt that the skin on his body was opened, and the head was even more cool.

He immediately told the Fox King and the Bull King this bold speculation, and sent people to send it to his father together with the victory report of taking Yangcheng.

The Fox King changed color: "Huh? A Xibao, what you said is very likely!"

The Bull King nodded: "Me too!"

Even the Wolf King laughed: "Come on, everyone take a look, my son's inference is very interesting!"

With the approval of the three beast kings, the conclusion of [Barbarian Civil War] gradually changed from a possibility deduced by one person to an objective fact recognized by everyone.

So the Wangting Army no longer restrained its fighting on the third day. The three cities advanced simultaneously and launched a full-scale attack on humans.

The combat effectiveness of these three city-states, which they were too lazy to name, was far inferior to the first two, and they were easily captured by the brave orcs.

So far, the royal army has successfully seized a large piece of land on the Savage Plain, but has not encountered any decent resistance throughout the whole process, let alone the so-called "level 70 masters".

"Huh?"

The suspicious wolf king tried to contact the forest messenger who should be a human woman, wanting to ask what was going on.

But suddenly found that the other party seemed to have never appeared since she sneaked into the king's tent last time and told him some information related to the Savage Plain.

...

The wolf king suddenly felt his blood pressure rise, and couldn't help but swear.

"Damn, that can't be a liar!"

And suspicion is something that becomes more real the more you think about it, especially under the influence of reality this time, he still follows the presumption of guilt.

So he suddenly realized that although the woman seemed mysterious, with the fragrance of grass and flowers, and golden roses...

But in fact, she didn't show him anything substantial, she was just talking to herself.

Damn, she said she was the messenger of the Lionheart King? She said she was very powerful...

Wait a minute, she didn't seem to have ever said she was very powerful!

He Chi Na stroked his forehead and recalled carefully, and found that all this seemed to be just his wishful thinking.

There was no way, who told him that he was only level 30, and the existence of a slightly higher level was unfathomable to him.

Seeing that this person could quietly come to the king's tent and dare to calmly argue with him, the notorious wolf king, he subconsciously thought he was a great master.

Now think about it, those words that exaggerate the threat theory of the barbarian original...

This is not to persuade him to go to the battle in person and go all out, it is clearly to persuade him to retreat!