Chapter 491, road construction, reindeer
If you want to choose a land with the highest forest cover, I'm afraid that Ice and Fire Island is the top three most favorable contenders.
On the Isle of Ice and Fire, except for the two sacred mountains and the Earthfire Pit in the center of the island, the rest of the place is full of dense cold iron forests.
Although the Chill Iron Tree provides a lot of food for the creatures on the island, it also makes the creatures on the island develop the habit of living alone, even humans.
Although the two tribes living on the island do not live alone in the true sense of the word, because they are blocked by dense woods, they have very little contact with each other, and each tribe almost lives a semi-closed life.
Although the strength of the Condor Army is far superior to these tribes on the island, due to the cold iron forests everywhere, it is difficult for the Condor Army to give full play to its strength advantage.
And because the woods are not suitable for large-scale marches, and if you are not careful, you may lose your way, so it is very difficult for the Condor to occupy the entire island in a short period of time.
After successively capturing several surrounding Fire Phoenix tribes, Ning Yuan had to temporarily stop the pace of expansion, because if he continued to divide his troops and expand outward, there would be a loss of contact with the Condor Army.
Trapped in the dense cold iron forest, the Condor Army's signal corps often gets lost, and as they continue to go deeper into the island, they have lost several waves of signal corps.
In the woods, the war horses can't run at all, and the speed of transmitting information is slow enough, plus from time to time people get lost and get lost, so that the various Condor troops on the front line often have no news for several days.
This not only seriously affected the speed of the Condor Army's advance, but also put some front-line troops in danger.
In order to change this unfavorable situation, Ning Yuan decided to change the layout of the forest on the Ice and Fire Island, and wherever the Condor Army expanded, roads would be built.
Roads are not built if you want to, from where to where, whether they are straight or curved are all planned in advance.
Considering that the Cold Iron Tree is also the main source of food for the Condor Army here, Ning Yuan did not dare to carry out large-scale felling of the Cold Iron Forest, after all, they did not have much food to bring over, and they had to rely on the Cold Iron Tree to feed their more than 200,000 people.
So Ning Yuan came up with a plan to build a road in Tianzi.
The so-called Tianzi road construction plan is to start with the base camp of the Condor Army located on the seaside, and start to write Tianzi outward.
Each stroke of this field character is five kilometers long and thirty meters wide, and at the intersection of every two strokes, a road sign indicating the direction is set up.
In this way, it can not only facilitate the exchange of information between the various departments of the Condor Army, but also retain a large area of cold iron forests, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, but this road may take a little effort to build.
However, as the saying goes, if you want to get rich, build roads first.
If you want to develop a place, you must first do a good job in the traffic of that place, otherwise everything is empty talk, so this road must be repaired, late repair is not as good as early repair, early repair and early profit.
In this way, Ning Yuan paused his pace of continuing to expand into the island, and led the soldiers of the Fire Phoenix Clan, armed with Yantie weapons and tools, to start a vigorous road construction campaign.
While the Condor was reshaping the layout of the Ice and Fire Island, a 1,000-strong raptor Druid arrived on the Island on a magical energy transport, accompanied by Andrew and a group of barbarians, as well as a shameless old elf.
After the druids arrived, Ning Yuan immediately personally protected them and went to find the Ice and Fire Moose.
Originally, Ning Yuan thought that the Ice and Fire Moose did not belong to the Warcraft, and they should be easily domesticated, after all, the Druids could even tame the Warcraft, and it should be easy to tame them.
But when he saw a veteran raptor Drew relying on an adult male Ice Moose to communicate with him, and then being chased by the adult male, he knew that things might not be so easy.
After the elven ranger had been ambushed in advance and killed the stag, Ning Yuan approached the druid and asked what had happened.
The druid's face flushed for a long time, and then he squeezed out a word 'roll' from between his teeth.
It turned out that when the druid used mental communication to greet the buck, the buck directly told him to get out, and just when he wanted to continue to convey kindness, the grumpy buck immediately attacked him.
After Ning Yuanqiang comforted the druid, who was despised by the stag, with a smile, he began to ask people to look for the female deer and the young deer.
The thought of a powerful bird of prey druid being despised by a stag makes him want to laugh out loud.
This ice and fire moose is really too individual, look at the little temper of others, if you don't agree with each other, you just do it, it's really a bull fork to the extreme.
Now that the adult bucks are out of play, all the hope for the next is pinned on the females and young deer.
If they can't do it, then Ning Yuan can only kill them.
Then, as everyone watched nervously, the druid, who had secretly vowed to be ashamed, finally managed to get close to the female and young deer.
When the druid was seen to put his hand on the stag's head and stroke it gently after communicating with the hind for a while, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
When the embarrassed druid returned to Ning Yuan with a smile, Ning Yuan smiled and encouraged the other party, and then asked him to immediately lead the druid to domesticate the female deer and young deer in the occupied area.
Considering that only male deer were suitable for cavalry mounts, and that young deer would take three years to reach adulthood, Ning Yuan asked the druids to mark the tamed female deer and young deer with the symbol of the Condor Empire, and then free-range them.
Ning Yuan is ready to implement a 10-year plan to phase out adult bucks that cannot be tamed.
After all the ice and fire moose on the island have become domesticated by the druids, the ice and fire island can provide a steady stream of ice and fire moose mounts for the Condor army.
Until then, in order to maintain the genetic diversity of the Ice and Fire Moose population, he would try to keep the wild and untamable bucks, and he would have the druids try to tame the young deer that were born every year, and then use natural selection to eliminate the bucks when the young deer were grown.
After finishing the serious thing, Ning Yuan was extremely reluctant to get busy with serious things.
Andrew came here this time mainly for the Fire Iron Weapon and the Ice and Fire Moose Mount.
Because he had taken the Five Elements Holy Fruit before, he could use the Yan Iron weapon, so Ning Yuan asked people to pick out a Yan Iron Great Sword for him.
As for the Ice and Fire Moose Mount, there was no need to think about it in a short period of time, so Ning Yuan sent him back after asking him to bring a Five Elements Holy Fruit and a Flame Iron Great Sword to each of Philip and his wife.
And a shameless old elf is not so easy to send away.
The old guy not only took away a Five Elements Holy Fruit and a Flame Iron Weapon from Ningyuan, but also let people load two large ships of Iron Wood Fruit, Moose Meat, and hundreds of processed Cold Iron Wood before he left the Ice and Fire Island by boat with satisfaction.
After sending away the stinky and shameless old guy, Ning Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, now that the road has been almost repaired, it is time to march to the island.