Chapter 177: Destroying the Farm
"Where the hell are these damn guys?" said Overlord Flower to herself with a distressed expression.
And just when Overlord Flower was worried because she couldn't find Emperor Shitian's army.
Emperor Shi suddenly found another interesting place.
In Xia Ruo's territory, there is a main city, but it is relatively small, ranking seventh or eighth among the ten main cities of the Overlord Flower.
However, this territory has a very distinctive feature, that is, there is fertile land, abundant water resources, and several wide underground rivers pass through it, making this territory one of the few territories in the underground world that can be planted on a large scale.
Of course, due to the complex terrain of the underground world, the planting environment here is not particularly good, with only a few flat lands that can be planted, and these lands are next to hilly terrain.
But despite this, Overlord Flower also cherishes these fertile lands and has built hundreds of manors.
Each farm has thousands or even tens of thousands of acres of land, and tens of thousands of farmers have been bought for care.
Even Overlord Flower equipped them with a dozen or 20 agriculture and forestry mages to increase the efficiency of farming.
In this case, this territory has become the main grain production area of overlord flowers, and even accounts for more than seventy percent of grain production.
The grain here is all wheat, oats and the like, suitable for orcs and orcs, and the yield is also very large.
If they were to be supplied with all the meat, it would be impossible to afford it, even with the financial resources of the overlord flower.
One of the three teams assigned by Emperor Shi Tian was originally aiming at another grassland, but as he walked, he saw a large wheat field, and the golden ears of wheat shimmered with golden brilliance under the illumination of the luminous stones in the sky, which was simply beautiful.
The team immediately reported the situation, and Emperor Shi Tian soon realized that the location of this team happened to be the agricultural production base of the Overlord Flower.
Since he has encountered such a good thing, of course Emperor Shi Tian will not be polite.
Without any hesitation, Emperor Shi immediately opened the portal again and gathered tens of thousands of troops, not only the main cave people and archer troops, but also tens of thousands of gray dwarf warrior troops.
After hastily mixing them up, they scattered the guys who were all riding crazy iron dogs, and began to make their way down the roads, looking for farms to destroy.
Since the crops produced by the farms had to be transported outward, and there were not so many flying carriages for alchemy, roads had to be built between the farms.
And this is convenient for the group of robbers like Emperor Shitian, as long as they follow the road, they can find various farms, no matter how hidden the location of the farms is, it is useless.
At this time, it is the season for the harvest of all kinds of wheat, and the golden wheat is particularly dry, which is simply the best time to set fire.
Emperor Shi Tian was originally worried about how to destroy so much farmland, but this time it saved a lot of trouble, as long as he kept setting fires.
It is precisely because of this that Emperor Shi Tian will also send the gray dwarf troops out, because the more people, the more fires will be generated by ignition, and the faster they will burn.
Due to the fact that this territory is deep in the hinterland of many territories of Overlord Flower, and there is no major threat around, Overlord Flower did not place many troops to guard it.
There were only a dozen orc warriors in each farm, and there were only about a hundred or so people, and they were not at all the opponents of the modern troops equipped with alchemy guns, and almost all of them were beaten into a sieve by a single face.
And then there was a crazy arson, each squad had hundreds of people, each with a torch, and they could be lit by just turning around the field, I don't know how many fires.
Even a large farm with tens of thousands of acres of farmland can't help burning like this, anyway, the fields quickly turned into ruins, and the air was filled with the smell of roasted wheat.
In fact, Emperor Shakti had more shady ideas, such as sprinkling salt in the fields, or unleashing acid rain techniques to change the barrenness of the entire field and make it uncultivateable.
But this trick is too yin, and the amount of materials consumed is relatively large, which is a bit embarrassing and unfavorable to others.
So Emperor Shi Tian thought about it for a while, and finally gave up this tempting idea.
But despite this, Emperor Shitian's destruction of various farms is also terrifying.
The people on the farm, even the livestock, were all killed.
In this way, even if the overlord flower wants to resume production, it must first purchase a sufficient number of farmers, as well as cattle and horses for farming.
In addition, Emperor Shakti also destroyed all agricultural supplies, including the houses of the farm, harvesting, peeling and other useful agricultural machinery, and burned them all.
Even, Emperor Shi Tian deliberately sent earth mages to destroy water conservancy facilities.
The embankment was destroyed by using earth spells, and all the reservoirs that stored water were also destroyed, and even water was deliberately diverted to flood the burned farmland.
As the saying goes, it is easier to destroy than to build, and the water conservancy facilities that the overlord spent several years and dispatched hundreds of thousands of people to build were basically completely destroyed within two or three days.
If you want to restore it, it will take at least several years to do it, and it will take a lot of manpower and material resources.
Without farmers, without farm tools, or even without water conservancy facilities, what if the fields were unharmed?
Anyway, the overlord flower is not trying to resume agricultural cultivation here in a short period of time.
On the first day of Emperor Shitian's sabotage, Overlord Flower got the news, and she suddenly felt as if she had been hit on the head, and the whole person was stunned.
After a while, Overlord Flower suddenly came to her senses, and then said angrily: "How is this possible? That guy's troops, who were still here two days ago to kill my cattle and sheep, why did they run to Xia Ruo's territory two days later and go to burn my farmland? From here to Xia Ruoling, at least tens of thousands of kilometers, right? Did his troops fly over?"
"It's not so fast to fly, unless it's teleportation!" said the little angel, "but in the wilderness, how can you suddenly teleport tens of thousands of troops?" ”
"What the hell is going on then?" asked Overlord Flower angrily.
"I think it's like the two forces are doing it separately. The little angel suddenly said: "You seem to have forgotten that Emperor Shi Tian has an army of 100,000 in his hands, and the people who killed these cattle and sheep are at most twenty or thirty thousand, or even less." And the news from Xia Ruo's territory proved that the enemy troops over there were only tens of thousands, and even added up to less than 100,000! From this, it can be seen that it is likely that Emperor Shi Tian chose to divide his troops and attacked these two places separately. ”
"That's not right!" Overlord Hua's face suddenly changed, and she couldn't help but say: "I can understand the bastard tactics of Emperor Shi Tian, he is just going for our food supplies." The food production in the underworld is very limited, although my territory is large, there are only a few places, there is a large supply of food, three large grasslands, and hundreds of farms in Xia Ruo's territory. So these places should be his main targets. ”
"Now that you know the place, it's easy to do!" The little angel's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "Just send troops to guard these key points and wait for him to attack." We're not afraid to confront them head-on, we're afraid that this guy won't let go and sneak up on them. ”
"It's not easy to say!" Overlord Hua said with a sullen expression, "That guy's goal is not our territory, nor our city, but our food source." That is, the livestock and farms that were kept outside the city. They're all scattered all over the territory, how can we guard them?"
"This?" The little angel was stunned for a moment, and then said distressedly: "It seems that there is really no good way, the farm can't be moved at all, and we can't divide the troops to garrison, I'm afraid we can only give up." But those cattle and sheep may be able to be sent to the city for protection. ”
"What are you kidding?" Overlord Hua said hatefully: "Cattle and sheep are also living creatures, and they also need to eat grass, there are millions of cattle and sheep grazing on the grassland, where can there be so much grass in the city for them to eat? ”
"If he dares to besiege the city, won't we kill it?" asked the little angel puzzled.
"He won't run?" Overlord Flower said with a roll of her eyes, "That guy has a lot of crazy iron dogs as mounts now, and the mobility of the troops is no worse than ours, but the endurance is superior." If he wants to run, we won't be able to catch up. And if we can't eliminate them, then how can we graze? Moreover, if Emperor Shi Tian is more ruthless and simply destroys the pasture, then we will be even more doomed. ”
"How do you destroy the pasture?" the little angel immediately asked curiously.
"That's too simple. Overlord Flower sneered: "If you use the earth mage, if you cast the spell of turning mud into stone, you can't grow grass on the stone, right? There is also the acid rain technique, the land is sour, how can it grow? Even if you don't cast a spell and sprinkle some salt, you can also turn the grassland into a desert." Emperor Shi Tian has 100,000 people in his hands, and even if 20,000 or 30,000 of them are mobilized to sprinkle salt, in a month, they will almost be able to permanently destroy a large area of our grassland. ”
"Oh, it seems like that's really the case!" The little angel was immediately shocked, "Then what should they do?"
"Damn, for the time being, there is no way, I can only prepare with both hands. Overlord Hua said helplessly: "First of all, send a messenger again and tell him that I want to make peace." ”
"Huh?" the little angel smiled bitterly, "Since he killed our messenger, where have you ever dared to go?"
"Anyway, it's just a matter of sending it again, you have to go, tell them that this time be polite to Emperor Shitian, as long as he doesn't anger the other party, he shouldn't kill the envoy casually." Overlord said helplessly.
"Alright then, I see. But what's the other hand?" the little angel asked.
"Naturally, it's a war!" Overlord Hua squinted her eyes and said: "Try to increase troops to those two prairies, not only to sit in the teleportation array, but also to mobilize troops from various nearby cities and strongholds to assemble." Also, contact the Great Shaman of Thunder, and I want to recruit him back. ”
"Huh?" the little angel was shocked and said, "But according to the contract, there are still many months to expire, and if we recall him now, we will lose a lot." ”
Overlord Hua said with a depressed face, "The nest can't be saved, why do you care about that loss?"
(End of chapter)