Damn it, this boss really has no normal skills.

Chapter 532: A powerful enemy is at hand, a civil war in the wilderness?
"I don't know, Your Highness. This is the first time we've seen this thing, too."

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

But we have to say that the wolf soldier who was brave enough to offer his treasure was really courageous. He not only took a step forward, but also rubbed his hands excitedly.

"But your highness, smell it! There are fresh fruits on the cream, which are fragrant and sweet. Look! There seems to be a layer of blue jam in it."

...Okay, this group of hungry wolves might have robbed a cake shop and offered up the six-inch cakes that were sold individually as treasures.

In order to maintain his own character, Asibao definitely doesn't want to eat it, but this kid might have succubus bloodline, and the description is too damn tempting.

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

So after making a classic tsundere declaration, Asibao condescended to lower his head and took a small bite.

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

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

"Your Highness, how does it taste?"

"..."

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

He left behind an ambiguous "It's OK" and quickly walked away carrying the cake.

The wolf soldiers were left looking at each other in confusion, not understanding what His Royal Highness the Prince meant.

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

At the same time, after turning several corners, he entered an alley and made sure that there was really no one around.

"Oh my god! It's so delicious!"

So when Asibao reappeared in front of everyone, he had nothing in his hands and pretended to be strolling leisurely.

He pretended to be on patrol and walked around outside again, but unfortunately he didn't find any shop that sold similar pastries.

He could only return to his base dejectedly, ready to seize the time and handle today's official business.

But before that, the experienced man who had killed countless people asked casually.

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

Unexpectedly, the staff officer beside him lowered his head with a strange look on his face.

"Your Highness, we... don't have any human corpses to deal with."

"Ok?"

Before Asibao looked up in confusion, the staff officer hurriedly explained.

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

Asibao was so shocked that he almost slammed the table and stood up.

"You said everyone here is a pioneer?"

He took a deep breath and instantly understood what that strange feeling he had felt before was all about.

In the past, whenever he ordered the massacre of a tribe, what he got was always a bloody, horrible ruin full of minced meat and mud.

However, in today's war, the number of enemies was clearly greater than ever before, but the settlement we finally obtained was also cleaner than ever before.
Because the so-called pioneers would not leave any corpses after their death. Except for the blood splattered when they were stabbed, it can be said that they died quite cleanly.

But why?
Why are there only pioneers in such a large settlement and such a huge city?
It should be understood that according to Asibao's investigation, it is true that pioneer forces make up the majority of the High Tower Community, but the natives of the Savage Plains are also an important component.

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

For example, only pioneers are allowed in, and all members of the mountain tribes will be expelled?
Also, now that I think about it calmly, it was too easy to capture this magnificent city.

It was as if he just led his men to charge in a random wave, and then he won the final victory with a triumphant march all the way and crushed the enemy with overwhelming force.

Is this all normal?

As he thought about it, Asibao even had a sense of absurdity that this city was given to him as an apology and compensation out of mercy by the pioneers.

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

Moreover, with this level of infrastructure, it should be able to easily accommodate an army of more than 10,000 or even several hundred thousand, let alone 100,000.

Therefore, we should put all the main forces here, and no matter whether it is active or passive, we should try every possible way to make the main force of the grassland army fight with them here, so as to prevent the enemy from penetrating deep into the wilderness and causing greater damage. This is the behavior that meets the basic requirements of strategy and tactics, right?
However, the current situation is that there are only 10,000 people here, and the highest level of these 10,000 people is no more than level 50, and they cannot escape a single move from him and the Fox King.

Even the very threatening Iron Turtle, there are only four of them here!
All of this added together doesn't seem like they are deliberately targeting me, but rather like a bait!

But what’s the point of bringing myself in?

It seemed that apart from giving himself a sturdy city and more than ten days of food, there was no other change.

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

In a trance, he even had the idea of ​​abandoning the city and, for safety's sake, taking the large army directly back to the woods.

However, reason told him that it was impossible. Now that he had food, clothes and shelter, who would be willing to stay in the wild? The Fox King and the Bull King would definitely oppose him.

Moreover, during the day, even though he had repeatedly emphasized this, there were still constant problems when the large army was marching through the woods.

If we really set up camp in the wilderness and cook, who knows what kind of trouble might arise!

...Well, no matter what conspiracy they have, I will just do my own thing.

So on the second day, the Wolf Prince personally led his army out of the city, divided it into several teams, and began a carpet-like campaign of fortification and clearing the countryside with Han City as the center.

They gained a lot along the way, but it was just as he thought. All those they caught and killed were pioneers, and not even one was a tribesman from the plains.

This abnormality made Asibao, who was already on the verge of becoming worried, frown more and more, but the Fox King and the Ox King, who did not think too much, became happier and happier.

There’s no way, these pioneers drop so many gold coins!
What is this? It's sweet. Have a bite.

What is this? It's fun, let's play with it.

What is this? It looks good. Wear it.

God is my witness, these orcs who climb on ice and sleep in snow on the grassland, and who are either migrating or blowing in strong winds all year round, are like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden today!

...It's just that this Liu Laolao was born a bandit. Not only did she want to rob and kill everyone in the two royal palaces, she also wanted to take the Twelve Golden Hairpins back to be her concubine.

As the army extended its front, they also discovered several pioneer cities that were much smaller in size than Hancheng, but equally strong.

Unfortunately, it was already afternoon, and for safety reasons, the Wolf Prince required all scouts to return to the city tonight. So they left in a hurry without getting any more information and returned to the city to report.

"Well, four cities..."

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

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

But considering that siege is a time-consuming and laborious 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 out will definitely not be able to return after the battle is over.

In such a situation, the only way to maintain contact with the main force is by relying on brave messengers walking alone at night, which is not reliable.

At the combat meeting that evening, Asibao raised this concern.

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

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

"Right! Let's concentrate our forces and take down the nearest one in the south first, and then see how the humans react!"

Asibao thought for a moment and nodded slowly.

Now it’s good. We can only say that they are indeed brothers. After Silla’s Hancheng, Baekje’s Yangcheng also fell into the hands of Wang Ting’s army.

However, as in all previous battles, those who were killed were all pioneers without leaving any bodies, and the spoils were a lot of food, drinks and entertainment.

"So many again?"

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

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

Moreover, the people on the grassland are all poor, and the chief's family has no surplus food. How can they be as rich as these damn upright monkeys? Their warehouses are filled with fat!
We have only just opened the treasure chests of two cities. At least the amount of food and fodder we have obtained is already far ahead of the previous plunder of a large area in the wilderness.

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

"No wonder the Deep Forest Kingdom always steals the money and food from the neighboring Huiguang Kingdom. It turns out that these farmers are the richest!"

The Wolf Prince was relatively calm. While eating a lot of Trail Blazer milk cakes, he successfully got the clues he wanted in Yangcheng.

After taking out the documents in the city hall and roughly flipping through them, he found that although they were both members of the same community, the relationship between the two cities was not good.

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

Some are good, some are bad, and there are a lot of conflicts in the reviews.

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

Finally, after combining all the things he had previously found abnormal, an answer that could explain everything came to light.

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

It was a war of unification in the wilderness in which three large tribes proclaimed themselves as royal courts, led countless servant tribes, and wiped out other voices.

So since the wasteland is possible, why not the wild land?

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 powerful the royal army is, it cannot swallow up the barbarian plains in one go. In fact, only the areas on the border will be hit in the first wave.

So why should members in the North pay the price for members in the South?
Why should the city-states, which are also located on the border, put aside their hatred for the safety of others?

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

After successfully attaining enlightenment and recovering from his mental illness, Asibao felt as if the skin on his body had opened up and a cool breeze was blowing in his head.

He immediately told the Fox King and the Ox King about this bold speculation, and sent someone to deliver it to his father along with the victory news of the capture of Yangcheng.

The Fox King changed color: "Hmm? Asibao, what you said is very likely!"

The Bull King nodded: "Me too!"

Even the Wolf King laughed: "Come, 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.

Therefore, the Royal Court 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 were easily captured by the brave orcs.

So far, Wang Ting’s army has successfully seized a large piece of territory in the Savage Plains, but has not encountered any decent resistance throughout the process, let alone the so-called "level 70 masters".

"Ok?"

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

But he suddenly discovered that the other party seemed to have never appeared since he sneaked into the king's tent last time and told him some information related to Manyuan.

……

The wolf king suddenly felt his blood pressure rising and couldn't help but blurt out a swear word.

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

Moreover, suspicion becomes more real the more one thinks about it. Especially under the influence of reality this time, he still follows the presumption of guilt.

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

But in fact, I didn't show myself anything substantial at all, I was just talking to myself.

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

Wait a minute, she never seemed to say that she was great!

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

There's nothing he can do. He's only level 30 after all. Anyone with a slightly higher level would be too powerful for him.

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

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

This is not to persuade him to lead the army in person and give it his all, it is clearly to persuade him to retreat!
(End of this chapter)