The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

The scouts who climbed up the ruins were still reporting the movements of the defenders and commanding the catapults to smash down on the heads of the defenders of Saiyue City.

The more than one thousand civilians assembled by Baron Saiyue began to flee one after another as soon as the city wall was broken.

At this point, Baron Saiyue and his army have been completely abandoned by the people.

Apart from the knights of his own family, peripheral members, and those soldiers recruited from various buildings, who still maintained their combat effectiveness, the rest of the conscripted soldiers had no will to fight at all.

Jimmy, who has tens of thousands of troops on the opposite side, can destroy the entire city with just his catapults.

And it was impossible for Jimmy to push the catapults into the city. The nearest one was nearly one kilometer away from the ruins of the city.

At a distance of one kilometer, the knights' charge only took a moment to arrive, but Jimmy had deployed a full 5000 spearmen and heavy-armored spearmen on the front line.

A defensive line of 5000 people, even if it is only stacked in 3 or 4 layers, can easily span about one kilometer.

Our knights, including those who can ride horses, number no more than a hundred or so.

Less than two hundred cavalrymen might be able to charge in, but they would definitely not be able to get out.

It is even difficult to rush in, even if you only rush towards one point, but the thousands of archers on the other side are no joke, and you don't know how many people can be killed by one round of volley.

However, at this point, if Baron Saiyue charges forward, he may still have a chance. If he does not, he will either be killed by the catapults or his morale will collapse and he will be defeated without a fight.

Either way, it violates Baron Saiyue's chivalry.

Therefore, while the main force was still there, Baron Saiyue raised the flag and gritted his teeth to launch a charge.

As the commander, Baron Saiyue had no scruples at all. He charged at the front alone, with the knights of the Saiyue family following closely behind him.

The bravery of the Saiyue family finally boosted the morale a little. Those with horses caught up on horseback, and the horseless infantry followed closely behind.

But the charge launched at this time was ultimately futile.

The ruins in the city seriously hindered the speed of the horses, causing the knights to be unable to speed up even after rushing out of the city gate.

Aini, who had received the notice early, set up the crossbow cart, and crossbow arrows as long as gun barrels whizzed out.

At the same time, crossbowmen and archers were also shooting their arrows with all their might, and the rain of arrows hit the small exit at the city gate madly.

The knights in the front row are all wearing heavy armor and can basically ignore the attacks of the rain of arrows.

However, the crossbow cart, which has extremely high damage and armor-piercing capabilities, is prepared for them.

Baron Saiyue, the most courageous and most luxuriously equipped, eventually fell under the spearmen standing up in the front row.

The horse's speed, which he had finally increased, sent him and a heavily-armored spearman he had hit to paradise.

Jimmy sighed. He had been leading the Knights for Count Eni, and he had a very good relationship with most members of the Saiyue family.

Seeing this very close family fall down in front of him, he couldn't help but feel sad.

However, he did not dare to delay at all. In order to reduce casualties, he adopted the strategy of catapult bombing, which wasted a lot of time.

"Loren, order your troops to enter the city immediately and kill all members of the Saiyue family, young and old."

Xu Lai thought that there was no need to worry about the ignorant baby, and that if he was sent to the orphanage in Qingfeng City, he would not be able to remember anything from his childhood.

But although Xu Lai didn't think that these children, who already had their own consciousness, could do anything, he still wanted to keep them as an example to scare the other nobles.

But when it came to Jimmy, he completely ignored Xu Lai's last sentence.

In any era and in any world, it is all about rooting out the evil. The only difference is whether one has the ability and the heart to do so.

Yu Lan had previously assigned two tasks to Jimmy through the magic message stone.

The previous task has been completed, and the next task is to build more villages in Saiyue City.

Because Xu Lai wanted to relocate all the herdsmen west of Wanshibao to the rear.

Xu Lai is not Aini. Aini treats the grassland people as consumables, but Xu Lai does not want to waste these ordinary people and productivity in the quagmire of war.

At the same time, Jimmy also knew the reason why Xu Lai was so anxious. The grassland was about to face a war that was more difficult and larger than before.

It can be said that the reason why Jimmy betrayed Aini was not only because he saw Xu Lai's development, but also because he had long anticipated that such a day would come.

But he didn't expect that this day would come so soon.

Jimmy cannot stay in Saiyue City for too long, as Xu Lai needs to complete the unification of the entire grassland as soon as possible.

Xu Lai could do this by himself, but after unification, he could not mobilize the resources of the entire grassland by himself.

It is said that it is easy to conquer a country but difficult to keep it, and there is a reason for this.

To unify the grassland, Xu Lai only needs to attack wherever there is disobedience.

To mobilize the resources of the entire grassland, at least one thing is that he needs to know who is the person in charge of each place and each matter, whether he is reliable, and whether the tasks assigned to him can be carried out well.

Xu Lai had no knowledge of these people before, and he had to complete these tasks quickly in a short period of time. Unfortunately, he could not send so many of his own people, so he could only rely on outsiders.

Jimmy is the local boss and the first person to surrender. If Xu Lai doesn't rely on him, there is no one else he can rely on.

Therefore, after dealing with the mess here, Jimmy had to bring enough manpower to follow Xu Lai and continue to clean up the mess.

There are several post-war tasks. One is what I mentioned before, which is to relocate farmers and herdsmen from the front lines, let them hide in the rear, continue to engage in production work, and prepare for a long-term war.

Secondly, there is the construction and upgrading of the front-line fortress. Relying solely on the previously built fortress-level Stone Fort is simply not enough to stop the orcs that are coming out in droves.

Therefore, Stone Castle must be upgraded.

Xu Lai has already prepared some upgrade materials and brought the most critical Heart of the Barrier with him. He also has enough money reserves. The only thing he lacks is a large number of manpower and basic resources.

The remaining materials from the dismantling of the walls of Konaston Castle will be transported to Stonehenge Castle in a different route.

Su Ya also received a notice in Qingfeng City that a large amount of basic materials, as well as all the pharmacists who could be hired, and the materials for Aini's recipe were already being packed and transported to the Stone Castle.

The pharmacist under Aini has already prepared the first batch of experimental drugs.

It has been tested on orc slaves, and it was found that if they only took the medicine, they would die almost instantly.

But if the potion is integrated into the meat, it will take some time for the meat to be digested in the orc's body, which may kill the orc in about 2-5 hours.

The final test was to first let the cattle and sheep eat the poison, and then throw the living cattle and sheep to the orcs.

This poison has the slowest onset, and it takes at least a day to take effect.

Moreover, in the previous two times, the poison killed him instantly at first, but the second time he died within a minute after the poison took effect.

This last time, when the poison took effect, it tortured the orc for nearly half an hour before killing him.

Because there were not many orc slaves and they were also used to make poison, Xu Lai did not dare to let them run the experiment. He used two orcs each time for the first two experiments and three orcs for the last experiment. A total of seven orcs were poisoned to death.

But among the three orcs in the last experiment, one ignored it, one asked a priest to cast an antidote, and the last one kept using healing spells to treat it.

The priest's detoxification technique and the shaman's exorcism technique are different. One is a holy light spell and the other is a nature spell.

The former has a more immediate effect, while the latter is slower in effect but can eliminate most toxins.

Although the two are not completely equivalent, they both use magic for treatment, so there is generally not much difference between them.

The detoxification technique was effective for the orc. He lay on the ground for one more day and did not die until the third day.

It can be seen that this poison, just as Aini said, cannot be removed by ordinary magic. It is more like a curse that has been entangled in the orc's body.

Xu Lai is more familiar with curses, because he still carries a curse that even the Crimson Archbishop of the temple cannot lift.

Unfortunately, Xu Lai had too few experimental samples and not enough time.

Otherwise, he would have to prepare more samples and try the detoxification technique two, three or even more times.

The effect of detoxification on orcs is not very obvious, but the effect of healing on orcs is very obvious.

After the orc's health was restored to full value by healing magic for the first time, the orc lasted until the 45th minute before his health reached the bottom again.

After the second treatment, I persisted for more than an hour.

The third time was even more incredible, it started at 2 hours, and the fourth time it lasted for 6 hours.

By the fifth time, it was no longer possible to clearly sense that the orc's health points were decreasing, but it was also not possible to see that the orc's health points were increasing.

The pastor in charge of the treatment said that the overall condition should continue to decline, but the speed is too slow and it will take a long time of observation to draw a conclusion.

There was no sixth time, because Xu Lai and his team did not have that much time to observe, so they were killed together with the one who detoxified them on the third day.

Their flesh and blood cannot be reused because these orcs' bodies have clearly developed resistance to this poison.

The efficacy of medicine made with their flesh and blood would be much worse.

Fortunately, Xu Lai already had what he needed to prove. He could ensure that the poison was effective against orcs and that the method of use was correct.

The cattle and sheep that were also experimental subjects were fine after three days.

However, if the experiment is conducted on cattle and sheep that have been fed the poison for more than three days, the effect will be much worse.

Although these poisons are not absorbed by cattle and sheep, they are indeed not good things and will be excreted from their bodies over time.

Therefore, it is necessary to continue the experiment and strengthen the poison.

In order to maximize the effect, Xu Lai plans to transport all the pharmacists and materials to the new Stone Castle.

The new Stone Fort will serve as the new front line in the fight against the orcs.

A large amount of poison will be synthesized here and fed to cattle and sheep, and then handed over to the orcs through Aini.

This kind of thing is probably difficult to succeed twice, so you must prepare enough reserves for the first time.

Therefore, in addition to various materials, Xu Lai also collected cattle and sheep, and asked Wei Yihong to send a caravan to help transport them to Xinwanshibao.

As for Aini, Xu Lai certainly would not let him escape. He just created the illusion of a prison break, and Aini was secretly imprisoned by Xu Lai.

Parame was at the base and had no way of getting detailed information about the grassland.

In addition, he was able to maintain smooth communication with Aini every day, so there was nothing wrong.

Besides, everything that needed to be discussed with the orcs had already been discussed, and after signing the covenant, Parame would have to come back soon.

However, Aini had originally promised the Beast King that he would send his eldest son over there to study, but now there is no way to do that.

Fortunately, the Beast King does not necessarily have to be Aini’s eldest son. After all, this eldest son will inherit the Aini family in the future.

After Aini agreed to send his second son over, the Beast King didn't say anything. This was a condition that Aini had proposed on his own, in addition to the orcs' requirements.

Aini's eldest son had been killed by Xu Lai, so of course he was reluctant to let his second son die.

Even if he was willing to do so, Xu Lai was still afraid that sending this person over might reveal some information.

So Aini used the excuse that the grassland had been blocked by Xu Lai's army and no action could be taken, and asked the Beast King and his troops to come to the grassland to pick up people in person.

The spies on the orc side also learned that there were major movements on the grassland recently and that Xu Lai was dispatching troops on three fronts, but they did not delve into the issue further.

On the contrary, Xu Lai's actions greatly stimulated the orcs.

In particular, Aini reported to the orcs that Xu Lai had already received news of the reconciliation between the stronghold and the swamp, and was stockpiling large amounts of food, cattle, sheep, arrows, crossbow bolts, stones, wood and other war resources.

This is also true. There are even invisible sword masters who have approached the Stone Castle for reconnaissance.

If Xu Lai hadn't complained that the infantry was too slow and stuffed Yu Lan, Giselle and the others into the New Stone Castle, where they would have been discovered by Giselle, who possessed the Gem of True Sight, and they might have been able to sneak into the castle.

Xu Lai didn't know how much information the orcs had stolen, but fortunately the drug manufacturing site was hidden and had all kinds of preventive measures in place.

Even the poison makers and assassins who prepare poisons only know that they are preparing poisons. As for how to use these poisons or on whom to use them, they have no idea.

Besides Xu Lai and his friends, the only one who knew the whole story was Aini.

Aini was only clear about what he knew. As for Xu Lai's specific arrangements, he only knew a little about the parts that required his assistance, and he was not very clear about the rest.

He was being monitored by several people 24 hours a day. Even when he went to the toilet, there were people accompanying him on both sides. It was impossible for him to secretly reveal information to the orcs.

Everyone is busy, and Xu Lai is even busier.

He took Jilong and the officials recommended by Jimmy and ran around, using the Angel Legion to capture one city after another, big and small, and then reorganized them on the spot.

He could only stay in a city for two or three days at most. Sometimes, the officials he had just appointed were assassinated just after he left, and he had to rush back to put out the fire.

Xu Lai used severe punishments in troubled times and ran away in a hurry, but still failed to completely integrate the grassland resources. He had no choice but to fight his way out of a sea of ​​blood and corpses.

In several grassland cities, hundreds or even thousands of heads were hung at once.

The only difference from the past was that these heads were no longer civilians who were so hungry that they refused to pay taxes, but the nobles who were usually high and mighty and their relatives.

Some nobles were innocent, because the assassination of the chief executive might not have been instigated by them.

But Xu Lai didn't have the time to slowly search for the murderer. Once something like this happened, the local nobles and their families would have no choice but to go to the highest point to enjoy the cool air.

As Xu Lai killed so many people, the officials sent from various places were finally able to successfully carry out the tasks assigned to them by Xu Lai. (End of this chapter)