Warlord: King of All Clans

The two villagers who had just been recruited were both hunters from nearby villages, and they had been roaming the nearby mountains and forests all year round.

Such people may not be as strong as the wild hunters, but they are not much different.

To survive to adulthood by eating wild animals from the Wolf Drive Plains, one must not only be an expert archer but also be alert enough.

According to their description, there were originally at least three mines, seven logging camps, five pioneering knight territories, and countless small natural villages around the town of Melesi.

This place is not far from the main city of Frovald. The lords are all relatives of the nobles in the main city. Their financial resources are far stronger than those of rural places like Isenbol, so the lords' army is also quite strong.

Over the years, a large number of excess population who were able to reproduce safely in the city but could not make it had to spread to the surrounding villages.

The small town of Melesi, which has relatively abundant resources, is one of the best choices.

But now, the alien races in the Wolf-Driving Plains are banding together and becoming stronger day by day. Orc clans are also appearing one after another, and the lords can no longer hold on and have to flee early.

These villages and industries were completely abandoned.

Two hunters rode somewhat clumsily on pack horses and led the scout team to their village.

The village where the hunter lives was built because of an iron mine. Most of the people in the village are miners, and a small number are hunters.

The village had been destroyed half a year ago, and the surviving population took refuge in the small town of Melesi, and went their separate ways for the remaining six months.

But the relatively brave hunters still stay nearby, waiting for the day when their homeland can be recaptured.

The appearance of the Isenbol Legion gave them hope.

Stimulated by food and military pay, hunters signed up to join the army enthusiastically, but they also had their own little thoughts.

However, Leo does not reject these little thoughts. Who doesn't want to protect his home?

Leo and Bjorn were the scout captains, followed by two Rose Knights and ten Wildfolk Hunters, all on horseback.

Originally, Leo didn't want the Rose Knights to follow him out in the open, so he wanted them to just stay in the town of Melesi and wait for news.

But these Rose Knights are professional guards carefully trained by His Majesty the Emperor for the Queen and the Princess, and being a personal guard is their specialty.

After following Leo, he was like a sticky candy and could not be shaken off. Not only did they not sleep in the same bed, but he also had to follow him even to the toilet.

Sometimes when Leo woke up in the middle of the night, he could hear the sound of the Rose Knights taking turns outside the door.

When they reached the vicinity of the village, they dismounted in a secluded place and climbed up a hill to observe the movements in the village.

This is a small village, built next to the mine, with less than a hundred houses.

At this time, all the residents in the village have been replaced by green-skinned orcs.

Their old and weak were tanning animal skins in the village, coolies were carrying ore, and the orc warriors were nowhere to be seen. It was obvious that they had formed a hunting team and went into the mountains to hunt.

They were different from the orc warriors Leo had encountered in the Grand Canyon of the Atrium before - they were a group of elite orcs, and now these orc laborers were much thinner than the warriors.

Compared with their stronger counterparts, they were a full head shorter, less than two meters tall, and their arms were not strong enough, only slightly thicker than the calves of the strong men in the North.

Overall, his size is similar to that of the barbarian Bjorn.

They were only wearing a short animal skin skirt, and some orcs only had a tattered fur wrapped around their bodies. Their only weapon was a heavy pickaxe or a two-handed axe.

Their physical fitness may be greater than that of regular human soldiers, but their actual individual combat effectiveness is only at the level of regular infantry.

With their relatively stupid minds, clumsy bodies, lack of armor and weapons, and lack of formal military training, the group combat capability of the orc coolies is actually worse than that of the human regular soldiers.

The orc generals will not send them to the battlefield unless it is necessary.

The population ratio of the orc clan can be roughly calculated as the old, weak - laborers - warriors, at a ratio of three to one. That is, for every four old, weak, women and children, there can be one orc laborer, and for every four orc laborers, there can be one orc warrior.

Under normal circumstances, a small clan of 300 people can barely put together a warrior team of 20 people, and perhaps even produce a few orc warriors among them.

But we can't generalize. Orcs' physical fitness is naturally one level higher than that of humans, and they can develop just by eating.

If the old and weak have enough food, they can quickly grow into laborers, and if the laborers have enough food, they can quickly train themselves into the physique of warriors.

Some orc clans have sufficient food, and the ratio of warriors is more than twice as high. If resources are allocated reasonably, the ratio of orc warriors can even be close to half of the population.

Some clans were short of food or were enslaved by other clans, and their inhabitants were almost entirely old, weak and laborers.

Even if orc warriors occasionally appeared, they would quickly be used as cannon fodder, or abandon their weak tribesmen and join a more powerful clan.

At the iron mine on one side of the village, dense crowds of orc laborers were coming in and out, carrying baskets of iron ore to the village and stacking them up.

Hewan has its own iron mines, and Leo has dealt with iron ore a lot. Just by looking with the naked eye, one can tell that the quality of these iron ores is not very good and is completely inferior to the rich iron ore in Hewan.

But for orcs, this is a more precious resource than food.

As long as there is enough iron ore, and then you invite a war craftsman from the upper clan, and do some iron smelting and forging, you can make a large number of iron tools.

Although most of the ironware will be taken away by war craftsmen, the remaining part can greatly enhance the military strength of the entire tribe.

A shirtless orc warrior would be shot to death by a human heavy crossbow.

But an orc warrior wearing a hundred pounds of heavy armor is like a human tank, and even the human race's extraordinary warriors would be terrified when they see it.

Leo led the scout team and quietly observed on the hill for most of the day, and roughly grasped the data of the orcs.

This small clan of orcs has about three hundred people. Because the hunting team has not returned, we don't know exactly how many elite fighters they have.

Leo left two wild hunters to continue waiting, and then asked the hunter guide to take them to scout other villages.

Although Leo had an understanding of the nearby terrain and villages based on the simple map, the actual situation was still shrouded in the fog of war.

There are three hundred orcs here, and it seems that they can be easily defeated, but there is no guarantee that there may be a thousand elite orcs hiding next door.

Out of caution, Leo did not act rashly.

Whenever this happened, Leo would think of the griffins of the Griffin Knights.

It would be great if we had a griffin. When the weather is clear, we can fly a few circles in the sky and get a clear view of the situation in the enemy-occupied areas.

Air supremacy is always the magic weapon for winning wars, let alone in the era of cold weapons.

If the enemy's troop deployment, defense loopholes, and material storage locations are all clearly visible and the fog of war is completely cleared, then fighting a war is like cheating, and you can perform many operations that you would not dare to take risks under normal circumstances.