There is an unspoken rule in nature.
That is, if you want to gain ownership of a certain territory, you must hold it under the attack of other races. Only then will other races recognize your claim to this piece of land, otherwise they may attack you again at any time. In other words, if the ogres want other races to recognize their ownership of the new territory, they must repel the human attack head-on, and use blood and death to stabilize the rule of this land, otherwise the The battle for territory will last for quite a long time.
There are many unmanaged lands in the wilderness.
If it is a small-scale group of wanderers, basically no one cares about it, but once a large-scale group migrates, it will destroy the original balance.
Humans will not allow large-scale ogre tribes near the road, unless they are scared of being beaten, and take the initiative to avoid this territory, clean up the monsters in other areas, and open up another road. Most of the roads between cities have no ethnic groups, because the large ethnic groups that originally occupied the roads have all been cleared away by human generations. This is how the commercial roads were opened in the wilderness bloody. Wild animals will remember a lesson, even if they migrate, they will avoid important roads.
Ogre occupation here is a challenge.
They want to swear ownership of this land to other races, and nothing can show force more than defeating humans.
After all, this is a wilderness, not a well-cultivated field. If human beings fail once, they will basically not engage in endless battles to expel them, because there is no interest in letting them fight. If it is the land that has been cultivated for generations, then the battle will become endless, and the determination of human beings to protect and cultivate the land is beyond any race.
This has happened many times.
The Fallen Leaf City was established by the half-elves to drive out the ogres. They have fought to protect this land for hundreds of years, and have dealt with the attacks of ogres, orcs, and mountain dwarves successively. It wasn't until all the nearby races had nothing to do with them that they forced the other races to admit the half-elves' rule over the hundreds of kilometers around Fallen Leaf City. Only when other races are afraid to provoke you, can you truly own this land, and then you can claim your ownership of it to other races.
Otherwise, they will just taunt you mercilessly and attack your territory when you are weak or not paying attention.
Those humans living in the wilderness, although they have established villages, can only be said to be living in the wilderness, and cannot be said to be the owners of this piece of land in the wilderness.
It is impossible to carve out a territory in this world without paving the way with blood.
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Sauron saw the battle banner of the ogre tribe the next afternoon.
In fact, it should not be called a battle flag, but something built with a circle of stones, with a wooden pole erected in the middle, with the bones of humanoids stuck on it.
This is a sign.
It means that from here onwards is the territory of the ogre, they have the right to hunt in this territory, and other races entering it will be regarded as invading their territory. It was as if before Sauron entered the White Horse City, he would see a huge stone signpost with the words White Horse City engraved on it, as well as the emblem of a war horse.
"It really looks like an ogre tribe." Yas's expression was serious.
Only the ethnic groups that make up the tribe will have this kind of enclosure, and use some signs to prove their ownership of the land. This is a bit of a war against other races, you either have to fight them off, or you have to recognize their domination of the territory. From now on this land is theirs and they have the right to dispose of you if you enter it. In other words, in their understanding, the human caravan passing through the territory is all food delivered to the door.
Because this is their territory.
The same is true for giant dragons before they build their lairs. They will leave their own scent within the territory, and other creatures dare not approach at will.
"Cut it off!"
A man who was obviously an officer of Whitehorse City shouted in a low voice. Although Whitehorse City does not have the strength to expand into the dangerous wilderness, it cannot accept the ogre's behavior of occupying land as king. It doesn't matter if it's in other places, but being near Baima City is equivalent to touching their reverse scales. To open up the wilderness is not enough to be strong, but also to have cultivated land and soldiers who can protect the civilians. Otherwise, if you expand the territory indiscriminately, you will repel a wave of enemies, and then the population will decrease due to various reasons.
It took hundreds of years for Baima City to expand from a territory of tens of kilometers to the current hundreds of kilometers.
Even so, there are still monsters attacking the edge of Baima City, forests, mountains, lakes, etc. within the territory, there are still biological activities such as wolf men, and they will attack the established villages from time to time. As long as it is a place where good fields cannot be reclaimed for farming and living, creatures in the wilderness can always reproduce. If you kill this group, new ones will be born, and if you expel this group, other things will migrate over. It takes at least twenty years for human beings to train a qualified fighter, and ordinary civilians have no advantage against monsters.
boom!
The heavy flagpole fell to the ground, and the army of Baima City continued to advance.
Since the ogre tribe encloses land here, a large-scale gathering place of the tribe will inevitably be established.
In other words, a fortress.
The ogre tribe is different from the wandering ogre tribe. There are at least a few hundred or more of them. Don't look like they have a small number, but they are all first-class fighters. And the ogre tribe has its own inheritance. They know how to forge weapons, make leather armor, domesticate wild beasts, and capture slaves on a large scale. Ogres will capture a large number of kobolds and goblins as their slaves, and at the same time mine, forge, serve, and store food for them.
An ogre tribe with a size of 500 people must occupy at least 50 kilometers of land in order to ensure sufficient food.
Because their staple food is meat.
Adventurers and army scouts were all scattered out, large-scale groups would not wander around, and they would definitely establish a gathering place.
It's best to solve them before they are completed, otherwise Whitehorse City will face a siege battle!
The expressions of all the adventurers became more serious. The original two-person team expanded to five people. Sauron cooperated with the other three adventurers to form a five-person team to explore the plains. Ogres are very dangerous creatures. Their skin is extremely tough, equivalent to ordinary leather armor, and there is thick fat on their bodies. Even a strong crossbow can't hurt their internal organs. To deal with ogres, you can't fight head-on. It's better to have someone cooperate with you to fight. First consume their physical strength and then find a chance to kill it.
The deeper you go inside, the more traces of ogre activities.
When Sauron and the others saw the traces of the ogre, everything in front of them made their expressions stiff.
It was a camp built halfway up the mountain, and most of the construction had been completed. At the foot of the mountain, tall ogres could be seen cutting logs. Ogre warriors with amazing strength carried hundreds of pounds of logs up the mountain alone. It was then nailed into the ground with the cooperation of the other ogres. This group of ogres is completely cracking rocks. Groups of kobold slaves are clearing stones under the whip, and there are traces of furnaces in the distance, which are kobolds forging weapons for them.
Ogres don't need exquisite equipment, they only need enough iron weapons, and they will become a terrifying threat in no time!
"Look!"
Yas took out the binoculars and took a look, and said with an ugly expression, "Look at the ogre warriors guarding over there."
In the end, Sauron took a look, but his expression was not good, because he saw an ogre warrior wearing armor all over his body, holding a one or two hundred pound mace in his hand, with heavy armor on his shoulders and chest, it wasn't The refined armor made by humans looks more like something that some third-rate blacksmiths smelt iron ore and cast directly. A shoulder armor weighs twenty or thirty pounds, and ordinary people can't afford it at all, but this The weight is light for an ogre.
"This is definitely the work of the two-headed ogre wizard!"
Sauron put down the binoculars and said in a deep voice, "Ordinary ogres don't have that much intelligence. It's good that they didn't eat those captives. Only ogres who have advanced to become wizards know how to rule and tame them."
Most of the cottage has been completed.
The construction using ogres as labor force was very fast. Although the entire cottage looked a bit crude, it was built with thick logs one by one, but it was very strong and strong, full of a primitive and rough atmosphere. There are wooden poles on the mountain wall, on which are the corpses of goblins, kobolds, lizardmen and jackals. Sauron almost saw most of the intelligent creatures in the wilderness. They were captured as slaves in the village and worked desperately under the cruel rule. A little slower, there would be ogres grinning and wielding their whips. Half-life, and then thrown into a huge cage by other ogres.
It contained food reserves.
Near the edge, there is also a huge animal cage, which seems to contain something.
Ogres are plentiful!
There are only four or five hundred ogres in front of me. It is conservatively estimated that there are close to eight hundred ogres here. This is a large group of ogres that may have been passed down for hundreds of years, otherwise there would be no so much quantity. Ogres are an extremely xenophobic race. If it wasn't for the ogres born in the group, ogres in other wildernesses might become their food.
Some ogres from different tribes are feuds, and they often kill each other when they meet!
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