"Whoosh—"
A fireball that shimmered with fiery red light and was covered with a layer of light cyan drew a bright trajectory in the night sky and fell into the tundra about a kilometer away in front of the camp.
"boom-"
As soon as the fireball hit the ground, there was a violent explosion and a strong light shining in the sky.
Along with the light and explosion, there was also the faint sound of howling wolves.
If you look carefully, you can also see that in the distant fire, countless figures flew up at the same time, and then exploded in all directions.
"These werewolves arranged such a dense formation, which saved us a lot of effort." Hogan put down the telescope in his hand and nodded with satisfaction.
Baron Franklin on the side looked up with a complicated expression at the shimmering magic cannons flying into the distance in the sky, and then turned to look at the guards of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce who were operating various military magic machines outside the camp. ,in silence.
This operation was originally scheduled before departure, so of course he knew very well that the werewolves from the Wolf Wolf Tribe would come to attack the caravan tonight.
Because this was originally the warning he gave Hogan.
The first reaction of these orcs living on the northern tundra when encountering a human caravan is definitely not to communicate or do business with each other, but to rob.
When he saw the large amount of urgently needed living supplies brought by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce caravan, Baron Franklin was sure that they would never let go of this piece of fat that came to their door easily.
The reason why the werewolf drove them away at that time was just to choose another good time to rob them.
For this reason, Hogan also asked Baron Franklin, since compared to these orcs, they are a big piece of fat with a fragrant aroma. So why not just pretend to agree to do business with them. Invite them into the tribe. Wouldn't it be easier to commit another robbery
Baron Franklin's answer was simple.
First, those werewolves at that time may not have had this IQ.
Second, even if they have the IQ, they may not have the courage.
If a human caravan is attacked in the wilderness of the northern tundra, the Malo Empire can't do anything to control it even if it wants to, because this tundra originally belongs to the sphere of influence controlled by the orcs. If there is not enough reason to support it, the Malo Empire The government will never use such a large amount of manpower and material resources to deal with such a matter.
What's more, the Maro Empire officials have already issued a warning to all human caravans within the territory. Don't break into the territory of the orcs easily, because this is completely equivalent to a sheep entering a tiger's mouth.
Now that their caravan has broken in on their own death, the Maro Empire officials will naturally not care about it without sufficient reasons to support it.
And if the werewolves invited them into the tribe to attack and rob, it would be equivalent to giving the Maro Empire officials an unavoidable reason.
The human caravan disappeared after entering an orc tribe, including an imperial noble, but it couldn't be fooled no matter what.
The orcs are not all idiots. It is estimated that the northern tundra is within the control of the orcs, and they will not cause trouble for themselves by doing something that clearly angers the officials of the Maro Empire.
So like now, attacking in the wilderness at night. is the best choice.
But the werewolves of the Wolf werewolf tribe probably didn't expect it anyway. This time they actually kicked an iron plate, and this was a trap specially set for them.
"Director Hogan, those military magic machines that your chamber of commerce sold to the Imperial Military are probably not that powerful..." Baron Franklin stared at the battlefield where the werewolves were being unilaterally slaughtered for a long time, and suddenly asked.
Hogan looked away and responded with a smile: "Of course, the latest military magic machinery will be given priority to the Chamber of Commerce Guards. There is no doubt about this."
"Are these the most advanced and powerful military magic machines that your New Flying Chamber of Commerce currently possesses?" Baron Franklin asked again.
This time, Hogan smiled and said nothing.
Seeing the smile on his face, Baron Franklin understood immediately.
What he saw was definitely not the most powerful military magic machine owned by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, but even what he saw in front of him shocked him extremely.
The northern tundra of the Malo Empire has always been controlled by the orcs. This fact has actually made many people within the Malo Empire feel quite dissatisfied.
After all, it is unreasonable for such a large empire to have a large area that is not under its control.
However, the reason why the Malo Empire has never snatched this land back from the orcs is that, in addition to the fact that this land is not of much value, there is another equally important reason, which is that it wants to snatch this land back. The price that needs to be paid is too great.
The orcs are naturally much stronger than humans. In addition, this group of orcs live on the northern tundra, and are even more fiercely inspired by the harsh environment.
Although the total number of orcs on the northern tundra is only about 500,000, more than half of these 500,000 orcs can immediately become powerful orc warriors.
According to the estimates of the imperial military, in order to completely defeat these orcs, the empire would need to dispatch at least 300,000 or even more than 300,000 troops.
This is an action that is difficult for the imperial military to bear.
Except for the previous war with the Candela Empire, the Malo Empire had never mobilized such a large army at any other time.
Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, the Maro Empire could only allow this land to continue to be controlled by the orcs.
And now Baron Franklin has witnessed with his own eyes that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Guards relied on super powerful military magic machinery and only relied on the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Guards of less than 300 people to easily crush the Wo that came at night. The werewolves of the Wolf Wolf Tribe couldn't help but sigh.
If the imperial military could all be equipped with such powerful military magic machines, wouldn't it be possible to easily drive away these orcs and recapture the northern tundra
certainly. Baron Franklin was not a military man. So this idea just turned around in his mind. Then he was pressed down.
After the fight lasted for a while, the magic phone box that Hogan had been holding in his left hand suddenly flashed a little red light.
Hogan quickly connected.
"Captain Alston, what's going on?"
"Director Hogan, those werewolves have begun to retreat. Do we need to pursue them?"
"No, we don't have enough manpower, so let's not pursue them and let them escape. Captain Auston. I'd like to thank you for continuing to be vigilant."
"Easy to say."
After hanging up the magic call box, Hogan stretched and smiled at Baron Franklin: "Okay, Lord Baron, it's okay now. We can finally have a good sleep."
Baron Franklin looked at the dark wasteland in the distance and thought that the werewolves were so fierce that they were forced to retreat after the battle lasted only about ten minutes. This shows how terrible the blow they received was.
Even the werewolves had no choice but to flee when faced with such an attack. What if it was the imperial army instead
# # #
Early the next morning. The caravan set off again, but did not continue to the depths of the northern tundra. Instead, he returned directly to the location of the Wolf werewolf tribe.
This time, the caravan was not stopped outside the tribe, but was directly invited into the tribe, and successfully met the leader of the Wolf Wolf Tribe.
After the five orcs from the Black Rice Wasteland sent by Xu Yi showed up and explained in detail, as well as Hogan's detailed explanation, the Wolf werewolf tribe finally put down its guard against humans and agreed to preliminary cooperation with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
In the end, the two parties signed an agreement. The Wolf Werewolf Tribe will first provide a thousand prime-age werewolves as employees to the Stratholme Magic Industrial Base represented by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will not only pay these thousand werewolf employees at least monthly In addition to the salary of five gold coins, a batch of living supplies will be delivered to the Wolf werewolf tribe every month.
At the same time, the Wolf Werewolf Tribe will also help the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce get in touch with other orc tribes on the northern tundra and strive to achieve more bilateral cooperation.
For Wolfe, this is undoubtedly a very novel experience.
Because before this, human businessmen were completely synonymous with liars in their eyes.
But this time, these human merchants not only did not use the large amount of high-quality living materials in their hands to ask for various precious items that they had worked hard to obtain, but even proactively provided them to them.
And all they need is some prime-age labor force.
What surprised the werewolves the most was that these human businessmen actually said they would pay the employed werewolves! And it’s up to five gold coins a month!
This surprised the werewolves of the Wolfe Werewolf Tribe, because the powerful force displayed by these human merchants that night made them unable to even think about resisting.
According to normal circumstances, these human merchants are fully capable of capturing their entire tribe and turning all the werewolves in the tribe into slaves to work for them for free.
This has been a fixed pattern of interaction between humans and orcs for thousands of years, and it has never changed.
But now, this group of human businessmen actually said that they would be paid!
Absolutely ridiculous!
However, whether these werewolves believed it or not, first of all, they had no ability to resist, and secondly, five fellow orcs who claimed to be from the Black Rice Wasteland kept describing to them the actions of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce against the orcs in the countries in the southwest corner of the continent. Their attitude made them somewhat believe that some Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was indeed sincere, so in the end they signed the agreement obediently.
After having the Wolf Werewolf Tribe, the largest orc tribe on the northern tundra, as an example, Hogan's next actions on the northern tundra became extremely smooth.
Just three months later, Hogan signed an employment agreement on behalf of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce with twenty-three orc tribes in the northern tundra, and initially determined a total of 10,000 orc employment quotas.
As a result, the most difficult manpower problem was initially solved.
At this time, it happened to be spring, and countless large freight magic locomotives were continuously coming from the south carrying a large amount of materials.
Stratholme Magic Industrial Base is finally ready and has begun its full construction phase. (To be continued...)