Although it is part of the dark forest that extends into the civilized world, the bear forest itself is not large, especially the mountain forest where the four logging sites are located, and it only takes a day or half a day to cross it.
The sawmill in the west that was taken by Brando was called the Horseshoe Sawmill. The news of its loss spread throughout the forest in a matter of hours along with the collapsed cavemen.
All of a sudden, the cavemen in the forest began to become eager to move—
At the same time, the news of course also reached the patriarch of this caveman tribe. Tajib was born in one of the thirteen noble lineages of cavemen, and therefore became the natural choice of witch doctors—its complexion was darker than that of the elite warriors among cavemen, and it was covered in long, long clothes. Feathers-These are the feathers of the Dire Buzzard, the spoils of war against the dark elves of the underground world.
But at the moment it sits on the bearskin throne, but has no intention of taking care of these beautiful feathers. It stroked the skull with feathers on a wooden stick with its slender fingers, a little irritable.
It became the leader of this tribe five years ago, independent from the patrilineal tribe. However, he encountered troubles when fighting for his own territory, and had to take his people to migrate habitually. This is not uncommon in the underground world, but unexpectedly they discovered one of the roads leading to the ground.
Although the rumored surface world is far from a happy land for Tajib, it still decided to take a risk. After a brief period of adapting to the life of the surface world, it and its own people began to discover that the humans here seemed not as good. It was horrible in imagination, so they immediately seized four logging yards located in this forest.
But this behavior aroused the anger of the local lord, of course, it was Baron Grudin. Humans and cavemen fought in the forest twice, but Tonigel's uneven army and noble private soldiers were not the opponents of these cavemen at all, and the humans were driven out without any advantage.
In the end, Grudin even had to hide his face and personally come to negotiate with it. The caveman does not need the wood produced in the forest, but Grudin can’t. Tonigel supports Amperthel’s wood supply. If something goes wrong, the first thing to trouble him is his high-ranking authority. Father-Count Jean De Nell.
Therefore, the deficit returned to the deficit, but Grudin had to find a way to guarantee Tonigel's annual basic timber export volume. The output of the four lumber mills near Fir City is among the best in the entire Tonigel. He did not dare to give up easily, but there was no way to recapture it by force-and this matter should not be let Earl Dernell know-so the rest The only way is to rely on the means of buying and selling.
Although a lord actually needs to spend money to buy the produce on his own territory, it sounds a bit weird, but fortunately, Grudin has silver mines in his hands. Silver is also an important currency in circulation in the underground world, and Tajib is in need of change. A lot of money to grow his tribe, so the two sides hit it off, and this privately unknown transaction has been retained.
Tajib admired such a deal. Although the cavemen had won more than one victory in the previous battle with humans, and even Grudin had to look down, but this did not conceal the fact that his tribe was scarce. The fighting power of thousands of Dark Iron ranks sounds terrifying, but this is the entire population of its tribe—
Tajib is very smart. Through constant contact, he gradually understands the real situation of the human world he lives in. Although Tonigel may not find an army that can easily drive them away, but if they rashly appear on human territory, it will not be pleased.
You must know that the Fir Baronies alone are inhabited by nearly 70,000 people, not to mention the entire Tonigel. What's more, if alien races like them rashly launch an attack on human settlements, it may attract a wider range of attacks.
It knows that this place belongs to a country, and the concept of the country is equated with the underground country of Qiao Gendigang in Taguib's mind, which makes it a little scared.
Therefore, even if it knew that there was still a silver mine in Grudin's hands, it did not dare to easily occupy it. Anyway, the current state makes it very satisfied. It only needs to firmly control the three logging yards to obtain a steady stream of silver from the human lord—with this silver it can expand its tribe at will, until there is Can go back underground again in one day.
In Tajib's mind, returning to the ground is still its number one goal. Although Tonigel is eye-catching, it is not their caveman's territory after all.
But it seems that good things are not long. On this day, the patriarch felt that he was in trouble.
After adapting to a stable life, it doesn't like to start a war with humans lightly, especially when the development of the tribe has just seen a good situation. Because fighting with humans is bound to attract the attention of the surrounding forces, it does not really want to expose its existence, but the more it thinks, the more trouble it feels like it is coming to the door—just like the one in front of this afternoon. The news came, telling him that humans had once again rushed into the forest—
And this time, human beings not only seized a logging yard, but also killed at least one hundred of its tribes.
Tajib was furious when he heard the news. On the one hand, it ordered members of the clan who could fight to assemble, but on the other hand, it calmed down and began to inquire about the other party's news.
The defeat ahead made the cautious and clever caveman witch doctor become more cautious. It summoned all his confidants here to hear more opinions.
The first person who spoke was an older caveman wearing a bear skin. Of course, from the perspective of humans, the so-called older caveman is nothing more than becoming more rickety, more fragile and slender, and the body is covered with white. stripe.
This old caveman is called'horn claw'. Of course, most cave dwellers don’t have a name, and this name is given to it by Tajib; Horn claw is the name of a two-legged underground lizard in Qiao Gendigang. They are one of the most famous hunters in the underground world, their actions are thorough and effective, and they are also known for their cunning.
Tajib gave this name to the old caveman just to praise his wit and rich experience. But in fact, the old caveman defected from an opposing tribe. The caveman did not have the concept of being a human being. It is a common behavior for underground creatures to respect the strong. It is very common to take refuge from one tribe to another.
What's more, Horn Claw is experienced and sophisticated, so it is very important to speak among the tribes of Tajib.
"I heard that the people who retired in the front described that there should be wizards in humans," the old caveman said, "it is silence. When fighting underground, dark elves often use this hand to deal with us. Unfortunately, we don't have more wizards on the front line. Doctor, otherwise, so many people will not die."
"How many of them are there?" Tajib asked.
"Two or three hundred."
"Two or three hundred," the caveman patriarch said gloomily. "That human named Grudin is really tired of life. I thought that if mercenaries came to trouble us, I wouldn't dare to touch him?" it said bitterly. , "Let’s solve these reckless mercenaries first, and then kill the shit lord. I don’t plan to be polite with him anymore-the silver mine in the south is also occupied."
"If you do this," Hornclaw replied, "it will cause a human backlash."
"It doesn't matter, it takes time for them to mobilize. When we grab a fortune in the silver mine and return to the ground when that time comes, I will see if they dare to catch up." Tajib replied disdainfully.
Several elders in the room exchanged opinions with each other with their own unique sound waves. "So how do you solve those human mercenaries?" another caveman asked.
"I will go out myself," Tajib replied, "it's just magic."
It stood up and said, "Tonight, I want those humans to pay the price of blood for our people!" Tajib's sharp voice echoed in the room, and several caveman elders lowered their heads and did not. be opposed to.
In their view, those human beings are indeed a bit reckless.
Because it is different from the news that Tajib deliberately released, in fact, there are more than 3,000 cavemen living in the bear forest at this moment. In the face of this huge force, even if the entire Tonigel’s army is assembled. Not enough to see. Of course, there may be Count Jean Denere behind Tonigel, and Eruin.
But Tajib understood very well that Grudin could not mobilize the army from outside without leaking any news in such a short time.
There are only mercenaries gathered in Firwood City now. This is the same as the news they had received before, and it seems that Grudin indeed encouraged mercenaries to deal with them.
But if that guy thinks that this can shake their foundation here, then he will definitely pay for it.
But what Tajib could not guess was that Grudin had already paid the price. It's just not for them and these cavemen, and the enemy standing in front of them at this moment is Brando who knows him as well as them.
The direction of the battle changed from the beginning.
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The battle in the horseshoe grass logging yard ended early, and the cavemen who came out of their nests left behind in the camp only some old, weak, sick, and unable to resist.
But even so, the mercenaries paid the heaviest price since the battle in the final battle for the logging yard. More than thirty people were injured and ten people died.
Uta, Fern, and Kerencia breathed a sigh of relief after finalizing the victory. They are people who are accustomed to the separation of life and death, and this casualty is actually somewhat unexpected. No, it should be said to be a miracle. If it weren't for Brando's familiarity with these underground residents, they shouldn't say that they only paid such a small price, or even winning is a luxury.
Although this battle with the cavemen was not within their expectations—
Therefore, the mentality of the three leaders at the moment is a bit complicated. It can be said that they are not so willing to fight for the young lord. Everything that Fir Baron led should have nothing to do with them, but for an inexplicable reason they tied them together.
Yuta, Fern, and Kerencia couldn't help looking at each other, but besides a bitter smile, there was still only a bitter smile in their eyes.