The natural empire of ocean dragons

Chapter 90: Great increase in military strength

Last time, Attilan ripened 1,000 acres of wheat, which yielded a total of 300,000 jins of wheat flour after harvesting, and 150,000 jins of black beans after harvesting 1,000 acres of black beans.

Of course, these grains still contain water, and the weight of the grains will definitely decrease after drying.

Attilan's control over the life energy field is not enough, otherwise even if it ripens the grain, it can actually double the grain output.

In the wasteland farmland, the wheat yield should be less than 200 per mu, and the black bean yield has just reached 100. He used the remaining life energy in his body after the breakthrough to ripen, and still slightly increased the yield, which is about 20% of wheat and 40% of black beans. .

There are now a total of 20,000 acres of farmland, 10,000 acres of which are planted with black beans, and 10,000 acres of pasture that can continue to grow as long as the root system is not damaged for fertilization. It can be harvested three or four times a year, with a yield of three to four thousand kilograms.

By the way, he also ripened 2,000 acres of pasture. The yield of one acre of pasture is 800 kilograms. This 1.6 million kilograms of forage, combined with 450,000 kilograms of grain, is completely enough to eat.

There are still 6,000 acres of black beans planted before, and the maturity period is this month. This is another 700,000 to 800,000 kilograms of black beans. It is a good time to train troops.

Moreover, sand rabbits have become a scourge in the wasteland after being bred by kobolds. Due to the negligence of a group of kobolds, hundreds of pregnant sand rabbits escaped from a breeding site.

These idiots also concealed the news, because at that time, the scale of sand rabbit breeding had expanded to more than ten sites, and each breeding site had hundreds or thousands of sand rabbits.

A sand rabbit only needs to be raised for three months before it can be eaten, because the first three months of the rabbit are a period of rapid growth. Although the sand rabbit can only grow to more than three pounds in three months, it is enough.

Now it can steadily provide Attilan with more than a thousand sand rabbits a month, which also amounts to three thousand kilograms of meat. Although it is not much, it can be mixed into the big pot of food so that the family members can eat some meat.

Sand sheep are not so fast, and it takes almost eight months to be ready for slaughter.

In addition to the sand rabbits in Tubao Town, another domestic animal that grows the fastest is chickens.

The young hens that hatched from the eggs laid by the pheasants that were first captured have now begun to lay eggs. Now the chickens that are stably provided can weigh four to five thousand kilograms a month.

Those five hundred acres of carrots are also about to mature. When they mature, we will continue to expand the scale of planting and make carrots a standing food.

This batch of food is used to train elite warriors and exchange armor and weapons with the dwarves. After half a year, the food will be used as military rations, and Attilan can then lead the army south.

There are only a few thousand gnolls, even if he only has 200 tauren and 200 men and horses, friends who often lead troops know how big the gap is between soldiers with armor and soldiers without armor.

One against ten is really not an exaggeration.

There are one hundred pairs of tauren armor and one hundred pairs of centaur armor. Other soldiers can only be equipped with vine armor and vine shields. There really is not that much food to buy dwarf equipment.

You can always trust the quality of dwarf iron equipment, but the price is always a pain.

The northwest corner of the wasteland is bordered by the mountains where the dwarves live. Most of the gnolls invaded the halfling town from the remnants of this mountain range. Attilan planned to set up a town at the foot of the mountain.

He used the nearly 5,000 acres of uncultivated wasteland nearby to grow food, and the approximately 1,000 acres of mountainous land that could be reclaimed to grow vegetables, and exchange weapons with the dwarves.

The biggest problem in this place is not the poor land, but the lack of water.

It's too dry. Attilan's water element crystal is intended to be used here!

He had already explored the nearby terrain in advance and asked the kobolds to dig into the mountain to prepare an underground reservoir, because there was a certain gap between the reservoir and the wasteland.

You only need to open the gate to release water when the farmland needs to be irrigated, and the water can flow into the ditch through the karez dug by the kobolds.

Similar water storage cellars still require kobolds to continue digging. Although there are no rivers here, there is still a small amount of rainfall, but the rainfall will evaporate quickly.

Therefore, it is necessary to dig underground cellars to prevent direct sunlight from evaporating water vapor.

The arid environment is doomed to result in low food yields here.

But it’s not that there is no way to solve it, but the amount of work will not be small.

It can't be done with just 600 kobolds, it may take 60,000 kobolds!

According to Attilan's understanding, the area controlled by the dwarves is actually only the production areas of various ores.

Like the Snowy Peaks further west, the dwarves were not included in their rule.

But every year, the melted snow from the snow peaks flows eastward, bringing infinite vitality to this continent. A tributary of the melted snow peaks passes through the Halfling Town, making the land in the three Halfling Towns fertile.

In fact, Xuefeng has a quite large tributary. The melted snow water does not flow eastward, but flows directly westward into the sea. This is really a waste!

If these tributaries that flow westward into the sea can divert half of the water flow to the southwest desert, this area will be immersed in floods every year.

The flaming madman who was originally killing quietly underground will also come to the surface.

So Attilan's goal was not big. He only needed to cut off a small part of these westward tributaries and flow them in the form of canals from the winding mountains to the wasteland.

Nourish the lands south of the mountains and north of the desert.

Attilan also wanted to trick the druids in advance to plant trees along the route to avoid miscalculations, so that the water would flow out of the canals and not impact the desert to a large extent.

After putting the water element into the water cellar, Attilan asked the kobolds to start leveling the soil along the karez. Food cannot be grown directly here. The soil is considered saline-alkali land and the soil needs to be treated with alfalfa.

Then plant black beans, I believe the yield here will be even more impressive.

Then Attilan came to Bighorn Town and found Lista to ask about the situation of the tauren and centaurs.

<divclass="contentadv"> "Do you think the experience of farming in the past six months has reduced the combat effectiveness of tauren and centaurs?"

Lista shook his head. It wasn't that it had fallen, but that he couldn't tell.

"I feel like it should have gone up a little bit. Although I continued to push and let everyone eat grass, it may have made everyone gentler. And since I have been farming for half a year, I did experience less battles."

"Even though I organize everyone to practice combat skills from time to time, everyone still feels rusty, but! One very important factor is that everyone has eaten so well in the past six months."

"They are much stronger physically. If they were to fight me half a year ago, they should be able to win!"

It’s good that the combat effectiveness has not declined.

"After the black beans are harvested, I will gather all the tauren and centaurs for training. I need to select fifty elites each and let them wear the armor I purchased from the dwarves to fight!"

"How many tauren and centaurs are there now?"

"More than three hundred tauren and five hundred men and horses? Almost that many. Dragon Lord, you also know that we are not very good at counting. We don't know the specific number."

"Anyway, according to your method, there are ten people in a row. There are ten rows in total. There are more than three tauren and five men and horses. There should be only that many."

Because the Minotaur could only count to ten, Attilan asked him to count the phalanxes. One phalanx was one hundred people, ten phalanxes was one thousand people, and ten rows of phalanxes was ten thousand people.

Phalanx training is actually not too difficult. The tauren only need to prepare nineteen people horizontally and vertically, and then let other people stand facing these nineteen people to get a phalanx.

This can be regarded as a kind of obedience training. It can help the chaotic tauren and centaurs to develop a little discipline, so that they can be more strategic in war.

Attilan was most exposed to military training. Of course, he would start with simple military training to train minotaurs and centaurs.

Why doesn't he try more complex training methods?

Excellent soldiers like minotaurs and centaurs, as long as they are trained according to the methods recorded in military books such as Ji Xiao Xin Shu, they will be the best soldiers in the world.

This is true in theory, but the reality is often very skinny.

Just arranging the square array took half a year of hard work. It seems that these tauren have finally learned to look ahead and look left and right, and can form a good square array.

Otherwise Lista wouldn't be able to get such an accurate number of people.

But Attilan was very puzzled, why were there one hundred more tauren, and three hundred more men and horses?

"Where did so many tauren and centaurs come from?"

"They all come from the desert. Dragon Lord, didn't you send people into the wilderness and desert to capture sand sheep and sand rabbits? When they met the tribes they knew before, they told them the news that there was enough food here to satisfy them. Former friends."

"Although they all said that I only told you one person and you must not tell anyone, more and more tribes know about it. I heard that Dragon Lord you are recruiting warriors."

"They all came to join you."

Attilan asked curiously:

"I remember that most of the grain stored in Dajiao Town is forage. Can they accept it?"

"Why not? What they eat in the desert are scorpions, lizards, or cacti. Those things will sting your mouth, but they are not as delicious as alfalfa and other pastures."

"Why didn't you inform me earlier? So many tauren and centaurs were suddenly recruited, and our food supply was under pressure again."

"Forget it, we are in need of high-quality soldiers now. With these more people, we will be more confident in attacking the Gnoll Kingdom."

After some counting, Attilan was surprised to find that the number of tauren and centaurs who came to seek refuge with him was even greater than what Bista had said.

There are now 350 tauren, and there are more than men and horses. There are only five. Lista may have missed the men and horses who have been grazing outside.

Because there were two hundred people grazing sand sheep outside all the time, he thought there were only the five hundred people in front of him who were cultivating farmland.

Sure enough, people and horses are like the wind, and messages can be transmitted quickly.

It is definitely not possible for so many people to serve as cavalry. The number of cavalry must dominate. Then they will attack the gnoll army together with the tauren.

The current premise is that the jackals must have a military formation.

Now after half a year of training, the tauren and centaurs under his command are still unable to form a complete stationary military formation, let alone the chaotic jackals.

Having more people is a good thing, but we have to worry about food.