From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 52 Many preparations and questions

After the meeting, the tribal forces were quickly mobilized.

Externally, three hunter teams of ten people each escorted a witch doctor apprentice on an investigative journey;

Within the tribe, Blade Ya also began to further coordinate logistics and other preparations.

"Based on the food intake of 700 mature trolls in ten days, it would consume about 70 tons of food. Is it possible to supplement it by hunting along the way?"

"Your Excellency Speaker, according to past experience, for a team of 700 trolls, it is difficult to rely on hunting to obtain sufficient supplies during the march. The beasts in the forest will be frightened before the team arrives.

Walk. Of course, we can also disperse the team to a wider area as much as possible during the march, and control the size of each team to a level that will not disturb the prey."

“How spread out needs to be?”

"There are about 30 trolls or less, that is, six teams of soldiers, or three teams of hunters in one group; but there must be at least a distance of about 4 light hours between groups, so that

We are guaranteed to get prey; but this mode of action may seriously slow down our progress."

"That's it. Thank you, Chief Consul, for clearing up the confusion."

"Where." The former chief, who had almost turned into a civilized troll, said politely.

Since I have to accompany him this time, I have to sharpen my guns before the battle.

Relatively speaking, the team composed of 125 soldiers is still a little thin;

Therefore, even if it is just for the sake of prestige, a larger number of hunting teams must be arranged to accompany them on the safe side.

"Actually, the tribe just needs to develop step by step. With the current trend, everything will come naturally in a few hundred years."

Trolls are a terrifying species. Even if they are just a small primitive tribe, they cannot be looked down upon.

"Okay, Your Majesty the Great Witch Doctor, can you please adjust a lightweight and strong prototype of the vine spell?"

After receiving their responses, Benya thought of the moose group that he had no time to pay attention to since the explanation, and turned to the apprentice in charge of this project and asked,

Meiya's voice came from far below. Although it sounded like she was cursing, she felt quite happy.

"What are you thinking about?"

According to the former chief with the most relevant experience, there are a total of about 14 tribes in Linlin within the known range.

It should have been easy to pull out at least 20 cavalry, but something must have gone wrong in this situation.

After thinking about it like this, he gradually felt that the water temperature was not as comfortable as before, so he raised his neck and shouted,

"Wife!! Wife!!! The water is a little cold, so add some fire!!!"

"Alas" Blade Ya sighed lightly,

60 squads were selected, and according to the previously determined hunter team formation plan of "three squads forming a squadron", a total of 20 squadrons were divided into 20 squadrons and began training with the soldiers.

She doesn't understand that her husband, who has always been known as "wisdom" and "steady", has grown up and has never even stepped out into the tribe for safety.

"Okay, we'll pay attention."

Meiya took off her clothes and got into the bathtub, lying on top and asked.

"They all like flame baths, why do you prefer boiling water?"

He moved the 'bathroom' to the top of the tree, opened the four walls, and lay in the bathtub filled with boiling water. He quietly looked at the dark forest in the distance and fell into thought.

"By the way, when hanging goods, you should consider the density of trees along the way to avoid getting stuck."

As early as 20 years ago, the strength of the ‘Ya’ tribe that I belonged to was already ranked among the top three.

At this time, a figure was wrapped around a vine and slowly climbed up to the lonely bathroom platform hanging on the top of the tree.

"no problem."

Although the witch doctors were somewhat reluctant to stop their research, they had no choice but to respond at this time.

"Why? Aren't you a witch doctor? Can't we leave the fighting to the soldiers?"

"Wife!!"

I originally thought that in a one-on-one situation, except for the sub-leaders, the other moose would never be unable to be subdued by the warriors.

"But. I'm not willing to give in. I want the progress bar to go faster. So, this should be a series of wars that don't need to be fought. It's just because of my willfulness that they have to face the possibility

The bloody sacrifice that occurs”

She turned her head and looked over, and Saba could clearly feel the worry in her eyes.

"Hehehe." Meiya covered her mouth and chuckled, then lay quietly on her chest and stopped talking.

Because for most troll tribes, their strength is approximately equal to the total number of sub-adult + mature trolls they have.

It makes sense if you think about it carefully. Hunting is not an efficient production activity.

"Therefore, I have to go. I can't put myself in the safe rear, just listen to the casualty numbers in the newspaper every day, and then accept everything as a matter of course, accept them as footnotes in the expansion of territory.

"

The tribe currently has more than ninety troll hunter teams in groups of ten (prime age: sub-adult = about 2:1). Their daily hunting duties make them lack the experience to carry out unified actions as a group of hundreds.

"I understand." The witch doctor apprentice, who was not blamed, breathed a sigh of relief and responded firmly.

Today, he supplemented his knowledge about the distribution and interrelationships of tribes in the Black Forest, and found that he was still a little too optimistic.

"Forget it, let's forget about the cavalry and let the moose be responsible for carrying food first. This time we will go on the road with the brigade. After you go back, try to add hanging rings on both sides of their bodies to see how much they can carry.

.”

"Forget it, what a bullshit flame bath. I don't know what those guys think. How can you call it a bath without water? It's a cult!"

After a while, as the water surface bubbled again, Saberya stretched out his waist, and then immersed his whole body in the water again.

"That's good. I will give you a backpack that can be carried on both shoulders later. After the big witch doctor adjusts the spell, all the witch doctors will stop their work and concentrate on producing 700 pieces. This will become the transportation

An important tool for supplies.”

After the troll went down, he worked with other witch doctors and experienced hunters to discuss issues such as water intake and feeding intervals along the way.

Taking into account the trolls' food intake and the number of prey, most tribes, except perhaps the top two or three, simply cannot support a population of more than 1,000.

Immediately afterwards, they finalized the number of troops to be dispatched.

The witch doctor apprentice was a little embarrassed when asked, scratched his face and managed to say,

"Well, the moose are a little irritable. They don't want our soldiers to ride on them. It's no problem to pull them away."

"How are the Moose Cavalry prepared? Can they be dispatched this time?"

"Not comfortable!"

"Yes." He was silent for a long time, but could only give this answer.

'The carrying capacity of the forest is low. There seems to be no future here. How did the tribe that the old witch doctor met when he was young support such a large population? Could it be that some kind of high-yielding crop was discovered?

Hmm. And it has to be a special 'crop' that can replace meat.'

What's going on? Why take the risk?

"Really?" This situation was something that Blade Ya didn't expect.

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And so on, when all these various matters were initially arranged and Banya dragged his body home, nearly 40 hours had passed since the 'scout' set off.

Meiya couldn't help but ask, with some complaints in her voice.

"Okay, you can go first."

"I heard it, I heard it, what is the ghost's name?! What a lazy boy."

"Are you planning to fight the war yourself?"

But at this time, he didn't have time to make adjustments.

The situation is quite bad. The total cost is only a little over 10,000, and the Ya tribe alone can account for one-fifth of it.

Therefore, using the tribe's mouth count 20 years ago, we can make a simple calculation and roughly get the 'total manpower' possessed by the Black Forest.

Meiya was silent for a long time after hearing this, and finally hugged his neck tightly and whispered,

"Then at least take me with you and let me accompany you."

Meiya no longer used the word 'you' that was always full of desire in her mouth, but replaced it with '伱' and said this in a more determined tone.

"Okay, let's go together."

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