The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

The gaps in the two mountain passes were blocked, and the last main road was also blocked by the Yellow Sand Pass that he had people build, which indeed made the interior much more relaxed.

For example, Earth Fort Town still only retained its original two-meter-deep ditch and three-meter-high earthen wall defenses, which led to it being breached by the Jackalmen today. The town was littered with the incomplete corpses of Kobolds and the remains of rabbits and fur.

It was evident that the Jackalmen's raid had ended in a hurry. They didn't even stop to let the hyenas devour the corpses and transform them into Jackalmen, only breaking through the walls of Earth Fort Town.

They destroyed houses, killed the residents of the town, and took away the captured rabbits.

That's right, these damned Jackalmen actually moved away even the cages he used to raise rabbits. Did that guy even think that the stupid Jackalmen could raise rabbits?

With the Jackalmen's greedy nature, the rabbits would probably be stolen and eaten clean by them before long.

Even when Attilan arranged for the Kobolds to raise rabbits, there were cases of Kobolds stealing rabbits to eat from time to time at the beginning, let alone the Jackalmen.

The Kobolds stopped stealing rabbits to eat only after they were able to eat their fill with three stable meals a day.

The Jackalmen are lucky to eat one meal a day.

Now is not the time to worry about the lost rabbits; the most important thing now is revenge!

Even if they didn't have time to transform, these damned Jackalmen still didn't forget to tear off two pieces of meat from the Centaurs and Kobolds to eat. That's why the corpses were in such a miserable state.

Attilan must avenge them!

Soon, the hundred-plus Centaurs and dozens of Kobolds who had escaped from Earth Fort Town returned, covered in dust.

Their expressions were all dejected, and their eyes revealed a strong hatred for the Jackalmen.

They didn't think that the Atlantis Kingdom was not a match for the Jackalmen Kingdom, only that the garrisoned forces in Earth Fort Town were still too small. Otherwise, they wouldn't necessarily have lost.

Since this place was relegated to a second-line defensive position, half of the Centaurs and all of the Minotaurs had been transferred to Yellow Sand Pass. Since the construction of Yellow Sand Pass began, the Jackalmen had been constantly launching attacks on Yellow Sand Pass.

Clearly, since the last surprise attack killed more than a thousand Jackalmen, they also wanted to strike back at Attilan's forces in retaliation.

With the two mountain passes blocked, only the last Yellow Sand Pass could be invaded. They certainly couldn't let the Yellow Sand Pass, which symbolized civilization, be built.

But in these past few months, the Jackalmen had launched five surprise attacks, each one more imposing than the last. The last surprise attack even involved more than three thousand Jackalmen.

The result was naturally a crushing defeat.

Before and after, more than a thousand Jackalmen died at Yellow Sand Pass.

Since the completion of Yellow Sand Pass, the Jackalmen had never appeared near Yellow Sand Pass again.

Attilan mistakenly thought that the Jackalmen had suffered a great loss of vitality and needed to lick their wounds and prepare their strength for the next attack.

He didn't expect that these damned Jackalmen were actually trying to make him relax his vigilance so that they could launch a sneak attack on the interior of the territory from a secret passage.

The amount of grain lost in Earth Fort Town alone was enough for those damned Jackalmen to eat for a year.

Of course, they don't eat wheat, but the number of rabbits raised in Earth Fort Town had already exceeded ten thousand, of which four thousand were does, and the rest were meat rabbits that could be sold after only a month.

But these damned Jackalmen would never take care of the does; they would just eat up the entire farm, which produced six thousand meat rabbits a month.

Fortunately, the Sand Sheep were kept in Water Cellar Town to the north, otherwise, they would have really been wiped out by the Jackalmen.

Attilan rebuked in a cold voice:

"What you need to do now is not to stand here like fools, but to collect the bodies of your companions, count how many usable things are left in Earth Fort Town, and finally, prepare for a retaliatory counterattack!"

Attilan originally thought that after these nearly ten large and small wars, the Jackalmen should have understood that they could not be a match for him, who had the forest and the Druids behind him.

He didn't expect that the Jackalmen would still resolutely launch a desperate sneak attack.

Since the Jackalmen wanted to fight him to the death, then even if he had to pay a greater price, he would first take the grasslands of the Jackalmen Kingdom and kill all the damned Jackalmen!

The reason why Attilan didn't attack the Jackalmen before was because if he attacked now, he would also suffer relatively large losses. He believed that every member of the kingdom was very important!

It was best not to die or be injured for the sake of the Jackalmen.

Moreover, compared to the wasteland occupied by the Jackalmen, the wetlands east of the river definitely had greater development potential. Otherwise, he wouldn't have completely developed the wasteland west of the river even now.

Earth Fort Town was almost located in the middle of the wasteland. The land east of Earth Fort Town had been fully developed. In addition to the 50,000 mu of farmland, various flowers, plants, and trees had been planted on the surrounding hills.

In just another year or two, the first half of the wasteland could become a lush forest, and the second half would also change from the original sparse vegetation to rolling grasslands.

Most importantly, when that time came, he believed that the White Wolf King would have already transformed the desert occupied by the Jackalmen into grassland.

That's right, Attilan's idea was to first develop the existing high-quality land.

After the White Wolf King transformed the inferior desert into high-quality grassland, he would then lead his troops to destroy the Jackalmen Kingdom, obtaining a ready-made grassland without having to spend energy to develop it.

Moreover, by that time, the 100,000 mu of land in the wasteland would definitely have been developed, and the breeding of rabbits, sheep, pigs, and fish would have expanded in scale and become on the right track.

Most importantly, at that time, he could easily mobilize a thousand Centaurs, a thousand Minotaurs, two thousand Fishmen, five hundred Snakemen, and five hundred Lizardmen to launch an attack on the Jackalmen.

Even the Kobold rock throwers could join in the fun.

But the peaceful development atmosphere was broken by the Jackalmen's surprise attack today.

Finding a Centaur who could still move, Attilan instructed:

"Let Fischer concentrate 80% of the forces in the wasteland. Except for Great Horn Town, which needs to leave elite troops to guard it, all other strongholds will be guarded by the Kobolds."

Attilan looked at the bloodstains on him and asked curiously:

"What's with the blood on your body?"

"On the way to support Earth Fort Town, I discovered traces of the Jackalmen marching. I chased after them and fought with the Jackalmen's rearguard, killing more than three hundred Jackalmen."

"I also snatched back some cages filled with rabbits. It must have been the cages that slowed down their march, otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to catch their tail."

Attilan asked with cold eyes:

"Take me to see. I want to see where they sneaked in from."

"Dragon Lord, judging from the direction of their advance, they should have taken a detour to the east side of the Southwest River to launch a surprise attack on Earth Fort Town."

To sneak attack Earth Fort Town by detouring from the territory occupied by the Jackalmen to the east side of the Southwest River would be several hundred kilometers. Attilan suddenly felt that blocking Yellow Sand Pass was a bad move.

"To sneak attack Earth Fort Town from such a long distance, it seems that the Jackalmen really want us dead."

Attilan also knew that it was because he had neglected the construction of the second half of the wasteland. If he had built a riverside town between Yellow Sand Pass and Earth Fort Town, on the banks of the Southwest River,

the Jackalmen's sneak attack wouldn't have been so silent.

But the soil in the second half was more sandy, causing the terrain to be unevenly impacted by the water flow, making it difficult to find a suitable location to build a town that could support the population.

A military stronghold like Yellow Sand Pass was already very costly to support. To support a second one unless he was crazy.

Because the water flow of the Southwest River varies every year, it would swing back and forth like a dragon wagging its tail at the last section, and the risk of the town being flooded was very high.

As for clearing the river channel, the effort and benefits were not proportional, and Attilan didn't plan to push forward for the time being.

It only took Fischer one day to appear with a thousand Centaurs and five hundred Minotaurs.

Although Attilan said so, he was still a little worried about drawing so many troops. Whether there were enough troops in the wasteland to guard the remaining grain-producing areas.

Facing the Dragon Lord's question, Fischer calmly replied:

"Don't worry, Dragon Lord, because the Jackalmen are constantly harming the desert races, and the news that the kingdom has a large amount of food has spread relatively far in the desert."

"Many tribes that survived after being attacked by the Jackalmen will choose to defect to us. They also know about our surprise attack on the Jackalmen's territory that killed two thousand Jackalmen."

"Moreover, in the northern mountainous areas that the dwarves don't control, there are actually quite a few Minotaurs and Centaurs living there. I also recruited a werewolf unit."

"It's just that they have only been subdued for less than half a month and haven't undergone enough training, so I didn't bring them on this operation. I left them to guard the house."

"In addition to a hundred werewolves, there are also two hundred Minotaurs and three hundred Centaurs guarding. There won't be any problems with the grain-producing area in Great Horn Town."

Attilan nodded in satisfaction. He didn't expect that Fischer could recruit so many people in the wasteland area, which had almost no source of troops.

The thousand Centaurs and five hundred Minotaurs he mentioned were already almost all the troops in the wasteland, including the five hundred Centaurs and two hundred Minotaurs in Yellow Sand Pass.

But Fischer brought another thousand Centaurs and five hundred Minotaurs, and left so many people at home.

Attilan was very curious about how he did it.

"Go and see how the warriors you brought are doing first."

Fischer patted his chest and guaranteed.

"Dragon Lord, rest assured, they are all qualified warriors!"

Attilan went over to take a look. These Minotaurs with relatively long hair, where are they Minotaurs, they are clearly Yakmen!

"Fischer, you're wrong. These are not Minotaurs, these are Yakmen."

Fischer said in confusion:

"That's right, they also call themselves Minotaurs, saying that after their ancestors went to the cold highlands in the north for several generations, they grew long hair and their minds became much clearer."

Attilan blinked his eyes in confusion, so, Yakmen are smarter highland Minotaurs?