Monarch of Evernight: For whom Thirty-nine was born

bsp;The latest additions are four great chiefs and three great priests, all of whom are count-level experts. Some of them came from the Grand Corridor, and three came from the Emerald Sea. Those who came from the Emerald Sea were all Counts of the Garter, and their strength was obviously higher than that of the Grand Corridor. The tall werewolf chief with bright feathers on his head was the strongest among them, and his dark force aura was stronger than Eskar. , there are still faint signs of breaking through the Marquis.

The strong werewolves introduced by Eskar will stand up and kneel in the direction of Qianye, touching their foreheads with their hands. This is their highest respect for the king.

From this point of view, the werewolf's attitude towards Qianye is far more respectful than that of the mercenary generals, and they appear to be more loyal. Even the arrogant turkey-headed werewolf chief was like this. When he saluted, he was as pious as the others. He returned to his seat and regained his arrogance. Some mercenary generals also saw it and couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

After introducing all the new werewolf warriors, Eskar said: "Your Majesty..."

Qianye raised his hand to stop him, "Don't use the title Your Majesty from now on."

Aiska was obviously a little embarrassed and said: "But the tribe is used to it. After such a great victory, I can't stop them. Besides, it won't be a matter of time before you become a king?"

Qianye frowned and said: "No matter what happens in the future, at least for now, I can't bear this title, so don't use it."

"Yes, Qianye... Sir." Eskar finally changed his title, and then said: "These companions are all devout people who sincerely want to follow you. They have been added to their respective ancestor altars. your location."

Qianye’s expression became quite strange. In the empire, only the dead would be placed on the altar for worship.

As if Carol knew what he was thinking, she leaned into Qianye's ear and whispered: "The tribe of the werewolf ancestors does have a tradition of offering sacrifices to the king. This is safer than any other oath. Of course you can't lose it. Get off the throne."

Qianye nodded reluctantly, although he still felt awkward in his heart, but he also knew that this form of loyalty was recognized by all the werewolf tribe, and the risk of betrayal would become very small. Until one day in the future, Qianye will be killed by the new king and take his place on the altar, just like the Duke of Bones.

These three tribes are the first to pledge allegiance to the Emerald Sea Tribe. It seems that life under the Duke of Bones is not easy.

With these werewolves, Qianye's strength in Yonglu has greatly increased. Just how to use this power requires caution. At the same time, Qianye had to completely give up his original idea of ​​stopping the Great Corridor Tribe from putting him on the altar of ancestors.

Piety is a higher level of loyalty. If you want to gather these werewolves under your command without causing trouble, keeping them pious is the best way. It is more effective and reliable than a contract written on parchment. This is tradition. The other side of power. In order to maintain stability, Qianye could only sacrifice his own feelings.

Next, Qianye asked about the casualties and aftermath of the battle.

Since the formation of the mixed army of werewolves and humans, the Battle of the Emerald Sea was the largest and most brutal battle. The werewolf warriors in the entire Grand Corridor suffered more than 150,000 casualties. In addition, the losses of the new army recruited and trained by Xu Jingxuan also exceeded 20,000, accounting for almost half of the entire new army.

Correspondingly, the Emerald Sea Werewolves suffered more than 300,000 casualties. Because their own treatment capabilities are limited and the Grand Corridor cannot provide redundant support, the Emerald Sea Wolf's tens of thousands of seriously injured people will die one after another in the next few days.

After the death of the Duke of Bones, the Emerald Sea Werewolves participated in the battle and most of the reserve troops surrendered. Now there are as many as 300,000 prisoners alone, and tens of thousands of werewolves took advantage of the chaos to escape.

According to the prisoners' confessions, there should be several werewolf troops arriving within a day's journey from here, totaling about hundreds of thousands. Once they get news of the defeat at the front, they will definitely flee back to their original tribe.

The best strategy at the moment is to immediately send troops to intercept, eliminate these werewolf reinforcements in the wild, and reduce the pressure of sweeping the entire Emerald Sea later.

However, Qianye looked inside the room and saw that almost everyone, whether human or werewolf, was covered in injuries. He could no longer find anyone who could lead the troops, so he had to give up. Moreover, there are hundreds of thousands of prisoners outside, and they must be dealt with quickly, otherwise it may break out at any time.

The work of recruiting the Emerald Sea Werewolves was complicated and detailed, but the implementation was relatively smooth.

The Duke of Bones went to battle, and all the large tribes in the core area of ​​the Emerald Sea came out in full force, only to be wiped out in one fell swoop. Those who escaped were scattered tribes near the battlefield. Tens of thousands of warriors sounded like a lot of people, but they were scattered in all directions. Not to mention that Qianye had already recruited the main force of werewolves, the werewolves who only relied on the large corridor, and even Xu Jingxuan. The remaining new armies can also wipe out the remaining armies.

Although some tribes in the fringe areas also received the call from the Duke of Bones, some had long journeys and some lacked enough military rations, so they were unable to catch up with the war. For these tribes, as long as you have enough patience and are willing to take the time to conquer them one by one, you can always slowly calm them down.

In the next few days, Qianye would convene various meetings of various sizes every day, and they would often last for most of the day, leaving him no time to consolidate his realm as a **** general. The placement, safety and food of hundreds of thousands of werewolves are all major matters, and there is no room for error. It wasn't until he experienced it personally that Qianye realized that it was not easy for the officers to provide logistics.

After the big meeting that day, Song Hui followed Qianye back to his private area. Qianye knew she had something to say, so he closed the door and waited for the next step.

"Do you really want to take in these werewolves?"

"What if?" Qianye felt that this question was a bit confusing. With the Emerald Sea and the Grand Corridor, preliminary statistics indicate that the total number of werewolves exceeds 12 million. With such a huge number, conquering them is naturally the best choice. Otherwise, once they turn hostile, they will have to be killed with mercy.

Song Hui said meaningfully: "There are twelve million werewolves here. In the past, it was because this land could not support so many werewolves that they attacked the Zhengguo Fortress generation after generation."

Qianye nodded, "I know. But this land cannot support so many people in the hands of werewolves, but it is different in our hands."

Whether it is the Emerald Sea or the Great Corridor, the land's output is not enough to feed so many werewolves, so they have to expand and plunder the surroundings every year to maintain the lowest consumption of survival. Among the surrounding forces, Zheng Guo was the most bullied, so he became the first choice for werewolf attacks. But from Qianye's point of view, what Duke Bones can't do doesn't mean that he can't do it.

The werewolf tribe here is still at a primitive level, relying on hunting and extensive breeding. The farming technology is extremely primitive and backward. Not to mention that it is incomparable with the empire, it is not in the same era as the Zheng State. As long as various crops suitable for planting here are introduced and the farming efficiency per unit area is improved, feeding these werewolves will not be a problem at all.

Who says werewolves can't be vegetarians? The werewolves in the Great Corridor have proven that, given the choice between starving to death and eating grass, the wolf will choose to eat grass. And farming not only produces rations, but also mixed feed and high-quality pasture. High-quality forage can double the output of animal husbandry, at least ensuring that soldiers can eat meat.

In just one or two years, this land will be able to support twice as many werewolves. In addition, if more investment is made to cultivate high-yielding crops that are fully adapted to the environment here, the number of werewolves that can be fed will continue to increase.

The only thing that needs to be solved may be the food problem during the transition period. But after this war, hundreds of thousands of elite warriors were reduced. The ration needs of these warriors were much greater than those of ordinary werewolves. Even if they did nothing, they could barely survive this year. On the other hand, Qianye can also choose to purchase food from the empire to fill the lean period.

But Song Hui didn't think so. Seeing that Qianye didn't understand, she simply said: "Have you ever thought about how many people can be fed if this land is full of human races?"

Qianye was stunned. He had never thought about this issue. When he thought about his plans for the next one or two years, he was still basing his plans on the current situation and had not reached the stage of extreme assumptions.

Now that Song Hui asked, numbers quickly rolled through his mind. High-level warriors and strong men cannot be used as universal examples. If only the general population is considered, an adult's food intake is far less than that of a werewolf, and it is disproportionately less than the body size. An adult werewolf is about twice the size of a human, but eats as much as four adults.

If Qianye is sure to feed 20 million werewolves, then it is not impossible to feed 40 to 50 million humans in this vast land stretching for hundreds of kilometers, or even more. It's just that the environment in Yonglu is still unfavorable to the survival of ordinary people. People without the Force living here will have a shorter life span than in the empire itself. But if the population is moved from a neutral place, there won't be much difference.

However, there is a deeper meaning in Song Hui's words. Qianye thought about it, frowned slightly, and said, "You mean, let me kill all the werewolves and then fill in the blanks with humans?"

"There is no need to kill, just expel."

Qianye frowned even more tightly. Even for werewolves, such a large-scale migration means that countless people will die on the road. With werewolves in such a primitive tribal form, it is common for half of them to die during the great migration. This is not much different from direct massacre.

Qianye sighed and said: "What is the difference between this and killing them? Song Hui, after all, these are ten million lives, can they be killed like this?"

"Those who are not from my race must have different thoughts! Besides, there is only so much land. If we feed the werewolves, we cannot feed the human race. From the standpoint of our race, of course we want to kill all the werewolves. Do you think Da Qin is How did you establish a country and open up new territories? The continent that the empire now occupies was not an uninhabited place 1,200 years ago."

The middle continent is certainly not barren. The empire itself has its own unique resources, especially the territories controlled by the imperial family and clans. Many of them can be called nurturing lands. It was the foundation of dawn that was torn out of the dark world.

Qianye knows that what Song Hui said is true. The rise of the human race is full of sacrifices, and those bones and blood belong not only to the human race, but also to countless dark races.

He was silent for a while and said: "I remember hearing a saying that since the spectrum of power in this world is divided into dawn and darkness, it means that every ethnic group has the right to survive on the continent. Eliminate an ethnic group. , Dawn or Darkness will give rise to another, so blind killing is meaningless. This is Yonglu, not the Empire or the Evernight Council. Maybe it can be different? Besides, these werewolves have sincerely surrendered and proved it. own loyalty."

Qianye paused and said frankly: "Under this situation, I really can't do anything."

Song Hui did not relax and asked: "How do they prove their loyalty?"

"The lives of two hundred thousand soldiers."

Song Hui also had to nod and sighed: "Okay, even so. But what if they rebel in the future?"

Qianye said calmly: "What I promised them, I will naturally give it to them. If there are still people who rebel like this, do you think I will let them go? Many dark races have died at my hands in the past. ”

"That's good." Song Hui breathed a sigh of relief. She thought for a while and then asked: "Then what do you think about this country? Is it on the side of dawn or eternal night?"

This is a question that every kingdom must face. For whom this country is born and for whom it fights. But this most basic question stumped Qianye.

In the squeeze between the two camps, there are many forces that claim to be neutral, but everyone knows the flaws. To be truly neutral, one must be weak enough, strong enough, or the act of neutrality itself has sufficient benefits.