The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

Lina persuaded Xu Lai, so Xu Lai handed the task of counterattacking the stronghold to Lina.

However, these two knightly orders have a full complement of more than 6000 people. No matter how much dry food each person carries, they can only last for a week to half a month at most.

As for seizing spoils in the wild land, not to mention that they left a large amount of food and fodder on the grassland.

Even if it wasn't lost, there wouldn't be much to eat in such a poor place like the wilderness.

Xu Lai had been there before and had plenty of experience, and he had really suffered a lot there.

There are far fewer wild animals in the wilderness than in the grasslands, and the key is that the water source is unstable. Even the villages and towns where the ogres live do not have wells.

In addition, even with a marching tent, I couldn’t get a good rest at night. I felt neither safe nor secure.

After thinking about it, Xu Lai took out a space ring from his arms, which was the other-dimensional space ring.

He handed the ring to Lina and said, “Keep this ring, it can connect to the warehouse in Qingfeng City.

There is enough food and water stored in the warehouse.

If you are still short of any resources when you arrive in the wilderness, please contact me in advance and I will send them to this warehouse once they are ready."

The function of the Extra-Dimensional Warehouse Ring far exceeds that of ordinary artifacts, and it even deserves the title of a super artifact.

No matter how big or powerful an ordinary space ring is, even one with infinite space, cannot compare to this ring that can be replenished at any time.

Of course, this kind of ring needs to be used in conjunction with props for remote communication.

Lina did not refuse, she knew very well how important this ring was to their two knight orders.

Carrying the lives and deaths of more than 6000 knights on her shoulders, she could not refuse such a responsibility.

The ring contained a rich supply of daily necessities. After meeting up with Pierce's Eighth Knights, Lina and the others could head towards the wilderness.

However, in order to cover them, Xu Lai also decided to let Elvy and the angel troops follow them for a while when they set off.

But that was a few days later. It would take at least three or four days for Pierce and the Eighth Knights to arrive.

What Xu Lai needed Lina and the others to do right now was to capture those orcs.

Before, because Elvy and his men were stationed at this major passage, the orcs had been looking for a new way out everywhere and had already run all over the mountains and plains.

Most of Xu Lai's subordinates were recruited knights, and the only ones who had initiative were the knight officers and conscripted knights transferred into the Knights Templar.

Some of these people were new recruits who had just joined the team and had only participated in this one battle with the orcs. They were not suitable for acting alone.

In addition, the orcs are not completely powerless to resist, so having fewer people would not be appropriate.

No matter how his own team was distributed, it would only consist of a few hundred teams at most.

The knights of the Third Knight Order are all professional knights with independent combat capabilities. With some recruits and logistics personnel, they can form an independent team.

Xu Lai's tens of thousands of knights are only a hundred teams. The 3000 knights of the Third Knights Regiment, plus 3000 logistics personnel, can form more than a hundred teams with both combat and transportation capabilities.

Xu Lai has air superiority, and Elvy, Silver Wing and other Pegasus, Pegasus Knights, can fly in the sky to guide the teams.

There are also professional reconnaissance knights like Jian Yuan, who can search out the orcs even if they hide in the mountains.

Xu Lai stayed at the front line for several days and captured thousands of orcs of various ranks one after another.

Including the thousands of orcs captured near the base camp, Xu Lai escorted tens of thousands of mid- and high-level orcs back to Stone City at one time.

The Wanshi City, which was originally deserted and only had civilians besides the soldiers, is now bustling with many more people.

After agreeing to Lina, Xu Lai issued a new administrative order, requiring officials at all levels to send back the people who had been sent there before.

Of course, it’s really a hassle for people to get used to the new place after so much effort and now we have to send them back.

But he has to make some trouble. It's almost half of the grassland, and Xu Lai can't let these places remain vacant.

It turned out that those people were more familiar with the topography here, and the foundations laid before to build the village were still there.

The easiest way to adapt is to move them back.

What's more, when they were relocated, Xu Lai only told them to migrate for a period of time, and most of them still wanted to return to their original land.

In addition, Xu Lai promised to continue to fund them, not only by providing food supplies for the journey, but also by providing materials and grain seeds for rebuilding the village.

Most people are unwilling to leave their hometowns and would rather return to where they originally lived.

With the conditions promised by Xu Lai, most people chose to move back.

Some people are reluctant to give up newly developed land, pastures, etc.

Xu Lai also followed them. What he had promised before would always count.

Therefore, this time the relocation is based on the principle of voluntariness.

If they are willing to come back, officials at all levels, including village heads and town heads, need to organize civilian manpower and guards.

If they were unwilling to come back, they could still keep the wasteland they had reclaimed before. Xu Lai promised to fund the construction of their houses and continue to complete the construction.

The land, houses, etc. provided for the relocation of these people were directly transferred to the believers brought by Dur.

The arrival of these millions of believers is definitely a huge opportunity for the grassland.

However, in order to get this opportunity, the first thing to do is to settle them.

There are millions of believers, and no city on the grassland has the capacity to accommodate them, including Qingfeng City where Xu Lai is located.

Under Xu Lai's once-and-for-all arrangement, the construction of Qingfeng City's city walls far exceeded the control range of the Castle Heart, which also cost him a lot of extra manpower and resources.

But even so, Qingfeng City cannot accommodate a population of millions.

Moreover, the amount of food consumed by millions of believers every day is extremely staggering.

Even if each person only consumed one unit of food a day, that would start at one million units, causing the profiteers in the Southern Empire to raise the price of food by 4 or 5 times.

Dur and the others knew that this was a huge burden for Xu Lai, which was why Lina took the initiative to ask to go to the wilderness.

The temple attached great importance to this matter. The Eighth Knights led by Pierce rode past the Stone City on horseback without even entering the city to see his old friend.

Of the millions of believers, a portion, about 100,000 people, stayed in Qingfeng City, and another portion was recruited into the army in the name of Qingfeng Legion.

In this way, the city and the military camps outside the city accommodated a total of 12 people.

The rest of the believers had to be dispersed and distributed to various cities.

According to the calculations of Yu Lan, Ji Long and others, believers will be sent to various cities in groups of thousands.

Several larger cities that were severely affected by the war, such as the castle-level cities that Xu Lai had just taken back, were taken over in units of 10,000 people.

Fort Conaston and Stone City, the only two large cities on the grassland, second only to Qingfeng City, had to bear more. Earl Aini fought several battles, Xu Lai also fought several times, and even in the past few months, Jimmy also led people to fight against the orc wolf cavalry.

Because of these warriors, Conaston Castle suffered a great loss of population and took the initiative to accept more than 6 believers.

However, the Stone City is basically an empty city. Even if some of the previous residents return, the number of people will still not be too large.

Because this is already an elven city, the battle between the elves and the undead is not going smoothly, and Reina and the Elf Queen have reached a cooperative relationship.

The Stone City will take in some of the elven refugees, which can be regarded as a spark of fire that the Barrier Camp retains on the human side.

Xu Lai had no objection to this. Although the refugees taken in by Wanshi City would not leave the Barrier camp, they would join the grassland and become Xu Lai's subjects.

Xu Lai has not yet established a country, so it is too early to talk about subjects, but the elves in the Stone City have already pledged allegiance to Xu Lai.

Obviously, the future Stone City will be a city where elves and humans live together.

If most people had a choice, they would not be willing to settle here.

But the believers had no choice. Dur personally escorted a team of 300,000 believers on the way to Stone City.

Of the 300,000 people, 100,000 will be given to Wanshi City, and for the remaining 200,000, Xu Lai plans to build two more cities for them.

These two cities were built at the two ends of the forest on either side of Stone City.

Firstly, it is more convenient to obtain wood resources, and secondly, it can form a cornerstone with the Hard Stone City.

The location of Wanshi City is right in the center of the grassland, and it will definitely be the core city of the grassland in the future.

Therefore, it is necessary to arrange two satellite cities for Wanshi City.

Coincidentally, Xu Lai broke through the base camp left by the orcs.

This base camp has an escape route and is a castle-level stronghold city.

After Xu Lai destroyed the Heart of the Stronghold, he obtained two base-level Castle Hearts.

With these two castle hearts, both cities can be directly upgraded to base-level cities, and it will be no problem for them to accommodate 100,000 people each.

Now in Wanshi City, in addition to the returning immigrants from nearby cities, there is also the caravan brought by Wei Yihong and the merchants who came here after smelling the scent.

There were wars going on in the grasslands and strongholds, and it seemed as if all the merchants had disappeared in the past few months.

Now that the war has stopped, these guys have popped up like mushrooms after a rain.

Of course, Xu Lai, who suffered heavy losses, also needed the help of these businessmen to make up for his losses.

In fact, even without these businessmen, Xu Lai’s capital was enough to support this war.

As long as we win this battle against the orcs in the stronghold, it will be worth it no matter what the cost.

Taking advantage of the momentum of the orc invasion, Xu Lai was able to quickly unify the entire grassland.

Otherwise, among the hundreds of cities on the grassland, except for a few that were lured over by Jimmy, the rest would have to be conquered one by one by Xu Lai.

Because of the invasion of the orcs, most of the nobles did not dare to fight against the orcs and chose to surrender directly, allowing Xu Lai to resist the orcs.

Now he has successfully defeated the orcs, not only killing hundreds of thousands of them, but also capturing more than ten thousand orcs.

Now, those nobles were even less willing to resist. After all, Xu Lai had already wiped out the coalition forces of the stronghold camp, so it would be easy for him to wipe out their entire family.

At this time, Xu Lai's dominance over the grassland far exceeded that of Aini, truly reaching the highest level in history.

Anyway, Xu Lai himself was a person of low nobility, so he no longer had any say in the grassland.

For example, before, Jilong handed him a statistical report.

It clearly records the performance of officials at all levels appointed by Xu Lai and the nobles who remained in office during the orc invasion.

Xu Lai had just reassigned the mayors of major cities, the political officials, military commanders, tax officials he appointed, and others based on this report.

Those who perform well should be promoted, those who perform poorly should be demoted, and some who blatantly disobey orders should be arrested or killed.

Even the city lords, the former nobles, did not dare to resist the administrative orders issued by Xu Lai.

Even the guards in the city were still in the hands of these city lords. Once Xu Lai's order arrived, they would tie themselves up.

At this time, the punishment they accepted was at most imprisonment or fines. Even if they were really to be executed, they would have to accept it willingly.

Because no matter how much Xu Lai punishes, it will not bring disaster to his family. But if anyone dares to resist, the whole family will be burned to death in the crematorium without any discussion.

The merchants who came to Stone City were extremely interested in the orc-related spoils.

Even if it was the tattered leather armor worn by the orcs, they were willing to pay a higher price than complete fur.

Firstly, because of the war, the grassland has not produced any specialty products for half a year.

Thanks to sea transportation, merchants in the south can also obtain some furs from Qingfeng City.

These traditional land-based merchants have hardly been active in the past few months. Even if they occasionally come out for a stroll, they haven't received any good things.

Xu Lai killed more than 5000 Behemoths. Even if most of them were recruited Behemoths, he still had 2500 Behemoths in his hands.

The materials on Behemoth's body are not as famous as those of the dragon clan, and their practicality is not as wide as that of the dragon clan. At least the blood, internal organs and so on are not very useful.

However, Behemoth's fur is an extremely light and tough armor material.

Behemoth's claws are the best material for making armor-piercing weapons such as armor-piercing arrows and armor-piercing bows.

Although the effect of Behemoth meat is not as good as dragon meat, which has the powerful effect of breaking through qualifications, it is also a good material for making physical strength potions.

Just these Behemoths can be cleaned up, disassembled, and sold for twenty or thirty thousand gold coins each, which is very easy.

In addition to Behemoth, there is also the one eye of the Cyclops, the heart of the Thunderbird, the heavy weapons held by the orcs, and the captive Kodo beasts.

Each and every item is a treasure that can be sold at a very high price in the three major empires of the East, South and North.

On the contrary, for the orc warriors that Xu Lai had high hopes for, these merchants really lowered the price.

A level 7 orc berserker is even less expensive than a level 2 ordinary orc. How could Xu Lai accept this?

Of course, Xu Lai had no way to refute the other party's reasons for the time being.

Because they said that once these orc berserkers went crazy, even the entire caravan couldn't control them.

But when Xu came here, he couldn't find any orcs of a lower level.

Those with low levels, low physiques, and poor equipment were all burned to ashes by the fire of doom. (End of this chapter)