The epic story of green monsters

Chapter 1174

When I returned to the Thorn Fortress, I could still smell the smoke and blood.

After completely controlling the fortress, the first thing Albad and his men had to do was to repair the city defenses that they had destroyed. In the future, this place would become the most important transit station and frontier defense line in the North.

"…Our army suffered over 25 casualties this time, including 137556 dead, 10521 missing, and 3098 disabled soldiers who need high-level magic - limb regeneration to recover. They are unable to fight in the short term."

"The total number of bodies collected from the elves, including those of the local residents, is 99760, with an additional 22707 captives."

"The supplies left in the city include 5246 war horses, 118 hippogryphs, and 11395 beasts of burden..."

With Allen's return, Albad and his men held a summary meeting in the fortress' inner castle, reporting to Allen the cost of the war, the spoils gained, and other situations.

Also attending the meeting were the chiefs and leaders from the various tribes of the Ring of Thorns. They had put aside the worries and anguish they had when they had previously dispatched troops. Their faces were filled with satisfaction with the reality and their visions for the future. There was no trace of their fear of the powerful Elf Kingdom.

For tens of thousands of years, the Elven Kingdom has been expanding southwards, annexing a large amount of territory that originally belonged to the Mansa Wilderness. Today, several provinces on the southern border of the Elven Kingdom were once wilderness. After occupying these lands, the Elven Kingdom actually did not manage and develop them well.

Because the Elf Kingdom's homeland is already vast, and the elf population has always been the biggest obstacle to the development and growth of their race, who would be willing to give up their original family business and territory and come to the kingdom's recognized wild and desolate areas, even though the elven families and tribes are already proud and self-conscious of their long heritage!

Without population migration, the defense construction in the border areas would naturally not be very strong. In addition to several densely populated cities located along the kingdom and the trade routes in the wilderness, the Thorn Fortress is already the most important and strongest city defense of the Elf Kingdom on the southern border.

After all, in the eyes of the elves, those uncivilized bumpkins in the Mansa Wilderness simply did not have the courage to invade the kingdom's territory, and this was a unanimous consensus throughout the kingdom.

This meant that as long as the Northern Alliance captured the Thorn Fortress, the gates to several southern provinces of the Elf Kingdom would be open to them, until the Mansa Wilderness fell into the Feynman world and overlapped with the Talen Continent to form a natural border mountain range.

The reason why the army of the Hochia Drow Federation had been silent before was that it was actually waiting for the army of the North to help them take down the tough nut of the Thorn Fortress. Otherwise, with the current number of troops in the Hochia Federation, although it is not impossible to take down the Thorn Fortress, the losses in this war are not something they are willing to bear.

"...The next focus of our army's attack will be on the 800-mile-long Torgan Province. The first priority is to capture the passage connecting the large tiankeng in the middle of Torgan Province to the underground world."

Albard waved his slender hand, and a huge map projected onto the huge sand table in the center of the conference room. He pointed to a location near the border of the Dwarf Kingdom and said, "As long as we occupy this place, our allies, the Dark Elves, will be able to join us through the passage."

"As for the army of the Gray Dwarves, according to the report of their secret envoys, they are now less than 10 days away from us."

Since the gray dwarves and dark elves want to occupy the territory of the southern provinces of the elven kingdom, Albard and his men will not let them take advantage and hide behind the mountains of corpses and seas of blood of the Northern Alliance soldiers.

"Well, tell the Gray Dwarf's emissary that if they don't speed up their march, then don't blame us in the North for seizing more territory!!"

Although he had reached a contract with the two gods, Allen would not indulge these two forces. The other party should have arrived before the Castle of Thorns fell to help the Northern Alliance complete the siege. But now that the other party has broken their promise, Allen must show a tough attitude.

"clear."

As Albard answered, he looked at the dark elf Drizzt, who was sitting next to Kole, and signaled him to handle it himself.

"Did the soldiers encounter any problems after this war?" Alan continued to ask questions that concerned him.

"There is no problem!"

A dozen or so legion commanders who were able to participate in this meeting exchanged glances with each other, and then answered in unison.

Albade also added: "Except for the fact that five legions were disbanded due to heavy losses, and the soldiers of these legions showed some dissatisfaction and concerns, the other legions are all normal."

"After this brutal actual combat, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in each legion has been improved. The combat effectiveness that can be exerted in the future will definitely not be weaker than when the army was first formed."

In the early stages of this siege, Albad took great pains to let the temporarily formed legions take turns to go to the battlefield to experience the atmosphere of actual combat. Although some losses were inevitable among the soldiers of each legion, they were all under his deliberate control, except for the thirty or so legions that were mainly responsible for the siege in the later stage.

Normally, the North cannot afford to support such a large army, and there are not many opportunities for war in the North. Therefore, apart from training a team of middle and grassroots officers, the rest can only rely on the training and replacement on the actual battlefield.

This is a very cruel reality, but it is also a common habit of compatriots of all races in the North. Not only do they not have any resistance to it, but they will grow rapidly because of self-protection.

"So how are your respective companies preparing the follow-up resources? When do you plan to ship them over?"

Alan turned his head to the tribal leaders who had come over and said, "The drow army should have already set out to the north by now. The biggest hidden danger we were worried about no longer exists. The soldiers on the front line are waiting for new fighters to make up for their losses!"

"Please rest assured, sir. When I came here, I had already ordered my tribe's baggage train to set out. It will arrive at the fortress in no more than half a month."

Nathaniel, the Ogre Chieftain of the Heart of the Wilderness, spoke first, speaking simply and crisply.

"The follow-up teams from our two tribes have also been dispatched."

The two like-minded lizardman leaders, Selina and Bernie, were only one step slower than the ogre chieftain.

After these two tribes tricked the Church of Nature, they completely turned to the camp of Allen and the Oak See. Although they are not yet as close to Green Field as Snomia and Crow Claw, they are also firm followers of Green Field.

"us……"

The leaders of the remaining tribes also expressed their opinions, fearing that if they neglected it at this time, they would suffer losses in the distribution of the spoils later.

You should know that the Mansa Wilderness is now promoting a reform plan. The future territorial scale of each tribe in the alliance is closely related to the speed of their development, but the North is temporarily independent of this rule. This is because of the opportunities that Alan, the pillar of the alliance, has fought for everyone in the alliance, and because the land currently occupied is not considered to be the territory of the wilderness.

Allen promised the leaders of each tribe that after they occupied the elves' land in the future, they could each choose a piece of land no smaller than the current territory of each tribe as their enclave. If any tribe wanted to move to the occupied area, they would also get additional land of the same size as the original territory as a development site, and the Ring of Thorns would also provide as much support as possible in the early stages.

This can be considered as candy that Allen gave to everyone in order to impress the tribes to send troops north and develop and manage these lands in the future.