Chapter 282 The Ogre's Special Tactics

The ogre tribe that attacked the camp this time was relatively small, with less than 30 people in total. The range of their activities was not far from the swamp where Savio was hiding. It was just that the necromancer was good at hiding his tracks, so the ogres did not notice it.

Today, Deng Lejin used the Holy Light Token and made a lot of noise, which was immediately discovered by the ogre tribe.

Every human professional is the best food for the ogres. Seeing that humans entered the territory, the ogre tribe immediately searched and captured them.

Ogres have extraordinary sense of smell and can clearly smell the scent of prey from a few kilometers away. They live in the jungle and are good at tracking prey. Although everyone left the scene, the camp was still discovered by the ogres in the second half of the night.

The ogre tribe that attacked the camp did not have a two-headed ogre magician. The elders of the tribe were also average-minded and had a reckless and irritable personality. After discovering the human camp, they rashly chose to sneak attack, but found that they had kicked the iron plate. The enemy's strength far exceeded that of the ogre tribe. Once the advantage of sneak attack was lost, the situation of the ogres immediately became very bad.

Richard saw that the ogre was doomed to fail, so he stopped consuming his magic power. Being in the legendary ogre territory, he had to keep a trump card at all times.

He had to keep enough magic power at all times to prepare to release the starlight bomb.

Although Richard and Sophia did not attack again, they easily solved all the ogres who attacked the camp by relying on the powerful force in the camp.

After the battle, everyone quickly peeled off the ogre skin, collected it and stored it in the Starlight Bottle. Then they dug out the magic core in the ogre's body. The ogre's brain can be used to refine deep meditation potions, which is also a very valuable magic material.

The Dawn Church has a deep meditation potion formula and excellent pharmacists, so the ogre's brain was naturally handed over to Deng Lejin.

The ogre skin can be used to refine enchanted armor, which is a precious resource that Harland's territory urgently needs, and was taken by Richard.

The ogre's magic core is also very valuable, and everyone got some.

Among the three forces, the Wild Lion Legion had the weakest strength and played the least role in the battle. Naturally, they suffered some losses when dividing the spoils, and could only share the least benefits. Harland Territory and Dawn Church received the most valuable treasures.

After annihilating a tribe of ogres, everyone did not dare to delay, packed their bags overnight, washed their bodies, and continued to walk back.

The social structure of ogres is very primitive, and the transmission of information between tribes is also relatively slow.

It took about three or four days for the nearby ogre tribe to notice the abnormality and found that a tribe was annihilated by the enemy. Seeing the invaders coming to the territory, the two-headed ogre magician did not dare to neglect and immediately sent the news to the legendary ogre Greso.

Realizing that outsiders had entered his territory, Greso immediately ordered all ogres to mobilize and search all the nearby grass and trees.

Soon the ruins hidden by the necromancer were discovered by the ogre.

When the news reached the legendary ogre, Richard and others had returned to the Flame Castle and the team had been disbanded.

Because Bernie and his team brought back the glutton stomach, the leader of the Mad Lion Legion immediately asked for merit for them.

Normally, Bernie and his team could get at least five great merits for this operation, but the merits needed to be distributed among forty officers. Although Bernie was the commander, he could only get 30% at most, which was converted into one and a half great merits.

Bernie had been accumulating military merits for more than ten years. In addition to exchanging for breathing methods, ordinary cultivation resources mostly relied on subsidies from the Harland Territory. His enchanted armor, weapons, bows and arrows, the second-level iron-horned horse under his crotch, and the Tenghui potion he usually used all came from the Harland Territory.

Without spending merits to exchange for external objects, Bernie has accumulated seven great merits after more than ten years of accumulation. His second son Gavin and third son Thorn successively served in the Grizzlies Legion, accumulating five medium merits in total.

The merits obtained by the Bernie family are not far from being knighted.

Before the Goddess's Birthday last year, Richard dealt with Bernie's eldest son Tang En. Father William promised that after the next orc invasion, he would use his military merits to help Bernie get a title.

This time Bernie got a half-great merit, and Richard decided to talk to William to help Bernie get a title in advance.

Richard had been awarded two earldoms, and his merits had been used up, but Sophia and Wendy still had some merits.

Richard was going to let Sophia take out a great merit to help Bernie become a hereditary baron and ease the relationship between the two sides.

After coordinating the interests within the Harland family, Richard sent someone to talk to his third uncle Bernie. Then, through his father William's relationship, he found the speaker of the noble council, Marquis Allen, and held a title conferment ceremony to complete the demarcation of the territory.

The territories of the newly promoted military nobles are basically demarcated in the northern border, and it is very rare to get the opportunity to obtain the southern fiefdom. If the time for the third uncle Bernie to be awarded a title is advanced, Richard can still help him demarcate his fiefdom in the central part of the Grand Duchy of Stannik.

But now the division of territory can only be obtained from the four northern provinces. After all, Third Uncle Bernie is a vassal of King Roger, and his fiefdom can only be selected from the royal territories.

Last year, King Roger conferred several barons in the Grotta Province, which now borders the Harland Territory. According to Richard's wishes, Third Uncle Bernie hopes that the territory will be placed here.

After considering for a long time, Bernie still agreed with Richard's idea. Now the northern territories of the Geda Province have been conferred.

Grant Kingdom's new nobles can only have their territories in Grotta and Gascoyne. Relatively speaking, there is no powerful noble in Gascoyne Province. Although there is a Flame Legion stationed there, it is easily invaded by orcs.

The territory is located in the north of Gascoyne Province, and it is difficult to develop.

Although Grotta Province was also invaded by orcs, the fiefdom can be placed next to Harland Territory. With the powerful Harland Territory army taking care of it, the territory is relatively safer.

Uncle Bernie's territory is in the south of the Eastern County of Grotta River, about three kilometers away from the border ferry where Richard passed when he entered the Duke of Jonathan's territory.

Although the area of ​​this territory is only 1,200 square kilometers, there are more than 200 square kilometers of river valley flat land, and the Earl of Harland is on the top in the north. Unless the orcs can break through the Eastern County of Grotta River, it is very safe.

In the entire Grotta Province, it is also a very high-quality territory. If it were not for the sudden increase in the influence of the Harland family, Bernie would not have been able to obtain this territory.

After his third uncle Bernie became a hereditary baron, he appointed his second son Gavin as his heir. Richard and William pooled their money and supported his third uncle with 20,000 gold coins as early development funds.

Bernie's second son Gavin also resigned from the Earldom of Harland, bought 1,500 serfs, and returned to the territory to run his own family business.

Richard and others successfully killed the necromancer and completed the task. The legendary ogre Greso began to investigate the cause of the demise of the ogre tribe.

Greso has survived in the Eagle Mountains for hundreds of years and has been dealing with humans for a very long time.

Compared with ordinary ogres, Greso is brutal and experienced. He even used magic to control some human officials and act as spies for him.

Soon Greso figured out the whole story through various channels.

When he found that Richard and others passed through Songtao Castle and entered the source of the Kaia River, killed the necromancer, and destroyed an ogre tribe along the way, Greso's brows immediately frowned slightly.

Since Duke Brener defeated the orcs and seized the three northern provinces more than a hundred years ago, the territory of the Kingdom of Grant has extended more than 200 kilometers to the north. Duke Edward built Vera Castle in the north and has since become the opponent of the legendary ogre.

The first Duke Edward was a powerful legendary warrior. He organized people several times to go deep into the Eagle Mountains to hunt and kill Greso. In order to avoid the first Duke Edward, Greso once moved his territory to the northeast.

After the death of the first Duke Edward, the legendary ogre moved his base to his homeland. Over the years, as the Duke Edward's territory declined, he even had to provide Greso with thousands of people every year.

However, humans have expanded their sphere of influence to the depths of the Eagle Mountains, and Vera Castle is only about 100 kilometers away from Greso's nest.

Originally, Vera Castle was a thorn in the eyes and flesh of the legendary ogre. Greso always wanted to uproot the castle.

However, Vera Castle was built very solidly and was located at the forefront of the north. It was the northern gateway of the Duke Edward's territory and was guarded by a legion of soldiers all year round. Even the orc army could only besiege it but could not conquer it.

Although the ogre tribe controlled by Greso was not weak, it did not have too many people after all. Once it suffered heavy losses in attacking Vera Castle, it might not be able to maintain its position of being above the outside world. Whether it was orcs or humans, as long as the victory or defeat was decided in this area, they would definitely free up their hands to attack the ogre tribe and take down Greso's head.

The only thing Greso could rely on now, in addition to two or three thousand ogres, was the 80,000 to 90,000 square kilometers of forest protection in the west of the Eagle Mountains.

With the vast forest protection, it was almost impossible for humans to mobilize a large army into the mountains.

If there was no dense forest protection, the Jonathan family alone could mobilize 50,000 to 60,000 troops to uproot the Eagle Mountains ogres. At that time, Greso would become a commander without troops and might not be able to save his life.

Although the ogre magician has mastered some bloodline spells, his spellcasting ability is far inferior to that of legendary magicians like Elena. The magic level of the ogre tribe is not as good as that of humans and elves, and there are not many powerful magic creations.

Once defeated, Gresso does not have many spells to escape.

As the national strength of the Grant Kingdom has increased, it has been expanding towards the Eagle Mountains in recent years. The establishment of the two earls of Harland and Martins has expanded the territory to the north by about 100,000 square kilometers.

Especially the earldom of Martins, which squeezes the living space of the ogre tribe.

Songtao Castle is only about 160 kilometers away from Gresso's nest.

Once the earldom of Martins develops and the territory has a population of 600,000 to 700,000, it can provide supplies for the army. At that time, the Grant Kingdom can send troops from the east and west, and the legendary ogre may not be able to stop it.

Although Richard and others wiped out an ogre tribe, it was just a small matter for Gresso. But the existence of the earldom of Martins is a headache for Gresso.

It is not an easy task to eliminate the earldom of Martins. The orcs broke through Songtao Castle twice, looted countless people, killed two Counts of Martins, but failed to occupy this area.

With the support of King Roger, even though it was very difficult, the army still held on to this territory.

Now there is a legion of redeemers stationed in Songtao Castle, Martins Castle and other places, plus the private army of the Martins family, the total force is about 15,000.

"It is not a good idea to organize a large army and attack the Earldom of Martins. The human kingdom will send troops to reinforce and fight a decisive battle with the main force of the human army, which will consume its own strength. This is like hitting a stone with an egg."

Greso thought about it for a long time and finally decided to let the ogre tribe move eastward to capture the population of the Earldom of Martins and squeeze the living space of the Earldom of Martins.

If a territory is run at a loss for many years, even the Kingdom of Roger may not be able to withstand it.

Greso's strategy is very effective. Six or seven ogre tribes moved eastward and began to move around Martins Castle and Songtao Castle, preying on lone humans.

In just a dozen days, the Earldom of Martins lost hundreds of people.

Adult ogres are all mid-level professionals. Because of their special racial talents, they are very good at fighting alone.

Once the ogres are scattered, the Earldom of Martins is full of loopholes.

The low population density, backward communication conditions, and immature development of nearby territories made it very difficult for the Count of Martins to form an army to attack.

When encountering a large-scale human army, the ogres became smarter and would never fight head-on, but retreated into the depths of the forest.

The strategy of the ogres is the guerrilla tactics of the alien world.

This new tactic immediately made the Count of Martins very uncomfortable.

The Martins family could not bear the continuous bleeding of the ogres, and even King Roger of Nolan was helpless for a short time.

To solve this problem, it is necessary to draw elite forces and form a professional team to hunt ogres. At least more than 100 mid-level professionals and 400 to 500 primary professionals are needed to gain the upper hand and drive the ogres away deep into the jungle.

The nobles of the northern border of the Grant Kingdom can be drawn together to form this team. However, the ogres cannot threaten their territory, so the nobles are naturally unwilling to take action.

There is a legend behind the ogre. In a small-scale battle, the legendary professional is almost a crushing force.

Unless Duke Jonathan is transferred here, the legendary ogre can be restrained. But Duke Jonathan is already the Grand Duke of Stannic, and it is impossible for him to come here to fight for the interests of the Martins family.

Without a powerful legendary professional to support him, how many elite people will die if he wants to win the battle?

Even Richard, without rich benefits, is unwilling to provoke the legendary ogre, not to mention the vast majority of nobles who have no overall view.

The royal family where King Roger is located, although powerful, is unwilling to pay for the Martins family. After all, this territory is the territory of the Martins family. The Grant family has no reason to shed blood for the Martins family.