Chapter 39: Burning the Fishman

The shellfish farm near the business travel coast in Ratchet Village is closest to other murloc villages. The seashells in the farm have reached the harvest period. In recent days, many murlocs have come to the vicinity to covet the small clams in the farm.

Ratchet Village has now sent a team of murloc hunters to guard the farm. The nearby murlocs have dispersed after being beaten several times, leaving only a few drooling murlocs standing in the distance, stretching their necks to watch.

A little murloc who is about to grow up staggered, and he moved towards the farm unsteadily. This little murloc is really hungry. Murlocs at his stage need to eat a lot, but the little murloc's hunting ability is not as good as that of adult murlocs. This is one of the most difficult stages in a murloc's life.

The nearby murlocs saw the little murloc rashly heading towards the farm, and they all looked over. In their opinion, this little murloc is about to be beaten up and thrown into the sea.

The little murloc came to the farm with difficulty. He thought he would be driven away by the fierce murloc hunters from Ratchet Village, but he was greeted by a grinning murloc.

The murloc merchant from Ratchet Village was temporarily arranged here by Yang Yi. The murloc merchant was one of the few eloquent people in Ratchet Village. His primary task now was to promote Ratchet Village.

Probably because the murlocs from Ratchet Village beat the murlocs from other villages who came to grab food too hard before, the murloc merchant stayed in the farm for half a day, but no foreign murloc dared to approach, and he, the publicity ambassador, became an idler.

Finally, a half-grown little murloc slowly approached the farm. The murloc merchant quickly put on his signature scary smile, and then shouted at the little murloc: "Hello Ratchet Village, the village chief of Ratchet Village is wise! Mula gaga gaga!"

"Wow?" The little murloc was frightened by the murloc merchant's shouting, and didn't understand what the murloc merchant was shouting at all.

"Wow, I think you have a bright future. Follow our village chief and you will be guaranteed to have delicious and spicy food." The fishman merchant continued to shout, and he raised his voice a few degrees. This was taught by Yang Yi.

"Wow?" The little fishman was even more confused. What is "promising"? What is "delicious and spicy food"?

"Join our Ratchet Village, there is food!" The fishman merchant continued to shout.

"Wow! Join! Join!" The little fishman understood now, and when he heard that there was food, he immediately cheered and shouted.

The little fishman joined the Ratchet Village without hesitation, and he immediately received a fresh small clam shell that had just been dug out.

After getting the small clam shell, the little fishman sat down directly in the muddy water of the breeding farm. He broke the clam shell with force, and then devoured the tender and juicy clam meat.

The fishmen watching from a distance saw the little fishman swallowing the clam meat in a whirlwind, and they all showed envy, but no one dared to move to the breeding farm.

Because they were beaten too badly by the murloc hunters in Ratchet Village before, it was really too bad.

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Time passed quickly, and a few days later, the small clams in the 8 shellfish farms had been harvested. Among them, the 8th shellfish farm was built on a piece of mudflat at random, so the harvest was nearly half less.

A total of 32 high-quality, shiny small pearls were harvested from the 8 shellfish farms. Although the number is not large, this is the result of the village's level 1 shellfish farm increasing the probability of pearl generation.

Such a pearl can be sold to the goblin merchant in exchange for 8 silver coins, which is an additional gain from farming small clams.

During the harvest, some extremely hungry murlocs wanted to rob the small clams, but under the propaganda offensive of the murloc merchants in Ratchet Village, many murlocs who came to rob joined Ratchet Village.

However, the harvest process was not smooth sailing. Some murlocs were unwilling to join Ratchet Village just to grab food. Fortunately, the Ratchet Village sent a lot of murloc hunters to guard the farm. After several small-scale battles, they injured more than a dozen murlocs outside the village and defended the farm.

In the battle, the Ratchet Village also paid the price of seven or eight murlocs being injured. After proper treatment, the injured murlocs will soon recover.

"Lord, a total of 58 murlocs have joined our Ratchet Village in the past few days. Now there are more than 200 adult murlocs in the village." The old blind man reported the situation to Yang Yi.

"Very good, the strategy that this lord came up with is powerful." Yang Yi was proud again.

The attraction of food to murlocs and the effect of the propaganda war greatly exceeded Yang Yi's expectations. In the first two days, only one or two murlocs joined the Ratchet Village, but later this effect grew rapidly like a snowball with an unstoppable momentum.

After several murlocs joined the Ratchet Village in the early stage and tasted the sweetness, the murlocs behind almost came one after another to join the Ratchet Village, and many even ran directly to the gate of the Ratchet Village to actively ask to join.

The total population of the three fishman villages near the Ratchet Village is less than 300. In the past few days, the number of fishmen taken away by the Ratchet Village has almost reached a quarter of the three fishman villages.

"Lord, the village has sent people to check. The three villages now do not allow the fishmen in the village to go out." said the old blind man.

"You use the method of not allowing the villagers to go out to prevent them from coming to the Ratchet Village? What a group of cowardly and reckless fishmen." Yang Yi shook his head. The big head on the fishman's body is really useless. Such an idea is tantamount to chronic suicide.

"Let them go. This lord wants to see if they would rather starve to death in the village than come out."

Yang Yi was despising the three fishman villages for prohibiting the fishmen in the village from going out. At this time, a fishman hunter in the village ran over.

"Village chief, it's bad." The fish hunter shouted in a panic. He was sent to investigate the fishmen in the three fish villages.

"Why are you panicking? What's wrong?"

"Village chief, the fishmen from the three villages are here together." The fish hunter said.

"The fishmen from the three villages are here? Do you mean that the three villages are united to attack our fish village?" Yang Yi was surprised. How come the fishmen who just despised the three fish villages for being cowardly and foolish suddenly formed an offensive and defensive alliance.

"How many fishmen have come? How far are they from our village now?" Yang Yi asked hurriedly.

"A lot, not far." The fish hunter was vague and he couldn't explain it clearly.

"This lord understands," Yang Yi asked the fish hunter to retreat, and then ordered the old blind man: "Send someone to check the news immediately, and quickly call back all the fish people near the village."

"Yes, lord."

The old blind man went to arrange people, and Yang Yi fell into deep thought. This was the consequence of his "brilliant strategy" - the food lure plan.

Yang Yi knew that the only way the fish people in the village could think of was to fight the enemy head-on. If they wanted to find a way, they could only rely on him.

"What can we do? There may be more than 200 enemies, and the number of fish people that can be gathered in the Thorn Tooth Village will not exceed 100 in a short time. This is a fight between the few and the many."

Most of the fish people in the Thorn Tooth Village are usually busy outside the village, and there are not many fish people left near the village at this time.

Yang Yi was depressed. Fighting the opponent with the many against the few was the primary tactic he set for the fish people in the Thorn Tooth Village. This was Yang Yi's favorite thing to do when he was in school. On the contrary, it would be no fun to fight with the few against the many.

"Art of War? Thirty-Six Stratagems?" Yang Yi scratched his head. He had only heard of military books but never touched them. He only knew the names of a few of the strategies in the Thirty-Six Stratagems, not to mention using them.

It was impossible to find strategies directly from the Art of War book, so Yang Yi had to start from reality.

"I remember someone said on the forum that the fishmen were set on fire when they attacked the farm." Since becoming the lord of the fishmen, Yang Yi has been paying attention to the news about the fishmen on the forum. He recalled a post on the forum that described using fire to defeat the fishmen and rob food.

"Fire attack? Good idea. This time the fishmen come to the ratchet village, why not set them on fire and make them scream." Yang Yi thought this method was feasible, so he quickly went to find the old blind man to ask him to arrange the fire attack.

The fishman hunter who returned to the ratchet village to report the news saw the report from the three fishman villages after they gathered, so it didn't take long for the fishmen from the three fishman villages to come to the beach south of the ratchet village.

The fishmen didn't make any pre-war declarations, and they didn't have the habit of reporting their identities to each other. Nearly two hundred fishmen rushed into the Ratchet Village shouting.

"Hand over the food!"

"I want clam meat!"

"Wow wow wow wow!"

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These fishmen didn't encounter any resistance after rushing into the Ratchet Village. This situation was very strange, but their fishmen didn't think so much.

Not long after entering the village, the fishmen saw several piles of small clam shells piled on the ground in front of them, so the fishmen's eyes bulged and all the fishmen rushed to the small clam shells.

Faced with the food at their fingertips, these simple-minded fishmen didn't notice the dry grass and branches piled around.

These dry grass and branches were just picked up from the beach by Yang Yi's fishmen in the village.

The waves often push various floating objects onto the coast. Over time, a long debris zone is formed on the beach, which is mainly composed of various dry grass, dead branches, bark and other objects. The Ratchet Village can easily collect enough dry grass and branches.

Yang Yi took more than 80 fishmen in the village and hid in a valley. Several bonfires were set up on the open space in the valley. The blazing flames forced the heat-fearing fishmen back several steps.

The fire was brought from the furnace in the village's forge. At present, only the fishmen in the forge were more accustomed to fire, so they were responsible for lighting the wood and handing it over to other fishmen.

Soon, more than 30 fishmen had lit torches in their hands. Yang Yi inspected the situation of the invading fishmen in the village and gave orders.

"Those who are obedient will be rewarded, and those who disobey orders will not have food today."

"Remember to follow orders later!"

"Have you remembered everything?"

Before the war, Yang Yi, the fishman lord, had to explain to the fishmen in the village tirelessly.

"Go! Burn them to death!"

"Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow..."

More than 80 fishmen screamed in unison and rushed out of the valley where they were hiding. The fishmen running in front were holding torches with smoke in their hands.

"Wow wow? Wow!"

The fishmen who were fighting for the small clam shells suddenly found a group of fishmen rushing towards them aggressively. As fishmen, they had never seen such a large-scale ambush tactics before, and they were in a mess all of a sudden.

"Throw torches, throw torches. Hey, don't throw them on the open ground, throw them on the pile of branches. That's right, that's it." Yang Yi shouted anxiously at the end of the team.

"Throw quickly!" Old Blind Eye and other fishmen with better brains took the lead in throwing torches at the pile of grass and trees and shouted for other fishmen to throw torches.

More than a dozen torches hit the pile of grass and trees on the ground, and these flammable grass and trees were quickly ignited, and flames and black smoke rose quickly.

"Wow! Fire! Fire!"

"Wow! Hot!"

"Run."

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The raging fire surrounded the invading murlocs. The panicked murlocs dropped the clams they had snatched and began to flee.

The dry grass and dead wood burned quickly, but after all, there was no kerosene or other things poured on them, so the flames did not form a complete encirclement in the first place, and the invading murlocs escaped from several exits that had not yet been ignited.

"Kill!" Old Blind Eye raised his heavy sword and killed the invading murlocs who were fleeing in panic. His expertise as [Murloc Leader] could play a powerful role on the battlefield.

"Wu La Wah La!" Brack shouted and rushed over. His running speed was unmatched in the entire murloc village, and soon he rushed to the front.

"Wa Wah Le Le Wah La Le Le..." The murlocs of the Ratchet Village followed Old Blind Eye and Brack and rushed over.

"Aim at that murloc, the guy with the big crab." Yang Yi commanded Slark, and he asked Slark to aim the water arrows at one of the strong murlocs first.

Previously, Yang Yi heard from the old blind that there was a murloc beachwalker and a murloc tidewalker in the three villages. These two murlocs were a big threat, so he wanted to get rid of the two murlocs as soon as possible.

In the melee, Yang Yi did not have time to use the Lord's Eye to find the two murlocs one by one, but the murloc tidewalker with the fiddler crab was easily discovered.

Bang!

Slark's water arrow accurately hit the body of the murloc tidewalker. The escaping murloc tidewalker was knocked down by the impact of the water arrow and was soon surrounded by the murlocs of the ratchet village.

"Catch them alive, don't be so heavy-handed, the main skill is to catch them alive." Yang Yi shouted, the talents who finally appeared should not be chopped into meat sauce.

The momentum on the battlefield was dominated by the murlocs of the ratchet village from beginning to end. After a fierce fight, the murlocs of the ratchet village won the victory with fewer people and more people by relying on the absolute suppression of morale.

"Hey, who is throwing torches? The fishman hut over there is on fire. Put out the fire quickly."

"Old Blind Eye, let the fishman find water to put out the fire."

"Don't look for water anymore. Just knock down the burning fishman huts. Don't let the fire spread."

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After the battle, the fishmen in Ratchet Village began to clean up the battlefield and counted the casualties of both sides.

"Lord, a total of 21 fishmen were killed and 48 were captured. The rest of the fishmen ran away. Six fishmen died in our Ratchet Village and more than a dozen were injured." Old Blind Eye reported.

After the last battle to surround the shellfish farm, he finally knew how to count his own casualties in the first place.

"Six of us died on our side, and so many of them ran away. What a pity." Yang Yi was still thinking about taking the captured fishmen to the village to strengthen the village's strength like last time. Unfortunately, the fishmen are a race that is notorious for running away when they can't win, so most of the invading fishmen escaped.

Fortunately, the Ratchet Village captured a Murloc Tidewalker this time. Now he and his sea crab were tied up and thrown among the captured Murlocs on the ground.

Yang Yi walked towards the Murloc Tidewalker.

"Now you are my prisoner. As long as you are willing to join this village, you will promise..."

"Yes, I want to join the Ratchet Village."

"Uh..., very good, there is a future."

Yang Yi wanted to coerce and lure this Murloc Tidewalker, but he didn't expect that this Murloc shouted to join the Ratchet Village before he finished speaking.

"This guy is the village chief of a hundred-man Murloc village. It's so easy for him to agree to join the Ratchet Village. Don't tell me it's a trick." Yang Yi was worried.

In fact, Yang Yi was worrying blindly. The village chiefs of these small Murloc villages were all for self-protection and to make a living. They didn't have Yang Yi's lofty ideal of building a Murloc village into a Murloc city, so now that he was captured, he would do anything as long as he was not killed.

Yang Yi confirmed it with the Lord's Eye.

[Name]: Murloc Tidewalker

[Qualification]: D

[Level]: Level 1 Murloc Tidewalker

[Race]: Hybrid Murloc

[Gender]: Male

[Ability]: Combat (roll 8/10)

[Expertise]: Animal Training

[Skill]: Murloc Taming

[Alignment]: Ratchet Village

[Equipment]: Worn Spear (Level 1/Ordinary)

[Pet]: Sea Crab (Level 1/E)

After seeing the "Alignment: Ratchet Village" appear in the attribute information of the Murloc Tidewalker, Yang Yi's worries disappeared. It is convenient to have the Lord's Eye that can view attribute information.

"Other murlocs who are willing to join Ratchet Village can join immediately, and those who are not willing can stay and become slaves." Yang Yi announced loudly.

"Join."

"Yes."

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These captured murlocs don't care which murloc village they belong to, as long as they can have enough food. They all know that there is a lot of food in Thorntooth City, so these murlocs choose to join Ratchet Village.

Yang Yi asked around and found out that the chief of another village was also there, but the chief of this Murloc village was only a level 2 Murloc hunter, and the chief of another Murloc village, the Murloc Beachwalker, escaped in the chaos.

"Tell me, how did your three villages unite like this? Who took the lead in organizing this attack?" Yang Yi asked.

"It wasn't me, it wasn't me, it was the prophet of Canyon Village, who asked us to come together to grab food." The Murloc Tidewalker answered.

"The prophet of Canyon Village? No wonder you guys suddenly formed an alliance."

Yang Yi didn't expect that this matter was actually related to Canyon Village. He didn't know whether the murlocs in Canyon Village had a sudden impulse after seeing the large amount of small clams harvested by Ratchet Village, or whether they had already set their sights on Ratchet Village.

Canyon Village is the largest murloc village on the Commercial Coast. It is said that there are more than 500 murlocs in the village, and there are also powerful murlocs like the Murloc Prophet in the village. This is a big problem for Ratchet Village. .