In addition to the bullshit things like "Territory to Get Rich", the Duke of Shuangfengling, who returned to his own territory, still has some serious business to worry about.

——For example, war.

Ever since Xiahou Yan returned to the Soul-Splitting Land with the news that "the orcs are about to launch an offensive", the entire Shuangfeng Ridge has entered a state of intense preparation.

In fact, to a certain extent, the potential crisis of "orc invasion" is a good thing for this wasteland territory:

Because the "Igor Development Army" that has been expanding over the past year has been established as a war army tempered with blood and fire since its establishment:

From resisting invasions from foreign forces to clearing up bandits and appeaseing the wastelands, the soldiers of the Igor pioneer army were completely trained in one fierce battle after another;

This even saved Mountbatten, Karen and Lawrence, who were in charge of the pioneering army training:

As long as you can understand the territory of more than three bloody bandit heads, this pioneer soldier will be considered to have graduated from the War University—

——The soldiers carefully selected from remote areas such as Soul Stripping Land, have the physical and combat power of the mainland, and with a little experience, they can stand alone in the war. As for the military technical and tactical training carried out by Karen and Mountbatten, at best, it is just icing on the cake.

However, since the end of the five major encirclements and suppression, the situation of Igor's pioneering army has been somewhat embarrassing:

The wilderness bandits on the Soul-Splitting Land can be considered to be some combat power, but not enough to compete with the mighty Igor pioneer army. They are simply a natural target for training: using the Shuangfengling standard saber to cut off the big heads of several bandits. Even a little baby who has not been weaned can grow into a battlefield veteran who stands alone;

However, now that the bandits in the wasteland have been wiped out, the new recruits of the Pioneer Army have lost the scarecrows to practice. Whether Mountbatten or Karen, they can only use day after day physical training and tactical exercises to fill in the daily time of the boring Pioneer Army soldiers.

The crisis of orc invasion happened to find some work for the soldiers of the pioneer army.

After the Lord returned to the territory, the entire Igor pioneer army began to operate like a sophisticated war machine:

Every day, countless pioneering cavalry and infantry detachments were scattered around the wasteland of the Soul-Splitting Land with the Shuangfengling Tongquetai barracks as the center.

In addition to detecting clues of orc invasion, their mission is to prevent Frost Fengling from being caught off guard, they also need to achieve a solid wall and clear the fields on this wasteland.

Whether it is the Chief of Staff Quentin, who is far away in the imperial capital, the Grand Duke Rosario who is healing in the East, or the senior officials of Shuangfeng Ridge a few days ago, their judgments on the future war are surprisingly consistent:

Since the orcs are preparing to send elite troops to raid, the supplies they carry with them must be limited. The troops with their families and families and a large amount of food and grass cannot achieve the strategic goal of "attacking the enemy in any sense."

Therefore, the strategic goal of the human empire in this southern wilderness has never been to wipe out the invading enemies, but to defend the rich interior under the blade of orc elite soldiers as much as possible. As long as the orc troops consume all their food and supplies, even if they have the ability to do so, they can only retreat without fighting.

As long as the orcs retreat, this southern offensive would not put pressure on the eastern border where Grand Duke Rosario was stationed, then the empire would be able to win back a battle scale:

When the Central Army, Northern Army and Western Army arrived, even if the Glorious Federation had the "Ice Demon Mammoth" to help the battle, it might not be able to get a good idea in front of the empire with all the trump cards of the reserve team.

Under the guidance of this strategic intention, whether it is to abandon Frost Feng Ridge as suggested by Chief Quentin, retreat to the Shixin River, or to defend the Phoenix Platform as advocated by some nostalgic old men in Shuangfeng Ridge, Frost Feng Ridge, the owner of the Wasteland of the Soul-Split Land, must cut off any chance of additional supplies for the orc troops to get here!

Strong walls and clear fields, a defensive tactic that is famous in the history of war, is often the blood and tears of countless innocent people:

Taking the "Doomsday War" between the empire and the demons as an example, at the critical moment when mankind was at its worst, the entire empire even mobilized more than half of the people, and completely cleared any settlements south of the imperial capital during the war that lasted for several years. Only then did it take the supply of the demon army that had too long fronts, and finally sounded the horn of counterattack under the leadership of the "light of the empire" Earl Olaf;

According to statistics from historians, in this extremely tragic war, the human empire lost nearly one-fifth of its population, and the demons also suffered heavy losses. Some scholars even asserted that if the "Doomsday War" had not consumed the vitality of the two tribes excessively, why would orcs who were regarded as barbaric at the time have risen strongly in the east of the mainland?

In this war, whether it is the farmers who were mobilized as militias, died under the sword light of the demon clan, or the women and children who were forced to leave their hometown and watched their hometown become ruins, their sacrifices and dedication fell in history books, just a few extremely pale numbers, and the words "stubborn walls and clear fields" that seem light but heavy.

However, the Frost Maple Ridge of the Igor family is also another meaning of "uniqueness":

There is no human settlement or source of supplies that need to be "cleaned" in the entire Soul-Splitting Land!

It is pitiful to see that this southern wasteland that is hated by gods and ghosts seems to be built naturally to support the undead rather than living people. The possibility of planting a half-pile of grain on the overly barren land is also lacking. In addition, the bandits' camps were cleaned up by the Igor pioneer army, so Xiahou Yan could only think that if the orc invaders could find some food in the Soul-breaking Land, unless the girls went to eat Guanyin soil.

Therefore, the "clean walls and clear fields" that are enough to make any noble territory work hard to get to the Shuangfengling Mountains, just to clear out the newly built highway rest area and take back the expatriates:

Considering that it is the off-season for trade and there is no income in the wasteland rest area, this move does not even cost any;

Even the basic buildings of the highway rest area have not been demolished by Shuangfengling. They are just the food, supplies and arms stored in them have been transported out. The army of the Glorious Federation lacks food and grass instead of residence. If these green-skinned orcs are kind and do not destroy the rest area, then the road service industry in Shuangfengling can even open again before next year's peak season:

Unlike the conservative estimates of the Imperial Military Staff, Xiahou Yan had never thought of delaying this defensive battle for too long.

In addition, Xiahou Yan also sent elite sentries to go deep into the east of the Soul-Splitting Land, between the steep and majestic dust mountains, looking for even a trace of clues about the so-called "secret passage".

For this matter, the entire Shuangfengling actually had no hope:

After all, the huge dusty mountain range and the terrain surrounded by mountains cannot be simply described by a "ghostly bent";

Even though we know that the orcs may find a secret passage from the mountains, it is still difficult for the human empire, which knows little about the dusty mountain range, to find only a small scale and half of the claws of this "secret passage" - sometimes, the "secret passage" is like a red light area. Even if we are familiar with the road after entering once, we will still be covered with a mysterious veil before the field investigation.

Xiahou Yan's real intention of sending sentries to explore the mountains was to let them arrange the so-called "paradise sentries" at some key nodes:

As long as a large-scale army passes, these magic props purchased from the imperial capital at a high price before leaving will send an alarm to the central node of Shuangfeng Ridge to remind the orc army of invasion.

The dust mountain ranges that span the entire Soul-Splitting Land are too majestic and long. Only by clearly knowing the orcs’ invasion route can the Igor family, who knows themselves and their enemies, take the lead in the battlefield.

If the above measures are all necessary measures recognized by all parties in humanity, then the actions below Shuangfengling are a bit intriguing:

Although the imperial nobles on the north bank of the Shixin River have sent more than once letters to Shuangfengling, asking the "Dignified Duke Igor" to go to the North Bank to negotiate and determine the unified defense strategy for the entire south, the Xiahou official has been sitting on the Phoenix Platform in Shuangfengling, without any intention of moving;

Even the official letter sent by Earl Dimitri, the governor of the Southern Empire, to transport heavy weapons to the north bank of the Shixin River, was completely ignored by the Lord of Shuangfengling.

The water surface of the Lion Heart River is extremely wide. If you want to garrison and resist the orc offensive on the north bank, you will not be able to use the orcs if they cross the river while they cross the river and attack the beach after the orcs land.

Even the most clumsy human staff will know that siege weapons such as "Lion Roar Seven" and "Cromwell Annihilist" that are the most powerful weapons that the empire can rely on - only these heavy equipment can cause damage before the orc elite actually crosses the river.

However, Frost Maple Ridge, which made a fortune from the Southern Army, completely rejected the proposal to transport heavy weapons to the North Shore;

Even the leaders of Frost Maple Ridge watched helplessly, and several "Cromwell Annihilists" with claws stood up behind the hard stone wall of Phoenix Platform. Master Nicholson even brought several "Manhattan Laboratory" craftsmen to carefully strengthen the structure of the fixed crossbow again.

All of this prompted Mayor Joel to raise questions to the Lord of the Lord at a high-level meeting:

"Lord, are you planning to just defend Shuangfeng Ridge and fight against the orcs on the Phoenix Platform?"

However, what made Mayor Joel somewhat puzzled was that the Lord Lord neither gave a positive answer nor a negative answer. Instead, he smiled and asked:

"Mayor Joel, if, I mean, if...we will fight orcs on this Phoenix Platform?"

Mayor Joel stood by the table for a while and was stunned for a while. Captain Cousins, who was familiar with military affairs, took the conversation and stood up and replied:

"Lord, although the defense strength of Shuangfeng Ridge is much higher than before, the area of ​​this platform is too small! If the orc army, as Chief Quentin said, has so many divisions, they can completely expand the army on the vast wasteland and surround Shuangfeng Ridge! At that time, with the extremely limited area and reserve materials of Shuangfeng Ridge, it will be difficult for us to defend this platform!"

The Lord nodded in contemplation and said:

"So... we can't fight orcs on the wasteland. The pioneering terrain here is really not suitable for defense operations..."

"That's true!" Knight Cousins ​​said anxiously, "What's more, the orcs have the wolf cavalry who are best at raiding and fighting on the plains! It's too difficult to defend against orcs without relying on natural dangers like the Lionheart River!"

"Silhouette River..." Lord murmured, suddenly shook his head, "...it may not be."

The top leaders of the families looked at each other, not understanding the reason, only Sean Mountbatten thought about it.

That night, the leaders who got up at night saw that the craftsmen of the "Manhattan Laboratory" removed the reinforced rivets of the "Cromwell Annihilist" crossbow cannon overnight.
Chapter completed!