Chapter 543 Laying the Foundation

The Centaurs, led by Drogo and Diak, were not so convenient to move in the rainforest area. Zhou Xu left some supplies and asked them to wait in the plain area with Silk and others, and then took the giant lizard sent by Li Ce to the lizard people's tribe.

Zhou Xu was free along the way, so his attention turned to the monitor lizard.

Although this monitor lizard also has dense scales on its body, they are not very strong. When it invaded their world before, it could be effectively damaged by bows and arrows.

Under this premise, even if their IQ is not high, like Zhou Xu and his friends, as long as they get the bone whistle and study the signals from the opposite side, they can effectively clamp the monitor lizard.

From this point of view, in the old civilization period, the giant lizard could only be used as a transport unit, which was not a problem at all. It was indeed not an outstanding war unit.

Being pulled onto the field by the lizardmen at this moment can only be regarded as the tallest among the short ones.

Just as Zhou Xu was thinking about this, the monitor lizard had already arrived near the tribe's territory, relying on its ability to move quickly in a complex environment.

At this moment, both Li Ce and Soros were standing at the outskirts of the clan territory to welcome his arrival, and with them came Qiansui who had stayed here before.

After seeing him appear, he immediately took the initiative to greet him.

"Li Ce (Soros), meet the king!"

"No need to be polite."

After jumping off the monitor lizard, Zhou Xu brushed off the dust on his body and asked casually.

"Is everything okay here while I'm away?"

Almost at the same time as he spoke, Qiansui came up.

As a special fighting force, Zhou Xu had deliberately left Qiansui here when he left, as an extra layer of protection for Li Ce. In case anything happened and force had to be used, with Qiansui's ability, he would definitely be able to help in this complex rainforest environment.

Compared to Chitose who sticks to him very much after not seeing him for a while, Bam is much more indifferent. Now he hasn't even seen his shadow.

Zhou Xu asked Li Ce, and Li Ce replied, "He should be sleeping."

Anyway, ever since he left, Bam's life in the temple was just eating and sleeping, occasionally going to the inner hall to stay for a while and daydream. His life was so decadent.

Zhou Xu didn't bother to care about this.

Although the other party is the son of the Dragon God, Bam himself said that once his existence is exposed, it may cause some trouble.

From this point of view, it is a good thing for him to stay at home in the temple like a otaku.

At the same time, Zhou Xu silently excluded Bam from his combat force list.

After thinking about it carefully, he felt that Bam was a hot potato, and now he just wanted to end the contract with the Dragon God as soon as possible.

Li Ce had no idea that their king had thought about a lot of things in such a short period of time, and continued to report the situation here to Zhou Xu.

To put it simply, basically nothing happened in the tribal territory. At the same time, on the front battlefield, thanks to Bolevin's bluffing, the ratmen have not launched any new actions so far after retreating.

"He is quite clever."

Listening to Li Ce's report, Zhou Xu laughed. Bolevin's three-star intelligence was still useful.

"It seems that the ratmen on the other side are still very afraid of him as the high priest. However, if the Lizardmen troops do not take any action after he arrives at the front line, it won't take long for the ratmen to become suspicious."

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu did not dare to delay and immediately began to make arrangements.

"Go inform Drogo and the others to have their cavalry go ahead and bring their weapons and equipment with them to the southern battlefield as quickly as possible to provide support."

As long as the weapons and equipment of the Lizardmen's large army can keep up, their combat effectiveness will be rapidly improved. Coupled with the support of the Centaurs, the war situation over there will be stabilized and the pressure on him will be reduced a lot.

Afterwards, Zhou Xu had some discussions with Li Ce and Soros on tactics and situation regarding the battle with the ratmen.

According to his understanding so far, the Lizardmen and Ratmen are two sworn enemies, and they have been fighting each other intermittently since the old civilization period until now.

Over the years, neither tribe has been able to do anything to the other, and the war has not yet been concluded. Zhou Xu doesn't think he can finish it right away.

In this way, according to Zhou Xu's thinking, he doesn't actually have to kill all the rat people in one go.

The main reason is that they can't destroy the other side. The ratmen have been operating in that land for many years and can be said to be deeply rooted. According to their current strength, it is not easy to uproot them. The worst thing is to let the lizardmen and ratmen continue to fight each other like before.

Anyway, it is impossible for these two tribes to keep fighting. Now that the fighting is almost over, it is time for them to stop fighting and temporarily cease fire.

"Your Majesty, do you mean that we should not destroy the rat people?"

Li Ce obviously couldn't keep up with Zhou Xu's current thinking. To put it bluntly, this was a bit beyond his common sense.

In Li Ce's opinion, the enemy should be destroyed, and that is what he has always done.

But how could the ratmen and lizardmen be the primitive tribes that they could easily destroy? After all, if two forces had to destroy one of them when they met, then there should have been only one country in the original world. How could there be so many countries coexisting? When you can't beat me and I can't beat you, the final result is often not to fight.

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This is the case with Lizardmen and Ratmen.

However, the hatred between the two tribes was too deep, so the war was intermittent. No one could defeat the other, but no one wanted to let the other go.

The reason Zhou Xu was able to defeat the Lizardmen this time was largely because the main forces of the Lizardmen were on the southern battlefield. After he broke into the Lizardmen's territory, he obtained the rank of "Dragon Lord", making the Lizardmen submit to him.

Otherwise, once the high priest leaves and the other party's core is transferred, this matter is far from over.

After all, Li Ce is a smart man with a strategic mind.

Although the question itself was beyond his common sense, he quickly understood it after Zhou Xu's simple explanation.

"We'd better get used to the existence of rat people."

What Zhang Xiaoshan said in the court at that time was not wrong. After experiencing a long war with the Lizardmen, considering the development situation in the rear, they really could not afford to fight another long war with the Ratmen.

By the way, Zhou Xu’s visit to this world this time was not just for the purpose of fighting.

Now that the Lizardmen's land has fallen into his hands, he naturally plans to develop it and acquire some resources so that the losses they suffered from the war can be compensated in the process.

For this purpose, he brought a group of laborers here specially.

This group of laborers are mainly miners, who come here to mine the aphrite.

Zhou Xu’s idea was also very simple, which was to prepare for the worst.

In case the rat army becomes too fierce and they are unable to stop it and have to evacuate, they will not be without sharp crystals.

On the contrary, after obtaining support in terms of weapons and equipment, the war situation in the south could be stabilized.

Then the next time the energy channel opens, he will transfer the farmers here to start developing agriculture, expanding the farmland area, and increasing the harvest of crops. Step by step, let them take root in this world! Lay a solid foundation for the future extermination of the rat people!

(End of this chapter)