[Chapter 280: Cleaning up the Northern Plains]
A battle that seemed to be huge ended after only half a day.
The orc army had no way to hold on under the bombardment of the Winter City army. Even with the fel energy sigils and the ability to transform into giants, they still couldn’t make up for the huge gap in weapons and equipment between the two sides.
The number of people, the biggest advantage of the orcs, was also offset by various powerful weapons.
Once the orc army gathered in large numbers, Winter City immediately launched a Jericho missile. After a shocking explosion, only a small number of orcs were left, many of whom were injured.
This situation was particularly damaging to morale. If it weren’t for the survival crisis, and the orcs on the front line were affected by the fel energy and had some crazy tendencies, they could barely maintain their morale and not collapse directly.
Under normal circumstances, David only needed to bomb with missiles a few times, and the Spartan heavy infantry could go up to clean up the battlefield.
What made the orcs even more depressed was that even if they finally caught a relatively isolated metal man, broke the opponent’s energy shield with the evil energy, and finally injured him, when they seemed to be able to kill an enemy, the opponent would suddenly recover as usual and jump up to continue fighting with them.
That’s not all. What made the orcs even more incomprehensible was that these metal men who were beaten up did not make any calls for help, but once they were in danger, there would always be other metal men who arrived in time.
After fighting for a long time, their compatriots kept dying, and each one died more miserably than the other, but they couldn’t kill even one metal man.
Even under the influence of the evil energy, the orcs who were a little crazy finally collapsed!
The great rout came earlier than David expected. At this time, the Winter Knights were still waiting for the order to attack next to the mass-produced Decepticon-transformed Quinjet.
“Totally defeat the orcs!”
David, who listened to Gareth’s report, issued a new order.
If it were before, he might not be in a hurry to eliminate the orcs, and it would be fine to let them live in the eastern part of the northern plains.
He could have developed his Winter City slowly and steadily, increasing the population, and then gradually turning Winter City into the most advanced and largest urban agglomeration on the Brunnia continent.
But now he would not think so. These orcs were carrying fel energy or fel equipment. David had only destroyed the fel crystal mines, and the orcs had already made a large number of fel talismans and shells. These things left on the northern plains were a huge hidden danger.
“Pay attention to finding all items with fel energy, and destroy and purify them immediately once they are found.”
The “factories” that David had shown Gareth before were the targets that the Winter Knights would focus on attacking next. When these factories were also destroyed, the orcs would no longer be a threat.
“I know what to do!”
Gareth Stanton understood the Lord’s meaning very well. Next, he would order the Winter Knights to take the Quinjet to attack everywhere. Their target was the various cities and factories of the orcs, and strive to destroy all the orcs’ manufacturing on the northern plains.
The Spartan Heavy Infantry Regiment’s mission is to sweep the ground. They will then conduct a ground cleanup of the Northern Plains, targeting the orcs that have been scattered and wandering on the Northern Plains.
This is not an interesting job, it is boring and time-consuming, and it can be regarded as a kind of training for the Spartan Heavy Infantry.
If everything goes well, there will be no threat from orcs on the entire Northern Plains in half a year.
“Leading the Spartan Heavy Infantry to sweep the ground will be entrusted to Jack Krauser.”
Krauser has been in Winter City for quite some time. After hard training, he has become a hunter with good strength. Tracking and other tasks happen to be his area of expertise.
Therefore, Krauser is more suitable for this job than Gareth, and David has other tasks for Gareth to do.
“Although the orcs have been defeated, it does not mean that their threat has been completely eliminated. There are still many orcs on their hometown island of Asegos, and they may not come up with anything next time.”
In addition, the elves in the south of Winter City are not very quiet, and David wants Gareth to go to Iron Tree Castle to see the situation.
“The most important thing is that you have to ensure smooth traffic between Irontree Castle and Winter City!”
Gareth nodded. He knew what the lord had asked him to do by leaving the orcs behind and going to Irontree Castle: the Kingdom of Tiran was forcibly relocating its population to Winter City, but because of the war between Irontree Castle and the elves, these people could not reach Winter City smoothly.
This was unacceptable to David, so he asked Gareth to restore traffic and ensure that these people came to Winter City as usual and became citizens of Winter City.
Afterwards, David asked Megatron to serve as the commander of Snowfield Castle and be responsible for the follow-up work of the war against the orcs, and then he returned to Winter City with many companions.
Megatron was absolutely loyal to him, so there was no need to worry about sudden betrayal.
At the same time, David also wanted to take this opportunity to see if the Decepticons would do anything when he was not watching nearby.
“Sir, how should I write the report to His Majesty the King?”
Elias Parker knew that the Lord was not in a good condition now. After staying with David for such a long time, the Lord always looked energetic. It was the first time that Elias saw him close his eyes and rest for a while from time to time like today.
Normally, he should suggest that the Lord take a good rest, or ask the pharmacist to check the Lord’s body.
However, he knew that David’s condition today was related to the battle a while ago, which was not a problem that the pharmacist could handle.
Looking at the fingers of David’s right hand on the table constantly jumping, Elias knew that the Lord did not hear what he said, but was thinking.
“No need to submit any report. Winter City just repelled a very ordinary harassment from the orcs outside the Snowfield Castle.”
“Understood, sir.” Elias nodded. It seemed that the Lord was not going to tell the King’s capital the actual situation of the northern plains.
As for whether the King’s capital could find out the real situation through other channels, that was the King’s business. Elias felt that even if he wanted to find out all the details, it would take a lot of time.
During this period, the Kingdom of Tiran will continue to migrate people to Winter City, which is the fundamental reason why David is not going to report that the orcs were defeated by him – if the capital knows about it later, Winter City may have more people.
“My lord, why don’t you just rest!”
“There is nothing wrong with my body, I just consumed too much holy light.” David explained casually that he was not injured or sick, and he didn’t want to rely on rest to restore the holy light to its peak state as soon as possible.
After thinking about it, it seems that there is no important work to deal with.
Krauser led the heavy infantry regiment to clean up the orc remnants, and the Winter Knights focused on attacking the orcs’ towns and factories under the command of Megatron. Gareth led a team of winter knights to Iron Tree Castle. After the road is restored, Winter City will enter a period of rapid population growth. The
construction plan of the city has been completed, Weatherby is responsible for internal affairs, and Elizabeth is in charge of public security. There are not many things that David must handle personally.
After strolling out of Glamorgan Castle, David decided to pick up his old habit: when he has nothing to do, he will walk around in his territory. Maybe he can see something interesting?
He was not going to drive. If necessary, he considered taking the public bus in Winter City to experience the public transportation in person.
After walking out of the main gate of Winter Fortress, David first walked towards the Cathedral of Light diagonally opposite. He wanted to see how far Liadrin had developed the Holy Light Sect.
Although he knew that it was impossible to train a large number of priests immediately, if possible, he hoped very much to see a group of newly born priests appear in Winter City within this year. With
the increase in population, the demand for medical care will also increase significantly, and the main medical method in Winter City is Holy Light. This is an important reason why Holy Light has been recognized quickly in Winter City, and it is also a small hidden danger.
It’s not that David thinks that the belief in Holy Light is not good, but there are too few people in the Cathedral of Holy Light who can really use Holy Light. There are only Liadrin and Sally Whitemane.
Among them, Sally Whitemane is more working in the army. It is obviously not enough to rely on Liadrin alone.
He was thinking about whether to let Liadrin return to Azeroth and recruit a group of Holy Light priests. Even if they were rookies or new priests, they would be enough to deal with minor injuries and illnesses.
In addition, should a real hospital be built? If a hospital is to be built, how should the problem of doctors be solved? Recruit a group of doctors from each world?
Just as David was thinking about how to build a medical system, he saw Ethan Hunter walking towards the Cathedral of Holy Light with a few bags in his hands. He didn’t know what they were in.
“Are you delivering goods?”
“Ah, hello! Earl of Glamorgan.” Ethan didn’t really want to meet David, because he didn’t know how to address the lord properly, and he didn’t know whether he should show respect: “I bought pens, ink and some small ornaments for Bishop Liadrin.”
“Oh!” David also noticed Ethan’s slightly embarrassed reaction, and soon he understood why Ethan almost never took the initiative to find him.
Unlike Steve and the others who came earlier and had more contact with David, Ethan didn’t know David’s character that well.
In addition to his status as a noble lord, Ethan is similar to David back then. He is unwilling to interact with the “nobles”, especially in such a “medieval world” where there is a gap between nobles and commoners.
“Don’t be so restrained. Just call me David.”
(End of this chapter)