Yang nodded and said, "They were caught. Ya and Lie led people out to capture them. Those who are still alive have been locked up in the deepest part of the prison."
The snow was getting heavier. Xia reached out to help Qiuye put on the hood of his cloak and said nonchalantly, "Well, if people are still alive after winter, let them do the heaviest and most tiring work after spring comes."
Xia turned to look at Ji and said, "It just so happens that all the infrastructure in the sub-city has not been built yet."
Ji stood aside, looking in the direction of the northern orcs with a complicated expression. He withdrew his gaze when he heard Xia mention the secondary city, but the complexity in his eyes had not faded yet.
He said, "Well, we've only built the perimeter wall yet. The houses inside are basically just makeshift bunk beds. We'll definitely have to clean it up in the spring."
After he finished speaking, he paused, then looked over there and said, "I didn't expect them to be defeated like this."
Xia raised his eyelids and said, "They were too arrogant. They came here so brazenly without hiding their tracks. It was too easy to figure out their route. And after arriving here, they were so stubborn that they rushed directly to Qingshan City without even considering whether we might have an ambush. Their defeat was well deserved."
Ji glanced at Xia and nodded in agreement, then changed the subject, "They won't stay here for long. At most, they should all leave in ten days."
Xia looked up at the sky and said, "We won't let them retreat so smoothly."
"They will most likely retreat to the valley near the grassland. Do you want to ambush people there?" Ji asked.
Xia shook his head and said, "If it were any other season, I would definitely choose the valley, but it's winter now, and the snow is too thick. It's too dangerous to fight them in the valley. However, if they pass through the valley, I will definitely give them a big surprise, but the main battlefield still has to be on the grassland."
"Surprise?" Ji asked doubtfully.
"Yeah." Xia said, "The snow will collapse."
Hearing Xia's words, Ji didn't know what he remembered, and his pupils shrank suddenly, "Do you know why the snow collapses on the mountain in winter?"
Xia didn't say anything, but Yang spoke up. He said, "Well, it happened once. We went out to look for food in winter and walked a little far, and then we were almost buried in the snow. Luckily, Yuqing reminded us in time and later told us how to prevent such a thing from happening and how to escape if we encounter such a situation."
Ji's expression instantly became more complicated.
When Xia asked him to jointly prepare for war and give special training to the orcs, he thought that they were about to face an extremely brutal tribal defense battle, and he was even prepared to never retreat a single step until he died.
However, in the entire preparation for war, the only routine operation was to provide special training to the orcs.
At that time, he and Yang were wholeheartedly giving special training to the orcs, and they were trained so hard that they were screaming. After half a year, the combat effectiveness of all the orcs who had participated in the special training had been significantly improved.
Together with the seven brave and warlike tribes of the original Obsidian Tribe, he believed that although it would be difficult, they would definitely be able to defend Qingshan City.
But he didn't expect that while he was concentrating on giving special training, Xia was secretly doing so many things that he had never thought of.
First, Xia spread the news of the impending attack by the northern orcs throughout the south through schools and markets. At the same time, the tragic situation of those rescued people was also spread to every tribe connected with Qingshan City.
They even invited the old orc from the Obsidian Tribe to speak on the stage in the school playground about the deeds of the northern 'God' Tribe.
While promoting these things, he also kept an eye on the stubborn tribe that had secretly captured people from the southern tribe and traded them to the north.
The Yellowstone tribe gladly accepted the task. Since they already had an old grudge against each other, the Yellowstone tribe did not want to keep a close eye on that tribe. They also monitored the Graystone tribe, which was made up of rat orcs.
These two tribes were quite obedient. Ever since the Yellowstone Tribe, Qingshan City and the Blue Water Tribe disrupted a slave trade with a northern caravan and nearly a hundred orcs were killed, the Stubborn Tribe has been behaving itself and has not done these things again.
The Graystone Tribe lived even more cautiously, and dared not bully weaker tribes anymore, for fear that one day Qingshan City would catch them and wipe them out.
In fact, Xia had long stopped caring about these two tribes. He just often sent flying orcs to circle around their tribes. However, at such an important moment, Xia would not be careless and would directly monitor people openly.
After handing over the task of monitoring the two tribes to the Yellowstone tribe, Xia began to cultivate the land and grow potatoes again.
Just as they had captured so many prisoners from the Thorn Tribe, they built two farms and used them all to grow potatoes in order to store food for the upcoming war.
The tribes in the hunting area of Qingshan City were also actively preparing for the upcoming war. They followed the orcs of Qingshan City out hunting, and the prey they brought back was made into preservable food.
A large amount of meat was also stored in the ice cellar in Qingshan City, and two warehouses were filled with meat and fruits.
As for the food grown, there is no need to mention it. If the orcs did not rely on eating meat to maintain their strength, I am afraid that the food grown would be enough for the entire Qingshan City and the people in their hunting area to eat for two or three years.
This is the amount left after at least half of it was traded through the market in Qingshan City.
It can be said that Qingshan City really has no worries about food. However, not only do they have no worries about food, but when they knew that the orcs from the north were about to come, they notified the tribes in the south to hide or temporarily move to more secluded places, and also explained the pros and cons to them.
They hid themselves to prevent the orcs from the north from finding them and plundering them. Firstly, it was to protect their safety, and secondly, they did not give the northern orcs supplies and starved them. When they were starving to the point of being weak in their hands and feet, their chances of winning would be greater.
In recent years, under the leadership of Qingshan City, each tribe in the south has had a lot of surplus food. They have also consciously learned to collect wild vegetables near the tribe and exchange them for some easy-to-grow vegetable seeds from Qingshan City.
We can’t grow it on a large scale like Qingshan City, but we still have enough for our own consumption.
So after realizing the seriousness of the matter, almost all of them hid themselves.
The northern orcs were unfamiliar with this area and their goal was to attack Qingshan City. They treated these tribes with the mentality of robbing them one by one when they encountered them, and it was impossible for them to spend a lot of time looking for those tribes.
The tribes in the south deliberately hid themselves, and since they had surplus food, they minimized their activities outside, and did not give these people a chance to plunder.
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