Lant knew that he would definitely not be able to carry more than 80 sheep around. Whether it was a barbarian or a human, the black-scaled horse was a fighting partner, the beast of burden was a means of transportation, and the long-haired sheep were a source of meat and fur, so he decided Carry out intensive sausage making and bacon making.
The demonless among the barbarians are responsible for the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the entire tribe, and are very good at slaughtering and skinning sheep.
On a new day, Lant led his people to select the 30 sheep that were the oldest or those that seemed unable to survive the winter from all the more than 80 sheep, and slaughtered them to make dried meat and sausages.
After the slaughter, Lant also asked the demon-free people to separate the sheep's small intestines, clean them, chop the sheep's internal organs, fat meat, and deboned meat, marinate them with salt, wine, and the spices left by the barbarian tribes, and then mix them. Add wheat flour to the good meat filling, put it into the casing, and then put it into the pot to cook.
First, he made a few sausages. After they were cooked, Lant tasted them himself, adjusted some ingredients, and then made them on a large scale.
The whole piece of meat can be smoked or dried to make jerky, and the remaining scraps and offal can be made into sausages. After all, the official name of some sausages is almost called emulsified high-fat offal tubes. These sausages can be obtained by non-magic people. Provide protein to the people and reduce their demand for grains. What troubles Lant is that there are too few varieties of spices in the world, and the taste levels are very single.
I found some fennel, cinnamon and thyme in the barbarian camp. The stock of spices is more than that in Lant's house, but the types are similar. Albert said that fennel and thyme can be produced locally, but cinnamon is from the southern forest. Even Lant's family doesn't have any of the products.
It can only be said that the life of barbarian leaders is generally much better than that of small nobles like Lant.
As well as spices, fuels have also been troubling the rand. In Alivia, there is a very important point: trees cannot be cut down at will. This kind of post-modern environmental protection concept in his hometown surprised Lant. However, after thinking about it, Lant found that no matter whether it was his castle, the residence of the people in his territory or the Maned Wolf City he had visited, there were indeed no wooden houses. Most of them They are all stone houses or even brick houses.
There is a very widespread belief that tall trees provide a better magical environment, something that is known to almost all humans, barbarians, orcs, and elves.
Albert said that 1,000 years ago, every race assumed that trees could bring more magical elements, but in the last 1,000 years, the Tower of Purity was discovered in trees, and large trees over 100 years old would appear in trees. A certain kind of natural magic pattern is formed in the tree trunk. This magic pattern can adjust the proportion of surrounding life elements in a small range.
Although the effect of one tree is not obvious, the overall effect of a forest is very impressive. Therefore, the human empire protects large forests, and nobles cannot exploit them at will.
When in the territory, because they are close to the big forest, the demon-free members of the Benma family will go to the forest to collect firewood or cut branches and shrubs for fuel. But now Lant and the others were on the prairie, so Lant asked Yohe what the barbarian camp relied on to make fire.
"Mainly reeds by the river. There are several kinds of reeds that are very resistant to burning. We use them as fuel. If the reeds in one place are cut down, we will camp in another place. But in recent years, when the chief is here, he will use a The magic rune version can make fire directly," Yohe introduced.
"Isn't the Galloping Horse Plains an area of turbulent magic? How can you make a fire with a rune board?" Lant was a little strange, but what was even more strange was that Lant had never seen the rune board of the barbarian leader, so he didn't believe it. His knight hid the board, but felt that something had been left behind during yesterday's search.
Rant returned to the original barbarian leader's tent and searched again. He even asked the gray dog to bring red sand to ask again, and finally found a newly excavated mark under the carpet of an open tent.
After opening it, Lant found an iron box one meter long, 30 centimeters wide and 30 centimeters high. Inside the iron box was a wooden box made of a special kind of wood with some magic circles on the outside.
Albert knew that this kind of box was made by the Golden Moon Elf tribe in the southern forest. It was made from the branches of a kind of tree and had a very good storage effect for magic materials.
The medium-sized wooden box that Lant is seeing now is called a magic box. In the royal capital, it is used by small and medium-sized nobles to store valuables such as magic crystals and rune board materials. There are also smaller but more delicate ones. It is used to store women's magic jewelry, and there are larger boxes used to store rune armor, magic weapons or materials for high-level magic beasts of high-level professionals.
From the magic box, Lant found 3 rune boards, 8 magic crystals, and an enchanted knife. The three rune boards have the functions of making fire, gathering water, and freezing respectively.
Now Lant knows what the magic rune board relies on as energy. However, considering that the magic crystal is worth at least 10 gold coins, is it too expensive to burn the magic crystal?
However, Albert said that there is a simple magic gathering circle on this rune board, and a magic crystal can continue to burn for 7-8 hours. According to Yohe, this rune board is not used alone, but as an auxiliary fuel for burning. Under the co-burning of the rune board + reeds, ordinary dyes can increase the burning time by 2 times, and the residue after burning is basically Only fly ash remains.
And a piece of magic crystal can continue to burn for several days. Lant felt that this magic pattern plate seemed to have some kind of catalytic effect or improve combustion efficiency.
The rune board was found, the fuel problem was solved, and the whole business of making sausages began. In addition to making mutton sausages, some non-demon people processed more than 30 sheep skins, and other captured non-demon people helped people in their original territories. The Undemon made or modified clothes to make the entire territory look more like a barbarian camp rather than a fleeing human camp.
In the afternoon, the patrolling Greyhound returned on horseback. According to his reconnaissance, there were still some small tribes upstream.
The information brought by Greyhound made everyone unable to hold back. Now these small tribes are the granary and treasury of Lant and his group.
Every knight is eager to try, hoping that Lant will agree to attack.
However, Lant was a little hesitant. After all, the barbarian tribes are not NPCs in the game and cannot wait for them to rob. Moreover, even if they are waiting in the camp, each barbarian tribe will have a few barbarian cavalry left behind. These cavalry are not low in strength. The only way to avoid damage is to take advantage of a sneak attack.
The loss of any of the knights or knight apprentices in front of them will lead to a structural loss of strength.
But there are problems with not attacking. On the one hand, the food in the camp is limited and the food is empty. On the other hand, they don't know when the barbarians who have gone out will come back.
No matter how difficult it was, hesitation could not solve the problem. Lant decided to continue to investigate in person. It would be best to choose a weaker one to eat first. At least he would have all the armors of the low-level knights.
Lant took Greyhound and Rolle first to the north and east, and first encountered two small neighboring tribes. The two camps, which Lant called the twin tribes, were only separated by a river, and the straight-line distance was less than one kilometer. .
Based on the number of horses, it is estimated that the barbarian cavalry of these two tribes is about 4-5 each, which is the smallest tribe. However, the two tribes are separated by a river. Although they are very close, they cannot immediately reach from one tribe to the other. not much.
Rant was hesitant when he saw this scene. Once a night attack started and one camp was attacked, the other camp would definitely respond. Although it is impossible for the two tribes to support each other, it is also very difficult to eat them at the same time.
After more than ten kilometers to the east, they saw another small tribe. The size of this tribe should be about 5 barbarian cavalry. Lant thought that they could give it a try, but such a small tribe was quite far away. Now Lant was a bit cunning. , I don’t think it’s necessarily worth a special trip.
Further east, after walking for more than ten kilometers, you can see a medium-sized camp. It is estimated that there are about 10 people in this camp. Regardless of the size or the number of horses, it shows that Lant cannot eat this tribe at all.
"It seems we don't have to choose. Let's pack up tonight and prepare to capture the second camp." Lant made the decision on the way back.
"Okay, sir." Several knights responded, and the few people now felt extremely excited. Lant will really share the spoils generously. As long as they win another camp, each of them will have a pair of iron armor, which is a wealth that can be passed on to future generations.
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In the evening, Lant once again brought all the low-level knights and knight apprentices in the camp. This time, Walker did not stay. Lant brought out all the strength.
A group of people are still heading first and then west along the tributaries of the Benma River. The river is a very good landmark on the vast grassland.
However, when Lant saw the twin campsites halfway along the road, he found that one of the campsites was having a bonfire party, and it was a carnival party.
Under the firelight, nine tall barbarians were drinking and having fun. What was even more rare was that the horses from the two camps were gathered near the bonfire party. The dogs in the camp were barking wildly, but no one paid attention.
Lant looked at the barbarians who were reveling and muttered, "Otherwise, we can go to the camp at the back later?"
Obviously, the most troublesome point in the twin camps before was that less than ten barbarian cavalry were separated, but now they are all gathered together and happy.
What used to be two bites of meat can now be eaten in one bite, and the Twin Camps have become a ready-made delicacy in front of Lant's eyes.
"Let's wait until these barbarians get drunk," Rohr said.
These barbarians were not drunk for a while, but started to mess around in a drunken state. Now Lant's eyes were healed. Seeing a barbarian running into the sheepfold, he felt that his eyesight karma was too heavy. . "That sheep turned around and was slaughtered first."
As the carnival in the barbarian camp entered the second half, seven knights and three knight apprentices of Lant mounted their horses, followed by a few ordinary demon worshipers, and slowly ran towards the barbarian camp.
Once the barbarians are happy, they will be very selfless. Indeed, when Lant's group was only 100 meters away from the camp, no one had discovered them.
It wasn't until the firelight reflected Lant's armor that a barbarian saw Lant from the corner of his eye. At first, he even thought it was someone from some tribe who came to join in the fun. Then he saw a tall horse carrying Lant wearing iron armor across the horse. Entering the camp, a shining saber arrived later.
After cutting down the first barbarian with Bai Lian's saber, Lant once again scored the first kill, and several knights who entered later also achieved results. Within a few dozen seconds of entering the barbarian camp, more than half of the opponents had been eliminated.
But Lant knew that this time they had more enemies and greater uncertainty. For example, after the barbarians next to the bonfire were dealt with, there were at least 4 more. Lant rode into the largest tent and saw a larger barbarian who was having a cordial conversation with the demon-free members of the tribe on a huge carpet. Exchange activities.
Lant's blade accurately dodged the other Demonless Ones and slashed through the neck of the barbarian leader, causing hot blood to spurt onto the girl next to him.
Screams rang out from inside and outside the tent at the same time, and the last barbarian was killed by Rolle in the sheepfold.
There was no time to count the loot, so we could only let a few demon-loving people keep an eye on the non-demon people in the camp. A few people patrolled around, gathered 27 non-demon people together, and then immediately went to another camp to kill.
After leading the horse through the cold river, Lant felt that there would be no barbarians in the second small camp, but so far there had been no abnormalities in the camp, and no one came out of the hood to investigate, which made Lant somewhat surprised.
After rushing into the small camp, I saw an older demon-free person coming out.
"Dear gentlemen, all the gentlemen in our tribe have gone to the tribe next door to have a party."
"I know, they're having a blast right now," Lant added.
"Then what are you doing here?"
"Pack up their belongings," Lant said. "Are there any other demon-wishers in this camp?"
"What? A relic?" The Demonless Man asked in surprise.
"Yes, I told you they were so happy."
"There are no other Demonic Holders in this camp."
"Okay, tell everyone here to come out and move to that camp!" There was no room for doubt about Lant's words.
Fortunately, the two camps were indeed very close. Under Lant's strict order, no demon-free person dared to hold back. They all got up from their tents and packed their things.
This camp also has one living tent and three smaller tents. Under the living tent, Lant found an animal skin package, which contained 3 unexcavated magic cores and a water-gathering rune board.
The 21 demon-free people in the camp quickly gathered and moved to another camp with 6 pack animals and 20 sheep.
After about an hour, the twin camps merged. It was pretty much what Lant thought. The two camps were very familiar with each other.
According to the Demonless One, the leaders of these two camps are two brothers. The two brothers just separated this year. Recently, the main forces of the two families have gone to join the alliance, so the children of the two brothers have gathered together to take care of each other.
Today, the two camps agreed to have fun together, but as a result, the barbarians who could fight were busy having fun, and were directly attacked by Lant.
The twin camps add up to 2 "older" non-demon people, 13 adult men, 22 adult women, 11 children, 10 black scale horses, 14 beasts of burden, 47 long-haired sheep, and 4 pairs of iron armor. 17 kilograms of salt, 370 kilograms of rice, 15 kilograms of monster meat, and a total of less than 30 gold coins, as well as a total of 2 rune boards and 7 magic crystals.
For Rand's group of people, the most important things are armor, population and horses.
Lant was very satisfied with the current harvest. He even restored the bonfire and roasted the sheep that the barbarians had not eaten before, preparing to give himself a midnight snack.
At this moment, Albert followed Rohr and asked, "Sir, do we want to set up another camp?"
"Then take two bites to replenish your strength." Looking at the greedy eyes of Rohr and Albert, Lant called for his subordinates to have some midnight snacks.
