Including this batch of people, Suhlen had rescued around forty thousand people from the Northern Provinces. If all the people were transported back, the population of Northtown City would reach sixty thousand people.
However, there were also a lot of problems. The most obvious one was the lack of housing in Northtown City. Luckily, Suhlen had built a lot of houses when he was building the city, so they were still able to squeeze in a little. If they followed Suhlen's plan and moved a hundred thousand people from the Northern Provinces, Northtown City would not be able to accommodate them all.
Naturally, Su Lun was unwilling to give up the migration now. If he missed this God-given opportunity, it would be difficult to obtain a large number of people in the future. Therefore, even if he knew that such houses were not enough, Su Lun still did not stop migrating people.
Luckily, he knew there was a shortage of houses. He just told the people to build them as soon as possible. The population of Northtown City had skyrocketed, and the labor force was abundant. It was not a problem to build some houses. Another thing that annoyed Suhlen was the fact that the mass migration had lowered the morale of the people.
In the system interface, the morale of Northtown City had always been above ninety. Sometimes, it would even reach one hundred. There were many buildings in Northtown City that could increase the morale of the people, but the morale of the people was not static. Luckily, the Lord's Castle in Northtown City had the effect of gaining the morale of the people. After living in Northtown City for a while, the morale of the people would increase.
Although some of the buildings in Northtown City did not seem to be very useful, the effect they had was very shocking. For example, the morale of the people. Suhlen did not pay much attention to it before, but he did after he recruited the gray dwarves.
He knew how the gray dwarves were. They were selfish and cunning, but the gray dwarves in Northtown City were slowly changing. Although they were still selfish and cunning, they were more like the mountain dwarves when it came to loyalty to Northtown City.
This kind of subtle influence made Su Lun smack his lips. There were also the half-elves. These half-elves now regarded the Northern Town City as their home, unlike before when they thought it was just a temporary residence.
The population of Northtown City had increased, and the city was already a little crowded. On Suhlen's system interface, the upper limit of the population was fifty thousand. Now that the population had exceeded the limit, the third phase of the expansion of Northtown City had to begin.
The expansion of Northtown City was going to be even bigger this time. It had gone from a medium-sized city to a large city. Suhlen did leave some space for expansion when he was designing the city, but he did not expect the city to develop to this extent in just a year.
In Northern Battlefront City, although a large number of people had arrived and caused the city to become a little chaotic, it was quickly adjusted. The schools in Northern Battlefront City had trained a large number of grassroots officials. Although these officials weren't very knowledgeable, they were very familiar with the various systems. They were much more serious and responsible than the grassroots officials of other human kingdoms. Their abilities were also above average.
After a period of chaos, the city's operations returned to normal. The newly arrived slaves began to work in groups according to the old procedures in Northern Citadel. Because there were a lot of people, Crazy even sent three thousand people to Mirror Lake City. Mirror Lake City now had a population of five thousand people, and they worked under the leadership of the local officials.
At the same time, a large number of refugees outside Northtown City began to cultivate farmland. After learning that Northtown City's points system allowed them to earn land, these refugees obviously wanted land.
While the construction of Northtown City was in full swing, Suhlen sent people to escort the remaining people from the Blackstone Fort to Northtown City. Then, he began to look for targets again.
The five thousand wolf riders of the orcs were a bit troublesome. These wolf riders were very fast and had a keen sense of smell. Suhlen was not afraid of the Northtown City's army, but if the Northtown City's army was leading a large number of refugees and slaves, the situation would be troublesome.
The wolf riders came and went like the wind. Although they could not beat the Northtown City's army head on, most of the Northtown City's soldiers were infantry. Other than the centaurs, the other soldiers could not catch up to them. It would be very troublesome if these wolf riders stuck to him like glue. This was why Suhlen had ambushed the supply caravans before. It was to attract the wolf riders' attention.
The scouts continued to investigate. After a few lessons, the orcs had sent more people. Suhlen still had not found a suitable target.
His target was not the supply wagons, but the camps where the orcs kept the humans. Now that the orc camps had become very cautious, it was much more difficult to investigate. Not all of these camps had human slaves. Some of them were injured orc soldiers, some of them were stockpiled weapons or siege weapons, and some of them were stockpiled with food.
Suhlen was not interested in these camps at all. Another reason was that if Suhlen made too much of a ruckus, the orc army at the front would send a large number of people to wipe him out. When that happened, his plan to migrate people would be greatly affected.
After the orcs' supply caravans had been expanded, they now had three thousand people. With so many people, even if Suhlen attacked with the Northtown City's army, he would not be able to take them down in a short period of time. As time went on, a large number of orcs would surround them. Therefore, Suhlen did the same thing as before. He sent out a portion of his men to attack and lure the orc reinforcements over. Then, he would attack the human slave camps.
This tactic was simply a matter of time. With the harpies and a strategic map, it was not hard to do. However, the situation today was not right.
"Have the harpies that were sent out to patrol returned?"
A guard came to Suhlen's side. "My lord, the orcs' supply caravans have arrived. Should we proceed according to the plan?"
"Attack, but be careful. Remember, this is a feint." Suhlen thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
The Northtown City's army was divided into three parts by Suhlen. One part was responsible for protecting the slaves during their migration, one part was responsible for attacking the supply caravans, and the other part was used to attack the orc camps.
Among them, the team that pretended to attack was mainly centaur cavalry. When Su Lun decided to move the population on a large scale, he had already issued a conscription order to the filly Mishien. Once again, 400 centaur cavalry were recruited. This time, they were all light cavalry and were led by the filly Mishien.
After not seeing her for a while, the little mare looked more mature. She had the aura of a leader. As the matriarch of the centaur tribe, she was very busy.
"Mishion, don't rush too fiercely when attacking. Just shoot with your bow." Suhlen found the little mare and said.
Suhlen was worried that the orcs and centaurs would attack the supply caravans directly because of the hatred between them. If that happened, the losses would be great.
"I understand!" Mishion nodded.
Soon, the centaurs began to attack. The orcs' supply caravans reacted very quickly. When they realized they were ambushed, they immediately stood in place and lit up smoke signals.
Everything seemed to be going according to Suhlen's plan. At this moment, the system suddenly sent a message:
"The harpies were attacked. The harpies were killed!"
"Oh no, it's a trap!" The moment the harpies in charge of scouting were killed, Suhlen immediately realized that the orcs knew he used the harpies to scout. Why did they still attack in the same way as before? It was obviously a trap.
"Retreat! Send a signal to Mishion. Retreat immediately! "Suhlen decisively ordered.
"Yes sir!" A messenger jumped on his horse and immediately ran towards the centaurs. The other soldiers also gave up attacking the orcs' camp under Suhlen's order and began to retreat.
The little mare Mishion did not hesitate at all after receiving the order. She immediately changed direction and retreated with the centaurs.
"Your Excellency Su Lun, what happened?" Mihien asked with some doubts after returning here.
"This is a trap. Let's retreat first!" Suhlen explained and immediately ordered a retreat.
But it was obviously too late to retreat now.
Just after Suhlen's order, the supply caravans in the distance suddenly changed. They opened the tents on the caravans. Instead of food and supplies, the caravans were stacked with wolf mounts. The supply caravans in front of them were all made up of wolf riders.
More than 3000 wolf riders were quickly prepared. They picked up their weapons and began to wander around on their wolf mounts. These wolf riders clearly knew that their mission was to entangle this army. At the same time, a large number of red dots began to appear on Suhlen's strategic map.
From the map, the orcs' army had already surrounded Suhlen's army on all sides.
"I really didn't expect this. We've been hunting geese all day long. This time, we've been pecked in the eye by the orcs." Suhlen's face was a bit ugly.
Looking up at the sky, there were more than 10 black dots rapidly approaching. Suhlen realized that these were wyverns flying in the sky. Seeing these wyverns, Suhlen finally understood. Although the harpies could fly, there was a huge gap between them and the wyverns. Not only their combat power, but their flying speed was also crushed by the wyverns. The harpies' flying speed was not as fast as the wyverns'.
In order to eliminate him, the orcs had already transferred wyverns from the frontline.
With the wyverns, the orcs naturally knew the movements of the northern city's army.
"These orcs have prepared a big formation for us." Suhlen looked at the wyverns. Although they were surrounded on all sides, Suhlen didn't look nervous at all.
"Do you really think you can win?" Suhlen sneered. "Order all soldiers to launch a surprise attack on the wolf riders. We'll kill our way out this time!"
"The trap is indeed useful, but be careful. The prey you've caught might be a giant dragon!"
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