CHAPTER 1374: CHAPTER 603: MERCILESS SLAUGHTER! THE GREAT BATTLE BEGINS!

Lanling has been away from the Yan Mo tribe for more than half a month.

Previously, Lanling asserted that within this half month, no one would join the Near-Human Tribe. But he was wrong. Even after the news spread that the Silver Alliance was gathering an army to annihilate the Yan Mo tribe, people continued to join in droves.

Every day, more than five hundred people!

So half a month after Lanling left the tribe, the population of the entire tribe unexpectedly exceeded fifty thousand, becoming a medium-sized tribe in the entire Southern Barbaric Lands.

Now, apart from the large workforce dedicated to burning lime and constructing giant catapults and giant crossbows, almost all the remaining manpower is focused on building this seven-mile-long city wall.

Every day, more than thirty thousand people are working on building the city wall.

Neither Lanling nor Suo Mo believed that the city wall could be completed within a month. After all, a month ago, this city wall was only a clay wall that had been hammered down, and the outer stone slabs had barely begun to be laid.

By normal estimates, it would take at least another three months to complete the entire city wall.

However, the progress of the city wall was unexpectedly swift!

Thirty thousand people working on the seven-mile-long city wall, with one-third responsible for quarrying and shaping stones, one-third for transportation, and one-third for construction.

Every day, more than ten thousand people are on this seven-mile-long construction site.

There is no concept of work and rest time at all. Eating and sleeping all happen beside the city wall.

When the meal arrives, with hands full of mud, they grab a wooden spoon and gobble down food, swallowing dirt and sand together. When they are too exhausted to bear it, they simply sleep on the ground nearby and continue working desperately upon waking up.

They work day and night, tirelessly.

Ten thousand people, divided into a hundred groups, with each group of a hundred responsible for thirty-five meters of the city wall.

This is a massive workload because this city wall is more than ten meters high and six to seven meters wide!

The original clay wall was already over four meters thick and nine meters high. This means adding more than two meters of stone thickness and over one meter of height to the existing wall.

Though no one proactively mentioned it, everyone set a goal in their hearts to complete the task before the battle comes.

This means a hundred people must complete 1.2 meters each day.

Now, half a month has passed.

Among these hundred groups, the slowest has completed twenty meters, and the fastest has completed twenty-five meters!

All have exceeded their assigned tasks!

At this rate, this seven-mile-long city wall will absolutely be completed before the battle begins!

This construction speed is astonishing and even faster than when Lanling built the Fenglei Fort Defense Line in Tianshui City. The Fenglei Fort Defense Line was only four or five miles long and took over ten thousand people several months and spent Lanling hundreds of thousands of Gold Coins to build.

Meanwhile, building this seven-mile-long Flame Demon Tribe Wall has not taken more than three to four months, and not a single Gold Coin has been spent, only providing for food and clothing.

This is the result of fighting for one’s own home.

In the Human Kingdom, Lanling always paved the way with money! In the end, he did not garner much loyalty. Even the citizens of the Tianshui City Territory had mixed feelings for him.

But in the Southern Barbaric Lands, Lanling spent not a single Gold Coin on his own people, yet received countless support and loyalty.

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To prepare for the imminent battle!

Besides the city wall, the Yan Mo tribe has several secret weapons.

One is the large catapult!

More than eight thousand people have been involved in constructing the catapults and giant crossbows, almost completely deforesting the surrounding woods.

From the start of construction of the giant catapults until now, it has been over three to four months, though only in the last half month have seven to eight thousand people been involved.

Now, the entire Yan Mo tribe has built more than fifty large and small catapults.

Over one hundred giant crossbows!

Various types of bolts, over hundreds of thousands.

What weapons will the catapults launch?

First, fish oil!

The Yan Mo tribe may lack other resources, but it has as much fish as it desires. More than three thousand women are involved in boiling fish oil every day.

Additionally, although fish meat after oil extraction is less flavorful, it still fills the stomach.

In these half months, they have produced one hundred thousand pounds of fish oil, using over a million pounds of fish. During these half months, the brothers of the Yan Mo tribe eat nothing but fish, each person consuming two to three pounds a day.

When the battle starts, the entire Yan Mo tribe will have over 250,000 pounds of fish oil, enough to make over ten thousand Fish Oil Bombs.

The second weapon is quicklime!

Lanling discovered more than one limestone mine around the tribe and began burning lime early on.

Lime has many uses; it can disinfect, build walls, and pave roads.

Now, all roads in the Yan Mo tribe are paved with lime mixed with sand and stones. Though not as smooth as cement roads, it is much better than dirt roads.

And lime has a massive usage: to damage the enemy’s eyes. Quicklime reacts upon contact with water, generating high heat instantaneously, almost boiling water. Once quicklime powder enters the eyes, it is impossible to regain sight without washing with oil, and it burns painfully, potentially even causing blindness.

In preparation for the imminent battle, the Yan Mo tribe has readied over ten thousand quicklime bombs.

The third weapon is the most ordinary: giant stones, unremarkable.

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