World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 1312 - 578: The Great Pillage! Du Yan knelt down and surrendered!_2

Chapter 1312: 578: The Great Pillage! Du Yan knelt down and surrendered!_2

The population of the Flame Demon Tribe has officially surpassed thirty thousand!

A full thirteen thousand troops have been reorganized, and initially, it was planned to form only a thousand cavalry, but now it is far from enough, so two thousand cavalry were formed.

However, the entire Flame Demon Tribe has only about two thousand warhorses, which is far from sufficient.

At this point, the number of people coming to join the Flame Demon Tribe each day has finally started to decrease.

Suo Mo and Lanling both let out a sigh of relief.

This kind of expansion, this population explosion, they could hardly bear it.

On the thirty-first day, Lanling followed the original plan and had Gantuo and Duolong each lead seven hundred cavalry to leave the Flame Demon Tribe for plundering.

The original plan was for each to lead only five hundred cavalry because the expansion of the Flame Demon Tribe was too overwhelming, and many of the newly joined Near-Human Tribe warriors were originally cavalry, so it was a pity not to recruit them.

Lanling’s first target for the plundering was the Chimera Tribe’s iron mine!

...

The Barbarian Tribes are not short of iron mines, in fact, there are many.

However, mines like the one in the Chimera Tribe are rare to see.

An open-pit mine that doesn’t require digging shafts, you can even pick up ore and start smelting. Moreover, the iron here not only has a high iron content but also few impurities, especially having a very low sulfur content. The iron produced is excellent, and the quality of the steel is much better than that of other tribes.

However...

Unfortunately, iron mines in the Barbaric Wilderness are not as rare as salt wells; there are three iron mines in the entire Silver Alliance.

Constantine made quite a bit of money from this mine, but unfortunately, it couldn’t be sold at exorbitant prices like the salt of the Silver Tribe, and therefore couldn’t make him as wealthy as they were.

Hence, a large amount of iron could only be used for themselves, forging swords, especially covering the city gates with ten thousand catties of iron plates.

Why not make armor?

Because armor is too complex, and the blacksmiths here aren’t good at forging it. Moreover, the barbarians of the Rakshasa Tribe feel that wearing armor is embarrassing; it’s for the women of the Near-Human Tribe, and wearing armor in battle is too inconvenient.

The Chimera Tribe’s iron mine covers more than two thousand acres, with about a thousand mad slaves.

Yes, they are mine slaves, not miners.

All the mine slaves are indigenous barbarians captured from deep mountains.

The Werewolf Tribe, Leopard Tribe, and Tiger Tribe are too fierce, and ordinary tribes wouldn’t provoke them.

However, there are some low-IQ barbarian tribes, like the Goat-headed People and the Oxheaded People, who are gentle, strong, and have low intelligence, making them the best choice for mine slaves.

Aside from the thousand mine slaves and hundreds of smelters, the rest are the mining guard army. Originally, there were five hundred troops, but now with the near-total annihilation of the Chimera Tribe’s main force, only three hundred mining guard troops remain.

The leader of this mining guard force is none other than Suo Mo’s former adoptive son, Du yan!

...

Du yan is in pain, in rage!

First, Ninian revealed her true colors, speaking extremely humiliating words to him, tearing apart the affectionate facade.

A frog trying to eat swan meat, that’s how Ninian described him, Du yan.

Then, before Du yan could process his shock and anger, he received a transfer order removing him from Constantine’s side, sending him back to the Chimera Tribe under Constantine II’s command.

Constantine II, especially agitated after getting shot, kicked Du yan aside upon his return, humiliating him excessively.

He was then relegated to the tribe’s mine, suffering rough conditions, spending his days among the Goat-headed People and the Oxheaded People.

Being of the Near-Human Tribe and with Lanling having led a rebellion with the Foreign Tribe Army, Du yan’s soldiers also spoke coldly and disrespectfully to him.

So, Du yan’s days were very difficult, filled with distress and unwillingness.

Yet, he had no choice but to bear it day by day.

At this moment, Du yan looked up at the sky, surrounded by the clanging sounds, with dust everywhere in the mine.

Below, hundreds of soldiers sat scattered on the ground, issuing waves of jeers.

And the target of their mockery was him, Du yan!

They laughed at Du yan for trying to eat swan meat, audaciously attempting to marry Miss Ninian, now a concubine of the Little Barbarian King.

These people dared to mock Du yan, but not Lanling, as deep down they feared Lanling.

Lanling not only rebelled and established his own rule but also slept with the chieftain’s wife, and in the last battle, he wiped out over ten thousand main force troops of the Chimera Tribe.

Du yan’s duel with Lanling also became the biggest reason to laugh at him.

They laughed at his ignorance of the magnitude of the sky, daring to duel Lanling.

What was Lanling? A prodigious killer star, Du yan dueling him was indeed courting humiliation!

At this time, suddenly the ground began to tremble, and the rapid sound of galloping hooves, like a tide, drew nearer!

Du yan awoke with a jolt, rushed to the high ground, and shouted loudly, "Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

The Chimera Tribe’s mine lay in a concave valley, with an entrance about two hundred meters wide, constructed with thick wooden stockade walls, very sturdy.

The Chimera Tribe’s mining guard army was also very elite, and upon hearing the sound, they immediately stopped their mockery and quickly moved to the top of the stockade walls, stringing their bows and arrows!

Just a few minutes later.

A cavalcade like a tide appeared in Du yan’s view.

A full thousand cavalry, led by none other than Lanling!

The Lanling he once deeply admired, but now etched on his heart.

If not for Lanling’s arrival, he might still be the pride of the Chimera Tribe, if not married to Ninian, at least to Dina, becoming the great leader of the Foreign Tribe Army.

But it was this very Lanling before him that cast him from the clouds into the mud.

Lanling’s more than a thousand cavalry approached the stockade walls of the mine within five hundred meters.

By now, inside the walls, the mining guard army was already pale, their limbs trembling.

This was Lanling, a terrifying star, who massacred nearly twenty thousand Chimera Tribe members.

Lanling approached alone, not on a warhorse, but on a Golden-maned Gryphon Beast.

The enormous Golden-maned Gryphon Beast walked on the ground, stopping a hundred meters in front of the mine gate.

No one dared to shoot arrows at him; his notorious reputation had spread throughout the Silver Alliance.

Lanling raised his head to the Chimera Tribe soldiers on the stockade wall, looked at Du yan, and said coldly, "I will count to ten. If you don’t open the gate and surrender, I will slaughter you all once I break in, leaving no one alive!"

"Ten!"

"Nine!"

"Eight!"

...

Lanling’s countdown ended!

There was no surrender, no opening of the gates!

Lanling rode forward on the Gryphon Beast to the gate, lifted his hundreds of pounds heavy sword, gripped it with both hands, gathered his Bloodline Power critical hit, and fiercely slashed at the gate.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

The gate of the Chimera Tribe couldn’t be severed with his power. But the modest stockade wall of the mining camp, he could still manage to cut through it.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

A series of loud bangs!

His reputation was so terrifying that when he hacked at the gate, no one dared to shoot at him.

After a full ten strikes.

"Boom..." the gate of the mine camp collapsed.

Lanling waved his great sword and said, "Charge in, kill!"

Immediately, his more than a thousand cavalry charged into the mine like a tide.

The Chimera Tribe’s mining guard army retaliated with arrows.

They dared not shoot at Lanling because that was courting death; Lanling had unparalleled archery skills.

However, they dared to shoot at the Flame Demon Tribe cavalry.

Lanling did not shoot arrows; otherwise, a mere three hundred men wouldn’t suffice to satisfy his killing spree.

His purpose was to train soldiers, to practice in real battle, so blood must be shed!

...

Two hours later, the battle ended!

Out of the three hundred Chimera Tribe mining guard troops, more than two hundred were slaughtered, and the remaining dozens knelt in surrender.

Among those who knelt in surrender was unexpectedly Du yan!

Du yan, incredibly, knelt and surrendered to him, which he never expected.

Ling Ao would rather die than surrender and kneel to the Regent King Suo Lun. But Du yan was willing to surrender to his life-long enemy, Lanling.

Du yan kowtowed, seeing Lanling’s look, and said, "I, Du yan, pay respects to the Chieftain! Please, on account of my adoptive father, accept my surrender!"

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