The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 332 Extra Chapter: The Conflict at the Marsh Creek
The combined forces of Uja and the Daxing tribe were ambushed by the army of the Beast City in the plains east of the Yehelan River.

The night raid failed, with over a thousand casualties.

The Uja and Daxing tribes immediately halted their northward expansion and confronted Chang Tianchen's army across the swamp-mojiaqiu line.

Chang Tianchen's army was stationed in the territory of the Caizhi tribe.

After daybreak, once he was certain the enemy would not continue their attack, he returned to his tent to rest briefly.

As one of Chang Tianchen's personal guards, Wu Zhuo followed him to his tent and asked, "Boss Chang, do we need to increase our guard?"

Chang Tianchen sat in the armchair, removed his armor, scooped two ladles of water into the basin, washed his face, and felt his mind become much clearer.

After wiping the water off his face with a towel, he cleared his throat and said, "We definitely need to strengthen our defenses along the Swamp Creek line. They suffered a big loss last night, and they probably won't let it go today. But the attack will most likely be small-scale, and their goal is probably to find out our troop strength and combat capabilities."

"Go and inform Lin Jing later, and have him come over first." Chang Tianchen tilted his head back to wipe the water droplets off his neck, squinted slightly, and looked at the pale white light leaking in from the gap in the tent flap. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Then go find Bai Xi and have him select some high-level water-type warriors to spread fog around the camp."

Wu Zhuo said, "Wouldn't that give the enemy a chance to sneak in?"

Chang Tianchen sat in a chair with his long legs propped up on a low stool, and smiled, "I'm just afraid they won't come."

The two sides have only just begun to fight; if you strike with a stick, it will only provoke the other side.

It's impossible to instill fear in the enemy so that they dare not provoke or attack again.

Therefore, only by beating them repeatedly, making them feel pain, fear, and learn their lesson, will they obediently stay on their own front and dare not make any more rash moves.

Upon receiving the order, Wu Zhuo immediately turned around to deliver the message.

Lin Jing quickly brought in a food box, placed breakfast on the table, glanced at Chang Tianchen who was resting in a chair, and moved very quietly. But as soon as the food was set out, Chang Tianchen opened his eyes, threw the towel draped over the armrest of the chair into the basin of water, got up and sat down at the table, and picked up his chopsticks to eat.

Chang Tianchen ate quickly, finishing his breakfast in less than ten minutes. He then had the guards outside clear away all the empty bowls and plates before saying to Lin Jing, "Starting today, the enemy will likely send several well-hidden orcs to spy on our situation. Have you made all the necessary arrangements?"

Lin Jing immediately nodded and said, "The Crow Clan and our small snake clan warriors are all arranged. No matter whether their scouts come from the sky or crawl down from the ground, they will definitely not be able to break through our defenses."

"Be careful of the warriors from the Daxing tribe. They have many insectoid beastmen from the Southern Plains. Most of these insectoid beastmen are skilled in using poison, and their methods are unpredictable. However... I remember we recruited a group of sparrow beastmen in the western part of the central region some time ago. How is their training going?"

Lin Jingdao said, "The training of the Sparrow Clan warriors has been handed over to the Crow Clan chief. I heard that he brought a group with him this time, but the number should not be large."

"First, have him disperse these people, but don't let them leave our current territory. Just capture those small Zerg orcs that have infiltrated within our territory. Tell them to act according to their capabilities, and if they can't handle it, immediately send a signal to the surrounding warriors to come and reinforce them."

"The defense within the territory must maintain a network distribution. Each team's patrol area does not need to be too large. It is essential to maintain contact with the surrounding teams and check the situation every thirty minutes to prevent some teams from being wiped out without the surrounding teams noticing anything unusual."

Lin Jing immediately stood up straight and said, "Understood!"

"I'll arrange it right away."

……

After the fog dissipated in the dense, overgrown forest, the dry air seemed to become moist.

After the crane warriors landed from the sky, they stopped in the wetlands beside the swamp stream.

The giant crane has very long legs; even when it stands on the wetland, it is still quite far from the water's surface.

Several blue cranes stood still on one leg, their silhouettes resembling giant ferns standing on the water's surface.

The slightest ripple in the mud and aquatic plants of the wetlands will instantly attract their attention.

Bai Xu used his long beak to preen the blue feathers on his wings. In the instant he turned his head, his long beak suddenly pierced through the shallow puddle on the surface of the wetland. When his long beak lifted up again, a purplish-red centipede that was more than 40 centimeters long was cut in two in mid-air and was mercilessly flung out of the wetland, falling with a thud into a 1.2-meter-high metal bucket.

When the shift was changed in the afternoon, in the small wetland area, more than twenty iron barrels, each over a meter tall and more than two meters in diameter, were filled with the corpses of various insectoid orcs.

After several giant lizard orcs closed the lid, they tied it with ropes, easily placed it on their broad backs, and slid their limbs across the ground, carrying away all the heavy iron barrels.

Soon, more giant lizard warriors brought over new empty barrels and arranged them neatly in their previous positions.

The warriors of the Crow Clan and the Sparrow Clan also captured many small spiders and ant-like orcs in the dense forest.

By the end of the day, the patrolling soldiers were exhausted.

Chang Tianchen looked at the iron barrels piled up on the open ground, and the corpses overflowing inside them, and was immediately struck by a headache: "Are the Zerg orcs so prolific? How can there be so many?"

"The patrolling warriors didn't dare to stop all day, but some of the Zerg still managed to enter our camp. Some of the warriors were stabbed or bitten by these Zerg orcs, and the wounds were filled with toxins. Because our warriors are equipped with antidotes, they only showed symptoms of poisoning and their lives are not in danger for the time being."

"But this can't go on forever."

"After all, antidotes require medicinal materials to prepare. The logistics department is equipped with three antidotes per person. If more antidotes are needed, we can only apply to Beast City."

The medicinal herbs in Beast City are obtained partly from purchases from other tribes or through trade markets, and partly from the beastmen themselves who gather them in the wild, eventually selling them at the Beast City Resource Trading Hall. Some annual herbs can be cultivated, while perennial herbs are not yet ready for harvest…

Therefore, if they cannot quickly resolve the invasion and attacks of these poisonous insectoid orcs, they will soon face a shortage of antidotes and be forced to sacrifice their warriors' lives.

After Lin Jing finished speaking, he looked at Chang Tianchen with a solemn expression, wondering what methods he planned to use to resolve the situation.

Just then, Su Weihua walked over from a distance, carrying a bag.

He put the cloth bag in his arms on the ground and said, "I just went to the wounded soldiers' camp. The wounds of the injured soldiers are mainly concentrated on their legs and feet, especially the exposed skin, which is easily pierced by the Zerg's stingers or bitten by their mouthparts."

"Almost no armored warriors get poisoned because your skin is protected by fine scales that poisonous stingers and mouthparts cannot penetrate. Naturally, the Zerg warriors can't do anything to you."

"Therefore, we have all the warriors without scale armor replace their shoes with soft armor boots, and then wrap their legs and feet with strips of cloth soaked in the juice of the insect-repelling vine, leaving no gaps to prevent poisonous insects from crawling in."

"The Zerg warriors are extremely averse to the smell of camphor and sour vines. About 700 meters north of our camp, there is a grove of sour vines, and many insect-repelling vines grow around it, which should have been planted by the local orcs. Behind the sunny slope of the hill to the east, there is a camphor forest of about 100 acres, which can be utilized."

"After dark... the Zerg's attack will likely intensify, so hurry." After listening, Chang Tianchen said to Lin Quan, "Take some men to harvest the sour vines and insect-repelling vines, and have the wood-type warriors go with you. After harvesting, continue to encourage their growth. Bai Xu, lead a team to the camphor forest. It's definitely too late to just make camphor now, but we can use camphor wood directly. Take the metal-type warriors there and break the wood into small pieces, the kind that can be put into bags. Everyone should be issued one..."

Su Weihua instructed Lin Quan: "Take a few earth-type warriors over there, get a few stone mills, grind the sour vines into juice, then mix it with water in a ratio of about one to ten, and sprinkle it directly over the dense forest. This will interfere with the information transmission of the thorn ant tribe."

The thorn ant tribe hates sour vines because the acid disrupts their unique internal communication method, making it impossible for them to communicate.

Even if the ant-like orcs successfully located their camp, they wouldn't be able to relay accurate information to the warriors behind them. Entering the dense forest smeared with sour vine sap was like navigating a maze; they had to rely solely on their eyes to find their way.

However, the eyesight of the ant tribe is actually very poor, and without the guidance of pheromones from their own kind at night, they find it increasingly difficult to move around.

Before nightfall, the soldiers in the camp were all equipped with insect repellent suits.

Chang Tianchen crossed his legs, glanced sideways at Su Weihua who was writing a military intelligence report, and asked, "How do you know so much about the weaknesses of the Zerg?"

Su Weihua held her pen, having already reached the end of her writing. She looked up at the leisurely Chang Tianchen and sighed softly: "The Snow Wolf Tribe goes hunting in Luolu Mountain every year, and Luolu Mountain is also a den of many vicious exiled beastmen. I used to deal with them often."

"Exiled Zerg orcs, if not accepted by the Great Xing tribe, will mostly end up in the northern foothills of Mount Lolu, banding together to survive. So there are actually quite a few Zerg orcs in Mount Lolu, but many of them died long ago."

"Most of these insectoid beastmen from the South were not adapted to the extremely cold and arid climate of the North Wilderness. Many could only survive for a year or two, and some even died before spring. The reason these insectoid beastmen died was not because they were too weak, but because they could not adapt to the complex climate of the North Wilderness and had separated from their original groups."

The smaller-sized Zerg orcs mostly rely on teamwork.

This type of warfare is characterized by precision and efficiency, but it requires a sufficient number of members of the same race as support.

If they are alone, they are only slightly stronger than ordinary poisonous insects.

Chang Tianchen nodded knowingly and said, "I didn't expect you to have such experience. That's quite interesting."

After writing the last two lines and drying the ink, Su Weihua said calmly, "The living environment of each tribe of orcs determines what kind of fighting style they are good at."

There is no perfect race in this world.

"If there are strengths, there must also be weaknesses."

……

The plan by the Daxing tribe to send a large number of Zerg to gather intelligence ultimately failed.

The two sides tested each other for more than a month and exchanged blows in small groups several times, but Chang Tianchen accurately and swiftly knocked their outstretched hands back.

The orcs from various tribes returned after the autumn hunt ended.

The troops that had been poised to attack on both sides of the defensive line fell completely silent as the winter snowstorms continued.

During the winter season of that year, Chang Tianchen and Su Weihua took turns staying at the Caizhi tribe.

After the start of spring, a new batch of supplies arrived, and the combat orders issued by the City of Ten Thousand Beasts were also delivered to Chang Tianchen shortly after the supplies arrived.

Chang Tianchen did not hesitate at all. He adjusted his troops that very day and launched an attack before dawn.

The entire cold season has passed, and they have roughly figured out the manpower and trump cards of Daxing and Wujia.

The alliance between Uga and Daxing was not solid, because the Uga tribe was significantly weaker than Daxing. The high-ranking warriors of Daxing also looked down on the Uga commanders. As a result, the Uga warriors were severely oppressed by the Daxing orcs. During the Cold Season alone, there were five internal conflicts due to the uneven distribution of resources.

Therefore, in the later stages of the cold season, the warriors of Ujah and Daxing were separated for defense.

The warriors of Daxing were mainly stationed along the swamp stream, while the warriors of Uga were stationed at the Mojia Hill area.

The two sides' nearest outposts are one kilometer apart, and they have always maintained a state of mutual non-interference.

Before dawn, Chang Tianchen had already moved his main force to the forefront of the Mojiaqiu battle line.

The Owl warriors responsible for reconnaissance, like assassins in the night, silently swept over the Uja camp and then quickly disappeared into the darkness.

With the return of the Owl Clan warriors, Chang Tianchen also received more accurate intelligence.

Around four o'clock in the morning, the enemy soldiers were exhausted and their horses were weary.

Arrows dipped in kerosene were fired from above at the enemy's camp, quickly setting fire to the simple wooden huts and thatched huts, with flames shooting into the sky almost instantly.

Today, a southeasterly wind is blowing, moving from Mojiaqiu towards Zhaoxi.

The smoke reached the camp of the Daxing tribe, making it impossible for them to open their eyes. If they wanted to come and provide support, they would have to take a longer route.

Chang Tianchen's goal was to achieve a swift victory. Ujah's warriors numbered only two thousand, so he assembled a force of ten thousand and charged toward the enemy camp. At the same time, he left four thousand men to block the way and intercept Daxing's troops, not to kill the enemy, but simply to delay their advance.

With a troop ratio of five to one, the army of the Beast City advanced with unstoppable momentum, breaking through two enemy lines in just ten minutes and entering the Uga tribe's camp fifteen minutes later.

The warriors of the Daxing tribe may have deliberately delayed their arrival to suppress the Uja tribe, and they happened to run into a 4,000-strong ambush team, so they arrived at the Uja camp, which was engulfed in flames, 20 minutes later.

But it was too late.

Blood had already flowed like a river within the Uja camp.

Chang Tianchen gripped his halberd, pulled the blood-soaked spear tip from the enemy's chest, shook off the blood-stained hair falling on his shoulder, raised his eyes, and swept his gloomy gaze toward the male orc riding on the back of a shovel-toothed elephant outside the fire. With his right hand, he swung his halberd, cleanly and decisively deflecting the arrows that came flying through the air.

I planned out the extra chapters today; there's quite a lot to write.

There may be more than ten chapters.

I will focus on writing about several key battles.

Then there are individual side stories for several male leads and important supporting characters.