The orcs who used the small to control the large created even greater victories in Charles's hands.
They broke through several settlements in succession.
Whenever a settlement fell, Charles first looted the wealthy households.
As for sustainable development, he temporarily cast it to the back of his mind.
These settlements might not even be his for the taking. If the Howling Children of the Wasteland pushed back and reclaimed them, everything he had built would have to be spat back out.
Still, Charles did not take everything this time.
He only robbed the wealthy orc households, leaving the wealthy human households alone for now.
Humans were, after all, Charles's foundation. At this point, these settlements could be considered half in his grasp.
So some temporary governance was still necessary.
From among those wealthy households, he selected a slightly smaller one to serve as the town mayor.
Then he had Charlotte, who had accompanied the army, command and manage them.
At the same time, Charles fulfilled his promise, granting farmland and wives to some orcs who had distinguished themselves in battle.
The fighting spirit of those orc soldiers instantly exploded.
As for where their wives came from, naturally, they were other orcs from the Howling Children of the Wasteland's army.
The wives of the former officers, those whose family circumstances had been a little better, were now redistributed by Charles.
The wives were still the same wives. The only difference was that they had temporarily changed husbands.
This had two benefits: first, it weakened the enemy; second, it strengthened himself.
At the very least, the orcs who had received wives and the original soldiers and officers of the Howling Children of the Wasteland were now sworn enemies.
They had all shoved their sticks into the same hole. What Howling Children of