In order to win, Friedman needs to concentrate power. In order to survive, Bishop needs to get rid of the disobedient nobles in Banshee Castle. In order to make money, the nobles and wizards of Banshee Castle joined forces to push Powell to the fore.
But when Powell disguised as a corpse collector, under Adrian's surprised attention, took a carriage carrying critically ill patients to Dense Mist Town, Zhou Qingfeng was arriving outside Dense Mist Town with an engineering team.
This is a strange team, one hundred kobolds plus five hundred human laborers. They were transported by more than one hundred heavy-duty carriages to the outside of the town several times. After unloading the tools and materials, they began to build simple houses and survey construction sites.
As the trade route was cut off, hundreds of caravan members gathered in Dense Fog Town. They eagerly hope that Coldwind City can send a powerful army to open up the trade transportation line.
As a result, an engineering team came.
The leader of the team arrived and immediately sparked onlookers.
People stood outside the construction site and exclaimed, "Look, it's a kobold. This kind of dark night monster dared to come out during the day. What are their eyes? What a strange thing."
The construction site was painted with lime, and the residents of the town squeezed out of the line with extreme novelty to wait, pointing and pointing.
Small kobolds are not very comfortable with being onlookers during the day. They evaded dodgy. But if the lord supervises the work personally, they are at least not very afraid.
Due to their extreme weakness, some people in the town habitually throw stones at the kobolds, deliberately bullying and even expelling them. In the past, this can only be swallowed, but now the person who throws the stone and spit will be pulled out for a while.
After so many screams, no one doubted Lord Hugo’s determination to pursue racial equality—a kobold who understands engineering is obviously more valuable than an idiot who doesn’t know how to write.
During the time Powell took the magic potion to the Banshee Fort, the kobolds living in various parts of the Northland heard that human lords were willing to take them in, so they sent some envoys tentatively to see the situation.
After confirming that Coldwind City was willing to contain harmless races, the kobolds came in an endless stream-this race has small individual strength, so it is particularly good at using tools and building fortifications to protect itself.
As the number of kobolds increased, and the engineering power of Coldwind City increased sharply, Zhou Qingfeng decided to implement his long-planned offensive and defensive strategy in advance.
Build military fortresses on the traffic arteries around Coldwind City to avoid the enemy’s long drive and provide convenient logistical support for future military offensives.
The north is too big, and the cities cannot move hundreds of kilometers. Even in the real world, an assault of one or two hundred kilometers by armored forces is an extremely risky action. Only big countries bully weak chickens.
Now that the family has a big business, Coldwind City can't allow the enemy to appear under its own wall at all times. In order to carry out major projects in the cold winter, Zhou Qingfeng also used explosives that can change the world.
In order to provide fuel for the iron-making furnace body, Arce’s coke oven has to dry distill dozens of hundreds of tons of lignite every day to increase its calorific value. As a by-product of dry distillation, the output of various magic potions is also particularly large.
The soul slaves are too busy in the alchemy workshop, constantly separating and refining magic potions from the crude products of coal tar and wood tar every day.
Through repeated selection of Wizard Jason and stabilizers to ensure safety, the workshop can obtain about half a ton of explosives every day.
As an alchemist, Jason saw a lot of objects that could explode, and he didn't realize that the explosives he accidentally discovered were special. But Zhou Qingfeng cheered all day when he heard the news.
Without him..., cheap, large quantity, enough management.
Although this magic explosive is inconvenient to use in combat, it doesn't matter if it is used in engineering. It doesn't matter even if it produces highly toxic smoke after it explodes, it just dissipates naturally in the open area. .
Zhou Qingfeng deliberately brought a few tons of explosives to the dense fog town. The first thing he had to deal with was the hard environment that was frozen in the winter-the ground was hard like iron, and there was only a white spot when he swung his pickaxe.
The kobold spent one day surveying and selecting the construction site of the fort, and the next day he drew a white lime line on the ground. As for the reason why they can come out to work during the day—it's simple, wear sunglasses.
Floor stalls, ten yuan and five pairs, large quantity favorably.
Zhou Qingfeng took a few hundred pairs in one breath and allowed the light-phobic kobolds to come out during the day and work with human laborers. This greatly improves labor efficiency. After all, a lot of manual labor is very difficult to rely on kobolds.
The residents of Dense Mist Town are also extremely curious, they don't understand what such a group of kobolds from outside the town do.
The little monster drew lines and punched holes on the ground, and took out cylindrical objects from the wooden box brought by the carriage and stuffed them into the holes.
What is this mysterious and mysterious going to do
A bunch of people were full of question marks, speculating. Many people laughed when they heard that kobolds were coming to build a fortress, and found it hard to imagine.
Before it was clear, the human labor who maintained order began to clear the field. Residents ask what are they going to do? They don't say it straight, and they will find out after only answering for a while.
Only one explosive was placed in the first gun, and all personnel retreated 100 meters away. The kobold pulled out a half-meter-long fuse, ignited it and fled quickly.
The onlookers couldn't see clearly from a hundred meters away, and they stepped their heads and probes outside the cordon, discussing each other, and were extremely curious. Waiting for the fuse to burn out, there was a thunder blast from a hundred meters away!
Those who are good are frightened when they hear the sound, they all scream and smash into each other like headless flies. Most of the people fell while running and bumping, but their heads were broken and bleeding, so they got up and continued to run, and stopped after running out of a few hundred meters.
There were even more miserable farts, falling to the ground crying endlessly and even fainted on the spot, embarrassing to the extreme. Only the experienced laborers laughed aloud beside them, not talking about their own souls frightened by the explosion.
Each hole is one metre deep and contains two kilograms of explosives. Although the explosives were so powerful, they blasted the hard ground into a pit about one and five meters deep and four or five meters in radius.
The pit was actually broken pieces of soil, which could be dug away with a hoe. This is much simpler than melting the ground by fire, and the cost and time are drastically reduced.
Relying on the explosives produced in this alchemy workshop, the rate of repairing water conservancy and irrigation projects in Coldwind City has increased greatly in the near future.
In the past, hundreds of people could only dig a shallow trench of fifty meters long when they died of exhaustion in a day. It was still extremely tiring and heavy physical work. Now the same labor can dig deeper, longer, and easier.
The kobold engineering team rushed to Dense Fog Town and carried out dozens of ground blasts on the same day, completing the amount of work that used to take one or two months to complete.
Discovering the power of explosives, the residents of the town returned from extreme fright to extreme curiosity. They squeezed around the construction site again, covering their ears every time they fired a cannon, but they did not leave.
When the cannons rang, hundreds of good deeds would shout loudly, attracting more people from the town to come to watch—this kind of free drama is not watched for nothing, it makes people talk about it and gossiping endlessly.
When Powell rushed to Dense Fog again, the foundation of the fort was almost blown up. He shook off the corpse-collecting carriage, walked into the town, and greeted each other excitedly when he heard the residents of the town meet—have you lighted the gun today