The military stronghold that Lorist planned to build for the mercenaries was actually two gun towers for the little devils, with four floors and a height of about 12 or 13 meters. The two buildings are five meters apart, with the city gate in the middle, and a five-meter-high city wall surrounding the mound. Inside the city wall are stables, warehouses, barracks and other living facilities for long-term persistence. If the city wall is broken, the mercenaries can retreat to the two gun towers and persist until reinforcements arrive.
The construction of the military village was very fast. First, tall logs were cut to build wooden walls and gun towers, and then three trenches were dug outside the mound, which were connected to the stream and filled with water. The excavated earth was made into adobe bricks by the laborers ordered by Lorist according to the method of the Rock Castle, and then another earth wall was built along the wooden fence and the gun tower on the outside, and finally a thick layer of green clay was applied, and it became into a stone wall. Although the city wall was only five meters high, Lorist had people make the mounds along the outer edge of the city wall into a 45-degree slope, making the height of the city wall plus the mound nine meters, increasing the attack force. difficulty.
The days passed quickly in the busyness, and a month passed in a blink of an eye. The military village has begun to take shape, with three trenches on the outside, two layers of wooden horses, a wall of sheep and horses, and finally a suspension bridge, city walls, and gun towers. The rest are details. Lorist also ordered people to bring four siege crossbows from Rock Castle, and place them on the top of the two gun towers.
When he was in the Rock Castle, Lorist had visited the father and son who made the crossbow masters. According to the crossbow maker named Falin, Lorist realized that the dozens of crossbows were actually They are all simple versions, not official siege crossbows. The normal shooting range of the official siege crossbow can reach 150 to 200 meters, but the simple versions they are making now can only reach 80 to 100 meters, which is nearly half of the difference, and the precise aiming is also very different. , It is a remarkable accuracy that three out of ten arrows can hit the intended target.
Master Falin said that it takes a long time to make a formal crossbow for defending the city. It takes two years to select the material, shape and finalize the shape of the bow arm. The simple version of the crossbow arms he is currently making is usually deformed and cracked after shooting a dozen arrows, and needs to be replaced. Fortunately, the wood for making these bow arms is abundant in the North, so he equips each crossbow with more. Three sets of bow arms.
In addition, there are also bowstrings. The bowstrings of these simple crossbows are made of beef tendon and horsetail, and they will relax after shooting seven or eight arrows. Although there are various disadvantages, the advantage of these simple versions of the crossbow is that it is quick to make, and the materials are simple, and finally it is not expensive. In addition, the strength is fierce, even if the shooting range is reduced by half, the crossbow arrows fired can still pose a threat to the gold-level masters.
This is very good for Lorist. He just gave Master Falin an idea, adding a wheel to the back of these simple crossbows, so that it doesn't have to be so laborious to wind each time, and it also saves the original operation. The four manpower of the crossbow was reduced to two. What a great idea to wow Master Falin.
In fact, in Lorist's mind, the best crossbows for defending the city are the steel crossbows above the vampire castle in the American movie "Rise of the Wolves" that he watched in his previous life. Far, flexible steering, strong force, high precision. Those werewolves as big as calves were nailed to the ground with one arrow, and it was extremely convenient for one person to operate them.
I remember that after watching this movie, Lorist wanted to counterfeit this kind of steel crossbow, and then sell it back to Europe and the United States to earn some foreign exchange. In the end, the organization tackled key problems and managed to prevent one. The street police station came to the door and confiscated the counterfeit steel crossbow, and fined it 5,000 yuan. Lorist still remembered Director Zhou's admonition that without a foreign order or a crossbow production license, it would be a crime to make such crossbows in violation of the regulations.
Although Lorist's plan to make a fortune was aborted, the steps of making the steel crossbow and the size of each part were deeply remembered in his mind. It's just that the biggest problem at the moment is that there is no material. Lorist doesn't know where to get suitable steel, so he can only slowly look for alternative materials when he settles down in the future.
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What surprised Lorist was that during the one-month construction of the military camp, the valley at the junction of the two mountains was exceptionally calm, and was not attacked by the expected mountain barbarians. The mercenaries pushed the cordon farther and farther, and finally captured a pair of mountain barbarian grandfathers and grandchildren collecting medicine in the depths of the valley. Although they were old and young, they were living mountain barbarians after all. Lorist paid the mercenaries a bounty of two imperial old man's head gold coins for the pair of mountain barbarian grandparents.
Giving a piece of maple syrup to the mountain barbarian boy who refused to calm down for a moment, finally stopped the brat boy from moving around, and also made the face of the mountain barbarian old man warm up. The mountain barbarian old man told Lorist in an unfamiliar lingua franca that this year is the Kupawissen Festival, and the patriarchs of all the mountain barbarian tribes took all the Ule to go to Mount Smolmegen to participate in the sacred sacrifice and the Byvis meeting. .
So that's the case, Lorist couldn't help but be thankful that he chose a good time to build the military fort here. Lorist knows that this is the commemorative festival of the year when the mountain god Kupawesen was born. The mountain barbarians have to celebrate for a year, and blood sacrifices are held once a month, and a large number of livestock are slaughtered as sacrifices. mountain god. There is only one Kupawisen Festival every twelve years.
Ule and other words are specific appellations created by the mountain barbarians themselves in the common language, which is equivalent to the meaning of a warrior. Small Megan Mountain is the sacred mountain of the mountain barbarians, and it is said that the birthplace of the mountain god Kupawisen. Sacred sacrifices are blood sacrifices, in which animals are sacrificed to the mountain god Kupavesen on altars at the top of the holy mountain. The Baivis Conference is the largest gathering of the various tribes of the Mountain Barbarians. At this conference, the patriarchs of each tribe will elect Temsen, who is the name of the Mountain Barbarians, which means the leader. Then the elected Temson will confirm the actual control territory of each mountain barbarian tribe, avoid and mediate disputes between various large mountain barbarian tribes, and the goals and directions of the mountain barbarian tribes in the next twelve years. For example, in which direction to attack the human territory, which kingdom to plunder, and the obligations and offerings of various mountain barbarian tribes to Temsen, etc.
The most famous book about the customs of the mountain barbarians is called "The Adventures of the Knight". It is about a knight who went to the Dragon Mountain Range and strayed into the territory of the mountain barbarians a hundred years ago. He was detained by the mountain barbarians and lived there for nearly 30 years. After celebrating two Kupavis festivals, he finally escaped from the Dragon Mountains with his wife and three children and returned to his hometown. The knight later wrote several books about living in the mountain barbarians in the past 30 years, which caused a sensation and became a famous mountain barbarian research scholar.
Lorist had read several books written by this knight when he was at Dawn Academy, and he even kept a copy of "The Knight's Adventure". The customs of these mountain barbarians described in the book are very detailed. During the Baivis Conference, the various tribes of the mountain barbarians will also conduct transactions and exchange what they have. In addition, various activities such as martial arts competitions, gladiatorial fights, and hunting will be held.
From the map of the entire Galimbia continent, it can be found that the Molong Mountains are located in the center of the continent, stretching for nearly 100,000 miles, with an extremely wide area. The cradle of life on the subcontinent. Legend has it that in the ancient elf era, this mountain area was the territory of the dragon clan.
Now there is no magic dragon, but there are more mountain barbarians. It's not that the mountain barbarians in the Norton family's territory have become a disaster, but that the mountain barbarians are a headache for all countries and territories close to the Demon Dragon Mountain Range.
The old mountain man told Lorist that the mountain man tribe that ruled the Demon Dragon Mountains near the Norton family's territory was called Habibaba, and most of the invasions that invaded the Norton family's territory in the past were done by this Habibaba tribe. This tribe is very powerful. It has more than a thousand Ule, and it oppresses the other seven mountain barbarian tribes in this area to death.
The Shanman tribe to which the old man belongs is very small, with a total number of just over 400. The old man Shanman said that when the head of the Habibaba tribe returns at the end of the year, he will probably become Jambassen who rules this area, which means regional commander. All the mountain barbarian tribes in this area will become vassal tribes of the Habibaba tribe, like the small mountain barbarian tribe to which the old man belongs, and may even be forcibly annexed.
It's none of Lorist's business whether the Habibaba mountain barbarian tribe annexed the old man's tribe, and Lorist wasn't going to intervene. For Lorist, the mountain barbarians can do whatever they want to harm other territories or other kingdoms, as long as they don't hinder the development of their own family's territories, they are fine. If you want to attack your own family territory, then don't blame yourself for being rude, stretch out your hands and chop your hands, stretch your feet and chop your feet.
The forest valley at the junction of the two mountains is the main channel for the mountain barbarians to invade the Norton family's territory for two hundred years. The establishment of the military camp here is to have enough early warning and reaction time when the mountain barbarians invade on a large scale. Small-scale mountain barbarian raids are managed by mercenaries, which is also the source of their bounties. If it was a large-scale invasion by the mountain barbarians, the mercenaries would retreat back to the camp and stand firm, lighting up the smoke to report the news, and Lorist would call in the family's armed forces to deal a head-on blow to these mountain barbarians.
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The process of building the military village went smoothly, except for a small problem when digging a well on the mound. That is, although the mound is only 80 meters away from the creek, the water veins on the ground were not dug until 14 to 15 meters deep. The water pressure was so strong that it even spurted out the wellhead. Finally, a water outlet was dug under the city wall. Draining the water into the trench under the mound did not turn the inside of the city wall into a swamp.
Lorist is discussing the secret channel with Husky, Jim, and Manager Kedan today. Lorist planned to dig a secret passage under the two gun towers to connect the two gun towers. Although the four storeys of the two fortresses are already connected by a wooden trestle bridge, Lorist is worried that in case of a siege by the mountain barbarians, the wooden trestle bridge will be shot and burned by rockets. The gun tower lost contact. This would be extremely detrimental to the mercenaries trapped in the two turrets, so arranging a secret passage underground would not worry about the two turrets being unable to support each other.
Although the two mercenary leaders, Hawski and Jim, thought that digging secret passages was cumbersome, they were very grateful to Lorist for his thoughtfulness. On the contrary, Steward Kedan thinks this is a very necessary measure. After hearing the confession of the old man from the mountain barbarians, Steward Kedan thinks that if the army stronghold is attacked by the mountain barbarians, it must be not a few hundred, but probably thousands of people. Didn’t you hear the old man of the mountain barbarian say that the Habi Baba tribe has thousands of Ule? At that time, the seventy or eighty mercenaries will be under great pressure. The situation Lorist said is not impossible.
Lorist thought that in addition to this secret passage, a passage should also be dug from the secret passage to the well, so that there is no need to worry about the city wall being breached and the mercenaries trapped in the gun tower without water. In addition, it is best to dig another secret passage from the secret passage to the nearby creek, as an escape channel in the face of desperation. It's just that the mercenaries have to dig this passage secretly, so as not to let anyone know about it.
Because there is only one city gate in this military stronghold, the mercenaries will be trapped in the military stronghold if the gate is locked. Although Hawski and Jim have repeatedly stated that the mercenaries will stick to the last person, Lorist said that the suspects are not needed, and the employers are not suspicious. He arranged these mercenaries here not to let them die, but to warn the family Reporting and delaying the time for the brigade of mountain barbarians to attack the family territory is enough for them to be worthy of the reward they paid themselves. If they really can't persist, they can give up the army stronghold and escape. Lorist will not be offended.
The discussion was lively, but the mercenaries guarding the door came in and reported that it was the Morin garrison captain from Beiye Town who came to see the lord.
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