Chapter 175

The bright sunshine leaves mottled light spots on the ground through the dense treetops, and several naive fast bird cubs play around the light column in the forest. These round wool balls are crowded together and look very cute. Two young male birds fight with each other for a branch, but from the few little female birds watching the battle, we can see that they are showing their strength to their sisters. When the male leader paced over with dignified steps, the two little male birds immediately became honest.

Several alchemy militia pushed their carts to the vicinity of the birds, and swift birds, large and small, immediately surrounded them. The purple sugarcane leaves in the car fell to the ground, but the fast birds were indifferent. In particular, the strong fast bird leader gave a dissatisfied neighing, as if urging something. The militia opened a wooden box, and dozens of fat ground lizards were shaken out. The birds were immediately excited. They chased the ground lizards with short legs. The fat little fast birds also stumbled over. The male leader pressed a ground lizard with strong claws and drove away two rash young fast birds. Three adult females tore the ground lizard and fed it to the hungry young birds.

On the high hill, Victor was watching the following 14 fast birds eating. He asked cloth around him, "how many fast birds do I have now?"

"My Lord, there are 37 in all." Bousso replied.

After seeing Sylvia off, Victor did not return to the manor of Hekou village, but went directly to the mountain fortress. Victor's mountain fortress is more prosperous than it was a few months ago.

The mountain area reclaimed by the alchemy militia has increased from more than 800 Mu to more than 2000 mu. These mountain fields are scattered around the fortress, mainly planting vegetables and sweet potatoes, as well as a small amount of herbs and berries. These outputs can not only be eaten by more than 500 alchemists, but also be transported to Hekou village. Because it is quiet, closed and free from external interference, Victor also ordered busso to breed spelt wheat, sweet potato and wild vegetables in the hope of obtaining better seeds. In addition, the alchemy militia also cut down a large area of shrubs to expand the planting area of oilwood and wuse fruit trees. It is believed that the number of these precious trees will increase greatly in a few years.

There are more than 3000 ground lizards raised by the alchemy militia, laying an average of more than 700 eggs a day. The eggs of the ground lizard are used for alchemical human consumption, while the side of the ground lizard is supplemented by war mastiff and fast bird. To Victor's surprise, the first batch of fast bird chicks have been shelled, and the number of fast birds has reached 37, which is divided into four populations. According to Bousso, female fast birds breed once a year with 1-2 eggs each time. It takes three years from chicks to adults. In another year, those young fast birds will form a new population. At that time, the number of fast birds will increase exponentially, but their number will still be restricted by the purple sugarcane population. Bousso estimates that the existing purple sugarcane forest can support up to 800 fast birds.

"Go! Go to the weapons workshop."

The blacksmith shop on the south side of the mountain fortress has changed from a simple wooden canopy to a brick and tile weapons workshop. There is still no wall. The columns made of rock bricks support the iron oak beam, and the Artemisia grass on the roof has also become tiles. The mountain stream passes through the outside of the weapons workshop, mixed with the workshop wastewater, flows to the cliff in the west, forms a small waterfall and falls into the swamp. Dozens of auxiliary alchemy soldiers loaded with forging skills are busy in the weapons workshop. The clanging sound of hammers hitting anvils and the sound of red irons stuffed into cold water are heard one after another.

Victor nodded with satisfaction. He had two iron workshops, one open and one dark. In the mountain camp, Mingdi is responsible for building wooden poles, spears, arrows, crossbows, leather armor and round shields, as well as agricultural tools, stirrups, carriage parts and other civil appliances. The dark one is here. It is responsible for making fine iron lock armor, fine iron short spear, fine iron long sword, silver crossbow, silver crossbow and arrow, as well as a small detachable catapult. As long as there are materials, these two workshops can continuously manufacture sophisticated equipment to arm Victor's army. So far, the warehouse of the fortress has stored 200 silver crossbows, 3000 silver crossbows, 500 ordinary silver crossbows, 200 hard bows, 50 long bows, 200 pairs of refined iron lock armours, 600 refined iron one handed spears and 300 refined iron long swords. But Victor didn't come to see these top equipment today.

"Bousso, how about the swift bird light cavalry equipment I want you to make?"

Bousso said, "Sir, we have built a set." With that, Bousso opened a cabinet and put the equipment on the long table one by one.

According to your request, the light riding equipment includes fine iron single spear, fine iron sword, three fine iron spears, Zhang Yinggong, a crossbow, two arrows, a shovel, iron lock armor, iron oak round shield, leather inner armor, leather gloves and leather boots. There are also grocery bags, including Firestone, hemostatic, antidote, paralytic agent, coarse sugar block, and silver for suture. Needles and fine flax thread. "

Victor looked at the light riding equipment carefully and asked, "have you tested it? What's the result?"

"After the test, the total weight of these equipment is 140 pounds. After the alchemical militia rode on the fast bird, the speed of the fast bird was reduced by 30%, the jumping ability was reduced by 40%, and the running distance was reduced by 50%. In addition, the hard bow can shoot through leather armor within 50 meters and lock armor within 60 meters, which can not meet the requirements of killing elite soldiers within 80 meters."

Victor has a vast territory, many hills and 400 kilometers of mountainous areas. Victor has enough power to control such a large territory, but the territory in the north is isolated and 1000 kilometers away from here. Victor feels out of reach. Most importantly, there is Sauron, an ill intentioned neighbor. Victor is very worried that Sauron's forces will attack the free civil and commercial Corps going north. In order to deal with this situation, he needs a rapid assault force that can adapt to the mountainous terrain.

War mastiff has strong mobility, but there is no good way for knights in armor, so the fast bird light cavalry is the best choice. Victor's swift bird light cavalry is designed to intercept Knight teams and be able to get rid of the pursuit of silver knights with the help of terrain. However, the fast bird's load-bearing capacity is not enough to bear these equipment. If we want to reduce defense equipment, I'm afraid there will be heavy casualties. This change may lead to action failure. Victor frowned and asked, "what is the solution?"

Busso said, "replacing the refined iron one handed spear with the silver one handed spear based on round paulownia wood, removing the throwing spear, replacing the refined iron lock armour and cowhide inner armour with silver leather armour, and replacing the hard bow with silver short bow can solve the problem of insufficient load and lethality of the hard bow."

The silver skin armor in the mouth of cloth rope is not cowhide armor, but a 4 cm thick giant rhinoceros armor. The silver skin armor made of this giant rhinoceros is as flexible as leather armor, lighter than lock armor, and more defensive than plate armor, which is enough to resist the accumulation of crossbows. But Victor doesn't even have many cowhide now. Is there a giant rhinoceros skin?

"Can't you use cowhide? Can the silver leather armor made of three-layer cowhide and silver meet the requirements of defending crossbows?" Victor asked helplessly.

"Use more silver. Cowhide armor can meet your requirements, but the weight will exceed refined iron lock armor." Bousso said flatly.

"Forget it, the giant rhinoceros skin will find a way later. You will arrange 10 auxiliary soldiers, 10 subdued cattle militia, 30 monkey militia, 5 war mastiffs and 15 alchemical crows for me to establish a stronghold in the northernmost mountain area of the human horse hill." Victor resolutely gave up the idea of making silver leather armor from cow leather.

"Yes, my Lord." Bousso nodded and asked, "what is their task?"

"Build a mountain people's camp, explore the surrounding resources, hide and wait for my orders." Just after Victor finished, a militia came up and said, "my Lord, the alchemical crow has brought the news of the Warhammer mercenary regiment."

Victor took the letter, read it and said with a smile, "the hammer still has an idea."

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"Crazy! Commander hammer, you must be crazy! We'll all die!"

"Shut up!"

Fat wedge curled up in the simple ditch shivering, the long howl of the jackals and the scream of the goblins broke his heart. Other liberal businessmen were not as good as there. They were as frightened as quails. Those of them who hang out in the town have never seen what monsters look like, but they have also heard of the reputation of jackals for ferocity. When they came into close contact with these man eating monsters, they knew that the jackals were far more terrible than they thought.

Wood, the leader of the mountain people, said carefully, "commander hammer, shall we replace those brothers? They have been guarding for a long time. I'm afraid they will be tired?"

"Can you shoot those goblins and hyenas at night? If you can't, lie down and sleep. Rely on these brothers tonight and us tomorrow morning!" The hammer lay in the ditch without opening his eyelids.

Through the bonfire and moonlight, the wood saw a mercenary shoot an arrow under the slope with a hard bow. A short scream came from the shadow. It was a goblin hiding in the dark and secretly shooting stones. Such terrible shooting made the wood swallow his saliva.

Three days ago, the homeless mountain people became a problem for the Warhammer mercenary regiment. Hammer originally intended to leave them and continue on his way, but Manniu proposed to use these mountain people to establish a supply base for the caravan. Hammer and two old guys decided to adopt Manniu's suggestion after discussion. Because after they asked the old mountain people, they learned that walking east along the mountain forest is the territory of a group of jackals, and there is no mountain village anymore. If the jackals are in the way, they must be completely eliminated. The next caravan cannot have such a strong lineup. Since you want to fight the jackals, take these mountain people with you. On the one hand, you can expand your strength. After you eliminate the jackals, you can also let these mountain people settle here and become the first node of the trade route.

Hammer told the mountain people that if they joined the mercenary regiment, they would fight the jackals and let them choose for themselves. Mountain people are tough and brave. They often deal with jackals, but it is a foolish choice to fight with jackals without fortifications. There was a heated debate among the mountain people. Finally, the old mountain people decided to join the Warhammer mercenary regiment. The reason is very simple. Disagreeing is a dead end. You can either be killed by the Lord's army or fight with the mercenary regiment, and the jackals will come sooner or later.

More than 100 people walked along the periphery of the mountain forest for three days, and finally left the Buryat family's sphere of influence and entered the Jackal's territory. The alchemy crow made it clear that there were about 37 jackals operating in this area. They enslaved a small number of goblins and domesticated more than a dozen hyenas. They were extremely weak.

Although the strength of these jackals is weak, they have a great ability to escape. Once they encounter a strong enemy, they will flee everywhere. Hammer has time to fight guerrillas with them. Their supplies are running out. Now more than 100 people have to eat. The whole team urgently needs to collect resources and replenish food. After discussion, the three War Bear veterans decided to bring the jackals and annihilate them. So they chose a relatively open place to camp and only lit a campfire. That night, the Jackal came.

The tactics of this group of jackals are no different from their peers. They drive goblin slaves to harass the human camp, make the prey unable to rest, and then wait for the opportunity to drag away the weakest target. However, they are doomed to get nothing tonight. Twenty five monkey militia hold hard bows around the camp. The goblin stones have no effect on the hard skin armor, and the dark night can not stop the sensitive perception of the monkey militia. Each arrow can take away the sex life of a goblin. At dawn, Goblin slaves were lost. The Jackal leader gave a long howl. They retreated temporarily and waited for the next night.

The hammer got up from the ditch and asked the night watchman monkey militia, "Jerry, do you want to rest for a while? Let's go in at noon and kill those animals?"

Jerry said, "Captain, we don't need to rest. We can fight at any time."

"Bull, where are those animals now?" The hammer turned to the bull and asked.

The bull looked at the alchemy crow circling in the sky and said, "northeast, in the Woods 2 kilometers away. There are three jackals nearby watching our movements."

"Kill the Jackal scouts and let's wrap them up!"