Bruce stood on the rampart and looked in the direction of Jeffrey's territory, where he could see two wooden watchtowers being erected in the woods and the river flowing slowly across the border, and some serfs were busy under the watchtowers.

"What a blatant blatant!" Bruce looked at Jeffrey, who was recklessly building camp, and he couldn't help but sneer.

"Lord Baron, I have sent cavalry according to your order, and issued a summoning order to the vassals with your banner." Stukov walked up to the wall and said to Bruce, who was standing on the wall and looking out.

"Very well, let's see who is loyal?" Bruce said to Stukov with a meaningful smile on his face.

"Are you trying to test your loyal vassals?" Stukov seemed to understand Bruce's intentions at this time, and when Bruce asked for an immediate summoning of vassals, the retainers felt that it was too early, after all, the other party had not made any provocative moves, but Bruce overrode the public opinion and sent cavalry to issue a summoning order.

Bruce did not explain to Stukov that he didn't think that Jeffrey's army would be able to break through his walls, but by mobilizing his vassals in this way, he was testing the loyalty of his vassals.

"However, if Jeffrey starts to provoke us, how should we respond, in the field, we will not have enough troops to defend the city, but then the various village facilities you have built will be abandoned." Stukov said with some regret.

In the event of a war, if you want to defend the walls, you can only gather all the people in the village into the walls, but then you can only let the enemy drive in, destruction is inevitable, and according to the usual style of Geoffrey the Kin-loving, the village will definitely be burned to the ground.

"I already have a countermeasure, hehe, compare the construction speed with me, it's really the wrong person." Bruce sneered, of course he wouldn't give up the facilities he had built with great difficulty, didn't Jeffrey want to build a camp on his own border? Alright, let's start a friendly game of building!

Soon, Stukov understood what Bruce meant, and the farmers of Greenton had joined the cement project, except for a few who cultivated the land, and almost all of the ash that Stukov had just brought back from Death Island was put to use.

"Cover your mouth and nose with coarse linen, otherwise it's not good for your lungs." Bruce, with a piece of coarse linen on his face, instructed the serfs who were stirring ash, clay, and sand in the clearing, and behind Bruce Anne carried the basket and distributed the cut coarse linen from the basket to the serfs.

"Lord Baron, this is a waste." Elder Warren hobbled behind Bruce, and he said to Bruce in distress.

Linen is a very practical cloth, even coarse linen is not always available to everyone, but Bruce did not pity cutting the coarse linen curtains in the lord's house and distributing them to the serfs as masks.

"Don't hide your mask, it has to be used at work." Bruce saw that some serfs were reluctant to use coarse linen masks, and even wanted to hide the house, so he immediately stopped and said, although coarse linen is also a very important material, but Bruce believes that talent is the most important.

Seeing that the lord who cared so much about him, the serfs also came up with enthusiasm, shouting and quickly stirring the primitive cement mixture, while the serfs in the other group began to dig the foundations and build the planks along the village road.

"Is it the way the walls are built again?" Eve looked at this familiar way of operation and said to Bruce helplessly.

"No, it's not a city wall, it's a concrete tower." Bruce smiled and explained to Eve.

Bruce explained his defensive strategy to his retainers by pouring concrete towers with plates, setting up towers throughout the village, and defending them with crossbowmen, so that when Jeffrey's soldiers attacked, the crossbowmen could shoot from the towers, making it impossible for Jeffrey's soldiers to gain a foothold in the village of Glinton.

"Wouldn't that be a bit of a waste?" Edward asked with some curiosity, after all, the tower that had been built with so much volcanic ash and manpower might be useless once the war ended.

"No, when the war is over, we will connect the towers with walls, so that the outer walls of the castle will form the outer walls of the castle and strengthen the defense of the territory." Bruce pointed to the figures drawn on the ground with tree branches, and he had already thought about how to use the location of the towers when he was first building them.

While Bruce was gearing up for battle, his cavalry had arrived at the fiefdoms of the Locke family's vassals for generations with banners, and the curious people looked at the cavalrymen who raised the banners.

"Hey, are you a soldier of the Locke family? What happened and why did you gallop on our land with a flag? A nobleman in the mining asked curiously.

"I am the emissary of Lord Baron Bruce, whose realm is threatened by foreign enemies, and he has ordered me to bring a banner to gather the vassals who have sworn allegiance to him." The cavalryman with the banner said loudly.

"There's a war?" The nobleman in the mining area said in surprise.

The cavalry rushed all the way to the manor in the mining with the banner, and he wanted to bring the order to the knight in the estate, and when the cavalry appeared in the manor, the knight's servants were surprised, but they hurriedly reported the news to their master.

"What, summoning order?" Sir was lying on his bed, and beside him was a young wife of a serf, and he was surprised to hear what the servant had said.

When Sir Shi Shiran walked out of the room and lazily came to the open space of the manor, there were already some curious young nobles gathered there, and they looked at the cavalry with flags.

"Hey, you're saying Baron Bruce asked us to be called in to fight for him?" A young nobleman touched his chin, looked at the poorly dressed cavalryman, and asked him.

"That's right, Lord Baron needs your master's hand." Poorly dressed, the cavalryman straightened his back and replied to the nobles.

"What else did the baron say? Or what does it bring us? The young nobleman asked with a malicious smile.

"I only brought orders from the Baron, and nothing else." The cavalry replied in a sonorous voice.