Due to the limited amount of time that Elle could continue to use magic, and the fact that there were some materials that needed to be prepared in advance, cement production was very slow, often only burning more than one bag of cement a day, but the large broken hole and other cracks in disrepair required a lot of cement, and it was indeed too slow for one person to fire.

The idea of recruiting witches has been churning in Rafa's mind repeatedly, but he is afraid that as soon as he sends out the notice, the entire continent will come to crusade against him, if it becomes that situation, he himself has the practice in his body, and it is not difficult to survive, but what about the rest of the people?

Although it has only been a short time since he came to this world, compared to the original world where the bloody rain is precarious every day, this place can already be regarded as a paradise, so he cherishes every minute of time here, and he wants to maximize the value of his existence, so that he can leave a little trace in the long river of time.

"In the end, our strength is not strong enough, otherwise we can recruit witches unscrupulously. Sitting across from Felihill, Rafa muttered as she looked at Elle, who was still burning in the distance.

"Do you really want to do that?"

Strangely, as soon as he came to Felicille's territory, Felicille would immediately give up what she was working on, and she wouldn't re-enter the lab until he left.

"Of course! He could hear the seriousness of Felicille's words, "It's a pity that if I say it, the Knights who are loyal to me will probably rebel against me." ”

"They won't rebel against you. ”

"How do you know?"

"When the emperor rewarded them, their lives belonged to you, and when you died, they had to be buried with you, so they wished you were alive and well, and would never rebel against you. ”

"I know that, but what if the church brainwashes them so deeply that they want to betray me at all costs?"

"Your Highness, you are too worried," Audair frowned slightly, his master did not believe in the loyalty of the knights, "The loyalty of the knights is higher than the dogma of the church, this is the basis for the royal family to ensure the stability of the royal power, if necessary, the knights can even overthrow the church to defend the royal power, so, please don't question the loyalty of the knights!"

Seeing Audele's somewhat chilled words, Rafa coughed awkwardly, "Ahem, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I've never questioned Audrey's loyalty." ”

"Thank you. Audrey bowed slightly.

"Alas, even if the Knights are completely loyal to me, but with such a small number of people, I am afraid that they will not be able to do much of a great deal. ”

These head-scratching questions are not for Felicille and Audrey to consider, Audrey only needs to protect his safety, and Feliciel will only occasionally help him solve specific problems, so these problems are still up to him to figure out by himself.

"I'm tired!"

While everyone was silent, Elle had finished firing another batch of cement, stumbled to her chair, and drank a glass of juice in one gulp.

"Good work. Rafa handed over a wet wipe, and secretly felt that the firing efficiency of one person was too low, and it seemed that it was necessary to build a number of factories specializing in firing cement, after all, the population will gradually increase in the future, and the construction of houses and bridges is indispensable.

"Don't worry, I'll take my troubles!" said Elle, slurring a piece of cake into her mouth.

"Don't worry, Icefield City is not the focus of the northern barbarian invasion, it's just a hole, it shouldn't be a big problem. Rafa had a vivid memory of the raging wolves, but he didn't think it would happen very often.

Ai Lei swallowed the cake and showed a happy expression, "It turns out that thousands of wolf cavalry are not the main force." ”

Elle's casual remark surprised him, "What? thousands of wolf cavalry?"

"Yes, I escaped from the encirclement of the wolf cavalry, there are many wolf cavalry in the Orr Mountains, and all of them are fierce and vicious, and they will chase after people when they see them, and they are scared to death. She touched her chest, as if she was still haunted by what she had experienced.

"Not good, not good! Very bad! Icefield City is the closest to the Orr Mountains, and if there are a large number of wolf cavalry in it, Icefield City will definitely bear the brunt! I don't know if there is a large army behind these wolf cavalry. Thinking of the scene of the black-pressed orcs screaming and sweeping through Icefield City, Rafa panicked.

He stood up and looked at Elle, "Why didn't you say it earlier?"

"You didn't ask, what did I say?"

"There's no way now, you have to step up the burning of cement, if the wolf cavalry is dispatched at this time, with our manpower, we will definitely not be able to hold on!"

"Got it. ”

"You can go. While Rafa was worried, Felihill silently ordered the eviction.

"What?" he couldn't understand why she would chase him away when it was time to discuss.

"I said you could leave. Felihill also stood up.

Seeing her eyes that were about to crush people again, Rafa had no choice but to leave with Audrey depressed.

Filled with sorrow, he decided to go to the city walls to have a look.

Along the way, he lowered his head and muttered, "No, no... That's not going to work......"

Audrey asked, "What's not to do?"

"Hmm...... Audrey, if you have a giant wolf in front of you like when you were chasing and biting Elle, are you sure you can kill it?"

When she saw the giant wolves standing up as tall as a human before, she also wondered if she could beat them, "One is fine, but two are not." ”

"This ......" The two walked up to the city, and the huge footprints left by the giant wolves before were still clearly visible, "Even you who have learned the martial arts of the Light Shield Family can only kill one giant wolf, and the ordinary knight will definitely not be able to deal with even one." ”

"That's right. Audrey replied truthfully, and although she believed that the honor of knights was not to be discredited, she should not be blindly arrogant.

"Remember the giant wolf that was killed by an arrow earlier?"

"Remember, you only need one arrow to kill a giant wolf. ”

"What about the others?"

Audrey didn't know why he asked knowingly, "As you've seen, the rest of the knights often need to shoot seven or eight arrows at a giant wolf to completely incapacitate them. ”

Rafa looked into the distance, the wolf he had shot at the distance had been carried back by the knights, but the broken arrow was still stuck in the ground, and that was the farthest distance he could shoot.

"It's time for something to change the laws of war, not only against the barbarians of the north, but also against the enemy from the south. ”

"What is that that changes the laws of war?" asked Audair, confused.

Rafa was silent, searching for Ding Yifan's memory.

According to Ding Yifan's memory, firearms are the most common weapons after the era of cold weapons, this is a similar thing to the principle of bows and arrows, which can launch something called "bullet", thus causing great damage, this thing not only has a very long range, but also does not need to be effortless, and can often be fired at a long distance, to ensure their own safety to the greatest extent.

I'm afraid no one would have thought of this kind of thing until Rafa thought of this idea, after all, this is a world where there are no fireworks, a world that can't even control flames, and it can't move forward.

However, although the production of firearms is not complicated, the complexity of bullets is several times higher than that of firearms themselves, and the most important thing in bullets is gunpowder, gunpowder is the key to the transition from cold weapons to modern weapons.

Rafa remembered that he had given Felihill the formula for gunpowder, but after all this time, she didn't seem to talk about it at all, could it be that the experiment had failed?

"Fili, the future of Icefield City is up to you. ”

With a silent sigh, he took Audair back to the City Lord's Mansion, summoned Sipheus, and began to prepare for the start of the cement factory.

"Sipheus, if I remember correctly, there are many coal mines on Mount Augin, west of Icefield City, right?" Rafa asked Sipheus, looking down and drawing something on paper with a quill pen.

"Your Highness, you remember well, there are huge amounts of iron ore and coal mines at different depths on Aojin Mountain, but now that Icefield City has fallen, almost no one has mined it, is it... Your Highness, are you interested in these deposits?"

"Of course it's interesting! This is obviously a lot of money, do you want me to look at it for nothing?"

"Uh... It's just that we have more than 100 blacksmiths in Icefield City, except for the more than 100 blacksmiths who have shops, there are no idle people, and if you want to mine, you really can't have enough people. ”

"Everything will wait for the caravan to come back, and now I have more important things for you to do. ”

"Your Highness, please. Siphus bowed slightly, it was the glory of being a slave to be entrusted by his master.

Rafa handed the drawings to Sipheus, "This is what I want to build newly, there are twenty in all, what is the use of it I have written very clearly on it, I also wrote how to prepare the materials, as for the workers, aren't those blacksmiths just fine? Two silver coins a day, let them also get a piece of the pie, tell them that if they are made, each of them will be rewarded with a gold coin!"

"Ah, two silver coins a day, and one gold coin after making, will this be too much?" Sieverus knew that the money in the vault was quite full now, but it was spent like this according to Rafa, and I am afraid that it would not last long.

"It's okay, it's a time of crisis, we need more building materials, the more people the better, and even some farmers who have taken care of the greenhouses can be gathered and hired for a silver coin, in short, the sooner the better!"

Seapheus frowned and looked at the scroll in his hand, "Uh... Your Highness, although I would never question the material you wrote on this that can solidify overnight, is it really necessary to rush these things?"

"Of course it is necessary, I have received news that there are a large number of wolf cavalry activities in the Orr Mountains, if they come out of the Orr Mountains, our Icefield City will suffer first, and we will not build more strong walls and houses, and the devil knows how long we can hold out. ”

"I see!" Sieverus was also startled, he was a person who had seen the group of giant wolves a few days ago, and he shuddered a little when he imagined more wolf cavalry rushing towards him, "Obey Your Highness, I'll do it!"

"Remember, you must build exactly as I have written and drawn above. ”

"Understood!"

Watching Seapheus stride out of the council chamber, he breathed a sigh of relief, now apart from Audrey, Seapheus is the only person he can entrust, although he can do it himself, but he can't do everything himself, and Sieverus is often better at recruiting people than him.

When Seapheus was gone, he began to draw a piece of paper again.

"Your Highness, what are you drawing?"

Audrey stood behind him, skeptical, she had seen Rafa draw many sketches, but she could understand them more or less, but she couldn't understand the one in front of her.

All sorts of odd shapes were drawn in different parts of the drawing, some resembling cylinders, others resembling tiny candies, all of which he couldn't read at all.

"You'll know in the future. With a perfunctory remark, he continued to think about the strokes in his hand.

Combined with the current industrial level of Icefield City, which can't even make springs, he chose to make a batch of bolt-action rifles first, although these rifles need to be manually reloaded, but compared with bows and arrows, the power and range are greater, and the accuracy is higher, and the most important thing is that ordinary people can also use it, unlike the iron bows used by knights, few ordinary people can pull them apart.

It wasn't until he had finished drawing that he remembered an important question.

"Oh no, the blacksmiths have been recruited to make a cement factory, and Elle has to burn cement, who is going to get this thing from me?" scratched his head, he knew there were no more hands left.

He also thought about whether to hire two blacksmiths to do it first, but then he dismissed this idea, because the manufacture of steel parts is not a simple matter, and requires a very careful and close division of labor, otherwise the things made will become incompatible with the ambiguity drawn on the drawings, so this matter needs to be carefully considered.

Before he knew it, night was approaching, and the thought of the many wolf cavalry in the mountains made Rafa haunted the vacant wall, for fear that the wolf cavalry would break through the knights' defenses and come to the city to wreak havoc.

"Alas, no matter what kind of wolf cavalry he is, life still has to be lived. ”

He stood up and stretched, grabbed the drawings and looked at them again, he thought that it was completely impossible to defend Icefield City with the strength of the Knights alone, and the appearance of guns was the key to making Icefield City stand up.

While he was thinking, a familiar voice sounded outside the door, "Your Highness, hello!"

Rafa looked up and saw a maid with thick lenses on her eyes.

"Lilith, looks like you can see the way now. He walked over to Lilith and stared at her lenses, "It seems that Felicille is far more intelligent than I thought. ”

"Thanks to your idea, Your Highness, I'll finally be able to see things clearly!" said Lilith, laughing happily.

"What did Filith send you for?" he knew that Lilith was one of Felihill's valets, and that there must be something wrong when he came to him now.

"Madame said, the firing of the cement is complete, and you can start repairing the city walls!"

"Really?" Rafa was taken aback, she didn't expect Elle's entry to be so fast, didn't she have a day off?

The three of them hurried to Felihill's territory, but unexpectedly, he didn't see Feliciel's figure, it stands to reason that she should appear, and at this time, only Elle was eating cake on the side of the venue, and in the middle of the field was full of wooden barrels, which were filled with fine powder, which was cement!

"Elle, I'm going to reward you for a big meal!" Kneading the powder for a while, he found that the cement in his hand was even more delicate and of better quality than yesterday's fire.

"Great!" said Elle with joy.

"Where's Firi? why isn't she?" he asked, after a moment of delight, toward Elle.

"Sister Fili is going to rest. ”

"Rest?" In his impression, Felihill had always been full of energy, and he didn't expect to meet her when she was resting.

"Forget it, it's not early today, and it's not too late to start work tomorrow. ”

With a happy mood, he prepared a sumptuous dinner for Elle in the City Lord's Mansion, which made her really happy.