Chapter Forty-Eight: The Wolves Are Coming
The next morning, Bai Ruyu didn't go online again, and Sleepy Dragon City was only fifty miles away from Beilongguan, so Lao Jiu took her directly to Beilongguan, and she only walked for more than an hour on the way.
Lao Jiu simply divided the work for them, Baili was mainly in charge of funds and materials, while Bai Ruyu was in charge of the overall operation and planning, and Long Sifeng had specially found someone to make a simple plan these days, as well as the construction drawings of the residents. Fortunately, simple house building NPCs are all good, if it's more complicated, then you need a professional.
After settling the two of them, Lao Jiu went out of Beilong Pass, and he was going to go to various fortresses to personally supervise the work, which must ensure the safety of the city in the future. As for Bai Ruyu, she could only bother with Baili Piaoxue to go offline in person. Lao Jiu was forced to leave so that they would not be embarrassed to meet each other.
Lao Jiu first went to Heifengkou, he could bring modern military fortress construction drawings, as well as the construction references of various ancient fortresses, and finally added his hypothesis, he wanted to build each pass unbreakable, first of all, the two places of Heifengkou and Qiankun Gate.
"General Tu, I am going to build the pass of the Black Wind Outlet according to the highest specifications, here are some of the construction drawings I have collected, you can refer to it first." As soon as he arrived at Heifengkou, Lao Jiu hurriedly called a meeting of the bear slaughter at the temporary station.
"Hou Ye, these ideas Tu really didn't dare to think before, so our workload may be more than doubled, and the construction period may be extended, the investment may also be doubled, and at the same time, my people don't know if they can complete it." Tu Xiong looked at Lao Jiu's drawings, and his eyes couldn't help but glow.
"None of this is a thing, the main purpose of our construction of the pass is to ensure the safety of our loved ones, and we can make more money when the money is gone, if it is because of our inaction, which leads to the final death of our loved ones, that is our biggest mistake." Lao Jiu looked at the bear slaughter and said with a righteous attitude, "You bring me the map of the Black Wind Outlet field trip, and we will study and study it together." ”
"Hou Ye is really a righteous man, Tu admires it." Slaughtering Bear gave Lao Jiu a salute, and then asked someone to take a map, and Lao Jiu knew that it was newly made as soon as he saw the color.
"The narrowest part of the Black Wind Outlet is a thousand meters here, and the construction starts from here, first build a city wall, the city gate is only five meters left, the height should reach 100 meters, and the thickness of the city wall is fifty meters, hollow. The design is according to the drawings I gave you, and the periphery is concave. The attack port is set inside, the design is layered, and there must be a jack stone. Seal the door when necessary. I'm going to build an absolute defense. Lao Jiu pointed to the map and said, "After the first absolute line of defense is built, expand the defensive fortress outward, and then set up a map." ”
"Master Hou, if this is according to your design, I estimate that the gold coins invested in each fortress will be more than one million." Tu Xiong listened to Lao Jiu's design plan, and his hands were shaking a little while holding the drawings.
"It's okay, safety first. I'll figure it out for gold. Lao Jiu gave the bear a reassuring look.
After discussing the construction of the Black Wind Outlet with Tu Xiong, Lao Jiu went to Qiankun Gate to find Tie Zihao, and then there was the East and West Gorge Pass, and Lao Jiu of these four fortresses must be firmly established.
According to the current amount of work, Lao Jiu still lacks a lot of technical talents, no way, his bunk is too big, and there are naturally more gaps to be filled. In desperation, Lao Jiu had no choice but to enter the customs again.
This time, Lao Jiu is mainly recruiting blacksmiths, carpenters and architects, as long as there are NPCs with this ability, Lao Jiu is as many as he wants. This time, he paid a lot of money and directly posted notices in the major cities to recruit people, as long as he had the ability, he would have a maximum of 20-30 gold coins per month. This is directly sky-high.
Recruiting people is the most basic, and then there is the purchase of various ores, especially iron ore, which is a lot of consumables. In order to supply steel, Lao Jiu asked people to build an ore refining factory under the Dragon Cutting Mountain Range, and all the employees were NPC old men in the game, and Lao Jiu spent more than 500,000 gold coins in a few days, which made Lao Jiuzhi sigh that the gold coins were not enough.
What makes Lao Jiu dare to comfort is that the civilian houses in the game can build 10,000 sets a day, all of which are courtyard houses and eight small western-style buildings. Maybe it's because these are the easiest, and they can be built with just stone and wood.
During this period, Lao Jiu made a plan specifically for opening mountains and logging trees, mainly focusing on the Centennial Mountain Range and the Cutting Dragon Mountain Range, so that the dug mountains would be a natural barrier, and people could not go up, and wild beasts could not come down, so that the city wall was omitted.
According to Lao Jiu's plan, in addition to the Hundred Years Old Mountain Range and the Dragon Slaying Mountain Range, the Evil Wolf Mountain, the Barbarian Ridge and the Tiger Lion Ridge were all dug according to the standards of the city wall. After Wang Dazhi completed the removal task, his main task was to lead an army of 50,000 to open the mountain and dig stones. All the stones that were broken from the mountain were piled together, and then it was all up to Lao Jiu to transport them to the nearest fortress alone, there was no way, who let Lao Jiu have a space ring. And it can save labor and money.
Lao Jiu now truly understands that not everything is easy to do with money. He was now like a donkey all day long, going wherever he needed to, and running day and night.
"What's going on!" When Lao Jiu sent a batch of stones to Qiankun Gate again, he found that a large number of disabled soldiers were carried back from outside Qiankun Gate, so Lao Jiu questioned him in person.
"Report! A large number of demon wolves are attacking outside the Qiankun Gate, and General Tie is leading the army to block it. Immediately a soldier reported.
"How many?" Lao Jiu had a bad premonition, now that it was just dark, the moon was in the middle of the sky, and the night of the full moon was the best time for the wolves to act aggressively.
"The exact number is unknown, but with my five years of experience at the border, there are at least more than 50,000." The voices of the soldiers who replied were a little trembling.
"What? You immediately pass on my command, let Marshal Ma send troops to support, and let the other passes strengthen the defense. Lao Jiuyi was shocked when he heard this, and after leaving a sentence, he quickly ran towards the Qiankun door.
Lao Jiu had never really fought against the beasts, but he had heard from Ma Jun that there were many types of demon wolves, among which the weakest gray wolves were equivalent to an elite soldier, and the wolves were one of the most difficult beast groups to deal with, they had a strict hierarchy and absolute command. Generally, thousands of demon wolves need tens of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress, let alone more than 50,000.
On the way, Lao Jiu directly changed into his Chilian night clothes, and then took out the ebony black dragon spear. At this time, there was already a shout of killing outside the Qiankun Gate, and when Lao Jiu felt the battlefield, the shocking severed limbs and stumps made Lao Jiu's eyes crack. These are all his family backgrounds.
"Kill!" Lao Jiu roared and rushed directly into the demon wolf pack, and the eyes were gray giant wolves, each the size of a calf, and their eyes were glowing green. Due to the number of too many, the speed of many demon wolves can't be used, so Lao Jiu's lethality is still very large, he only attacks but can't defend, every shot is a headshot, and these gray demon wolves can't take a single move under Lao Jiu.
"Bump!"
Seeing that a soldier was about to die in the wolf's mouth, Lao Jiu directly pounced and knocked the person away, and then returned the horse pistol with a move, and gave him a pair directly from the mouth of the demon wolf. Then Lao Jiu swept through the thousands of troops with one move, and swept all the demon wolves within three feet with the corpse of the demon wolf.
"All the soldiers follow me to kill him, three in and three out!" Lao Jiu roared, and the first person killed the place where the wolves were dense, and under his encouragement, everyone's morale soared, and they followed him forward to kill.
"Where is the Iron General!" Lao Jiuyi took the lead and roared with a long roar.
"Ben will be here!" A deep voice came from afar, and Lao Jiuyi saw that a group of people were being besieged by demon wolves thousands of kilometers away.
"Everyone stay in formation, follow me to kill and make peace with General Tie!" Lao Jiu roared, and with the hundreds of people he organized, he went to kill where Tie Zihao was.
The people who rushed to the front were the lowest-level gray wolves, and soon Lao Jiu's team was reduced to thousands, and then he led thousands of people to kill Tie Zihao.
"Thank you Lord Hou for the rescue!" Killed the encircled Tie Zihao, and said gratefully to Lao Jiu.
"Immediately organize people to return to the defense, do not rush forward and break out of the defense line, and those who violate the order will be killed!" Lao Jiu yelled and asked Tie Zihao to organize a retreat, and then organize a defense in a favorable terrain. And he went straight to the front to kill.
"Master Hou! …… Master Hou! ...... "Seeing Lao Jiu rushing forward alone, everyone else yelled, especially those who were saved by him along the way.
"I'll distract the wolf king first, Tie Zihao, while organizing the soldiers to return to defense, try to rescue those brothers who are besieged. Your fault will be counted when the labor and management come back! Only Lao Jiu's angry roar could be heard in the distance.
Yes, such a big damage to the army this time is indeed directly related to Tie Zihao, first of all, he has no experience in fighting the demon wolf pack at all, and he doesn't understand the horror of the demon wolf pack at all. Secondly, in order to be able to have a good performance in front of other generals, he ignored the persuasion of the original Beilongguan soldiers and directly took the initiative to attack, causing irreparable damage. In the end, he didn't report the military situation as soon as possible, and wanted to save it alone, which delayed the military situation, resulting in the death of many soldiers in battle!
Therefore, Lao Jiu was very angry in his heart, and he couldn't wait to correct him on the spot, but now is not the time to settle accounts, and stabilizing the army's heart is the first thing.
"Retreat back to defense! Gather the team! Tie Zihao looked at Lao Jiu's back, his eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth and gave orders in pain. He also knew that he had made a fatal mistake because of his eagerness for quick success, which led to a large number of soldiers killed, but now was not the time for him to plead guilty.
All the soldiers, looking at the back of the wolf pack who rushed alone, were silent, they could only clench the weapons in their hands, and then gritted their teeth and vented their resentment on those demon wolves.