"Mevo!" Higg shouted, "Bring those boxes up!" ”

"Yes, Marshal!" Maevo commanded the guards to carry up dozens of boxes and place them beside Higg.

Higg looked at the box with a smile on his face, and then looked up at the crowd, most of them bowed their heads and said nothing, sweat on their foreheads, some of them were trembling with their hands and feet, and some of them deliberately hid in the crowd, not daring to let Higg see them.

"Ben Shuai said that today is not here to deal with the case!" Higg's eyes swept over everyone and said, "But you know in your own hearts what you have done, Ben Shuai will not find someone to read it one by one, so as not to make everyone feel bad, but this kind of thing is a headache, if it is not handled well, I am afraid it will be a mess, which is not conducive to the military control of Ben Shuai in the Giscol Fortress, you all give an opinion, how to deal with these headaches!" ”

Everyone was in a panic, no one spoke, with Douglas as a precedent, no one dared to make a bird, and even the sound of a needle falling on the ground could be heard clearly in the hall.

"Ben Shuai didn't mean to threaten everyone with these things!" Higg said, "Since everyone has no other good opinions, Ben Shuai will give everyone an idea!" You people may have hatred for each other, or you may be in the same boat, but Ben Shuai doesn't care! In fact, some cases are not big, maybe many people have wanted to deal with them a long time ago, but they can't think about it for the sake of face, so they haven't dealt with it in time! The mood of the fight is very understandable, after going out from here today, your grievances will be settled by yourself, once rampant in the township, pay money to eliminate disasters, have a murder case, provide for other people's parents, wives and children, and come to the door to make amends, occupy people's land, return the goods in full, and give a certain amount of compensation...... In short, you have to wash your butts yourself. The military will work with local officials to formulate relevant compensation standards and send people to supervise your implementation, up to one month, and if there is anything that has not been dealt with clearly after a month, hehe, then don't blame Ben Shuai for killing some people! ”

Seeing that everyone bowed their heads and was silent, Hig raised his voice and said loudly: "Mevo, pull out these dozens of boxes of things, and burn them all!" ”

"What?"

"All burned?"

"What does that mean?"

……

The guards were carrying boxes and boxes out, and the figures below exploded, unable to believe their ears.

"Lord Earl, by all means!" A local official stepped forward and said, "These things are the hard work of all local officials for decades, if we don't have these things, what will we do with these people in the future, and how will we manage one side?" ”

"That's how you run a side?" Higg stared at the official.

"I'm also thinking about the Earl!" The official continued, "These things are absolutely useful in the hands of adults for their military control, and they ......."

"Shut up!" Higg said angrily, "You have sorted out these materials, but many cases have not been handled for many years, just for your own convenience to manipulate others, so that others can obey the orders of the government? And what more benefits can you get from it? ”

The official fell to his knees, his face flushed and afraid to speak.

Higg said angrily: "Now that the Giskol fortress is in danger, this commander needs all the soldiers and civilians to unite and defend against foreign enemies!" Ben Shuai hopes that the politics around the fortress will be clear, so that everyone can share the same hatred and defend their homeland! If there is still intrigue and intrigue, resulting in the loss of popular support, the inability to improve the efficiency of the battle, and the opportunity for the enemy to take advantage of the detailed work, create chaos in the rear, and even lead to the loss of the fortress, can your local government assume this responsibility? If, as you said, without these people, everyone dares to do whatever they want and does not listen to control, then if Ben Shuai wants to kill someone, do you still need to have some evidence? Now that the local government has created such a situation, your government has a great responsibility, and these commanders have said that they will no longer be investigated! ”

"Yes, lowly and dull, taught!" The official reluctantly retreated.

……

In the open space outside the council hall, the guards were spraying fire oil on dozens of boxes piled up, and everyone was arranged to wait and see in the open space.

Mevo lit the torch and threw it at the box in the clearing, and immediately the fire spread, and the smoke billowed out, even alarming the fortress several kilometers away, and raising the alarm of an enemy attack.

The firelight was reflected on everyone's face, and everyone had different expressions, some sighed, some shook their heads, some were sad, and more people were relieved and smiling......

The fire burned for nearly an hour, and no one spoke, and each thought about it, until everyone was invited back to the hall by Mavaux.

……

"The task has been assigned to you, and the things that most of you are worried about have been solved for you!" After watching the people with different faces return to the hall and sit down, Higg began to say, "Ben Shuai knows that there are many drawbacks in doing this, but he is in a hurry, and Ben Shuai has no choice but to do it, I believe you will also understand Ben Shuai's good intentions." Ben Shuai needs to reaffirm a point, now that the cards have been reshuffled, everyone is a blank slate, if there are still those dirty things in those dozens of boxes in the future, Ben Shuai will strictly implement the principle of re-enactment in troubled times, and will not be tolerated! Take care of the head on your neck, take care! ”

……

"Warlord!"

"Tyrannical!"

This is what Altai and Noah say about Higg.

"What, you also expanded the amount on the bill of materials by five times and went to extort it?" Altai said incredulously, "When the time comes, they won't be able to raise it, and you really want to carry out the military order?" ”

"When did I increase my bill of materials fivefold?" Higg laughed, "Mavau, did you really do that?" ”

"Marshal!" Maevo said, "The lowly arithmetic is not good, maybe it was written incorrectly, or should I chase it back and fill it in again?" ”

"Let you study hard and learn from the Altai master with an open mind, you just won't listen!" Higg said, "If you want to come back, you don't have to take it as an example, otherwise the commander will be severely punished!" ”

"Can you really get that much material?" Altai continued to ask Higg incredulously.

Higg laughed: "Tyranny? I'm paying to make a deal with them! Old man, you are a good person, you can't do this kind of thing, you need a reliant person like me to do it! ”

"Deal? That's also a forced buy and a strong sell! Altai said.

Higg said, "Alasia is deep in the vortex of civil war, you can't do everything according to the rules, unconventional means are direct and effective, don't worry, I will minimize the impact!" Master, never underestimate the power of the people, the materials will only be more, not less, just send someone to collect it! It's just that I'm impatient when your sample will be made. ”

"Go, go, how can it be so fast?" Altai pushed Hig and Mevo out, and said, "Where you laymen can comprehend the subtlety of this, only the master can understand...... Well, of course, the master's apprenticeship is also understandable! ”

……

Early in the morning of the third day after the squire meeting, the squires, celebrities, merchants, and magistrates transported the materials needed for the list to the military workshop where Altai was located, where they were registered by special personnel.

The squires wailed, but no one dared not send the goods. The warehouse keepers who are busy registering and making the books are busy. It can be seen that some of the wood is really obtained by dismantling the coffin board and the beams of the house. But when these squires were able to receive half of the payment and an IOU, they were indeed greatly surprised, and the dignified Earl Marshal did not break his promise, and they all became the creditors of the Earl. As a result, everyone came with sad faces, and left happily, completely forgetting that the beam in the main hall of the house had been forcibly taken away.

At noon, the five hundred artisan dwarves who had arrived by boat also entered the camp of the Giskol fortress and began to get busy.

At the same time, Blue Fairy also returned to the Giskol Fortress tiredly, and brought back a few finished deer tendons for making bowstrings, and Altai was very satisfied after the inspection!

"Lei Xian and I brought six samples, and there are still a thousand on the way, and the leader of the Siscori team is responsible for escorting them!" Lan Xian'er said.

"A thousand bowstrings?" Higg was surprised, "Worse than me!" Women are really vicious! ”

"What do you mean?" Blue Fairy feigned anger and kicked Higg.

"Old man, when will your sample be pulled out to test its power?" Higg quickly dodged and changed the subject, and said to Altai.

"An hour!" Altai had no intention of arguing with each other, and said excitedly, "It's almost time to install the strings, I'll install it immediately!" ”

……

At the training ground of the Giskol Fortress, two ballistae about the size of a double bed were quickly assembled. The experiments of this fellow, known as the Ballista, were carried out in extreme secrecy, except for the production staff and operators, the only people who could observe the scene were Higg, Blue Fairy, and Shante, and the area around the training ground was strictly guarded by the guards led by Maevo, so it can be said that it is impossible for even the birds to approach this test site.

There are two kinds of repeater vehicles, one is the launcher* repeater, which is designed to fire six to eight rounds per minute*, with a range of 100 meters to 120 meters, and an accuracy requirement of a target with a diameter of one meter outside 100 meters; A kind of repeater car for firing special arrows, the design requirements are 30 arrows per minute, the range is 180 meters to 200 meters, and the shooting accuracy of 150 meters is also a target with a diameter of one meter.

Everyone is full of hope and a little worried, after all, the current ballista launch* is about one to two rounds per minute, and a large number of logistics personnel are also needed, and no one has even thought about the ballista that fires arrows, and the most important thing is that the range of arrows can reach two hundred meters, which was unimaginable before. It is conceivable that this superweapon will have a subversive impact on the battlefield, not only to determine the survival of the Giskol fortress, but also to affect the course of the entire Alasia Civil War, and even become a key factor in the outcome of the war.

Everyone understands the disastrous consequences of such a weapon if it falls first into the hands of the enemy. If you use it first, what kind of results will it bring, even if the opponent can follow suit, but if you want to get the core technology, it will be at least a year or two later. If this weapon can really show its might, it can be expected that Arad's strategic intention to occupy the Roga River Plain may have to be stranded for at least a year or two.