Between the Arctic Mountains and the town of Cabins, there was an open plain, and there was no obstacle to stop the advance of the beast tide, and the only thing Rand could rely on was this wall, the ballista that had not yet been developed, and the three hundred warriors under his command.

Compared to the tide of thousands of beasts, the soldiers of the three hundred human races are like a small boat in the sea, and if they are not careful, they will be drowned in the sea.

Craftsmen are smelting steel and making arrows day and night, and the smelting furnaces in the territory have hardly stopped fire, but fortunately, the food in the territory is still rich, and the impact of the beast tide will not be a one-off, and the cold winter will take at least four months, and in these four months, the cabin town will receive at least dozens of animal tide impacts.

"In the past, in order to fight against the beast tide, we have thought of many ways, using traps or bows and arrows, but unfortunately due to the influence of the Dark Church, the intelligence of the beasts seems to have improved a lot, they can distinguish between traps and cages, and our bows have a limited effective range, they cannot fight at long range, and when the beasts are near, they will climb the city wall, we can only use spears against them, the effect is very miserable, we are not the opponent of the beasts in hand-to-hand combat, in terms of strength and speed. Payne walked with Rand on the city walls, looking at the mottled bricks on the walls and the old traces of war claws, and sighed and said, "There are too many of them." ”

"My lord, is the weapon you mentioned really able to help us defend the town? Payne said worriedly.

Payne is the leader of the Knights, and his position is not low, and even he asks such a question, it seems that the residents and soldiers in the empty ferry territory have little confidence in Rand's plan.

"Payne, only by standing here, overlooking the whole city, can I truly realize that I am the master of this land, I have my own rights, and I also shoulder heavy responsibilities and obligations, I will protect these people who serve me as my lord under the impact of the beast tide!" Rand put his hands on the city wall, looked at the far north, and said firmly: "Payne, we will definitely win. ”

Payne looked at Rand in front of him, and suddenly felt that the former gentleman who had achieved nothing and did not learn and did not know how to do it had completely disappeared, and was replaced by a veritable lord worthy of trust and confidence!

"Tell the workshop and the territory warehouse to transport all the tar and coal to the wooden house, soak the horse-rejecting stakes with tar, and set fire to them as soon as the defense of the rejecting stakes is breached!" Rant, loosening the tight neckline of his hair, said, "I want to leave an indelible memory for these brutes!"

"Lord Lord, tar is expensive, if you run out of it in battle, then the next year will ......"

"If we can't keep Cabin Town, where will we have the next year?" Rand interrupted Payne, waving his hand, "Do as I say." ”

......

The Serra River is a water of life, its source is the Rabo Sea in the south, from the south downstream, through three countries, and the merchants took a fancy to this, so they took the family merchant ship down the Serra River, brought the spice and pearl dealers from the south to the north to sell, and bought fur timber from the north to bring back to their own country for profit.

Over the years, the waterway had become an extremely important shipping lifeline, and a single middle-sized family could make millions or even millions of silver coins a year on the wealth of the waterway.

This is an extremely terrifying number, if you just form a thousand-person cavalry regiment, not counting the later maintenance and rectification, this money is definitely more than enough.

Ranirus, the heir to a Peruvian family, was ordered to transport a shipment of jewels to the Iron City in the north to sell, and his merchant ships were not only cargo and sailors, but also dozens of heavily armed soldiers, who were also at risk in operating on the waterways, and the murderous pirates kept an eye on the precious cargo of the merchant ships at all times.

These dozens of soldiers are the elite of the family, they are all battle-hardened, they have repelled and routed dozens of pirate attacks, and with them, Lennyrus has no worries about cargo problems.

It was just after noon, and Ranilus was napping in the cabin, when suddenly there was a sound of hurried footsteps, and the speed of the ship slowed down until it gradually stopped, and the burly helmsman opened the door of the cabin, and reported with a somewhat ugly face: "My lord, we are in trouble, you better come out and take a look." ”

Ranilus chuckled in his heart, he opened the window and looked out, the terrain on the shore was familiar to him, if I remember correctly, this was a shallow beach, right?

I've never heard of pirates here.

"What's going on?" asked Lanilus, not panicking, but calmly stepped out of the cabin and turned to the helmsman.

The terrain of the shallow shoal is relatively special, there is more sediment on the riverbed, the water flow is slow and the distance between the two banks is short, like a gourd mouth, but the terrain is open, and the pirates have nowhere to hide, so in the past, there have never been accidents here, what is going on today?

Ranilus, with his usual face, followed the helmsman up to the deck, and looked intently ahead, surprised by what he saw.

At the mouth of the gourd, a simple steel cable stretched across both sides of the Serra River, and more than twenty uniformed soldiers controlled five catapults, one of which looked like a big man pointing in this direction.

"My lord, we can't tell if they have the intention to attack or not, we can't avoid the range of the catapult if we continue to move forward, and if they want to attack us, we won't have time to resist. The helmsman made a rough calculation of the distance between the width of the ship and the trebuchet, and reluctantly made this judgment.

Trebuchet?Ranilus frowned, it is obviously not an ordinary small force that can possess this kind of large-scale siege equipment, is it an offense to people? Impossible, as a businessman, Ranilus always remembers the survival rules of merchants, he is very tactful, and he doesn't remember what big forces he once sinned, what is going on?

The soldiers on the shore were Rand's men, and they obeyed Rand's orders and made a chain across the river overnight, which would sink to the bottom of the river when there were no ships, and when a merchant ship passed by, they would pull the iron cable to seal the waterway and fill the trebuchet to prevent the merchant ships from attacking.