A day later, Payne sent all the ordnance and equipment in the airferry territory and the sheriff's personnel dispatch statistics to Rand's palace, Payne always felt that Rand's state in the past two days was a little wrong, as if he was a little too diligent, as if he had changed a person, but this change was what Payne was very happy to see.

Who doesn't want their lord to be a hard worker?

Rand flipped through a few pages of the information, and saw something that was not normal, most of the ordnance and sheriffs in the Empty Ferry Territory had been transferred to Cabin Town, and the strength of one town alone exceeded half of all the troops in the entire Empty Ferry Territory.

The town of wooden houses is only a village with a population of only 2,000 people, how can it use 300 soldiers to defend it? Could it be that the local people have reached such a strong level?

"What's going on in Cabintown?" Rand cleared his throat.

"Lord Lord, the town of Cabin is close to the Arctic Mountains, and the Dark Council's branch in the Arctic Mountains likes to do something in the winter, have you forgotten the beast tide when you first arrived at the Empty Ferry Territory, how serious our losses were?" Payne coughed twice and said, " This is the season when the beasts and monsters of the Arctic Mountains have no food source, and they are at their most violent and ferocious, and it only takes a little excitement to make their way out of the mountains and storm the cabin town, and the people of the Dark Council will also participate in the chaos, taking advantage of the chaos to collect corpses, steal or kidnap children. ”

The Dark Council, Rand carefully tasted the name, and found that this name is indeed the second most powerful, but the members of this organization are indeed some real madmen, compared to the demon seed, the Dark Council is more terrifying, they steal babies, take living people for human experiments, and claim to be the spokesmen of hell and spread the prophecy of impending darkness on the continent.

It is rumored that the palace of the Dark Council was built in the crater of the Eye of Hell, at the junction of the earth and hell.

Rand thought with disgust, the members of this organization are indeed bold enough, dare to build a base in a volcanic crater, they are not afraid of crustal movement volcanic eruptions, and come to heaven for justice?

"In the past, the Duke of Winton would send troops to assist in the guards, but this year I heard that the Duke gave this task to Lord Ron, I think ......" Payne did not continue, but Rand had already understood, in his memory, according to Ron's character, he would never obediently obey orders to help him guard the town of Cabins.

Even if Ron had to come under the pressure of Duke Winton, then he could have delayed on the road for ten days and a half months, wandering around the scenery and messing with women or something, and when his support arrived, it is estimated that the wooden house town would have been crushed by the beast tide and the madmen of the Dark Council.

Rand had a headache and rubbed his temples, it seems that this territory is really not a good place, barren and barren, and a group of crazy people are eyeing each other, "Isn't there any way for the Holy See to deal with it?" ”

"The Dark Council is not strong enough to fight the Holy See, but their members are elusive, and by the time the knights of the Holy See arrive, they will have fled without a trace. ”

"They call themselves human scientists and mad scholars, and they never clash head-on with the military!"

"What a bunch of cowards!" Rand said in full disdain.

"But the greatest threat doesn't stop there, my lord, our main enemy is the barbarians. Payne said, "Those guys who plunder after the beast tide are the deadliest knives!"

The barbarians have the blood of desert giants, they have inherited the excellent genes in the blood of their ancestors, they are tall and strong, but they also inherit the almost idiotic intelligence of their ancestors, they are not productive, they cannot communicate, they are fierce and brutal and live by plundering, they live at the foot of the Arctic mountains for a long time, because they are far away from the crowd for a long time, they are more like primitive orangutans.

But the long-term evolution has not had no effect on the barbarians, when they attacked the villages and towns a few generations ago, they were still a group of fools who only knew how to rush forward, using their flesh and blood to resist swords and spears, but now they have become more cunning, they will follow the beast tide behind the buttocks, wait for the beast tide to consume the physical strength and arrows of the human guards, and then rush out with maces and crude swords, loot the food and livestock in the villages and towns, they will kill the men, and snatch the women back as a tool for reproduction.

Although the weapons and tactics of the barbarians are not advanced, with their strong physique and combat effectiveness, the losses caused to the air crossing over the years have been extremely heavy.

"How many barbarians are there?"

"It should not be more than two hundred people, but the combat strength is extremely strong, and if they fight on the plains, three hundred guards cannot be their opponents. We can't transfer all our forces to the Cabin Town, the security of other villages and towns needs to be protected like the bandits, we can only defend in the Cabin Town passively, relying on walls and spears to repel these invaders. Payne replied calmly, the barbarians were far larger and more fierce than the guards in the Empty Domain, and if the number was equal, the only ones who could defeat them were the Heavy Knights with their excellent horses.

In the past battles with the barbarians, it took at least 800 soldiers to defend the town of Cabins, and they had to deal with the raging beast tide first, and wait until they had killed all the beasts before meeting the barbarians' maces.

But now that there are less than 600 soldiers in the Kongdu Territory who can participate in the battle, and only half of the soldiers who can participate in the defense battle, there is little hope for Ron, this is the first difficulty he has to go through, what should he do?

Based on past experience, there was still about a month before the beasts and monsters ran out of food, and there would be no major problems during this time, this was Rand's deadline, and he had to think of a way to hold the cabin within this month.

Once it can't be defended and the town of Cabin falls, even if the Duke of Winton sends an army to strangle the barbarians in the future, his prestige in the Kongdu Territory will plummet, how can a lord who can't even protect his own people be convinced.

"Payne, now that we are on our own, Cabin Town must not be defeated, if I give you a new weapon, a giant bow and crossbow with a haircut," Rand thought for a moment and said word by word, "Can you hold Cabintown?"

"A giant repeating crossbow?" Payne frowned, "I've never seen a weapon like this, how powerful is it? What about practicality? If it's too big, I'm afraid our soldiers won't be able to pull the bowstring." ”

"In this regard, you can rest assured, this weapon is powered by a machine spring, it is very easy to handle, our soldiers only need to control the direction, and it is easy to load, and the power of a full string within thirty meters is enough to penetrate an inch-thick iron plate. Rand made a rough calculation, and then said, "Ten crosses, in a month's time, I can give you ten crossbows like this." ”

"Lord, are you serious?" Penn almost thought he had misheard, God, what kind of weapon was that, with such terrifying lethality!

"The barbarians have thick skin, ordinary bows and arrows cannot penetrate their flesh, our soldiers can only be forced to pick up spears to fight them, so it will cause serious casualties, if the power of this giant bow and crossbow is really as you described, it doesn't take ten, five, five I can kill the barbarians!" Penn clenched his fists and shouted excitedly.

"For the sake of our territory, Payne," Rand said, standing up and commanding, "tell the craftsmen to get the furnaces ready, and we're going to craft our own weapons." ”