Chapter 11 Provocation from Yazov
Yazov was slender, his armor was scarlet, he exuded a compelling spirit, but his appearance was somewhat feminine, his eyebrows were extremely thin, his nose was both straight and delicate, and his complexion was almost morbidly fair, and from the point of appearance, no one could associate him with the rumored murderer.
But it was such a man, and when he rode alone to the Kongdu Territory, all the nobles, including Love, had a flattering smile on their faces, almost flattering, and even one of the nobles was willing to deign to lead the horse for Yazov himself.
"Your Excellency Yazov, is the road going well? We have specially prepared a cocktail party and a welcome ceremony for your arrival. Love took the lead and squeezed a passage through the crowd, in fact the errand of receiving Yazov was prepared by him.
Instead of dismounting, Yazov glanced downward, and when he saw that there was no Rand in the crowd, his face darkened.
He unceremoniously kicked away the hand of the nobleman who had led the horse for him, and asked contemptuously, "I have come here to inspect this place on the orders of Lord Ron, why don't you see your lord come to greet me?"
Yazov's words were very rude, his identity was only a knight, no matter how excellent his combat strength was, it could not reach the point of letting a lord personally greet him, but even so, none of the nobles who heard this sentence dared to refute him, everyone knew who Yazov was coming on, and Ron Capet was not a person they could offend.
"Your Excellency is busy with affairs, so you have sent me to entertain Your Excellency Yazov, and if you have any questions, you can communicate with me. "Love was afraid that Yazov would cause trouble in public, he was a madman, and who knew what he would do.
"Your lord is not afraid that he has made a mistake and is hiding, right? besides, what is your identity?Can you represent your lord with full authority?" Yazov said sarcastically, his mission this time is mainly to record the ability and appearance of the demon seed, as well as various details of the demon seed's escape, although Lord Ron did not specifically explain, but as a subordinate, Yazov felt that he needed to do something for Lord Ron.
For example, humiliate Rand......
Yazov knew that Lord Ron had never regarded this younger brother as a competitor in his heart, but occasionally beating him could make him more honest, wouldn't it?
Love also couldn't stand Azov's arrogance, anyway, the drinking party would wait until the evening, so he simply took him to meet Rand, "Your Excellency Azov, the lord is in the palace, if you have to see him, then please come with me." ”
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Rand stayed in the attic on the second floor of the palace, which he had converted into a simple office with a cabinet full of drawings except a desk, at which he was sitting with a pen in his hand carefully conceiving a weapon.
So far, the biggest problem in the air crossing territory is that the military force is too weak, the key is that the weapons are backward, the soldiers are still wearing rudimentary leather armor, holding rusty spears to fight the enemy, and the limitations of spear combat are very large, except for the charge can fully exert its power, hand-to-hand combat spears are almost useless.
In order to ensure that the town could be held 100% under the impact of barbarians and beasts, Rand felt that it was necessary to make a breakthrough in other aspects, and the horse rejection pile was a very practical obstacle, only one thick log was drilled, and then the rest of the thinner logs were pierced into the hole and crossed and fixed into a shelf, and the shelf was inlaid with steel blades and barbed hooks, and a piece of defense equipment was already formed.
In today's film and television dramas, the two rows of wooden piles with sharp tips crossed outside the city gate are simplified horse rejection piles.
The biggest function of the horse rejection pile is to resist the impact of the cavalry, and in order to cope with the beast tide, Rand deliberately lowered the height of the horse rejection pile and widened the cross, which can greatly strengthen the stability, and install a barb hook on the top of the wooden pile to ensure that the maximum lethality can be achieved.
But the stakes can only deal with the beasts that have been driven mad by hunger, and can hardly be of any use to the barbarians who follow them, and the barbarians will not stupidly rush to the stakes, they will wait for the right moment, or burn them down and charge again.
"It's hard to dig a trap, and it's so noisy that if you let the barbarians find out where it is, you'll lose it. Rand tapped his fingers on the table with some anxiety, he really hated the soldiers when he used them, the soldiers in his territory were all foot soldiers, and there was no elite army capable of fighting the barbarians.
If you give me three hundred, nay, two hundred heavily armored ironclad cavalry, I can rush out of the cabin town and annihilate the beast tide and the barbarians in a single charge.
"When this winter is over, at the beginning of spring next year, I must issue a conscription warrant, train a group of my own heavily armed knights, and solve the threat of barbarians forever!" Rand gritted his teeth in hatred, but judging from the current income in the air ferry territory, he could not afford to raise a cavalry force of two hundred men.
At the end of all the questions, it's still one word, money!
"The iron ore in the Kongdu Territory has been directly mined in previous years, and the raw materials are sold to other territories, and the profit is very small; if I smelt these ores into steel and cast them into weapons, the profits will be multiplied several times, and as long as there is a war, weapons and ordnance will not be sold at all!"
On this continent, metallurgical technology is not developed enough, and the steel used to make weapons is high in carbon, hard but extremely tough, and on the battlefield, a heavy knight will launch a charge, and nearly one-tenth of the spear will break and collapse.
And these problems are easy to solve here in Rand, with Oak, he can easily smelt steel with the perfect proportion of carbon content, which also brings Rand an advantage, first of all, in terms of weapons, Rand is a step ahead of the entire continent.
In his previous life, as a lover who often visited military forums, Rand had all kinds of amazing weapons and equipment design steps in his mind, which had not yet shown brilliance in this world, and the ballista was just one of the more brilliant ones, and these precious weapon design information was the foundation for Rand to gain a foothold in this world full of threats.
With three iron mines and seven smelting furnaces, this is the most precious treasure of the rand to date.
Just as Rand was thinking about it, his personal servant came up to report that the minister, Love, and Lord Ron's envoy, Yazov, had arrived at the palace and were waiting to be summoned at the door.
Rand remembered Yazov's file, and felt a feeling of nausea in his heart, he was extremely disgusted with this kind of perverted character who took slaughter as fun, "Didn't Love go and receive him for me?"
"Your Excellency, Your Excellency Yazov insists on meeting with you, and I have a message for me to convey to you. The personal servant said respectfully.
"What?" Rand asked, raising an eyebrow.
He said...... He said that as a descendant of the Capetian family, you do not look like a member of the Capetian family at all, except for inheriting the Duke's surname, from your toes to your hair. The personal servant said tremblingly, he really didn't want to convey such a thing, and the devil knew if Rand would be angry at it, and then take it on himself.
Quiescence.
The servant who had expected to be greeted by a storm heard laughter in his ears.
"It's menacing, it looks like you have to see me," Rand licked his chapped lips, stood up and said, "Let's go, I'll meet him!"