The leading dwarven Rollin is acquainted, and it is the dwarven prince Mosius who he met in Alpine Town back then.

"Welcome, my old friend." Rollin was glad to see this guy.

"Commander of the Silver Crusaders, Father and I are honored to have your trust. So as soon as we received your letter, we came over immediately. Mosius laughed.

Rollin's letters for help were scattered all over the continent, and as long as he thought that there was some strength and would be helpful in the fight against the dark army, he sent all the letters. The dwarves of the continent, who are famous for their forging, are of course a top priority.

There were quite a few dwarves brought by Mosius this time, there were more than 5,000 people, of which 4,000 were dwarven warriors, and the other 1,000, judging by their appearance, should be blacksmiths.

In addition to the first time, they also brought 10,000 sets of ordinary nail armor and 20,000 iron swords, which just solved the urgent need of the bridge defenders to lack equipment.

You must know that the population of the dwarves is about more than 200,000 people, not to mention the equipment, this is down to 5,000 people, and the strength of the assistance is not small.

Rollin first arranged these dwarven warriors, and then held a small banquet on the upper level of the fortress, specially inviting Mosius and several dwarven forge masters who came with him.

The scale of the banquet was simple, the food was not much, and it was not exquisite, and the best food was a few cut-headed carp caught from the Blackwater River.

After the banquet, Luo Lin said a little apologetically: "The mainland is in trouble, the materials are scarce, and the food is a little simple, I hope you don't mind." ”

Mosius waved his hand, took a sip of the ale on the table without paying attention, and said with a smile: "If you really entertain us with those delicacies of the mountains and seas, Marshal, I will look down on you." Look at so many refugees below. We don't feel at ease eating. ”

The dwarf said it well. Luo Lin laughed loudly: "Come on." Try this fish, although there are not many ingredients, but the skills of the military chef are still very good, and the cooking is very delicious. ”

A few dwarves nodded, munching on their food and drinking ale, not at all formal, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Three rounds of drinking. Rollin spoke: "Your Highness Mosius, to be honest, what I value most this time is the blacksmith you brought. What we lack most now is weaponry. ”

"Haha, I know your difficulties. You can rest assured, these thousand blacksmiths, each of them is very exquisite, if they work together, as long as there is enough iron and blacksmith shop, they can make 2,000 iron swords a day, which is 60,000 a month. Enough to make up for your weapons gap. Mosius took another sip of ale, fresh fish with ale. He felt very good, and it had a different flavor than his food in the mountains.

This speed is indeed good, but Luo Lin is not very satisfied: "What if it is a better quality steel sword?" ”

Iron swords are too brittle and easy to break, which can be deadly in battle, and if steel swords can be supplied, Rollin hopes to provide the defenders with steel weapons, which can greatly increase the lethality of the army.

Don't look at this little improvement, but if you zoom in to an army of 100,000 people, this improvement cannot be ignored, maybe because of this improvement, the soldiers can kill thousands of more soldiers, and may even decide the outcome of the battle.

So Rollin wants to do his best to improve the army's equipment.

"Steel sword?" Mosius frowned slightly: "It takes a lot of effort to build a steel sword, if you want a steel sword, the temperature of the furnace fire is higher, and the forging process is more complicated, and we can only build a maximum of five hundred in a day for a thousand people." You know, the weapon needs a part, and the equipment for self-defense also needs to be built, so I'm afraid it's too late, right? ”

Rollin smiled and clapped his hands, and immediately an attendant walked up with a small pile of gray-black 'gravel'.

"What is this?" A master smith asked, sensitively sensing that it was a coal, but he had never seen anything like it.

Luo Lin introduced: "This is charcoal that has been refined by a special method, and it is the invention of an alchemist. With a specific furnace and blower, it burns at a temperature that can melt kryptonite! ”

The stove and the blower were made by the craftsmen of Maple Leaf County, and he didn't give much guidance, so he said some requests, and then issued a huge reward, just like what he did in Maple Leaf City.

Stimulated by the gold coins, half a year later, there were craftsmen who stayed at the door to receive the bonus.

The forging master was taken aback for a moment, reached out and took a piece of fire coal, looked at it in his hand, pinched it again, and finally put it in his mouth to taste it, and finally nodded: "I feel that this fire coal contains a condensed fire element, I think what you said is right." Marshal, I'm also interested in the stove and blower you talked about, can you show me the drawings? ”

"Of course." Rollin clapped his hands, and an attendant picked up a stack of drawings.

Now that everyone is fighting against the Dark Legion with all their might, these dwarves are interesting enough, so naturally there is no need for him to hide his secrets, and Rollin is sure that he will never suffer.

The dwarf immediately took out a crystal lens, then leaned down on the drawing and looked at it carefully.

And the people did not interrupt him, but let him study.

After about half an hour, the dwarf nodded, "Very subtle design, I think this thing is better than our lava forge." To be honest, if you use him to build a steel sword, it is really a bit overkill. ”

is worthy of a master, just studied it for half an hour, and almost ate this set of devices.

Only then did Rollin speak his purpose: "Your Highness, I think the thousand dwarven blacksmiths you brought are still too few. I think I could send a lot of young men to you as apprentices to help with some simple but tedious repetitive tasks, which should be a lot more efficient, don't you think? ”

The dwarves have always kept the technical blockade of the Terrans secret, and to be honest, the method proposed by Rollin is already playing the sidelines.

Mosius exchanged glances with several dwarven forging masters, and Rollin saw that the master who was looking at the drawings just now nodded slightly, and then Mosius spoke: "This is a good idea. ”

The Terrans have already given great sincerity, and they have come up with a very good set of forging equipment without concealment, of course they can't do nothing, and they are just apprentices, even if they are allowed to watch from the sidelines, as long as they hide a little, these apprentices will not learn much.

Luo Lin suddenly smiled, raised his glass and said, "Then I wish us a happy cooperation." ”

He didn't want those apprentices to learn the essence of dwarven forging techniques, as long as they could learn the skills of dwarves.

At that time, he combined with the method of fine division of labor, opened a forge factory, and built weapons and equipment on a large scale, although these equipment were certainly inferior to dwarven products in quality, but the advantage of the Terran was that there were many people, and the amount of weapons created was also large, and it could quickly become self-sufficient to meet the needs of all Terran warriors.

Everyone is not stupid, quantitative changes will always cause qualitative changes, there will always be smart people who will emerge and start to improve the technology bit by bit, and after a few years, the forging skills of the human race may be able to become a family of its own and compete with the dwarves.

Truth be told, when the deal with the Dwarves was discussed with Horn, Horn was against sharing the forge and blower.

In Horn's opinion, this is a good thing that the Terrans have managed to come up with, how can they learn it from the dwarves, who have always kept their forging skills tight.

But Rollin finally convinced him of Horn with a set of reasoning.

His reason is very simple, that is, to say that one of the greatest advantages of the human race is that there are many people.

There are more than 200,000 dwarves in the whole race, but although the human race has suffered a great disaster, the population of the entire northern territory is now more than five million, which is an order of magnitude higher than that of the dwarves.

A very simple truth, for example, a new technology can increase the combat effectiveness of a warrior by ten percent, if it is popularized among dwarves, but the dwarf population is only a little more than 200,000, and the warriors are more than 10,000, then the overall increase is a little more than 100. However, the number of humans is more than twenty times that of dwarves, and the overall increase in combat power is more than 2,000.

The effect of each technology on the Terrans and the Dwarves will create a huge asymmetry, and the Terrans will always take a huge advantage.

And that's just the simplest reasoning, not counting the increased opportunities and more innovation that come with huge populations.

So, now it looks like neither side is losing out on this deal, but in a few years, the demographic advantage of the Terrans will come into play, and the dwarves will probably be crying without tears.

This is Rollin's deepest consideration, and it is precisely because of this wisdom and vision that he appears to be very sincere and unselfish in his dealings with the dwarves.

Dwarves are a passionate race, and as soon as he senses your sincerity, and you are sincere to him, they will immediately return the favor with the utmost sincerity.

The guests and hosts of this meal enjoyed themselves.

After that, several master blacksmiths did not rest for a moment, and immediately took most of the blacksmiths on the merchant ship to Fix Island.

"Time is of the essence, we need to build enough equipment and weapons!" These are the words of the dwarven master, full of sincerity.

Fix Island, far away from overseas, without worrying about defense, is the best base, and the dwarves set up a blacksmith shop, which is naturally on the island.

Luo Lin's trick is not only effective for the dwarves, but also very effective for the elves with a population of less than one million and a reproduction speed far less than that of the human race.

The large number of people is the most inconspicuous but also the greatest advantage of a race.

All it takes is a pair of spiritual eyes and a pair of wonderful hands to completely tap out the huge power and energy contained in it.

It can be said that if the Terrans can always implement Luo Lin's ideas and face all races with an open attitude, then this race will reach the peak of the continent with an irresistible trend until it becomes the undisputed master of the continent.

This is the wisdom of controlling the general trend, and fortunately, in this world, not many people understand this.

The dwarves were only the first wave of support, and after another five days, Iona from the Far North returned. (To be continued......) R1292