Thordrin looked at the dozen or so Typhon warriors in the cell - these warriors were his subordinates not long ago, although as a mercenary, he did not have a fixed military position in the Ansu army, but as a high-ranking ranger, he had a fixed group of soldiers to command and call on many times, and even if these subordinates who had followed him for a long time and were more familiar, he was somewhat embarrassed to meet his subordinates again in this situation at this moment.

Before coming here, a conversation between Gawain and himself came to the mind of this high-ranking ranger:

Gawain said, "Go and bring those Typhonites with you, and I'll have them help defend the southern wall." ”

Thorderling was naturally taken aback when he heard this: "You plan to let those Typhon warriors help you, the Duke of Ansu, guard the city walls?" Don't you know the current situation between Ansu and Typhon? ”

"I know those people are certainly not willing to die for Ansu - but I want them to see for themselves what is going on between the civilized world and the Gondor wasteland."

"Just let them go up to the walls to see the truth...... That's a good idea, but aren't you worried that those people will take advantage of the opportunity to run away when they're released, or worse, take advantage of the chaos and cause damage? That's a big risk. ”

"So I let you go, and I'm sure you can control them—and even if you can't, you won't let them make a mess right under your nose."

At that time, Thorderlin couldn't help but laugh: "What if I really don't control it well?" ”

Gao Wen also smiled: "Then I will take off your wig in public." ”

Then Sölderling came here, staring at a dozen of his old men.

"Your Excellency," one of the Typhon knights finally spoke, an embarrassed expression on his face, "you're safe......"

"Better off than you," Thorderling sighed, the wig on his head seemed a little heavier than ever, "now there's a chance for you to regain your sword and staff—but not for you to deal with the Ansu. Don't get me wrong, I'm not asking you to help Ansu Tiphon, but I'm showing you what the real threat is. ”

……

Later in the day, Amber, who had ventured deep into the Dark Mountains to investigate the situation, returned to Gawain, bringing with her the latest information on the aberrations.

After drinking tons of tea on Gawain's table, the half-elf thief began to describe what he had seen and heard: "There are indeed more and more of them, and by the time they reach the borders of the territory, I am afraid that there will be at least three thousand!" Even four thousand is possible! The place where the demonic tide aura has corroded is not a single grass, and behind those monsters there is a corrupt path that is larger than the last 'invasion', and this time their route of action is not the same as the last time, I have observed the terrain along the way, I am afraid that there is no way to blow up the cliff to fight the enemy like last time. ”

It can be seen that Amber looks worried after returning from the exploration.

"Although the mountain collapse is effective against the enemy, it is only a trick after all, and it is good to use it once," Gawain has no regrets about this, "At least the mines can still be used - Byron is laying a minefield with soldiers and civilian workers, and that thing is no worse than the effect of the mountain collapse." ”

Then Amber reported the latest trend and speed of those monsters, and after she finished speaking, she looked at Gao Wen, who looked indifferent, and finally couldn't help it: "By the way, you don't feel nervous at all?" ”

"Why be nervous?" Gawain smiled slightly, "Do you think we can't stop it?" ”

"You didn't see it with your own eyes! That's a big piece! Everywhere they walked, even the rocks turned into black sand! ”

"When they first attacked here, we had only a wall of wooden fences and wattles, and a hundred soldiers with swords had to face hundreds of monsters, and now we have built walls and towers in the south made of concrete and boulders, and counting the newly trained recruits there are thousands of soldiers, and each soldier has a heat ray gun, grenades, and molten swords, and the monsters are still three times as many as ours, but I don't think they are anything to be afraid of."

Hearing Gawain's words, Amber seemed a little relieved, but she couldn't help but be a little worried: "It's mainly those extraordinarily huge guys...... It looks very difficult to deal with, they are too big, once they climb the city wall with damage, we are afraid that the newly built wall will not be able to withstand it for long. ”

"With me and Thorderlin, there's no problem," Gawain smiled faintly, "and there's Kamel - although he's a researcher, do you think he's going to be inferior?" ”

Amber nodded confusedly, as if she thought that those monsters were really nothing to be afraid of, but Gawain suddenly said at this time, "Okay, to be honest, I'm still a little worried." ”

"Huh?"

"Seven hundred years ago, I hadn't seen a 'mutant' that was two or three times the size of an ordinary aberration, and the unknown type of aberrant is certainly unsettling," Gawain looked into Amber's eyes and said with a calm expression, "But when I sit here, I have to appear more stable than anyone else, do you understand?" ”

"Because you're a lord?"

"That's right, I'm a lord, I'm leading everyone to build a territory here, arranging for the construction of a city, I'm training an army, arranging defenses, and I'm here to respond to every call, so naturally I have to take on the responsibility of responding to every call," Gawain said unhurriedly, "So I have to be confident, and not only me, but you also have to be confident." ”

"Me? Why? Amber looked confused, "I'm just an errand ......"

"You are my guard, and you are still managing the intelligence department, and in the eyes of outsiders, you know all the orders of the lord, and you know all the secrets of the territory - and the truth is almost like this, so you are the same as me, and you are also a person who must not panic under any circumstances, as soon as you panic, those who pay attention to you will immediately think that the lord is also panicking, and then think that the crisis that the territory is facing is probably too big to even the lord and the lord's guard to protect themselves, so there will be panic, and some people will retreat, Someone is running away, someone is taking advantage of the chaos - and it probably all started the moment you panicked and ran into the Lord's Palace. ”

"When I came in, I opened the window and no one saw me!" Amber said subconsciously, but then frowned and muttered, "You said that...... I suddenly feel like I'm not going to be a good person anymore......"

"Because with me, rights and duties are always equal, and you and I are no exception," Gawain laughed, feeling that it was also a pleasure to watch this half-elf who almost never used his brain to think hard, "Amber, you're not a little thief anymore, understand?" ”

"W-you sound like an old man!" Amber suddenly got goosebumps, but after a moment she nodded honestly, "Okay...... I see......"

Then she stared at Gao Wen and looked at it for a long time before she spoke: "I'm most annoyed by others talking about big truths, but when you guys talk about big things, it really makes sense...... For the first time in my life, I've been honestly preached! ”

"That's because a lot of people who say big things don't do it, and I do it," Gawain smiled and stood up, "Okay, you're back anyway, come with me to the southern city wall." ”

Since the first aberrant attack, the defense of the southern direction of the territory has always been the top priority of all defense projects - although the Dark Mountain Range is a natural barrier, it has been proven that this natural barrier is not insurmountable for monsters, at least in this section of the Cecil Territory, the Dark Mountain Range has a large gap that has been proven and several routes that can cross the mountain range, and in order to protect the territory in front of the Gondor wasteland that may go wrong at any time, After the productivity of the territory developed slightly, Gawain began a series of "wall and tower" projects.

Frankly speaking, Gawain is not very suitable for the situation in this era where large and small cities are surrounded by one or even several circles of walls, and an open city layout without walls is more conducive to long-term development, but he must proceed from reality: with the current level of security in this world and the form of warfare, the city walls are still an indispensable defensive measure, so the newly built Cecil Territory also has walls.

The southern part of the territory is the strongest and most defensive of all the fortifications.

Because the foundation of the territory is still shallow, and the output of "Rebecca cement" is also limited, so this city wall has not been able to be built entirely of reinforced concrete, and it has not been able to achieve the perfect structure such as "triple wall, containing troop transportation channels, extending several zhang underground, and directly connecting to the arsenal underground" as envisioned by Gao Wen, but it is still a fairly powerful barrier for most noble lords in the south: the wall built with a mixture of cement and earth and stone is more than ten meters high, and the top is up to four meters wide. A large number of shooting bunkers for soldiers were set up on the city wall, and a large number of medicines and battle crystals were stored at any time, and the city magic net was spread all the way to the foot of the city wall to replenish the loss of magic crystals of the defenders on the wall at any time, and after the appearance of the magic energy obelisk, Kamal placed two crystal towers at the foot of the city wall, so that even the city wall had uninterrupted magic coverage - in this way, the fire power of the defending soldiers could be continuous until their weapons were overheated or overloaded.

In addition to the main body of the wall, Gawain also ordered a series of triangular protruding outer walls outside the wall, and a small tower was built on the "apex" of each outer wall, on which small trebuchets were placed.

The triangular facades are based on the structure of the bastion, which ensures that when the enemy rushes to the bottom of the castle, they will be flanked by the guards on both sides, and the triangular facades themselves can also increase the strength of the walls, and the vertex towers of the triangular facades can be used as lookout posts, as well as trebuchets on the towers......

To be honest, Gawain himself knew that this thing was a bit out of tune with the painting style of the magic guide industry route that was being taken in the territory, but before he solved the problem of advancing the physical ammunition, he didn't have any available "artillery" at hand, so he could only retreat to the next best thing, combining the original technology of this world with the new technology of the magic guide industry, and using a small trebuchet to barely achieve the effect of erecting artillery on the city wall-

The trebuchets threw out crystalline bombs the size of a human head.