I have to say that this caravan came at a good time.

Fifty or sixty people came to Iron Castle Village, and although they had almost all their possessions with them, it was a little difficult to settle down here.

Zhou Mingyue bought some farm tools, pots and pans, salt, grain, seeds, etc., from the caravan, plus a few camel beasts, which served as labor for the cultivated land.

As for the money, he didn't have it, and the only gold and silver mines he had were hollowed out and used to explode the army.

However, some of the furs from the peasants' hunting during this time were sold for a high price here in Arnell.

After all, in the Kingdom of Flor, fur from the wilderness is relatively rare.

The fur of low-level magical beasts such as wind wolves, mouth fire rabbits, etc., has a little magic attribute, and they are used to make leather clothes and scarves, which are very popular among noblewomen.

Of course, the fur is not much, and Arnell also wants to make money, so he only pays a quarter of the payment.

This Arnell also has emotional intelligence, saying that the remaining three-quarters of the payment will be left for the next transaction, which alleviates the embarrassment of Zhou Mingyue's shyness.

As soon as the caravan left, Zhou Mingyue's side began to get on the right track.

The villagers of Tiebao village led the peasants to dig canals to divert water from the pond out of the valley in preparation for the cultivation of the land.

That's right, a peasant soldier is able to plow the land, as long as there are farm tools.

A month passed, and more than 300 acres of fertile land were reclaimed outside the valley.

There are camels, and it is very convenient to cultivate the land.

And Zhou Mingyue also found the corpses of some barbarian people after going deep into the cave for thousands of kilometers.

Some died of starvation, some of them were wounded, inflamed, and attacked by some kind of creature.

The corpses were all taken out and fed to the War Workshop, raising the progress bar by 4 percentage points, barely being reused.

To Zhou Mingyue's surprise, near those corpses, he found a gold, silver, and copper associated mine.

Undoubtedly, the previous gold mine did not exist alone, and should have something to do with this vein.

However, the gold and silver content in this vein is low, and the main component is copper.

Of course, after feeding the War Workshop, Zhou Mingyue found that at this stage, the resource value of copper ore to the War Workshop was not much lower than that of gold and silver.

This made him a little fleshy before filling in the gold and silver sand of the War Workshop+.

After all, in terms of the value of gold and silver in the kingdom of Flor, the value of copper is much lower.

Therefore, when he asked the peasants to dig the ore veins this time, he deliberately left the gold and silver ore behind.

This thing is highly valued in the Kingdom of Flor, so when the next caravan comes, you can make up the credit and buy more goods.

A large amount of Copper Ore is fed into the War Workshop+, which translates into teams of soldiers.

This time, Zhou Mingyue's main production was infantry and spearmen.

No way, although the other classes are more powerful and practical, in terms of cost performance, they are still infantry, and spearmen are the highest.

If you start a war with the barbarian tribes, the number of Pegasus cavalry, monks, and cavalry is too small, and it is impossible to block the impact of the barbarian warriors.

Only crowd tactics can win!

According to Zhou Mingyue's plan, when the total strength is increased to five thousand, he will go to trouble the barbarian tribes.

But what he never expected was that on a sunny morning, the Pegasus cavalry reported that the barbarian tribe with a total population of more than six hundred actually sent troops to kill the valley!

Quantity four hundred!

In addition to the young and strong, the elderly barbarians are also all dispatched, which can be said to be overwhelming!

If Viscount Hanks is here, there is a high probability that the three thousand soldiers and horses will flee directly.

Zhou Mingyue was not too worried in his heart, during this period of time, the number of infantry and spearmen had skyrocketed a lot, and each team had increased by 20!

In other words, the current number of infantry and spearmen together has reached 1200!

Even if you can't fight, it's probably no problem to hold the valley.

The first is, of course, to return the villagers who are clearing the land to the valley.

After receiving Zhou Mingyue's order, the villagers fled back to the valley in panic with farm tools on their shoulders one by one.

They were scared in their hearts, but when they saw the groups of heavily armed soldiers stepping out of the stone wall and lining up outside, the panic in their hearts disappeared without a trace.

With so many soldiers to protect, we're afraid of a hair!

I was bold in my heart, and even a guy like Ness actually carried a handful of melon seeds, lying on the stone wall, and watched the excitement while eating.

Zhou Mingyue didn't pay much attention to Ness's mind at this time.

This is probably the first big battle in his life, and it is by no means comparable to playing strategy games before.

If you fail in a strategy game, you can only re-read the record, and if you fail here, you will have to pay with your life.

Under such circumstances, the strings in his heart were almost completely taut.

The 560 spearmen formed three rows at the front, slightly in a semi-circular arc, and behind them were 640 infantrymen, also in three rows, and the two monks stood behind the infantry, their hands shining faintly, ready to use their healing skills.

The 200 archers lined up behind the stone wall, and the villagers who watched the bustle were driven further behind.

The 20 cavalry roamed outside the military formation, after all, their number was too small, and it was impossible to play a role at all in the early days, so it was better to stay outside and wait for use.

As for the two Pegasus cavalrymen, they kept reporting on the advance of the barbarian army, allowing Zhou Mingyue to grasp the intelligence initiative on the battlefield.

In fact, the barbarian army was very lazy, and they didn't even send out many outposts when they were marching, and they just swarmed towards this side.

If it was a little farther away, Zhou Mingyue would have been able to ambush them on the road they had to pass through and carry out a surprise attack.

However, if you want to do this now, you don't have enough time, so you can only wait in a formation outside the valley.

The speed of the barbarian advance was not slow, and after three hours, the more than a dozen barbarian warriors who rushed to the front were already visible to the naked eye.

The barbarian warriors gave Zhou Mingyue the consistent impression of being reckless, reckless to the end!

But it was clear that the barbarian warriors were not stupid, and after seeing the groups of human soldiers lined up outside the valley, they immediately slowed down and sent a few people back to the large army to report the news.

Zhou Mingyue stood on the stone wall, his gaze sweeping over the barbarian camp that was gathering outside the valley.

He saw a few slightly familiar figures, looking back at his memory, well, it seems to be the barbarian old and young who escaped in the valley?

Then again, for humans, barbarians are not easy to recognize.

Sure enough, these barbarians didn't come out of thin air.

After all, 90 miles away from this world is not close.

If nothing else, it would take about two or three months for that barbarian tribe to find itself surrounded by an additional human force because of the occasional opportunity.