Chapter Ninety-Six: Things Keep Going Wrong
"We're here, Xiao Er, they're here to repair the city wall. Milley took the king's pen and Merlin to the outside of the fortress, pointed to a gap, and said.
Wang Mubi looked at the gap, only to see that there was a very large gap on the city wall more than two meters high, and there were seven or eight people standing on it, who were knocking on the city wall, and the pieces of rubble fell down, and a few people behind pushed the stone bricks to fill in the original position.
A few people who were working saw Milai and the others and hurriedly said hello.
"Milai, have you started eating, why did you come here so early today?" An artisan from Ore Town asked.
"Not yet, Lao Wang, this is our leader, I have something to ask you. Milley pointed to Wang's pen and introduced it to the craftsmen.
The craftsmen put down their work and were about to salute, when Wang Mubi waved his hand,
"Okay, don't bother, what about Li Xiaoer?"
Wang Mubi glanced at it casually, the two people who moved the stone were estimated to be two apprentices, and seven people working on the city wall, these nine people should be craftsmen and apprentices in Ore Town, but Li Xiaoer was not among them, Wang Mubi hurriedly asked.
Several craftsmen on the city wall looked at each other, and the last of the older craftsmen spoke,
"Xiao Li is digging a hole over there, he doesn't say the reason, and shouts that we will also dig a hole over there, but the people on your side are not allowed, let us repair the city wall first, so in the end, Xiao Li dug a hole over there alone. ”
The craftsman pointed to the northwest direction, Wang Mo couldn't help frowning, and asked,
"What about those young people, why didn't they come to help?"
"Ouch, don't say it, as soon as they say it, they still have to resist the tide of beasts, and they have to recharge their energy or something, how can they do these things. A thin craftsman next to him said, obviously having a deep grudge.
"Lao Zheng, think clearly why we are here!" The craftsman surnamed Wang scolded, the thin craftsman hurriedly shut up, Wang Mubi became more and more angry in his heart, looked at Milai and said,
"What's going on? The people of Falling Snow Town, as far as I can see, aren't so lazy to eat, but what's going on now?"
Milai sighed, Wang Mubi couldn't help but be a little surprised, it seemed that it was the first time he had seen Milai with such a look.
"Big brother, do you know what month they are here?" Milley asked.
"Isn't it October, Qian Duoduo said that he wanted to let them get acquainted with it first, so he came in advance. ”
"Yes, they are here, they have been deserted for a month, you know what they are doing all day long, drinking, gambling, that's all, because it is cold here, and the amount of wine supplied by Uncle Qian is still quite a lot, plus the craftsmen were sent later, so they called Lao Wang and them, and they didn't even cut wood. ”
The situation is beyond Wang Mubi's imagination, no matter what, he didn't expect that this group of people would be so wasteful, they really wasted a month here, and they didn't practice, they didn't cut down trees to repair the city, and they also disrupted their plans, Wang Mubi was furious, and he had the heart to rush back to teach the group of guys a lesson, but was stopped by Merlin,
"Mu Pen, in fact, it is not difficult to understand, people with blood and self-esteem must have been on the battlefield last year, and now this group of people is originally the scum filtered out, don't be angry with them, just leave it to Li Shanhe to deal with. ”
Wang Mubi exhaled a big breath and sighed,
"I'm not angry with these scum, I, hey, do you remember when we came out, those old people gave us family letters, most of them can't write, they all said to let Ella and others help write it, because of the shortage of manpower, they, there are a thousand words to say and can only say two, do you know what appears the most? ”
Wang Mubi complained a few words and said,
"That, your surname is Wang, right, Master Wang, tell me what the structure of the Dark Fortress is, and how you are going to repair it now. ”
"Okay. Master Wang nodded, jumped off the city wall, took out a piece of paper, and spread it out in front of Wang's pen.
"The structure of the dark fortress is like this, the fortress is arc-shaped, a total of one thousand meters long, the left and right are cliffs, and it is impassable, and our main defense is the range of three hundred meters in the middle, in last year's battle, there was a total of more than fifty meters of range, the city wall has been damaged to varying degrees, the most serious one, has been missing a hole of about one meter. Then there was the city gate, which had been breached, and now there was only a rudimentary wooden gate, which was placed there. ”
After listening to this, Wang Mubi nodded, and asked again,
"What kind of wall are they made of?"
Master Wang replied,
"Basically, we dug up the big stones on the cliff next door, moved them here, and then some of them were used by the soldiers as rolling stones, and the good ones were given to us, processed and grinded, turned the stones into stone bricks, matched with clay, and finally piled up on the city wall, but this year, because those people felt too far away and were too lazy to dig up stones, we used last year's stock, which was seriously insufficient in quantity, especially the big stones. ”
Wang Mubi didn't want to mention the waste anymore, but only appeased Master Wang, saying that it would not be long before someone would be sent to dig up the stones.
Wang Mubi walked to the largest gap, only to see that the brick thickness was about half a meter, such an exaggerated thickness, only the long tusks of the wild boar can pierce it?
"Do you know how such a thick wall was destroyed?"
"We don't know about this, we probably have to ask the soldiers who came here last year. Master Wang said that he couldn't help.
Wang Mubi looked at it for a while, and said,
"Alright, you all rest, such a large area needs to be repaired, not just a few of you can do it, and besides, this kind of untechnical thing should not be done by you in the first place. Milai, take me to Li Xiaoer's. ”
Mi Lai took Wang Mubi and the two walked in the northwest direction for a while, and saw Li Xiaoer waving a hoe over there alone, and as for the kiln that Wang Mubi confessed, he couldn't even see a shadow.
As soon as Li Xiaoer heard the footsteps, he looked in the direction where the sound came from, and then found that Wang Mubi and others had arrived.
Li Xiaoer hurriedly dropped his hoe and trotted in front of Wang Mubi.
"You're here. ”
"Well, Xiao Er, you're welcome, as far as I can see, on your side, the kiln has not yet been completed?" Wang Mubi looked at the hole that Li Xiaoer had made and sighed.
"I'm sorry Lord Mubi, I can't command those young people, and they don't want to come to dig the kiln, and Lao Wang and they have been taken away to repair the city wall, and I really can't catch up with the progress here. ”
Li Xiaoer lowered his head and apologized again and again.