218 Difficult Winter Storage (II)
Zhang Yuan was only greedy on the side, watching Li Jubing excitedly use the strong attack aura on the Terran servants who hunted with bows and arrows, and at every turn he released the concentration aura on King Kong, the puppet leader who was already a steel body, and he was happy and envious in his heart.
The first snow finally fell, and although the snow was not large, it brought extreme cold, and the Egyptian Plains officially entered the harshest winter on this day.
And although those bread trees were not frozen to death under Zhang Yuan's mixed magic, they also dropped all the leaves and dried up.
When the first one fell, the Moon Knight Claw Druid Xiu Xiong Si, which Blue Moon had chosen for Li Jubing, came. Talon Druid Huns is now a Moon Knight, at this time he is wearing bright silver plate armor, carrying the signature black iron giant axe, holding an oval fine iron shield, sitting on the back saddle of a giant bear monster with chain mail on his head, looking forward to it, a long down on the helmet fluttering, majestic.
The bear monster was four meters tall and had two sets of sharp claws on its forelimbs that were four inches long, so powerful that it could walk upright and run like a mad tank. As a knight of the moon god who dedicated a qiē to the god of the moon and night, all of Xiuxiongsi's vassals were returned to the Southern Provincial House of Nobles at the price of this giant bear monster mount.
The addition of the Claw Druid Knight Xiu Xiongsi, a Claw Druid Knight with rich combat experience, is of great benefit to the basic military construction, and also makes Feiye add two more big bellies.
Lan Yue watched as the warrior who had once followed him began to rejoin the ranks of the followers of the Disciple Sun, and gave her best wishes.
Xiu Xiongsi's super big axe and neatly equipped floor armor made the entire Flying Leaf militia suffer from pink eye in one day. And Xiu Xiongsi, who has a cheerful personality, soon got mixed with the militia, serving him with good wine and meat every day, and bragging about his like-minded friends, which made him happy for a while.
The severity of the shape shì is far from being known by the simple-minded militia. In order to meet the arrival of the harsh winter, Li Jubing even temporarily stopped the cultivation of the aura, and drilled into the sea of statistics, sorting out the financial and balance statements of the next stage in the Feiye Territory.
Even the ambitious Zhang Yuan, after the failure of his plan to rob and rob the robbers to accumulate wealth, began to completely wake up from the dream of relying on the mountains and water to make a fortune by relying on this desolate loess Gobi.
The long winter to spring growing season lasts four months. During this time, it was impossible for the herd to graze, which meant that there was only a period of four months when the finances were not in and out.
The severity of reality made Zhang Yuan have a headache, Feiye had a total of nearly two thousand mouths, in addition to the frost and ice period of about three months in winter, the rainy season of the Feimao River before the beginning of spring next year will also be an obstacle to the wasteland and the civilized world, for nearly four months, such a mouth is expected to provide him with food and drink, just food consumption, is an astonishing number.
In desperation, Zhang Yuan issued a series of mobilization orders, informing everyone who didn't know the details of the practical difficulties of the Feiye Territory. Under Zhang Yuan's command, the people of each Flying Leaf Territory immediately and quickly put into the winter reserves.
The vassals' forest banshee herders rushed to add the last layer of fat to the herd's black pigs and forest deer before the heavy snow arrived, and a large amount of grass was piled up in a mountain for emergencies.
The slaves' daily round-trip logging also brought mountains of wood to Feiye, which were burned in large quantities into charcoal for winter use under Zhang Yuan's direction. The breadfruit field picking has also come to an end, although these evergreen plants will not freeze to death under Zhang Yuan's mixed magic, but after the cold weather, the leaves have fallen and no longer bear fruit.
Under the instructions of the lord, the snow monster knight Bai Kuiyue led the newly established Flying Leaf Cavalry Team to a special trip to the territory of the Tree Demon Saline-alkali Forest, took the letter of introduction to find the huntress officer Mo Bing, and went through the back door to carry back countless salts from the saline-alkali land that did not cost money.
With the salt, the militiamen's hunting was immediately added to the training curriculum, and there were no large numbers of wild migratory animals in the winter in the wasteland, except for some guinea pigs and rabbits in the burrows, which could provide a pitiful number of hunting objects.
Makula in the militia quickly became popular, they relied on their outstanding skills, caught a lot of big fish and prawns in the Feimao River, the breadth of the Feimao River and the rich water quality of the mountain peak water make these fish and shrimp crabs fat a little unlikely, a big fish at least have an arm length, a shrimp can weigh five catties, the pincers are thick and long, a crab is the size of a human head, fat and abnormal.
Thanks to the skillful makula on the sofa, it was the couch skilful that was able to catch them, and even the nets could do no better than what they could do to these huge fish, shrimp and crabs.
Makula's prominent appearance somewhat made the face of the lord, who had a grudge against their appetite after taking them in, look a little better.
Those Terran servants, as the head chefs, also collected countless wild vegetables in large quantities in late autumn, either dried or pickled in the sun, for emergency use.
The north wind blew with a call sign, and the temperature plummeted overnight. The sky is still as blue as washing, and the bread groves in front of the Loess Gobi are still as straight, but all the leaves have fallen off.
The herdsmen of the vassal tribes, wielding loud whips, were driving the herd back, and the winter snow was approaching, and this was the last chance for the herd to grow fat. However, during this time, there were several accidents in a row, and there were two forest banshees who went out to graze, each with hundreds of forest deer, and they never came back as soon as they went out.
The wasteland was so large that it took several extensive searches to find the corpses of the slain banshee herders of the dwarf spear forest and the bones and fur of some of the forest deer in the desert more than a hundred miles away.
According to Xiu Xiongsi, a militia officer appointed by Zhang Yuan, the rest of the beasts should have been captured by the bandits of the wasteland. The robbers of the wasteland live a life without a day.
Every winter, hungry bandits and robbers cross the frozen ice of the Flying Hair River and rush into the heart of the kingdom, risking being wiped out by the regular army. When the cold falls, the bandits' fighting spirit is particularly high, and they will not let go of anyone who can be looted in order to survive.
In response to this situation, Zhang Yuan strictly ordered the herdsmen not to graze their herds beyond a 50-mile radius of the Loess Gobi before the snowfall, and they all brought gunpowder flares made of bird droppings, sulfur and charcoal.
Zhang Yuan had been thinking about what to do with the captives, and he still lacked a compromise solution to the problem of bandits who could not be extinguished by wildfires. On the edge of the bread forest in front of the Loess Gobi, under a huge hill, a group of slaves were digging a cellar and carrying neatly laid dead grass into it, because that would be their home. The breath of each slave was white, and the soil was hard.
The Egyptian Plain was so desolate that Zhang Yuan had already removed the watchtower that had taken care of them at night, hoping that they would run away a few and reduce the number of people who were eating.
Unfortunately, none of these slaves wanted to escape, facing a cruel winter, no weapons, no stored food, and escaping was death. Although the world of the trial ground is very cruel, Zhang Yuan has no choice but to exercise a hard heart. However, Zhang Yuan, who had a bottom line, set up an unwritten rule in Feiye that even slaves were forbidden to withhold their rations. Of course, scolding and insulting are casual.
Zhang Yuan's regulation also strengthened the determination of jackals, kobolds, human robber slaves and several robber lord slaves to stay here. Even if they used to, they didn't have such a good food and shelter environment as they do now, so why should they run away?
A group of militiamen and lords, bare-armed, sat in front of the bread grove and drank. The sake is made from fragrant wild grapes, and the accompaniment is sweet potatoes grilled over charcoal.