The rest of the journey was not as smooth as they had hoped, and Dorne and his party encountered a snowstorm on the way back, which had been expected to take a month and a half to complete.

It's as if luck has run out on the way to come.

The howling cold wind mixed with snowflakes not only seriously interfered with everyone's sense of direction, but also made it difficult for them to rest peacefully, and the bad weather made their food hard to swallow.

Several of the severely wounded hunters in the party died due to the bad weather, and the people endured their grief to collect their remains, and in the end the team was reduced to seventeen people.

"In half a month, we'll be able to go home. ”

Dorn looked at the map to comfort and cheer them up, because some of the hunters had begun to doubt whether they could get out of the ice field, and the last thing they could not give up at this time was the confidence and hope to survive.

The hunters looked at their dogs with distress, and the sled dogs were tired, even if they were adaptable, they could not withstand the long journey.

Everyone tried not to talk nonsense and retain what little strength they had left, and the expedition members hurried silently, looking forward to returning to their hometown and their families as soon as possible.

......

The town of Iron Tooth has also been growing steadily over the past three months, and Jason has built the Falcon Camp next to the barracks, trying to rely on falcons trained by the Wranglers to deliver the news, and it has also begun to bear fruit.

Falcon flies relatively high, and the average archer has no way to hold it, unlike carrier pigeons, which fly low and are easy to intercept, and falcons fly very fast.

The head of the Eagle Hunter camp was an old man about the same age as the mayor of Dia Town, he was the patriarch of the Eagle Shekers, his name was Pula, he was small, not like the muscular body of the Northlanders, but he had a high prestige among the Falconders.

Jason didn't expect him to go to war, he just needed to pass on the experience of his life.

He also re-planned the drainage canals and built public toilets in Ironfang, because the sanitation here was really unacceptable, and it just so happened that the soldiers of the Hodge Knights were useful, and they were used as coolies to build Ironfang, otherwise they would be kept for rice?

Administrative districts, residential areas, commercial areas, and public entertainment areas have been redivided, as well as military restricted areas!

Jason built another arsenal on a vacant lot east of Ironfang.

The hunters of the Northland were all good at making bows and arrows, and although they were not called masters, well-made bows and arrows were still very popular.

And those old hunters can no longer go into the jungle to hunt, and there is a group of bow makers who don't need to care for the elderly at home, it is a bit of a tyrannical thing, and a whole craft is buried like this, Jason feels that it is a pity.

So a piece of land was set aside in the newly built arsenal for the old hunters to use to make bows and arrows.

In this way, you can not only make the best use of talents, but also increase the employment rate of the people in the territory, and you can also sell the surplus bows and arrows to other territories, killing three birds with one stone!

Based on the bow and arrow trade, he formed a caravan to sell in the kingdom's inner territories and buy iron ore that was in dire need in Irontooth.

Iron Fang used to have iron ore mines, and there was a huge pit not far away, but it was abandoned decades ago.

In terms of military affairs, Jason also carried out a series of reforms, setting up a new regular army of 300 men in addition to the city guards, selecting the youngest and strongest men in the territory, conducting the most arduous training, and being the full-time soldier of the town was in charge of Lancelot.

The city guard was handed over to Barry to be in charge, and Jason's side was taken over by Quake, who liked this clever young man very much.

And this regular army is divided into two categories: infantry and archers, and specially trains the corresponding combat skills and formations, instead of the previous ragtag army where archers are infantry and infantry are archers.

As for why he didn't set up a cavalry unit, Jason was also helpless, for only one reason: he had no money and couldn't afford to raise cavalry.

It was only possible to build a small group of light cavalry to use as scouts, and although Jason would love to form a heavy cavalry unit and an archers, this was obviously unrealistic for the current Iron Tooth Collar.

The recent construction plans alone have already cost Jason's gold coins, where is the money to buy expensive war horses and sophisticated cavalry armor?

The cost of a set of armor with iron horsemen is enough to cover half a year's tax for a rich village!

Only the wealthy nobles would form a heavy cavalry force, which was indeed a great weapon of destruction on the battlefield, and a single charge was enough to break up the enemy's infantry formation.

But Jason didn't think they were really invincible on the battlefield, the heavy cavalry army of the multinational alliance in Europe, a powerful cavalry army that could destroy the whole of Europe, was consumed alive by the Mongolian rangers with kite-flying tactics!

In addition, the heavy armored cavalry also has many limitations, single function, poor reflexes, too slow speed, too heavy armor, too high requirements for war horses and knights, can not carry out long-distance running, except for the plain terrain their impact formation can not be formed at all.

This class can work wonders in flat, open terrain.

And the armor is heavy, and ordinary people must have someone to help them put it on and take off smoothly!

Therefore, this kind of expensive toy can only be played by the big nobles, and a poor ghost like Jason should not think about it for the time being.

The clerk who had been sent to the development area also came back to report the number of people in the development area, a total of 3,522 people, equivalent to one-third of the Iron Tooth Town.

During this time, the population of the Frontier was registered, and Gareth was sent to the Frontier with a hundred soldiers as the supreme military governor and administrator of the area, and he was allowed to recruit an army of 300 men in the Frontier Zone.

According to Gareth's report, the people of the Pioneer District called the Pioneer District Erbia, which means the city of darkness!

The reason is that at the beginning, the government of Iron Tooth Town supervised Erbia too little, resulting in no order here, so it was called the city of darkness.

There are always people who want to get something for nothing, so these people gather together to do some illegal things, just like the Hands Association in Iron Tooth Town, oppressing the good and extorting all kinds of evil.

In this period of anarchy, they have become another "regime"!

But these civilians who came to the Pioneer Zone were poor families, and they came to Tieya with all their belongings to fight, and now they have no choice but to pin their hopes on the government of Tieya Town.

Not long after these outlaws ran amok, Gareth came, and just like Jason's previous bloody purge, executed the chief evil in public, and reduced the rest to slavery, built walls, and dug drains!

After that, Jason didn't bother to rename it, and directly informed Gareth: "The murderers are killed, and the wounders and thieves are reduced to slavery, and the development area is officially named the town of Erbia." ”

He intends to use thunderous means to clean up the order of Erbia, and entrusts Erbia's power to Gareth, who has absolute confidence in Gareth's ability.

The current underground forces in Erbia have disappeared after half a month of armed suppression, and even if they do, they only quietly live in the shadows, and dare not appear in the face.

I saw that everything was gradually stabilizing and moving on the right track.

Finally, on this morning, Jason has been talking about the grievances lately...... The people from the Business Alliance are coming.