Chapter 113: News of the Mountain Barbarians

The military fortress that Lorist was going to build for the mercenaries was actually two turrets of little devils, with four floors and a height of about twelve or thirteen meters. The two buildings are five meters apart, with the city gate in the middle, and then a five-meter-high wall is used to surround the mound, and inside the city wall are stables, warehouses, barracks and other living facilities, so as to facilitate long-term holding. In the event that the walls are breached, the mercenaries can retreat to two turrets and hold out until reinforcements arrive.

The construction of the military fortress was very fast, first with tall logs cut down to build wooden walls and turrets, and then three trenches were dug around the mound and filled with water from the side of the stream. The excavated earth was made into adobe bricks by Lorist in the same way as the Rock Castle, and then another earthen wall was built along the perimeter of the wooden fence and turrets, and finally a thick layer of green cement powder was applied to make a stone wall. Although the walls were only five meters high, Lorist had the mound slope at a 45-degree angle along the outer edge of the wall, making the height of the wall and the mound nine meters, which made it more difficult to siege the city.

The days passed quickly in a blink of an eye, and a month passed in a blink of an eye. The military village has begun to take shape, with three moats on the periphery, followed by two layers of wooden horses, a sheep and horse wall, and finally a suspension bridge, a city wall, and a gun tower, and the rest are all about the details. Lorist also ordered four garrison crossbows to be brought from the Rock Castle and placed on top of the two turrets.

When he was in Rock Castle, Lorist went to visit the father and son who made the crossbow of the city guard, and according to the crossbow master named Farin, Lorist realized that the dozens of crossbow guards were actually simple versions, not official crossbows. The general range of the official city defense vehicle crossbow can reach 150 to 200 meters, while these simple versions they have now made can only reach 80 to 100 meters, a difference of nearly half, and the precise aiming is also very different, and three out of ten arrows can shoot at the intended target is a remarkable accuracy.

Master Falin said that it takes a long time to make a full-fledged crossbow, and it takes two years to select, shape, and finalize the bow arm. The simple version of the crossbow arm he is currently making is generally easy to deform and crack after shooting a dozen arrows, and it needs to be replaced, but fortunately, there is more wood for the production of these crossbows in the north, so he has three more pairs of bow arms for each crossbow.

In addition, there are many bowstrings, and the bowstrings of these simple versions of the crossbow are made of ox tendons and horse tails, and they will relax when you shoot seven or eight arrows. Despite their drawbacks, the advantage of these simplified versions of the Defender Crossbow is that they are quick to make, easy to use, and ultimately inexpensive. In addition, the strength is fierce, even if the range is reduced by half, the crossbow arrows shot can still pose a threat to the masters of the gold rank.

This was a good idea for Lorlist, who had just come up with the idea of adding a reel to the back of these improvised crossbows, so that each winding was less strenuous, and the number of men who would have had to operate the crossbow was reduced to two. It was a great idea to have Master Fallin admire.

In fact, in Lorlist's heart, the best bows and crossbows for defending the city are those steel crossbows on the vampire castle in the American movie "Rise of the Wolves" I watched in my previous life, one crossbow and three arrows, with pulley sets and sights, concise winding, long range, flexible steering, strong force, and high accuracy. Those werewolves the size of calves were crucified to the ground with a single arrow, and it was extremely convenient for one person to operate.

I remember that after watching this movie, Lorist still wanted to copy this kind of steel crossbow, and then sell it back to Europe and the United States to earn some foreign exchange. As a result, the organization tackled key problems, and finally prevented one, and the street police station came to confiscate the cottage steel crossbow and fined 5,000 yuan. Lorist still remembers Director Zhou's warning, in the absence of foreign orders and no bow and crossbow production license, it is a crime to make such a bow and crossbow in violation of regulations, if it is not for the law-abiding, this time it will not be as simple as a fine.

Although Lorlist's plan to make a fortune was stillborn, the steps involved in making the crossbow and the size of each part were etched in his mind. However, the biggest problem at present is that there is no material, and Lorist does not know where to get the right steel, so he can only slowly look for alternative materials when he settles down in the future.

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What made Lorist feel strange was that during the construction of the military fortress in this month, the valley at the junction of the two mountains was exceptionally calm, and was not attacked by the mountain barbarians as expected. The mercenaries pulled the cordon farther and farther away, and finally captured a pair of mountain barbarian grandchildren who were collecting medicine in the depths of the valley. Although the old man is small, but after all, this is a living mountain barbarian, and Lorist paid the mercenaries a bounty of two imperial old man head gold coins for the grandson of the mountain barbarians.

gave the mountain barbarian child who refused to be quiet for a moment a piece of maple sugar, which finally made the bear child no longer move, and also made the mountain barbarian old man's face warm. The old man told Lorist in a rusty lingua franca that this year was the festival of Kupavisen, and that the patriarchs of all the tribes of the mountain barbarians had gone to Mount Smoore with all the Ulles to attend the sacred sacrifice and the meeting of Bavis.

I see, Lorist couldn't help but be glad that he had chosen a good time to build a military fortress here. Lorist knew that this was the year of the birth of the mountain god Kupavisen, the most worshipped mountain god of the mountain barbarians, and the mountain barbarians would celebrate a year, with a blood sacrifice once a month, and a large number of livestock would be slaughtered and sacrificed to the mountain god. There is only one Kupavisen festival every twelve years.

Ulle and other words are a specific title coined by the mountain barbarians themselves in the lingua franca, which is equivalent to the meaning of warrior. Mount Smoore Megan is a sacred mountain for the mountain barbarians, and legend has it that it was the birthplace of the mountain god Kupavisen. The sacred sacrifice was a blood sacrifice in which livestock were slaughtered on an altar at the top of the sacred mountain to be sacrificed to the mountain god Kupavisen. The Bavis Assembly is the largest gathering of the various tribes of the Mountain Barbarians, and at this meeting, the chiefs of each tribe are to elect the titular Temson, which means the leader. Then the elected Temson confirms the actual control of the territory of the various mountain barbarian tribes, avoids and mediates disputes between the various large mountain barbarian tribes, and the goals and direction of the mountain barbarians in the next twelve years. For example, which direction of human territory to attack, which kingdom to plunder, as well as the obligations and offerings of each mountain barbarian tribe to Temsen, etc.

The most famous book about the customs of the mountain barbarians is called "The Adventure of the Knight", which is a knight who went to the Demon Dragon Mountain Range a hundred years ago and strayed into the territory of the mountain barbarians, was detained by the mountain barbarians and lived there for nearly 30 years, experienced two Kupavis festivals, and finally escaped from the Demon Dragon Mountains with his wife and three children and returned to his hometown. The knight later wrote several books about his life in the mountain barbarians during these thirty years, which caused a sensation and became a well-known scholar of mountain barbarian studies.

Lorist had read several books written by the knight when he was at Dawn Academy, and he also had a copy of "The Adventures of a Knight". The customs of these mountain barbarians described in the book are very detailed, and during the Baivis conference, the various tribes of the mountain barbarians will also trade and exchange goods, and will also hold various activities such as jousting, gladiatorial fights, and hunting.

From the map of the entire Gelin Bia continent, it can be found that the Magic Dragon Mountain Range is located in the center of the continent, stretching for nearly 100,000 li, the area is extremely broad, it is the birthplace of the three major rivers and two major rivers in the continent, and it is the cradle of life in the Gelin Bia continent. Legend has it that in the ancient age of the elves, this mountain area was the territory of the dragons.

Now there are no demon dragons, but there are more mountain barbarians. It's not that the mountain barbarians in the Norton family's territory have become a scourge, but the various countries and territories near the Demon Dragon Mountain Range region, the mountain barbarians are a big headache.

The old man told Lorist that the tribe that ruled the Demon Dragon Mountains near the Norton family's territory was called Habi Baba, and that most of the previous invasions of the Norton family's territory were carried out by this Habi Baba tribe. The strength of this tribe is very strong, it has more than 1,000 Ules, and the remaining seven mountain barbarian tribes in this area are oppressed to death.

The mountain barbarian tribe to which the old man belonged was very small, and the total number was only more than four hundred. The old man said that at the end of the year, when the patriarch of the Habi Baba tribe returns, he will likely become the strong basen who rules this area, which means the regional leader. All the mountain barbarian tribes in this area will become vassal tribes of the Habi Baba tribe, like the very small mountain barbarian tribe to which the old man belongs, and may even be forcibly annexed.

Whether the Habi Baba Mountain barbarian tribe annexed or not annexed the old man's clan was none of Lorist's business, and Lorist was not ready to interfere. For Lorist, the mountain barbarians can do whatever they want to harm other territories or other kingdoms, as long as they don't hinder the development of their own family's territory. If you shoot at your own family territory, then don't blame yourself for being polite, reach out and chop your hands, stretch out your feet and chop your feet.

The forest valley at the junction of these two mountains is the main passage for the mountain barbarians to invade the territory of the Norton family for two hundred years, and the establishment of a military fortress here is to have enough warning and reaction time in the event of a large-scale invasion by the mountain barbarians. The small mountain barbarians invade their own mercenary cuisine, which is also the source of their bounty. If it is a large-scale mountain barbarian invasion, then the mercenaries will retreat back to the military village and hold on, light the wolf smoke to report the news, and Lorist will recruit family forces to attack these mountain barbarians head-on.

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The process of building the military fortress went smoothly, except for a few minor problems when digging a well in the mound. That is, although the mound was only 80 meters away from the stream, it was dug until it was 145 meters deep before it reached the water veins on the ground, and the water pressure was so great that it even gushed out of the well, and finally had to dig a water outlet under the city wall and drain the water into the trench under the mound.

Lorist was discussing the secret passage with Husky and Jim and Steward Codan today. Lorist is going to dig a tunnel under the two turrets to connect the two turrets. Although the two turrets were already connected by a wooden trestle at four levels, Lorist feared that if they were besieged by the mountain barbarians, the wooden trestle would be burned by rockets, and if the walls fell again, the two turrets would lose contact. This will be extremely disadvantageous to the mercenaries trapped in the two turrets, so arrange a secret passage underground to connect without worrying that the two turrets will not be able to support each other.

The two mercenary leaders, Hawsky and Jim, found it tedious to dig tunnels, but they were grateful to Lorist for his thoughtfulness. After listening to the confession of the old man of the mountain barbarians, the steward of Kedan thought that if this military village was attacked by the mountain barbarians, it must not be tens or hundreds, but probably thousands of mountain barbarian savages.

Lorist thinks that in addition to this tunnel, a passage should be dug from the tunnel to the well, so that there is no need to worry about the city wall being breached, and the mercenaries will have no water source when they are trapped in the turret. In addition, it is best to dig another tunnel from the dark tunnel to the nearby creek as an escape route in case of desperation. It's just that this passage has to be dug secretly by the mercenaries themselves, so as not to be known about the leakage.

Because there is only one gate in this military wall, the mercenaries who locked this gate are trapped in the military wall. Although Hosky and Jim repeatedly said that the mercenaries would hold out to the last man, Lorist said that there is no need to be suspicious, there is no suspicion in employing people, and he did not arrange these mercenaries here to let them die, and the time that they can warn the family and report to the family and delay the attack on the family territory by the mountain barbarians in the brigade is enough for them to be paid by themselves, and if they really can't persevere, they can abandon this military village and escape, Lorist will not be surprised.

was discussing lively, but I heard the mercenary guarding at the gate come in and report that the captain of the Morin garrison of Kitano Town had come to ask to see the lord.

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