Both Emma and Tess were surprised to see that these gnolls and orcs and goblins were able to live together in harmony, and all of them showed discipline qualities that were not inferior to those excellent soldiers.

"I thought you were the lord of a small human country, but I didn't expect you to be just a mountain thief who occupies the mountain." Tess didn't skimp on her tongue at all, but the look of surprise on her face and the way she looked around betrayed her completely.

Emma was a little angry and wanted to refute, but Zhou Dong stopped her indifferent behavior with a look, and the battle of wills would only make the body dissipate unnecessary energy, which seemed to him to be a kind of stupidity.

As for the values of those people who live only for the battle of wills all their lives, that is not what Zhou Dong wants to understand and experience, he has his values, and will firmly abide by and implement them.

After returning to the base camp, Zhou Dong called two female orcs as guides and sent Emma and Tess to familiarize themselves with the palace.

Zhou Dong first checked the battle situation of his own material reserves, including weapons and food.

In the months since he left, the craftsmen of the logistics department have achieved the basic skill of a crossbow, a weapon that he particularly loves.

The hand crossbow is easy to use, the shooting skills are also easy to master, and there are auxiliary shooting tools with aiming holes, so that even a farmer, with a little training for a few days, can achieve the level of shooting six or seven arrows in ten arrows to the target within a range of more than ten meters.

However, the hand crossbow is suitable for long-range equipment after all, Zhou Dong's subordinates are some aliens with good physical fitness, and if they want to make them all soldiers, it is not enough to have a crossbow alone, and now everyone also carries a hard, oil-soaked short stick.

The so-called moon stick, year knife, and lifelong gun, which refers to the time required from basic entry to mastery, also have some deeper meanings.

As far as skills are concerned, in the unit of months, you can master the skills of the stick technique, but the knife needs to be carried in years, and the term of a lifetime of guns means that the changes and upper limits of the spear skills are far beyond the first two, and there is more potential to be tapped.

Under the plan made by Zhou Dong before leaving, both the combatants and the logistics personnel have basically mastered the crossbow technique and stick art, and in addition to the well-trained human army, against the uncivilized races such as jackals, orcs, and goblins in those wilderness, as long as they use two weapons reasonably and abide by the basic combat concept, they can pick three or four at a time.

However, because iron ore is not easy to mine and smelt in this world, and only the dwarves are experts in this area, most of his subordinates are now equipped with wood, and only some of the warriors who need to charge forward have obtained simple armor, which is not full body armor, but a cut version that only protects a few key points.

Weapons are much less than the amount of iron ore required by armor.

Zhou Dong checked the progress of the craftsmen and found that their development of the rattan armor was still in the early gray state, and he sighed helplessly.

After all, these are not intelligent races, after all, the tasks he gave them are compact and complicated, and it takes a lot of energy just to keep building standard equipment, and it is impossible to expect them to have spare energy for development and research.

Rattan armor is a kind of armor made of specially treated rattan weaving, which has strong protection against cold weapons.

Compared with metal armor, rattan armor has the characteristics of light weight, not afraid of water, and strong air permeability; The disadvantage is that it is afraid of fire and flammable, so it is not suitable for use in the cold north, and it is very suitable for use in the southern region of Faerun.

Its protective parts are mainly the head and upper body, and are mostly used in combination with shields to protect other parts of the body.

The production method is to soak the rattan in water for half a month, but it is dried for three days, and then soaked in oil for a week and then taken out to dry, and finally coated with tung oil.

The advantages are obvious, and it is possible to use them for weapons and other products without taking up the production of steel.

Zhou Dong must be included in the research and production plan for this kind of thing like a musket, but rattan armor is also the focus, and he also has ideas about its shortcomings.

The research carried out from the Verdas Forest was the liana that had studied fire and cold tolerance for them, and before the catastrophe left, Zhou Dong took with him a batch of seeds from the latest generation of research results.

As long as he wants, Zhou Dong can quickly restart this research plan here at any time, and the research foundation crystallization left by the Lingu Moon Elves in the past can save him a lot of energy and time.

After learning about the material reserves, Zhou Dong summoned all the management personnel except patrols through Kelde.

About forty percent of these people were newly promoted, and only sixty percent of them still had the spiritual beacons he planted, which was what Zhou Dong usually called the back door of the soul.

Through this beacon, Zhou Dong can bypass the firewall of the target computer like a hacker, directly snoop on its information, and further invade his core system and obtain the authority of the administrator.

Zhou Dong secretly wrote down these four adults, and when he was ready to turn around, he planted psychic beacons on them one by one to strengthen his control over his subordinates.

People's hearts are too complicated, and the more advanced Zhou Dong's attainments in the soul, the more he agrees with this sentence.

This choice is understandable for Zhou Dong, because he was originally a human brain defect, and he has developed his indifferent nature, and Zhou Dong, who is difficult to feel all kinds of emotions, naturally will not have the feelings that he has ever felt loyal to anyone.

So for things he doesn't understand, loyalty is something that Zhou Dong avoids.

He would rather use the brutal and direct method of mind control to lock their loyalty, rather than rely on personal charm to convince others, or coerce and lure his subordinates, or believe that treating people with sincerity will reward them with loyalty.

It took a few hours for Zhou Dong to finally figure out all the sizes of Zhou Dong's forces now.

First of all, there are combatants, with a full twenty-three trolls that have been domesticated, but every few days, one of the guys in charge of feeding will be injured a little, and the unlucky point may be the loss of parts, and the unfortunate point is that they will be killed directly by the grumpy trolls.

Then there are the jackals with high speed, low defense and high material attack, who are good at group operations, with a total of 369 heads, of which 300 are divided into two 100-man mobile companies of the main battle department, and the remaining 169 heads, in addition to dozens of reservists, who can be supplemented at any time, more than 100 heads are responsible for serving as the base camp and patrolling the mountain where Fort Daystar is located.