At night, Surdak returned to the Red Dragon Chamber through Aphrodite's Summoning Gate, and Isser was still lying in the secret room, waiting for Surdak to bring the red crystal to feed, and to learn the language of runes.

Today's Isser can already speak a few simple words in the imperial Chinese, in addition to Surdak's name, "eat", "hungry" and "you are coming", the red dragon Isserl has completely mastered, it can communicate with Surdak a few words, but it is not yet possible to describe the specific situation of the plane where it is located.

Surdak guessed that the red dragon Isser must be in another plane, and the relief stone wall in the red dragon's treasure was a portal that could be shuttled at will to the red dragon, and it seemed that only the red dragon could travel freely.

Surdak tried, and to him the relief stone wall was still cold and hard, and it was completely a stone wall.

One night was a short time for Surdak and Isser.

However, when Surdak first arrived in Dodan Town, the situation there had not yet been fully opened, especially since he was worried that Mayor Marco had absconded in fear of crime last night, so he said goodbye to Isel early and left the Red Dragon Vault.

On the Sulphur Mine side, kobold slaves have all gone upstream to the lava river to mine sulphur and continue to supply sulphur to the firearms workshops in Constantinople.

This time I came to the sulfur mines, and I happened to meet Luke.

The village of Wohl has already started spring ploughing in the dry season with plenty of water in the cistern.

The bandits on the other side of the desert haven't been back in the Wasteland for a while, and Luke and the kobold slave road repair team have paved the volcanic ash cement road to the cliff side on the south side of the Grand Canyon, and built some sentry posts at many intersections.

Charley's construction team also received orders from the nobles of the city of Highlandsa to take a group of bricklayers to the outskirts of Highlandsa to build villas.

However, due to the rapid population of Wall Village, the old village chief, Uncle Bright, is expanding according to Surdak's plan, in addition to the townhouses in the village, two rows of terraced houses have been built at the entrance of the village, and a market has been circled at the entrance of the village.

The village is growing very fast, and the population of more than 1,000 people is more like a small town in the middle of nowhere.

……

Hurrying back to the town of Dodan, Surdak walked out of the small building.

There was a cacophony in the courtyard of the barracks station, where nearly twenty four-wheeled wagons were parked, and the cavalrymen were unloading supplies in the wagons, and boxes of supplies were extremely heavy, in addition to some armaments, there were also whole bags of wheat flour and marching rations.

There was no special clerk in the cavalry camp, and Selena, dressed in a cashmere dress and holding a parchment account book, was counting supplies with a quartermaster.

"Ahh You're back! There were so many supplies this morning, and Andrew said you went out, and asked me to count them, and this quartermaster who had come from Wilkes was the head of the convoy. ”

Selena said to Surdak who was standing at the door of the small building.

She put on a little lipstick, and it was as charming as a red rose that had just bloomed.

The quartermaster, dressed in his military uniform, saluted Surdak with a straight look and said:

"Handel, the clerk of the Wilkes Logistics Quartermaster's Office, has seen Lord Baron."

Surdak came down from the steps and said:

"I'm Surdak, commander of the separate cavalry battalion of the Luthor Legion, Handel, could you give me a brief introduction to these supplies?"

Handel nodded, walked ahead, pointed to a four-wheeled truck closest to the small building, and said:

"Commander Surdak, there are only seventy boxes of heavy crossbow arrows and thirty boxes of firescale bullets in this batch of supplies, and there are also two hundred boxes of stainless steel arrows on these two wagons, and this wagon is equipped with five hundred armor-type five-shot crossbows...... Ten boxes of armor pieces. ”

Twenty four-wheeled wagons were almost full of war supplies, and even if all the cavalry of the Surdak cavalry battalion were transferred to the city walls, these supplies would not be exhausted.

"How can there be so many supplies this time?" Surdak asked Handel.

Handel said: "Of course, in order to cope with the upcoming beast tide, Chester's deputy commander is mobilizing some troops from other towns to reinforce the five pass towns that are the first to bear the brunt of the beast tide, and Dodan Town is one of them, and these supplies are only the first batch, and there will be more to come." ”

"In the coming period, nearly a thousand hoplites and two hundred archers will arrive in Dodan Town, and your place will be even more lively than it is now."

Surdak saw that the whole yard was piled up with messy supplies, and Selena couldn't be busy alone, so he asked her:

"What about Andrew?"

Selena stopped the charcoal in her hand and replied:

"He went to the city guard brigade, and supplies were also delivered over there."

Surdak tapped his forehead, thinking that Mayor Marco had rushed to clear the supplies from the storehouse of the city's guard brigade yesterday, and it looked like he should have known that these supplies were about to arrive.

If it hadn't been for the men of the Armed Regiment of the Trading House who stopped those trucks yesterday and asked Mayor Marco to transport those supplies away, and his side didn't know about it.

So today, once these materials from Wilkes City are sent to the warehouse of the City Defense Guard Brigade, the accounts in the warehouse of the City Defense Guard Brigade will really rot.

"Isn't Dodan Town responsible for the daily expenses and reserve supplies of the city defense brigade?"

Surdak asked Quartermaster Handel.

Quartermaster Handel patted the wooden box vigorously, rearranged the gaps exposed by the rainproof tarpaulin on the wooden box, and then said:

"Normally, this is the case, but the beast tide that comes in the Invercargill Warcraft Forest once in ten years, relying on the strength accumulated by Dodan Town alone, can't resist those Warcraft."

He looked at Surdak with reassuring eyes and said:

"Therefore, during the outbreak of the beast tide, there will be a steady stream of material resources from Wilkes City, and you don't need to worry about this."

Quartermaster Handel felt that he should change the subject, so he asked Surdak:

"By the way, how about the supplies here in Dodan Town? I think after ten years of accumulation, I must have saved a large number of supplies. ”

Surdak rubbed his nose and said with some depression:

"In fact, the situation of material storage here in Dodan Town is not optimistic."

Quartermaster Handel flipped through the notebook in his hand and said:

"The mayor of Dodan Town should be Baron Marko, he has been in charge of Dodan Town for about fifteen years, and I believe he must have a lot of experience in this beast tide."

"Wait until we go to the city guard brigade and take a look, you will probably know that the war reserves here are actually a bit poor." As he said this, Surdak turned to Selena and asked, "Has Samira returned?" ”。

Selena didn't even raise her head, and while counting the number of supplies, she said, "Not yet." ”

Surdak instructed the leader of the cavalry squadron who was carrying boxes with his men: "Oplant, you are in charge of today's patrol mission, call Gulitum before leaving, and pay attention to safety." ”

The squadron leader hurriedly agreed:

"Yes, sir."

The barracks were a bit of a mess, with supplies piled up everywhere.

The captain of the squadron Ovolant, with a group of cavalry and ogres, led the horses out of the barracks and rushed towards the gate of the northern city wall.

……

In front of the warehouse gate of the city guard brigade, quartermaster Handel and his deputy looked at the empty warehouse with a solemn face, and said to Surdak:

"The situation here is really worse than I thought, and I will report the situation here to the Consulate of Wilkes City and the Speaker of the House of Representatives."

Seeing Surdak standing in front of the warehouse without saying a word, Quartermaster Handel also knew that the commander of the cavalry battalion of the Luther Regiment would not be held responsible for this because he had just moved to the town of Dodan.

Quartermaster Handel spoke of relief:

"But don't worry, our logistics quartermaster department has prepared a large number of supplies in Wilkes City, which will be sent in a steady stream in the future, the geographical location of Dodan Town is too important, although the Dodan Gorge is only a short dozen kilometers, but it is one of the five passes in the Sorobul Mountains."

"In order to ensure that the town of Dodan is not lost, reinforcements will be brought in. This time, to resist the tide of Invercargill Warcraft Forest Beasts, it is also necessary to rely on the main force of the Luthor Legion. ”

Surdak shook his head and said:

"A rebellion has broken out in the Talapakant area of Bena Province, and the Marquis is leading the main army of swordsmen to stabilize the situation in the Tarapakant area, and it is impossible to have more reinforcements until the situation over there is stabilized."

Quartermaster Handel said:

"The Deputy Commander of Chester will bring some troops from other towns in the White Forest Plane to reinforce this side."

Surdak said to Andrew, "Let's go to the top of the city wall again." ”

Surdak, Andrew, Handel and his entourage climbed the city wall along the long zigzag steps, and on the north city wall of nearly 400 meters, two squadrons, about 120 city guards, these guards were still equipped with armor and weapons, and the noose on the rolling stone wooden frame at the head of the city was still coated with a layer of anti-rust grease.

A row of bed crossbows on the city wall was covered with tarpaulin, and these bed crossbows were fixed to the bosses of the city wall.

Surdak ripped open the tarpaulin and saw that the bed crossbow inside was a little old, but it was still in good condition.

This kind of bed crossbow has a free rotation angle of about 60 degrees, an elevation angle of about 30 degrees, and the range of the giant crossbow is about 800 meters, and the radiation area is free between 500 and 800 meters in the canyon area.

Once the tide of beasts has swept through this area, it is out of the range of the bed crossbow and enters the area covered by the longbowman's projectile arrows.

Quartermaster Handel was relieved to see that the armaments on the city walls were very well equipped.

Surdakla opened the bed crossbow and put the winch safety bolt on it, and instructed Andrew behind him: "Recently, we will do a routine maintenance of these bed crossbows on the city wall. ”

He also asked the two squadron leaders of the city guards who were on duty on the city walls, "Who is responsible for the maintenance of these bed crossbows in your guards?" ”

"Report to the commander, it's Rattu, the squad leader of the Seventh Squad." One of the squadron leaders replied, "He's over there, Latour, come over here......"

The squadron leader waved at a city guard who was leaning against the battlement, looking outside.

A sturdy young native, wearing a suit of light armor, ran and made a 'sparse' grinding sound, but the young man didn't care, running like a tireless donkey, and came to the squadron leader in a few steps.

"You're Latour?" Surdak looked at the young native and asked him.

When Surdak saw Latour's broad forehead and slender eyes, he immediately remembered that in the town square, this young man was beside Aung San, and the two of them had similar faces, and they were ready to be tortured together, and now they seemed to be very energetic.

"Yes, Commander!" Latu gave Surdak a non-standard military salute.

Surdak asked Latu, "I heard that you have been taking care of these bed crossbows?" ”

Latu also said cheerfully: "When I entered the city defense guard, our captain was a craftsman who was responsible for maintaining the bed crossbow of the north city wall, and he taught me this craft before retiring. ”

Surdak walked over, patted Latour on the shoulder, and asked him, "I want you to make sure that these bed crossbows work properly when the beast tide comes, can you do that?" ”

Latour straightened up and replied confidently, "Don't look at them a little old, but as long as you put on the bowstring, you can still use them!" ”

Looking at the green grass on the gentle slope at the foot of the mountain outside the north city wall, Surdak's mood was a little lighter, he held the battlements of the city wall in his hand, and looked through the Dodan Canyon to look at the Invercargill Warcraft Forest in the distance.

……

Jeremy, the storekeeper of the City Guard Brigade, was sweating profusely and ran between the two warehouses.

Ten four-wheeled trucks unloaded two whole warehouses of supplies, and after these materials were loaded into the warehouse, they finally made the material warehouse of the city guard brigade look better, and Captain Hans had not shown up from last night until noon today, which made Jeremy a little uneasy in his heart.

Mayor Marco and Captain Hans have gradually emptied the warehouses of the city guard brigade in the past few years, and when they were there, Jeremy didn't think there would be any problems, and the entire town of Dodan was not up to Mayor Marko, and these materials were also purchased by the town.

As long as Captain Hans doesn't ask any questions, it doesn't matter if there are these supplies in the warehouse or not.

The commander of the Langdon Legion's cavalry battalion had never asked about the city's defense brigade.

He felt that this matter was not very serious, at most, the town would replenish those armaments and materials in time, what else could there be a problem!

Yesterday, the armed team of the trading house actually stopped the four-wheeled carriage full of armaments, the mayor of Marco was unable to repel the mercenaries, and the captain Hans finally left the city guard brigade in embarrassment, which made the storekeeper Jeremy a little panicked.

He was holding a parchment booklet, and carefully recording the supplies in the storehouse, when he saw the town clerk running in from outside, panting, and he and the clerk happened to be neighbors, and the two of them usually drank together, but he rarely came to the side of the city guard.

The clerk saw Jeremy, the storekeeper, running over with his hands on his waist and panting, and asked him, "Brother Jeremy, is Commander Surdak here?" ”

Jeremy pointed to the top of the north wall and said to the clerk, "On top of the wall." Upp, what are you looking for the Commander? ”

The clerk wiped the sweat from his face and said to Jeremy, "I have an emergency to report to the commander, Mayor Marco secretly left Dodan Town with his family last night!" ”

Jeremy, the storekeeper, shook his hand slightly, and the parchment ledger slipped from his hand and fell to the ground with a 'click'.