Chapter 29 Preparations
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After the meeting, Ziggy took the bearded Biden and his gang to start making large nets, long wooden poles with spikes, chains, boats and other things according to the plan.
They had to do it themselves, and the villagers weren't very helpful.
Just kidding! Why should we help you, a village chief who can only deliver babies? As soon as they talked about fighting the orcs, the villagers immediately remembered the previous stupid knight village chief, who killed four villagers and made Jean's father a lonely man.
But fortunately, there are still villagers who are willing to help, including the blacksmith Finn, Fynn helped build a few iron chains, but that's all, these chains cost Finn a lot of iron ore, although Finn neither asked for money nor said anything, but people have to have a little emotional intelligence, and they can't be forced to force each other for a long time.
Ziggy can be regarded as saving Finn's family, but he can't always let Finn lose money to help him build iron tools, and after a long time, people are willing? Those iron ores are the source of Finn's livelihood, and they are used up to repair and make farm tools for the villagers, and the Finn family drinks the northwest wind?
So, after Finn finished building the chains, Ziggy didn't ask him to do anything more.
On the other hand, Biden took Jack and Lawrence to weave a large net they called the Beast Hunting Net, which was based on the rope net that Biden had carried with them with a lot of barbs, which was creepy to look at, with a barb on each grid, and a kind of wooden thorn wrapped around the place where there was no barb.
This type of wood thorn is common in the northern part of Grizzly Village, and often grows on the trunks of certain birch-like trees, which can be tied to the rope net by breaking it down and drilling a hole and threading a thin rope.
If you don't get caught in this thing, you can't grab the rope net, and the barbs and wooden spikes on the rope net will pierce your hands, and if you don't grasp the rope net, the barbs and wooden spikes on the rope net will get into the skin of your body, and it hurts?
The long wooden pole with spikes is simple, this birch-like tree in the north grows straight and tall, find a relatively young tree to cut down, throw away the spikes on the trunk can be used, so how to solve the spikes?
Quite simply, the trunk of this birch-like tree is covered with wooden thorns, and as long as the wooden thorns are left for the section to be used against the enemy, it is a long wooden pole with spikes.
In fact, the most troublesome thing is bows and arrows and boats, there are no craftsmen who can make bows and arrows in Grizzly Village, and if you want to buy a good pair of bows and arrows, you have to go to Tucker Town to buy them, but the problem is that Ziggy and they have no money on them, so they can only make bows and arrows by themselves, and the task of making bows and arrows falls to Jack the archer.
But a good archer is not necessarily a good archer, and the bow and arrow made by Jack himself can be used, that is, the range is much shorter than his original hunting bow, and it can barely be used.
It is impossible to build a small boat in a short period of time, it takes at least a month to build a boat, and no one will build it, so Ziggy thought of a way, learned the methods of those orcs, tied several pieces of wood together, and made a raft, in order to increase buoyancy, several more pieces of wood were bundled, so that the raft became very large, and a little boxy, and the appearance was very strange, but it was strange, the buoyancy was good, two or three people could stand on a raft, that is, the water would come out of the cracks in the wood and it was easy to wet the feet, and after a long time, the hemp rope that tied the raft was easy to be blistered and rotted, but it didn't matter, anyway, this thing was used temporarily, and discard it when it is used up.
Interestingly, Biden asked Rooks, the greatswordsman, to train Dwayne Johnson, a minotaur slave.
It may be that this forest minotaur is used to being a slave, and he doesn't dare to pick up Rooks's greatsword at all, and he is very afraid of many weapons, but he has a soft spot for shields, and especially likes to hide behind shields, so Rooks changed to Broadbent, a shield swordsman, to train Dwayne Johnson.
This is fun, Dwayne Johnson follows Broadbent's training, holding a wooden shield and stabbing a short sword from behind the shield, this set of movements is very skillful, but when Broadbent shows everyone the training effect of Dwayne Johnson, it is practiced by Chainhammer Hitrick and Dwayne Johnson.
As a result, as soon as the sparring began, Dwayne Johnson threw away his shield and dagger along with his swordsman, crouching on the ground and burying his head in his arms - the standard gesture for a slave to show submission.
"Maybe it's because the training time is still relatively short?" Ziggy thought helplessly, after all, the forest minotaur slave that Ziggy bought was a mature slave, and he was born with slave training from slave traders, so it was normal for him to behave like this.
The forest orcs have been enslaved for so long, and it is not surprising that the slave traders have summed up a complete and effective set of slave domestication methods that make the orcs obedient, after all, the first batch of orc slaves have been enslaved by humans for four or five hundred years.
The forest minotaur orcs were one of the first orc races to be enslaved by humans, and this powerful but docile and obedient orc race was as good as ploughing oxen.
And those forest orc tribes that have only recently been conquered are some fierce forest orc races, such as the timber wolf orcs and the forest tiger orcs, these fierce orc races do not need to be enslaved and trained, and are generally thrown into the gladiatorial arena or arena to fight each other to earn gambling money for slave traders.
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After everything is ready, the rest is simple, just wait, wait until the next time the orcs come, choose the right opportunity to ambush them.
The snow has been falling and stopping, and according to Daddy Chuck, this year's winter is not very cold, it is a sunny winter, and the steppe orcs should be less likely to raid south than in the past.
This was the only piece of good news Ziggy had heard since he arrived in Grizzly Village.
Ziggy was worried about the freezing of the Salmon River, but later Daddy Chuck told Ziggy that the freezing period of the Salmon River is very short, and it will only be completely frozen in the coldest month, and people can walk on the ice, and the rest of the time is a thin layer of ice, and there is still a turbulent water under the ice, which is worse than a river without freezing, Ziggy guesses, this is due to the fact that the water is too turbulent.
After waiting for more than half a month, on this day, Ziggy was on the watchtower with Biden and them, adding a grass shed to the topmost watchtower, which can make the people who are guarding the watchtower a little more comfortable, so that all the snowflakes will not fall on their heads.
Ziggy was setting up a straw hut when suddenly out of the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of a few black dots moving in the white expanse on the other side of the river.
"Orc! Biden!" Ziggy quickly pulled the corner of Biden's coat and told Biden in two very simple words that the steppe orcs were here again.
Again, like last time, Ziggy told Biden to inform the villagers to take shelter and continue to observe from the watchtower.
This time only three orcs came, one wolf cavalry, two steppe minotaurs, and it was still the wolf cavalry who commanded the two steppe minotaurs to work, tying up rafts to cross the river.
When the three orcs landed on the south bank, Ziggy climbed down the watchtower.
According to the plan, Ziggy and Biden, a total of nine people, did not take refuge on Grizzly Ridge with those villagers, but hid in a high place near the village to observe the movements of these orcs.
"They really didn't leave guards on the other side of the river!" Biden, Zige, and Jack took out their observations and analyzed, and indeed they didn't see any traces of other orcs, so when they turned back to cross the river, they could do it.
Due to the timely evacuation, this time the group of steppe orcs did not catch anything, and quickly walked back, preparing to cross the river and return to the grassland.