"What a safe way!" Gu Luo laughed angrily, looking at Gray with a mocking look on his face, who didn't know that this guy was deliberately making things difficult for himself. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Since Lord Gray doesn't want to believe me, then I have nothing to say, if you want to, go to General Ronkdo and sue me!, but you missed this opportunity, and when the reinforcements from Sadland arrive, I can only wish you good luck to Lord Gray!" Gu Luo dropped a sentence hatefully, turned around and left the barracks with his men.

"Hmph, arrogant fool, even if Lao Tzu can't defeat you, you don't want me to obey your command!" Gray looked at Gu Luo's departing figure with disdain, and after thinking for a moment, he then ordered: "The whole army is reorganized and rectified, no one is allowed to attack at will without my order, and those who violate military law will be involved! Oh, by the way, send a few more sentry horses to patrol around Sadland, and report any enemy situation in time!"

At the head of the city of Saddland, Jose and Sophia stood on the city wall, and a cavalryman bowed down and said: "The Northwest Army is stationed at the foot of the hillside thirty miles away, and according to our investigation today, the number of the Northwest Army is about 20,000 men, of which the cavalry ranks about 3,000 people. In addition, there were no enemy troops nearby, and because the city of Moduo was too far apart, there was no information for the time being. ”

"I know, in the past few days, I have closely observed the people coming and going near the county town, and if I find any suspicious people, I can just arrest them and interrogate them. By the way, how long will it take for Gould's army to arrive?" José looked at Sophia on the side, and said with a slight smile: "I think our Gurro commander has already had a conflict with Gray, and Gray chose to camp thirty miles away, I'm afraid he already has some scruples in his heart." With 20,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry, our current strength in Sadrand cannot be resisted. ”

"My lord, the news from Gould is that he is now gathering the army in the southern valley corridor of the county, and it will take at least one day for the army to assemble, and the time it takes for them to arrive is roughly more than two days. Sophia raised her eyebrows, and couldn't help but say with some concern: "Although your lord's plan is likely to succeed, Gray is not a fool after all, he will not wait for us for two days without doing anything, I think the Northwest Army is likely to launch a tentative attack tomorrow." ”

Jose shook his head rather indifferently: "Dear Sophia, take it easy, although the Northwest Army has 20,000 people, we have the county town of Sadland to defend." Even if they attack the city with all their might, I have some certainty that I will hold the county, but these are not the ...... that I am concerned about."

Sophia also agreed with José when she heard this, because after José came to Sadland, she only did two things except for training. The first thing is to build the city and strengthen the city defenses, José uses the homeless people in the city to recruit those unemployed exiles, and only needs to promise them three meals a day, and a large number of homeless people are willing to join the ranks of labor, such guys in the city of Sadland grab a handful!

So José broke ground from the nearby mountains, collected a large number of stones and materials, and transported them to the edge of the city of Sadrand, doing nothing but reinforcing the thickness and height of the walls. To this end, José mobilized about 10,000 laborers, invested tens of thousands of gold coins in building the city defense, and it took nearly five or six months to strengthen the city wall twice as thick. Although it is only a rough rough wall, the thickness and height alone have already exceeded the specifications of Valen.

Of course, only Joseph will pay for these things, and the empire will naturally not allocate funds to him. The food and accommodation, food and drink consumption, and the collection and transportation of raw materials for these migrant workers were all spent by Jose. Although it was not yet time for acceptance, the cost of reinforcing the city wall alone had already reached tens of thousands of gold coins. Coupled with the drought in the northwest, it is naturally impossible to dig any moats and other city defense auxiliary fortifications like the imperial capital Gilliat, and José can only rely on the stone mountain in the north of the city to barely use it as a geographical defense, and the remaining three walls need to be reinforced.

However, this also gave Joseph a windfall gain, because when he was sending people to dig the mountain, someone came to report to him that he had dug up the so-called "fire oil"! Although Qiao Se did not know what the fire oil was on the mainland of Ceylon, when he saw the samples of the fire oil, he immediately could not sit still. Because those black-looking, viscous thermal oils have a simpler name in the real world - oil, or crude oil!

Lao Tzu actually dug up an oil mine! Jose was suddenly excited, although with the current level of development of the Ceylon continent, even if there is a crude oil mine, he will not become an oil tycoon, but after all, this is a huge wealth! At least the people of this world are still in the stage of making fire and burning any of this kind of oil, and they at most regard these black things as a substitute for wood, after all, there is a lack of tall trees in the northwest, but there are still many low shrubs, so they are not worried about any energy problems.

However, in José's opinion, this crude oil is very precious, although it cannot be used to power the engine, but don't forget that you still have an icebreaker in your hand!

But speaking of which, José almost forgot about his big guy, at the beginning, José originally wanted to use this thing to do something like dominating the continent and ocean. But in the end, I found that it was all my own whimsy, because such a big guy not only needs a lot of operating procedures and systems, but also can't solve the problem of energy and power by itself. Although the icebreaker was not nuclear-powered and only needed diesel power, he did not have the place to get enough diesel, so the idea was quickly rejected by him.

But he couldn't use the icebreaker, but there were other things, like a few small diesel generators!

There wasn't much to use inside the icebreaker, and most of the room doors were locked, making it impossible to force them open. All José could get out of it was a garbage truck, an iron plate, and a few small items, and even the food in the storage room had long since rotted.

So this is one of the reasons why Jose can't use it in the face of a huge icebreaker, because this thing is simply a huge chicken rib!