Second, as soon as the sky was bright, Yang Fan was woken up by the sound of the peasants getting up. Because he slept too long yesterday, he didn't feel sleepy even after only a few hours of sleep.

Get up with everyone, after washing, simply eat some dry food, the farmers consciously started today's work, the sun just came out of the foot of the snow-capped mountains and sounded the sound of tinkling knocking.

Yang Fan, who had nothing to do, could only lie on the river bank in a daze again. However, this situation only lasted until noon. Because as the farmers were busy all morning, Yang Fan finally gathered the stones needed to build the "barracks", so he couldn't wait to give an order and returned to the territory with everyone.

In the Great Wilderness, the low shrubs are lush and green, especially in this season, almost every shrub is hung with new leaf buds, and it looks like tiny and crystalline emeralds from a distance.

Occasionally, some of the shrubs have even grown flower bones, and although they have not yet opened, the people who are hurrying all the way can already faintly smell the faint fragrance coming from the air.

Yang Fan hadn't returned to the territory for two days, although he knew that there must have been a lot of changes in the territory, after all, he had built a city wall and a blacksmith shop in the mines, as well as upgraded the council chamber. But when he saw the high walls from afar, he still couldn't help but feel a little excited.

The shape of the entire city wall is square, and it is roughly estimated that it is at least tens of thousands of square meters, which is slightly larger than the number of people in the territory, and even Yang Fan does not even have a warrior to guard the city wall now.

Even if all the peasants and archers were to be sent, there would be only about thirty men, and it would be difficult to guard even one side of the wall.

However, the original purpose of his construction of the city wall was to prevent the attack of demonic beasts, so for now, it doesn't make much difference whether there are soldiers on the city wall or not.

Walking closer, Yang Fan took a closer look.

The appearance of the city wall is similar to those ancient city walls in his previous life, more than ten meters high, and it is made of cyan boulders. There are arrow stacks every meter or so on the head of the city wall, and there are two archers standing on the wall facing Yang Fan and the others.

Not only that, in addition to the archers, there were also two ballistae on the city wall, and next to each ballista stood three strong men in green clothes and gray hats that Yang Fan had never seen.

Although he was a little surprised to see the six strong men, Yang Fan was relieved when he thought about the magic of the mutation system.

After all, this is the real world, and the ballista is nothing more than a war machine, and it is impossible for anyone to fire automatically like in Heroes of Invincible.

After figuring it out, Yang Fan looked at the arrows with the thickness of Chengren's forearm on the crossbow cart and sighed.

Originally, the ballista was not suitable for being placed on the city wall, or it was impossible for it to exert its maximum power when placed on the city wall.

Because its effective lethality is very limited if it is fired from the top of the city walls, it can kill up to two enemies at the same time in a large-scale siege battle.

But if it is placed on the ground and fired, with that terrifying heavy arrow, and its powerful impact, I am afraid that killing the enemy is not much different from a string of sugar gourds, if it is an ordinary soldier, even a knight can penetrate at least four people at the same time, so it is not very wise to place it on the city wall.

Of course, Yang Fan also knew this, if he traveled to the ancient times of his previous life, he would not make such a low-level mistake. But in this world, the situation is a bit special, because there are flying monsters in this world, not only wild ones, but also air units specially cultivated by various countries.

Although the small principality he is currently in does not cultivate special air troops, from the memory of the little prince, he learned that on this continent, basically all countries at the kingdom level have their own ace air powerhouses, which are the elite of the elite composed of all flying monsters and warriors of the same rank.

There are even a very small number of empires that have reached an agreement with the dragon clan to form the most powerful air supremacy on the continent - Dragoons.

So whether it's to prevent wild aerial monsters, or to prepare for possible conflicts with countries with air forces in the future, placing a giant crossbow on the city walls is essential.

Of course, this is just some of the defenses in the early stage of the development of the territory, as long as the territory develops stronger, these ballistas can be truly used to the fullest.

Because then, with the flying arms of the seven camps, even if the "Dragoon" comes, don't want to take any advantage.

However, these things are still far away, and they are not what Yang Fan needs to consider now, the most important thing at the moment is to develop the territory in a down-to-earth manner.

Glancing at the crossbow car again, Yang Fan walked towards the city gate.

Since there were almost no people in the three directions of the territory, after Yang Fan built the city wall, he instructed the archers who came back with the peasants to close all the city gates at night after returning to the territory, and only open the north gate (that is, the direction of the Great Wasteland to the outside world) during the day.

And Yate Snow Mountain is in the west of the territory, so the city gate in this direction where Yang Fan is located is now tightly closed.

It wasn't until he reached the bottom of the city that the gates were opened by the archers inside. It turned out that the archers had already spotted them, but they were too far away to see their faces, so it was not until they got close that they hurried down the wall and opened the gates for them.

From this point, it can be seen that the quality of these soldiers is still good. Because most of Yang Fan's party are farmers, and the farmers' clothes are almost identical, they can be distinguished at a glance from a distance.

But the archers did not let their guard down because they were dressed in the peasant's clothes they were familiar with, and did not easily believe them even when they saw Keith and Ron dressed like them from a distance, but waited until they were all close enough to see the faces of each of them.

Therefore, Yang Fan not only did not get angry because they neglected him, but felt very happy. With such soldiers, the security in the territory has been improved by at least half, how could Yang Fan blame them!

"Welcome back, host. The archers who opened the gates bowed slightly.

Yang Fan bowed slightly: "Well, good job, you must also maintain such vigilance in the future, you are now the first shield of the territory, and you are responsible for the safety of all the people in the territory, so you must stick to your post well, and remember not to be careless." ”

The archer's chest straightened, and his right hand slapped on his heart, and replied loudly: "Please rest assured, the subordinates will definitely hold the territory for their masters, and will never let any suspicious person enter the city gate." ”

Yang Fan patted him on the shoulder and smiled, "Very good, I believe in you." ”

The archer nodded excitedly, stretched out his right hand and welcomed Yang Fan into the city gate. "Master, you better hurry back to the castle!" Monsieur Laurent and Miss Catherine have been worried about you for the past two days, and they have come to the city wall every day to watch for a long time in the direction of the snow-capped mountains. ”