When the natives of the island learned that the "Hua Bodhisattva" was going to recruit people, almost no one was reluctant to come. In just five days, Xinlika had recruited more than 3,000 men, and these were the strongest laborers carefully selected from the various tribes.

The manpower and utensils were prepared, and the construction of the Eagle Wing Fort began immediately. Hua Bushi was not the first to build a fortified city wall, but a house dwelling. He had already designed the layout of the walls and courtyards of the entire fortress, and he could build the houses first, so that the more than 3,000 people could have a place to live.

According to Hua Bushi's plan, the Eagle Wing Fort is composed of hundreds of courtyards, barracks where soldiers and disciples live, warehouses where food, ammunition and weapons are stored, and there are martial arts training grounds for daily drills, as well as various facilities such as meeting halls, martial arts halls, and dining rooms. The scale of the whole camp is not small, it is like a small city.

Of course, the scale of this castle is far less than that of Okura Castle, but it is more than enough to accommodate four or five thousand people.

Because the stones used in the construction were ready-made, the timber could be cut in the surrounding forests, and the manpower was abundant, and the Huabu stone was well planned, and the construction of the fort was extremely fast, and it only took a month for the fort to take shape.

I saw that between the two eagle wings on the coast, rows of houses and courtyards rose from the ground, most of them were made of gray-white stones, the height was unequal but they were arranged, quite a new city style.

The stone ridges on both sides have been excavated, and the inner side has carved out the ladder of the upper ridge, and the outer side has become more straight and steep, leaving no place to climb with strength, even if the master who has practiced the "gecko swimming wall skill" wants to climb up.

At the mouth of the gorge, construction began on two walls, which were built high and thick, stronger than the walls of Okura Castle.

As soon as the martial arts training ground in the Eagle Wing Fort was built, there were already people who began to practice martial arts on it, and it was Zhu Hong's newly recruited disciple of the War Department.

Previously, Hua Bushi wanted to recruit qualified disciples in Okura City to practice the "Crane Walking Wheel Knife Method", but he found nothing, so he had to put the matter of training the new war department on hold for the time being, planning to wait until he returned to the mainland. But these days, recruiting indigenous villagers to build camps has made this eldest young master have an idea.

The inhabitants of Okura Castle have always lived a comfortable life, so it is difficult to recruit well-qualified and stoic disciples from among them, but among the Baba natives, there are many young people with good qualifications.

The indigenous people of Okura Island live in very difficult conditions, and they have to fight against the harsh conditions of nature since they were young, and they do not lack strong willpower. Although they had never practiced basic martial arts, their years of fishing and hunting had made these natives physically strong and flexible, and they were by no means comparable to those rich children in Okura City who relied on their families to make money from business and were pampered, and even better than those who could be recruited on the Middle-earth continent.

What's more, the indigenous Baba of various tribes on Okura Island have experienced the destruction of their villages, and many of their relatives have been killed by pirates, and they all hate the pirates of the "Black Dragon Palace" to the core, and everyone is eager to practice martial arts and take revenge.

The 300 people who have been recruited to practice the sword technique in the new war department are personally selected by Hua Bushi from among the more than 3,000 natives who have built Eagle Wing City, all of them are 17 to 20 years old, with a strong physique, and a tiger's back and a bear's waist, which is the ideal physique for practicing the "Crane Walking Wheel Knife" and the "Tiger Fighting Formation".

Originally, the eldest young master only planned to recruit a hundred people, but seeing that there were so many young people with good qualifications, he increased the number to three hundred, according to his estimate, these three hundred people will be able to practice the sword technique at least two hundred people after the survival of the fittest.

The "Tiger Fighting Array" is a battle formation that is good at group attacks, and the more people who form a formation, the more powerful it will be. If the battle department of these two hundred people can be trained, it is believed that it will be an extremely strong combat force, which is enough to compete with the disciples of any sect in the Central Plains in a group battle.

The name of the war department, Hua Bushi was named "Thorn Tiger Warrior", the so-called "Broken Shark Thorn Tiger", which is the chivalrous behavior of ancient warriors.

When training Qingyunwei in Changsha City before, he only trained more than 100 people at a time, and finally trained 49 people, which cost nearly 100,000 silver taels, and this time Hua Bushi recruited 300 people at a time, all of them had to be cultivated by cultivating disciples among the famous sects, and it was difficult to do without 300,000 silver.

Fortunately, in the dispute between the dog kings a few days ago, in addition to the 400,000 silver taels of the "Wanjintang", the eldest young master himself also bet more than 100,000 taels, and now most of the money won will be spent immediately.

Two months later, when Gongora arrived on Okura Island with a group of twenty shipbuilders from Spain, the Eagle Wing Fort was completed.

This gray-white fortress is located between two stone ridges, surrounded by mountains on both sides, and the coast on one side, the terrain is unique, the only one can enter and exit the fortress of the mountain gorge, two stone walls higher than the city wall are built, the gatehouse is towering, and the arrow towers on it are lined up, and the guards are strong.

Behind the stone wall is an orderly courtyard of stone houses, and on the martial arts training ground in the center of the fortress, hundreds of disciples are practicing, and the seaside warehouse is already full of various utensils and materials. Although the shipbuilders could not start building ships until they arrived, these days, Hua Bushi had the indigenous people cut down the woods, sawed them into planks, and brought all kinds of materials for repairing the docks and dragon slaying ships from Okura Castle to the Eagle Wing Fort, so that as soon as the shipbuilders arrived, they could start work immediately.

On the other side of the fort, in a few rows of stone houses, it was hot and hot.

Just twenty days ago, Ou Shi, the hall master of the "Evil Dog Gate Divine Soldier Hall", came to Okura Island with a group of blacksmiths, and brought 300 fine iron ingots, totaling 15,000 catties, to be used to cast the steel keel of the dragon slaying ship. And at the moment, what they are hurrying up to make is not not the keel, but the short knife and steel armor.

In the sword book of the Huadi Tiger, Zuihou, the figure of two short knives and a pair of armor is drawn, which is exactly the weapon used in conjunction with the "Crane Row Wheel Knife". Disciples with ordinary talents and qualifications, and no foundation in internal strength, must use short knives and steel armor to make up for the lack of internal strength and hard skills when they are about to fight, because the quality of these weapons is extremely important to their combat power.

Ou Shi is a master of forging weapons, and he leads the blacksmiths to create the short knives and steel armor of the Tiger Warriors. The two odd-shaped short knives shaped like palms were named "boning knives" and "bone scraping knives" by Ou Shi, and the steel armor that only covered the shoulders, foreheart and skull was called "three-yuan armor".

With the shipbuilders, craftsmen, and craftsmen in order, and all kinds of materials ready, the construction of the Xingang dockyard began. Just twenty days later, a ten-foot high dock rose on the shore of Eagle Wing Castle. During this period, Mo Wentian transported two ships of 50,000 catties of refined iron ingots from Wuyang City, plus various materials prepared one after another, and the dragon slaying ship could finally start building.

After another forty days, the world's first giant battleship with a steel keel has appeared in the dock.

In the more than three months since the construction of the Eagle Wing Fort, Hua Bushi has been arranging and dispatching manpower in the fortress every day, managing the use of materials, handling various affairs, and has been very busy, and has not returned to the Bark Sky Tower in Okura City once, but Yang Jiangyi and Hai Hongzhu have each come from the city to the fortress and visited the eldest young master several times.

Sima Rulan, Yao Yuanxiao, Chai Lin, and other leaders of the "Wanjintang" also came twice in three days to inquire about the progress of shipbuilding. In fact, in the past few months, the "Wanjin Hall" has also been recruiting and training disciples, actively preparing for the next big battle.

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ blink of an eye, it's November.

If you are in the interior of Middle-earth, it is already early winter. In the past, when I was in Wuyang City in Xiangxi, most of the first snow had fallen at this time, and in the Hua family's mansion, Zhen Niang must have ordered her subordinates to take out cotton clothes and quilts. However, on Okura Island in the South China Sea, the climate is a little cooler, but it is still very warm, and you don't even need to wear a jacket.

By dusk, it was already dark, and on the shore of the Eagle Wing Castle, Hua Bushi walked along the paved path of the wooden planks until he reached the center of the dock.

The docks in Newport have been built for some time, and even at night, they are still brightly lit and there are many craftsmen busy going back and forth, but today the docks are empty, probably because the dragon slayer has been completed.

On the wooden bridge leading to the dock, there stood a personable man in white, who was Cao Duyun. Six feet behind him was a man dressed in a brocade robe, whose black hair was scattered and obscured most of his face, while the only small half of his face was smooth and white, like jade.

Hua Bushi walked closer, hugged his fist at Cao Duyun, and said to the man in the flower robe: "It turns out that Mr. Qiu also came to Okura Island, but it's really been a long time!"

This man in a flower robe was the same as Qiu Hengbo, a master of the East Factory next to him, when Hua Bushi and Cao Duyun met for the first time in the "Happy Island" casino in Changsha that day. For Hua Bushi's greetings, Qiu Hengbo did not answer, but only sank his head slightly.

When he saw Qiu Hengbo in the casino that day, the innate aura emanating from this master of the inner world once made Hua Bushi feel a cold and piercing chill, but today he stood behind Cao Duyun, but he was restrained, except for the strangeness of his appearance and clothing, he was no different from an ordinary person.

The true qi of a master of internal strength circulates in the meridians of all parts of the body and limbs all the time, and in fact, he is constantly cultivating his internal strength. When the innate Gang Qi has entered the Transformation Realm, the True Qi will naturally have an impact on the surrounding environment when it operates, and the chill emanating from Qiu Hengbo's body comes from this.

Such a master of cultivating innate qi can of course also restrain and raise the true qi in his body, so that outsiders have no feeling for him, but this must be done deliberately, and the purpose of raising his true qi is either to deliberately hide his martial arts, or to be ready to fight with others.