From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 148 Animal-powered rail transportation project (three-in-one)

A total mileage of 1,700 kilometers, possibly even 2,000 kilometers, is undoubtedly a long journey;

If you do not take into account the time required for eating, drinking and sleeping, and let a troll walk from beginning to end, it will take about 7 days (336 light hours) of non-stop walking to complete this journey;

If we start from reality and calculate all the necessary rest time, we can walk for half a month without any fuss.

Not to mention, if the size of the travelers is expanded and turned into an army that needs to consider various supplies and other additional factors, the time required will be even more exaggerated.

As a result, it seems that the headquarters cannot complete the idea of ​​expanding the scope of influence to the cave. This area will still become the territory of the wolves.

But if the idea of ​​animal-driven rail cars is really realized, the situation will change dramatically;

Based on previous observations of moose railcars, the witch doctors discovered that thirty moose could pull a carriage of over 100 tons and run at a speed of 100 kilometers per light hour.

In other words, they can carry cargo 4,800 kilometers in a day, and even the cargo capacity of 100 tons is far from their limit;

In this way, the time distance between the headquarters and the cave will be reduced to an exaggerated level, and they can reach each other in less than half a day.

Although this is only an estimate based on a 100-meter track, it does not take into account the rest and food needs of the moose. In actual implementation, it may not reach this level due to such and such factors;

But at least two more 'livestock barns' can be added to allow more moose to be on standby in the carriage, ready for rotation at any time.

In this way, it is completely possible to travel long distances without stopping for 48 lights. Even if it does not reach the exaggerated figure of half a day, it can greatly shorten the time barriers between various places in the Black Forest.

After a period of training, the soldiers drove fifty logging trucks hand-made by the witch doctors, and used their large 'foot crank' saws with a width of thirty meters at the front to cut in all directions;

In this project, in addition to the initial stage of 'clearing wasteland', the trolls in this department need to assume the role of 'industrial workers'. They will carry out the final assembly work under the step-by-step guidance of the apprentices.

Therefore, they were not unprepared for this trip, but thought about a lot of preparation work along the way.

Therefore, Nesta decided to build a factory specifically to produce them.

In addition, there are labor issues, food transportation issues, bridge issues, raw material issues, and communication issues. A charter was also discussed at this meeting.

According to 'tradition', Nesta personally served as the 'chief engineer', and together with the other witch doctors began to discuss how the project should be carried out.

Thirdly, the secondary machine tools will undertake the mission of manufacturing various parts of engineering vehicles, track sleepers, split nails, etc.;

Finally, the sleepers and split nails will be temporarily stored, while the engineering vehicle parts will be assembled in the 'assembly factory' and turned into machines that can be delivered for use.

This total of more than 5,000 trolls will be distributed based on hunting teams;

The work of the apprentices also requires the witch doctors to provide essential assistance in the early stage. This is the second mission of the witch doctors.

The base is required to accommodate three thousand trolls, so all the witch doctors, apprentices, and soldiers began to take action.

This department has been carrying out literacy work for 20 or 30 years. Although the trolls are not particularly smart, they are definitely not brainless idiots;

Therefore, now almost all the Ya tribe aborigines, as well as most of the trolls belonging to the original Finai and Normen tribes that were incorporated earlier, basically have the ability to read and write common words, and have met the requirements to become workers.

Minimum minimum requirements.

The flames were burning, and the trolls began to attack the surrounding forests that had not been cut down again;

But under the pressing situation, facing the almost threatening tone of the messenger, they had almost no ability to refuse. After some wrangling, they reluctantly agreed to this excessive 'obligation'.

As a result, 5 trees formed a living bridge. The roots penetrated deeply into the river bed, and lush branches and leaves grew from both sides of the bridge. When it rains, it can even turn into an arched closed structure to maintain the stability of the bridge deck.

Dry. Although there seems to be no need to do so;

The reason why it is allowed to have life is mainly to facilitate future expansion and construction based on it, and to make it easier to pass through the cage during transportation.

The apprentices naturally know the purpose of their trip and what part of the work they will be responsible for;

The tasks of witch doctors include the following:

First of all, they must be responsible for the supply of raw materials for the corresponding bases, which mainly provide steel-wood trees for first- and second-level steel-wood materials, as well as ‘special steel-wood trees’ that specialize in the production of tracks;

These three materials will need to be consumed in large quantities in this project. For tribes with no metal resources at all, these steel-wood trees are the top priority of construction, so the witch doctors have a large task indicator in this regard.

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The main task of the apprentices this time is factory construction. These factories are parts yards and assembly yards, and are responsible for providing construction machinery and other assistance to the construction team.

Amidst this stumbling process, factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Even at the cave sub-base where the engineering team arrived last, construction work has begun to take shape;

Although the production efficiency is not yet high, with the establishment of these factories, the number of engineering vehicles is slowly but steadily increasing.

However, their progress, especially that of the new generation, is almost visible to the naked eye. Presumably with the accumulation of experience time and time again, the apprentices will eventually be freed from the work of the assembly plant and even the operation of secondary machine tools to concentrate on

Let’s operate the mother machine.

It is not easy to get started with these big guys. The apprentices at the four bases have even set up special "training courses" to train their own drivers and operators.

Nesta was undoubtedly attracted by this prospect, but at the same time he also clearly realized that this was definitely a huge project. In order to realize this 'ambition', the production structure, production tendency, and organizational model of the headquarters were all...

There will be huge changes;

In addition, a large amount of equipment, labor, and raw materials will be required

Speaking of labor, the most basic question is whether food reserves can support such a scale of construction;

The scale of the tribe's food reserves is a set of data that almost every witch doctor has kept in mind. Therefore, after careful calculation, they found that at least in this aspect, the tribe's strength is enough to support the entire population's rations for several years.

Since food was safe, there was nothing to hesitate about, and the track construction project was initially established on a crude battlefield.

In terms of design ideas, these engineering vehicles are very similar to the "prototype" logging trucks. They both achieve the purpose of converting "manpower" into "power" through complex mechanical structures.

Seeing that they and the witch doctor seemed unable to return to the tribe for the time being, they first built a simple base before officially starting to study the orbit;

The food provided by the wolves is usually not the prey that has been killed. At the request of the tribe, the small lords who have been enfeoffed will drive some of the social herbivorous creatures in their own territories to the neighboring territories, and then the small lords next door will fight against them.

to drive away

Just like a relay, these herbivorous creatures will eventually gather in the four base areas, and then be taken over by the trolls to start the primary breeding work;

From then on, these track trees will also continuously produce tracks and support the construction of the East through this route.

Except for the steel-wood trees responsible for the track, the rest are first- and second-level raw material trees for the production of 'steel-wood tree cores'. These raw materials will be used in various production activities based on their differences in strength, toughness, etc.

According to statistics, this track will be 1,800 kilometers long and will need to cross one large river (Heihe River), four medium-sized rivers (unnamed), and 17 small rivers;

Among them, the Heihe River bridge construction project has been completed, and the remaining four medium-sized rivers will also be crossed directly using the same method;

Although these are sophisticated, they are indeed "rough-skinned and thick-skinned". They don't mind being placed in the wild at all, which can be said to be quite worry-free.

At this time, the two thousand trolls in the headquarters are ready to go, ready to go to unknown areas to carry out their mission according to the needs of the dictator;

The three thousand external laborers were also procrastinating in preparations, and after repeated urgings from the envoys, they finally embarked on the journey to the Yabu headquarters, and are expected to arrive one after another in the next two months.

Next, is ‘food’;

This is actually not too difficult to overcome after having the icehouse transport truck, but the transportation process takes a certain amount of time. In addition, we have 'signed' a covenant with the wolves, so for a long time

Presumably there will be no shortage of food supply.

After transforming the required tree species, five witch doctors arrived at each scheduled bridge pier construction site by boat, tied vines on their bodies and dived into the water to complete the planting and birth of the bridge piers underwater;

After the bridge piers were built, the witch doctors took each bridge pier as the center, extended the trees they controlled to both ends, and completely integrated them structurally and materially at the intersection;

After these components are manufactured in categories, they will be sent to a nearby assembly yard, where apprentices will command ordinary trolls to assemble them.

Most of them require 2-3 trolls to operate, one of whom provides forward power and steering control. Some large vehicles with exaggerated weight sometimes require two trolls to provide power at the same time;

Vehicles such as forklifts and excavators, in addition to the 'driver', also need to be equipped with one or two additional operators who are responsible for controlling the bucket and digging bucket.

Through the reasonable use of these two materials, plus some lubricating grease, these secondary machine tools have the ability to process most materials.

The fire lasted for three full days before it was extinguished. Then more than 20 witch doctors came in and began to use the tribe's only earth and stone magic to level the ground, and along the way, the original soil turned into something almost stone.

structure, and reserved a certain amount of holes for foundation construction. This transformation also took a lot of time to complete.

After the initial work was completed, Nesta gradually felt that this base was not destined to become a 'temporary'. This gave him a new idea for the orbital preparation plan.

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At this point, all the witch doctors did not need to participate in the remaining work. After handing over the subsequent construction tasks to the soldiers, the witch doctors sat on the ground and began to really discuss the preparations for the track construction.

Then, the apprentices who stayed in each stronghold conveyed this request to each tribe again.

But as construction progresses, various plans are constantly being changed.

The temporary base was set up in the previous battlefield. Although the trolls did not hate this bloody environment, the witch doctors decided to make some changes here considering the impact on hygiene;

The trap was refilled, and the previously recovered wood stained with blood was abandoned as planned for construction. They were laid in piles and set alight on the battlefield with a radius of three hundred meters.

The specific construction processes and processing tasks of these factories are as follows;

First, the production team will open up a treeless area to house the mother machine built by the witch doctors;

The machine tools made by the witch doctor are all purely magical machine tools;

Of course, this "pure magic method" only refers to the use of magic power to form the machine tool as a whole when manufacturing it. It does not mean that it also uses the power of magic power during processing operations.

The steel and wood raw material production trees that the witch doctors had previously cultivated were prepared just for them.

First of all, route exploration must be carried out, and this work started as early as ten days ago;

Under the protection of teams of Farstriders, almost all the witch doctor apprentices were sent out. Their task was to find a road as smooth as possible and mark all the sections along the route that required witch doctors to 'cheat', such as

Rivers and other terrain that cannot be avoided.

The apprentices designed and manufactured a series of engineering vehicles such as logging trucks, bucket trucks, and excavators. During the construction of the test track and even the development of the temporary base, the witch doctors saw their value and believed that they would

It will be of great help to the upcoming project.

After the witch doctors completed this raw material production activity that cost them a lot of effort, the construction teams from the headquarters, including many hunting team apprentices, finally arrived at their respective target bases.

In total, it only took a few hours to extend the diameter of the open space to nearly a hundred meters, and it was still expanding.

For such a huge engineering project, the necessary labor force can be said to be indispensable, and it is not necessary for this department to bear all of it.

They believe that they should appropriately increase the burden on their allies. After all, this track, and even the tracks that will be built in the future, belong to the welfare of all trolls. Those second-category allied tribes should not only enjoy the benefits without participating.

Under construction.

This rhetoric is very high-sounding, but everyone knows the reality. After all, the so-called "Black Forest Punishment" is actually known to the witch doctors by now.

After the discussion, the preparatory team immediately sent a message to the east, requesting the headquarters to temporarily stop all hunting activities and recruit 2,000 trolls to serve as construction engineers.

Even so, in fact, the apprentices themselves are only half-assed in this aspect. After all, they are only responsible for design and have not actually practiced it.

All in all, before the arrival of the "low-end labor force" provided by various ministries, the construction of various disposal bases and the training of professional workers are also proceeding in an orderly manner.

In addition to these construction teams, most of the 300 witch doctor apprentices who have been accumulated for about 30 years will also accompany the teams to the four bases to perform their respective tasks.

As for the 17 small rivers, it seems that this is not necessary. If conditions permit, witch doctors can be used. If the witch doctors are really unable to spare their time, apprentices can also be used to carry out "traditional" construction.

Looking back to Nesta again, a group of witch doctors began to discuss labor matters.

Among them, the trolls in the headquarters will have other more important tasks, and the three thousand laborers supported by external forces will be required to be responsible for tasks such as logging over a certain distance and building roadbeds.

This is because the tribe has not yet found a way to fix spells on non-living objects, that is, there is no so-called enchantment technology, so pure spell machines are still only in the imagination.

Three hundred for large tribes and 100 for medium tribes, which is undoubtedly a heavy burden for the eastern tribes;

Therefore, they have become key workers in various factories and are deliberately trained to operate machine tools.

The Heihe River near the headquarters is 180 meters wide and the deepest reaches 43 meters. Five witch doctors will work together to build a 'bridge' that is 50 meters wide and 200 meters long, and will be supported by five piers in the middle;

In order to give the bridge body good support capabilities, they made some modifications based on the 'keel wood', making it have higher strength in addition to its original excellent water erosion resistance.

Before these apprentices and the troll engineering team arrived, the witch doctors in the cave had already been divided into four groups. Three of the groups would leave here and arrive at sub-bases 2 to 4 under the escort of soldiers.

Make some preliminary arrangements.

In this case, how to build this ultra-long track has become an unavoidable problem.

After discussion, the witch doctors decided to arrange four sub-bases similar to caves along the 1,800 kilometers, and temporarily named them with numbers;

The No. 1 Western Branch Base is naturally the land beneath our feet. As a temporary ‘terminal’, it will become the most important branch besides the headquarters as the ‘general base’;

The remaining No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 sub-bases are roughly evenly distributed in intervals 450 kilometers apart.

The soldiers took off their armor, took steel and wooden shovels, and entered the flames, constantly turning over the earth, pulling out all the remaining plant roots, seeping wolf blood, and spreading wolf carcasses, and letting them all melt in the flames.

For ashes.

Its production structure is still the old openable and closable manufacturing warehouse model. Each plant can produce five 15-meter-long steel-wood tracks at the same time every month. The total monthly output is 225 kilometers, which can lay the required tracks for 112.5 kilometers.

It will take 17 months to more than meet the needs of this construction;

Secondly, the apprentices use these mother machines to reprocess the raw steel and wood that have begun to produce output, turning them into groups of parts with the same specifications, and then manually assembling them into secondary machine tools;

Not only that, but the new generations who have grown up over the past two or thirty years are somewhat different.

Among these 13,000 tree species, 3,000 are steel wood trees specialized in producing rails;

With the arrival of the production team of the headquarters, the soldiers who had been liberated from the previous construction tasks of rushing ducks to the shelves also returned to their own jobs and began to carry out frequent patrol tasks between the four bases;

In addition, the wolves under Nesta and Azshara's territory at this time already included a large forest area three hundred kilometers west of the Black River to the cave.

The annexation of the remaining wolf monsters is also becoming larger and larger in scale;

The expansion of territory and scale have also improved their ability to obtain prey. Therefore, they are now continuously providing meat food to the four bases, greatly reducing their dependence on the headquarters' grain reserves.

The felled wood was cut off at the ends, and the trunks would be used for subsequent construction, while the roots, branches and leaves were thrown into the flames, burning the ground under their feet inch by inch.

Different from their predecessors who only learned how to read and write, these new generations who have experienced the 'training apprentice' level of education since childhood already have a considerable level of knowledge reserves. Even if they have not become witch doctor reserve forces, they are fully qualified.

A more complicated job than the predecessors who could only be 'assembly line assemblers';

Not only the headquarters, but other tribes must also provide labor. The six major tribes must each send at least 300 laborers, while medium-sized tribes lower the requirement to 100 laborers;

In the future, perhaps witch doctor apprentices will be qualified for the position of 'engineers', and these new generations will take on the jobs of 'senior workers'

Of course, this is just a long-term vision. At least at this stage, whether it is the new generation of trolls or the senior trolls, because they have no relevant experience at all, even the task of assembling engineering vehicles must be carried out stumblingly.

The apprentices are there to guide you from beginning to end.

In addition, the wolves have another task.

With the completion of rail transit and its increasing scale, the tribe's demand for moose is bound to see explosive growth in the future;

Some of the production teams who turned to "opening up wasteland" due to insufficient work spaces gradually received more convenient tools. In addition to logging trucks, there were also earth diggers, road rollers, box trucks, etc.

In order from easy to difficult, the first is ‘communication’;

This problem has been solved long before the war with the wolves. Up to now, there are more than 30 apprentices in the 'bunkers' set up along the way, acting as 'manpower' signal relay stations.

In the next more than a month, the witch doctors completed the cultivation of 13,000 steelwood tree species of different types, and then spent another half a month to grow them all to the point where they could be produced.

After the apprentices arrived, they first asked the witch doctors for customized requirements for the 'mother machine' based on their own ideas along the way;

Their brainpower is not as good as that of witch doctors, and they cannot independently complete complex mechanical structure designs in a short time, so they can only provide 'needs';

Based on these needs, the witch doctors will transform their needs into realistic drawings after designing and planning in the meditation space.

After that, the witch doctors will be responsible for the construction of the "industrial machine" in these drawings, using magic to form a "high-end machine tool" that is almost impossible to move and has ultra-high processing accuracy, range and strength;

Those 'secondary machine tools', as well as the machinery used to produce end products, will be manufactured by apprentices operating the mother machine.

Therefore, the main force's communication with the Eastern Black Forest has always been unimpeded.

After this order was received by the headquarters, although the apprentices were surprised by the big actions of the witch doctors, they still forwarded their requests to various strongholds in the East;

When Nesta learned the news, the exploration work was basically over;

The bridge problem is relatively easy to solve, it just requires the witch doctors to personally take action, and the construction of the most difficult section is already underway.

While the temporary base in the west was holding a meeting to discuss, Nesta's preliminary order had been passed to the headquarters. The five witch doctors who stayed behind in the tribe had begun building a cross-river bridge on the Black River based on the parameters provided in the message.

The wooden cones in the trap were pulled out, and the horses were dismantled. Together with some previously unused wood, they were initially established as materials for subsequent construction.

Small tribes do not need it, because all small tribes discovered have now been incorporated into the Teeth Department.

These places suitable for establishing bases have been identified in previous explorations. The headquarters' 200 construction teams are rushing there with supplies at this time, and subsequent support forces from various departments will also be sent in batches from their respective departments.

The tribes set off and were transported to the headquarters via rivers, where they were then redirected.

Of course, this has certain benefits for the operator, because even trolls with no magic ability can get started with the operation.

The secondary machine tools made by the witch doctor apprentices using the mother machine are all made of secondary steel and wood, and based on differences in strength and toughness, they can be further subdivided into secondary machines with different tendencies;

Generally speaking, the cutting tools require high-strength materials, and the internal transmission structure requires high-toughness materials.

Due to the intervention of magic power and meditation space, this preliminary work went very smoothly. In all sub-bases, including the cave base, "factories" of a certain scale appeared one after another.

The witch doctors naturally have their confidence and reasons for making such arrangements. To put it bluntly, it is actually the role of education;

Various large and small accessories for engineering vehicles will be produced by these secondary machine tools. For example, the large saw of the logging truck, which is thirty meters long and one meter wide, with sharp cutting teeth on the edge, is made of first-class steel wood.

, although they are both steel and wood, they can be processed by secondary machine tools due to their grade.

In fact, it is not only the witch doctors at these four bases who need to carry out this task, but even more than a dozen witch doctors at the headquarters and other large stations in the east have been assigned important targets, and they will also create a

Approval of tree seeds and then hand them over to the logistics team for delivery to the western witch doctors.

Although the tribe now has a herd of deer, moose are not a creature with a high fertility rate. The tribe has not even figured out their breeding rules yet, so the speed of internal breeding is definitely not as fast as casting a net in the forest.

Therefore, in order to meet the tribe's growing demand for moose in the future, the wolves not only collected livestock, but also took over the mission of 'searching for moose populations'. At this time, they were searching in most of the area west of the Black River, and had

Initial results.

7000+

On the last day of October, I wish you all good health and success in your work next month, have no worries about eating and drinking every day, and be happy!!

Ooooh!!! Welcome to November!!

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