Out of the cage

The galleons reached the western defenses of Waveland six days later. This seems to be an "isolated island", but it is actually connected by the continental shelf. When the tide falls every month, it will be connected with the mainland to form a peninsula.

At this time, dozens of lords' teams have gathered here.

There are 200 high-ranking knights in the kingdom. As for the total number of troops participating in the battle, there are 2,000 Duke Wave and 800 Duke Anreshi. As well as the troops of lords large and small, the total number reached 5,000. ——This does not include the ordinary "agricultural and industrial" logistics personnel who collect wood and smelt weapons locally.

If there are more than 10,000 people, there will be no boundaries. In the agricultural era, if you could form more than 100,000 troops, you would be considered a great empire. At the moment, the human race is just a kingdom.

Most of the royal army camped according to the feudal hierarchy and lacked awareness of modern logistics management.

Tomorrow's territory is a modern force. Although there are only more than 200 people coming this time, they bring a lot of supplies. There are fifteen steam chariots alone. The related logistics are more complicated than those of other kingdoms with thousands of troops. Tomorrow’s territory traversers must plan their roads well to avoid vehicles getting stuck in narrow intersections for repairs and blocking follow-up troops. At the same time, they must conduct traffic control at key intersections to ensure that large troops can build camps before supplies arrive during the current safety stage.

There are a total of six positions and fortresses on the 120-kilometer total position. The troops will report to one of the fortresses tomorrow.

As for Eryuan, he wanted to report to the king on behalf of the leader tomorrow. Eryuan, who originally hated socializing, didn't want to go.

Eyuan: The title assigned to me by the kingdom is low enough, so do I not have to bear the responsibilities of a noble?

According to the principle of "a vassal's vassal, not your vassal", the title of Eryuan can be vassalized and take orders from other great lords, so it does not directly belong to the king.

Eryuan has now gradually transferred its vassal responsibility to the Kingdom to the Wave Territory. This is because the economic ties between the Wave Territory and Tomorrow Territory are deeper. ——This is based on the fact that the territory of tomorrow is strong enough. Most small lords do not have the ability to make a fuss at the level of "vassal".

Narrator: Just like at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, only princes at the level of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao could choose whether to welcome Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty (vassal of the Han Dynasty). Oh, at that time Yuan Shao respected (vassal) Liu Bian, the young emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Eryuan looked at the camp with the golden flag of the kingdom and whispered: Well, I should show some ambition.

Next, in the camp, the kingdom sent an envoy to issue an invitation letter clearly identifying himself, so he had to go out of etiquette.

In the central fortress, the king behaved very kindly, at least on the surface. He had heard about the orc invasion in the west, and at the same time expressed his appreciation for Eryuan's response to the wave's call to send troops for support after resisting the orcs.

Eryuan, who looked particularly young, also acted very touched by Wang's praise.

Eryuan's inner evaluation of his exaggerated performance: His performance was the same as that of a college student who has just graduated and is easy to get sick when he enters the job and is praised by his boss.

Eryuan? The words of encouragement that are paid lip service but not real are dealt with politely.

Wang looked at Eryuan with interest: "Eryuan, your deeds of destroying the orc teleportation array in the mountains have been widely spread throughout the kingdom."

Eyuan: "Yes, Your Majesty. That is what I should do as a citizen of the kingdom."

King: "I heard that your territory is doing trade with people from other worlds."

Eyuan: "Yes, Your Majesty, I signed a magic contract with the alien world over there. The contract was completed within the framework of the alliance (humans, elves, dwarves)."

The archmage next to the king said at this time: "How can you ensure that this contract does not harm the interests of the kingdom."

Eyuan looked at the mage and confirmed that he was a disciple of Mudilia. Eyuan looked at him with curious and strange eyes - as if to say, "Who do you think you are?"

The mage continued to ask: "I don't want to answer. Does that mean that the lord is unable to guarantee his loyalty to the kingdom in this regard?"

Eyuan paused for a few seconds and did not wait for the king to stop the mage, so he simply said unceremoniously: "At least, it is more reliable than the safety guarantee provided by the mage tower to the southern part of the kingdom." - Kingdom Mage Group , there is not a single mage stationed south of the Southern Iron Stone Fortress.

The atmosphere suddenly became cold, and Eyuan's attitude was stern, and he asked the mages to collectively condense the wind and frost spells to suppress.

Eyuan seemed unable to understand the situation and continued to criticize: "When the orcs invaded, most of the people in the south were displaced. But apart from sealing the alien nodes, did the mages of Karar do anything else?"

At this time, the heir of the Botao family led Eyuan in: "That's enough, Master Eyuan!"

Seeing that Eyuan's attitude had not changed, he whispered with a hint of pleading: "You are in front of His Majesty, what you said is a bit too much." - Tomorrow Leader seems to be a vassal, but in fact it is Cao Cao's investment in Han Xiandi.

Eryuan turned to him and said slowly: "I came here this time for the new agreement, and we will fulfill it." - Since this His Majesty is singing a double act with the mage, one is red and the other is white.

He also had a showdown with this foolish young heir of the Botao family. This time he came not for the kingdom, but for his family.

Eryuan glanced at the great mage behind Master Lengtouqing. As a standard troublemaker, he was not someone who was reprimanded casually.

The young mage was swept away by this contemptuous gaze, his eyes turned cold, he raised his staff and threw a spell at Eryuan.

Good guy, now that he's done it, Eryuan won't be polite and will go faster.

With a flash of light, he disappeared from the spot and jumped in front of the mage. He raised the staff, and the tip of the staff popped out a spike, which directly touched the archmage's chin. He slightly scratched it, and all his beard was cut off - as a gesture of harmony. The orc sword master can defeat the ranger who has fought against him, and he can still easily capture the crispy mage within five steps.

At this time, there were a lot of sounds of blades being drawn out. The more than twenty knights around him rushed forward and formed a circle like elementary school students at a skewers stall after school.

Because the mage whose beard was cut was standing next to the king, Eryuan's action seemed to be cutting the mage's beard, but in fact, the white light reflected by the blade shone on the king's face.

Facing the knights rushing forward like tigers, Eyuan still sneered and smashed one of the mage's teeth on the spot. The crackling sound was heard by the king. At this time, there was silence in the camp. .

With such a standard demonstration, if the knights really dared to make matters worse, Eryuan would really dare to kill the mage on the spot and splash the king's blood.

Although Eryuan will not take the king's life, it will make the king lose his dignity.

Just like Zheng Zhuanggong shot down the authority of the Zhou Emperor with one arrow, if the mage beside the king is killed and then retreats leisurely, the king's authority will be finished. As for Eryuan, his "reputation" was originally ruined by the nobles in the kingdom. Now he pretends to be gentle and elegant, but he will be regarded as weak and simply open up.

Eryuan can break through the bottom line and attack the nobles of the kingdom directly, but the king can't protect him. Then a bad reputation becomes a "bad reputation".

The king was not nervous, and certainly not as leisurely as he had been watching the show before. He waved the knight to retreat. He stretched out his hand, took hold of the tip of Eryuan's spear and pulled it out. The reason why he was able to pull it out was not because he was strong enough to break up the fight, but because he was sure that Eryuan still cared about the kingdom's face and was willing to show off his face to break up the fight.

The king said magnanimously: "Mr. Eyuan, since you have given me a guarantee, you can believe it. However, Master Kais is your senior. You cannot do this."

Eyuan put away the blade and apologized to the king: "Yes, Your Majesty."

The mage on the side opened his mouth, which had a tooth poked out, and wanted to say something. The king smoothed things over and said, "Mage, your concern is understandable, but the way you teach the newcomers should be gentler."

...After walking out of the kingdom camp, the surrounding knights automatically gave way. Whether they are dissatisfied or disgusted, they all recognize Eyuan's strength...

After offending the kingdom's mages, the worst consequence is that no mage team is willing to assist Eryuan's troops.

Many lords also drew a clear line with Eyuan. But the Wave Leader couldn't draw a line because Eyuan was invited by them. Only now do the nobles of the Wave Territory know that the assistance and friendship from the Tomorrow Territory are not free.

Faced with this situation, when Duke Botao found Eyuan and assigned tasks to Tomorrow Leader, he asked them to defend the fortress.

This fortress is on the front line and is definitely vulnerable to attack. When the Botao family assigned this strategic node, they gave Eryuan a scroll to return to the city. The main idea was that if it was really difficult to defend, they could retreat.

On Highland Zero, Eryuan is reinforcing this small fortress that is twenty meters high and five hundred meters long and wide.

Eyuan and the mage team reinforced some wall corners according to geometry, cut down the surrounding trees, and began to make fences. Within the fortress, they began to dig wells and store water and food.

Eyuan looked at the strategic map. This fortress node is currently safe.

However, Eryuan checked the growth rings of the surrounding trees and used phenology to determine that the rainy season will come in two months. The human army must have shrunk. At that time, the risk of being attacked in this fortress area will be 100%. More than ninety.

Eyuan looked at several small rivers around him: "At least, if the Naga commander on the other side is not stupid, he will attack me here, so if I am not stupid, I should manage this defense area well."

Within the brick fortress wall, Eyuan arranged for a full meal, and then began to assign work to the farmers and his own soldiers.

For other nobles, the construction of the camp is done by the farmers, and the mages and knights do not interfere. But here in Eryuan, as long as there is no war at present, knights and mages have to contribute their own labor force to ensure that all the work is completed in the pre-war period.

Eryuan personally arranges the team's work. As a leader, Eryuan makes work forms every night and goes directly to the canteen during the day to cook work meals. As for other war-related work, Xia Sheng's time-travelers are working on the details.

In the granary, Traveler 1 was shouting loudly: All lime bags should be changed every three days to ensure that the warehouse is dry, and a rod should be inserted into the granary every half hour to measure the temperature.

Armory, Time Traveler 2: When handling gunpowder, be careful to prevent it from getting wet. I mixed the pressed tung oil with sawdust and added resin to ensure a burning consistency.

The civil engineering team outside the city worked intensively to sharpen the wood collected, dry it, and insert it upside down in front of the city wall to make an antler fence. After carefully inspecting the defenses, Traveler 3, who was in charge of this area, calculated the amount of work to be done. He also had to apply cement to the wall so that the entire wall would be filled with glass slag diagonally downwards.

Because the people in Xia Sheng were studying the war cases and heard that Naga can swim on the wall and like to touch the wall with its belly?

…Static defense requires firepower configuration…

The land around the city has also been measured. Circles of grids were drawn, and the artillery was test-fired. Sliding tracks were left between each artillery position, which could be maneuvered at any time.

In the strong fortress workshop, the craftsmen alliance operates the iron-wrapping machine to create "magic" cannonballs, which are arranged on the shelves like gold coins. These copper-shelled cannonballs contain "wind runes" and the lead technology is "timing" and can be fired in the air. Freely switch between explosion and near-ground explosion.

The nine steel cannons on the fortress have a caliber of only 80 millimeters, the chamber pressure is not high, and the muzzle velocity is 700 meters per second.

There was not enough time, so those on the front line only produced more than a thousand metal artillery shells. But it was the stone shells that were really well stocked. The magician's fossil is the arcane magic of mud, which can easily shape the rock into the shape of a cannonball in a furnace that looks red but is actually only four or five hundred degrees Celsius. This output is ten times that of the previous copper-cased artillery shells, and due to the simple raw materials, it can be produced even if the city is besieged.

Compared with iron cannonballs, rock cannonballs will break after being hit and cannot be reused by the enemy.

Different stone cannonballs have different effects. Ordinary limestone cannonballs will produce more fragments, but they will not be able to penetrate the city wall.

Granite cannons have stronger penetrating power but weak fragmentation damage.

Of course, you can also play in more different ways.

The department responsible for armament manufacturing tried to make the shells with granite shells and limestone embedded inside. The granite top broke the armor, and the limestone collapsed and increased fragments.

Ji Xu (Xia Sheng's traveler) tested it and found that this mixed stone shell is cheap and has the lethality to penetrate a four-centimeter wooden board. Of course, the working time is twice as long as that of a "simple stone" shell.

…The two months are over and the rainy season has arrived on time…

The clouds in the sky are getting thicker and thicker, and as lightning falls from the sky in the monsoon, news of the retreat of the Kingdom's troops from the front line also comes. However, there are some things that have been calculated, and there are also news that have not been calculated.

Our own Xia Sheng commander Ji Xu said: "Abandon your illusions, we still have to fight."

At this time, the frontline investigation team was already using chemical test paper to detect an increase in nitrogen content in the nearby river water.

The "Nitrogen" indicator increased while the "Water Dissolved Oxygen" indicator decreased, which means that the phenomenon was caused by the death of seaweed in the river after the sea element summoned by Naga collapsed.

Therefore, although there is no representation on the map provided by the Kingdom's mages, the Tomorrow Territory has completed the judgment of the enemy's strength based on various analysis data of these rivers.

The enemy force in the upper reaches is divided into three major parts, and the strength may be between two and three thousand.

In the observation room in the center of the bastion, Ji Xu and two other modern military observers were captured by Eryuan and formed the backbone of the staff.

The work of these two commanders 007 now looks up from the piles of data tables.

From the rear, the magic communication window is opened in the command center. The communication box is a little different today because it is black and white.

Next, Eryuan received bad news: there was a time-space portal operation accident at the Sun Camp, and Binghe was lost in the void. He was only twelve years old.

The reason for being lost seems to be that the sunwell was suddenly locked by unknown forces in the void.

Since the traveler in the Sunwell has no actual body, he cannot operate the "Nuclear Element Furnace No. 15" (a substance used in arcane magic to dispel summoned objects, similar to those elves in the forest that can self-destruct).

Just after the super devil in the distant starry sky in this plane was about to successfully project the coordinates, Binghe stood up and carried out a space transfer with the coordinate mark. As a result, he disappeared into the teleportation array.

As a result, Eryuan was very silent after learning about it. This silence made Xia Sheng people feel very uneasy.

…The only things that can stabilize a man are constant fertility and offspring…

In the observation of the Xia Sheng time traveler, the entire world is feudal, but Eryuan appears extremely "modern" here.

This kind of modernity is not about drinking coffee and wearing modern clothes, but about the service system.

For example, all cooperation projects are expressed in text tables. The title, content, and each row and paragraph express what they mean in a process-based manner. Then attach an appendix to each piece of information. The appendix is ​​a fan chart, a bar chart, and a phase distribution chart calculated by calculus.

However, there are still very few people like Eryuan. Most of the natives in this plane have not thought about new wishes, but rather blindly followed the "alien trend" set off by a few people (Eryuan and the travelers).

The travelers who now come to the Xia Sheng plane cannot help but think about a question, that is, in this different world, are they really alive here, or are they just playing a game.

After many Xia Sheng travelers had in-depth contact with this plane and became accustomed to the admiration and adoration of the indigenous people, they would inevitably doubt themselves at night: I am here to spread modernization. How could the spread of modern civilization be so easy? If it's really that easy, maybe there's a mistake there.

After the Binghe incident, the Taipei Space-Time Management Bureau has now determined that in order to completely stabilize this world, we can no longer use elemental bodies. Someone should use flesh and blood as an anchor in this world and settle here.

...The perspective returns to the front line where the war plot is about to take place. …

Just when the time traveler was worried about Eryuan, Eryuan, who had lost his son, knocked on the table. At this time, six other young people in the office stood up.

Eyuan said to Ji Xu and Robert: "The people on duty are here to work here today. You guys have a good rest."

After saying these words, Eyuan left, looking slightly tired from behind. (End of chapter)