The Hero Who Troubles the Heroes

The Amera Fort was originally a wooden fortress located in the mountains. Its uniqueness is that the fortress is roughly "?" shaped in plan view, and the corresponding section is "?" shaped. The small square is actually an urn city. The main body is at a high place on the side. After the enemy breaks through the gate, they will be attacked from all directions.

The Rhodok kingdom is known for its crossbow, and a crossbow with strong penetration at such distances is a nightmare for all enemies.

The fortress is not invulnerable, and its location is a bit of a problem.

In order to ensure the construction area, it was not built at the highest point in this area. On a rather steep hill near the fortress, you could shoot arrows at the defenders on the top of the fortress wall.

Since taking the fortress, Charles came here for a walk, and then designed a defense system.

First, the wall of the fortress was upgraded from a wooden wall to a rammed earth-clad brick wall, the height of the top of the wall was appropriately widened to facilitate the passage of personnel and materials and the installation of various equipment, and the horse surface for side shooting was added. Wooden arrow shields and canopies to reduce the threat of enemy bows and arrows.

Secondly, watchtowers were built on the surrounding hills to form a corner with the fortress, and some relatively gentle places below the watchtowers were shoveled as steep as possible.

At the same time, there are tunnels below these watchtowers that are connected to the interior of the fortress, and personnel and materials can be easily reinforced.

The project took years and finally caught up with the war.

This time Charles only brought Skadi here. In fact, one of the two of them can settle the other's army.

In addition, they followed Little Charles and his guards, but they did not reveal their identities, and they were ostensibly the staff and guards of Big Charles.

With a full set of military talismans and documents, Charles quickly gained command of more than 2,000 defenders.

The first thing he did after mastering the fortress was to count the warehouse and see how the material reserves were.

The war is expected to last for two months. By then, either Kebowen will be finished, or the entire army of the Swadia Kingdom will begin to eat the wild flowers, grass and bark by the roadside.

There wasn't even grass to eat when Fort Amera was under siege, so food stocks were paramount.

At the foot of the mountain north of Amela Fort, there is a village of Seren. At this time, the village has been completely evacuated, and more than 200 villagers have retreated to the fortress. Young and middle-aged men and women have organized to do some chores.

All the livestock that came from the village have been slaughtered. The villagers have smeared the meat with salt and hung it up for storage. The hard-to-preserve internal organs are almost eaten. The blood has been made into blood tofu and eaten, and the bone soup can be drunk for a few days.

Charles took the list and walked through all the food warehouses. The flour, oil, salt, bacon, dried vegetables, pickles, wine, preserved eggs, vermicelli, yuba and various canned foods in the fortress were enough for more than 2,000 people in a state of war. Eat for half a year.

After inspecting the food warehouse, he said to the quartermaster: "The cellar where the cans are stored must be ventilated these days, lest anyone go in and die in it."

The quartermaster immediately recorded this entry in his notebook.

In Kebowenling, glass is a pillar industry that Charles pays special attention to and supports. The quality and output of glass have been greatly developed over the years.

The glass bottle for canning is very simple. The worker uses a pipe to dip the glass liquid out of the furnace, and then puts it into a steel mold and blows it. After opening the mold, the preform is ready, and then repairing the mouth is a glass bottle.

With glass bottles, corks and waxes, cans appeared naturally, reaching the advanced level of the Napoleonic period and filling the domestic gap.

"Save the can for last," Charles said to the quartermaster. "How's the firewood going?"

If there is nothing to burn, the food will not cook on its own.

The quartermaster immediately replied: "The firewood and briquettes in the warehouse are enough for us to cook and keep warm in winter."

Charles nodded, then went to check the well, and said at the same time: "The security work of the warehouse must be done well, and the destruction of enemy spies and accidents must be prevented."

Another officer next to him said: "The warehouses of the fortress are scattered, and it will not happen that all the materials are damaged in an accident in one warehouse."

"The task of the enemy's spies is to open the gate of the fortress, and there is no plan to destroy the warehouse. It is estimated that the enemy also wants to use the materials here."

Charles looked at the commander of Fort Amera and asked, "Fatis, how are the spies doing?"

Fattis replied: "The Polcha brother is a brother in the church. He pretended to accept three hundred dinars from the pagans and promised to help open the door."

Charles nodded and said, "You have a good talk with him these days, so that he doesn't have any psychological pressure. He has military merit when he does this well, and the three hundred dinars are also his."

While talking, the group came to a well.

Amera Fort is located on the top of the mountain. There are many trees on the mountain, and there is usually enough rain. If you dig down seven or eight meters, you will have groundwater available.

There are many wells dug in the fortress, which are usually open, but now they are surrounded by wooden houses and guarded by soldiers to prevent anyone from destroying them.

Beside the well, several soldiers were filling the wine barrels with hand-pressed piston pumps. Fattis told Charles that this was going to send water to the watchtowers on the surrounding hills.

Charles checked the water quality, looked at the water level again, and nodded with satisfaction.

Next, the group came to the weapons warehouse, where many soldiers sorted and maintained their weapons and armor.

The weapons in the fortress were well maintained. Charles checked some swords, spears, crossbows and armored helmets. The metal parts were only occasionally rusted, and the wood and leather parts showed no signs of decay and insects.

"Are there enough bolts?" he asked the quartermaster.

The quartermaster replied: "The fortress has always paid attention to the storage of crossbow arrows. Now we have a total of 100,000 crossbow arrows and 30,000 arrows. When necessary, we can cut wood to make arrow shafts and install them."

After listening to Charles, he just said "um". Although 100,000 arrows are a lot, the average of more than 2,000 people in the fortress and the tower is less than 50 per person, and a protracted siege is about to begin. , no one knows what it will be like.

He said: "Before the enemy arrives, go outside tomorrow and chop down some big trees and come back to plant them. Be mentally prepared that you can only use a pointed rapier to deal with the enemy if you don't have an arrow."

Then he turned to Skadi and said, "Tomorrow you can help chop down the tree."

Scattering down trees was as efficient as having Arturia dig trenches.

In addition, some people in the fortress were chiseling stones, and the rocks turned into round stone bullets of different sizes in their hands.

Charles and others came to the city wall, where someone happened to be debugging the catapult.

Because the climate here is relatively humid, and the noose of the torsion catapult is not easy to maintain, so the gravity catapult is used on the city wall.

The throwing rod of these small trebuchets is dressed like the end of a barbell with several drilled stones, and by adjusting the number of stones and the weight of the bullets, different ranges can be obtained.

A middle-aged man in his fifties stood beside a trebuchet and instructed soldiers to place a football-sized stone bomb on it.

With the middle-aged man's order, the catapult was launched, and the granite projectile weighing about 15 kilometers leaped over the barn city, smashed a few dozen meters outside the fortress with a "bang", and then followed the hillside unstoppably. Get off.

On the side, an officer was holding a wooden board on which the shooting table of the trebuchet was drawn, and he was comparing the actual range with the value on the shooting table.

Fatis introduced to Charles: "This is Atiman, he is a famous engineering expert, and he has improved a lot of equipment in the past two years."

Then he added: "Wait, some soldiers who made mistakes will go down the mountain and bring the stones back. It is estimated that they can be made into two or three small stone bullets."

Charles nodded slightly, in fact he had known Atiman for a long time.

At the beginning, Vice President Yi wanted Artiman to be a professor at McGarden University, but the engineering master said that he did not want to retire now and would return to the college in a few years.

The officer in command of the catapult, Vice-Principal Yi, also knew him. He was Harroth's younger brother and one of Professor Yi's direct disciples. He was good at geometry and stewed pork ribs soup.

Charles didn't bother them, and took the others to inspect the preparations on the city wall.

On the city wall, many soldiers removed the arrow shields and applied a sticky layer of glue to the outer layer.

When this layer of mud is dry, the arrow shield will not be afraid of rockets for a while.

The last group came to an arrow tower, which was equipped with two crossbows.

Charles was listening to Fatis explaining the terrain outside the fortress a moment ago, but the next moment he suddenly picked up a trumpet and blew it.

The horn of the enemy's attack resounded through Fort Amera, and the fortress was suddenly full of noise.

Charles carefully watched every move in the fortress from the arrow tower. The villagers hula and hid in the house. The soldiers entered the defense area under the leadership of their officers, and the battle was also in the watchtower outside~www.wuxiaspot. com~ nice. "Charles was pleased with that," and everyone was rewarded with a glass of wine tonight. "

He doesn't want to become a negative character in stories like "The Wolf is Coming", especially since the average intelligence of people in this age is limited, and various complaints are easy to appear.

During the siege, morale was the most important thing, and he didn't want to raise this issue.

Fatis immediately spread the news, and soon after, there was a burst of cheers from the fortress.

Then Big Charles asked everyone to leave the Arrow Tower, leaving only the younger brother who didn't say anything today.

"How's it going?" Big Charles asked him. "How much do you think Fort Amera will win?"

Little Charles replied uncertainly: "I think there is a half chance of winning."

Big Charles leaned on the short tower of the arrow tower, held his arms in his arms, and said to his brother with a smile, "I won't give you a detailed answer to your question that night."

Not long after the family meeting that day, little Charles came to his brother's house after thinking about it. After eating a strange-looking bean paste bag, he calmed down and asked, "What can we do to win this war."

Charles continued: "I suggest you recall what I said in class, and then think about what contradictions you are facing now, which are the main contradictions, which are secondary contradictions, and which secondary contradictions may be. will become the main contradiction."

"When you figure it out, you'll know what to do."

In recent years, in addition to auditioning at the School of Administration, little Charles has also been arrested to listen to his brother's lectures at the School of Dialectical Materialism, and he has as much homework as other students.

After careful consideration, a certain person came to a conclusion that it is impossible to cultivate his younger brother into a generalist, and it is the most important thing to let him have a suitable way of thinking.

Little Charles frowned slightly and thought.