Heroes of Silver Moon

Deborah left and went to the Alpine Fort again, even though he just came back from there, now he is too lazy to think, is this Simon messing with him, or when he was asked to go to the Alpine Fort last time, he forgot to say The iron ore thing.

But thinking about it, the memory of a master mage should not be bad.

In this regard, Deborah did not have any resentment, after all, he had repeatedly questioned the master's plan before, and now Simon wants to teach him a lesson, and there is no problem at all.

Without any accidents, he got several carts of iron ore from the Hawke family. Valery would not doubt that the son who could lend him five thousand gold coins without blinking would deceive Haoke because of this small amount of money. gram family.

I came to Shishan again, except for the mysterious compartments and cave dwellings I saw last time, this time there is another mysterious blast furnace.

"What's this for?" Deborah asked, pointing to the blast furnace.

"Ironmaking!" Simon commanded the soldiers to pour the iron ore into a part of the blast furnace.

"Smelting iron?" Deborah was full of disbelief. The ore that Simon poured into the blast furnace just now required at least three or five experienced blacksmiths to repeatedly beat and practice for several days before the impurities could be removed and finally shaped into A piece of iron ingot.

A blast furnace to replace those blacksmiths is nothing short of daydream.

Regarding Deborah's unbelief, Simon didn't say much, anyway, the final facts will explain everything.

Pour in iron ore, then pour in limestone everywhere on the stone mountain, add charcoal, in fact, the best is coke, but Simon doesn't have this thing, so he can only use charcoal first, anyway, the iron ingots that are finally extracted, The purity does not need to be too high.

As long as the purity is greater than 50%, Simon can use the alchemy spell of Rendering Magic Steel to directly remove the impurities in the iron block, and can also turn the iron ingot into a steel ingot.

With a purple light cluster plug-in, he has always been at the full level of the spell of rendering magic steel.

Seriously controlling the fire element, the inside of the blast furnace started to burn, the purity of the fire element was getting higher and higher, and the temperature inside the blast furnace was getting higher and higher. After waiting patiently for a while, the two of Simon saw the orange-red molten iron. The bottom opening leaked out.

Use the air element to blow the air, quickly let the hot molten iron lose its temperature, and quickly solidify into pieces of iron ingots with low purity in the molds that have been prepared.

"Look, iron ingot!" Simon picked up an iron ingot that was still hot, and waved it in front of Deborah as if showing off.

Deborah was silent for a moment, and said firmly: "These iron ingots have a lot of impurities, and they must be hammered by a blacksmith!"

Simon's mana was injected into the iron block, and the impurities were squeezed out one after another, and a steel ingot that was one-third smaller in size appeared in his hands.

Deborah immediately shut her mouth. When dealing with unreasonable people like Simon, it's best to give up her cognition and smash the world view to pieces, otherwise they will become lunatics one day sooner or later.

"Are you really going to realize that defense circle expectation?" Deborah asked with a distorted expression after the two sides stood stupidly for a while.

Although he has been severely slapped in the face several times, he still feels, or is lucky, that it is impossible for Simon to complete such a large project.

"Go and me to survey the site suitable for building the city wall first, and then you have to operate the quarry." Simon replied from the side.

This place is too close to the Gelug Mountain Range, without this defensive circle, they would not be able to survive at all. Of course, it is not impossible to open up a smaller defensive circle, but Simon does not allow himself to do that.

If you set a goal of fifty steps, you can only complete forty steps, but if you set a goal of one hundred steps, you can complete eighty steps.

The potential and endurance of human beings have always been infinite. Since the goal is a prosperous territory, a dowry that even the royal family cannot refuse, then he must expand his ambition.

Acting in the humble way before will definitely not achieve the goal!

"Hey, let's go!" Deborah didn't talk nonsense, and followed Simon to survey the terrain with a long sigh.

He knew that the current Simon was a stubborn ass, and it was impossible for anyone to pull him back, unless the royal family told him tomorrow that you don't have to work hard, and we can marry the princess to you.

This is broad daylight, please go to night if you are dreaming!

Following the guidance of the simple map, the two Simons and the three Cirillo came to the south side of the predetermined defensive circle.

Judging from the signs on the map, there are four mountains that are difficult to cross, and three sections of city walls must be built to connect the entire defense line together.

"Except for a few mountains, the ground here is almost flat. It is no problem to build a city wall directly here, as long as you pay attention to the connection between the city wall and the mountains!" Deborah observed seriously.

According to Deborah's guidance, Simon manipulated the earth element and planned a trench-sized groove on the ground. This will be the route he will build the city wall in the future. With these trenches, the city wall will not be deviated.

It took five full days before Simon, under the guidance of Deborah, used trenches to connect these mountains together. In the future, the location of the trenches will become a city wall.

The entire southern line of defense, the three sections of the city wall together, is more than 20 kilometers long. If the traditional fortification method is followed, this will be a huge project.

"Even if the city wall is really built, we don't have enough soldiers to defend such a long line of defense!" Deborah struck again.

"No, our muskets have a long range, and each soldier can defend a long section of the city wall!" Simon replied with a straight face.

Indeed, if it is a traditional army to defend this line of defense, at least 5,000 people are needed to ensure safety~www.readwn.com~ But for the new army that uses thermal weapons, at least 1,000 people are enough. This line of defense can be stabilized.

"Hey, let's look elsewhere!" Deborah said with a bitter face.

Even if the number of people needed is reduced by more than half, at least 1,000 people are needed to defend. Now the entire new army is only 1,000 people. Even if it is expanded after the third batch of recruits are trained according to Simon's instructions, the new army will also But only three thousand people.

Just one defense line on the south side will use one-third of the number of soldiers, so what should we do on the north side and the east side? Do we have to use one-third each?

In that case, the new army would be on the defensive line, what would happen if the barbarians fled to the territory?

You must know that although the defensive circle can stop large-scale barbarians, it cannot stop sporadic barbarians.

Do you want to let those sporadic barbarians wreak havoc within the defensive circle?

In this case, what is the point of establishing a defensive circle?

Or is it going to continue to expand the army until Simon's finances collapse!

Follow the map to the southeast. There is a river flowing from the Gelu Mountains into the defensive circle between the two mountains. The new army camp is also stationed along the river.

"It's very dangerous here. Among the barbarians, lizardmen and sea tribes with better water skills can invade the defense circle from underwater, and even kobolds and jackals can float over from the water surface!" Deborah stared at At the mouth of the river, he said to Simon with serious eyes.

"A battalion can be stationed here, set up outpost camps on both sides of the bank, and pull an iron net to block them underwater and on the water surface. Soldiers look out on the outpost camp and shoot when they find barbarians trying to pass!" Simon gave a solution Program.

Deborah nodded, and then went to the defense line due east.