Lord Highlander

   Chapter 723 712. Supplies

  At night, Suldak returned to the Red Dragon Chamber through Aphrodite's Summoning Gate. Iser was still lying in the secret room, waiting eagerly for Suldak to bring the red crystal to feed and learn the language of runes.

Today's Iser can already speak a few simple words in the Imperial language. Apart from the name of Suldak, the simple words such as 'eat', 'hungry' and 'you are here' have been completely mastered by the red dragon Iser. It is possible to exchange a few words with Suldak, but it is still impossible to describe the specific situation of the plane where it is located.

Suldak guessed that the red dragon Iser must be in another plane, and the relief stone wall in the red dragon's treasure is a portal for the red dragon to travel through at will, and it seems that only the red dragon can Shuttle freely.

  Suldak tried it. To him, the relief stone wall was still cold and hard, and it was completely a stone wall.

  One night passed in the blink of an eye for Suldak and Iser.

  However, when Suldak first arrived in Dodan Town, the situation there has not been fully opened, especially he was worried that Mayor Marko absconded in fear of crime last night, so he said goodbye to Iser early and left the Red Dragon Chamber.

   At the sulfur mine, the kobold slaves have all gone to the upper reaches of the lava river to mine sulfur, and they continue to provide sulfur to the firearms workshop in Constantinople.

  When I came to the sulfur mine this time, I happened to meet Luke.

  The village of Wall has already started spring plowing in the dry season with sufficient water in the reservoir.

The bandit group on the other side of the desert has not come to the barren land for a while. Luke led the kobold slave road repair team to pave the volcanic ash cement road to the south side of the Grand Canyon, and built roads at many intersections. Some sentries.

  Charlie's construction team also received orders from the nobles in Hailansa City, and took a group of bricklayers to the outskirts of Hailansa City to build villas.

On the other hand, due to the surge in population in Wall Village, the old village chief, Uncle Brett, is expanding according to Suldak's plan. In addition to the townhouses in the village, two rows of townhouses have been built at the entrance of the village. Another market was circled at the entrance of the village.

  The village is developing very fast, with a population of more than a thousand people, it looks more like a small town in a barren land.

  …

   Hurrying back to Dodan Town, Suldak walked out of the small building.

There was a lot of noise from the courtyard of the barracks. Nearly twenty four-wheeled trucks were parked in the courtyard. The cavalry were unloading the supplies in the cargo compartments. The boxes of supplies seemed extremely heavy. Except for some military supplies, there were also There are whole sacks of wheat flour and marching rations.

  There is no special clerk in the cavalry battalion. Selena is wearing a cashmere dress, holding a parchment account book in her hand, and is counting supplies with a quartermaster.

   "Ah! You're back! So many supplies came suddenly this morning. Andrew said you went out and asked me to count these supplies. This quartermaster who came from Wilkes City is the leader of the transport team."

   Selina said to Suldak who was standing at the door of the small building.

  She put on a little lipstick, as charming as a red rose that just bloomed.

  The quartermaster in military uniform saluted Surdak and said:

   "Handel, the clerk of the Wilkes Logistics and Quartermaster Office, has seen the baron."

  Suldak came down from the steps and said:

   "I'm Suldak, the commander of the independent cavalry battalion of the Luthor Legion, Handel, can you briefly introduce these supplies to me."

  Handel nodded, walked ahead, pointed to a four-wheeled truck closest to the small building and said:

"Commander Suldak, there are only 70 boxes of heavy crossbow arrows and 30 boxes of fire scale bullets in this batch of supplies. In addition, there are 200 boxes of refined steel arrow clusters on the two trucks. This truck is equipped with five Hundred armor standard five-barreled army crossbow... ten boxes of armor pieces."

  Twenty four-wheeled trucks are almost full of combat supplies, and even if all the cavalry of the Suldak Cavalry Battalion are transferred to the city wall, these supplies will not be used up.

   "Why are there so many supplies this time?" Suldak asked Handel.

Handel said: "Of course, in order to cope with the upcoming beast horde, Chester's deputy army commander is mobilizing some troops from other small towns to reinforce the five pass towns that bear the brunt of the beast horde, Dodan is one of them , and these materials are only the first batch, and more materials will be delivered in the future."

   "In the next period of time, nearly 1,000 heavy armored infantrymen and 200 archers will arrive in Dodan Town one after another, and your place will become more lively than it is now."

  Surdak saw the messy supplies piled up in the entire yard, and Selina couldn't keep busy by herself, so he asked her:

   "Where's Andrew?"

  Selena stopped the charcoal pencil in her hand and replied:

   "He went to the city defense brigade, and there are also supplies delivered there."

  Suldak tapped his forehead, thinking that Mayor Marko rushed to clear out the supplies from the warehouse of the City Defense Brigade yesterday, and it seemed that he knew that these supplies were about to arrive.

  If it wasn’t for the people from the trading firm’s armed group to stop those trucks yesterday and ask Mayor Marko to transport those supplies away, but I don’t know about it.

  Then the materials transported from Wilkes City today, once they are sent to the warehouse of the city defense brigade, the accounts in the warehouse of the city defense brigade will really be rotten.

   "Isn't Duodan Town responsible for the daily expenses and supplies of the City Defense Brigade?"

  Suldak asked Quartermaster Handel.

   Quartermaster Handel patted the wooden box vigorously, rearranged the gap exposed by the tarpaulin on the wooden box, and said:

   "Under normal circumstances, this is the case. However, the once-in-ten-year beast swarm in Invercargill's Warcraft Forest cannot be resisted by the strength accumulated by Dodan Town alone."

  He looked at Surdak with comforting eyes and said:

   "So during the outbreak of the beast tide, there will be a continuous flow of material resources from Wilkes City, you don't need to worry about this."

   Quartermaster Handel felt that the subject should be changed, so he asked Suldak:

   "By the way, how about the material reserves in Dodan Town? I think after ten years of accumulation, there should be a large amount of materials stored."

  Suldak rubbed his nose, and said a little depressed:

   "In fact, the material storage situation in Dodan Town is not optimistic."

   Quartermaster Handel flipped through the notebook in his hand and said:

   "The mayor of Dodan Town should be Baron Marko. He has been in charge of Dodan Town for about fifteen years. I believe he must be very experienced in this beast tide."

"Wait until we go to the city defense brigade to take a look, you will probably know that the war reserve here is actually a bit poor." Suldak said this, then turned to Selina and asked: "Samila is back No?".

  Selena didn't raise her head, counting the number of supplies, and said, "Not yet."

  Suldak told the cavalry squadron leader who was leading his men to carry the boxes: "Ofland, you are in charge of today's patrol mission. Call Gulitum before departure, and pay attention to safety."

  The squadron leader quickly agreed:

   "Yes, my lord."

  The barracks is a bit chaotic, with supplies piled up everywhere.

  The squadron leader of Overland led a team of cavalry and ogres, led the horses, left the barracks, and rushed towards the gate of the north city wall.

  …

  In front of the warehouse gate of the City Defense Brigade, Quartermaster Handel and his deputy looked solemnly at the empty warehouse, and said to Suldak:

   "The situation here is really more serious than imagined. I will truthfully report the situation here to the governor of Wilkes City and the Speaker of the House of Representatives."

   Seeing Suldak standing in front of the warehouse without saying a word, Quartermaster Handel also knew that the commander of the cavalry battalion of the Luthor Legion had just changed defense to Dodan Town and would not bear any responsibility for it.

   Quartermaster Handel said in relief:

"But don't worry, our logistics department has prepared a large amount of supplies in Wilkes City, and will send them over in a steady stream in the next period of time. The geographical location of Dodan Town is too important, Dodan Although the canyon is only a short dozen kilometers, it is one of the five passes in the Sorobur Mountains."

   "In order to ensure that the town of Dodan will not fall, reinforcements will be called up. This time, we will rely on the main force of the Luthor Legion to resist the beast tide in the Invercargill Warcraft Forest."

  Suldak shook his head and said:

"A rebellion broke out in the Tarapakan area of ​​Bena Province. Lord Marquis led the main swordsman regiment to stabilize the situation in the Tarapakan area. Before the situation there is stable, there will be no more reinforcements. "

   Quartermaster Handel said:

   "The deputy head of the Chester army will send some reinforcements here from other small towns in the Bailin plane."

  Suldak said to Andrew: "Let's go to the top of the city wall to have a look."

Suldak, Andrew, and Handel climbed up the city wall along the long "zigzag" steps. Two squadrons and about 120 city guards were on the north wall of nearly 400 meters. The armor and weapons of the guards are still complete, and the noose on the rolling stone wooden frame on the top of the city is still coated with a layer of anti-rust grease.

  A row of bed crossbows on the city wall is covered with tarpaulin, and these bed crossbows are fixed on the bosses of the city wall.

  Suldak tore off the tarpaulin, and saw that although the bed crossbow inside was a bit old, it was still intact.

  This kind of bed crossbow has a free rotation angle of about 60 degrees, a pitch angle of about 30 degrees, a giant crossbow with a range of nearly 800 meters, and the radiation area is freely in the canyon area between 500 and 800 meters.

  Once the beast swarm rushed through this area, it would be considered out of the range of the bed crossbow and entered the area covered by the longbow archer's throwing arrows.

   Quartermaster Handel was relieved to see that the armaments on the city wall were very complete.

  Sul Dakla opened the bed crossbow and installed the winch safety bolt, and told Andrew behind him: "Recently, a routine maintenance will be performed on these bed crossbows on the city wall."

   Then he asked the squadron leaders of the two city guards who were on duty on the city wall: "Who in your guards is usually responsible for maintaining these bed crossbows?"

   "Reporting to the commander, it is Latu, the captain of the seventh squadron." One of the squadron leaders replied: "He is over there, Latu, come here..."

  The squadron leader waved to a city guard who was leaning against the wall and looking out.

A vigorous young aborigine, wearing a set of light armor, made a "splashing" friction sound when he ran, but the young man didn't care. He was like a tireless donkey when he ran. Go to the squadron leader.

   "Are you Latu?" Suldak looked at the young aborigine and asked him.

Seeing Latu's broad forehead and slender eyes, Suldak immediately remembered that in the town square, this young man was beside Aung San, and the two had very similar faces, ready to be tortured together. Now it seems that he is very energetic.

   "Yes, Commander!" Latu gave a substandard military salute to Suldak.

  Suldak asked Latu: "I heard that you have been maintaining these bed crossbows?"

  Latu also said straightforwardly: "When I entered the city defense army, our captain was a craftsman who was responsible for maintaining the bed crossbow on the north wall. He taught me this craft before he retired."

  Suldak walked over, patted Latu on the shoulder, and asked him: "I want you to ensure that these bed crossbows can be used normally when the beast tide comes, can you do it?"

  Latour stood up straight and replied confidently: "Don't look at them as old, but as long as you put bowstrings on them, they can still be used!"

Seeing a piece of green grass on the gentle **** at the foot of the mountain outside the northern city wall, Suldak felt a little more relaxed. He held on to the wall stacks of the city wall, looked through the Dodan Canyon through his eyes, and looked at Inverka in the distance. Jill Forest of Warcraft.

  …

  Jeremy, the warehouse manager of the City Defense Brigade, was sweating profusely, running back and forth between the two warehouses.

Ten four-wheeled trucks unloaded two entire warehouses of materials. After these materials were loaded into the warehouses, the material warehouses of the City Defense Brigade finally became more attractive. Captain Hans did not show up from last night until noon today, making Jerry Mi felt a little uneasy.

Mayor Marko and Captain Hans have gradually emptied the warehouses of the City Defense Brigade in the past few years. When they were there, Jeremy didn't think there would be any problems. The whole town of Dodan was not yet Marko The mayor has the final say, these materials are also purchased with funds from the town.

  As long as Captain Hans doesn't raise any doubts, it doesn't matter whether there are these materials in the warehouse or not.

  The commander of the Cavalry Battalion of the Langdon Legion never asked about the city defense brigade.

  He didn’t think this matter was too serious. At most, the town would replenish the military supplies in time, so what’s the problem?

Yesterday, the armed forces of the trading firm actually stopped the wagon full of armaments and supplies, the mayor of Marko was unable to drive back those mercenaries, and the captain of Hans finally left the city defense brigade in embarrassment, which made the warehouse manager Jay Rimi felt a little flustered.

He was holding a parchment booklet, carefully recording the supplies in the warehouse, when he saw the town clerk running in from outside panting. He and this clerk happened to be neighbors, and they often get together Drinking, but he rarely came to the city defense team.

  The clerk saw Jeremy, the warehouse manager, with his hands on his waist, and ran over panting heavily, and asked him, "Brother Jeremy, is Commander Suldak here?"

  Jeremy pointed to the top of the north city wall, and said to the clerk, "It's on the top of the city wall. Earp, what can you do with the Commander?"

  The clerk wiped the sweat off his face and said to Jeremy: "I have an emergency to report to the Commander. Mayor Marko secretly left Dodan with his family last night!"

  Warehouse manager Jeremy's hand trembled slightly, the sheepskin account book slipped from his hand, and fell to the ground with a'click'.

  (end of this chapter)