Lord Highlander

   Chapter 766 755. Hard armor leather

  Suldak lowered his head and thought for a while, then said to Andrew:

   "Get ready to try the fire scale bomb!"

   "Throw some before changing defense in the afternoon, and test the effect."

   "If the effect is not bad, let the city guards on duty at night throw a few **** at the bottom of the cliffs on both sides every hour. I guess it will be easier for the city wall guards on duty at night."

  Andrew nodded and said, "Understood, I'll let someone prepare."

  Suldak never expected to use those fire scale bombs so early. There are a few boxes in the warehouse of the city defense brigade, but there are only a few boxes.

However, Suldak's private collection of fire-scale bombs is full of a truckload. This time he was stationed in Dodan Town on the Bailin Plane, and when he heard that a beast horde was about to erupt, Suldak took all those fire-scale bombs with him. coming.

  …

  Samira stood on the bed crossbow console coldly and arrogantly, her light red eyes fell behind Suldak.

  Suldak turned around just in time to see Aung San walking up the city wall and stopping far away.

   greeted Surdak respectfully:

   "Commander!"

  Suldak thought of the problem of the ghost pattern soldier ant's hard armor, so he waved to Aung San and said:

   "Aung San, I happen to be planning to find you, what can you do with me?"

Aung San hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Commander, the second pit for the soldier ants is being dug under the city wall. I think it's better to build a circle of stones around the edge of the pit. Although it's a bit troublesome, if this The planting pit can be used repeatedly, and it is worth spending some stones to build it."

  As a matter of fact, there is no need for Suldak to make a decision on such a small matter as strengthening the pit.

However, when Suldak saw that Aung San came up in person, he said casually, "That's no problem. Later, you can go to the warehouse manager of the city defense brigade and ask him to move some square stones to build the city. There are still some reserves."

Aung San wiped his itchy nose, and reminded in a low voice with some embarrassment: "There is no need for the kind of refractory stone used in building the city. These are estimated to be used in the maintenance of the outer city wall in the later period. The pit is built just to avoid the edge of the pit. collapse, ordinary cornerstone from the quarry will do."

  Suldak didn't expect that the tattered gray stone strips stacked on the edge of the city wall were actually some refractory stones.

   Moreover, it was specially used to strengthen the outer wall of the city. It seems that the fire wall was used to block the red ants to resist the beast tide in the past.

   It’s no wonder that most of the remaining materials in the warehouse are kerosene. In addition to a large number of arrows, the most materials delivered by the military logistics department in these three times are barrels of kerosene.

  Suldak asked a team leader of the city defense army who was in charge of transporting supplies to the city wall to drive two four-wheeled carriages to the quarry outside the town to transport some stones back.

   Now the quarry outside the town is making flint and tumbled day and night, and the crushed stone in the quarry has long been piled up like a mountain. Usually this gravel is used to pave the potholed road from the town of Dodan to the quarry.

  Suldak is the military and political officer of Duodan Town. He wants to load two carts of stones to build a pit. How dare the owner of the quarry say anything.

   "Aung San, how did you deal with the hard armor of these ghost pattern soldier ants last time?" Suldak stopped Aung San and asked.

   Aung San thought for a while before saying: "It should be sold to those merchants! I was still very young at the time, and I had been digging stones in the quarry during that time."

  Suldak nodded, and told Aung San and the small captain of the city defense army: "Okay! Got it, you guys go get ready!"

   Aung San took two steps, as if he remembered something, he stopped and said to Surdak:

"Oh, by the way, Commander, when I was digging stones in the quarry, I once built a stone platform for a leather maker who came to Dordan with a caravan. Town, listen to him, the hard leather armor of the ghost-patterned soldier ants is the material for making the armor of the cavalry horse!"

   "..."

  Suldak looked at the hard armor leather soaked in sour rot, and felt that he must have overlooked something.

He walked down the city wall and returned to the side of the pit full of sour smell. He saw the soft and hard armor just picked up from the center of the pit. After being washed by clean water, he passed by the pit for a while. After drying, it miraculously became much firmer.

  He tried to pick up the hard armor, and pulled it twice with both hands, and the hard armor of the ghost pattern soldier ant became very tough.

  The raised spines on the hard armor leather have also become very soft and full of toughness.

  Suldak held the large piece of hard armor obtained from the ghost-patterned soldier ants in his hand, and he could still see the rough outline of the ghost-patterned soldier ants before they were alive.

  He quickly walked up the city wall and hung the hard armor on the city wall.

  The heat wave coming up from under the city wall quickly dried this hard armor.

  The hard armor, which had become very soft after being soaked in acid, hardened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the thorns on the hard armor also became very sharp.

"This thing can be molded freely after being soaked in acid, and after drying, it becomes an exceptionally tough hard armor leather. It really is an excellent material for making horse armor." Suldak held the hard armor leather, Said to Andrew beside him.

   Andrew was confused, and it took a while to figure out what Suldak was talking about.

   asked Suldak suspiciously: "You mean that the hard armor of ghost pattern soldier ants is very useful?"

  Suldak stood at the head of the city, threw the hard armor in his hand on the ground, and asked Andrew: "What is the biggest problem facing the heavy cavalry in our cavalry battalion?"

  Speaking of this, Andrew said like a few treasures: "Guber's horse is not a standard equipment for heavy cavalry at all. The biggest problem is naturally that the horse is overwhelmed, and it is difficult to reach the extreme speed when charging."

  He chased after Suldak and continued:

"In addition to carrying a knight weighing more than two hundred pounds, a war horse also needs to carry full-covered heavy armor, knight spears, flails, sabers and knight light shields, and armor covering the horse's body. With so much weight on the ancient horses, it should be no problem to let them travel long distances, but once they go to the battlefield, this is a very dangerous thing."

   "Although we have asked the aboriginal herdsmen to take good care of those ancient horses, we still can't change their upper limit of physical fitness. Therefore, when we sent out heavy cavalry recently, when it comes to the selection of weapons, we will simplify them to the extreme."

  Suldak also knew these ills.

   It’s just that those blue-scaled horses with high physical strength and high explosive power are hard to buy. The pastures that raise blue-scaled horses are all within the control of the Grimm Empire, and only some constructed knights are equipped with blue-scaled horses.

  As for the better-quality black-scaled horse, it is a rare horse. Currently, only the Royal Constructed Knights, the South Wind Knights, the North Wind Knights, and a few elite knights can equip this kind of horse.

Only then did Suldak say: "That's why I said that the hard armor skin of these ghost pattern soldier ants is very useful. It is tough and strong, strong in impact resistance, light in texture and strong in plasticity, and can be made into armor on horses. Should be fine."

   Then he added another sentence: "The hard armor on the ghost pattern soldier ants should be able to make hard leather armor..."

  …

Ma Lun, the owner of the leather shop who has been dealing with ghost-striped soldiers in the shed, saw that Suerdak was carrying a piece of tough armored leather up to the top of the city, so he knew that this must be a show. The secret should have been discovered by Suldak.

  He swung the ax in his hand, and slashed fiercely between the ghost pattern soldier ant's skull and chest cavity.

   This time the cut was a little off, and it almost fell into the hands of a fellow.

   Sweat trickled down his forehead.

   Panting heavily, he walked down from the desk, sat on the bench beside him, and poured the cold water from the bucket into his stomach.

  His legs were a little weak, and his heart was beating violently. He was worried that Commander Suldak would bring a group of infantry to settle accounts with him.

  He even foresaw the closing down of his leather shop.

  Boss Mullen wiped the sweat from his forehead, and winked quietly at Ban Nada who was carrying a ghost-striped red ant.

  The two left the work shed with an excuse.

  Mullen ran all the way back to the leather shop in the small town, and immediately closed the leather shop after returning home.

With a desperate cry, Maren said to his brother-in-law Banada: "I think this matter is unreliable, how is it now...? As I expected, Commander Suldak must be He discovered the use of the ghost-patterned soldier ant hard armor, otherwise he would never carry it up the city wall to dry the hard armor..."

"What are you panicking! Brother-in-law, it's a big deal for us to leave here. He is stationed on the Bailin plane. During the garrison, he can't leave Dodan Town at all. As long as we hide in Wilkes City, he can't do anything to us!" Benarda's buddy said to Mullen.

"Didn't you say that we can escape to Wilkes City? I still have a little savings in my hand. I can live there for a while. As long as we can find work there, we will be able to support ourselves!" Maren said. The boss was running around in a hurry in the leather shop.

  Ban Nada gave Mullen a speechless look, and reminded him: "Now that the plan has failed, these rewards will naturally come to naught."

   "Then what shall we do?" Boss Mullen shouted anxiously.

   "What else can I do! Of course, get out of here as soon as possible..." Ban Nada was not afraid of his brother-in-law at all, and yelled loudly against his forehead.

  The quarrel between the two attracted Mullen's wife who lived in the backyard.

  She walked into the leather shop and saw her husband and younger brother glaring at her. She was about to fight, and immediately rushed to stop her husband.

  The leathermaker Mullen also knew that this was not the time to argue, so of course he didn't dare to stay in Dodan town for a long time.

  So he packed up and saluted overnight, took his wife and children and the whole family, took a commercial carriage from Dodan Town to Wilkes City, and left Dodan Town overnight.

  Recently, merchants are buying materials for magical beasts in Dodan Town. There are always horse-drawn carriages going to Wilkes City, and there are also horse-drawn carriages coming from there.

  …

  Suldak only found out that the owner of the leather shop, Mullen, was missing at night. People in the town said that the Mullen family left Dodan with a salute, and even the leather shop was locked.

  It seems that someone bought the owner of the leather shop...

   It is not difficult to guess who is behind the scenes.

  If Suldak was completely unaware of this matter, these hard armors were likely to be sold to merchants in Dodan Town at an extremely low price, so these foreign merchants would be the biggest beneficiaries.

  The three shop assistants of the leather shop who were abandoned in the shed by the leather craftsman Mu Lun heard the news that Ma Lun had fled in fear of crime.

  Mingming was still working in the shed last night, but now there is a shortage of manpower in the shed, the three shop assistants dare not leave, and they are also worried that the boss will abscond in fear of crime, and Commander Suldak will blame them for this.

  The three of them huddled together, even discussing countermeasures with eye contact.

  …

   This matter did cause some troubles for Suldak. The biggest problem was that there was no one to deal with the ghost-striped soldier ants for the time being, so that the hunted ghost-striped soldier ants piled up like a mountain.

Suldak could only temporarily select some hunters with experience in skinning from the cavalry battalion. Their job is also very simple. They just need to take an ax to chop off the head of the ghost pattern soldier ant, dig out the magic core from the inside, and put the soldier ant on the ground. The ant's head is wrapped with a layer of quicklime and put into a wooden box.

  The remaining corpses of ghost-striped soldier ants were thrown directly into the pit.

   The hard carapace of the soldier ants floating in the center of Pit No. 1 has been soaked in acid and has become limp.

  Suldak asked people to fish out the hard armor of these ghost pattern soldier ants.

  Pieces of hard armor skins were fished out from the pit, cleaned with clean water, and spread flat on the grass to dry. Obviously, soft hard armor skins are more convenient for storage and transportation.

  When they heard that Mullen, the owner of the leather shop, had fled the town of Dodan, the merchants knew that the plan had been uncovered.

  Commander Suldak must be very familiar with these hard armor leathers, and he is destined not to sell them cheaply, so this group of businessmen came to buy the hard armor leathers of ghost pattern soldier ants one after another.

   But all applications were rejected by Surdak.

Suldak is going to transport these hard armors back to Hailansa City in a unified way, because he asked Karl to buy a batch of military supplies in Hailansa City. It should have arrived at Bump Mountain by now, and he needs to transfer those materials to Dodan town, so these hard armors have to be transported back by the way.

  He wants to ask the master leathermaker in Hailansa City to use these hard armor leathers to transform them into the armor of Gubolaima.

   It is obviously more reliable to leave this kind of thing to the leather master in Hailansa City.

  No matter what the reason is, Surdak doesn’t intend to sell these hard armor leathers, so after many twists and turns, the merchants in Dodan Town still can’t buy those hard armor leathers...

  The merchants became much more honest, and began to look forward to exchanging armament supplies for Warcraft materials.

  Some businessmen even planned to buy some kerosene, and then let Commander Suldak feel what it was like to be ridiculed and made things difficult when he visited.

  …

  When the city wall was on duty that night, the city guards threw nearly twenty fire scale bombs directly on both sides of the mountain wall.

  One by one high-burning fire-scale bombs exploded between the mountain walls, and a large number of ghost pattern soldiers ants fell from the mountain walls on the pile of corpses. Those fire-scale bombs were really effective.

  (end of this chapter)