Chapter 123. The river of time flows
"The system, giving detailed data on the clock tower."
Kant's thinking is slightly moving.
On the retina, detailed data from the system immediately pops up.
【Ding... System Prompt]
[Clock Tower: Military Building.] The stone building is topped with a small bronze bell that can be used to tell the time or sound alarms. Building Characteristics: Emergency Mobilization. When war comes, ringing the bronze bell will conscript all civilians to arm themselves to protect their homes, and all civilians will be temporarily promoted to recruits during the defense of the city. The construction cost 1,000 dinars and took 10 days. 】
The data is clear.
Kant raised his eyebrows slightly, the effect of this building is more than special.
It's simply the only one!
At present, Kant is the only building with a character.
[Emergency Mobilization]: When war comes, ringing the bronze bell can call up all civilians to arm themselves to protect their homes, and during the defense of the city, all civilians will be temporarily promoted to recruits.
"It seems to be a little, familiar feeling."
Kant licked the corners of his mouth.
This architectural feature can almost be called a magic skill when defending the city.
When there are a large number of civilians in the fortress, if the bronze bell is ringed to officially activate this architectural feature, then Kant will instantly have 500 more Swadian recruits who have received basic military training and have a certain combat foundation.
Although it is impossible to stand up to a powerful enemy.
But it can delay the occupation and resist the enemy's attack in a short time.
"Build the bell tower."
Kant's mind makes decisions immediately.
【Ding... System Prompt]
[The construction of the bell tower cost 1,000 dinars and took 10 days to start construction.] 】
The system responds.
"10 days." The corners of Kant's mouth turned up slightly: "Simple." ”
He can still afford to wait.
Although the Gnoll's expeditionary force may appear at any time, Kant still remembers that Assechi, who he had pulled out to kill before, said that it would take at least 30 days to cross the Naren Desert.
This is still an ordinary transport caravan.
In the case of an army attempting a large-scale invasion, the preparation time is definitely longer.
Crossing the desert to strike militarily against other nations has never been seen on Earth before.
Deserts often represent forbidden lands, belonging to the moats, and if it weren't for the Jackals' talent for tolerating heat and cold, Kant wouldn't have taken the Greymane Kingdom on the coast of Mannheim to heart now.
Ordinary human troops have a lot of difficulty getting through the mountains.
Not to mention the desert.
Kant also didn't believe that those high-ranking gnolls dared to give up all supplies and come here like a ship.
Without logistics, it is equivalent to defeat.
It's not so easy to feed the war with war.
Even the Mongols, who once set off a wave of terror on the earth and traversed the Eurasian continent, fought to feed their wars during the unprecedented westward expedition, and had to ensure a certain degree of logistical supply to their troops.
"Wait." Kant was slightly stunned.
Thinking of fighting to feed the war, as well as logistical supplies, he seemed to think of something.
Frowning slightly, Kant muttered: "Raise war with war..."
In an instant, he seemed to understand.
The gnolls will definitely fight with war, and with the help of the rest of the sentry oasis, when the human countries do not know the high-level gnolls at all, they use the fastest speed to break through the solid stone pass and successfully gain a foothold in the northern county of the lion principality.
A steady stream of follow-up troops will arrive, slowly encroaching on the northern counties of the Lion Principality.
By then, with a large amount of food, plenty of drinking water, and fortifications at the Solid Stone Pass, these expeditionary forces could be completely self-contained, and could harass and invade the northern county at close range, and retreated to guard the oasis.
If you fail, hold the sentry oasis and have a chance to start all over again.
"Is that so?"
Kant raised his eyebrows slightly, his fingers tapping lightly on the tabletop.
Although it is speculation.
But it was this speculation that he really speculated on the strategic plan of the Greymane Kingdom.
Combined with Assechi's description.
The Greymane Kingdom, which is seriously affected by external problems, obviously regards this place as a breakthrough to take off.
Having plundered a large amount of human wealth, the gnolls of the coast of Mannheim will definitely recover again, competing with the developing lizardmen and elves, rather than slowly falling into the chopping block of the two races.
Of course, Kant would not have thought of it.
The forces of the Greymane Kingdom are not here just to plunder.
And conquest.
These gnolls with advanced intelligence completely want to conquer the kingdom of humans and become their colony.
Let the human kingdom become a conquered colony, and be constantly sucked by their blood is what is most needed.
It's just that the Greymane Kingdom can't imagine it.
The Sentry Oasis has welcomed its lord.
And it's been built into a fortress that can make even the blood of the gnolls bleed!
………………
A construction team of nearly 400 people arrived in Suno.
The leader is none other than the chubby construction leader who is said to have made his fortune from construction.
When Kant saw him again, he found that his chubby appearance was a little richer, and he didn't look like the honest and capable construction leader before, but like a landlord who had contracted a manor.
"Dear Lord Kant."
When the building leader saw Kant, he immediately saluted respectfully: "Greetings to your faithful servant!" ”
"Pay attention to the salutation." Kant shook his head, his character was still like this.
Looking at the more than 400 construction workers he brought with him, as well as hundreds of carriages full of wood and stone, Kant also nodded slightly: "The next big project will be." ”
"That's right, Lord Kant."
The team leader hurriedly smiled: "But don't worry, there won't be any problems with the quality." ”
"It's for the best." Kant nodded.
Although this guy likes to smuggle around, the quality of the houses built is really good.
Without further chatting with him, Kant casually gave a few commands and returned to the Consulate.
The 43 houses have been laid out, and the ground has a limestone stucco foundation, and the entire south side is included, forming a total of four streets, and basically all the vacant land set aside in advance will be occupied.
By the time these structures were completed, there would not be much empty space left in the fortress.
The tranquility of the sentry oasis vanishes.
Noise occupied the entire fortress.
Everyone is busy.
In particular, the 400 construction workers came and went in the southern residential area, shouting and coordinating with each other to carry wood and stone, and the entire residential area became a construction site, and these industrious workers were also working hard to build the 43 houses and build new towers.
It was built for the sake of Lord Kant, and they gave it from the bottom of their hearts.
It's just that for Fatis, these construction workers ...
There are too many.
If he didn't know, they were all construction workers from Suno, and Fatis would definitely arrange for troops to be stationed next to him, after all, once so many people rebelled, the entire "Drehem" fortress would definitely be in chaos.
Although none of these construction workers is as effective as the militia.
But these numbers are still a problem.
Smashing, looting, and burning, those mobs are not able to fight the enemy on the battlefield, but they are very good at sabotage.
Even if the troops are finally mobilized to suppress it, it will disturb Lord Kant.
In Fatis's opinion, it was already a fault.
In fact, even the crossbowmen stationed on the walls were equally frightened by the number of construction workers below, especially after being reminded by Fatis, who focused some of their attention on them.
In the attic of the city walls, the Svadian crossbowmen would look at the workers with cold eyes.
The Vekia archers at the top of the arrow tower did not hide that they had bent their bows and arrows, and they would shoot if there was any abnormality, which made the construction workers below frightened.
They come from the snow field of Vekia, and their personalities are as cold as heavy snow.
For this reason, the building leader could only ask Kant for help.
These crossbowmen, with such a cold gaze, are like looking at dead people, these honest construction workers really can't work seriously.
Kant could only give orders to lift his high internal vigilance.
After all, these construction workers are from the system, and loyalty can be guaranteed.
Time flies.
The foundation of the building has been laid.
The weekend passed.
Monday arrived.
Compared with last week, the size of the army has increased a little more than Kant, and directly paid more than 6,000 dinars in military spending.
However, with the previously sold Gnoll Appendix as a base, the remaining dinars are still worth more than 10,000.
This deepened Kant's idea of setting up a slave catcher.
The slave trade was really profitable.
But as Monday arrived, the caravan leader Jocelyn said goodbye to Kant and returned to Zhivadin.
It will not be until next month that a new caravan will arrive.
The slave trade could only be temporarily stopped.
After all, without a purchaser, even if Kant let those desert robbers capture hundreds of gnolls, he would end up wasting food in vain, and he might even have problems because of the detention.
Wait for the caravan to arrive next month, and it doesn't matter if you take some more prisoners when the time comes.
The days passed.
43 houses, from the foundations to the walls.
The construction workers did their due diligence and made the progress of the project very fast.
Arriving on Friday, finally all the houses were completed.
Fifty standard Swadia houses were built side by side, in a uniform style and materials, filling in the otherwise empty southern part of the country, truly forming the current residential area, forming four brand new streets.
And right on the edge of a residential area.
In the area near the Consulate, the construction of the 5-meter-high bell tower is also nearing completion.
It can be expected that two days later, the bell tower, which served the function of telling the time in peacetime and conscripting peasants as recruits in wartime, was also about to be completed.
Time flies, and construction is just as fast.
It's in the post station south of the Narun Desert.
The 10 recruits who stayed behind were entertaining Manid and them who had returned from the Solid Rock Pass.
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