Chapter 29: The Coming Summer
Character: Zalaku
Race: Orc
Age: 23
Commander: ★★★
Brutality: ★★★★★★
Reverent:
Manage:
Loyalty: ★★★★★★★
Character Features: Excellent Physique (General HP +4), Battlefield Veteran (Commander +3), Battle Wild (Commander +1, Brutality +1, Troop Morale +1), Sores (General HP +8, Brutality +2), Murderous (Brutal +3), Loyal Servant (Loyalty +4)
Character Followers: None
Legion Name: Half-Orc Foreign Legion
Quantity: 870
Class: Hoplite (Auxiliary)
Characteristics: Good at desert combat, warcry charge, strong physique, poor discipline, unauthorized charge
Attack: 12 (Ranged: 5)
Defense: 10+2 (Full Body Chain Armor + Half Iron Armor)
Charge Power: 3
Description: After the user's incorporation and teaching, this group of ignorant orcs finally became one of the Empire's combat units, they wore chain mail and half-body iron armor, armed with a 2-meter-long iron axe, and after combat training, these ignorant orcs finally gave up carrying non-lethal leather slings, and instead carried a throwing weapon specially designed to trip over the enemy's live horses - stumbling stones. This is a very simple short-range throwing weapon, after tripping two pieces of hemp rope to two stones of about equal weight, you can pinch the midpoint of the hemp rope with your hand and start spinning in the air, and then throw it with the strength of your arm, if you throw it poorly, you can only smash the enemy, and if you throw it well, you can entangle the enemy's feet when charging, causing it to lose balance and fall to the ground. Although the combat effectiveness of the Half-Orc Foreign Legion is not high, and the discipline is lax, their ability to catch slaves is all first-class, and as long as there is a good general, are you afraid that these Half-Orcs are useless in battle?
With the help of the system, Sun Lin successfully formed this group of half-orcs into the first foreign legion under his rule, and exchanged the war value obtained from the previous battle for a large number of weapons and armor for this group of half-orcs, and then gave these half-orcs an extra 150 kilograms of food. After agreeing to arrange their families to build a new village for them in the wasteland outside Nottingham and let them be protected by the empire (in fact, it was just that Sun Lin wanted these orcs to block the enemy from the northern desert for themselves), these touched orcs all swore their lives and promised to obey Sun Lin's arrangement from now on on the London City Square, and the turmoil of the Foreign Legion's policy came to an end. Both sides were happy, Sun Lin got a very obedient "vicious dog" plus a team of more than 800 elite cannon fodder, and a steady stream of orc slaves escorted from the desert in the future, and the half-orcs received the food they needed most. As for the reaction in London, it was very calm, there was no opposition, although it stands to reason that this matter will be strange, but at this time, Sun Lin has no time to take care of these trivial matters, and he should be worried about the other three things now.
The first thing is about the coming summer. The arrival of summer means that powerful storms and even tropical typhoons will arrive in the emerging London city on the New Delhi peninsula; In contrast to the city of London, Nottingham's inland junction means that there is no need to worry about heavy rains and the like, and there is no problem with food, but it is very likely that the town will run out of water.
Nottingham's problem is okay, as long as Zaraku escorts the first batch of orc slaves to Nottingham, Sun Lin can let these orcs replace the next part of the human miners, let some of the miners turn into water deliverers, and let them drive horse-drawn carts and barrels to transport fresh water from the dense forests of the New Delhi Peninsula back to Nottingham Castle every day, and then organize the remaining miners to dig artificial rivers and introduce the dense forests of the New Delhi Peninsula into the basin in the "God Blessed" canyon, but the city of London will be in trouble.........
"Leo, when will the construction of the port area be completed?" Looking at the two port areas in London marked on the sand table, Sun Lin frowned and asked Leo behind him. After the expansion of the city of London, and considering that the city of London will become a trade center in the nearby sea in the future, Sun Lin decided to build two ports, one is the port area in the city of London in the west of the New Delhi Peninsula, which will become the maritime trade center of the future London area, and in the east of the New Delhi Peninsula, a natural crescent bay has become the first naval base in the London area, and the future naval war talents and powerful fleets will be formed here, if Sun Lin pays attention to this emerging military port area, He would be surprised to find that there were already two completed Hawker warships in the harbor area, and one battleship of Gallerie, which was about to be completed.
"At the end of May, the minimum deadline given by the builders should be that we will not only convert the ports into large dockyards, but also build them marine docks, stone seawalls, and large lighthouses."
"Hmm............ Anyway, you tell them they just need to build it before the harvest. ”
"Yes!"
"By the way, what happened to those cunning merchants? Did they promise to come to the inauguration party of the Parliamentarians' Hall in late May? ”
"Although they seemed very reluctant, they all agreed in the end, Your Excellency, do you want to ...... them?"
"No, I'm not going to do this kind of secret, you should know that the expedition fleet sent out by Lu Dao has already discovered the continent on the other side of the sea, right?"
"Yes, my lord, all the people of London have learned about it from your mouth. But is there any difference between this and you want to control these merchants? ”
"Actually, I have hidden one thing, that is, the fleet has not found humans, on the contrary, they have discovered a human coastal town."
"What! Is this true? ”
"I don't know the specifics, I won't know the truth until the fleet returns, but they mentioned that the people in that coastal area are living very hard, and they are in dire need of food, and I think this is a business opportunity, and it is also a way to get into those merchants."
"It turns out that Your Excellency, General, you want to do something about maritime trade."
"Well, this is the only way to be effective at present, and if it can really be dealt with, there will be one less hidden danger in the city of London............ Leo, you go and prepare now, and go to the southeast of the New Delhi Peninsula in a moment to see what the shepherd called the "Dead Man's Beach", I always feel that there is something wrong with those mysterious corpses floating up from the sea, and perhaps there will be another hidden danger in the city of London, a hidden danger from the sea..............."