Chapter 36: An Unexpected Visitor to a Busy May (3).
After Sun Lin established the construction project, Sun Lin finished his morning exercise with Leo the next morning, and rode to another dock outside London, Crescent Harbor.
As I have seen before, the Crescent Harbor is a port built in a natural crescent-shaped bay, compared to the Royal Port in London, the Crescent Harbor is not as good as the Royal Port in terms of cargo flow, no one is the scale of the building, the defense system, the quality of shipbuilding and other aspects are far more than the Royal Port, but this is not unusual, because in the construction design, the Royal Port will become a trade mall in the sea in the future, and the Crescent Port will become the most important naval base and naval research and development area in Sun Lin's hands.
In fact, the port of Crescent Harbor was established as early as when Sun Lin began to build Nottingham Wooden Castle, and in the following 1 month, Crescent Harbor successively absorbed more than 300 sailors and more than 500 fishermen, at that time, the scale of Crescent Harbor was no less than that of Port Royal, which was developed more than 1 month earlier than it in London Town, and after Sun Lin used the system to order the port in London to be upgraded to a dock wharf, in addition to the comprehensive upgrade of facilities, even the population in the port area also exceeded 1,000 at once. It became the most densely populated place outside London.
"Port Crescent, the naval base of the future? Or is it a springboard to conquer the continent across the sea? Sun Lin, who was riding on the snow, followed by the generals and guards, visited all the periphery of another populous gathering place in London that he had never been to before. Although the port area, surrounded by low stone walls, is more like ants and elephants than the city of London in terms of scale, the sparrows are small and have all the organs. Because this will be the most important naval base and marine research and development center in London in the future, the crescent port, which will be surrounded by 3 layers of defense belt in the interior of the crescent-shaped seaport, and stationed a team of civilian crossbowmen and two spear sergeants dispatched from Nottingham, anyway, the mainstream of combat in Nottingham has changed from city defense warfare to wasteland warfare, and the effectiveness of infantry types has been slowly weakened, and heavy cavalry, light cavalry and archers are the current development trend of Nottingham. And it's a big deal, when the time comes, it will be enough to transfer more than 800 half-orc foreign legions into the city for defense.
In the waters of Harbor Crescent, there are 400 members of the Naga Foreign Legion, a heavy amphibious regiment that can be called heavy cavalry in the sea. After a few days of testing and drills, Sun Lin's forgers, who specialized in creating weapons and armor for Naga warriors, finally developed a set of equipment for them that was more suitable for their combat in the sea - inlaid leather armor and a giant iron trident.
This kind of leather armor is made of double skin, and the forgers will add iron sheets between the two leather armors and seal them with needles and threads, iron nails, and gums, so that the iron sheets inside the leather armor are not easy to be eroded by seawater, and strengthen the service life of this set of leather armor; In terms of defense tests, ordinary iron weapons and arrows cannot penetrate this set of inlaid leather armor with two layers of leather and a layer of iron plates, only at present, Sun Lin has only crossbow long-range weapons in his hands that can penetrate it, and even those maces with armor-piercing attacks are not very effective, of course, Sun Lin has just replaced the hand-to-hand combat weapons of the general Sun Lin Guards - war hammers are another matter (one of the special weapons for Venetian plumbers); As for the giant trident, it is much simpler, this weapon is more suitable for the Naga to fight in a slashing way than the previous heavy trident spear, so Sun Lin approved those giant tridents as the weapons of the Naga Foreign Legion warriors, as for the transaction with Orison, except for a dozen or so gifts to Orison and his Naga guards during the third transaction, the rest have been sold at twice the price of the original heavy trident spear.
What is a bit unintentional is that when Sun Lin began to transform the equipment for these Naga warriors, Sun Lin felt that these Naga warriors had really begun to break away from the influence of the original Orisen patriarch, and began to treat Sun Lin as the new patriarch; These weapons and armor also gained a deeper friendship between the Orison patriarch and his Naga tribe, and Sun Lin even obtained some information from Orison about the strength of the Sea Clan branch in other seas outside the New Delhi Peninsula, and how to get to the rich continent on the other side of the sea.
"Your Excellency, what is the real purpose of your visit to Crescent Harbor today? I don't think it's going to be as simple as just visiting, right? Leo, who was riding a European purebred black horse, couldn't help but ask curiously after following Sun Lin to visit the outer defense circle on the ground of Crescent Harbor: "With your character, you will never come out to hang out before the summer design is written, this is not in line with your life philosophy." ”
"Hehehehe, if I said that today will be the city of London to start contact with the strength of other human beings in the New World, will you believe it? Leo. After a slight pause, Sun Lin, who was walking at the front of the line, turned around and said to Leo, but the danger on his face made Leo feel very uncomfortable, as if he was ............ It's like looking at this lamb to the slaughter.
"Uh............. can I ask nothing? Your Excellency Dear General............ "Looking at Sun Lin slowly walking over on the snow, even the members of the general guard behind Leo knew that the great ruler in front of him was about to take their nameless but actual reward to the deputy captain of the guard.
"No, no, no, how can I be dear? If you want to say that the dearest is still my herald Lord Leo, in fact, I have been thinking about who should be the welcome captain this time, and after thinking about it, I found that fortunately, there is only you around here - my dear Mr. Leo, you have experience, all hehehehe............"
"What more can I say?" Leo spread his hands with a wry smile: "If this is your order............ But are you sure that you are the human force that brought me to the New Epoch, and not the expedition members who returned from overseas? ”
"Actually, this is just an emergency, I didn't expect that boat to enter the patrol area of the Naga Legion, let alone those guys to ............."
"Your Excellency, what were you just muttering?"
"Uh............ It's okay, anyway, you just go to meet it, don't ask about other things, you go to Pier 4 and wait now, and the boat will come in a while. ”
"Yes"
………………… Half an hour later, at Pier 4 of Crescent Harbor, Leo and Sun Lin's generals and guards finally saw two shadows of ships slowly sailing towards the port in front, and then, when Leo saw the appearance of the two boats, Leo's face instantly became extremely exciting: "Oh my God! Your Excellency, General, are you declaring war? ”