Chapter 12: Minas Tirith

"Da ............" 21 iron-blooded knights wearing heavy chain armor and red and yellow intersecting 3 lion patterns are following a young man wearing sackcloth and riding a white horse in sackcloth between the Grand Canyon. From the point of view of soil quality, this canyon has been called "God's Blessing" by the people of London Town for hundreds of millions of years, separating the desolate inland from the rich New Delhi Peninsula forever, with desolate plains and deserts on one side of the canyon, and basins full of tropical rainforests and plains with a warm Mediterranean climate on the other side.........

The reason why this nameless canyon is named "God Bless" is because this Grand Canyon not only completely blocks the road to the New Delhi Peninsula, but only leaves an extremely difficult winding road that can only allow at most 3 horse-drawn carriages to travel side by side at the same time, allowing people to pass on the natural "threshold" of the New Delhi Peninsula, and this road will take nearly 1 day if you rely on horseback riding to go back and forth, let alone walk up the mountain; And more importantly, the interior of this canyon is extremely rich in minerals, not to brag about mineral resources such as silver, iron, granite and other mineral resources can be obtained as long as you dig a random place in this canyon for a few hours, and their quality is all of the highest quality.

An area like this that is easy to defend and difficult to attack is definitely an excellent fortress construction point, so Sun Lin did not hesitate to find a place in this canyon that can not only completely seal the road in the canyon if necessary, but also play a central point in the future expansion of the wooden fort, and spend the rewards given by the system for making wooden castles for free, and build the current Nottingham Castle. As for the other passage in the crack of the canyon, as early as the beginning of April, when the construction of the wooden fort began, the more than 1,000 new miners borrowed the boulder that could move from the top of the crack, and made a simple stone wall with the soil and stone excavated during the construction of the mine at the bottom of the canyon to block it, and Sun Lin also laid a heavy guard here, and this was only because Sun Lin did not have a large amount of funds at present. It is estimated that Sun Lin will fully transform this canyon into Minas Tirith (this is indeed a bit of a tongue-twister, but you only need to see the epic city or fortress of Gangze in the Lord of the Rings trilogy to know what the name of the Dao means), leaving any army that wants to pass through here to attack London under this canyon.

"Woo...... Richard, is this Nottingham? I really didn't expect that I had only been in London for half a month to deal with trivial matters, and this wooden castle had developed to such a prosperous point! If it weren't for the fact that all the stones were transported to London Town in order to transform London Town into London City, it is estimated that Nottingham at this time would not be a prosperous wooden castle, but a beautiful and solemn castle! Sun Lin looked at this wooden fort built between the mountains, and the large complex of buildings located near it, and sighed, 2 months ago, when he was still running around for the development of a small town and struggling to force the governor, but now Sun Lin has a prosperous wooden castle and a town that is about to be transformed into a city The little king, 2 months ago he was still worried about how to destroy the weak rat man commander, and now he is a general with hundreds of elite soldiers, although when he is reborn, he is used to miracles, He was accustomed to the heavens of God falling on his head forever, but when Sun Lin recalled this legendary process of nearly 3 months again, Sun Lin's heart inevitably fluctuated a little.

However, because Sun Lin was always used to walking in the front, the captain of the Richard guard behind him did not notice Sun Lin's abnormality at this time, but rode behind Sun Lin and said, "Yes, Your Excellency General!" To tell the truth, those British people who came across the sea were able to build this huge Nottingham wooden castle complex in just one month, and I really can't believe it if it wasn't for someone explaining that it was God's favor! But we did it anyway, and better than anyone else! Your Excellency, since you have spent more than half a month in Londontown, and you do not know much about this kind of situation, let me, the captain of the guard stationed in Nottingham, introduce you to our Nottingham. ”

"Please!" Sun Lin turned around on horseback, smiled and said to Captain Richard's guard, "I'm willing to listen." ”

"It's Your Excellency General!" Richard nodded and continued: "There are two main areas of construction and development in Nottingham at the moment, one is the mining field under the canyon crevice, and the other is the wooden fort in front of you that sits between the clusters. Let's start with the mining area, which is currently the source of funding for all industrial development in London and Nottingham. God Bless' canyon has all the fissure areas covered, our toiling people according to your distribution of more than 1,000 people into a total of 4 groups, each group in 16 hours of the day, two of which mine silver, while the other two groups one mine iron and one group mine granite, by the way, the good news is that after the mining expert's survey, he deduced that 70% of the surface of the 'God Blessed' canyon is composed of hard granite, bluestone and other rocks, And 70% of the rocks are all concentrated on the side of the Great Wasteland, that is, if you really want to build the legendary fortress you imagined - Minas Tirith, our craftsmen will no longer need to transport the best stone from afar to build, just completely transform the outer skin of this Grand Canyon, but the time and manpower spent to fully transform the "God Blessed" canyon may be ............." said At this time, Captain Richard's face instantly fell, His face became as ugly as drinking vinegar.

When Richard learned from Sun Lin that Sun Lin was going to build this place into Minas Tirith, Richard's first reaction was not to think that Sun Lin was an idiot and a brainchild, but to be shocked by this crazy idea, and when Sun Lin drew the basic structure of Minas Tirith, and on the sand table, all the land of the "God Blessed" canyon plus part of the wasteland outside the canyon, and even the cliffs and cliffs on the edge of the canyon against the coastline were all included in Nottingham, that is, the future otherworldly version of Minas Tirith, Richard made a statement on the spot to express his support for Sun Lin's crazy idea, as for the construction expert who was rewarded to Sun Lin by the system, he said that he would exhaust his life to complete this impossible thing, but when Richard understood all the terrain of the "God Blessed" Canyon, he realized how crazy Sun Lin's idea was, not to mention the peripheral construction, just the Nottingham Fortress will use more than 60% of the construction area to build all on the cliff, And the fact that the complex had to be made up entirely of boulders would have taken generations to complete. Not to mention other construction projects.

"Captain Richard, I know what you're thinking, but I assure you that it won't be too long before Minas Tirith is built, so trust my decision! Because I have a hunch that one day in the future, hundreds of millions of enemies will come from that wasteland to attack our rich New Delhi Peninsula, and the only one who can defend against the enemy's attack will be Minas Tirith-class Nottingham, and it will be the only iron wall against the enemy's crazy attack! ”

“………… Now that I know it, I'll do my best to complete the task you've given me, so let's change the subject, and then I'll introduce the future center of our Minas Tirith-class fortress, Nottingham Wooden Fort, and ask Your Excellency the General and my brothers to follow me into the wooden wall to get to know the future military center of the New Delhi Peninsula. ”

"Let's go, then let me go in and have a look, and see what kind of surprise this wooden castle will bring me, and let's go, my knights of the guard."

"Yes!"