Seeing Toma's surprised look, Owen smiled slightly: "Don't be so surprised. Red Sand Fortress is closer to Ambila. According to my plan, the railway will be built there to connect Border Guard Town and Red Sand Fortress.

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Both are frontline battlefields against undead monsters, but the battle pressure faced by Red Sand Fortress is much higher than that of Border Guard Town.

This is a plan for the future. If Owen pulls White from the throne, the first thing to do is to replace the weapons and equipment of Red Sand Fortress and consolidate the northern defense line.

With this railway, it will be much more convenient to transport weapons. There is no need to go around the mystery forest, which greatly saves time.

A large area around Red Sand Fortress is a wasteland with severe water shortage, and is more deeply affected by the curse of Kazitu than Border Guard Town.

Want to develop industry despite lack of water resources? This is very difficult, so we cannot expect to build a local military factory.

Although sprinkling ash powder can break the effects of the curse, it cannot be restored immediately, and it will obviously take a long time to breed vitality.

Because of this, Red Sand Fortress uses very sparingly water. After all, most of the water is laboriously transported in from outside.

This gave birth to a profession - water bearer. There are many people in Toyosu City who have no land and cannot farm, and they barely make a living by delivering water to Red Sand Fortress.

The remaining small amount of water is used when it snows in winter and soldiers clean up the snow when they are not fighting. It is stored and used after it melts and impurities settle down.

In addition, there is water produced by water magicians using magic, etc.

Of course, this little supply is just a drop in the bucket.

All in all, if it were not for the extremely important strategic position of Red Sand Fortress and the continuous blood transfusions from the Kingdom of Morning Light, this fortress would not be able to survive at all.

"That's it." Thomas nodded in understanding.

Next, the two sides held a detailed discussion on the construction of the railway.

It was determined that three parties would participate in the co-construction of this railway, namely Bianzhu Town, Nuwa and the Alliance of Ten Thousand Nationalities.

The Alliance of Ten Thousand Races has just been established and has neither money nor technology. It mainly provides labor.

The demihuman race is much stronger than humans and should be able to shorten some construction time.

Bianzhu Town and Noir City will each provide half of the funds required for the entire project.

The technical aspects are of course provided by Bianzhu Town. Correspondingly, Nuwa will also send some manpower to participate in the construction of the railway.

For things with relatively low technical levels, such as rails and carriages, both parties would each be responsible for half of the production. Irving would dispatch people from the Ministry of Industry to assist Noir in building corresponding factories.

As for the key steam locomotive, it was naturally left to Border Guard Town to manufacture, but dwarf craftsmen were allowed to participate.

The survey of the railway route is scheduled to begin in the early spring of next year after the snow melts, and if nothing else goes wrong, construction will begin in the summer.

After discussing the railway matter, the two parties discussed other matters, such as purchasing other ores from Nuwa.

At night, Owen stayed in a high-end room provided by Noir.

The living environment is much better than that in Shensha Village, but it is still not as comfortable as my own castle.

After the visit, Irving returned to Border Guard Town without stopping with his escort.

As soon as he came back, Owen saw Clive and Viscount Jarvis with solemn faces, which made him feel nervous.

"What's wrong with you two? What bad things happened while I was away in Border Guard Town? Could it be an undead monster..."

"That's not true." Viscount Jarvis shook his head, "The northern city wall is now impregnable, and the undead monsters have not been able to break through the People's Army's fire defense line. Something happened at Dongsheng Fortress."

Dongsheng Fortress?! Kuros!

Owen's face darkened and he asked in a deep voice, "What's going on over there?"

"My Lord Marquis, you came back just in time."

Clive replied: "Yesterday, Miss Winnie flew to Dongsheng Fortress for regular contact. The Pearl and Koret families gathered vassal nobles and led soldiers to launch a sudden attack on the castle. Lord Koros Yum asked Miss Winnie to come back quickly.

Report this and then guard the castle with the castle guards."

"It shouldn't be."

Angelica was a little confused and stood up to ask questions: "These two families should be very aware of the strong military strength of Bianzhu Town. If they send troops to rebel at this time, aren't they afraid that Bianzhu Town will attack them?"

"That's what I said, but yesterday Miss Winnie reported that their soldiers also had muskets."

Viscount Jarvis stretched out his hand and touched his beard, and a sharp light flashed in his only remaining eye.

"This is probably their biggest support."

"Oh? That's it." Angelica glanced at Owen specially.

Muskets?! Where did the Pearl and Corrett families get their muskets?

There is no doubt that based on the information Owen has, White must have secretly provided it to them.

As for choosing to take action in winter, it was probably because Border Guard Town was busy dealing with undead monsters during this period and had no time to deal with what happened at Dongsheng Fortress.

By the time winter passes, the Pearl and Koret families must have taken control of Dongsheng Fortress and are ready to fight the Border Guard Town.

There may also be support from the royal capital, which makes these two families think that there is a high probability of holding Dongsheng Fortress.

Good guy, even in winter, he doesn't forget to do something behind his back. White is really not easy to worry about.

Fortunately, Border Guard Town currently has a surplus of troops. Last year, the 500 militiamen and the Templar Knights were able to guard the northern city wall. This year, the People's Army has expanded to a thousand-man level and its equipment has been upgraded. Naturally, it is no longer necessary to resist undead monsters.

Next words.

In other words, Border Guard Town will not be restricted by undead monsters, and is fully capable of sending troops south to deal with the Pearl and Koret families.

What's more, the muskets that White copied were the first-generation muskets, namely front-loaded flintlock muskets, which were the same muskets used by the musketeers sent to garrison Dongsheng Fortress.

With such backward muskets, it is impossible to defeat the People's Army who have prepared bolt-action rifles.

Therefore, White's wishful thinking may come to nothing.

"Lord Lord!"

At this moment, Winnie flew down from the sky and said hurriedly: "Over there at Dongsheng Fortress..."

"I already know."

Owen raised his hand and interrupted: "Let's go to the north wall to discuss countermeasures."

After finally returning from the Mysterious Forest, Owen had no time to rest and came to the barracks to hold an emergency military meeting.

In addition to Viscount Jarvis, the meeting was also attended by senior officers and soldiers who had previously held a meeting to discuss Operation Black Dragon King, as well as the Templar Captain Bray Gedef.

It is inconvenient for the church to interfere in other countries' civil wars. The main reason for coming here is to discuss how to deal with the undead monsters after the People's Army is reduced.

After some discussion, it was decided to urgently gather 500 soldiers to take all the ships available in Border Guard Town - including but not limited to cement steamers - to go south to Dongsheng Fortress in batches.

Since heavy artillery is used to deal with large undead monsters, and is also heavy and inconvenient to carry and move, artillery will not be allowed to participate in this operation.

Heavy machine guns too.
Chapter completed!