Soon, Gu Datou appeared at the gate of the scout camp, smiling and waving to Ren Ning.
Huh!
Ren Ning was very surprised, "In this fortress expedition, you don't have the opportunity to ride the Eighth Battalion without Datou?"
groove.
It's okay if he didn't mention "levy". As soon as the word "levy" was mentioned, the smiling Gu Datou suddenly changed his face.
He cursed, "It's all our stupid corps commanders' fault. They usually run around as fast as a rabbit while eating, but when it comes to asking for a fight, they become a coward..."
In fact, Gu Datou didn't get much when he cursed people, but he cursed him over and over again, yelling all the way. Ren Ning's ears almost became calluses when he heard it, and the soldiers passing by also looked sideways.
Until the two of them entered the construction camp, Gu Datou still didn't calm down.
"Come on, come on." Ren Ning told him to shut up several times, "If you scold Shang Feng like this, if it gets to their ears, your little shoes will be worn in the future."
"I'm afraid of them." Gu Datou, who has nothing to offer, is not afraid at all. "I helped earn most of their military achievements. Dare you give me little shoes to wear? Be careful, I may even crush their eggs."
Ren Ning couldn't laugh or cry.
Although Gu Datou was full of foul language, he did not exaggerate.
As long as he goes to the battlefield and becomes ruthless, he will really kill people and tear them apart. It is indeed a good way to earn military merit.
However, Rock Frontier Fortress emphasizes that the team advances and retreats together, and all rewards and punishments are shared by the entire team.
The subordinates are extremely brave and kill the enemy with ease, so the superior ones will naturally gain a lot of military merit.
"The problem is that you earn so much military honors, but you are always cursing and misbehaving like this. How many of them can you get?" Ren Ning patted him on the shoulder.
"Since the advance is of no use, we don't even dare to take the initiative to fight. We can just endure it for a while. With your ability to take care of the big head, you will have many opportunities to earn military merit. Once we have accumulated enough military merit, we will make the decision on our own and give it to those who have no eggs.
Go up front..."
After much persuasion, Gu Datou finally calmed down.
The building camp is much smaller than the horse breeding camp, but there is the sound of tinkling iron everywhere, but it is much more lively than the deserted horse breeding camp.
Ren Ning randomly grabbed a passing apprentice and asked him where his master was.
After a while, the two of them followed the apprentice to the dark-skinned Tietian Gong.
Tie Tiangong was already old and his hair was gray. At this time, he was naked, sweating profusely, banging a big iron ingot.
Ren Ning took a closer look and almost vomited blood.
Iron Tiangong is actually building a plow.
That's right, it's the plow that farmers use to plow their fields.
Ren Ning blinked.
Generally speaking, all supplies in the fortress were provided by the central court.
However, in recent years, various natural disasters have occurred in the empire, and the counties and counties have been severely affected. The treasury has continued to withdraw supplies to provide relief to various places. As a result, the supply of the fortress has been intermittent, and even if it is available, it has to be delayed for a long time before it can be delivered.
The 150,000 garrison soldiers and nearly 50,000 horses could easily starve.
In the end, Huo Zheng, the general who defended the fortress, had to order some soldiers to participate in farming in and around the fortress to avoid starvation.
When Ren Ning first returned to the scout camp from the grassland, he saw someone planting vegetables in the camp.
Before Mrs. Zhang became a military doctor, she made a living by farming in a small village called Shitou Village to the east of the fortress.
Those villages are also the assets of the fortress. Whenever the villagers' crops are harvested, the fortress will send people out to purchase or exchange materials.
Of course, it is different from the Xiliang court forcibly "buying" horses raised by herdsmen. The villagers living in these villages are relatives of certain soldiers in the fortress and are considered their own family.
Therefore, the purchase price of the fortress is relatively fair and just.
Sometimes the fortress would even provide free seeds or production tools to some people who had recently migrated nearby.
And those production tools were made by the craftsmen in front of you.
The two waited patiently for a while, and it wasn't until Ti Tiangong stopped to rest that he noticed them.
"What's the matter with you?" A blacksmith has his own blacksmith's voice. When Tie Tiangong spoke, his voice was comparable to that of Gu Datou when he was furious, which made Ren Ning's ears buzz.
He quickly handed over the drawings and explained his intention.
"Are you two scouts?" Tie Tiangong ignored him and looked at Gu Datou suspiciously.
He had seen many scouts, but such a big one was rare.
Gu Datou scratched his bare head and said, "I am a cavalryman and he is a scout. He was injured and has difficulty moving. I accompanied him here."
Only then did Tie Tiangong suddenly realize.
He looked back at Ren Ning, "What kind of mess are you going to do this time?"
In order to bring the spied intelligence back to the fortress safely and smoothly, the scouts used various means to save their lives or keep it secret, which is amazing.
Because the scouts had too many strange requests, every craftsman who received their orders had a headache.
This is nothing.
Often craftsmen think hard for ten days and months, and may not even figure out how to make it.
I finally came up with an idea and worked hard to build the sample, but I couldn't wait until the scout came back to try it out.
This makes people vomit blood.
It can be said that among the troops in the fortress that are least popular among the fortification battalions, scouts are definitely among the best and are absolutely invincible.
Ren Ning chuckled and said, "They are just ordinary weapons. If you don't believe me, take a look, Master Iron."
Ordinary weapons?
Tie Tiangong didn't believe it.
He glanced at the top drawing and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was really a regular short sword.
"This time I even brought the drawings, and I've made some progress."
The other scouts came over with a mouth, talked about it randomly, and then asked the craftsmen to create it out of thin air.
Relatively speaking, Ren Ning in front of me is much more reliable.
"What kind of things are you drawing?" Tie Tiangong was about to put down the drawings, "I'm very busy now. If you're not in a hurry, just go back and wait patiently. I'll send someone to notify you when it's done...
"
Suddenly, his hand stopped, and he quickly brought the drawing back to his eyes, staring at the graphics on it closely.
"What kind of painting method is this? It seems to be quite organized." He pulled Ren Ning to him. "Why have I never seen it before?"
Ren Ning didn't care and explained the three views in detail.
Compared to Gao Deming, who only knew how to train scouts, Tie Tiangong, a craftsman, could understand the three-dimensional view much faster.
He quickly realized the brilliance of Ren Ning's painting method, and ignored the shapeless plowshare, forcing Ren Ning to teach him how to understand it.
Ren Ning was also helpless.
Mechanical drawing is a complete subject. It is not easy to teach a complete novice in a short period of time, especially if the novice has no knowledge of modern mathematics.
But he didn't show it, but patiently explained the meanings of the various line size marks on the diagram one by one.
The younger one spoke in detail, while the older one listened carefully.
Time passed unconsciously.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Suddenly the huge bell on the east gate of the fortress rang loudly.
The bell sounded neither urgent nor slow, and only struck once every ten breaths, for a total of ten times.
Take the meaning of perfection.
This is a reminder for the fortress itself and the surrounding villages far and near.
At this time, everything is safe at the border, so you can rest assured. And it's time to have dinner.
This bell rings every day to report peace. When Ren Ning first returned to the fortress, he was woken up by it many times. But after so many days, he is now used to it.
Gu Datou, who was napping next to him, suddenly woke up.
He wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and said, "Old Ren, can you eat now?"
"You guy..." Ren Ning didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
This was a forging camp, with iron being tinkled all the time, and Gu Datou was actually able to sleep. It was simply a bit better than the scouts who just fell asleep.
"Ren Ning, right?" Tie Tiangong asked Ren Ning's barrack number carefully, and patted the drawing paper in his hand with emotion, "You are really a good guy. After dinner, the blacksmith wants to go to you again.
Please give me detailed advice."
"I wonder if you are free tonight?" he asked.
Ren Ning shook his head.
Now that his comings and goings were restricted, there was nothing he could do during the long nights except feed his horse or figure out a suitable weapon for him.
If Tie Tiangong wanted to learn some modern cartographic knowledge, he wouldn't mind teaching him.
At least if you want to build something handy in the future, you can find people to do it.