Suldak lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said to Andrew:
"Get ready to try the Fire Scale Bullet!"
"Throw some out before switching defenses in the afternoon to test the effect."
"If the effect is good, let the city wall guards who are on duty at night throw a few balls at the cliffs on both sides every hour. I guess this should make it easier for the city wall guards on duty at night."
Andrew nodded and said, "I know, I'll have someone prepare it right now."
Surdak never thought that those fire scale bombs would be used so early. There were several boxes in the warehouse of the city defense brigade, but there were only a few boxes.
However, Surdak's personal collection of fire scale bombs was enough for a truckload. This time, he was stationed in Dodan Town on the Bailin plane. Hearing that a beast tide was about to break out, Surdak took all the fire scale bombs with him.
coming.
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Samira stood on the crossbow control table with a cold and arrogant expression, her light red eyes falling behind Suldak.
Surdak turned around just in time to see Aung San walking up the city wall and stopping at a distance.
He greeted Surdak respectfully:
"Lord Commander!"
Suldak thought about the problem of the hard armor of ghost-patterned soldier ants, so he waved to Aung San and said:
"Aung San, it just so happens that I plan to look for you. What do you want to do with me?"
Aung San hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Commander, a second pit for soldier ants is being dug under the city wall. I think it is best to build a circle of stones around the edge of the pit. Although it is a bit troublesome, but if this
The planting pit can be used repeatedly, and it is worth spending some stones to build it."
In fact, regarding a small matter like reinforcing the pit, Surdak didn't need to make a decision at all.
However, seeing that Aung San had come to him in person, Surdak said casually: "That's no problem. Later you go to the warehouse manager of the city defense brigade and ask him to move some square stones for the city wall. I know what's underneath the city wall."
There are still some reserves."
Aung San wiped his itchy nose and reminded in a low voice with some embarrassment: "There is no need for the kind of refractory stone used in city construction. It is estimated that these will be used for the maintenance of the outer city wall later. The pits are built just to avoid the edges of the pits."
To collapse, an ordinary foundation stone from a quarry will do."
Surdak did not expect that the tattered gray stone strips stacked at the edge of the city wall were actually refractory stones.
And it was specially used to reinforce the walls outside the city. It seems that in the past, fire walls were used to resist the tide of beasts to block red ants.
No wonder most of the supplies left in the warehouse were kerosene. In addition to a large number of arrows, the supplies shipped by the Military Logistics Department these three times were mostly barrels of kerosene.
Surdak asked a team leader from the city defense army who was responsible for transporting supplies to the city wall to drive two four-wheeled carriages to the quarry outside the town to transport some stones back.
The quarry outside the town is now making flint and tumbled stones day and night. The gravel in the quarry has already piled up. Usually these gravel are used to pave the bumpy road from Dodan Town to the quarry.
.
Suldak is the military and political officer of Dodan Town. He wants to load two large carts of stones to build a pit. How dare the owner of the quarry say anything.
"Aung San, how did you deal with the hard armor of these ghostly patterned soldier ants last time?" Surdak stopped Aung San and asked.
Aung San thought for a while and then said: "It should be sold to those businessmen! I was still very young at the time, and I had been digging stones in the quarry during that time."
Surdak nodded and told Aung San and the captain of the city defense army: "Okay! Got it, go and prepare!"
Aung San took two steps out and seemed to remember something. He stopped and said to Surdak:
"Oh, by the way, Commander, I was digging stones in the quarry and built a stone platform for processing hard armor for a leatherworker. The leatherworker came to Dodan with the caravan.
Damn, listen to him, the hard leather armor of the ghost-patterned soldier ants is the material used to make the armor of the cavalry war horse!"
"..."
Surdak looked at the hard armor that had been soaked in acid rot and felt that he must have overlooked something.
He walked down the city wall and returned to the pit that was full of sour and rotten smell. He saw the soft hard armor that had just been picked up from the center of the pit. After being washed by clean water, he passed by the pit.
After drying, it magically becomes much firmer.
He tried to pick up the hard armor and pulled it hard twice with both hands. The hard armor of the ghost-patterned soldier ants actually became very tough.
The hard thorns protruding from the hard armor have also become very soft and very tough.
Suldak held this large piece of hard armor obtained from the ghost-patterned soldier ant in his hand, and surprisingly he could still see the rough outline of the ghost-patterned soldier ant's life.
He quickly walked up to the city wall and hung the hard armor on the city head.
The heat wave coming up from under the city wall quickly dried the hard armor.
This hard armor, which became very soft after being soaked in acid, actually hardened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the thorns on the hard armor also became very sharp.
"This thing can be shaped at will when soaked in acid. After drying, it becomes an extremely tough hard armor. It is indeed an excellent material for making war horse armor." Surdak took the hard armor and said
Said to Andrew beside him.
Andrew was confused, and it took him a while to figure out what Suldak was talking about.
He asked Surdak in confusion: "Are you saying that the hard armor of ghost-patterned soldier ants is very useful?"
Suldak stood at the top of the city, threw the hard armor in his hand on the ground, and asked Andrew: "What is the biggest problem facing the heavy cavalry of our cavalry battalion at present?"
Speaking of this, Andrew said with familiarity: "The ancient Bolai horse is not the standard equipment of heavy cavalry at all. The biggest problem is naturally that the war horse is overwhelmed and it is difficult to reach the maximum speed when charging."
He chased after Surdak and continued:
"In addition to carrying a knight weighing more than two hundred pounds, a war horse also carries a full-coverage heavy armor, a knight's lance, a flail, a sword and a knight's light shield, as well as armor covering the body of the war horse.
With so much weight on the ancient Bolai horses, it shouldn't be a problem for them to carry them for long distances, but once they go to the battlefield, this is a very dangerous thing."
"Although we have asked the indigenous herdsmen to carefully condition the ancient Bo Lai horses, we still cannot change the upper limit of their physical fitness. Therefore, when we recently sent out heavy cavalry, when it came to the selection of weapons, we would streamline it to the extreme."
Surdak also knew these shortcomings.
It's just that those green-scaled horses with high physical strength and high explosive power are difficult to buy. The ranches that raise green-scaled horses are all within the control of the Green Empire. Only some Constructed Knights are equipped with green-scaled horses.
As for the higher-quality black-scaled horses, they are rare war horses. Currently, only the Royal Constructed Knights, the South Wind Knights, the North Wind Knights and a few elite knights can equip such war horses.
Surdak then said: "So I say that the hard armor of these ghost-patterned soldier ants is very useful. It is tough and strong, has strong impact resistance, is light in texture and has strong plasticity. It can be made into armor for war horses."
It should be pretty good.”
Then he added: "The hard armor on the ghostly patterned soldier ants should be able to make hard leather armor..."
…
Mullen, the owner of the leather shop who had been dealing with ghost-patterned soldier ants in the work shed, saw Suldak carrying a piece of tough hard armor leather to the top of the city, and knew that this matter must have revealed something. Hard Armor Leather
The secret should have been discovered by Surdak.
He picked up the ax in his hand and struck hard between the skull and chest of the ghost-patterned soldier ant.
This time the cut was a little off, and almost cut off a waiter's hand.
Sweat dripped down his forehead.
Panting heavily, he walked down from the desk, sat on a bench nearby, and poured the cold water from the bar into his stomach.
His legs were a little weak and his heart was beating very fast. He was worried that Commander Suldak would bring a group of infantry to settle the score with him.
He even foresaw his leather shop being closed down.
Boss Mullen wiped the sweat from his forehead and quietly winked at Benada who was carrying a ghost-striped red ant.
One after another, the two of them found an excuse and left the shed.
Mullen ran all the way back to the leather shop in the small town. After returning home, he immediately closed the leather shop.
With a cry of despair, Mullen said to his brother-in-law Benada: "I just feel that this matter is unreliable. What now...? Just as I expected, Commander Surdak is definitely
He discovered the use of the hard armor of ghost-patterned soldier ants, otherwise he would never have carried it up to the city wall to dry the hard armor..."
"Why are you panicking! Brother-in-law, the worst we can do is leave here. He is stationed in the Bailin plane. He cannot leave Dodan Town during the period of stationing. As long as we hide in Wilkes City, he will not be able to do anything to us!" The man called
Benada's guy said to Mullen.
"You said we can escape to Wilkes City. I still have some savings and can live there for a while. As long as we can find work there, we will be able to support ourselves!" Mullen!
The boss was running around in circles in the leather shop in a hurry.
Benada glanced at Mullen speechlessly and reminded him: "Now that the plan fails, these rewards will naturally come to nothing."
"Then what should we do?" Boss Mullen shouted anxiously.
"What else can we do! Of course we must leave here as soon as possible..." Benada was not afraid of his brother-in-law at all, so he pressed his forehead and yelled.
The quarrel between the two attracted Mullen's wife, who lived in the backyard.
She walked into the tannery shop and saw her husband and brother glaring at each other angrily, almost starting a fight, and immediately rushed to stop her husband.
Leatherworker Malen also knew that this was not the time for a dispute, and of course he did not dare to stay in Dodan Town for a long time.
So he packed up his gifts overnight, took his wife, children and the whole family, took a merchant's carriage from Dodan Town to Wilkes City, and left Dodan Town overnight.
Recently, merchants have been purchasing World of Warcraft materials in Dodan Town. There are always carriages going to Wilkes City, and there are also carriages coming from there.
…
Surdak only found out at night that the owner of the leather shop, Mullen, was missing. He heard from people in the town that the Mullen family left Dodan Town with a salute, and even the leather shop was locked.
It seems that someone really bribed the owner of the leather shop...
It is not difficult to guess who is behind the scenes.
If Surdak was completely unaware of this matter, these hard armors would probably be sold to merchants in Dodan Town at extremely low prices, so these outside merchants would be the biggest beneficiaries.
The three shopkeepers of the leather shop who were abandoned by the leatherworker Mullen in the work shed, when they heard the news that Mullen was absconding in fear of crime, stood in the shed with axes in bewilderment and were a little at a loss.
Obviously they were still working in the work shed last night, but now there is a shortage of manpower in the work shed. The three shop assistants dare not leave, and they are also worried that the boss will abscond in fear of crime, and Commander Surdak will anger them.
The three of them huddled together and communicated with each other with eyes even when discussing countermeasures.
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This incident indeed caused some trouble for Surdak. The biggest problem was that no one was there to deal with the ghost-striped soldier ants for the time being, so the hunted ghost-striped soldier ants piled up like mountains.
Surdak could only temporarily select some hunters with experience in skinning from the cavalry battalion. Their job was also very simple. They only needed to chop off the heads of the ghost-marked soldier ants with an axe, dig out the magic core from inside, and use the soldiers to kill the soldiers.
Just wrap the ant head with a layer of quicklime and put it in a wooden box.
The remaining ghost-marked soldier ant corpses were thrown directly into the pit.
The hard armor of the soldier ants floating in the center of Pit No. 1 has been soaked in acid and has become soft.
Surdak asked people to fish out the hard armor of these ghostly patterned soldier ants.
Pieces of hard armor were taken out of the pit, washed with clean water, and spread flat on the grass to dry. Obviously, soft hard armor is more convenient for storage and transportation.
When they heard that Malen, the owner of the leather shop, had fled Dodan Town, the businessmen knew that their plan had been exposed.
Commander Surdak must be very familiar with these hard armors, and he is destined not to dump these hard armors cheaply, so this group of businessmen came to buy the hard armors of ghost-patterned soldier ants.
But all applications were rejected by Surdak.
Surdak was going to transport these hard armors back to Hellanza City, because the batch of military supplies he asked Karl to buy in Hellanza City should have arrived at Pussy Mountain by now, and he needed to transfer those supplies to
I came from Duodan Town, so these hard armors also had to be transported back.
He wanted to ask the leatherworking master in the city of Halanza to use these hard armor leathers to transform them into the armor of the ancient Bolai horses.
It is obviously more reliable to leave this kind of matter to the leatherworking master in Halanza City.
No matter what the reason, Surdak did not intend to sell these hard armors. Therefore, after many twists and turns, the merchants in Dodan Town still could not buy those hard armors...
The merchants became more honest and began to look forward to exchanging military supplies for Warcraft materials.
Some businessmen even planned to get some kerosene, and then let Commander Surdak feel what it was like to be ridiculed and made things difficult for him when he came to visit.
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When the city wall was on duty that night, the city defenders threw nearly twenty fire scale bombs directly on both sides of the mountain wall.
High-inflammation fire scale bombs exploded between the mountain walls, and a large number of ghost-marked soldier ants suddenly fell from the mountain walls onto the pile of corpses. The effect of those fire scale bombs was indeed very good.