Release that Witch - Chapter 9

[Chapter 9 Evil Moon (Part 2)]

“Not many, Your Highness, there will only be two or three monsters like this in each Demon Moon, otherwise the Longsong Fortress will be in big trouble.”

“Very well, you observed carefully,” Roland ordered Orion to stand up, “What’s your name? You don’t look like someone from Graycastle.”

“I’m half of the Mojin clan, and everyone in the town calls me Iron Axe.”

Mojin, a sandman in the desert in the southwestern part of the kingdom, is said to be the descendant of the sand giant.

Roland searched for the relevant memories in his mind. He didn’t use the clan name, but the title. He obviously didn’t want to have anything to do with the Sand People.

As for why he came to this remote place from the southwestern border, there are probably a series of bitter stories.

But those are not the key points, Border Town doesn’t care about one’s background.

Roland clapped his hands, “That’s all for today, Carter, reward each of them with ten silver wolves, and take them down.”

“Thank you, Your Highness, for the reward,” the three said in unison.

After taking him away, Carter Lannis turned back again, “Your Highness, do you want to stay here by asking this?”

Roland was noncommittal, “What do you think?”

“This is absolutely impossible, Your Highness!” the knight said loudly. “According to Orion, it is very difficult to deal with wild boar-species monsters. If you can’t shoot a crossbow from fifty paces away, you have to wait until forty or thirty paces away.” Only the elite soldiers of the fortress can do this. In addition, there are so many of them, without a strong city wall to back them up, and if they are blocked by the local guards alone, they will probably collapse after more than one casualty.”

“That’s what you said before meeting the witch, can’t you think about the good in everything?” Roland sighed.

“This… the witch is evil, but Anna…Miss Anna doesn’t look like that. As your knight, I must be realistic.”

“Well, what if I give you a city wall?”

“What?” Carter suspected for a moment that he had heard wrong.

“I’ll give you a city wall, which is between the foot of the North Slope and the Chishui River,” Roland said word by word, “Although it’s not as majestic as the wall of the King’s City of Graycastle, it should still be able to block alien beasts.”

“Your Highness, do you know what I’m talking about?” The knight laughed angrily, “There must be a limit to nonsense, if you don’t leave when the time comes, you can only forgive me for being rude.”

“There are still three months, isn’t it? I read the past records, and the first snow here mostly arrives at the end of February after winter begins.”

“Three years are not enough! Building a city wall requires a lot of workers, and the foundation is rammed with mixed soil. It must be rammed every one to two feet, otherwise it will collapse if it is piled high. This is the simplest city wall built with earth,” Carter shook his head again and again, “Masonry walls are even slower, requiring hundreds of stonemasons to cut the stones into squares and build them one by one. Your Highness, any city wall is built in this way, without exception. Let the city It rises from the ground day and night, that is a story only in myths and legends.”

Roland motioned him not to say any more, “I see. You don’t have to jump to conclusions so quickly. If there is no reliable city wall by then, I will evacuate with you to Longsong Fortress. I have no intention of throwing my life away in this ghostly place.” .”

The knight knelt down on one knee and said, “I will protect you to the death!”

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In the castle garden, Roland took a sip of the bitter ale and looked at Anna who was devoting herself to eating the cream pastry, and his mood recovered a lot.

He has already decided to stop the evil beasts in Border Town – he can’t even hold the base camp, so there is no need to talk about farming.

If you want to build a city wall connecting the north slope and the Chishui River within three months, you must adopt a reasonable plan and cross-age technology.

Roland didn’t come up with a whim, he had checked the surroundings of Border Town (although he didn’t go there himself), and there was still a clear picture in his memory – the foot of the North Slope and the Chishui River were only more than 600 meters away. natural pass.

As the North Slope Mine has been mined all year round, the surrounding area is full of rock debris mined from the cave.

These gravel sections are off-white, rich in calcium carbonate, and can be used as limestone after grinding.

With limestone, there is cement.

That’s right, this hydraulic material, which has changed the history of human construction, has a wide range of raw materials, simple preparation, and one of the real farming tools.

Roland calculated in his mind that he hadn’t thought about making concrete. It wasn’t technically impossible, but the amount of cement that needed to be consumed was too large. He wasn’t sure that he could calcinate so much cement powder in three months.

In addition, the toughness of concrete is poor, and it needs to be used with steel bars to become a complete body, so it is obviously unrealistic to make a concrete city wall.

In order to save cement to the greatest extent and make use of existing materials, then the rubble self-weight wall is the most appropriate choice.

The so-called rough stone is unpolished stone, which is in the natural appearance when it was just mined.

Because of the irregular shape of the edges and corners, such stones cannot be built directly, and they need to be processed into bricks by masons before they can be used.

The rubble wall uses cement as a binder, no matter how strange the shape of the stone can be piled up, the gap between the stones is filled with cement, which saves cement and does not pick materials.

The general direction has been determined in this way, but in actual implementation, I’m afraid I have to do it myself, Roland thought.

Whether it is calcined cement or rubble-built walls, they are all brand new things.

No one has seen these things, and no one knows how to do them, except myself.

I’m afraid the next three months will be very busy.

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“look.”

Anna’s crisp voice came from behind.

Roland turned his head, and saw a small cluster of flames quietly appearing in her palm. There was no wind around, but the flame tip was up and down, as if nodding to her.

She shook her finger, and the flame was like a toddler, slowly moving towards her fingertips.

Finally, it rests on the tip of the index finger, calms down,

“you did it.”

Roland praised the incredible scene in his heart.

It’s not a magic trick or a chemical trick, it’s real supernatural power.

But this is not what attracted Roland the most – what was more dazzling than the flames was Anna’s expression.

She stared at her fingertips intently, and the dancing flames were reflected in her lake-like clear eyes, like a sealed elf in a sapphire.

The traces of prison torture on her body have faded. Although she still rarely smiles, her face is no longer lifeless.

Sweat dripped from the tip of the girl’s small nose, and vitality radiated from her rosy cheeks, making people feel happy just looking at it.

“What’s wrong with you?”

“Ah…it’s okay.” Roland realized that he had been staring at her for too long. He looked away and coughed twice. “Then next, let’s try to melt iron with it.”

In the past few days, except for eating and sleeping, she would practice repeatedly in the shed, and that hard work made Roland ashamed – he had never worked so hard even in the face of the college entrance examination.

It seems that she will be able to master this power in a short time, Roland thought.

In this way, new projects that I have conceived for a long time can also be put on the agenda.

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