Chapter 338
William was a soldier who was decisive in his work. If Lin Tianwen evaluated it in a sensible way, he would attack like fire. When he was sure that the news given by the thief was true, he immediately awakened the army and retreated to the Xidaying overnight. He followed Lin Tian's instructions and did it one by one. He used wood to draw the fire and used a large number of containers to fill clean water. In order to facilitate the cavalry assault, he even ordered the army to cut down a large number of numbers and cut them into wooden boards...
Wooden board? What is it for? Is it just like an orc, making a simple shield?
Before answering this question, we should briefly talk about the fortifications of Xidaying.
The camp is backed by the cliff, and its terrain is flat and has a certain slope. It can be considered a half hexagon shape, but half of it was cut off by the cliff, leaving the enemy's attack position, just like the remaining 3 sides. On the top of the slope is the camp position, where the orcs have originally dug a trench to prevent the enemy from attacking. This is a routine fortification, but it can prevent the enemy from attacking, whether it is infantry or cavalry.
Simply put, if the cavalry wants to leap over, they must have a relatively long acceleration distance, and they must have good riding skills, strong war horses, and can jump over in one breath. However, if the cavalry set out from the battalion, it is obviously impossible for this acceleration distance, and they have to stop when they reach the trench. This is definitely something that William cannot tolerate, because it loses enough impact and loses the sudden name of counterattack.
For this purpose, he prepared a thick enough wooden board, which was not laid on it, but piled it on the back, and could also block arrows. After all, according to the information provided by the thief, his opponent had at least 50,000 centaur shooters, so it was necessary to prepare for the arrows. When the cavalry was preparing to assault, the cavalry could hardly stop and run down the road. If this difficulty could not be overcome, what else would William talk about about cavalry command?
Not only that, he also asked the soldiers to prepare a large amount of dry firewood, and set up hundreds of large bonfires inside the camp alone. Although few are lit at present, the light is still enough. This is mainly to prevent the orcs from sneak attacking at night battles. When necessary, the patrol soldiers on duty will ignite all these large bonfires, and the entire position will be as bright as daytime.
With all the light, the soldiers will certainly not be afraid of the enemy's dark attack. This is the advice Lin Tian gave him, and he refined the execution details more.
Unfortunately, he didn't bring any tincture! He blinked his mouth and said with some regret.
There is tincture oil in the Sword Demon Continent. If you have to say it, it is the crude oil in Lin Tiankou. However, Lin Tian sent people to search everywhere, but he did not find any oil production location. He had originally used the wrong idea of developing gunpowder, but after he found that the laws of the world were restricted, he became interested in finding oil. Unfortunately, he has found nothing yet...
Just think about it, even in the 21st century, it is difficult to see crude oil directly exposed. Generally, crude oil is produced deep underground. Without certain industrial support, it is a delusion to want to recycle oil. For example, Daqing Oilfield, and the oil and gas field in the East China Sea, which oil and gas field is that simple? How much does it take to develop technology?
The oil industry in the 21st century was also supported by modern industry. Have you heard of oil production earlier? Some countries in the Middle East have only become rich in this century and are equally poor in the past, so did they have no oil before?
It's just that it's useless, and it's even more impossible to pick it up.
In view of this, Lin Tian later gave up his plan to find oil. Otherwise, he would have many flying troops, and just sprinkling oil and igniting fire, he could kill many orcs.
At that time, Lin Tian was muttering oil and forced the people from the Ministry of Works to get anxious. He brought him dozens of kilograms of vegetable oil and asked him if he wanted it. It made Lin Tian speechless...
The turbid oil that William mentioned is crude oil, which is the crude oil that Lin Tian has never found! But don’t think that this thing is easy to come by, this turbid oil is still not mass-producible.
The Kingdom of Qingyue borders the Black Iron Kingdom, so it also has a good relationship with the dwarves. Everyone knows that dwarves like to mine, and they have to drill holes when mining. Generally, crude oil production areas are very deep, so even with the diggers' digging ability, it is impossible to dig an oil-producing layer, but this does not prevent them from having contact with crude oil.
During the mining process, they did encounter a lot of crude oil, but the amount was usually very small, so small that it almost made it impossible to apply. William once received dozens of jars of crude oil (renamed turtle oil by the dwarf), which was less than a few hundred pounds and one thousand pounds, so he sent it to everyone in winter...
Don't laugh at him, the dwarfs were originally used to give him warmth, because these dwarfs do the same.
In summary, the Sword Demon Continent is not without oil, but it is completely unable to produce production. It can only accumulate a little bit of it at critical moments. If you want to use tinea oil to grill orcs now, you can wash and sleep.
But later, it may not be necessary. Lin Tian is different from the indigenous people. At least he will not use precious crude oil to keep warm...
In fact, there were a few jars of tincture oil in William's palace. What he was talking about at this time was why he didn't bring these tincture oils? If these giant bonfires were supported by these tincture oils, how could they burn so much?...
Forgive these ignorant natives! Just like, in the Middle Ages, who could have known that oil could be used to drive cars? Because at that time, there were no cars at all! Because the production was too small, everyone had almost never been exposed to it, let alone digging out their military value...
Who has ever seen the kind of oil field exposed on the surface that will flow out from the cave? I'm afraid no one has seen it. Even if there is, the black and sticky shape will pollute the environment. Someone will definitely make up legends such as demon tears, curse poisonous water to package it?
The overnight construction of the camp here has been in full swing. William did not conceal the information he received, but he also mentioned that the strength of the orcs has been greatly reduced, and there is no news that Lin Tian’s reinforcements will arrive soon. Some people are serious about asking when the reinforcements will arrive and how many people will be?
He just smiled and replied that Lin Tian's reinforcements could kill 140,000 orcs in one battle, and he was about to arrive. Although some people were still dissatisfied with his slightly old and cunning answer, in the army, it was good that the soldiers were able to obey orders and could inform the situation in advance, and the information provided by them was not fabricated.
According to this statement, if the orcs have been wiped out by 140,000, then there is still a battle to fight!
Chapter completed!