Chapter 30 Chapter 2916: Taking advantage of the dwarves
Paladin Crow, the crown prince of the Duke of Mangrove. After entering the noble meeting hall, this was the first time Eryuan knew the name of the leader of the army.
Although he knew that he came to see him to play the trick of "courteous and virtuous corporal", Eyuan still showed respect to him with the consciousness of a subordinate. But he remained vigilant in his heart. Because Wu Qi helped the soldiers suck abscesses, which required the soldiers' lives.
During the conversation, the Crow Department obtained a formation map from Eryuan that could grasp all "trouble" outside the entire city.
When Eryuan introduced the "Wind and Wind" formation, he took out a medicine bottle. These medicines are very sensitive to the orcs' magic runes. They have now been applied to several formation points outside, that is, when the orcs' mage troops step on
The contact between the grass and the chemicals applied on the grass will produce a unique odor.
Eyuan demonstrated it, took out a piece of animal skin belonging to the orc shaman, and lightly applied some medicine on it, which immediately gave off a skunk smell.
Although Crowe covered his nose, he admired Eryuan's method very much.
After Eryuan used the wind element to disperse the smell, he modestly stated: "These are just little tricks."
Eryuan then took the opportunity to ask the Crow Department about their own battle situation at this time.
Here Eryuan learned a key piece of information, that is, the Crow family wanted to contact the dwarf allies first.
…That night, something happened, and a sneak attacker was caught...
A bloodthirsty spiked porcupine was about to sneak in, but it hit the alarm set by Eryuan on the outer defense line, and the alarm sounded.
Then, the guard militiamen organized by Mr. Wei put on their armors and followed the crackling sound of the straw stalks breaking and began to drive the porcupines towards the corner. Then when the blocked porcupines could not escape, they were preparing to die.
During the fight, the large net hidden on the ground suddenly pulled, and the porcupine was directly hung on the city wall, struggling in the air and unable to resist.
The porcupine was quickly shot to death with crossbows by the six farmers who had just trained it.
Lord Paladin, rushed to the scene, investigated the dead porcupine, and rewarded the farmers.
As for Eryuan's own contribution, he was not commended by General Anlexi.
Narrator: Anrexi has to take care of his core knights, and "appreciation" is something that he, a veteran nobleman, cannot easily give to strangers.
This is how the nobles of the kingdom show "partiality" openly and openly to maintain the cohesion of those around them.
But the next day, Paladin Crow was ordered to lead a team out. The team included 25 knights and 120 infantry, and Eryuan, a mage, was also called. As for
Eryuan was not informed of what the mission was. But the knights surrounding the Crow family seemed to know the mission. Even though Eryuan asked many times, they all shook their heads.
In this regard, Eryuan knew that he was still on the edge.
For the old nobles: if they want to reward someone without noble status, they can only compensate by giving them permission to use materials through "constant reuse". In the military camp, Eryuan, who took the order, got a large sum of gold coins.
and a magic potion.
Mr. Wei looked at the iron nails on his boots. He had been running around for the past few years and the nails were polished. He was destined to be on the road.
...Eryuan is still just a soldier...
After leaving the town base, Eryuan looked back at the city wall and the militiamen training there. Eryuan understood that he had now taken on the role of "dispatched meat detective" again.
Eryuan muttered in his heart: If this was a real-time strategy game, I would be the unit that hooks monsters, and death is not the commander’s priority. The commander’s priority is to ensure that he can win the war through a series of tasks.
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For example, in the last Gnoll battle led by Count Lunos, Eryuan only entered the decision-making circle after he continued to prove his usefulness and became a key figure in the battle.
So from a leadership perspective: Mr. Wei is currently interested in fishing, so he has no chance to enter the core.
The young paladin Crow led this human light armored force to march rapidly, and after crossing a river, they arrived at the mountainous area fifty kilometers away.
Eryuan saw the dwarves. The dwarves are a very peculiar race. They are only about 1.2 meters tall and are rich in strong men. They also weigh more than 50 kilograms. Perhaps because they are small and strong, they need enough energy support, so they are very fond of alcohol.
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After the human infantry enters the main dwarf city, they must bend down when entering the door.
Mr. Wei looked at these dwarf buildings built with bluestone and cement, and couldn't help feeling that these narrow passages were a bit like a children's castle in an amusement park.
After Eryuan entered the city, he observed the life of the dwarves and was amazed. The dwarves used fine sand to bathe. They directly rubbed their bodies with the sand to remove dead skin and dirt. The used sand was directly sent to the stove.
After roasting in the flame for several hours, blow it with the air from the blower. The light dust will be blown away, while the heavy sand will remain for further use.
After entering the city, Eryuan began to look for the dwarves in the tavern to get information, and took out the wine to drink with the dwarves.
Facing the upright dwarf, Master Wei cheated and secretly converted the wine in the wine glass into air and water before clinking glasses with the dwarf. After the dwarf was drunk, Eyuan took the opportunity to pinch the dwarf's tendon to satisfy his curiosity: "
Hey, the skin and flesh of this dwarf are really different."
The earth phase changes on the skin of dwarves are much stronger than those of humans.
Eyuan: "Tsk, tsk, now I have a bold idea."
...While Mr. Wei was happily getting along with the dwarf drunkards, the Crow family was bargaining with the dwarf leader in a serious manner...
In the dwarf base, the Paladin Crow took out the covenant and asked the dwarves to join the battle.
The covenant between humans and dwarves six hundred years ago was viewed by Eryuan as a business contract.
In this commercial contract, humans provide food, cloth and other basic work remuneration, and dwarves provide steel tools. When necessary, both sides fight together, and of course the fighting party must provide supplies.
It took the Crow family three days to complete negotiations before the teleportation array was set up in the dwarf's iron furnace hall. After a batch of cloth and food were remotely transported to the dwarf's territory, the conditions of the alliance were reached, and the dwarves joined the battle.
The dwarf troops began to follow the human allies, and three steam mechanical tanks and dwarf musketeers joined the team.
The Eryuan on the steam tank is "hanging ticket". Although the bumps in the tank are uncomfortable, it is much better than walking step by step on the legs.
Eyuan looked inside the tank. The dwarves were sitting in a cockpit that was as big as a 21st century children's rocker. They turned on the switch, turned the disc, and looked at various instruments. Eyuan sighed a little. This is already the industrial revolution.
It's a level of technology, but all the equipment is in a mini state.
Eyuan, who had no idea how to count, couldn't help but hum: "Daddy's daddy, call"
Facing humans, dwarves have sophisticated weapons. In the process of alliance with humans, they exchanged industrial products for agricultural products, but they are far from the point of scissors difference.
Because the dwarves have machinery but no chemical engineering, the power of the musket is not enough to break the knight's plate armor. The warhead propelled by gunpowder is not as powerful as the magic-charged one.
Eryuan: Since the rules of the material phase are changeable, materials and machinery are not equal to productivity, but the combination of runes (phase guidance structures) is technology and productivity. Therefore, the smelting route of the dwarves in this magical plane is
Going astray (similar to the Indians going crazy on the obsidian technology route)
At this time, dwarves cannot obtain scissors in industry.
From the 19th century to the 21st century, the so-called rise of industry was achieved through gaining military superiority, formulating trade rules, occupying traditional means of production, and monopolizing all economic activities in industry and agriculture, achieving a winner-takes-all level.
The rules between humans and dwarves are actually the same as those between East Asia and the United States in the early 21st century. Although East Asia accounted for more than 60% of the world's industrial scale at that time, its trade with Europe and the United States had been running a trade surplus for decades.
But no matter how much foreign debt Europe and the United States owe in trade, some of their core assets, such as technology patents and food technology, will not be resold, and they will periodically "just happen" to relieve their foreign debt due to certain events.
Expecting to regain the upper hand through free economy, that is, the model that I used to dream of buying the United States in my childhood, is all a dream.
As long as the area where the dwarves live is in turmoil, human military leaders can wipe out the foreign debt owed for purchasing industrial products by providing security protection.
Now, although the dwarves have provided metal and assisted the alliance in sending troops many times, the dwarves need humans as allies.
After detailed investigation, Eryuan: The steel products smelted by the dwarves were given to the human lords at a very cheap price.
Fortunately, humans are only at the level of feudal lords, and greedy creatures like capitalists have not yet appeared. Otherwise, the dwarves would be exploited to the point of death.
Eyuan: The human knight lords only demand the loyalty of the dwarves and have no desire to control the dwarves in any deep way. If they want to become capitalists, they have to let the dwarves work for them. In the end, the iron trade is the dwarves who owe humanity.
Eryuan frowned: My enemy, I remembered that this is what some black mages do to their black dwarf slaves.
Sitting on the steam tank, while chatting with the dwarves, Eryuan also understood the production management of the dwarves!
The dwarves are a family business model, but different levels will be awarded based on skill improvement (that is, the number of braids that can be worn on the beard. The more beards, the higher the smelting and forging skills.) This is a bit like promotion in a company.
It stimulated quite strong labor enthusiasm.
Mr. Wei then took a notebook and wrote it down. He felt that this thing was very useful and could be used in the management of his own team in the future.
During the march, Eryuan welded an iron bucket to the heat exhaust pipe of the tank.
Eryuan took out the barley and water, used the heat dissipated from the tanks for fermentation, and kept the large iron barrels at the most reasonable fermentation temperature range, and the alcohol content was quite high. With the rich aroma of wine, the three tanks of the dwarves came out
Emerging from the sky, the dwarves also became brothers with Eryuan, the ranger mage.
Saxinge Tiegang (the leader of the dwarves) got drunk and praised Eryuan, who "will never get drunk after a thousand cups of wine": "You are much more real than those hypocritical ghosts."
The hypocritical people in this dwarf's mouth are elves, and Eyuan looks like an elf ranger, so he was mistaken for an elf by the dwarf at first.
Of course, Eryuan took the opportunity to pat the dwarf's shoulder and help him sober up with massage. He massaged the magic power into the dwarf's muscles like acupuncture. While guiding the dwarves to better digest alcohol, he also learned about the dwarves' muscles.
Phase changes, in terms of "approximation", the affinity of Eryuan is full.
…The sun emerged from the clouds and shone brightly on the sunny boy’s face.…
When the human troops left, the dwarves gave Eryuan a mount, a mountain blue sheep, with whom they had become friendly.
"This thing is great!" Eryuan sat on the big goat with great interest, holding his butterfly tightly.
The knight on the side looked at Eyuan like this and said with a smile: "It's quite suitable."
The knight's tone was like a man driving a Ferrari coming to an old man's car and saying "it's quite suitable".
This billy goat from Eryuan cannot be compared with the orthodox knight's war horse, and in this world, the main weapons of knights are all "heavy" weapons.
At this time, the orthodox knight's sword was inserted into the scabbard on the side of the horse, which could be quickly drawn out and chopped, while the spear in the knight's hand was often just a one-time temporary weapon. The dwarf knight charged with an armor-piercing hammer on the billy goat.
Eryuan's weapon at this time was a 1.5-meter spear. From the knight's perspective, no matter where the pole was inserted into the goat's saddle, it would be very slow to pull it out.
Eryuan hung a hanging point on his elbow, letting the spear hang under his arm like a scale beam at all times. This kind of nondescript riding made professional knights shake their heads.
However, Eryuan is a spellcaster and does not fall within the scope of being restricted by the Knight Code.
Narrator: Mr. Wei rides like this because in his memory, Tang Sanzang rode like this while holding a Zen staff.
…This journey back home should have been peaceful…
However, the human and dwarf troops encountered a group of trolls sniping halfway. There were twenty trolls, which was quite a lot. After all, these were two-meter-tall beings.
The old troll wizard, who was all yellow, raised his magic wand, and suddenly the fiery red magic energy hit the paladin's head.
However, the prince raised his hammer, a golden air shield surrounded his body (holy shield technique), and the fiery red spell energy was bounced away. This spell is an upgraded version of the inner fire, but the density is much more powerful and can be used by almost any weapon.
, including ballistas and catapults, the damage caused by flying stones can be deflected, and the knight rushed over at the lead.
Seeing his Lord Paladin be so brave and fearless, Eryuan's morale was also boosted.
Eryuan said in his heart: "If this stupid young man full of holy light is holding me in front, I will be safe!"
Eryuan raised his hand and used mana to steal it, transferring the bloodthirsty spell the trolls had just added to his men to his own knights.
Our own knight rushed towards the yellow-skinned troll wizard. When the muscular green-skinned troll on the side was holding a throwing ax and was about to block it, Master Wei's signature "Silver Foil Glare" directly made the green-skinned warrior at this critical moment.
Been blinded.
One's own big knight exploded, and the big knight chopped off the head of the green-skinned troll on the spot. The fat body without the head fell down spraying blood. The other trolls saw this and fled in all directions. Judging from their organization, they were a group of mercenaries.
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The trolls were lying on their bodies. After the battle, Crow rode his horse to Eyuan and said to Eyuan: "It's not normal for these enemies to appear here." - In this battle, Eyuan performed as a mage.
Showed enough courage and responsibility.
Eryuan opened the map and pointed to the nearest area, that is, to his side and behind, where there was a river.
Eyuan: When I counted the direction of refugees in the city, no refugees escaped from this direction. Our enemies launched an attack on us from this direction.
Then the paladin looked at Eryuan and took a deep breath, nodded in agreement, then rode his horse to the front of the team and announced: "Soldiers, the enemy wants to stop us, we must quickly return to Hader Town (An
General Lech's base)"
In fact, the Crow Department was a little angry that Eyuan only revealed the key information at this time, because why hadn't Eyuan told him earlier? But he thought about it and found that his mentor did not summon Eyuan at the military meeting.
