"Everyone has worked hard." Then Jiang Tian, who was still fresh, stood up from the tired team and ordered to Captain Raffel beside him: "Send people five miles forward.
, three miles behind, set up a cordon one by one, while others repaired in place."
When the officers, non-commissioned officers, and veterans gradually came to the team by word of mouth, they separated into a small team to take the order, or scattered again. He turned to the side again, wearing a dirty sheepskin.
A local mountain man with dark skin, wearing a jacket and short felt trousers exposing his long hairy legs, said:
"Since we successfully bypassed Tabu City under your guidance, do you need any reward personally?"
"No, no, no, noble lord..." The thin and shriveled mountain man quickly waved his hand and said: "You have already given me enough, just the twenty pounds of salt for hiring the guide is enough.
It has made my village prosperous for a long time; not to mention, your soldiers also killed the big bear in the mountains, so that we can survive the winter without being threatened again. We also eliminated a nest of water monsters that have been lingering at the mouth of the river for many years, so that we can survive the winter.
All the women and children can freely draw water...but it is countless times better off than those gentlemen who only ask us for fur taxes."
Jiang Tian smiled slightly when he heard this; this is also one of the policies currently being followed by the Free Army. No matter how much you talk, it can't compare to the actual actions taken. Eradicate the wild beasts and aliens that are rampant in the alien mountains and wilderness, and then show the results achieved.
, is also a good way of publicity.
The other way is to try to buy items produced by local people through fair transactions, so as to create connections and deepen understanding. Of course, in most cases, the Free Army still barters a lot, because most rural areas
Farmers and mountain people here have few opportunities to use their money.
In addition to a small amount of centimes (copper coins), perhaps there are few opportunities to see silver coins in a lifetime; in this case, the salt brought from the coastal area of Provence, and the coarse cloth purchased locally in Alais, overseas
The saved spirits and other daily necessities were put to great use.
Half a pound of coarse salt can often be sold for a dime on the coast. Here it is often worth the price of a fox skin with a tail, or a quarter of a live goat. An undyed fifty-foot roll
Plain cloth can be exchanged for a small barrel of butter or a large barrel of beer...
Often after a round of business is done, everyone knows about the generosity and fairness of the Free Army; then the next time they pass by, there will naturally be villagers from the surrounding areas who heard the news, forming a temporary market; and then recruit from them
Soldiers or accompanying laborers and guides are much simpler.
Just like this dark-skinned, skinny mountain man, it was in this temporary small market that he took the initiative to accept the recruitment of the Free Army and led a team into the mountains to hunt some overly active beasts, thus establishing
I initially trusted him and gave him the news about the hunting trails in the mountains.
There will even be some women or young women who take the initiative to become washerwomen with the army. Of course, the current Free Army no longer needs the temporary recruitment of washerwomen; but Jiang Tian still ordered the recruitment of female servants and workers in the name of
, took them in.
The reason is also very simple. Women who need to take such a step have some compelling reasons. Either they are daughters who cannot support the family, or they are widows who have lost their support. After being accepted, they can be solved internally, and older people can solve the problem internally.
Soldier spouse issues.
On the other hand, the Free Army will also recruit some young adults from these cities, towns and villages along the way. After internal edification and transformation, as long as they can survive until retirement, they can become the nails for the Free Army to wedge into the local grassroots; it is more convenient.
Advocacy policy and implementation of changes.
As long as you can make money and go home, you can also provide other people in the local area with a way out and an opportunity to make a living. They will not be easily bewitched and instigated by the old aristocratic forces that have been driven away, or people sent by other camps.
, which provides some disguised bundled stable values.
"Then you go down and have a good rest first! You don't need to participate in what happens next." Jiang Tian waved his hand again and said: Suddenly several soldiers rushed forward and took the mountain man to the side of the mountain behind the rocks.
, a temporary rest camp was set up to avoid what would happen next.
Later, Jiang Tian came to a temporarily leveled open space. As his mind turned, the prompts of the "Dimensional Bubble" module appeared again in his field of vision; as the prompts flashed past, piles of
Various supplies and weapons and equipment also appeared out of thin air one after another.
And those Free Army soldiers who climbed over with bare hands and light equipment once again let out a low uproar. Although most of them had seen this miraculous scene for the first time, they still couldn't bear it.
I was dazzled by it, worshiped and my morale was greatly boosted.
Therefore, in a short period of time, they quickly completed the re-arming and received enough rations and drinks to last for more than half a month; they sat back-to-back in a circle according to the team formation, and started eating and drinking on the spot with felts and blankets;
Some people started to build tents.
After a while, Migne, the deputy commander of the mountain company who personally led the team out for reconnaissance, also brought a preliminary report on the nearby terrain. So Jiang Tian also led the team on foot to a location deep in the canyon.
I saw rugged rocks standing on both sides of the mountain walls, and a slender waterfall falling down.
"There is a stable water source, sufficient terrain height, and enough natural cover. This is it!" Then he nodded and said to the officers around him: Then the soldiers with tools swarmed forward and began to dig trenches and trenches on the spot.
Clear the ground and collect rocks.
And when they encountered large rocks that were difficult to move and pry, Jiang Tian would take action in a timely manner. He stepped forward and stretched out his hand to press, and with just one breath, those huge rocks were like
It was as if it had been wiped out of this world, leaving only a collapsed earth pit.
Therefore, with the efforts of these soldiers who were increasingly shocked, full of piety, and praying secretly, it took them less than half an hour to simply dig out a waist-deep tunnel at both ends of the center line of the road in the canyon.
Trenches and low forts made of loose earth and rocks.
Then, Jiang Tian walked up to these earth barriers and waved his hand again; suddenly large sections of sharp-headed fences made of thick cut tree trunks appeared out of thin air; after he finished walking,
After this trench line, the entire middle section of the canyon was cut off by a row of spiked wooden walls.
But it was not over yet; then he stretched out his hand again and pressed against the curtain wall, releasing large and neat rectangular prefabricated panels out of thin air, and following the support of their own weight, they were inserted diagonally one after another, sinking deeply into the shallow holes left on the ground.
A new exterior wall was immediately formed in the ditch.
Yes, this is the cement prefabricated board specially prepared by Jiang Tian; the raw material is the volcanic ash cement handed down from the ancient Roman era; although this primitive cement has shortcomings such as slow drying in the shade and difficulty in preservation, it is
Created a glorious era of Roman architecture.
Yes, those ancient Roman buildings that can be passed down to later generations, such as the Colosseum, Opera House, Dome Pantheon and other ruins, almost all rely on this ancient cement as an adhesive to support the building and external shaping.
Mixtures often remain immortal for thousands of years.
So there is a saying that goes well: Mount Vesuvius destroyed a Pompeii city, but created thousands of Roman cities. However, this kind of volcanic ash cement is mostly limited to areas near Italy because it is difficult to transport and preserve.
The supply cannot be guaranteed if the distance is further.
Of course, in the Lozère province at this time, there was a volcanic ash fringe called the Dome Mountains; therefore, it was quite convenient to collect and excavate it, and the locals mostly used it as a base soil for fertilizing fields and growing flowers.
Use it to form a unique industry in the local area.
Therefore, when he was in Mangde City, Jiang Tian ordered people to use these volcanic ash to try to make large-scale sheet prefabricated parts; when needed, they can also be used as fortifications for field camps and as internal support structures.
The ones are bamboo strips soaked in tar.
Yes, after the Seris people arrived and became active in the Mediterranean, they also brought many species from the Eastern Empire, including the fast-growing and easy-to-grow bamboo. It grew very well in the hilly Provence region, and even almost replaced the traditional
The trees became building materials for the poor's shacks.
Therefore, the thickness of the corresponding cement prefabricated boards does not need to be too large, about fifteen centimeters is enough. Because in this time and space, except for a few specially customized siege cannons, there are almost no arrows and fire blunderbuss that can penetrate and
Destroy this level of cement prefabricated panels.
Therefore, when the composite defense line of cement prefabricated boards and pointed fence walls was initially laid and placed along the trench, soldiers came forward to fill the gap between the fence walls and the prefabricated boards with soil and tamp it down with wooden mallets.
; In this way, even if it is bombarded by artillery, it will not be without resistance.
Immediately afterwards, they used the reserved joints between these fence walls and prefabricated boards and further tied them with ropes to prevent them from being overturned or pulled down by the enemies who rushed under the wall. Finally, they added
On the rammed wall, wooden baffles covered with iron sheets were fixed again.
At the same time, other soldiers also built simple arrow towers and sentry towers in the rubble piles on both sides. Half a day after this temporary wall defense line was initially completed; under the increasingly dusky sky, the road in the distance
In the open space at the end, a long and winding army was ushered in.
Most of the infantry wore oriental-style chain mail and bow and arrow gloves and chain-link gowns, while the knights on horseback wore half-length scale armor or piece of armor outside the chain curtains; the unarmored retinue and the vanguard cavalry,
They also held high the flag of the golden shield on a red background and the battle flag of a black hatchet on a white background.
They were so brightly dressed, with a strong lineup, and high morale; they looked breathtaking from a distance. However, the next moment, the still majestic vanguard army started to commotion on the spot, shouting
There were bursts of uproar and exclamations.
This was because their scouts had only been conducting reconnaissance for one night; in the narrowest part of the originally empty valley, a city wall and fort appeared out of thin air. The meaning contained in this was enough to make everyone involved in this matter
The knights and branch leaders were suspicious.
Despite this, the subsequent order from the rear team still blew the horn of the attack. Then, groups of infantry armed with swords, shields and axes crossed the formation to form several wedge-shaped offensive formations;