When the natives on the island learned that "Hua Bodhisattva" was recruiting people, almost no one was unwilling to come. In just five days, Xinlika had recruited more than 3,000 people, and these people were carefully selected from various tribes.
The strongest labor force ever produced.
The manpower and utensils were ready, and the construction of Eagle Wing Fort began immediately. The first thing Hua Bushi built was not the walls of the fortifications, but the houses and residences. He had already designed the layout of the walls and courtyards of the entire fortress and started construction first.
Houses can also provide a place for these more than 3,000 people to live.
According to Hua Bushi's plan, Eagle Wing Fort is composed of hundreds of houses and courtyards. There are barracks where soldier disciples live, warehouses for storing food, ammunition and weapons, and a training ground for daily drills.
Various facilities such as halls, kitchens and restaurants are also available. The whole camp is not small in size, just like a small city.
Of course, the size of this city is far less than that of Okura Castle, but it is more than enough to accommodate four to five thousand people.
Since the stones used in the construction were readily available, the wood could be cut down in the surrounding forests, and the manpower was abundant, coupled with Hua Bushi's good dispatch, the construction of the fortress progressed very quickly. It took only one month to complete the construction.
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I saw rows of houses and courtyards rising from the ground between the two eagle-wing-like stone ridges on the coast. Most of them were built with gray-white stones. They were of varying heights but arranged in an orderly manner, giving it quite the look of a new city.
The stone ridges on both sides have been excavated. The inner side has been carved with stairs to climb up the ridge, while the outer side has become straighter and steeper, leaving no room for climbing. Even if you have practiced the "Gecko Wall Skill"
"It's impossible for an expert to climb up.
At the mouth of the gorge, construction of two city walls also began. They were built high and thick, and were stronger than the walls of Okura Castle.
As soon as the martial arts training ground in Eagle Wing Castle was built, people began to practice martial arts on it, and it was Zhu Hong's newly recruited war department disciples.
Previously, Hua Bushi wanted to recruit qualified disciples in Okura City to practice the "Crane Wheel Sword Technique", but he found nothing, so he had to put the training of the new war department on hold for the time being, planning to wait until he returned to the mainland.
.However, recruiting indigenous villagers to build camps these days gave the young master an idea.
The residents of Okura City have always lived a comfortable life, so it is difficult to recruit disciples with good qualifications and perseverance. However, among the Baba natives, there are many young people with good qualifications.
The living conditions of the indigenous people on Okura Island are very difficult. They have to fight against the harsh conditions of nature since they were young, and they do not lack strong willpower. Although they have never practiced basic martial arts, they have been fishing and hunting for many years.
These indigenous people are physically strong and agile. They are by no means comparable to those wealthy children in Okura City who rely on their family business to make money and enjoy a good life. They are even stronger than the manpower that can be recruited in Middle-earth.
More importantly, the indigenous Babas of various tribes on Okura Island experienced the disaster of their villages being destroyed, and many of their relatives were killed by pirates. They all hated the pirates of the "Black Dragon Palace".
Everyone is eager to practice martial arts and take revenge.
The three hundred people currently recruited into the new war department to practice swordsmanship were hand-selected by Hua Bushi from the more than three thousand indigenous people who built Eagle Wing City. They are all between the ages of seventeen and twenty, with strong physiques.
A tiger's back and a bear's waist are the ideal physique for practicing "Crane's Wheel Sword" and "Tiger's Fighting Formation".
Originally, the young master only planned to recruit a hundred people, but seeing that there were so many young people with good qualifications, he increased the number to three hundred. According to his estimate, these three hundred people will eventually be able to practice sword skills at least
Can reach 200 people.
The "Tiger Fighting Formation" is a battle formation that is good at group attacks. The more people in the formation, the greater its power will be. If the war department of these two hundred people can be trained, I believe it will be an extremely powerful fighting force.
, enough to compete with the disciples of any sect in the Central Plains in group battles.
As for the name of the war department, Hua Bushi named it "thorn tiger warrior". The so-called "cut off shark and stab tiger" is exactly the chivalrous behavior of ancient warriors.
When he trained Qingyun Guards in Changsha City before, he only trained more than a hundred people at a time, and finally trained 49 people, which cost nearly 100,000 silver taels. But this time Hua Bushi recruited 300 people at a time, all of them.
It is impossible to train him in the same way as a direct disciple of a famous sect, but it is impossible without three hundred thousand silver.
Fortunately, in the dog king battle a few days ago, in addition to the 400,000 taels of silver from the "Wan Jin Tang", the young master himself also bet more than 100,000 taels. Now, more than half of the money won will be spent immediately.
Two months later, when twenty shipbuilding technicians invited by Gongora from Spain arrived at Okura Island, the Eagle Wing Fort had been completed.
This gray-white fortress is located between two stone ridges. It is surrounded by mountains on two sides and the coast on one side. It has a unique terrain. The only mountain gorge that can enter and exit the fortress is two stone walls that are higher than the city wall. The gate tower is towering.
There are many arrow towers and they are heavily guarded.
Behind the stone wall is an orderly courtyard of stone houses. On the training ground in the center of the fortress, hundreds of disciples are practicing, and the warehouses on the seaside are filled with various artifacts and materials. Although the shipbuilders cannot start until the shipbuilder arrives.
Shipbuilding, but these days Hua Bushi has asked the indigenous people to cut down the forest trees and saw them into planks. He also transported all kinds of materials for building docks and dragon-slaying ships from Okura City to Eagle Wing Castle, just waiting for the shipbuilders to arrive.
, you can start work immediately.
In the rows of stone houses on the other side of the fort, it was hot and the fires were in full swing.
Just twenty days ago, Master Ou, the leader of the "Evil Dog Gate Divine Weapon Hall", brought a group of blacksmiths to Okura Island, and also transported 300 fine iron ingots with the ship, totaling 15,000
Jin, ready to use to cast the dragon-slaying ship's steel keel. Read the full text of "Qingchen Love". But what they are rushing to make is not the keel, but the dagger and steel armor.
At the end of Hua Dihu's sword manual, there are two daggers and a pair of armor drawn, which are exactly the weapons used with the "Crane Wheel Sword". Disciples with average talents and no foundation in internal skills must be used in battle.
They have to use short swords and steel armor to make up for their lack of internal strength and hard skills, so the quality of these weapons is extremely important to their combat effectiveness.
Master Ou is a master of forging weapons. He led the blacksmiths to make the daggers and steel armor of the Tiger Warriors, and he was very proficient at it. As for the two strange-shaped daggers that resemble palms, Master Ou named them "boning knives"
And "bone scraper", the steel armor that only covers the three vital parts of the shoulders, front and head is called "three-yuan armor".
After the shipbuilders, craftsmen, and craftsmen were all in place, and all kinds of materials were prepared, the construction of the Newport Dockyard began. Only twenty days later, a ten-foot-high dock was erected on the seaside of Eagle Wing Fort.
During this period, Mo Wentian transported two more ships of 50,000 kilograms of fine iron ingots from Wuyang City. With the various materials prepared one after another, the construction of the Dragon-Slaying Ship could finally begin.
After another forty days, the world's first giant warship with a steel keel suddenly appeared in the dock.
In the more than three months since the construction of Eagle Wing Fort, Hua Bushi has been arranging and dispatching manpower, managing material expenses, and handling various affairs in the fort every day. He was so busy that he never returned to Okura City once.
In Weitian Tower, Yang Jiangyi and Hai Hongzhu came to the fortress from the city and visited the young master several times.
Sima Rulan, Yao Yuanxiao and Chai Lin and other leaders of "Wanjintang" also came here every two days to inquire about the progress of shipbuilding. In fact, "Wanjintang" has also been recruiting and training disciples in the past few months, actively
Prepare for the next battle.
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In the blink of an eye, it’s already November.
If we are in the mainland of Middle-earth, it is already the early winter season. In the past, when we were in Wuyang City in western Hunan, the first snow would have fallen at this time. In the Hua family mansion, Zhenniang must have ordered her servants to bring out cotton-padded clothes and quilts.
.However, on Okura Island in the South China Sea, although the climate is slightly cooler, it is still very warm, and there is no need to wear jackets.
At dusk, the sky had darkened. On the coast inside Eagle Wing Fort, Hua Bushi walked along the wooden plank road until he walked towards the center of the pier.
The wharf of Xingang has been built for some time. Normally, even at night, the place is still brightly lit, with many craftsmen and workers busy going back and forth. However, today the wharf is empty, probably because the Dragon-Slaying Ship has been completed.
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On the wooden bridge leading to the dock, stood a handsome young man in white, it was Cao Muyun. Six feet behind him, there was a man in a brocade robe with black hair.
It was spread loosely, covering most of the face, but only the smaller half of the face was exposed, but it was smooth and white, like beautiful jade.
Hua Bushi walked closer, gave Cao Muyun a fist, and said to the man in the flower robe: "It turns out that Mr. Qiu has also come to Okura Island. It's been a long time!"
This man in the flower robe was Qiu Hengbo, the Dongchang master who was beside him when Hua Bushi and Cao Muyun met for the first time at the "Happy Island" Casino in Changsha. Qiu Hengbo did not respond to Hua Bushi's greetings.
He didn't answer, just bowed his head slightly.
When he saw Qiu Hengbo in the casino that day, the innate Qi emanating from this great master once made Hua Bushi feel a biting chill. But today, when he stood behind Cao Muyun, his energy was...
He is restrained, and apart from his strange appearance and attire, he is no different from an ordinary person.
The true energy of an internal strength master is flowing in the meridians of the body and limbs all the time. In fact, he is constantly cultivating his internal strength. When the innate Qi has entered the transformation state, the movement of the true energy will naturally affect the surrounding environment.
The chill radiating from Qiu Hengbo's body came from this.
Such masters of cultivating innate Qi can of course also control and transport the Qi in their bodies so that outsiders will not notice them at all, but this must be done deliberately, and the purpose of transporting Qi is to hide their martial arts skills intentionally.