Chapter 46 Actual combat
Shortly after the spring, Solo and other travelers commissioned by Zhou Ming sold thousands of tons of grain from Glen to the Iron Fort Kingdom in the south, and then replaced them with many iron ingots.
These iron ingots are about 5,000 pieces (1 piece 10kg), and can make 3,000 heavy plows, 200,000 spearheads, 200,000 arrows, or 100 pairs of iron armor.
The amount of things made by these iron ingots seems to be very considerable, but when I think about the results of my hard work for a year, I only received five tons of iron ingots, with an average of 1,000 tons of grain = 1 ton of iron. Zhou Ming was speechless in this exchange ratio.
Of course, if you buy it within the Iron Fort Kingdom, buying a ton of iron ingots will definitely not use thousands of tons of grain, and you can only pay one or two hundred tons at most.
The real consumption of the big head is the "toll" that Solo and other businesses were searched by lords when they traveled to various territories, which brought huge additional expenses to Zhou Ming's cost of purchasing iron ingots.
"When the defense army of Glen is trained, you must clean up the lords who charge for these checkpoints! It is best to go to the Iron Fort Kingdom to occupy a mine, and start the furnace and make steel by yourself. There are tens of thousands of tons of steel a year, so you are not afraid of those lords and kings causing trouble."
However, compared with this long-term plan, what Zhou Ming urgently needs to do now is to quickly turn these iron ingots into weapons and fully arm the more than 180 Glenn Guards.
In midsummer, in June, animals are growing and prey is plump.
Baron Garcia, who was in the west of the Bordo, sent a knight to the Grant, saying that the prey in his territory was not as good as that in the Grant, and wanted to come to the forests of the Grant for a while to hunt. After the prey was enough, he returned to the Bordo and asked Lord Donnie if there were any problems?
"Garcia, you old thing! You want to get some cheaper on the leader of the Gran, so you are not allowed to fight. The prey of the Gran is only belongs to the Gran, and no one is allowed to fight!"
Donny roared at the knight brought by Bordo, and wanted to use the toughest statement to defend the interests and dignity of the Gran Territory.
"Baron Donny, so, are you planning to go to war with our Bodo leader? I seem to see that there is no knight around you? There is also a group of farmers training outside the castle. You don't want to rely on these farmers to defend your prey, right?"
The knight said proudly, as if asking, little guy, do you dare to fight with Baron Garcia?
"you--"
Donnie stood up angrily, pointed at him for a while, but couldn't say anything tough.
Yes, if the farmers outside the castle who had trained for less than half a year would really lose a lot, would they go to fight Baron Garcia's Cavaliers?
He also complained about Zhou Ming, and Ryan was really good. He had to train some defense troops and recruit a few knights to come and do it, otherwise how could he fall to the point of being ridden on his head and teeing?
"Donny, don't be angry, please calm down, let me handle this."
Zhou Ming comforted Donnie and said to the knight below: "This noble Mr. Donnie agrees to Baron Garcia hunting in the forest led by Glen. I wish him a happy hunt and more safety."
"Ryan, you--"
Donnie stared at Zhou Ming with his eyes tightly, and even wanted to ask him loudly why he was so weak. At most, he would just die a little. There were so many people in the Glen Territory, so what would be the death of dozens? The dignity and dignity of the Glen Territory were lost. From now on, he would always be a weak person and a coward in the eyes of others.
But seeing Zhou Ming keep squeezing at him, as if he has something to say to him, he had to endure the attack. After the knight laughed and left the living room, he said coldly: "Lian, you have just lost all my face as a Glen Collar. What else should I explain to me now?"
"You sit down first, Donnie and Baron Garcia just want to kill a few Glen-led preys, just give them a little compensation than their life that is about to lose."
Zhou Ming helped Donnie back to his seat, and in his ear, he spoke a plan in a cold tone.
"Okay! Just do what you said! Humph, Garcia, you old thing, take your prey to hell together!" Downey, excited, seemed to have seen the tragic situation of Baron Garcia's death in a pit.
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The next day, Zhou Ming pulled all the defense troops that had been doing basic training into the forest west of the territory. Under the guidance of more than a dozen veteran thieves who dug pits and buried people, it took less than two days to set up a nearly perfect trap and wait for the prey to take the bait.
Not long after, Baron Garcia took more than a dozen knights under his command to the forest of Glen Territory, and the autumn wind of the prey was caught. As soon as he entered the forest, he saw a lot of strong and plump prey, jumping and running in the forest, and suddenly sighed, "If you want to talk about prey, there are really many people in Glen Territory. Even the larger wild boars can't be seen in my territory."
Suddenly, Baron Garcia's eyes lit up, and there was a rare elk in front of him.
Be sure to capture it!
Baron Garcia chased after him with his men.
However, when chasing the elk and passing a steep canyon on both sides, the ground in front suddenly sank downwards, and Baron Garcia, who was in the front, fell into the pit with his men and horses.
"Not good, there are traps!"
"Save the Baron!"
"Not good! A lot of big wood rolled down the mountain."
"Ah!" A knight suddenly covered his face and fell down, and a poisonous arrow penetrated deeply into his eye socket.
After a while, under the heavy blows of the large pit trap on the ground, the thick logs rolling down the mountain, and the poisonous crossbow arrows shot in densely, Baron Garcia and his more than ten knights instantly suffered heavy casualties.
Even though the three or four knights who did not die immediately, they soon turned into corpses under the heavy siege of solid nets, limes and wolf teeth sticks.
The incident of Baron Garcia, the lord of the Bordo, was attacked by thieves in the wild, making the long-standing "Alibaba thieves" even more famous. Earl Lauziz issued a reward order with a head of 500, hoping that some heroes in the martial arts world could destroy this group of thieves that had been entrenched in the Rhodes' leadership for a long time and give them a stable and peaceful life.
However, this thieves came and went without a trace, and did everything neatly and could not catch their traces. They could only warn them, advising those barons who like to go out to hunt not to go out to hunt, and must pay attention to safety in the wild.
After this incident, Glenling spent two years of stable development.
But in the third year, Baron Sean, led by Nathan, finally sent someone to Glen to inquire about the news that his daughter and granddaughter had long died of "plague". He was immediately very sad and shocked, and noticed something was wrong. After sending someone to investigate secretly, he came to an angry conclusion.
His daughter and son-in-law, and two adorable granddaughters, are most likely to die from Baron Donnie's shameful conspiracy!
Faced with Baron Sean's repeated inquiries from the envoys, Donnie denied it, claiming that this was absolutely nothing! Baron Sean naturally did not believe it and expressed his intention to report this matter to Earl Lauzits, and he would prosecute him for murder in the Earl's Court, demanding that the Earl deprive him of his territory and title, be punished by hanging, and avenge his daughter, son-in-law and his family!
Things came to this point, Donnie discussed it with Zhou Ming and decided not to do it, so he simply killed Baron Sean to prevent future troubles.
The next day, early in the morning.
In recent years, the Alibaba thieves, whose number of people recruited by recruiting troops has expanded to more than 300, set out first, divided into ten teams, burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of evil, which caused the Nathan leader's Knights to siege and suppress them. However, how could a few more than ten knights be the opponent of cunning thieves with more than 30 times their number? After losing half of the knights in the field battle, the remaining six knights had to huddle in the Nathan leader's castle, and the gates were closed and they dared not take a step.
The thieves tentatively attacked several times, and after leaving behind a few corpses, they could not help but sighed with the tall castle.
Just at this moment, Zhou Ming and his number had expanded to 600, came over, and it took only half a day to break through the castle.
The method Zhou Ming used was very simple and crude. He piled up the 60 kilograms of black gunpowder he had accumulated over the past few years at the gate of the city, then sealed the dense earth and rocks behind it, and then detonated it, and the heavy city gate opened.
After capturing the castle, the robbers ordered all Baron Sean's family to kill. The remaining servants of the castle and the more than 2,000 people in the entire Nathan territory, as long as they were well-armed, all of them were moved to the large estates and workshops of the Gran Territory to act as slave workers in the Gran Territory.
Yes, Zhou Ming found that it was too slow to develop honestly, with a population growth rate of only 6% a year. It will take until the year of the Monkey and Horses that the Glen Territory can be built into a super territory with a population of more than 100,000 and a soldier of more than 5,000. I am afraid that only crazy plunder can be the fastest to take effect.
Not only that, Zhou Ming was not going to let Count Lauziz take back this land when Nathan took over. As long as Count Lauziz sent a baron over, he would ask the thieves to intercept one, so that this place would be a chaotic land occupied by thieves on the surface, but secretly, he would still be under the management and control of Glen.
At this time, Count Lauziz finally realized the seriousness of the problem. In a few years, a baron heir and two barons died at the hands of thieves. Even the Nathan leader castle was completely destroyed. If the group of thieves in the territory were not wiped out, there would be no peace in the Count Rodziz!
After the lord's conscript order was issued, the fourteen barons in the Earl of Ross responded to the call. Within half a month, a huge encirclement and suppression force consisting of 130 knights (including ten knights impersonated by the Grans thieves), 300 mercenaries and more than 3,000 farmers (with 600 Grans thieves) were gathered to attack the Nathan leader, who was occupied by the thieves, with a black cloud covering the city, and to completely crush the thieves!
However, the night this huge encirclement and suppression force, under the operation of the Glenn leader, first had more than a dozen barrels of poisoned wine, poisoning a large number of knights and mercenaries, and then burning a fire, burning all the food and horses, fleeing in chaos, and then hitting a large number of traps set by thieves. The entire encirclement and suppression force completely collapsed in less than a day.
Except for one baron who escaped by chance, all the twelve lords, including Count Lauzits and eleven barons, died in this chaos.
The Earl of Ross was trapped in an unprecedented group of dragons without a head and extreme panic.
Chapter completed!