Your war hammer is too fake

The information stored in the crystal marbles might be a very valuable treasure, but it might also be the historical records of the Faceless, which were useless to the Lord of the Holy Scripture. The best solution An Jiyue could think of was to find a powerful prophet to tell her whether the nearly 10 points were worth spending.

It’s not that the Old World doesn’t have powerful prophets, but they are either in the Destruction Camp or worse than the Destruction Camp… What are you looking at? I’m talking about you, Green Chaos!

"Let's put this matter aside for now," the girl studied the crystal marble in her hand for a while, then put it back into her waist bag. "Although I have been following the progress of the preparations through the chat group, I still want to ask you in person, how is the situation of the altar?"

"It has been operating stably since its completion. By the way, is your design really reliable? Damn it, if such a huge amount of energy gets out of control, there won't be even a trace of Xuanshui left. All of it will fly up to the sky and stand shoulder to shoulder with Kazsama." Dustan was obviously not calm when talking about the four-story altar whose construction process was supervised by him.

"Old Du, you can question my character, but never question my work. I designed the ultimate insurance from the beginning," An Jiyue raised a finger and shook it left and right. "If the worst happens and all restraints fail, the altar will launch all the energy it has gathered towards the evil land. Whoever is hit will be unlucky."

Before setting off for the Southland, An Jiyue had been thinking about how to deal with the greenskins in the Badlands. In the girl's original plan, after attending Oakley Philipson's coronation ceremony, she was supposed to lead the army to the border between the Three Rivers and the Badlands, but the meeting with Gazul disrupted her plan, and also ruined Thorgrim's plan to lead the army south to Iron Peak Fort after defeating Keshuzhan.

Fortunately, An Jiyue was quite lucky. Until the girl returned from the Southland, the thing she was most worried about did not happen. The Badlands did not produce a strong enough Dr. Wow during this period to launch a WAAAGH!! to rush the Three Rivers. Now, it is time to launch the action that has been prepared for a long time to deal with the greenskin problem in the Badlands.

"After I finish processing the documents that have accumulated over this period of time, I will go to check the situation of the altar," she said to Dustan after weighing the pros and cons in her heart. "There is no need to wait for an auspicious day. As long as there is no problem with the altar, I will start tomorrow. By then, I will need you to be by my side to protect me."

"No problem," the wizard made an OK gesture, "I just want to broaden my horizons."

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Note 1: In the tabletop rules, all goblins have the "fear of elves" trait, and any type of elf is considered to have the "induce fear" trait when playing against goblins. Note that even Skarsnik has it! As for how this thing came about, we have to ask how Eltharion went on an expedition to the Old World to take revenge after Gollum stole his home...

Note 2: Fire divination also appeared in Game of Thrones. Melisandre used this trick more than once in the plot, allowing herself or others to see the future from the flames.

Chapter 103: Power (Part 1)

Oakley Phillipson stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the mountains in the distance.

His Majesty the King of Black Rock Castle has been very busy recently, mainly busy learning how to be a king. As a dwarf who is just over a hundred years old, Oakley doesn't even have a long beard (Note 1). Even though he has been the clan leader for nearly ten years, in the eyes of the clan's long-bearded elders, he is still just a short-bearded boy with a head full of unreliable ideas.

Oakley was confused and at a loss when he suddenly put on the crown. He never thought that he would be able to get such a position one day and shoulder the responsibility of ruling a fortress. In order to be a good king, he had to send someone to pick up his grandmother from the Eternal Peak and appointed Dagna as his chief advisor on the spot.

An old man in the family is like a treasure, and this saying is especially applicable to the dwarves. Dagna's age, status, and prestige would be enough to keep the place in Eternal Peak, not to mention the newly opened team of Black Rock Castle. With the help of his grandmother, Oakley finally sorted out the mess of daily government affairs. The ruins were cleaned up efficiently, the materials purchased from Eternal Peak and Haimenguan arrived one after another, and the new dwarf immigrants were properly resettled.

With the help of the Eternal Peak Runesmith Guild, hidden treasure houses that had been sealed for three thousand years were found, and the precious metals, gems, star iron ingots, sets of armor and weapons... and other materials stored in them were brought to light. Oakley's personal wealth expanded rapidly, and he only used a tiny part of this wealth to pay off all the expenses incurred in the reconstruction of the fortress, and even imported a batch of food and preserved food from Xuanshui for emergency use.

That's right, it's Xuanshui. During the Goblin War, the dwarven agriculture suffered a heavy blow and has never recovered. As a result, most of the fortresses in the Mountain Kingdom are now very dependent on importing agricultural products from the human kingdom closest to them. Black Rock Castle has just been recovered, and there is no way to rebuild agriculture. Eternal Peak has also been destroyed by the invasion of the magic weapon, so it has no spare capacity to export any agricultural products. So Oakley naturally thought of the territory of a certain governor.

Xuanshui's food reserves were not particularly abundant, but for political reasons, An Jiyue still agreed to the deal. In fact, the girl sold three-quarters of the old grain found in the inner city's official warehouse at one time... Fortunately, the dwarves didn't care much about whether the grain was old or not, as long as the price was reasonable and they didn't do such things as selling food bags at a hyped price. During the Goblin War, some long-besieged fortresses were short of food and even had to mix stone powder into bread. No matter how old the grain was, it was better than this.

By the way, most of the remaining quarter of the old grain was used to make wine - it should have been all of it, but An Jiuyue deliberately left a batch and designated it as the working meal for all the staff of Xuanshui County Government.

Magistrate Cao and his friends ate old rice for a whole year...

Oakley imported enough food from Xuanshui to feed 10,000 dwarves for two months, including old grain and new rice. The price of old grain was particularly cheap, basically the cost price plus the freight, as long as he didn't lose money. In addition to this batch of emergency food, Oakley also wrote a letter to King Byronos Dragonhammer of Haimenguan, entrusting him to help purchase a batch of food from Tyrell and Estalia, which should be enough for Black Rock Castle to eat for two years at least, and preferably five years.

After this batch of grain is eaten, the development of the Three Rivers area, especially agricultural construction, should be on the right track. By then, Black Rock Castle can import all kinds of agricultural products from the Zhendan people nearby.

Gold, pearls, and jade are not enough to eat when hungry or wear when cold. Dwarves like to accumulate wealth. Even if they don't use it, just counting the money can bring supreme happiness to a rich dwarf. In this regard, Oakley is a relatively different kind of dwarf. After gaining an astonishing amount of wealth, Oakley thought most about how to spend the money.

It's not that Oakley doesn't like the glittering gold, but Oakley cares more about the future of the Fortress than the gold. Especially when the population of the Fortress is small, how can it be defended?

After a period of immigration mobilization, including those clans that were still on the way and those that had decided to return to their homeland but had not yet left, the population of Black Rock Castle was expected to reach a little over 4,000. With such a small population, not to mention defending Karak, even the first floor of the city where the throne hall was located (Dwarf Fortress usually has several floors) could not be filled.

Admittedly, the situation in Black Crag was much better than that in Eight Peaks. At least the greenskins and rats here had been cleared out, and the population under Oakley's rule was much larger than that under Belegar. However, the king knew that it would not be long before those annoying enemies would fill every tunnel again and continue to launch attacks from the surface and underground.

Since the day he wore the crown, Oakley has been thinking about how to defend Karak, but without enough people, it is useless to say anything. The long-bearded elders of various clans offered advice, but their suggestions could only win battles, not wars. So he sought wisdom from his grandmother, who gave him a subtle suggestion.

"Why don't you ask Little Moon?" the old lady said. Perhaps thinking that her silly grandson might not understand such a profound hint for a dwarf, Dagna added: "Her magic may be able to solve this problem."

If anyone dared to make such an unconventional suggestion at the Council of Elders, they would have been kicked out long ago. No one dared to disrespect the only remaining high-ranking priest of Valaya in the Mountain Kingdom, even though their faces were full of suspicion and complaints.

Oakley did not give an answer on the spot. The King of Black Rock Castle struggled for several days, and finally wrote a letter to Xuanshui. At that time, An Jiyue was preparing to lead the team to the Southland. The girl replied that she had a plan for this, but did not explain the specific content of the plan, but only said that she would start to implement it immediately after she returned from the Southland.

Just yesterday, the day after An Jiyue returned to Xuanshui, the Sky Knight of the Eagle Guard delivered the letter from the girl. After reading the contents of the letter, Oakley, with a frown on his face, handed the letter to Dagna, and after reading it with a smile, the old lady handed it to each member of the Council of Elders to circulate one by one.

The content of the letter caused a small stir in the Council of Elders of Black Rock Castle. Some were suspicious, some questioned, but except for Oakley who was half-believing and Dagna who smiled but said nothing, no one believed what was described in An Jiyue's letter.

Today, under the protection of dozens of long-bearded warriors, the entire Council of Elders of Black Rock Castle and the king himself came to the top of the mountain above the fortress, waiting for something to happen. Oakley did not have any heavy hammer warriors for the time being. According to the tradition of the dwarves, each of these elite warriors responsible for protecting the royal family was personally selected by the king. All of them were famous warriors who had proved their bravery and loyalty on the battlefield more than once.

Black Rock Castle had been restored for a short time, and Oakley was not prepared to lower the selection standards, so his current guard work was temporarily handled by a group of long-bearded warriors. Nearly a hundred dwarves gathered together, and there was almost no sound of conversation or complaints. However, these voices were gradually suppressed by another voice.

"Look!" A bearded warrior suddenly shouted, "What is that?!"

No one could answer his question—except Dagna Weiguang, who had stopped smiling an hour ago and turned to a serious face looking west. The old lady pulled at the thick blanket covering her lower body. As the only person with a chair to sit on, she looked at her grandson with a strange look, but the grandson was attracted by the strange vision in the distance and didn't notice his grandmother's sight at all.

"The ancestors do bless you, Oakley..." Amid the increasingly loud exclamations, Dagna said in a voice that only she could hear.

The huge rumble shook the eardrums, disdainfully covering the insignificant voices of mortals. The mountains west of Black Rock Castle changed dramatically, the hard rocks and the soil covering them were kneaded and reshaped like plasticine, turning into a steep and almost impassable place for creatures that could not fly.

As the mountains were reshaped into a natural cliff, a kind of blue wave wrapped in a salty sea breeze rushed in from the other side of the horizon. Except for a few representatives from Haimenguan (Note 2) who were invited to watch, the dwarves present had never seen the sea. They stared at the land south of the mountains with their mouths wide open, which literally split open. The rolling sea water rolled up white foam and poured into the torn land, forming a bay that had no end in sight.

In the end, all changes came to a halt just as they reached Black Rock Castle.

There was total silence on the mountaintop. The dwarves stared at the gradually calming sea below, gazing at the expanse of blue water that was less than 500 meters away from the city wall.

"Oakley, we have to build the port area as soon as possible," Dagna clapped her hands and called back Oakley's soul, which had flown away to who knows where. "We need to have more and more in-depth cooperation with His Majesty Byronos. Black Rock Castle must also have a marine engineer guild and our own fleet. The sea brings wealth, but it also brings more challenges."

The old lady raised her head and looked into the distance: "You really gave us a 'surprise', Little Moon."

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Note 1: A dwarf has a long beard at the age of 120.

Note 2: At this time, Black Rock Castle had Haimen Pass troops to assist in the defense.

The author says:

Author's words: PS: Reply to reader "Lieutenant Colonel Liu Peiqia":

The miner was filed by CA... In the tabletop rules, the miner is a heavy-armed dwarf warrior with special deployment rules, and even has a higher cost-effectiveness than the dwarf warrior. As for Dustan's magic system, all the Lords of the Holy Scripture are group members in the chat group. He asked to use the Heavenly Spell because he likes to hit people with comets.

In addition, there are pictures in this chapter. If you can't see them, refresh the page and you will see them. An Jiyue used magic to artificially create a mountain range south of the Blood River. The thick black line is the mountain range, and the blue part is the narrow bay torn out from the earth to create the mountain range. The sea water comes from the Blackwater Bay in the west. This is An Jiyue's solution to the greenskin threat in the badlands. The mountains and the bay are just the foundation. There are also a series of mountaintop outposts and fortresses (to be built later). If conditions permit in the future, they will be matched with super-large formations.

Chapter 104: Power (Part 2)

William stood there motionless until everything returned to calm.

Behind the Chaos Warlock, there was the sound of boots stepping on fine gravel. "Master," a young and charming female voice said, "the workers are very restless and they refuse to continue working."

William said nothing and made no move. The person who came to report stood behind the Chaos Warlock until she heard William say, "Kill the most negative people, and then give the remaining workers an additional 50% salary. Tell them that the only way to leave here alive is to complete my orders."

"Your will, Master." The voice bowed its head respectfully.

Three weeks ago, William arrived somewhere in the northern part of the Badlands with fifty soldiers and four hundred Arab laborers. These laborers came from Heka, the largest city-state on the Araby coast. William exchanged these strong and docile slaves from a big shot in Heka with a bottle of magic potion that could restore the virility of an octogenarian.

As for the fifty soldiers wearing pure white armor, completely covered in fine steel armor from head to toe, they were William's latest research results. During the cooperation with Keshuzhan, Wolf Khan provided William with a steady stream of experimental samples, including some very precious and rare items for the Chaos Warlock to study and test.

As part of the agreement, some of William's research results were applied to the Wolf Khan's Kexue army, successfully creating a number of powerful hobgoblin warriors, the most powerful of which were even able to compete with Chaos Champions.

According to the agreement reached by both parties, William could leave after developing a stable version of the hobgoblin-specific biological enhancement technology and handing it over to Keshuzhan. Perhaps it was because of his nature, or perhaps it was influenced by the chaotic nature of the greenskins, in any case Keshuzhan broke his promise. Wolf Khan refused to let William leave, and instead asked William to continue serving him.

Eventually, the Chaos Sorcerer found a new body, and the Wolf Khan, along with his ambitions, were buried among the towering mountains.

The flames of war never cease, and William will never lack new partners. After making some adjustments to the bio-enhancement technology originally used by the hobgoblins, and using it to greatly enhance the power of an orc boss, this orc boss named Beast Rek O Blood Banner challenged and defeated the previous leader of his Broken Tooth tribe, becoming the tribe's new warrior.

After promising to come up with more advanced bio-enhancement technology to make Beast Rex bigger and greener, William obtained permission to enter the territory of the Broken Tooth Tribe to excavate some ancient ruins.

The Chaos Warlocks understand that the Greenskins' chaotic nature makes them extremely difficult to deal with, and even if they are lucky enough to reach an agreement, it is often torn up quickly. If the Skaven and Druzi's fickleness is to gain greater benefits, it can be traced, but the Greenskins' fickleness is purely because they want to do so.

In order to achieve his goal before Beast Rek turned hostile, William led the team out before the second batch of experimental enhanced soldiers got out of the incubator. Fifty soldiers could not protect anything in a place like the Badlands, but the Chaos Warlock himself did not care about this. The harsh environment of the Badlands was an excellent testing ground. As long as the enhanced soldiers could walk back and forth in the Badlands without any problems, even if no battle took place in the middle, William could use this to prove his ability to the cult, especially to "him".

William couldn't help but frowning when he thought of a man he should call "father". He hated him, hated him to the core, hated him madly. But at least for now, he still had to use his research results to please the old man who held the power of the cult.

A hot wind blew across the barren surface, and the flying dust was blocked by an invisible barrier when it was half a meter away from the Chaos Warlock. Until yesterday, although there were many bumps and bumps along the way, fortunately they were just minor troubles. The excavation of the ruins was progressing smoothly. In just two more days, the workers would be able to dig to the core area of ​​the ruins, and William would soon be able to get the thing he had been pursuing for many years.

however……

Looking at the mountain range in the north that did not exist just three hours ago, and the narrow bay at the foot of the mountain range, William seemed to have returned to his teenage years, back to the day when he watched his sister being forcibly taken away by his father's men.

For William at that time, the so-called "father" meant a force that was too powerful to be resisted; and for William today, what is represented by the mountains in the north is also an existence that is too powerful to be resisted.

"Lunicia..." The Chaos Warlock murmured his sister's name in a low voice. This name seemed to have some kind of magic. Just saying it could calm the storm in William's heart, making him firm and powerful again.

The Chaos Warlock turned around and walked towards the camp. He had wasted too much time, not to mention two days, and now he couldn't even wait two hours. The reinforced soldiers in white helmets and white armor bowed their heads to salute him, but William walked straight through them without even looking at them. A Nieto, a man-made person based on William's sister, had already noticed the arrival of her master. She came forward, lowered her eyebrows and looked respectful: "Master, the workers..."

"Distribute the medicine I brought to all the workers," William waved his hand and said in an unquestionable tone, "Light all the braziers, don't save fuel. Let the workers dig all night, and no one is allowed to rest unless the work is completed!"

"Yes. There is one more thing I need you to take care of, Master. The guards have discovered some wolf cavalrymen moving around. They all carry the mark of the Broken Tooth Tribe," Nieto said. "Do you need the guards to drive them away?"

"If Beast Rek wants to see, then let him see. Can the Greenskins understand the Faceless Men's technology?" The Chaos Warlock said, looking up at the downward sloping tunnel beside the camp. "The Faceless Men's ruins that have been preserved to this day do not exist in the material world at all. The ruins displayed in the open are just a trick. Unless you master the correct way to enter, let alone the Greenskins, even those arrogant elves will never be able to enter the real Faceless Men's ruins."

"Your will, Master."

Under the cold gaze of the enhanced soldiers, the Arabi laborers swallowed the powerful stimulant made by William with their own saliva. This thing can squeeze out their body functions to the maximum extent, allowing them to work at full capacity without sleep for the duration of the drug's effect. As for the side effects after the drug's effect ends, it is just a trivial matter that is not worth mentioning.

If these laborers could survive the 90% mortality rate, William would naturally fulfill his promise, give these slaves freedom, and pay them a generous reward in their opinion. If they could not survive, it must be their own problem, anyway, William never broke his promise from beginning to end.

The sky gradually darkened. As the sun set, the Haimenguan fleet appeared in the bay at the foot of the mountain. Two dwarf ironclad ships sailed into this narrow sea that had only just been created today, one after the other. Their mission was to conduct hydrological surveys along the way and escort a group of marine engineers to Black Rock Castle. For this purpose, the ironclad ships also carried small boats for transporting personnel.

The dwarves noticed the excavation site not far from the shore. After communicating with each other via radio (Note 1), the captains of the two ironclad ships decided to prioritize the current mission and send people ashore for investigation when they returned.

William breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the two ironclad ships did not stop there. The excavation site was completely within the range of the ship's guns. If the dwarves sent people ashore, he would have to blow up the tunnel and come back after the storm had passed.

"Let the soldiers take off their armor," he ordered. "There are still some stimulants left, let the soldiers get to work. The entire tunnel must be dug before the sun rises tomorrow!"

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Note 1: Yes, it is a radio. There are a lot of dwarven black technologies in the background, and there are even more outrageous things than this.

Chapter 105 Pingshan

The day after the creation of mountains and the division of seas, in Xuanshui, in a windowless room lit only by an oil lamp.

"I plan to name this mountain range Pingshan," An Jiyue said, holding a cup of slightly cold ginseng tea in both hands. Even though she slept for almost 16 hours straight after the ceremony, she still looked a little listless. "It starts from Haimen Pass in the west and ends at Black Rock Castle in the east. As long as we deploy the defense forces along the line, the greenskins in the badlands will never be able to get through."

As an artificial mountain range created to prevent greenskin invasions, Pingshan is made entirely of hardened granite except for a layer of soil covering the surface. Its hardness is enough to render most excavation methods ineffective, and it has no cracks or faults that are common inside naturally formed mountains.

After peeling off a thin layer of soil from each mountaintop, what remains is a solid giant rock. These giant rocks are so hard that basically only the dwarven steam drills with star iron drills can drill them. As for the greenskins and rats, neither the night goblins' drilling mushrooms nor the duck neck people's dimensional stone drills can drill this hardened granite.

In order to create Pingshan, An Jiyue drained the heat of the magma lake under the Iron Rock, and then turned the heat into energy for casting spells. Now there is no magma lake under the Iron Rock. Where the magma lake used to be, there is only a super-giant obsidian. Since a mountain range with an average altitude of about 1500 meters was created on the plain, An Jiyue first used the [Earth Control Technique] to tear a narrow rift in the bad land, and then piled all the torn soil and rocks to the north of the rift like ridges.

While doing this, An Jiyue always felt that she had dug a super-giant Golan Trench... After all the required soil and rocks were moved into place, the girl continued to use the [Earth Control Technique] to knead all these messy rocks, gravel, and soil together, and finally transformed them all into granite and hardened them permanently with magic.

During the entire process, An Jiyue only used the magic of [Earth Control] from beginning to end.

Because it is not a natural product, the topography of Pingshan is quite special. An Jiyue referred to the shape of the Tianzi Mountain in Zhangjiajie and created this steep mountain range that is almost impossible to pass by land. Countless columnar mountains rise from the ground, and the top is a relatively flat rock platform - in An Jiyue's plan, the open space on the top of these mountains will be used to build outposts and fortresses, as well as other types of military facilities.

The bottom of Pingshan is basically a winding canyon with a "V"-shaped cross-section, and there is almost no flat area. The border defense forces stationed here will be mainly air force, and the Aurora infantry and artillery will only be responsible for defending the stronghold. Daily patrols will be completely completed by flying units and monkey people. After all, the latter are born to move freely on cliffs.

"Then why do you have so many infantry and artillery?" Dustan asked while eating sunflower seeds. "The greenskins have no air force except for the wyverns. It is impossible for ordinary greenskins to climb such a cliff that is almost vertical to the horizontal line."

"The various spiders of forest goblins can, and they can even climb up cliffs," An Jiyue shook her head. "Don't tell me where the forest goblins came from in the Badlands. What if? There are many greenskin pirates in Blackwater Bay. They are fully capable of sending forest goblins across the sea to the Badlands. Don't think that those greenskin warriors can't think of this kind of operation. In the third battle of Blackfire Pass in history, the orc warrior Volgaz Ironjaw played a very beautiful flanking detour. The empire was almost destroyed. In the end, it was Emperor Ka who was suspected to be possessed by Sigmar and killed Volgaz with the explosive formation to turn the tables."

Contrary to popular stereotypes, the greenskins are not only good at tactics, but they are also very good at it. The orc warlords have a beast-like intuition for grasping the opportunity, and they can always seize the best opportunity to suddenly give you a fierce blow.

If this is the case with orcs, let alone goblins. Goblins who can become war generals are almost the embodiment of the word "cunning". Even dwarf lords who generally have centuries of war experience and are familiar with the greenskin race often suffer at the hands of goblin war generals, not to mention generals of other races.

As a Hammerman, An Jiyue would never underestimate the ability of the greenskins. The Pingshan defense line was fully considered from the beginning of its design. The girl even considered the possibility of "Pingshan being suddenly attacked from the north". For this reason, the layout of the Pingshan defense line is two-way, defending both the south and the north.

The entire Pingshan defense line plans to build 2 mountaintop fortresses, each of which consists of a main fortress and 6 to secondary fortresses built on other surrounding hills. The main fortress and the secondary fortress are connected to each other by a retractable sky bridge. A nectar tower will be set up in the main fortress to provide daily water for the entire fortress. The command center, barrier tower (if any), hospital and the largest warehouse of the fortress are all set up in the main fortress. Because An Jiyue deliberately did this when building the mountain, the hill where the main fortress is located is higher than the hill where the secondary fortress is located, usually about meters higher.

In a fortress where a flying unit is stationed, there must be a secondary fortress dedicated to the air force. Whether it is the Eagle Guard, Lei Zhenzi or other flying units, they will be concentrated in this special secondary fortress, which is equipped with all the facilities and personnel needed to maintain the operation of the air force.

The specific scale and garrison strength of these forts are not fixed. The forty forts are divided into four levels from low to high: lower fort, middle fort, upper fort, and main fort. There is only one main fort, located in the middle of Pingshan, which is the command center of the entire Pingshan defense line. It is guarded by Yin Siran, the deputy envoy of the Anxi Army. It is the largest, has the most garrisons, and has the most complete facilities; there are four upper forts, two on each wing of the main fort, guarded by a guard. In order to facilitate daily management and concentrate the use of aviation forces in battle, all the Yingyang Guards of the Pingshan defense line are deployed in the main fort and the upper fort.

There are ten middle forts, guarded by a tower master, and the garrison is a reinforced tower. There is no Eagle Guard in the organization of the middle fort garrison, only a certain scale of Thunder Zhenzi, and in the future, the official version of Zhendan Agate Crow may be introduced as a supplement, if the Silver Cat is willing to sell the manufacturing method of this thing; there are 25 lower forts, guarded by a team officer, usually there is no permanent flying unit, and it is essentially a large outpost.

All forts, even the smallest lower forts, will be equipped with nectar towers to provide daily water, and other supplies will rely on special baggage troops to regularly supply. The upper forts and main forts will also be equipped with barrier towers that are connected to the Kyushu barrier.

The entire Pingshan defense line had a total of 20,000 garrisons, including the guards, but not the auxiliary troops and the long-term soldiers.

"Wait a minute," Asur said with a frown, "All the fortresses are on the top of the mountain, right? Then how are you going to get your supplies up there? You just said it yourself, the terrain of Pingshan is so unpalatable... You said that only monkeys can pass through there, so you can't rely on monkeys to carry you up there, right?"

"That's the problem. I'm designing a flying ship to transport supplies and personnel," An Jiyue spread her hands in response to Dustan's question, "but this work can only be continued after I come back. I have to rush to Kislev as soon as possible and come back after I'm done there. Before that, I will set up a temporary line of defense here."

The girl's right index finger gently pointed at the bloody river on the map.

"Aran will set out immediately after the troops are organized to deploy defenses on the north bank of the Blood River. Due to the special terrain of Pingshan, even if there is no defense force deployed in the entire mountain range, no greenskins will be able to pass through it in a short period of time. Even if something unexpected happens, we still have the Blood River to rely on."

Dustan touched his chin. As an elf, he didn't have a beard. "I have a question. Why didn't you reserve a passage inside the mountain? It must be very simple for you." The wizard asked.

"Because I won't leave any loopholes for the enemy to exploit," An Jiyue replied. "Don't think it's impossible. The dwarves have always believed that their fortress's defense system is perfect, but the greenskins always find various forks and paths to infiltrate the fortress, thus bypassing the dwarves' impregnable frontal defense. There are too many lessons in this regard, and I dare not be careless."

"I see."

"I will try my best to finish the main fort before the end of the year. The rest will have to take its time," An Jiyue stood up from the armchair. "I have recruited 40,000 civilians. Half of them will stay in Xuanshui to fill the city's population, especially to fill the seriously understaffed logistics team. The other half will go with Ah Ran and the others to the Xueshui River. They will build 20 villages along the river on the north bank of the Xueshui River. The supplies needed for the Pingshan defense line in the future will be purchased from these places nearby, and then delivered to the soldiers guarding the border by airships."

The girl pushed open the door, and the blazing midday sun instantly filled the windowless room. She walked through the door and stepped onto the balcony, followed closely by Dustan, who was leaning on his staff.

An Jiyue held the railing with her left hand and waved her right hand downwards.