The natural empire of ocean dragons

Chapter 160 Attilan’s entire force
"I see."

Attilan remembered that he had not seen a single yak figure in the mountain forest between Water Cellar Town and Halfling Forest Town, so how far did the envoy sent by Fisher travel before he found it? These yak people?

"Well done. It was indeed the right decision for me to hand over the management of the Hexi region to you. In just four months, you have actually recruited so many people."

Fisher said slightly ashamed:

"I still didn't do a good enough job. If I had noticed in time that Tubao Town's defense strength was insufficient and transferred some of the manpower from Dajiao Town to Tubao Town, our losses would not have been so great."

Attilan slowly shook his head and said:
"This is not your problem. Dajiao Town now has [-] acres of farmland planted with wheat and black beans, [-] acres of pasture, and nearly [-] acres of mountainous land planted with various fruit trees."

"Taking care of these crops requires experienced hands. The newly recruited yak people, humans, horses, and werewolves all need time to learn to take care of farmland, orchards, and breeding farms."

"Compared with working, I think they are better at fighting, right?"

Fisher nodded, he also discovered this problem. Compared with the fishmen, the centaurs learn to work slower, and the tauren are much worse than the centaurs.

They are still more suitable for hard work, such as carrying buckets up the mountain to irrigate fruit trees. They can only be responsible for carrying them, and irrigation can only be left to the fish and kobolds.

Let the tauren do it, and they will directly irrigate a tree with an entire barrel of water.

It takes a lot of watching and learning before a tauren can figure out how much water a fruit tree should have.

As for more delicate tasks such as pollination and fruit thinning, the tauren can forget about it.

In fact, in Fisher's mind, Tubao Town still belongs to the front line. Fisher values ​​Shuijiao Town more than developing Tubao Town, even though the soil environment in Shuijiao Town is much worse than that of Tubao Town.

But there is no defensive pressure in Shuijiao Town, and the food grown does not have to worry about being destroyed by the enemy. When a grassland grows in Shuijiao Town, Fisher will move the rabbit farm in Tubao Town to Shuijiao Town.

Integrating a relatively large-scale fur processing factory, rabbit skin and sheepskin are used to make clothes, and pig skin is used to make leather armor. He has used ale to recruit several dwarf craftsmen who are good at making leather armor.

Wheat is such a precious food, so Attilan naturally cannot use wheat to make wine. Didn't the satyrs always say that wheat bran was given to the tauren and the others? Attilan was a harsh monarch.

Later, Attilan really thought of a way to use wheat bran, making wine!
Compared with brewing with whole wheat, the beer brewed from wheat bran has a different flavor. Of course, the help of the wine girl is indispensable. Only then did the 50 kilograms of wheat bran harvested in the past few months begin to be brewed into beer.

This beer was sent to the dwarf kingdom for trade. Attilan did not need to provide food in exchange for the dwarves' armor and weapons. With this beer, all the warriors had a set of armor that belonged to them.

A thousand sets of centaur armor, a thousand sets of tauren armor, a thousand sets of murloc armor, even these three thousand sets of armor have not used up the consumption quota in exchange for beer.

After the ale was delivered to the dwarf city, the dwarves immediately began to forge new armor. With beer in one hand and a hammer in the other, the dwarves began to forge with enthusiasm.

There is no need to eat at all, as long as there is ale.

Don't look at the dwarves who are red in the face after drinking. The equipment forged by the drunken dwarves is of higher quality. Of course, the price of high-quality armor will naturally rise accordingly.

Attilan originally thought that the dwarves would not be able to meet his huge demand in a short period of time. Unexpectedly, after a large amount of ale poured into the dwarf city, the dwarves immediately became enthusiastic about blacksmithing.

Normally, a dwarf might strike iron slowly, but after drinking alcohol, the efficiency of the dwarf's strike is at least doubled, and the first batch of iron armor will be delivered this month.

"Has the dwarf's armor arrived?"

"The original plan of the dwarves was to build the first batch of [-] sets of each race in three days and transport them together. Before I set off, I notified the dwarves and asked them to deliver the finished armor as quickly as possible. "

"After Lista leads his people to march west, he can complete the arming in Big Horn Town and then march to Tubao Town. The tauren under his command need those iron armors more than the soldiers under my command."

Lista likes to lead his army to directly attack the enemy's lines. The tauren under his command really need iron armor, and vine armor is not enough to support such a high-intensity battle.

Compared to the dwarves who have studied casting techniques for hundreds of thousands of years, Attilan has only been studying the vine armor for a year intermittently, and its defense is completely insufficient.

It takes so long for dwarves to forge iron armor. The reason is not that the dwarves are not strong enough, but that they need to incorporate their dwarven secret magic into the iron armor, so that the original ordinary iron armor can be made stronger.

This is a process that transforms ordinary metals into magical metals.

Even if it is just an ordinary piece of iron armor at first, if it can be continuously maintained and optimized by the secret skills of the dwarves, the adventurer will pass the armor to his grandson when he is old.

This armor has probably turned into a good set of magic armor.

Of course, this also requires the skills of the dwarves. It spans decades, and the 400-year lifespan of the dwarves is not short. The armor is repaired with materials obtained by adventurers from the magical beasts they hunt.

In fact, it is like replacing all the planks of a ship one after another to obtain a magic ship. It is difficult for ordinary adventurers to obtain a better set of armor.

The greater possibility is to use materials and gold coins to upgrade the original armor at a familiar dwarf blacksmith. If it is just ten barrels of ale, it is impossible for the dwarves to take the trouble to integrate the power of the earth into the iron.

The buyer will only be asked to increase the price, and then the dwarf will take out his treasured magic metal and add it to the armor.

But the reward Attilan gave was too great, one hundred thousand catties of strong ale!

All the dwarves in the dwarf kingdom can drink ale that is full and refreshing at once. In the past, the dwarves only regarded the kingdom of Atlantis as a good partner.

It's different now. The dwarf king is already planning a meeting with Attilan to discuss how the two kingdoms can further cooperate.

For the dwarf king, the easiest way to manage the dwarf kingdom is to give them enough ale, so that the dwarves will not make trouble and can stay in the mines to mine and forge iron in the city.

Attilan did say that he could provide [-] jins of ale for this transaction, but his brewing workshop could only produce [-] jins of ale a day at full capacity.

The main reason is that winemaking is a delicate job, and winemaking requires a large amount of koji. Making koji is the most time-consuming step in the winemaking process.

It wasn't originally such an exaggeration, but who asked Attilan to hire a consultant who was the best winemaker in the forest, and the wine woman had high quality requirements for the wine that came out of her hands.

Although dwarves seem to be able to drink as long as they have wine, dwarves also have requirements for the quality of ale!

The Dwarf King valued not only Attilan's ability to produce ale stably and in large quantities, but the most important thing was that the quality of the ale was very good!
In fact, the production of ale is not limited to one thousand kilograms, but Attilan considered that the amount of wheat bran was limited, and he believed that it was more important to be able to stably provide ale to the dwarves.Every seven days, a team will transport ale from Big Horn Town to Water Cellar Town, and there is already a team of dwarves here waiting to transport the ale back.

A thousand kilograms of ale can be brewed in a day, but the dwarf's armor takes a fixed amount of time to make, so there is an agreed delivery time.

In addition to the [-] kilograms of ale that Fisher brought as a deposit for the first time he came to do business, in fact, the ale transported every seven days was also a deposit. In one month, only [-] kilograms of ale were transported.

Normally, when making armor, half of the deposit is required.

The fact that the dwarves can start the work first and get the money later is because of the ale.

Fisher frowned slightly and asked:
"Dragon Lord, actually I think we should wait another month for the dwarves to make the second batch of armor. The berries we planted are already ripe, although it is more troublesome to collect them."

"But it can be brewed into berry wine in a month. I asked my dwarf friends that they can actually accept ale and fruit wine, as long as the taste is not as soft as the elves' wine."

"Of course the purchase price will definitely be lower than that of ale, but it will definitely be enough to arm our remaining offensive troops."

Attilan waved his hand and said:

"You also know that the dwarves have requirements for the strength of the wine. Otherwise, our wheat bran could be brewed into millions of kilograms of ale, instead of only producing one hundred thousand kilograms to buy to the dwarves like now."

The ale Attilan sells to the dwarves can be said to be a mixture of beer and liquor, which satisfies the taste of beer and the strength of liquor. Only then can it be unanimously welcomed by the dwarves.

"Now I have a thousand and a half men and horses and seven hundred tauren. Lista can bring a thousand murlocs and five hundred tauren. With these troops, we can attack the gnolls, if there is no iron armor."

"Our losses may be relatively large, which will affect our future development. Lord Dragon, I don't think we can send troops now."

"You once taught me not to lead troops impulsively out of anger. Have you forgotten now? My side is fine, after Hedong has mobilized so many troops."

"Lista's remaining troops are simply not enough to defend twice the area of ​​Hedong."

Attilan looked at Fisher with a gloomy expression, then took a deep breath and turned back to a smile.

"Fisher, you are right. I was impulsive this time. Even if we forcefully send out troops now, we will not be able to wipe out the Jackals in one fell swoop. Instead, some of the Jackals will escape."

"Especially the White Wolf King. I have a strong hunch that killing him is not an easy task. There must be a complete plan."

"Fisher, what do you think?"

Fisher was also very nervous. He also saw Attilan's anger at the burning of Tubao Town, but he had to persuade him that this was his responsibility as a minister.

"I brought these people here just to make the jackals mistakenly estimate that we only have so many troops to retaliate. When we really attack with our entire army next time."

"The paralyzed jackals will naturally be eliminated by us in one fell swoop, just like they did when they paralyzed us before, tooth for tooth, eye for eye!"

Attilan also nodded. Not to mention that the Jackals didn't know how many troops he could dispatch. In fact, even Attilan himself didn't know how many troops he could dispatch at one time if he didn't care about local defense.

Rainforest Town is using food to lure tribes in the rainforest to join the kingdom. There is a steady stream of fishmen, snakemen, and even some lizardmen being recruited, but they lack an excellent mayor to guard them.

Attilan trained Thrall because he wanted him to serve as the mayor of Rainforest Town, manage the complex racial situation, and promote the planting of various foods and fish farming suitable for wetlands.

For example, the old fishman took Sal to the Rainforest Town to select seeds suitable for the next season from this season's wheat and black beans.

Although Lista travels back and forth between Rainforest Town and the forward base, he is not a qualified agricultural officer. He can only prevent the grain fields of Rainforest Town from being destroyed by the rainforest races.

Rather than joining Rainforest Town for farming, the wild tribe actually wants to rob Rainforest Town of food.

Then Lista rushed into the rainforest with an axe, and drew a semicircle around the town. All the tribes that had robbed food were chopped down.

This is the reason why people continue to join Rainforest Town. The wild Rainforest tribe is still more inclined to join a tribe with powerful force.

Lista only used the snakemen, lizardmen, and tauren who he later surrendered to farm. Even the murlocs had to pass the review of the old murloc before they could get the simplest obsidian spear.

Iron Weapons must wait for them to make certain achievements before they can receive rewards, such as leveling an acre of land alone and sowing black beans.

Then you can get the second obsidian short spear and serrated sword.

Only after they have stayed for a certain period of time, such as when the black beans mature, or after they have agreed with the kingdom's concept of farming for food, can they get the iron spear and vine armor.

Fisher did not agree to start the war so soon because the kingdom had expanded too many troops in a short period of time, and these people had not yet fully identified with the kingdom.

It is impossible to put all your strength into the battle. It is more about observing the wind direction and running away immediately if the situation goes wrong.

"First make statistics on the troop strength in each town, give me a complete summary of the data, and then decide when to send out troops."

The work of counting the population is more complicated because the mathematical knowledge of this group of relatives is quite limited, which is why Attilan does not know the specific population number.

Fisher knew how many men he had brought with him, thanks to the ten-by-ten phalanx popularized by Attilan.

When they saw the population data seven days later, the entire dragon population of Attilan was shocked.

"There are actually two thousand men and horses in Hexi, a thousand tauren, eight hundred kobolds, five hundred fishmen, two hundred snakemen, and a hundred lizardmen?"

"Are there also two thousand fish-men, four hundred snake-men, three hundred lizard-men, and a thousand tauren in the land east of the river?"

Attilan frowned and asked:
"Why are there four hundred lizardmen, but I don't know at all? And why is there no distinction between those who can fight and the old, weak, women and children in this report?"

(End of this chapter)