It didn't take long for the hobgoblins to respect Gavin not only from the influence of Silver Destiny Milestone and True God's Blood Oath, but from the bottom of their hearts.
Respect the strong and obey the strong.
This is the usual custom of the hobgoblins.
During the training break, Blood Claw asked doubtfully: "Lord, since Black Well Town is rich in iron ore, why don't we open a furnace to smelt iron ourselves? Just forge weapons and equipment ourselves?"
While Gavin was integrating into the Blood Claw Army, Blood Claw was also actively learning about his new lord and the territory he belonged to.
Some secret things have not been touched upon yet, but on the surface, they are almost understood.
"I do have the intention, but we don't have technicians who know how to smelt iron in our territory. What's more, the small body of a kobold is not suitable for this kind of work." Gavin has had this intention for a long time, "Is it possible that any of you understand this? of?"
"As long as we have the raw materials, it shouldn't be a problem." Blood Claw said confidently, "Our technology is definitely not as good as the dwarves, but we will definitely have no problem producing the finished product."
"As long as we can produce finished products, even if they are of poor quality, even if we don't use them ourselves, our profits will be doubled several times." Gavin paced back and forth, "Well, you can gather the talents in this field in General Town. , let’s hold a meeting first and study it.”
"Okay, I'll go right away." Bloodclaw acted resolutely and turned around to summon the relevant personnel.
Gavin found a chair and sat down, closed his eyes and entered self-hypnosis, preparing to dig into Zhang You's memory to see if he had any knowledge in this area.
In that era of information explosion, you might have ingested this information without even realizing it.
Although Gavin's professional level has not improved recently, his soul consciousness has been continuously strengthened.
Especially the integration of the phantom of the Dragon Oak Mother Tree and the opening of the Dragon Oak Dreamland raised his soul consciousness to a new realm.
The control of the mind has gone up several levels.
Take the knowledge index.
In the past, Gavin could only rely on stupid methods to recall and dig out bit by bit, which wasted time and effort.
Now Gavin only needs to focus on the information he wants to retrieve. All information will pop up just like opening a search engine. As long as it is relevant, it will pop up.
You just need to go deep into the memories one by one. It really shouldn't be too convenient.
This search didn't matter, I really found a lot of useful things for him.
Fried steel method, steel filling method, soil blast furnace steelmaking method.
There were actually three of them.
The origin of these methods also made Gavin dumbfounded.
It turned out to be popular science among the powerful authors on the Internet that Zhang You was obsessed with.
Only theoretical knowledge, no practice at all.
Let’s see if we can combine it with the hobgoblin’s iron-forging method, and come up with something new.
Bloodclaw came back soon, followed by eight big and thick hobgoblins, two of whom had iron smelting experience, and six of them were blacksmiths in their own tribes, doing a lot of tinkering and forging.
It's just that the experience of these people comes from their own words and deeds, which really makes them powerless when it comes to theoretical knowledge.
In desperation, Gavin simply took them directly to Heijing Town, found a remote area in the back mountain, and entered the field test.
Whether it is iron smelting or steel making, it is not done in one go.
All kinds of preparation work took more than ten days.
The various raw materials needed were pieced together.
If it can be solved on the spot, solve it on the spot.
Those that cannot be solved on the spot are left to those merchants. As long as they have money, these merchants are very powerful. They dare to sell even ballistas and catapults to the kobolds, let alone several trucks of coal.
Just as the iron-smelting furnace was taking shape at a speed visible to the naked eye, Gavin left in a hurry with his bloody claws, handing over these tasks to the hobgoblin craftsmen.
Anyway, Gavin's theoretical knowledge has been instilled in them in these few days. He is of little use here. The rest depends on constant experimentation and exploration.
Under the leadership of Gavin and Bloodclaw, three hundred Bloodclaw wolf cavalry sneaked into the mountains quietly.
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A large caravan, consisting of a hundred carts and guarded by a hundred elite cavalry, passed through the shadow cracks from the northern horse road, passed by Tifanton, turned directly to the high road, and drove in unhurriedly. rocky ground.
Put aside the hundred elite cavalry and ignore it for the moment.
Just talking about the flags fluttering in the wind on the big car can scare away most of the gangsters.
In the center of the flag, there is a huge blood-red feather that is falling in the wind - the Crimson Feather Flag.
This is the symbol of the Crimson Feathers, a large business group. Their reputation around the Moon Sea is second only to the Zhentarim, and they are known as the second dark intelligence network.
Their behavior is very similar to that of the Zhentarim.
He also controls a city as his base - Yuanshan City.
They also have their own army to escort their caravans along the way.
His acting style is equally ruthless and ruthless, and he will do whatever it takes.
Once something is named second.
It shows that it is difficult for him to surpass the first place and has always set this as his goal.
This is the case with the Crimson Feathers, whose relationship with the Zhentarim is extremely ambiguous.
For the control of the Moon Sea region, the competition between the two is very obvious, and it has reached an incandescent level in many places.
But for the sake of profit, they will collude with each other in private, use each other, and hinder each other.
When faced with powerful external forces trying to enter the Moon Sea region, the two are a firm alliance and will not give other forces a chance to get involved in the Moon Sea region.
This kind of powerful dragon does not exist in the surrounding areas at present, so the relationship between the two is in the former.
Compared to the Zhentarim.
The second one, Crimson Feather, is worthy of its name.
Not only are their overall power inferior to that of the Zhentarim, their level of evil is also inferior to his.
At least it's not to the point where everyone is shouting for a fight. Even when they enter the territory, Cormyr's Purple Dragon Army turns a blind eye.
If it were a Zhentarim caravan, there was no way it could enter the country even without armed cavalry.
The leader of the Crimson Feather Cavalry is a young man named Cliff, who looks about thirty years old, but has a resolute look, weather-beaten look, and is very experienced in escorting. After walking around the convoy.
Riding his horse to a truck in the center of the convoy, he whispered to Darcy, the commander of the caravan, who was leisurely smoking a cigarette: "Commander, my eyelids have been twitching since I entered the rocky ground. I always feel like this." There’s something wrong with this mission.”
Although Darcy didn't care, he knocked his pipe instinctively, sat up straight and asked, "What's wrong? Tell me."
He has been able to survive in the high-risk industry of businessman for more than thirty years because he is cautious, careful and willing to listen to advice.
When it comes to security matters, it's always a good idea to listen more, especially those who guard the security chief.
"Those believers of tyranny obviously have their own caravans, why do they need us to transport them?" The believers of tyranny in Cliff's mouth refer to the Zhentarim.
"You're talking about this!" Darcy breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Since leaving the Shadow Crack and encountering several waves of purple dragon patrols along the way, you should know best. What do you think about those believers in tyranny? Is it possible to go through such frequent interrogations without revealing the truth?
Once their whereabouts are revealed, it is a trivial matter for the goods to be confiscated, but they are afraid that the entire caravan will be treated as a bandit and wiped out. Do you think they will gamble with so many valuable goods? Our relatively good relationship between Yuanshan City and Cormyr is our biggest advantage here. "
Cliff shook his head and said, "Commander, that's not what I'm talking about."
After hesitating for a moment and looking left and right, the cavalry leader lowered his voice and said, "The main reason is that I can't trust those tyranny believers. I heard that their current behavior is becoming more and more despicable. They often rob other people's goods, and then The goods were then sold at high prices to merchants who were eager to fulfill the contract after being robbed.
Sometimes, they even directly replaced those merchants, used the stolen goods to cooperate with the buyers, and in turn, blackmailed those merchants who failed to fulfill the contracts. I heard that many small and medium-sized merchants were left with their families and families destroyed. "
Darcy's eyes narrowed involuntarily and said, "I have also heard of such rumors, so what you are worried about is..."
"I'm worried that they will play the same trick with us. When we are about to arrive at the destination, they will snatch the goods, and then turn around and accuse us again and ask us to compensate for the goods." Cliff said his biggest expressed his worries.
"Will they be so bold?" Darcy's pupils shrank involuntarily again, "Doing this, if you are not careful, will provoke an all-out war between the two sides."
"These lunatics can't do anything." Cliff snorted coldly.
"The goods are already on the way, it's a bit late to say this." Darcy thought as he refilled the pipe with ash, "We have to guard against this situation, but even if we do it, we won't do it in the rocky area, here. They also need us to pass through the checkpoint fortresses stationed by the Purple Dragon Legion along the way."
Cliff agreed with this analysis, nodded and said: "If they really want to do this, the most suitable place to do it is the Goblin Border, Distant Sea Swamp or Thun Swamp. They can use the monster tribes there to do it. It is their usual method to put all the blame on those monsters afterwards."
"In this way, we still have a buffer of nearly ten days." Darcy muttered, "In this way, we will make two preparations, send people back to the distant mountains, ask for support, and send two more, no, five elite cavalry over, and disperse If the brats of the Tallinn Society don't use such dirty methods, that's it. If they do, not only will their claws be chopped off, but they will also be captured in order to facilitate the city lord and the others, and they will be held accountable later.
After arriving at the next larger Purple Dragon Fortress, we repaired on the spot and waited for the reinforcements to arrive. We believed that they were here and did not dare to guard the Purple Dragon Army. "
"The commander's arrangements are very thorough. I will send someone to do it right now." Cliff breathed a long sigh of relief. What he was most afraid of was that Darcy didn't care about his opinion at all and was indifferent to it.
Before Cliff could take action, several sentry riders with bright red feathers on their helmets ran back wildly. As they ran, they shouted loudly: "High alert, high alert. The road ahead is blocked. The road ahead is blocked." The road is blocked.”
As the information was transmitted, not only the armed cavalry became nervous, but even the coachmen couldn't help but draw out their weapons.
The closure of commercial roads is a sign of war in all likelihood.
This is a common method used by bandits and monster tribes.
The purpose is to keep the caravan in place so that they can launch an attack.
This time is no exception.
The sentinels shouted loudly, blowing the attack horn.
Countless monsters surged out from behind the mountain ridges on both sides of the trade road, waving a mess of weapons and chirping, charging towards the Crimson Feather caravan.
The composition of these monsters is very mixed, including goblins, hobgoblins, and even orcs and gnolls, but the number of kobolds is the largest, accounting for nearly one-third of them.
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