The production of artillery is also steadily advancing, the second artillery embryo has entered the stage of expansion, while the third artillery is still stocking up materials.
If you are lucky, in a month, he will have a gorgeous lineup of four twelve-pounders.
There is no doubt about the advantages of firepower, but how to transform the advantages into winning momentum is a question Roland has been considering.
He was just a mechanical dog before traveling through time, and like most people, his understanding of war comes from history, movies, and games.
If it was a complete cold weapon war, he would let Carter and Iron Axe go to command.
But this battle is different, and no one can understand the way hot weapons fight better than themselves.
In this case, he could only combine all the knowledge he knew and make every step plan with a higher perspective than this era.
To ensure victory, Roland lets Lightning travel between the fortress and the border town every day, one is to observe the road conditions, and the other is to accurately calculate the distance.
Roland believed that the victory of the war was based on a large amount of reconnaissance and calculation.
Whether it is tactical formulation or deducing the situation, these two points are inseparable from it.
He used the size set when he cast the cannon last time, and made several one-meter iron rods and one hundred meters hemp ropes. Then he drew a flight track about a thousand meters long at the artillery test site west of Bianfeng Town based on the hemp ropes and wooden poles.
Lightning practices controlling magic consumption and repeatedly traveling through this kilometer distance at a fixed speed.
When she mastered this magic output, Roland began to measure the distance from the fortress to the town.
The time spent on the round trip obtained by the sundial was used, and he calculated that the distance between the two places was about fifty-four kilometers.
Of course, this is just a straight line distance. In fact, you have to turn two big bends by land to avoid the foot of the mountain range that extends down from the desperate mountain range.
In any case, if the Duke chooses to march from the land, it will take at least three days to reach the border town.
With Lightning as a scout, Roland can have a clear understanding of the enemy's location and the actions it should take.
Within two kilometers west of the town, he was already filled with signal objects for marking distances. As long as the enemy entered this range, the artillery team could quickly adjust the corresponding muzzle angle without a fire meter.
Now he began to worry, what if the other party didn't come.
Just then, the door was knocked.
The nightingale, who had been lying on the sofa chair and chewing dried fish slices, disappeared instantly. Roland coughed twice and said, "Come in."
The one who opened the door was the assistant minister, Barov, and His Highness, a nobleman from the Changge Fortress wanted to see you.
who?Roland didn't react for a moment, and they sent an ambassador again?
No, not the ambassador, Baron Coris, who left before the Month of Demon and is back now.
Roland thought for a moment before remembering that there were indeed fortress nobles living in Border Town.
But they dare to come back?
And he came over at the beginning of spring. Haven’t he seen the iron fist of the royal family’s dictatorship?
What does he want to see me do?
Because it hindered the defense of the city wall, his house was demolished. The assistant minister said, "If you don't want to meet, I can help you refuse."
Roland wanted to agree, but then he changed his mind and asked the Baron to come to the living room to wait for me.
Maybe he can put some pressure on Changge Fortress through him, the prince thought.
After a quarter of an hour of procrastination, Roland slowly came to the living room. On the side of the long table, a man with a round belly was already a little impatient.
He walked back and forth, the flesh on his face trembling with his pace.
Seeing His Highness appear, the Baron stopped and barely bent down and saluted.
Let's sit, Roland returned to the main seat and sat down.If he is usually used to it, he would have given a dessert in the kitchen even if it is not the time of a regular meal, but today he didn't even have to prepare tea.
Dear Prince His Highness, Baron Coris said in a hurry before he sat down, "How can you let those stupid stonemasons demolish my house!"It was a good house, with a wall built with stone bricks below, and the beams and columns were made of the best quality logs. When I was building it, it cost me a hundred... No, one hundred and fifty golden dragons!He stretched out his finger and gestured.
One hundred and fifty pieces, Roland sneered in his heart. If he had just walked into the border town, he might have believed it based on the prince's memory alone.
But now...
Are you talking about the house at the west end of the town?
Colis nodded repeatedly, Yes, it was that one.It is the town's largest house second only to Baron Simon's residence.
That's a pity. It's too close to the city wall, hindering the passage of my subordinates.Roland paused for a moment, but the City Hall had made compensation.
How much more?
Roland stretched out two fingers, twenty golden dragons.
This is too few!Your Highness... Colis opened his mouth, as if he wanted to argue something, but finally endured it.
He took out his handkerchief and wiped the sweat beads on his forehead. Well, twenty pieces are only twenty pieces. Where should I get the money?
receive?Roland pretended to be puzzled, and the money had been paid to the owner of the house.
What?Wait, wait... I am the owner of the house Ah!
It's not you, it's Blair, my captain of the second militia team.
Who is that?The Baron shouted loudly, Your Highness, you are wrong!I am the owner of that house!
Yeah?But I didn't see you in winter, Roland raised his eyebrows, how could that house be said to be yours?
Of course I went back to Changge Fortress.Anyone who wants to stay in this ghost place will have to feed the evil beast if he is accidentally!
Idiot, Roland commented in his heart, and the plain tone remained in his words, so you want to say that you abandoned your lord and fled because of fear of evil beasts, right?
Uh, I... The Baron was stunned.
Guards, Roland clapped his hands, and two personal guards immediately walked into the living room door, sandwiching Coris in the middle.
Your Highness, what do you mean??
It's very simple. Now you have two choices. Roland stands up from his seat and looks at each other contemptuously. One is that you admit that you are wrong. The house does not belong to you at all. I can treat it as a farce. Let you leave now.Second, during the Demon Moon, you betrayed your lord, left the territory without permission, and shamefully fled to Changge Fortress.I will throw you into prison and hang you as a crime of defection.Which one do you choose?
Sweat couldn't stop coming out of Coris' forehead. He swallowed, hesitated for a while before trembling: Your Highness, I... I'm wrong, that's not my house.
So this is a misunderstanding, Roland shrugged and said to the guards, sending the Baron away.
When Colis walked to the door, the prince stopped him: By the way, when you return to the fortress by boat, you can send me a message to tell those nobles who will have the same misunderstanding as you...well, you will also have the same misunderstandings as you.If you are not planning to choose the second option, you don’t have to waste time just coming to the town.
As you wish, Your Highness.Colis said with a forced smile when he went out, but the moment he turned around, Roland saw the other party's gritting teeth.
In this way, the fortress will probably cause an uproar, right?He thought.
If you are lucky, in a month, he will have a gorgeous lineup of four twelve-pounders.
There is no doubt about the advantages of firepower, but how to transform the advantages into winning momentum is a question Roland has been considering.
He was just a mechanical dog before traveling through time, and like most people, his understanding of war comes from history, movies, and games.
If it was a complete cold weapon war, he would let Carter and Iron Axe go to command.
But this battle is different, and no one can understand the way hot weapons fight better than themselves.
In this case, he could only combine all the knowledge he knew and make every step plan with a higher perspective than this era.
To ensure victory, Roland lets Lightning travel between the fortress and the border town every day, one is to observe the road conditions, and the other is to accurately calculate the distance.
Roland believed that the victory of the war was based on a large amount of reconnaissance and calculation.
Whether it is tactical formulation or deducing the situation, these two points are inseparable from it.
He used the size set when he cast the cannon last time, and made several one-meter iron rods and one hundred meters hemp ropes. Then he drew a flight track about a thousand meters long at the artillery test site west of Bianfeng Town based on the hemp ropes and wooden poles.
Lightning practices controlling magic consumption and repeatedly traveling through this kilometer distance at a fixed speed.
When she mastered this magic output, Roland began to measure the distance from the fortress to the town.
The time spent on the round trip obtained by the sundial was used, and he calculated that the distance between the two places was about fifty-four kilometers.
Of course, this is just a straight line distance. In fact, you have to turn two big bends by land to avoid the foot of the mountain range that extends down from the desperate mountain range.
In any case, if the Duke chooses to march from the land, it will take at least three days to reach the border town.
With Lightning as a scout, Roland can have a clear understanding of the enemy's location and the actions it should take.
Within two kilometers west of the town, he was already filled with signal objects for marking distances. As long as the enemy entered this range, the artillery team could quickly adjust the corresponding muzzle angle without a fire meter.
Now he began to worry, what if the other party didn't come.
Just then, the door was knocked.
The nightingale, who had been lying on the sofa chair and chewing dried fish slices, disappeared instantly. Roland coughed twice and said, "Come in."
The one who opened the door was the assistant minister, Barov, and His Highness, a nobleman from the Changge Fortress wanted to see you.
who?Roland didn't react for a moment, and they sent an ambassador again?
No, not the ambassador, Baron Coris, who left before the Month of Demon and is back now.
Roland thought for a moment before remembering that there were indeed fortress nobles living in Border Town.
But they dare to come back?
And he came over at the beginning of spring. Haven’t he seen the iron fist of the royal family’s dictatorship?
What does he want to see me do?
Because it hindered the defense of the city wall, his house was demolished. The assistant minister said, "If you don't want to meet, I can help you refuse."
Roland wanted to agree, but then he changed his mind and asked the Baron to come to the living room to wait for me.
Maybe he can put some pressure on Changge Fortress through him, the prince thought.
After a quarter of an hour of procrastination, Roland slowly came to the living room. On the side of the long table, a man with a round belly was already a little impatient.
He walked back and forth, the flesh on his face trembling with his pace.
Seeing His Highness appear, the Baron stopped and barely bent down and saluted.
Let's sit, Roland returned to the main seat and sat down.If he is usually used to it, he would have given a dessert in the kitchen even if it is not the time of a regular meal, but today he didn't even have to prepare tea.
Dear Prince His Highness, Baron Coris said in a hurry before he sat down, "How can you let those stupid stonemasons demolish my house!"It was a good house, with a wall built with stone bricks below, and the beams and columns were made of the best quality logs. When I was building it, it cost me a hundred... No, one hundred and fifty golden dragons!He stretched out his finger and gestured.
One hundred and fifty pieces, Roland sneered in his heart. If he had just walked into the border town, he might have believed it based on the prince's memory alone.
But now...
Are you talking about the house at the west end of the town?
Colis nodded repeatedly, Yes, it was that one.It is the town's largest house second only to Baron Simon's residence.
That's a pity. It's too close to the city wall, hindering the passage of my subordinates.Roland paused for a moment, but the City Hall had made compensation.
How much more?
Roland stretched out two fingers, twenty golden dragons.
This is too few!Your Highness... Colis opened his mouth, as if he wanted to argue something, but finally endured it.
He took out his handkerchief and wiped the sweat beads on his forehead. Well, twenty pieces are only twenty pieces. Where should I get the money?
receive?Roland pretended to be puzzled, and the money had been paid to the owner of the house.
What?Wait, wait... I am the owner of the house Ah!
It's not you, it's Blair, my captain of the second militia team.
Who is that?The Baron shouted loudly, Your Highness, you are wrong!I am the owner of that house!
Yeah?But I didn't see you in winter, Roland raised his eyebrows, how could that house be said to be yours?
Of course I went back to Changge Fortress.Anyone who wants to stay in this ghost place will have to feed the evil beast if he is accidentally!
Idiot, Roland commented in his heart, and the plain tone remained in his words, so you want to say that you abandoned your lord and fled because of fear of evil beasts, right?
Uh, I... The Baron was stunned.
Guards, Roland clapped his hands, and two personal guards immediately walked into the living room door, sandwiching Coris in the middle.
Your Highness, what do you mean??
It's very simple. Now you have two choices. Roland stands up from his seat and looks at each other contemptuously. One is that you admit that you are wrong. The house does not belong to you at all. I can treat it as a farce. Let you leave now.Second, during the Demon Moon, you betrayed your lord, left the territory without permission, and shamefully fled to Changge Fortress.I will throw you into prison and hang you as a crime of defection.Which one do you choose?
Sweat couldn't stop coming out of Coris' forehead. He swallowed, hesitated for a while before trembling: Your Highness, I... I'm wrong, that's not my house.
So this is a misunderstanding, Roland shrugged and said to the guards, sending the Baron away.
When Colis walked to the door, the prince stopped him: By the way, when you return to the fortress by boat, you can send me a message to tell those nobles who will have the same misunderstanding as you...well, you will also have the same misunderstandings as you.If you are not planning to choose the second option, you don’t have to waste time just coming to the town.
As you wish, Your Highness.Colis said with a forced smile when he went out, but the moment he turned around, Roland saw the other party's gritting teeth.
In this way, the fortress will probably cause an uproar, right?He thought.