"Maybe it was because the actions of the Eastern countries that had learned the lessons from Lucia's guys! An easy battle that I thought could end in a short time, but it still seemed like a pool of mud, either to beat or to throw it." At this time, the Val Knight found a suitable position to sit down, "Since I suffered such a big loss last time, how could they not pay more attention to this aspect!"

Preparation for such things before the war is a task that is unscathing in any world or in any political system. However, it takes a lot of time to prepare and improve it. In a sense, it has contradictions and conflicts with the view that the military is the most powerful and powerful.

With a reason like this, some interest groups may of course be tricky in the preparation work. However, when a war was not prepared before, Lucia's senior executives were staring at this place!

"If this is the case, that would be great! Although Lucia's combat preparations will be more complete the longer it is, for us, isn't it too time to speed up the construction of fortifications!" When he said this, Georg couldn't help but smile and joke at the Knight Val, "If I can drag it to our Twin Stone Fortress to rebuild, then I will even have a smile on my face when I sleep at night!"

Since the last time under the power of legendary spells, the important barriers in the Twin Canyon have turned into a piece of glass on the plain. At this point, the most important gateway between the Principality of Nokhan and the Kingdom of Lucia has lost the barriers to rely on.

Although the current situation cannot be said to be open in the gate, it is also true that the defenders on the border lack a necessary foothold. Therefore, since the destruction of the Twin Stone Fortress, the Duchy of Nokhan has not stopped building replacement fortifications here.

However, a solid and fully functional fortress cannot be completed in a short time. At the beginning, after confirming that Lucia's army did not attack due to the significant impact of legendary spells, Nokhan's soldiers first cleaned up the ground and built a temporary city on the original site - just as they did before when dealing with the Dark Elves.

These walls made of tree trunks and wooden boards accompanied the soldiers who escaped under the sky fire for the first two months. However, this is similar to the fortifications of the army's vanguard battalion, and at most it can only prevent some archers from trying to aim at the high place.

Not to mention the use of siege equipment, the simplest torch and portable siege rams that can be run on their backs are enough to pose a sufficient threat to such a city. It is very obvious that this is just a transitional temporary residence point, and the subsequent construction of the entire fortification will begin to proceed in an orderly manner from then on.

After that, it was based on this basis that it finally became a similar scale to the Severe Castle after half a year. During this period, the Duke made a resource and money levy to the territory of the entire principality for the first time in nearly ten years. Take what Georgie knew for example! Pollum's head paid 500 gold coins and a metal crossbow for this, but at the same time it also received an order for the last 10 metal crossbows. Is it really a blessing or a disaster?

But even so, as a pass between the two countries, the new twin castle was still unqualified at this time. Although it could easily block the army that did not carry a large number of heavy equipment, could the battle between countries really be so idealized? What's more, the powerful strength of the Lucia Kingdom in siege equipment in the previous Battle of Brandenburg was even more unwilling to imagine the tragic tragedy that would be seen during the war.

In order to restore the twin stone castle to its overall level before being attacked by legendary spells, the craftsmen associations in the Principality of Nokhan were constantly working hard under the strong pressure from all parties. However, a solid rock fortress could not be completed in a short time. Even if it was not included in the improvement project that found problems during the later use, it would not be possible to complete it in one year or two years just by using the architectural drawings.

OK! The damn dark elves underground in this area helped the Principality of Nokhan from another aspect. If it weren't for their attack, there wouldn't be a large number of dwarf craftsmen coming to the Principality of Nokhan. In that case, the construction progress of the Twin Stone Fort would be far from reaching the current level.

But even so, the third phase of the project on the design drawing has only been completed in one phase. So what role can it play now? Neither the Lords of Karada nor local forces like Georgia have great hope.

That's why Georgie made such a joke to the Val Knights. After all, if this fortress is truly completed, the effect it can play in resisting the attack of the Lucia Kingdom is really immeasurable.

"Joggi, don't joke about this matter. If the Twin Fortress is completed, it will take at least 1-2 years. I don't think the Kingdom of Lucia will delay this matter for so long." The Knight Val pretended to have not noticed Georggi's joke, but instead made a serious look: "According to my judgment, Lucia will definitely take action. If you are quick, maybe it will be less than 10 days before their flags set foot on our land."

Georgie caught the meaning of the derivative progress from the words of Val Knight: "That is to say, there are few Lucia strongholds on the other side of the Twin Stone Canyon, and there are no signs of large numbers of soldiers entering? So, are there any changes in the Lucia cities on the other side of the Taysway Mountains? Don't we don't know if the Lucia people are low from their noses and gather their troops!"

As an era when the mobilization of an army of more than 1,000 people cannot be concealed from the eyes of those who are interested. Although it is not easy to understand the movements of the enemy army, it is not difficult to have a specific target range.

What's more, if the offensive was to be launched against the Principality of Nokhan, the Lucia Kingdom would not have been able to send only 1,000 people so that it would seem impossible to pass an army that would have completed its mission.

Therefore, through the investigation of the army mobilization in several directions on the front line, the defenders of the Duchy of Khan could still roughly judge the military preparations of the Lucia Kingdom. However, all this must be based on the fact that the soldiers of Twin Stone Fort could accurately detect the enemy's movements.

However, the Knights of Val welcomed the questioning of Georgia: "Don't want to see the intelligence work of our Principality of Nokhan on the battlefield! Although it is our weakness in lurking spies, cross-border reconnaissance on the frontline of the war is our strength! I can guarantee that they are unlikely to have any problems in this regard. Besides, during this period, many territories in the Principality have dispatched troops to Twin Stone Fort to enhance the garrison there? Even if the Lucia Kingdom has any amazing actions, they will be enough to get enough reaction time for us."

In fact, the day after receiving the news from the Knights of Val, the Duke issued an order to send troops to increase the Twin Stone Fort to many territories in Nokhan.

Even though the fortifications there have not been completely completed, with the terrain advantage that is much stronger than the endless plains, this place is still an important defense node. No wonder the top leaders of Nokhan need to strengthen their defense capabilities there.

As if I suddenly discovered something, Georgie exclaimed: "Send troops to Twin Stone Fort? Why didn't I receive this news? Do Lord Duke think that our soldiers in Borham are soft-footed shrimps who only know how to make money but dare not go to the battlefield?"

It is obvious that the message revealed by the Knight of Val in between his words made Georgia suddenly become a little excited.

Because it was not the target of the recruitment, no relevant personnel had ever notified Qiao Ji about related matters.

During this period, he spent too much time on the arms trade issue, and he was almost at the level of having no time to care about it. At the same time, even the conscripted lords never mentioned relevant information in front of Qiao Ji. No wonder he was so confused about this.

The Knight Val waved waved his hand and told Joggy to be calm first, then said seriously: "I think if we don't recruit our Borham Territory, it may be a compensation for the Borham Expeditionary Force that fought in the Western Theater Command before! Not only our Borham Territory, but all the territories in the Western Theater Command have not been recruited except for the Duke."

Just as Joggy and Val Knights were constantly discussing the Twin Castle, the Twin Castle far east of Nokhan was ushering in a group of new guests.

The current twin stone fort is barely divided into two parts. The most central part is called the inner city, as usual, it is the personal area of ​​high-level officers. Of course, it is also the last line of defense for storing important documents in the fortress. Outside this high wall, it is a public area used by soldiers and related industry personnel in the castle, which is called the outer city. However, because it is a pure military barrier, there are not all kinds of buildings here to facilitate adventurers like the Falcon Fortress.

In fact, according to the dwarves' design, the Twin Stone Fort after complete construction was modeled after the fallen Bringden Stone City. It adopts a watertight compartment design similar to that commonly used by Eastern ships, and the entire fortress is laid out in a layered and divided manner. The three-layer city wall gradually increases from the outside to the inside, except for the inner fort, the entire fortress will be divided into five areas. In the war, even if a certain section of the city wall is broken, leading to the fall of one area, other areas can continue to stick to it.

Unfortunately, although the ideal of the dwarves is good! Even the design that has been reduced several times compared to the Bringden Stone City, even with the help of this spell, the construction period has become longer. It seems that it will not be as good as the action of the Kingdom of Lucia!

The gate of the Twin Castle is 30 feet high. Eight 40 feet high towers stand on the reform node of the wall, guarding all directions of the castle.

There is a trench 45 feet deep in front of the castle gate, which is dissatisfied with sharpened logs. The suspension bridge across the trench is usually in a rising state.

The thick city wall is more than 3 meters. It uses blue stone as a whole, but it still uses gravel walls similar to those of the three-mix soil solidified with plaster between the two layers of stone. The construction method of most castles in the Western Continent world was unexpectedly recognized by dwarf craftsmen.

In their eyes, such a structure is not only cheap and convenient, but more importantly, compared with all the blue stones, its requirements for the foundation have been greatly reduced. The load-bearing capacity of the land at the foot of the Twin Stone Fort is obviously incomparable to the original Blingden Stone City.

On weekdays, guards are guarded by soldiers under the Duke. Usually only regular troops who are assigned to the command and militia who transport supplies regularly can obtain access permission. More importantly, above those towers, there are metal crossbows produced by Borham. With the current height, it can easily penetrate the full-body armor 350 feet away with each attack.

Of course, in addition to the ordinary soldiers of the Principality of Nokhan, a large number of dwarf craftsmen have settled their homes for the time being. In addition to some of the blacksmiths responsible for logistics, there are more stonemasons who are still preparing for the second phase of the project.

On the wooden plank road that kept climbing up the city wall, dwarves kept pushing the trolley up and down. However, in the Western Continental craftsmen usually called this eagle frame. But when the city walls are built higher and higher, craftsmen have to use this auxiliary facility to facilitate work. Generally speaking, the wall holes on the city wall are specially left to install cross-tied eagle frames. However, after completion, most well-funded owners will find ways to fill these wall holes.

In the center of the crane used to drive the crane, two humans were swinging their legs quickly inside, like two mice running around in the wheel. Why aren't dwarfs used? The dwarf craftsmen have their own set of rhetoric: "Our legs are too short, and the efficiency of using this kind of equipment is insufficient. When there was no alternative solution, there was no way to go on it by themselves. But now aren't there a better choice? Since that's the case, why not use a better one!"

While most dwarves were singing the tormenting labor ballad in human ears, although very rhythmic, two dwarves looked down at everything in front of them on the towers of the inner city.

The two dwarves were not lazy. A drawing shelf beside them was covered with huge scrolls of parchment paper spliced ​​together. Here are the construction drawings for the construction of the twin stone castle. The two discussed a series of engineering issues while comparing the drawings with the actual objects.

As if he was tired of lifting, one of the dwarves took out a cigarette butt from his pocket and lit it. After sucking a few lightly, he skillfully sprayed out a few white rings.

But at this time, another dwarf on the side seemed not so happy. He knocked the other person's arm with the long ruler in his hand and said, "You should pay attention to Oscar during working hours! Even if you want to relax, find other ways, okay? What if the sparks in the cigarette butts fly out and destroy the drawings?"

The Angren, who was named Oscar, covered the pipe with a hat, put it back in his pocket and said, "No, no. My sap stone cigarette butt is specially made, and that won't happen. And am I too annoyed? The progress of the project is really slow and too much."

"I have learned some news about the project progress." The dwarf took back the long ruler in his hand and kept it in a silence.

Oscar immediately turned his head and asked, "Baronde, you didn't get any rumor from where you got it!"

Although Oscar showed some disdain between his words, his expression was very anxious. For a dwarf, every project was like his own child. If something went wrong with the child, it would be strange if he was not in a hurry!

Baronde knew Oscar very well, but he didn't have the intention to sway the other party now. Because he was also sincerely powerless about the project: "This is for the war to come. If we follow the progress we originally planned, a low wall of varying heights should have been extended outward on the exterior wall. This is a very fatal thing for the fortress's defense. So the project progress is just like this..."

"If this is the case, Baronde, you should have made it clear to me earlier. I don't think we need to waste time here anymore. I have to go back and prepare my armor and warhammer!" Oscar was obviously a little dissatisfied with someone's approach.

Barond looked at his friend in front of him with a speechless look: "Where have you been paying attention recently? You didn't notice that there are almost new soldiers entering this fortress every day? I think if this happens, you won't even feel the tension at all! And I turned the construction direction to strengthening the existing city defense. Did you not notice it at all?"

Oscar lowered his head a little unintentionally: "Sorry, old man! You should know what I have spent my energy on recently. That's my dream for a long time..."

Just as the two dwarf craftsmen were discussing their dreams at the highest point of the Twin Stone Fort, a team of light cavalry rushed from the east of the fortress. From their expressions, it can be seen that these soldiers were very impatient.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of Twin Stone Fort, the leader of the soldiers shouted loudly: "Lucia's army began to enter the frontline stronghold in large numbers."
Chapter completed!