Chapter 181 Ground State Peat
After visiting the polder and fishery, Queen Carthage kindly invited Horn to stay for dinner.
Seeing how enthusiastic the Queen of Carthage was, it didn’t seem right for Horn to do nothing, so he simply stayed and had a light meal and tasted the local specialty fish fillet porridge.
However, most of the time, only the queen's family and some female warriors have this kind of hot boiled food.
While sitting in the Queen's thatched palace and looking outside, Horn didn't see much smoke.
In the rippling white light of the lake, there are two rows of thatched houses and mud houses on the center of the marsh. From time to time, curious lycanthropic children come out of the houses and look curiously at Horn.
Most of them eat sashimi and rice crackers directly, adults and children alike.
But when Horn thought about it carefully, he understood.
Similar to their seasonal farming and hunting activities, in relatively humid swamps, only plants such as reeds can be used as fuel.
In order to survive the cold winter, they had to save some winter reeds and firewood.
You know, although the swamp has dense vegetation, that does not mean that all plants can be used as fuel.
Many plants contain too much water to be used as fuel, and are difficult to mine.
As for the trees on the nearby mountain, they can be used, but the problem is that transportation is difficult, and they may be attacked by giant spiders or monsters if not careful.
Confirmed with the Queen next to her, basically confirmed Horn's idea, and learned another important news.
That is, the reason why those well salts failed to produce enough salt was not because of insufficient brine production, but because of insufficient fuel.
Due to the humid air, most of the time, they had to resort to boiling salt to produce coarse salt, which resulted in a lack of fuel.
Without fuel, the pottery workshop project may not be able to be launched.
After peeling a batch of medicinal herbs and fresh fish from the Kingdom of Carthage, Horn hurriedly returned to the camp.
After handing the fresh fish to Madeleine and asking him to make dinner, Horn immediately summoned the senior executives present and began to inform them of the news he had just learned.
The aroma of fish porridge floats in the camp, wrapped in the cold wind, and it feels a bit confusing and warm when it blows on people.
But the senior executives present did not feel relaxed. Instead, they all frowned.
Thomas, who had just arrived, asked Horn: "Your Majesty, I have actually read it. If you plant potato roots in the mountains nearby, there will be no problem in surviving the whole winter. There should be no shortage of food. "It's enough for most ordinary people," Horn explained to Thomas on the side, "but it's not enough for the military system."
In modern times. Before the invention of the wind-up gun, it was foreseeable that for a long time they would have to use heavy-duty wind-up guns to fight against the knights.
Horn had previously investigated and talked about this with Jeshka, Hakuto, and some of the mercenary prisoners.
So far, the only infantry phalanx that can resist the knight's charge is Dunjar's phalanx.
The Dunjar Phalanx was able to withstand and even resist the knights to a certain extent because the ordinary infantry on the outer layer of the pike phalanx were replaced by plate-armored mercenaries holding heavy iron guns.
Most of these mercenaries have third or fourth level breathing skills. Apart from having no horses and no extraordinary martial arts skills, with the blessing and blessing of the monks, they are almost like little knights.
When they put on plate armor, picked up super long guns, and combined with chariot tactics and heavy archers, they often beat the knights of the Kingdom of Leia to the point of losing their temper.
In the Windmill War, Dunjar's phalanx forced the knights to abandon their original reckless charging method and re-establish the long-abandoned cavalry phalanx.
Marshal Dunjar's ability to create this kind of phalanx was not only due to his own talent, but also inseparable from the economic development after the Hundred Years' War.
After the war, with the establishment of the three major markets of the Flesh Royal Court, Norn, and Overseas, cities began to spring up like mushrooms after a rain.
A large number of services, goods, and handicrafts have entered the daily life of the lords, and cheap food, minerals, and spices from the three major markets have entered the empire. The nobles gradually changed their previous pessimistic attitude towards material life and abandoned the practice of placing their happiness in death.
For this reason, the post-war lords gave up their increasingly heavy financial burdens (including the maintenance of the infantry system) to meet the increasing material needs.
In this way, a semi-professional mercenary system was born, and a large number of bankrupt armed farmers and even knights from the coast entered the mercenary system.
Through the expensive and luxurious service of war, mercenaries received high incomes and once again invested them in their own reinvestment and development.
As a result, in addition to the old military system, heavy armored infantry with certain extraordinary strength such as infantry knights and even imperial servants gradually appeared in the mercenary system.
If Horne's clockwork gun wants to exert its maximum power, then he must need extraordinary infantry who can resist the line. Don't ask for more, at least one or two sections are always needed.
“So, if our phalanx wants to resist the impact of the knights, we must allow our pikemen and even the holy gunners to have a certain number of breathing techniques.
We have no extraordinary martial arts, no blessings, and it is even difficult to have potions and sophisticated extraordinary armor. At least at the level of breathing, we still have a chance. ”
A detailed analysis of specific problems shows that until the clockwork gun is improved to the point where it can defeat the knight before he rushes into the army, Horn will still have to rely on the old extraordinary system.
< br>Or from a certain level, as long as everyone is extraordinary, then no one is extraordinary, which to a certain extent disintegrates the extraordinary hegemony established by the empire and the church.
Horn said to the people around him: " If soldiers want to practice breathing techniques, one egg or even two to three ounces of meat every day is indispensable, preferably with potions. ”
“Let me add one more point. "Jeshka continued to speak after getting Horn's nod, "In the process of training soldiers, especially the process of extraordinary infantry, the consumption of salt is far beyond your imagination. ”
"Or should we help them chop down trees?"
"We don't have many axes with us at all." Speaking of this problem, Horn also had a headache. With a team of 25,000 people, he tried his best to Bring supplies and military supplies to ensure survival.
He didn't carry too many tools like axes.
“Anyway, we have iron ingots, and many of those workers are very skilled blacksmiths, so we can just make them on site.”
“I’ll tell you some bad news.” Horn spread his hands. , "There is no main material for the softening potion here. One part of the softening potion is required and one part is less. If you want to make an ax, you can only rely on Jeanna to cast it.
We can help them cut down trees as a last resort, but that can only be done if there is really no other way. "
Looking around at the senior members of the Salvation Army beside the fire, Horn scratched his head and suddenly turned his gaze to Paslik. It was obvious that he was the only one who looked like an old god.
< br>"Master Paslik, do you have any ideas? "
"Who is Paslik? I'm Crispa. "Although everyone already knew that Paslik was the high priest of the Ruoan Party, Paslik still gritted his teeth and refused to let go.
"Master Crispa, what can you do? ”
Seeing Horn obeying his statement, Paslik coughed lightly: "Actually, there is an extremely abundant fuel in the Black Bone Swamp, but you just didn't discover it."
"What?"
“In alchemy, there is a special alchemical product called ground state peat, which can be used as the base of many alchemical products. This peat is extracted from swamp soil.
However, under normal circumstances, this kind of peat is almost the same as charcoal. Extracting this thing will waste the limited mana of the alchemists.
So under normal circumstances, unless this kind of peat is needed as an alchemy base. , so instead of working hard to refine peat, alchemists would rather buy firewood and charcoal.”
Paslik pointed to the holy gunmen holding wind-up guns: "But they are different. They have abundant mana, recover their mana very quickly, and there are so many people that there is no waste or efficiency problem at all."< br>
“You mean... the peat alchemy workshop?”
(End of this chapter)