As soon as he entered the door George heard the lively sounds coming from inside. He looked up and found that Jack and the others had finished their morning training and were now all gathered around a wooden man in lockets, bickering and laughing, trolling a new recruit with a sword in his hand.
The recruit's face turned red and he kept arguing something, but finally pulled out his money pouch and handed over the money he had lost.
"What are you guys talking about, huh? ~" a curious voice suddenly rang in the ears of the recruits.
The recruits looked back and found that the lord had, at some point, stood behind them, and was now holding his hands behind his back with a serious look on his face.
After seeing the lord's face, Jack's brain fluttered a bit, secretly shouted bad.
This yesterday the boss just because of their training progress is good, one person issued a few pieces of copper eagle (30 copper plate = 1 piece of copper eagle, 7 copper eagle = 1 piece of silver fox). He took his subordinates today to gather the crowd dubo - and still use his newly issued equipment! After this boss saw it, he himself must be said.
He coughed, face some embarrassment to tell the story, while talking, while also reviewing. George listened to hear, then understood what they were up to.
It turned out that the soldiers had been curious about the difference between this old and new equipment. So today Jack took off his new equipment under the coaxing of everyone, and led everyone to 'relax and unwind'.
Money was not handed out much, but play is not small - who can hurt the dummy inside the defense equipment, who will get a piece of silver fox.
As for the loser, he or she had to come up with two pieces of copper eagle.
Now those stragglers inside the merchant caravan, the price didn't change much. The younger and prettier ones, a piece of silver fox, or a bite of food, can ruffle their tent to come. This makes this group of bachelors who have never seen outside women, the heart has been very hot.
The territory's food, not just can move, but their own money, but can just make.
Not to mention that there are other goodies inside the caravan.
So since the appearance of the caravan, such things as money, in the eyes of these old bandits, will become more and more tempting.
The group of old bandits have always been more daring than one, but Jack is one of the most daring when it comes to getting new equipment...
While listening to Jack's review, George secretly looked at the dummy, as well as the sword held in the hands of the new recruits.
This sword is the earliest manufactured batch, although very sharp and hard, but is the lack of flexibility. At this time, there were already a few missing marks on that, so it seemed that not only one person had used it to slice through this locking armor.
''These new recruits who came over after, at the very beginning, the physique is weaker. But looking at the missing marks on it, I was able to see that these guys have been physically conditioned over this period of time... For this one silver fox, this eating strength can be made out.''
George saw that the locking armor, although obviously holding a few rings, but far from breaking open, but far from.
'This triangular lock ring connection structure, if so good to get open, then I and the old Duke can refer to the merchant lock armor improvement for so long in vain ..."
George reached out and fiddled with the locking armor, and found that the leather and linen inside were not damaged. And with a weapon of this degree, the impact caused by the sword is not enough. The new style of lock armor that soft + hard multi-layer structure with the lining inside was enough to offset the impact of this degree.
'This new type of locking armor, although essentially two layers of iron rings, but after dense weaving, to cut through five or six rings at the same time to be able to enter the inner lining - this structure is not yet comparable to the mountain pattern armor, but I'm afraid that ordinary sharp blades are simply difficult to work.'
By now Jack had finished his review, and the men all kept their heads down without a word, and a few timid recruits had sweat rising from their faces as they waited for their lord's reprimand - or rather punishment.
"Why don't you use axes and bows and arrows?" The lord opened his mouth and said.
"Huh?" The crowd blinked, not understanding the lord's meaning for a moment.
"Ah what ah, this short sword obviously does not work, if you want to earn silver fox, you have to take something else!"
This time everyone understood - they do not have to be whipped!
The scene, which was just cold, immediately became lively again. Some of the nimble recruits directly jumped up and turned around to get an axe.
Looking at the axe, Jack's face could not help but twitch. The new equipment has never been tried like this, but this heavy weapon is generally somewhat effective for lockets.
Several fist-pumping recruits took turns trying it out under George's command. But after five or six axes down, but also did not cause the perfect effect.
Until after Jack an axe down, that fixed in the ground dummy person hailed a break from it, flying out two or three steps away.
When the wooden man moved over, we found that its chest has been completely flattened, as for the locking armor, then there is no need to look.
The result of Jack's hand was no surprise to George, but the experimentation of those newcomers with the locking armor was a bit out of his expectation.
'It seems that we did not spend effort on the new iron material for nothing. But if an ordinary person wears it, a full force axe down, I'm afraid will still suffer internal injuries or even broken bones. But if you take the kind of physique of the old squires, it is simply painless.''
George seemed to come into interest. He called for another dummy to be brought in and put on the old tried and true lockets.
While the soldiers were preparing the dummy, George had someone try the result of using the new sword against the old one again.
Previously, in the middle of the patrol, he had seen the power of this new sword, although compared to the real 'Uvatos steel', they can only be described as imitations.
But they are also incredibly powerful compared to the old weapons. Not only do they have the sharpness and hardness they once had, they are also extremely tough. No longer like those once hard swords, both difficult to forge, but also easy to break.
After the squires changed to these handy weapons, George had seen with his own eyes, the guys wielded this longsword with force, the scavengers a sword beheaded!
In the banging chaos, two longsword sparks straight up. When they will be the long sword that George came in front of, he saw that the new sword is still as good as new, while the old sword is a lot of chips.
And in the next, when Jack took the new sword, but also a sword will be directly from the old sword cut off!
'Although compared to some knight's family sword, there is still a little gap, but it is also considered to be cutting iron like mud. This kind of weapon can already enter the knight equipment sequence completely.''
This result already made George very satisfied.
After the dummy put on the old locking armor, the old sword was still difficult to split with one sword, but the new sword was effective at once. As for the axe, it is a direct cleavage of the iron, cut into the wood.
Compared to the new locking armor, the old locking armor structure and hardness are much worse.
Then he asked someone to try the bow and arrow, using his antler bow.
He had previously seen Martin play with his own bow, the old locking armor is basically a single penetration. And under his strange power, after the bow was drawn full, that kind of hard arrow could even pass through the iron-encrusted round shield thirty paces away, and the iron head of the arrow would shatter inside the wooden man inside.
It was only the new style of iron-encrusted oak shield that could withstand the force of this 120-pound bow.
Under the test of the new recruits, the old-style lockets were basically the same result. But the new type of lockets were very different. Ordinary soldiers couldn't even shoot it in! And Jack shot out an arrow, but also failed to completely penetrate!
George carefully observed the structure of the new type of locking armor, those arrows, if unlucky, may have to break through five or six iron rings at the same time to be able to shoot into it. If you are lucky, you have to break through three. Even if the poundage is bigger, I'm afraid it will be trapped in the inner lining.
'After these escorts with strange strength put them on, they were enough to rampage through the battlefield. No wonder they dare to deal with the scavenger in three or two now.''
Agi had come from outside at this time, and after watching the action for a while, he told the lord that it was all ready.
George nodded and glared back at Jack - he had wanted to call someone to go to the castle to fetch the crossbow.
"We may not be back until dark today. You take the men and patrol the territory well. "
George barked at Jack, who was secretly feeling thankful for his money bag, and turned to go.
...
After the rain, the mountain forest is a little damp, the fog is very thick, twenty paces away will not be able to see, even George, can only see the distance of 50 or 60 paces.
Without the guidance of the scrolls, I'm afraid it's easy to get lost.
Many grasses and trees in the forest have withered, and only the pines and cypresses are still a little green.
The road in the mountain is very difficult to walk, rocks and roots coiled on the ground, there is still a lot of mud after the rain. Conventional vehicles, empty when you can still walk a walk, but if full of goods, even if not into the mud, but also in the bumpy car overturned broken.
However, the dozen or so wagons that George and the others took with them, were as smooth as can be.
Since the caravan left a four-wheeled caravan, the territory of the old car, will begin to renovate and replace. The dozens of carts prepared specifically for the transport of stone, but also the use of iron wood and green dragon wood to build out. This makes them in this bumpy path, never had a problem.
And now each time the carrying capacity is also three times more than those old carts in the earliest days of the territory. The original old wagons, stone loading to a third, will have reached the limit. But now it is able to load almost to fill.
After seeing the river, George shook off his sore hands and took back the scroll. Led the crowd along the river all the way.
With the layers of fog in front of them gradually be passed, the stone village finally once again revealed in front of their eyes.
The houses in this village, previously set on fire by Martin and Jack two, smoked to a dark. Now after encountering this group of demolition teams, the village was surrounded by piles of small stones that were not good for use, even the good green stones on the ground, were lifted. So now it already looks not too far from ruins.
These days whenever George saw this abandoned village surrounded by mists, always remembered the 'ghost village'. This can't help but always make him can't help but rise a piece of goose bumps.
'After that, if we use the stone again, I'm afraid we have to go further southwest to the quarry near that coal mine.' After a look at the village head, George blew a whistle and let the wolf turn into the forest.
On the other side, after placing the wagon, the escorts stretched their arms lazily for a while and slowly went into the village.