Chapter 15: Not Here to Suffer
Chapter 15: Not Here to Suffer
In Owen’s plan, a strong wooden fortress will be built here, expected to accommodate hundreds of people and dozens of horses, most of which are soldiers, farmers are only as builders and lumberjacks, so that once the castle needs support, this force will quickly rushed to the battlefield, enough to change the situation of the war, so this is not a small project, every aspect needs to be taken into account.
Farmers a progress value of two, Owen exchanged ten out, let them go to logging to build a long wooden house, and this is the foundation of the future wood fortress, after all, in his plan, this place is a long-term existence, a wooden wall and tents can not be, even if the soldiers will never complain to him, but after the exchange out of the soldiers is no longer a game in the insignificant data, but flesh and blood.
Although Owen would not give up the idea of letting them fight or even die, he would at least make sure that their standard of living would not be too low, so that maybe his conscience could feel better.
In addition to the peasants, the soldiers were the focus, Owen chose the longswordsman and the crossbowman, three progress values a piece, so he could only redeem one of each, but it should be enough in the early stages.
The longswordsman is the advancement of the swordsman, using the lengthened one-handed sword as a weapon, because the sword is longer, wielded more powerful, so the moves are also more complex, unlike the swordsman’s hand can only use the sword to stab to make up for the lack of lethality of the problem.
Attack power increased at the same time, the long swordsman is also able to skillfully use the shield in his hand, with the more sophisticated armor on his body, in addition to a little slower, more suitable for battlefield survival than the swordsman.
The crossbowman’s shooting speed is not as good as the rifleman, but the crossbow’s arrows at short range are straighter, with stronger armor breaking ability and faster speed, even a strong brown bear won’t feel good if it is shot by a crossbow.
The crossbow has an advantage over the bow in that it is stringed, and when using it, you only need to pull the trigger, which saves you the action of pulling the string, which makes it more suitable for playing a role in the forests where the environment is complicated and you don’t know when you will encounter an enemy.
Although the first stage does not need too many soldiers, but at least to replenish to one or two dozen or so, plus the value of the higher chest armor cavalry, Owen found himself on the spur of the moment once again destroyed the previous plan, but he has long been accustomed to it, the plan is not just like a novel setting is used to change it, anyway, he still has a whole winter time.
When the construction of the wooden fortress is completed, the chest armor cavalry squad that he wants is almost finished exchanging, then he can go directly to the castle.
Otherwise, popping out one by one would definitely stir up unnecessary suspicion.
A small team of breastplate cavalry is no more or less, if you want to determine where they came from in the sparsely populated northern border, unless you follow them all the way, it is impossible to know.
What’s more, Owen had asked them to come along with the wagons carrying the supplies, so that the provenance of the soldiers and the supplies would have a direction of suspicion, which was better than appearing in the castle out of thin air.
After a busy half day, leaving behind sufficient supplies, Owen returned to the castle tiredly, and smelled the aroma of food before he took off his armor.
“Welcome home master, it’s been hard work.” Maya walked with the food that had been kept warm by the fireplace, the maid’s skirt that was held up by her plump hips swayed from side to side with her footsteps, as if she was trying to lift the curtain to wave at him, and paired with the aroma of the food, it warmed Owen’s heart who had brought back all the chilly air, and relaxed at the same time.
Relaxed muscles woke up the tiredness, Owen moved a little lazily to take off the heavy armor on his body with Char’s help, letting them fall to the ground with a dull sound.
This set of chainmail mixed with large overlapping pieces of armor is not plate armor, but a lighter and more flexible armor, belonging to the composite armor, combining the advantages of chainmail, plate armor and scale armor, the defensive power of the vital parts is not inferior to the plate armor by much, it is a very expensive high-quality product, which Owen exchanged out of the game for himself to save his own life.
But no matter how exquisite, the weight of the metal where, Owen’s predecessor did not complete the knight training, although the body is stronger than his peers, but a wear most of the day, still sore.
Char helped Owen to take off the armor after using a special tool for maintenance, and then put it on a shelf aside.
Whether it was leather armor, iron armor, chainmail, or plate armor, it all needed careful maintenance, if it was done with care, it was enough to be passed on to the family, if it was done sloppily, it would rot in a few years. Although the climate in the north is dry, the cold winds of winter still bring some moisture, and you need to wipe the corners of the armor clean and apply a thin film of oil.
Owen didn’t care about this, and didn’t want to bother doing it, so it was Char who helped him maintain and organize his armor and weapons.
Changing into his regular clothes, Owen breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on his butt at the dining table without any of the elegance of a nobleman, but who let him be too tired.
The table in front of him was almost twenty meters long, specially equipped for banquets, covered with fine and expensive velvet, the beeswax on the silver candlesticks emitted a sweet smell like honey when it was lit, which put people in a happy mood.
Placed in sets of dishes are exquisite to not let the dust fall on the top of the good porcelain, and aside from the tableware is not only made of gold and silver, but also divided into a variety of different purposes, drinking bowl of soup is also divided into drinking thin big spoon, drink thick in the spoon, fishing dry small spoon, that is a delicate.
In fact, regardless of Owen or Maya are very clear, these things are fooling people, that is, put out for people to see, so Owen eat in addition to a pair of knives and forks is a spoon, as for the chopsticks, because you have to make up the reason, coupled with the attention of the people, it is not used.
Today, Owen’s dinner was beef stew with tomatoes and potatoes, sauteed fish belly, vegetable salad, whole wheat bread, which looked simple, but in fact was not simple.
Cattle has always been the main force of farming, even the lord can not kill to eat, unless the hunt to the wild cattle, otherwise the meat is mainly pigs and sheep and poultry.
As for the pan-fried fish belly, not only do you need spices to remove the fishy smell, but you also have to have a big enough fish, which is not easy either.
Vegetable salad looks simple, but in fact, to get all the vegetables used in the salad is not a simple matter, not to mention that it has already crossed into winter.
Even the whole wheat bread, which is a premium blend of eggs and milk, has a sweet smell that can be intoxicating when baked over the fire.
Owen’s meal cost about a month’s worth of food for a civilian family, but he didn’t feel guilty about eating it.
Masters crossing over is not to suffer, no conditions, even if, dough he gnawed, board bed he slept, dirt pit he squatted, a variety of messy things chrysanthemums have seen, now have the conditions are not to hasten to improve the quality of life, that he lived and what is the meaning of it, is not to share the pain with the people of the other world?
Eat and drink enough, Owen first went to take a shower, cleaned his teeth, and then touched out half a bottle of olive oil, pulling Maya back to the room to continue to explore the 13 uses of olive oil, leaving Char to pick up his weapon and go outside to arrange a night patrol.
For Maya, Owen do not trust to distrust, does not mean he will therefore a thousand defense, in fact, Maya again how, but also just serving maidservant, all the rights from the master, so when the countess is still alive, she is in the Imperial City hot, the general birth of the small nobles see all have to give her greetings first.
However, once the countess died, she was sent to the northern border, if not the son of the countess who inherited the title is still some scruples, it is estimated that she is gone.
The problem is that knowing is knowing, Owen can never let go of the wariness in his heart.
The people here are strange to Owen who traveled here, the place is strange, the environment is strange, the world is strange, everything is strange to him, his heart is lonely and fragile in this situation, he is full of vigilance to everything around him, until he thinks he is in control of everything, maybe then he will really relax.
(End of chapter)