Chapter 399: means

Connie doesn't seem to believe that Cook can lead the army. You have to know that there are all kinds of people in the army, and there are people of all kinds of personalities. It is not a simple matter to manage well.
But Connie didn't stop him, just waiting to see if Cook could manage it. Of course, Connie had to prepare for Cook's failure.
In Noga City, above a huge open space, this is a place prepared for trading. Orcs generally trade large livestock, so a huge space is needed, and Noga City is no exception.
The eight hundred bunny soldiers led by Ado were scattered and disrupted. There were 500 bunny captains out of five thousand people. The soldiers of the previous squad were arranged to lead one hundred recruits to form a squadron, captain Become a squadron leader.
These bunny squad captains and squadron leaders are all beast soul warriors. Although the training only takes a few months, the arduous and rigorous training has made these hundreds of bunny beast soul warriors elite.
Now the squadron captains and squad captains are training these recruits strictly according to their own training methods, and the Bunnyman recruits have to face harsh training on the one hand, but on the other hand they are not willing to be so good.
The Bunnyman recruits are two silver coins per month per person. This is during the training period. There are two sets of clothes. Three meals a day are full. Not to mention, these three meals are enough to make the Bunnyman fight.
You must know that it is winter now, people will starve to death, and there is money to get it. What makes the Bunny recruits even more exciting is that if they pass the training, they will cost fifty silver coins a month.
Therefore, even in the face of hard training, these recruits still clenched their teeth.
Five thousand people began to practice non-stop on the trading floor. Teams and squadrons gritted their teeth and competed with each other. Connie smiled when she saw this scene.
What Cook led by five thousand people was simple. The first thing Cook had to do was to strengthen the city defense. Cook looked at the rammed-earth city wall and had a plan in his heart.
A bucket of water from the well that had just been punched from the ground was poured on the wall by five thousand recruits. Because the temperature here is extremely low, the water has just fallen down and the talent has just turned and turned into a piece of ice.
"My lord, it won't work, the temperature is too low, and the barrels are frozen into one piece." Cook's veteran bunnyman with only a hundred people, headed by a bunnyman named Muqi.
"Oh!" Cook knew that this was because the temperature was too low, and the continuous lifting of water from each barrel caused ice to slowly accumulate on the inner wall of the barrel, and the inner wall of the barrel was frozen a few times. Layers of ice, don't even think about lifting water.
Cook wanted to use fire to heat it, but there was not enough heating in this place. How could it be used to boil water? It would be fatal to know that there is no heating thing here.
As for talking about finding timber out of the city, it is even more delusional, because the snow outside is still very thick, and Cook took Muqi down the city wall. Cook looked at the well just dug, because the distance cannot be too far, so New water wells have to be constantly drilled, but in the Orc Empire, water wells are not easy, and they must be digging several tens of meters deep, but because there are rabbitmen who do this, there is not much difficulty.
"My lord, there is no water coming from here." Muqi looked at Cook, went to inquire, and then reported.
Cook nodded. The environment of the orc empire was a bit like the Loess Plateau, but it was not as badly damaged. Cook shook his head and prepared to continue walking to see if there was any good way.
"Huh?" Just when Cook was about to leave, Cook suddenly found that the soil next to the hole where the well was drilled was almost black, and Cook quickly checked it in surprise.
"Haha, haha, okay!" Cook laughed immediately after checking this.
Peat, and it's the best peat. It's a bit like lignite, but it's not. Obviously, it evolved from swamps in the past. Although peat can't be used for metallurgy, it is enough for heating.
"Much, ask someone to ask, is there a lot of this kind of brown soil?" Cook quickly ordered.
"My lord, there is this brown soil around the city of Noga, so the grass doesn't grow very well." A rabbitman recruit replied.
"Good! Good!" Cook exclaimed.
Then there was a strange scene in Noga City, one by one simple stoves were built on the city wall, and the excavated soil was piled aside.
But because peat still has a certain water content, it burns very slowly and needs to be ignited. Of course, this is also because the peat is already in the shape of sand between lignite and peat, so when the people of Noga City I saw that the new Bunnyman commander could actually burn the dirt that was stepped on the ground and burn buckets of hot water.
But to the indignation of countless residents of Noga City, the hot water was actually on the city wall.
After receiving the report, Connie was shocked, but then ordered people to promote peat in Noga City. Connie muttered to herself: "I thought you were going to use unconventional means, but now it seems you are quite smart. "
Cook does not want to use other powers, but now there are so many eyes around, if you find a bunch of magicians, or a bunch of knights, then you will definitely face the siege of all the orcs. This is a different race at all. So Cook had to try his best to solve it.
Two days later, when Cook and his five thousand recruits looked at the slap-thick hard ice on the wall, they couldn't help but exclaimed: "This is simply natural armor!"
After the defense of the city wall and the armor were built, Cook began to take people to demolish the house again. Cook walked around the street and then directed the continuous demolishing of the house.
You should know that Cook had five thousand soldiers, so he was very enthusiastic when he was dismantled. Although some people were dissatisfied, he had to shut his mouth wisely when he saw five thousand bunny men holding wolf cavalry spears.
"Cook, what are you doing?" Connie asked aggressively.
"Of course it is to prepare. Once more than 6,000 wolf cavalry come, it will be the most severe battle. I have to prepare some." Commander Cook continued to sort out some materials, and then explained. .
"But what are you doing when you demolish people's houses and tents?" Connie was speechless and asked loudly.
"Oh! I'm some trebuchets. Although they don't do much damage to the advanced wolves, I have inquired that there are mostly ordinary werewolves among the wolf cavalry." Cook replied.
"Catapult? Would you still do this kind of thing?" Connie asked with a weird face.
"Of course! By the way, I want to demolish the City Lord's Mansion. There are stones here and there." Cook said afterwards, and Connie turned around and left.
Cook started building his trebuchet not far behind the city wall. This trebuchet was like a mortar, which was parabolic, so it attacked very cleverly. Of course, some residents of Noga City disdainfully said: "Bunnyman It’s the Bunnyman. Look, they put such a big attack weapon behind the wall. According to me, it should be placed on the wall. That way, it can be attacked."
The thing Cook made is a return cannon, a catapult that relies on the power of a counterweight. The accuracy has been greatly improved. One frame is opened with a belt, and the tents of others are cut open. The tents are all immersed in oil. Animal skins Not only waterproof, but also extremely tough.
However, in three days, there were hundreds of plus-back cannons behind the city wall. Connie gritted her teeth and watched the city lord's mansion being demolished by Cook's hands, and all the stones in the city were collected by Cook.
Everyone thought that Cook should stop now, but he didn't expect Cook to get busy again. Of course, it was basic training this time, but Cook's training made those who thought they were regular recruits sweat on their backs.
"Do you see what this is?" Cook raised the white ash in his hand.
"The ash left by the fire!" someone replied loudly.
"Very good, very good, now I ask you to wrap these ash, this is our weapon." Cook thought of lime, but it doesn't matter if there is no lime, this kind of white ash can also block the line of sight.
"Master, what are you?" Addo looked at Cook and asked suspiciously.
Cook smiled and said: "Ado, I don't have any elite equipment under my hand. I can only use this method. Think about it, if these ashes are suddenly spilled into the enemy's eyes..."
Ado remembered the way ashes got into his eyes when he was burning a fire when he was a child, and when he thought about being on the battlefield, he couldn't help but shiver.
"Also, collect all the animal dung for me, and then give me scraps of forage and some poisonous weeds I prepared. Then we will light it and launch it, so that the wolf cavalry will also..."
"Also prepare enough hot water for me. Let's wash and bathe those guys then!"
Cook said one by one aloud. Everyone thought that people would definitely turn into popsicles after being drenched in water. As for gas bombs, this is not a good idea.
Connie frowned and asked displeasedly: "Lucy, what is this sound?"
"Miss, this is Lord Baron testing the catapult." Lucy replied listening to the voice outside the window.
"The trebuchet? Is it really useful, just the pile of wooden shelves?" Connie's trebuchet in this world is extremely unstable. Because it is driven by humans and the speed of human warriors is extremely fast, the trebuchet is just a tasteless one. A general tool of war is just suitable for dealing with cannon fodder troops, not those knights with grudge.
In fact, in humans, soldiers are also a kind of ancient Chinese government soldiers. When fighting, knights led their own guards to rush out. When not fighting, the knights are the landlords. There are only some standing troops, but these standing troops. It also needs to be rotated every year, unless it is a very important fortress, pass position, it will not easily change.
And Cook has adopted a full-time recruiting system. The biggest benefit of recruiting is not other, but a very common sentence, professional counterpart, how can a person who has more than half a year holding agricultural tools be a year-round kidney bean? This is the most fundamental difference between the opponents of people with weapons, professionalism!
"Boom!" Cook's five thousand rabbitmen looked dumbfounded~EbookFREE.me~ They didn't understand why the stone would go around the city wall and hit the snowy field outside.
And it seems that a wooden shelf can knock a stone weighing 300 kilograms away five hundred meters away, and fall on the ground to smash the frozen ice and snow into a big pit.
"Yes, yes!" Cook nodded appreciatively, and then began to teach the Bunnyman how to use the catapult to aim, how to shorten the distance and so on.
Although the Bunnyman is not very smart, under Cook's personal demonstration, he finally memorized Cook's operating points strongly.
"My lord, can we nail some wood spikes in the frozen soil?" a little bunny man who just lifted a stone and put it into the trebuchet weakly asked.
"My grass, you guys!" Cook is still worrying about the ammunition of the catapult, but isn't this little bunny man the best solution?
Ado swallowed wildly on the side, thinking of the frozen hard soil with sharp wooden thorns in his head like a meteorite, and he couldn't help shrinking his neck. Muttered: "Fortunately, it is my master!"