Throne of the Warlord

Chapter 51
According to the teacher's teaching, the first step in the advent is all kinds of preliminary preparations, which can be omitted.

You can go directly to the second step, the reconnaissance of the alien plane.

Because of the particularity of the plane, regardless of the resources of the plane, suitability and discomfort have to pass, and the first stage is also saved, directly entering the base establishment stage.

Li Qing is going to build a base here, temporarily.

The main base will definitely not be placed here, but this location is very suitable for landing and leaving. Set up a temporary base here, and use it as a base to scout around until you find a suitable place to expand God's Domain.

This time is at least a month or more, and it may take two or three months if the speed is slow or bad luck. A temporary base is still necessary.

Opening the gate of God's Domain, a large number of civilians were transferred out to start mowing grass and logging trees.

The edge of the plane is affected by the edge void, the vegetation is sparse, and the trees are not tall, and a large area is quickly cleared.

But it also took almost two days to clear out an open space that was far enough from the edge of the plane and had a large enough space.

In the past two days, Li Qing has not been idle. Accompanied by Long Shou, he observed the terrain back and forth, and found a suitable building on the upper right side of the large river valley with a width of more than one kilometer, seven to eight hundred meters from the edge of the plane. base place.

The place is close to the edge of the valley, and the terrain is flat. The valley on the left and west is a steep cliff with a slope of more than 40 meters.

Although there are two uneven places where you can climb, it is not a big problem. It takes time to repair and it is a cliff.

Then cut down the trees above the valley to clear a clearing, and began to dig the foundation.

This base is very simple, not even a stone wall is needed, but a wall made of thick high-density solid wood columns and thick planks, only three meters wide and five meters high.

The foundation is dug, the wooden wall is buried, the soil is filled, and it is done.

The built base is rectangular, 30 meters long from north to south near the edge of the valley, and 20 meters wide from east to west.

There is only one gate on the east side and the south side near the edge of the plane, and then prepare six slightly modified arrow towers, four are placed at the four corners, and the extra two are placed on both sides of the east gate.

Then some wooden houses were built and placed in a row on the west side of the base. In addition, there are caves for hiding soldiers and excavation space inside the arrow tower, which can be used as barracks and store a large amount of materials.

Li Qing named this newly built outpost as the outpost, and immediately ordered the troops to settle in after completion.

A fire rose from each of the six arrow towers, and there was a large fire pool in the center, in which a huge bonfire rose to illuminate the small outpost.

With the protection of the wall and the warmth of the flame, everyone was relieved, and the sense of urgency disappeared instantly.

When you are safe, you will have time to think about other things.

In the private room, Li Qing stood in front of the desk, with a crude topographic map in front of him.

This is the topographical map of this big plane with their base as the center, the big river valley and a radius of ten kilometers to the east. It was detected by the three stalkers one after another in the past few days.

The topographic map roughly depicts the curved terrain of the big river valley, and the surrounding terrain, including forests, mountains, rivers, etc., are marked.

Li Qing's eyes fell on the places marked with three skulls, which were the locations of the gathering places of the three alien races they had scouted.

They are a large murloc tribe gathered in a large lake where many rivers converge at the bottom of a large river valley nine kilometers away from them in the north, and the other is also in the north, about five kilometers away, gathered in the forest above the valley A tribe of forest trolls.

The third one is located about nine kilometers to the east. There is a forest mountain range composed of several 200-meter-high hills in the lush jungle, and a group of human-faced bird monsters live in groups.

The harpy is one of the close relatives of the harpy. Unlike the harpies who mostly live in dangerous mountains, the harpy lives in the forest and is a humanoid species slightly larger than humans. .

It can fly and is very flexible. Most of its attacks are to use its sharp claws to pounce on the enemy.

Only a small number of highly intelligent harpies can use weapons and sing ecstasy songs. They can charm other creatures similar to sea monsters, but their power is far less powerful than sea monsters. If the will is high enough, it is easy to forcibly save them, or be affected by them. A certain amount of damage can also pass the saving throw to wake up.

The location where Li Qing landed corresponds to the plane where the mentor is. Except for a few apprentices, no other apprentices have come over for the time being, so these alien tribes have not been disturbed by them.

If there's anything good in these alien tribes, it's still there.

Li Qing tapped the desk lightly with his fingers, slid his knuckles back and forth on the map, and finally landed on the forest troll tribe and tapped lightly.

No choice but to choose this.

First of all, the human-faced harpy in the east are all flying units, so they will suffer in a fight.

The murloc tribe in the lower reaches of the river valley was too far away and very large. The number of preliminary scouts might be in the tens of thousands. The large lake alone has tens of square kilometers, and with the addition of several rivers around it, it would not be a problem to survive tens of thousands of murlocs.

In addition, the murlocs know how to swim, so hiding in the river will be difficult.

Three targets, the forest troll is easy to deal with.

But one thing is for sure, after defeating the trolls, they still have to deal with the murlocs.

Such a large lake, surrounded by flat river beaches and valleys, is really suitable for farming, and it is very good to establish a base there.

With a goal in mind, the three stalkers sent north along the edge of the river valley to start a comprehensive investigation of the situation of the forest troll tribe.

At the same time, Li Qing was not idle, and began to calm down and prepare siege weapons.

During a rough reconnaissance before, it was discovered that the forest trolls have their own tribe, built along the river, and the scale is even taller than the previous gnolls, especially the logs are extremely thick, even with a trebuchet, it will be difficult to smash them open for a while .

He had to modify the trebuchet to be more efficient.

After flipping through the design drawings of several trebuchets several times, Li Qing already had an idea.

It's not a new design. He bought a standard design drawing before, which contains some special alloy steel formulas, and there is a special steel that can make alloy bows and crossbows.

Also called spring steel, it is a special alloy spring steel with extremely high yield and yield strength ratio, high elastic limit, metal fatigue resistance, and some will increase various heat resistance, corrosion resistance and other effects according to requirements. .

It is generally used to make alloy springs, and can also be used to make alloy bows and crossbows.

Li Qing has all the materials for synthetic spring steel, and he can rub it out by hand.

The essence of smelting alloys is to rearrange elements through scientific and technological means to forge alloys with various properties. The space in the palm can decompose materials into the most basic particle state, and then arrange and synthesize alloys according to his will. The essence is the same as a furnace. And more precise.

When the appropriate ratio of materials is decomposed into molecules, and then evenly integrated into one.

After trying many adjustments in a row, Li Qing successfully synthesized an alloy column that can be used as the arm of a giant counterweight trebuchet.

With the same diameter and size, the endurance is more than ten times that of wood, which means that it can bear greater weight, the stones projected are heavier, and the range is longer.

Then according to the formula, use high-strength alloy to make the frame of a giant counterweight trebuchet, and then match it with four detachable wheels.

Next comes the key point. The design drawing of the counterweight trebuchet he purchased uses the principle of gear levers to lift the counterweight hammer. The rotation of multiple gears drives greater power. Only two men can catapult dozens of tons of trebuchets. The heavy iron was raised again.

It is easy to manufacture the frame, just copy the design drawing.

In less than 10 minutes, a complete giant counterweight trebuchet was successfully built in one piece.

Then follow the same pattern and make another one.

It's not that I don't want to make more, the main reason is that steel is limited.

Before the completion of these two tasks, Li Qing took out another ballista design drawing to look at.

The ballista is powerful and is specially used to snipe and kill large creatures.

There must be powerful monsters on this plane, and such indigenous alien races like to raise powerful creatures.

For example, kobolds and gnolls like to raise ferocious squid, some like to raise ogres, orcs like to raise wargs, murlocs like to raise all kinds of large aquatic creatures, and trolls also like to raise ogres.

The firepower of two archer heroes alone is still insufficient, and these archer heroes are not his subordinates, so he can't force them to do anything. If they don't want to fight, they can use ballistas instead.

"Boom boom boom!"

When Li Qing was concentrating on his research, there was a sudden knock on the door.

"Please come in!"

Putting down the blueprints, he looked up and saw An Erqiu coming in, followed by Xie Jin who was supposed to go out for reconnaissance.

He wondered:
"The reconnaissance is over so soon?"

Xie Jin shook his head and said:
"The reconnaissance is not over. We ran into the reconnaissance team of other apprentices on the road. The two of them continued to reconnaissance and asked me to report back."

A trace of surprise appeared on Li Qing's face:
"Where did you find it? Whose person is it?"

"On the edge of the valley, about five kilometers away from the base, is His Excellency Cao Wenyuan's reconnaissance team. They seem to have discovered the forest troll tribe as well."

"Cao Wenyuan?"

Li Qing paused. Judging from the time, if they set off on the back foot, they would have indeed reached this plane by now.

This area happened to be facing the plane where the mentor was. All 17 of them gathered in this area, so it was not surprising to encounter them.

"Did you come back alone?"

"No, one of His Excellency Cao Wenyuan's reconnaissance team followed us, just outside the door."

Li Qing pointed to An Erqiu:

"Go ask him in."

An Erqiu nodded, turned around and went out, the door was pushed open again within ten seconds, and a young woman with a black dress and black cloth mask, a slim figure and extremely light steps came in, she was a stalker hero .

She cupped her fists and bowed to Li Qing, saying:

"On behalf of my lord Cao Wenyuan, I would like to send my greetings to Your Excellency Li Qing."

Li Qing nodded and asked:
"When did you come here?"

"The day before yesterday, but only started scouting around today."

"Well, we are two and a half days earlier than you, and we have scouted a radius of ten kilometers in advance. We have discovered three alien gathering points, including the forest troll tribe, the murloc tribe, and a human-faced harpy tribe."

After hearing this, the woman replied in a crisp voice:

"I will tell my lord."

"Ok!"

Li Qing nodded:

"According to the common agreement of the seventeen war lord apprentices, I have the priority. I am going to attack the forest troll tribe, so I need you to change your target."

There was no wave on the woman's face, and she replied:
"My lord has already told us this agreement, and I will pass on your words to my lord."

"Also, I wonder what your Excellency's attitude is towards the human-faced harpy tribe and the murloc tribe?"

"Let's give up on the human-faced harpy tribe. I have ideas about the murloc tribe, but the murloc tribe is too powerful. I can't do anything about it alone."

Having said that, Li Qing paused for a moment, thought for a while and said:
"This murloc tribe is too big, and it's in the lake. There's nothing we can do about it. I suggest waiting for a while, and when everyone arrives, we can unite and eliminate them."

"I will convey His Excellency Li Qing's proposal!"

"Ok!"

After asking some simple questions and confirming the location of Cao Wenyuan's base, the woman turned and left.

five seconds later.
"Snapped!"

Li Qing slapped Xie Jin on the forehead who had been following a slim figure with his eyes:

"Everyone is gone, what else are you looking at?"

Xie Jin chuckled, showing a certain expression that men could understand.

After waving his hand to signal the two to go out to work, Li Qing returned to the desk and continued to study.

In the east of the base, in the jungle about four kilometers away, there is a small ridge that is only over 30 meters high and several hundred meters long. At this time, the forest on the west side of the small ridge has been cut down. surrounded.

Four arrow towers were put down to guard the four sides, but the camp was still empty.

Cao Wenyuan couldn't make the house out of one piece like Li Qing, and he had to drive the foundation into the foundation one by one, nailing board by board, and the efficiency was very slow.

Fortunately, I bought an arrow tower. Without this thing, I couldn't do anything the previous week, so I was busy building base defenses.

At this time, Cao Wenyuan and some of his subordinates were gathering around the fire while grilling meat and studying the next plan.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door of the room, and a curvaceous woman in black pushed the door in. A servant immediately brought water.

The woman pushed the water away, bowed to Cao Wenyuan who was in the center of the crowd, and told everything about meeting Li Qing.

After she finished speaking, Cao Wenyuan stretched out his hand to signal her to sit down, and said:

"It's just a tribe of forest trolls. Since he arrives first, let him go. The murloc tribe is a problem."

He picked up a pen and drew a few simple strokes on the map, marking the places she just mentioned, and tapped one of the big circles with the tip of the pen and said:
"To establish a base, there must be a source of water and a stable source of food. This place is very good."

At this time, a man sitting next to him said:

"This place is indeed good, but other people will definitely take a fancy to it, and with the scale of this tribe, we definitely can't eat it, and even everyone may not be able to take it together."

Cao Wenyuan nodded:
"It's really hard, but it depends on people's efforts. There is no smooth sailing in the world. Since this hard nut is so hard to crack, others will definitely not be able to do anything about it. Don't worry about it. At this stage, we should first collect resources and conquer one or two indigenous tribes. Let’s talk about some benefits.”

(End of this chapter)