This was not the first time that the Lombards attacked the Nanguan Army Fort. The painful lessons obtained by the Lombards in the Nanguan exchanged for blood provided a lesson for Wadebury's attack.

Lombardy is known as the elite soldiers of 3,000. Although there are only more than a thousand people who can really fight, until now, the Nanguan Military Fort has not been hit by the Lombards with all the strength.

During the four attacks, the Lombards used a large number of siege equipment and ignited arrows in front of the Nanguan, but they did not use the tactic of filling pits in the sea of ​​people.

The Lombards knew that even if they attacked and pushed down Nanguan, the heavy losses would not be accepted. Therefore, Vadbury placed the real main force of combat at a breakthrough outside Nanguan...

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Odo guessed the real attack direction of the Lombards. Nanguan was as solid as a rock. The Lombards would inevitably divide their troops to detour the mountain paths in an attempt to break through the center.

Therefore, he not only ordered almost all the peasant soldiers of the reserve regiment to form eight patrol teams of twenty to forty people to patrol the mountain passages near Nanguan day and night, but also personally led an army of 80 people composed of army soldiers, crossbowmen and elite standing peasant soldiers to sit in the lake camp to guard against the Lombards' attacks.

In addition, he also mobilized more than ten villages and forts in the name of the front commander to organize peasants in more than ten villages and forts in the lake area to guard against enemy spies and sporadic scattered soldiers who infiltrated the rear.

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However, a hundred secrets are inevitable...

To the southwest of the lake, there is a dense forest canyon, one day away from the lake.

This was originally a natural mine where the Christopher clan once dug ore to make iron farm tools. After Yat learned about this place, relying on the opportunity of the ironworks workshop to move south, he specially built a mining farm here.

The mining farm is under the jurisdiction of the Construction Department, and there are many young and strong miners from the construction department's labor force, so Kuber allocated fifty miners and three managers to open up the mines here.

In just one month, this place has begun to take shape, and what is even more gratifying is that the iron ore here is a coal-iron-iron ore, with a huge mineral reserve.

So Cooper sent more than 30 laborers again and sent Spencer, the former Wells Corps logistics minister who was originally responsible for the construction of the southern roads, to the mine to be responsible for mining.

The mine is built on the mountain and is not large in scale.

The outermost layer is a fence surrounded by three sides of wooden stakes and branches. Here is a deserted forest, with wild beasts crisscrossing and insects and snakes all over the ground. This fence barely separates the dangers from the mountains and fields.

Of course, it is precisely because of the danger here that the Government Department has drawn six soldiers from the guards affiliated with the Construction Department to garrison here. In addition, most of the miners here are registered peasant soldiers from the garrison army, so there are more than a dozen sets of eliminated swords, short spears and other weapons.

Within the fence, seven or eight temporarily built shabby camps and thatched shacks gathered in a pile, and smoke from time to time floated out of the shack area. The miners were always hardworking, so these simple shabby camps and shacks could also meet their survival needs.

Between the shack area and the hillside is the mining area. Since it is an open-pit mine, the miners directly smashed it with picks, shovels, hammers and other tools together with the black coal stones grown by companions, and then loaded them into a double-wheel cart to transport it to the smelting plant on the other side, where there are two "small blast furnaces" built by the ironwork workshop.

The ore dug by the miners is a coal-iron-iron ore, so it can be quickly turned into iron and after cooling, it becomes raw material for making various iron tools and weapons.

The mine was first built, and there was no horse-drawn carriage to the outside world yet. Fortunately, Christopher once sent people to mine here, so there was already a trail here for mules and horses to pass through.

Every three or five days, the Lake Metro Workshop will send a team of packs here to transport pig iron raw materials and bring some grain supplies to the mine.

On another hillside to the west of the mining farm, Spencer, wearing fine linen shirts and knee-length shorts, was leading the officials from the two mines to survey the terrain.

If it weren't for his blonde hair, he would have easily mistakenly thought of him as an ordinary miner or a grassroots craftsman in a flash.

At this moment, Spencer lost the grace and luxury of the Minister of the Wells Legion's baggage. His original big belly and full face had turned into some abdominal muscles and a black face.

It has been a whole year since he was sent to the southern pioneering world. From the beginning to the moment he complained, Spencer suffered a lot this year and also calmed down his restless heart.

His sweat was spread on the horse-drawn carriageway from Nanguan Military Fort to the Workshop Area of ​​Wellsburg, and his hard-working footprints were also found in the residential and villages along the way.

Now that he has been personally appointed as the director of the southern mine by the old housekeeper Coober, Spencer has regained hope.

"Master Spencer?Master Spencer!" A official beside him woke up Spencer who was looking at the depths of the canyon.

Spencer suddenly came back to his senses, raised his hand and wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and pointed at the hillside of the person under his feet, "Tomorrow you bring two people here to explore, I guess there is iron ore buried under this hillside."

The official nodded and agreed, but couldn't help but wonder: "Sir Spencer, this is the fifth mining site we have surveyed. Now it's enough for us to be a miner to mine for three or five years. Why do we need to open up new minerals?"

Spencer gave the rifted belt around her waist and looked around, "Man, think about the long term."

"Now that Welles is fighting with the Lombards, we naturally have no time to take care of it, but on the day the war is over, our Count will not let this treasure given by the Holy Lord be buried in the mountains."

"Believe me, it won't take two years to expand here several times or even dozens of times."

The official has just come out of the Government Affairs College and was originally going to be dispatched to work as craftsmen in the ironworks workshop, but now he has been suddenly dispatched to this deep mountains and deserted valleys. Naturally, he will not consider the prosperity here in the future.

Instead of taking Spencer's words, he stared at the figures gradually becoming clear at the other end of the canyon and said excitedly: "Sir Spencer, the guards who went into the mountains to hunt are back. We can have a good meal of meat tonight. Just in time, there are two barrels of beer left in the day before yesterday."

The officer couldn't help but run down the hillside, but as the distance got closer, the guards of several mines that came out of the canyon were obviously a little strange.

When the pale and breathless hunting guards rushed to the hillside, they shouted loudly with their panicked eyes: "Sir Spencer, there is an army on the canyon, there is an army on the other side of the canyon~ an army!"

Spencer thought he had heard it wrong, "Nonsense, have you bumped into a White Walker? Where can I get the army from the deep mountains and valleys?"

The captain of the guards took a few breaths, tried to calm himself down, and then said word by word: "Sir, there is really an army with hundreds of people, all wearing light armor and short soldiers. When we tracked a few goats, we found them resting in a dense forest on the other end of the canyon."

The joking expression on Spencer's face disappeared, "How far are they from here?"

"If you move quickly, there will be an hour at most." The captain of the guard swallowed, then stared at Spencer nervously.
Chapter completed!