Chapter 181 Rand Prepares to Join the War

After several days and nights of wrangling with the small nobles who tried to buy ironware or iron ore, Rand finally dealt with them all.

Rand could sense their fears about the changing situation, but he had no extra iron to share with them.

In a sense, iron is the lifeline on the battlefield. The probability of survival on the battlefield for those with iron armor and those without is completely different.

Unfortunately, the den currently does not have the ability to make plate armor, the technology does exist, and plate armor exists in this era, but the den is currently unable to produce it.

The armor currently produced in the hideout, except for the hanging iron plates provided to the Minotaur at the beginning, has undergone technical upgrades and now uses armor-piercing technology.

The square iron armor plates are directly strung together with leather strips and ropes, and the armor plates are overlapped horizontally and vertically.

This kind of defense is already very strong.

Of course, it is not as good as plate armor. Rand tried repeatedly before he realized that it was so difficult to forge a whole piece of iron plate.

Rand studied it for a long time and finally concluded that the iron quality was not up to standard, it was difficult to forge it into a whole piece, and it would break at the slightest touch.

However, most other nobles of this era also used scale armor, lamellar armor or light chain mail.

But plate armor still exists in this world. In theory, the iron smelting technology in this world should be developing the fastest.

In the end, Rand came up with the idea that there were magic metal mines, or that rich iron ore could be easily smelted. After smelting, such ore could be easily forged into a whole steel plate and assembled into plate armor.

This cannot be done in the hideout now, but once the blast furnace is truly formed, the refined iron or steel should be able to be forged into plate armor.

However, although the armor produced in the hideout today is lamellae, its defensive power is not much weaker. The design idea is based on the Ming Guang Armor of Rand's previous life. Of course, only the appearance is used as a reference. Rand does not understand the internal principles.

Now we just have to wait for the blast furnace to take shape. The progress has been steadily advancing, and Rand is not in a hurry, as the technology can be slowly iterated.

Whether it is the inlaid small iron plates provided to the Tauren at the beginning or the current armor, they can both be used, and their defense is much stronger than leather armor.

You can replace it later if necessary.

But now Rand understood the Southern Kingdom's emphasis on and competition for the gold mine that could produce both gold and magical metals.

He wanted it too, but unlike those nobles, he could use technological iteration to smelt high-quality iron and steel from his poor iron ore.

But there is no sign of these yet.

After sending away all the small nobles who came to buy iron ore, Rand returned to the lord's chair somewhat tiredly. He patted the space beside him and said to Olenna, "Come over and rest for a while, too?"

When they were arguing before, Rand could sit down occasionally, but Olenna, as the secretary, had to stand the whole time. Rand felt that Olenna must be very tired.

Olenna was not tired at all. As a top-level professional, her body would not get tired so easily. However, she still walked to Rand, sat next to him, and then spoke.

"The formula for the medicine we obtained from the last time we wiped out the followers of the Goddess of Plenty has been handed over to the alchemy workshop." When they were close, Rand could feel Olenna's breathing.

And the warmth of Olenna's body.

Since the relationship between the two of them was close enough, Olenna naturally had no intention of avoiding suspicion or being on guard, and she almost stuck to Rand.

However, Rand did not have too many thoughts at this time. After thinking about it, he replied: "Let them take care of this thing by themselves. Don't let it affect the research of blast furnaces and communication devices."

Vibration communication devices are now in use.

The current communication distance is 2 kilometers. The Crescent Moon Territory's hideout is about 10 kilometers away from the Crescent Moon Territory's communication node, and a total of six large-scale vibration communication devices have been installed.

The effect is not very good, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and the several vibration communication devices will interfere with each other.

Now many alchemists have been assigned to debug and research.

To be honest, being an alchemist in a den is a very hard job.

Although Rand offered them high salaries, the workload was too heavy, the requirements were mysterious, the working hours were irregular, and the working location was not fixed.

Rand was still very surprised that no one of these alchemists had resigned so far.

"Well, there's also the matter of the communication device," Olenna continued.

Rand also blew on Olenna and asked, "Which node has a problem again? Or is there a breakthrough in technology?"

Olenna clapped her hands, signaling Rand to stop making trouble, and then said seriously: "Nothing happened this time. It was finally useful. Taner sent a message. He judged that the defense line might be breached and requested support."

Rand's originally relaxed attitude suddenly tensed up. He was stunned for a moment and asked, "What? Why was it breached?"

He spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build that line of defense, and he also went to inspect it personally to confirm the practicality of the line of defense.

It would be fine if the Second Prince had fewer people with him, but didn’t the previous intelligence say that the two sides were evenly matched, and that the Second Prince even had more troops?

Although he had heard that the Snow Fox Countess was a military genius, there had been military friction between his Crescent Territory and the Snow Fox Counties for a long time. Rand admitted that the Snow Fox Countess was indeed better than other nobles who could only charge cavalry.

But I don’t think it’s too exaggerated. In the conflicts between the den and the Snow Fox Territory during this period, the den has the upper hand most of the time.

What's happening now?

It has only been a short time, and autumn has not even passed yet. A legion with good numbers and quality of soldiers is guarding a fairly solid defense line, facing an attack from a legion that is weaker than them in numbers and quality of soldiers.

It's only been a month now, right? Is the defense already about to collapse?

Now the problem came. The defense line collapsed. What should he do with his Crescent Territory? It was not easy to conquer the bandit village in Crescent Territory, and Taran was beaten into a pig's head.

Building the road leading to the haunted iron mine is not easy, and establishing a mining system in the haunted iron mine is not easy either. Seth even went there specifically to eliminate the high-level undead, and there is still no news yet.

There are also new farmlands that have been reclaimed by the villagers and the Tauren with great effort, as well as the crops that have just been harvested.

"Tanner said that the logistics were not well prepared and the attitude towards war was too negative. Now morale is low. The Snow Fox Countess built a large number of catapults to bombard the defense line. The defense line has been severely damaged. At the time Tanner sent the message, the second prince of the defense line was ready to take a military risk."

Rand covered his face. He didn't really care about being excluded. The previous looting had already brought Rand a lot of benefits. There was no need for him to continue to compete with them for the limelight in this battle which was obviously to gild the Second Prince and the children of the nobles.

The army in the hideout has been fighting for a long time. Although the damage is not great due to excellent strategy, years of fighting must be very hard, and not much loss does not mean no damage.

But now it seems that the second prince is really a waste, at least in terms of military, he must be a waste.

Rand stood up from the lord's chair and said solemnly, "Let the guards get ready. I will go to the front line myself."

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Olenna said she understood and wrote down Rand's order on paper.

Soon, the hideout began to operate as a military, political and economic integration.

The first ones to get the news were the higher-ups in the hideout, such as Lisa, who had a holiday as the small classroom at the foot of the mountain was closed due to many nobles visiting.

Ryza was currently working on the tail and cat ears in her room.

Last time, she didn't use the toy much because she didn't choose the right timing. She had planned to wait until Rand had dealt with those little nobles before using it again. She was far from having enough fun with it.

But now it seems that we have to wait until the war is over.

The hideout can be said to be in a state of war all the time, but the fact that Rand needs to go there in person means that the situation has become very serious, and naturally these high-level officials have to go with him.

As for the small classroom at the foot of the mountain, Lisa plans to assign them a topic as homework for the long vacation.

When Elsa received the news, she was squatting in front of a small golden sapling.

The seeds of this sapling were provided by Lysa and later transplanted to the small yard behind Rand's residence.

After this period of growth, the sapling has grown a lot of leaves.

The golden leaves have healing properties, but the output of this sapling is basically consumed by Elsa.

This time she also came to take some, but not much. She felt a little embarrassed for pulling away too many leaves before. Now the sapling has grown a little, and Elsa still hopes that the golden sapling will grow a little bigger.

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At the defense line, the Viscount, who was Tanner's traitor, received Tanner's order.

Although the Viscount made the decision very decisively at the beginning, he still had some doubts about whether his choice was correct.

I was a little nervous when I passed the information to Taner before.

Until he discovered that the Second Prince had not taken any precautions in this regard, and no one cared no matter how he sent messages.

Then the situation on the defense line deteriorated rapidly and became what it is today.

This traitorous viscount had patrolled the defense line and often saw irritable knights and soldiers with lifeless eyes.

Even though the time was not long, it was normal for morale to be low as they were constantly being hit by boulders and had poor food on the defense line.

Now the Viscount of Traitor has begun to be thankful for his original wit. He feels that he will definitely fail if he follows the Second Prince.

He had originally planned to hang out with the second prince who was out to gild himself, hoping that he could gain some merit, but now he has no hope at all.

Oh, it's not completely hopeless.

Following Taner's orders, the Viscount the Traitor secretly colluded within the defense line.

Consciously or unconsciously, he mentioned Rand's battle record, as well as the Rand army that was recuperating in the rear.

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(End of this chapter)