Chapter 125: Dilemmas and Entanglements All the high-ranking members of the Northwest Legion have now realized that they are in a predicament, since the orcs began to attack, every day and night, there will be orcs and dark elves through the hole in the ground to cross the artillery-covered area to try to attack the fortress walls, this harassment tactic has disturbed the entire beast blood fortress, although the number of orcs who come to attack the city each time will not exceed 10,000, But the constant shouts of killing day and night, and the continuous killing of human soldiers by the lurking Dark Elf assassins, made the hearts of everyone in the Beast Blood Fortress feel like a big rock has been crushed.
On October 7, the orcs launched their first night attack, and it was that time that the human air force was almost wiped out by the orcs, a full 50,000 tons of ammunition was detonated, and the human air base was completely razed to the ground by the orcs.
Although there are 10,000 tons of ammunition for the Air Force in the military city, these are only enough for the Air Force to fight for a week, and as for the supply from the inner region, Brandon, who has already received the disaster situation in various places, has long been unable to make extravagant hopes.
Although the Supreme Council promised Andrew that the northwest road would be restored within a month, everyone knew how difficult it would be to clear a passable road from an average of two meters of snow in the field at minus 30 degrees Celsius, and that for a month or even two months the Northwest Army would be able to fight alone against the orc army, and the Supreme Council's help could hardly be counted on.
In addition to the difficulties in supply, the appearance of the dark elves has also caused considerable trouble to the Northwest Legion, it turns out that the passage to the underground world destroyed by the Northwest Legion two years ago has long been reopened by the dark elves, but these evil creatures are unexpectedly forbearant this time, they lurk underground and watch every move of human beings at all times, until human beings are too busy to take care of themselves, they suddenly burst out of the darkness and stabbed human beings in the back.
With the success of the dark elves' sneak attack on the air base, these dark elves unscrupulously launched an attack on almost all humans at night, not only the army will be attacked at night, but even those human territories have been attacked by dark elves.
The attack of the dark elves is more of a headache for the Northwest Legion than the harassment tactics of the orcs, and Brandon, who has always regarded the vast land of the northwest as his own confined, sent a large number of troops from the military city to search the dark elves, but it is really a difficult task to find the entrance to the underground world from under those thick ice and snow, and the search team has found nothing for a week, and after the dark elves have succeeded in successive attacks but have not encountered effective counterattacks, their actions are becoming more and more daring, There were even dark elf assassins who infiltrated the military city and assassinated a high-ranking officer in the military city, so that nearly 200,000 troops in the military city were disturbed by the dark elves of less than 2,000 people and did not dare to leave the room at night, if the situation continued like this, soon there would be riots in the army.
Compared to the plight of the Northwest Army, the situation of the Rodnik Territory is slightly better, as the area with the most severe snow disaster, the Rodnik Territory is now like a labyrinth of ice and snow, the snow at the deepest depth of nearly three meters makes outdoor walking impossible, and most of the roads have been abandoned except for a few main roads that are maintained by mobilizing the people of the Northwest.
Strong men put on thick clothes to clear the snow, the factory area and the residential area are almost buried by the snow, and after clearing the road, the snow must be cleared as soon as possible, the factory that has stopped work must resume production as soon as possible, otherwise the workers will not be paid, all the workers in the Rodnik territory have lost their source of income due to no work in the past half month, and a large number of houses have been crushed by Erica to gather together and rely on the relief of the lord's mansion every day to live, These days, a large amount of warm clothing, snow removal tools, and quota food have been allocated from the warehouse of the Rodnik Collar to test the foundation of the Rodnik Collar.
The airship piloted by Shelley would transport two hundred tons of food from the inner region every day, and a large amount of meat gave the people enough heat to withstand the cold, and at the same time, it was also testing Zhao Yannian's wallet.
The Rodnik Domain was one of the few territories without a uniform tax, and although the new tax law of the Supreme Council was much larger than the original practice of the lords of the localities, it was not possible to reach the level of ten taxes and one tax.
Due to the fact that the ten taxes and one system announced by Zhao Yannian when he first came to the territory has attracted a large number of merchants and nobles to invest in recent years, and a large number of intertwined relationships, the Rodnik Territory has become a special case.
And the price of this special case is that Zhao Yannian's finances actually do not have much surplus, and the high wages of the people and large-scale construction can only maintain the financial income and expenditure almost every year until it is just the same.
And this year, with the closure of factories with no trade routes, nearly 200,000 people in the territory need to be fed by the lord, and the cost of refusing to reduce the food treatment is even more astronomical.
After the Rodnik Territory was blocked by heavy snow, not only Zhao Yannian and Erica had a headache, but also the merchant nobles who had a close relationship with them were also having a headache, and the resumption of production was far away after stopping production for half a month, especially those merchants who made a fortune by trafficking in industrial products were even more anxious when they saw that their warehouses were empty.
Fortunately, on the seventh day of the disaster in Rodnik, the Supreme Council issued a call for solicitation, and the peasants of Digan City and the surrounding areas went to the Outlands to open the road to the northwest, and their first stop was the Rodnik Territory.
These peasants were driven to the wilderness with tools by soldiers, and in order to ensure the progress of the project, the Supreme Council specially allocated a large number of warm clothing, and it was very difficult to fight natural disasters by manpower alone.
There are casualties almost every day in the snow clearing team, but under the pressure of the cold sword, these laborers are being recommended to the Rodnik Territory at a speed of twenty kilometers a day, and according to the calculation of time, it may only take another week for the road between the Rodnik Territory and Digan City to be cleared again, and by that time the factories in the Territory can resume production, and as for the flood that the Territory may face in the spring, there are at least a few months to figure out.
On October 15th, Zhan Wuyan began the first pilot fire of the fog reactor, there are two parts inside the fog reactor, one part is the reaction chamber and the other is the reduction chamber, the reaction chamber is full of alchemy arrays that recover electric energy, and the metal is discharged by chemical reaction in the reaction chamber to generate energy, and then these reacted products will be sent to the reduction chamber by the conveyor belt, the reduction chamber is filled with eternal fog as the name suggests, and the reacted substances enter the reduction chamber.
The temporal properties of the Eternal Mist will re-break up the metal that has just reacted before re-entering the reaction chamber to continue working.
If it was in the previous life Zhao Yannian's design of this reactor would definitely be criticized by the mentor, this reaction obviously does not conform to the theorem of conservation of matter, but who made this world a magical world, since the elements are not clear whether they are matter or energy really exist, then the eternal fog is converted into electrons and supplemented into metal is also in the past.
The first pilot fire was very successful, because it did not adopt too complex design, the efficiency of the fog reactor is not high, much lower than Zhao Yannian expected, but the stability is still very satisfactory, at least Zhao Yannian does not have to worry about energy in a short time, if you want to improve the efficiency of the fog reaction, then Zhao Yannian needs to design a more advanced and complex reactor.
Just had a somewhat humble celebration dinner with all the staff of Zhan Wuyan, Celine found Zhao Yannian with a letter.
"Master, there is an urgent summons from the Supreme Council, and you need to participate in the issue of the Supreme Council on the Northwest Army at three o'clock this afternoon."
The maid handed the letter to Zhao Yannian and told the contents of the letter at the same time, and now Celine has become Zhao Yannian's secretary through and through, and the staff on the Supreme Council seem to be used to confirming the agenda of this honorary councilor through this dark elf-looking maid.
"Three o'clock in the afternoon?
There is still some time, why not sit down and talk?
Zhao Yannian looked at the pocket watch and said to Celine with open hands.
"But master, this is the hall."
Celine looked at Zhao Yannian with a little blushing and then at the direction of the door, and said with some hesitation.
"Nothing else, just a sudden desire to hug you."
Zhao Yannian assured Celine.
"Then let's say okay first, you must not do bad things!"
Celine sat next to Zhao Yannian with some twists, and after she sat on the same figure as her master, she was immediately tightly wrapped around her waist by Zhao Yannian from behind.
"It's been a month since I've held you, it's so comfortable."
Zhao Yannian didn't make any excessive moves, he just hugged Celine like this, closed his eyes and smelled the fragrance of the half-elf maid, and the nearly month of working day and night had already exhausted his heart, so he suddenly made such a childish move.
"Master?"
Celine asked tentatively when she heard the sound of breathing in her ears.
When Celine turned her head to look at Zhao Yannian, she found that Zhao Yannian had already fallen asleep, and he looked very sloppy after not tidying up his appearance for a month, but the somewhat childish and painful sleeping face made Celine's heart full of maternal love, for this human man who was thirty years younger than herself, Celine was not sure whether she regarded him as a child or as a lover, from the initial refuge for the half-elf to the later physical belonging, and now from the inseparability of the mind to the body, At this point, it may be futile to explore the relationship between the two.
"There will be some time, let's sleep in peace."
The maid carefully held Zhao Yannian in her arms and said softly.