Taking kobolds to war is like taking primary school students on an outing. If you're not careful, they can get lost in a matter of minutes. The only difference is that no parent would blame Fraser for being too harsh in her corporal punishment. As long as you whip them hard, most dogs will be afraid of pain and will remember to follow the main group. Fortunately, the lost dog came to its senses, and as long as it was not eaten by wild beasts, it could rely on its excellent sense of smell to catch up with the main group, or simply find its way home on its own. When they reached a large pool of water upstream of the river bend, Fraser ordered all the dogs to take off their equipment and jump into the pool to wash themselves before they were allowed to go home. Especially those black-haired dog-headed men, they probably had never taken a bath, their bodies were covered in mud, their black hair was almost clumped together, with only a few parts of their hair reflecting light. That's dirty oil too. When they returned to the Gnoll Valley, there was a large bath filled with hot water and sulfur waiting for them. The golden retriever in Feisa's hands was much cleaner and began to get used to taking regular baths. They don't like jumping in cold water, but rather yearn for the warm big bath in the valley.
However, the capacity of the bathhouse is limited, and producing a pool of hot water consumes a lot of firewood, so it is often not opened until several days. Only the strong kobold guards can take a bath regularly, while the weaker ones have to wait ten days or half a month to get a turn. Most of the time they had to be driven by Fraser to the river to wash. The hygiene standards for the kobolds that Fraser customized were almost entirely modeled after those at Riverbend. In the past in the north, because the climate was too cold and there were no economic conditions, the villagers in Hewan were all dirty and looked like they hadn't taken a bath for hundreds of years. Of course Uliyan, who had retired from the elite army, couldn't stand it, but there was nothing he could do. After reaching the river bend, the village temporarily entered a primitive public ownership society and became a place where Ulyayan had the final say. He gradually implemented militarized management and popularized some of the military camp rules in the village. For example, obey orders, abide by regulations, and pay attention to hygiene. These coincided with Leo's ideas. Ulian was responsible for building bathhouses and toilets, and Leo was responsible for driving the villagers in. The sanitary conditions of the entire river bend were greatly improved. Even the most sloppy modern people are cleaner than the original villagers. After the joint efforts of Urian and Rio, most of the villagers began to get used to maintaining basic personal hygiene. The River Bend Infantry, who were given special attention, were naturally the first to be transformed. After all, it is really creepy to have these tough guys who don't wipe their butts after taking a shit as their comrades. After Hewan gained a foothold, Uliyan and Leo discussed and decided to include personal hygiene in the militia's assessment results. Fisa made all the ogres wash clean before taking them back to the valley. After the invention of the powder barrel, the valley wall, which had been worm-eaten and riddled with holes but had never collapsed, was completely destroyed in less than a month. On one side of the valley, a huge gap several dozen meters wide was exposed, flashing with metallic luster, and hematite with a very high iron content was scattered everywhere. Many kobold miners were still breaking up the ore and putting it into backpacks. The kobolds in charge of transportation carried them to the blacksmith shop or the River Peninsula. Leo contributed two wheelbarrows to Fraser to imitate, hoping to increase the kobolds' transportation capacity.
However, it has not yet entered the mass production stage, and most of the iron ore and pig iron ingots are still transported by ogres. There is already a clear, dry path from the Gnoll Valley to the River Bend, and Gnolls transporting ore are shoulder to shoulder in an endless stream. Even some little dog-headed people followed their parents and elders, running back and forth with ores as big as their heads on their shoulders. After Leo took away the armed forces of River Bay, the entire River Bay went into a state of shutdown, on guard against possible attacks. But the kobolds were not affected at all. It was as if the kobold hunting team had gone out and had not returned, and the remaining dogs were still able to maintain operation. If they have learned the idiom "throwing the baby out with the bathwater", they will use it to laugh at human beings. The Gnoll Valley is now much more open than before, and many huts and huts have been built. Kitchens, warehouses, toilets, blacksmith shops, carpentry shops, barracks, and squares all took shape one by one. An old, hairless dog-headed man, leaning on a cane, greeted his people at the entrance of the valley. He is a kobold shaman. After this kobold tribe lost its magical heritage, shamans became useless. They could only rely on their own intelligence and talent to make up some clumsy stories and songs and dance the traditional shamanic dances to make a living. During a dance to bless the blacksmith's furnace, the old, trembling kobold shaman ran out of energy and fell into the fire pit. When it crawled out, all its hair was burned and one of its legs was broken. The tribesmen thought he had lost his value and prepared to throw him into the wild to fend for himself. But Fraser has a different view. She thought that this old dog-headed man could still speak, continue to teach the little dogs to sing ballads, continue to tell the story of the dog-headed man's holy mountain, and identify herbs that the tribe members did not recognize, so he was still useful. So she just took away the kobold shaman's thorn crown and feather cloak, as well as the title of shaman, but also asked the tribe to take care of his food until he died. Today, Fraser holds two high positions in the Gnoll Valley, Chief and Shaman, achieving the unity of politics and religion and possessing absolute ruling power. Frasa handed the wolf cubs to a trusted female kobold for safekeeping - some of these "ferocious kobold" cubs were secretly eaten by the hostile black-haired kobolds on the road, and their number was less than a hundred. The black-haired gnolls also brought dozens of cubs. They were not clear about the current situation of the Gnoll Valley and thought that the gnoll cubs would squeeze the living space of their own cubs. In addition to the previous hatred, he kept secretly biting and eating the werewolf cubs along the way. By the time Fraser discovered them, at least twenty of them had died. The black-haired dog-headed people entered the valley like a group of Liu Laolao entering the Grand View Garden. Those buildings that imitated humans, various production facilities, open-pit mines, and laughing dogs were things they had never seen before. It is already outrageous that the old kobolds are not thrown into the wilderness. Why are those female kobolds playing leisurely with their cubs instead of gathering and working? These black-haired dog-headed people who had never seen the world were driven into a large boiling hot bath at the entrance of the valley. Large amounts of sulfur were sprinkled into the baths to kill the lice and germs they carried. The dog who rushed back to the valley in advance to deliver the message has already brought back the news of victory, and ordered the female dog-headed people to welcome their new members according to the standard reception procedures.
The poor black-haired dog-headed man had just finished a cold shower and felt that he was cleaner than ever before, but he was then driven into boiling hot water and almost had all his hair burned off. Some of the little black dogs thought they were about to be cooked and eaten, and they kept struggling and thrashing in the water, their facial features distorted with fear. On the river bend side, Rio's River Bend Infantry and Basaka longbowmen were also welcomed by their tribesmen.