Don’t be fooled by the factory’s wall, which sounds very short with a side length of only 300 meters. If all four camp walls were built, with a total circumference of 1,200 meters, at least 400 soldiers would be needed for defense, not including reserve forces. Most of the villages in the pioneering knights' territories have a total population of only three to five hundred, and at most half of them are young and strong, but the villages are no smaller than this factory. Even if all the young and strong men in the village joined together to guard the city wall, they would still be sparsely populated, with long stretches where no one could be seen. If the same number of enemies want to invade, they can just find any place to break through. So there is no point in building the city wall. In this case, it would be better to build a sturdy lord's house or a small castle, as well as some auxiliary towers. A hundred or so militiamen can resist the siege of several times the number of enemies. Some stone castles located near mountains and water and in dangerous terrain can be blocked by attacks of thousands of people with just a few dozen guards. This was how the River Bend Territory started out. They first built a circle of wooden walls to defend against weaker alien races like wild beasts and ogres. The villagers were still living in tents, so they immediately built the lord’s house on the highest point.
After the lord's mansion was completed, the population grew, and there was surplus labor, Uliyan slowly repaired the camp wall. With the "advanced" city-building technology he learned from the legion hundreds of years ago, as well as Leo's various small inventions, the difficulty of building camp walls was almost reduced by half compared to other lords. Moreover, Leo and Urian's ideas are more ambitious than those of ordinary small lords. When fighting a war, you cannot just defend, you also have to take the initiative to attack. The wild folk camp and the refugee camp are the barriers of the River Bay Peninsula, used to resist the impact from the foreign tribes in the Wolf Driving Plain. At present, this factory is the vanguard of the River Bay Territory, used to deter malicious intent from human society. The solid city walls can not only deter people, but also make it convenient to turn them into military camps directly in times of war. If we cram two thousand refugees in there and give the young and strong among them a little training, they can be transformed into a city defense force with considerable combat effectiveness. After all, their families are all in the military camp, and with the solid camp walls and sufficient food, it is no problem for the morale of the militia defending the city to double. Moreover, the factory is adjacent to the Western Watchtower and the Solovie Knight Territory, and is only thirty miles away from the river bend. As long as it is not breached by a wave of attacks, it can get support in a short time. If the Gladstone family's troops had come out of the western watchtower and encountered such a military camp, they would have turned around and left without the Solovy Knight's intervention. During this month, the Solovie Knights stayed in their own knightly territory, constantly strengthening the defense, boosting morale, and preparing to meet the impact of the refugees. When he came out to check the enemy situation, he found that there were no enemies left, and they were all captured by Leo. Knight Solovy was a little bit unbelievable, so he went into the factory to find out what was going on. The result was the same as that of refugees, who didn't want to leave after one look. This place is less than half an hour's ride away from his knight's territory, so after the threat posed by the refugees was eliminated, he came here almost every day to keep watch. When they come across something new, they blatantly copy it and bring it back to their own estate construction site. Leo would like to call him Fraser. When the construction of the cassava flour processing plant entered the final stage, Knight Solovy had to admire Hewan's construction capabilities.
His hot spring villa also has 500 refugees and is led by 50 craftsmen, but the foundation has only just been laid. This is already pretty good. The head craftsman of the Petukhov family, who was in charge of building the hot spring villa, had originally estimated that it would take half a year to complete. Only after the foundation was laid did we dare to change our words and say it would only take three months. It’s not that the craftsmen and technology are not good enough, but that the labor and organizational ability are not good enough. The new construction tools provided by the craftsmen of Hewan and the craftsmen trained by the Petukhov family met the basic requirements for building the hot spring villa. However, the 500 refugees recruited were not well-trained construction workers and could only rely on the hands-on command of the team's craftsmen. If there were not enough craftsmen and the laborers were not well fed, the construction efficiency would be further reduced, and I'm afraid that even the foundation could not be laid now. The construction of a cassava flour processing plant is certainly not as difficult as that of an aristocratic manor, but it is also more labor-intensive than building an ordinary stone and wood structure village. In just one month, the scale of the achievement was so great that Knight Solovy felt it was an eye-opener. The advanced management system, reasonable allocation of manpower and improved efficiency are truly shocking. Knight Solovy chatted with Leo while strolling up the newly built wooden wall. After the stone foundation was completed, the upper wooden wall was quickly erected. The entire wall was five meters high. Without the involvement of large-scale siege equipment, there is no way you can capture this military camp with just a few ladders. Standing on the newly built camp wall, Knight Solovy looked out of the factory. Not far upstream, I saw laborers felling large oak trees, sawing them into logs and throwing them into the river. These logs floated down the river and were salvaged by the workers in the factory and air-dried. After the hydraulic saw is built, further processing will be carried out. As the huge trees on both sides of the upper reaches of the stream fell one by one, the view gradually widened. Knight Solovi continued to praise: "And you have a good vision. This place has a flat terrain, convenient transportation, and abundant water resources. It is very suitable for developing a settlement. As long as there is enough food, it will be easier to attract foreign population here than the River Bend Territory." Leo nodded and said, "A blank sheet of paper is easier to draw on. If I bring everyone back to the river bay, it will be difficult to arrange them, and it will be more likely to cause chaos." Knight Solovy nodded and said, "Your words are both philosophical and reasonable. Sometimes, I really doubt whether you are the descendant of a great family. An ordinary young man would not say such a thing." Leo sighed, "Actually, I am a half-elf who has lived secretly for fifty years. In terms of age, you should call me uncle." After hearing the first half of the sentence, Knight Solovy believed it about 60%. It was only after hearing the second half that he realized the other party was joking. He laughed, "If I call you uncle, Lord Uliyan will probably hang you up and beat you." Although Leo has been trying to establish connections and calling him uncle, Knight Solovy is only in his early thirties, and when Leo is serious, he looks very mature. Therefore, when interacting with Leo, Knight Solovi often treated him as a peer. Even though a joke was made at this time, the usually serious and solemn Wind Knight did not feel the slightest bit unhappy. The location of the processing plant is very similar to that of the Solovyv Knight Territory.
If you fold the map in half along World Tree Avenue, the two can almost overlap. The dense forests to its west extend all the way to Buck Pass, two hundred miles away. To the north, to Hewan Territory, there are also twenty or thirty miles of flat land. Even if we only develop the abandoned blockhouse thirty miles to the west and divide the forest farm in half with the river bend to the north, this piece of land still has hundreds of square kilometers and can be regarded as a new pioneering knight territory. Of course, the entire dense forest is filled with huge oak trees that are several people thick enough to hug. It will not be possible to develop them into farmland and pastures in a short period of time. The development of the Solovie Knight Territory took the efforts of two generations of the Miswitch family. Knight Solovy was right. After the processing plant was completed, it would be easier for this place to attract population than the River Bend Territory. But once the refugees join the River Bend Territory, they cannot decide where to live.