Chapter 393 Nissei Fortress
If measured by the standard of a "castle", this single-storey building with a height of only twenty feet is like a "matchbox" made of bricks and stones, which is really not popular.
However, considering that the construction period is only half a month, it is not easy to complete such a strong and practical fortress.
The fort built on the hillside is only part of Lieutenant Colonel Vasa's overall defense plan.
On the top of the fortress, there is also a wooden sentry tower. Standing on the tall tower, you can have a panoramic view of the vast field from the "Jinsha River" to the "Broken Tooth Valley".
A wall was built around the fortress, and a moat ten feet deep and twenty feet wide was dug outside the wall to introduce water from the Jinsha River to form a moat, providing a second protective circle for the fortress.
The ring space between the fortress and the city wall was used for building officers and soldiers' dormitories, canteens, hospitals, training grounds, warehouses and stables. In addition to its military functions, the fort also doubles as a church, conference hall and banquet hall.
George Vasa was so pleased with the new fort that he named it Fort Necessi, which means "Necessary Fortress".
In the evening of that day, the barracks specially held a bonfire party to celebrate.
Dafeng townspeople who had worked hard on the construction site for more than half a month were also invited to the party, and brought wine, meat and local products from their homes to share with the officers and soldiers, celebrating the completion of the fort with joy.
During the entire construction period, including the construction workers and the women and children who did odd jobs, the wages that should be paid were settled on the same day, and Joann never defaulted on a copper coin.
Lieutenant Colonel Vasa has repeatedly emphasized that officers and soldiers under his command abide by military discipline, and those who bully and harass civilians will be severely punished.
Quick payment, coupled with strict military discipline, in this era, few troops can do both at the same time, and of course they won the support and love of local residents.
The military camp is like a big melting pot. The young people who devote themselves to this melting pot are like pieces of ore with different shapes and materials. steel.
But occasionally there are special individuals who still remain unique after smelting and cannot fully integrate into the collective.
Joan is such a "stubborn rock".
Everyone in the army is very enthusiastic about him, but his withdrawn personality has not changed because of this, like a piece of ice that will never melt, he still hates noisy and lively places like before joining the army, and he doesn't want to participate in celebration parties. Fun social activities.
Fortunately, George Vassar understood his strange temper and did not force him to attend the party.
As for those who don't know Qiao An that well, they actually understand his absence.
Just because he is a "mage".
In the public's impression, the mage should be this kind of withdrawn and dull "nerd" image.
If a mage can't leave his mouth all day long, drinks in big bowls, eats meat in large pieces, can brag and fart with anyone, and gets acquainted quickly, people will suspect that this person has the name of a mage, but is actually a "charlatan." ".
Of course, this is a prejudice.
In fact, there are no fewer enthusiastic and cheerful mages than cold and withdrawn mages.
But Joan thanked people from the bottom of his heart for the prejudice against the profession of "mage", which enabled him to stay away from the crowd with peace of mind and stay alone in the barracks to concentrate on his work.
The fortress had already been erected, and Lieutenant Colonel Vassar had some confidence in his heart. He personally wrote a report that afternoon and submitted it to Sir John Norfolk, the Colonial Governor of Alfheim.
Mr. Lieutenant Colonel confidently declared in his report: Even if the enemy sends 1,000 people to attack, it is absolutely impossible to capture this strong fortress!
Lieutenant Colonel Vassar still remembered Major Green's original advice: If there is bad news that has to be reported to superiors, then try to send good news.
The successful completion of the Nissei Fortress is undoubtedly good news, but it is time to report the bad news that has been concealed for half a month.
Therefore, in the second half of the report, Lieutenant Colonel Vassar changed his style of writing and recounted the whole story of the manslaughter of Seablue diplomat Sir Joseph Jumonville and his party in a tone of self-blame, and pleaded guilty to the Governor.
The report written by Lieutenant Colonel Vassar himself is now on Joan's desk.
It is his job to edit and transcribe the report, which is then magically sent directly to His Excellency the Governor.
Joan finished transcribing the manuscript, checked it repeatedly and confirmed that there was no problem, then took out a scroll from the storage bag, unfolded the scroll and recited the incantation.
The rhythmic elf mantra flowed from Joan's lips, and each letter was like a musical note, converging into a beautiful melody in the night sky.
The magic net threads that were originally distributed in the space were pulled by this wonderful melody, and gradually resonated, and gathered in front of Joan to form a red luminous sphere woven by countless threads.
When Joan chanted the last verse of the spell, the scroll in his hand exhausted its magic power and turned into dust.
The red "yarn ball" suspended in the air stopped vibrating and seemed to be quietly waiting for something.
Joan picked up the military report in his hand and read it aloud from beginning to end. Every word he spit out caused the red light sphere to resonate again, and the magic threads that made up the light sphere memorized the vibration frequency.
After reading the report, Joan raised his hand to touch the ball of light, and commanded it to fly to the place where the governor of Norfolk was with his spiritual force, and the red light ball disappeared suddenly.
The Nissei Fortress is hundreds of miles away from the Governor's Mansion in Port Leiden, but this ball of magic light can reach its destination in an instant, appearing in front of His Excellency the Governor.
Your Excellency the Governor just needs to stroke the ends of this magic "ball of yarn", and he can replay every word Joan just said in his mind - this is the essence of the 3-ring "SMS" technique. Principles of communication.
After completing the mission of delivering the letter, the next thing Joan has to do is to wait for the Governor's reply, and then copy the Governor's oral order and hand it over to Lieutenant Colonel Vasa.
With Joan's status, it was not his turn to care about how the Governor-General dealt with this diplomatic turmoil. The waiting time could not be wasted, so he closed his eyes and entered a state of meditation, gathered his spiritual probes, and launched a probe to the depths of the second layer of the magic net. explore.
Deep meditation is a bit like a trance, and people who are immersed in it tend to ignore the passage of time.
Qiao An didn't know how long she had been in the state of meditation, and suddenly felt a strange movement from outside her body, so she ended her meditation and opened her eyes to look in the direction of the abnormal movement.
A crow was standing on the window sill, and those eyes staring straight at him reflected light slightly in the night.
Joan recognized that it was an "animal messenger", so he got up and opened the window, and broke up the half piece of bread left on the table and scattered it on the window sill.
The crow croaked twice in satisfaction, and jumped into Joan's open palm. When Joan untied the white cloth strips tied around its feet, it couldn't wait to jump back to the window sill and bury its head in pecking at the bread crumbs.