Warlord: King of All Clans

The gravel hills located northeast of the river bend and southeast of the Atrium Grand Canyon are a hilly area of ​​less than 500 square kilometers.

Most of the area is smooth rolling hills, with a few low rocky mountains occasionally.

Only the mountain range in the west extending from the southern part of the Atrium Grand Canyon has several peaks with an altitude of more than 2,000 meters.

This mountain range extends to the southern part of the Gravel Hills and finally merges with the Gravel Hills landscape.

The former boarman's lair, the current hunting camp, and the future gravel fort are all located at the tip of the tail of this mountain range.

It is located between two low rocky hills and is a pass leading to the north.

Although the mountains on both sides are not high, only a few hundred meters to the top, they are quite steep, with bare stone walls everywhere.

To the north, south and east of the gravel hills is an endless sea of ​​forest.

If you want to go from the southern forest to the northern forest, apart from passing through this mountain pass, you can only cross the mountains in the west, or take a detour of dozens of miles and go half a circle through the eastern forest.

Previously, when Leo led the Firefly Adventure Group to the north to search for the atrium, and later the Wolf Fang barbarians migrated, they all had to cross the mountains in the west, which was a huge waste of time and energy.

After they occupied the wild boarmen's lair, all hunting teams heading north passed through this pass.

The widest part of this mountain pass is one kilometer wide and four or five kilometers deep, with streams and ravines in the middle.

The boarmen's lair is just at the exit at the southern end of the mountain pass. Some caves, wooden walls and watchtowers have been built based on the terrain.

The same is true for the hunting camp. A row of solid wooden walls was built on the natural foundation five or six meters high at the exit. Another row of wooden walls was built at the narrowest point above the mountain pass, and a few watchtowers were erected to solve the safety problem.

What Leo needs to do is to replace these two rows of wooden walls with more solid stone walls.

If the population grows in the future, a city wall can be built at the exit a few kilometers to the north.

The area between the two city walls is large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people.

At the current exit on the south side, apart from a gentle slope less than 100 meters wide, there are natural stone walls five or six meters high on both sides.

If the enemy wanted to attack from the south, apart from attacking from the gentle slope at the main gate, they could only find a way to climb up the five or six meter high rock wall and then attack the city wall.

When Leo was clearing out the coalition of wild boars and gnolls, he tried every means to lure them into the wild to fight twice, just because he didn't want to face these rock walls.

This is also the reason why Uliyan not only did not oppose Leo's development of Gravel Castle, but instead supported it with all his strength.

From the depths of the Wolf-Driving Plain in the north, there is always a steady stream of foreign tribes migrating here. Once they occupy this mountain pass, it will be difficult to wipe them out.

Not all alien races are as stupid as the boarmen and gnolls before.

If they choose to hide in the mountain pass and not come out, using the terrain to block the attacks from Hewan, and at the same time continuously absorb small alien tribes in the north, they will soon be able to expand to a huge scale and pose a serious threat to Hewan Territory.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to take advantage of this window period to quickly occupy this place, build a pass, and establish a home advantage.

Leo stuffed his large army into the valley, simply stationed there, and then mobilized the labor force to break ground.

Some people began to dismantle the original wooden walls, repair the ground, and build the city walls based on the natural terrain.

Some people go out to cut down trees and bring them back to process them into timber.

Some people cleared rocks, leveled the ground and built houses inside the camp.

This time, Leo brought not only skilled laborers and newly recruited refugees, but also some craftsmen trained in the river bend.

In addition to basic carpenters and stonemasons, there are also bricklayers and cellar workers.

Since the charcoal cellar was built in the river bend, brick cellars were also built.

However, due to the long distance from other settlements, the bricks produced can only be consumed by themselves and cannot generate economic benefits, so not much manpower is invested in production.

Normally, bricks are only used to build facilities such as blast furnaces, fireplaces, and fire pits in settlements.

Since Gravel Fort has the word "fort" in its name, it must be more solid than the other military-style settlements.

Its city walls no longer use wooden structures, but are built entirely with rammed earth, stones, bricks and cement.

The middle is filled with rammed earth or concrete, the outside is covered with stones and bricks, and it is equipped with battlements and watchtowers.

Such a city wall, even the smallest style, would require an enormous amount of work.

But Leo was in no hurry. The hunting teams scattered around the gravel hills had not yet reported any information of alien invasion, so he still had plenty of time.

Moreover, the terrain of the Gravel Fort is naturally dangerous. Even if only one or two meters are built, combined with the five or six meters of stone wall below, it can definitely be called a strong city in the wilderness.

Under the stone walls inside the mountain pass, the wild boar people dug many deep and shallow caves for living or storing supplies.

Although the sheds outside had been burned down by the fire set by the black-haired dog-headed men, the caves were not affected.

It can be used with a little modification.

There is a cave deep in the mountain, which is extremely spacious. It is a warehouse used by the wild boar people to store food and is very safe.

Unfortunately, an evil giant beast dug a tunnel several hundred meters long from the other side of the mountain in order to steal the food inside.

Although the tunnel is now blocked by rubble from the wild boar people, it can be used as an external passage after being cleared.

Maybe it will be of unexpected use someday.

The wild folks in the hunting camp had dug a path on the mountain wall on one side of the city wall and built a watchtower on a small cliff more than 20 meters high.

Leo climbed up to the cliff watchtower and had a panoramic view of the entire mountain pass.

With more than a thousand people working together, the scene was already very spectacular. There were dense crowds of people almost everywhere, and teams transporting materials were constantly shuttling between several areas.

Looking far to the southwest, you can see the upper half of the Anzeno River Falls, looming in the clouds, while its lower half is obscured by the continuous mountains.

To the north, across the mountain pass, there are endless hilly areas covered with gravel and sparse vegetation, with only clumps of shrubs and grasslands such as cassava.

There live a large number of wild goats and gray rabbits there, so there are also many predatory beasts hiding there, and even wolves.

Leo did not approve of the Riverbend's wild hunting party crossing the mountain pass to hunt in the north.

To him, every wild hunter is an elite shooter and the long-range firepower guarantee for the river bend.

But the savages had their own way of life. It was a shame for them to put down their longbows and pick up hoes, as that was a job only done by the women of the tribe.

When a wild hunter put down his longbow and picked up a hoe, it was tantamount to admitting that he was old and weak and no longer a qualified warrior.

With the construction of the road, transportation between Gravel Fort and River Bay is very convenient. Trucks transporting pioneering materials depart in the morning and arrive in the evening.

The forests on both sides of the road had long been patrolled and hunted by wild hunting teams day after day, and all wild animals had long since disappeared.

Of course, brown bears and saber-toothed tigers would still occasionally wander into the plains from the foothills below the magnificent barrier.

But the caravan in Hewan is no pushover and will not be frightened by one or two ferocious beasts.