Warlord: King of All Clans

The soldiers wore the latest model of steel helmets on their heads - real steel helmets, not the iron helmets of the Northern infantry.

This steel helmet alone is strong enough to resist most cold weapon attacks and long-range musket shooting. If it is sold outside the River Bend Territory, its price is equivalent to the full body equipment of traditional regular infantry in the North. Only the knights can afford it.

In addition, their backpacks are filled with military dry food, paper-wrapped bullets, first aid tools and other off-road combat supplies.

They also had grenades, engineering shovels, and sabers hanging from their bodies, and carried muskets. Some even carried the two-handed swords that were the favorite of northern warriors, or wore a plate breastplate on the outside.

All the equipment, when added up, weighs more than a hundred pounds, and at most two hundred pounds.

Such a weight would make it difficult for an ordinary person to move, but for these elite soldiers, it does not seem to affect their normal movements.

During the assembly, some musketeers were too lazy to put down their luggage, so they just stood in the wind and snow, carrying their heavy loads and chatting and laughing with their companions.

Seeing the snowstorm that had not stopped, Yue Gechaer was very worried and said to Si Zhuang beside him: "Thank you for your hard work this time. After we pass Buck Fortress, there will be less snow in the west, and it will be much easier to march."

It is more than two hundred miles from Hekou Town to Buck Fort. In such a windy and snowy day, it is very difficult whether riding or walking.

If you don't keep warm enough, there may even be casualties, so no one would march and fight in such heavy snow.

Yue Gechar would rather walk the 500-mile road from Bak Fortress to Ulanggar twice than walk this highway once.

Unexpectedly, Strong grinned and said, "I won't walk this time."

Yue Gechaer still hadn't reacted yet, "Ah?"

At this time, a whistle sounded outside the river mouth town. Strong's deputy, the deputy commander of the River Bay Mercenary Corps, immediately stood at the sentry post of the military camp and blew the whistle.

The musketeers who were still waiting took their luggage and walked towards the platform outside Hekou Town.

Amid the sound of whistles, a train gradually stopped. Behind the huge steam locomotive, there were ten carriages. Many people began to get on and off between the platform and the carriages, directing the Hewan soldiers to board the train in an orderly manner.

Seeing this, Yue Gechaer was surprised and asked, "Is the railway in Baiyi already open?"

He stayed in the River Bend Mage Tower, absorbed in his research, often not going out for months at a time. He only learned some information about the outside world through River Bend's newspapers and the chats with his friends.

After the autumn harvest in Hewan, the Baiyi wooden track will be officially renovated and is expected to be put into use in the early spring of next year.

When the wooden tracks were originally built, Rio created the roadbed according to the requirements of railway tracks. Now he only needs to reinforce or rebuild them according to the actual conditions of each section, so the manpower and material resources consumed are not too great.

The biggest consumption is steel. The production capacity of a large iron and steel plant in Hewan has been entirely invested in track reconstruction.

Yue Gechaer never expected that he would be the first person to enjoy the convenience of trains.

Hearing what Yue Gechaer said, Si Zhuang shook his head and said, "It's almost done. I also used my connections to free up a train for you."

The train that just appeared was not overloaded at all. Every place where people could stand was packed with soldiers.

This train was originally used to transport cargo boxes for railroad tracks. It didn't even have a roof or walls.

After Strong was notified to lead his troops westward, the road administration sent people to build a new carriage overnight and stuffed in many temporary supplies such as long benches and straw mats.

A train that can carry ten carloads of heavy cargo can easily move ten carloads of people.

Strong took Yue Gechar, a group of friends, and five hundred musketeers on the bus first, and the remaining half waited for the next trip.

Because the carriage was too crowded, Freya took Six, Totos, and Snell to the top of the train and screamed in the wind and snow.

“Beep! Beep!”

"Dinosaur carrying wolf! Dinosaur carrying wolf!"

“Beep! Beep!”

"Did you know? This Dudu dinosaur anti-wolf car was invented by Feisha and I!"

"Ah, Freya is amazing!"

"Of course! Beep! Beep!"

Soon, the train started to move slowly and began to head towards Fort Buck.

It took a full half hour for the train's speed to increase from a snail's pace to the speed of a war horse.

Watching the train speeding up, Yue Gechaer was delighted and unconsciously clenched his fists, "What extraordinary power! This is extraordinary power!"

In fact, the speed of this freight train is not fast at all. A war horse can catch up with it if it runs a little faster, but its advantage is that it is durable enough.

It was a journey of more than 200 miles, and we arrived in three hours without stopping for a second along the way!

Strong was also very emotional. He had led the River Bay aliens to attack Buck Fortress, but it took two full days and many dog-headed people fell behind.

When it was more than ten miles in front of Buck's Fort, the train began to slow down and then slowly stopped. All the River Bend Musketeers got off the train and moved forward on foot.

Yue Gechaer rode his horse and walked for a few miles before he saw the track construction site ahead.

The rails here are still being laid. A large number of wooden tracks have been dismantled and sheds have been built directly on the spot. On the construction site, the rails that have been transported in by truckloads are piled up like mountains.

Each rail is 20 to 30 meters long and weighs more than one ton, which is too heavy for a normal person to pull.

The Hewan track team mobilized two thousand skilled workers, and together with the local young and strong people, they placed these heavy rails on the sleepers through teamwork and transportation by mules and horses.

Yue Gechar also saw a large number of trolls and werewolves appearing on the construction site. These aliens were all strong men, and if they were only responsible for physical work, one person could do the work of five young and strong humans.

Regardless of their race, all the workers worked in the wind and snow, and there was no supervisor holding a whip standing on the construction site.

The Hewan Engineering Corps works in teams, and the more they work, the more they earn. One day's work in the snow is equivalent to ten days' normal work, so they are certainly working very hard.

Moreover, the engineering corps had sufficient logistical support, and although frostbite and work-related injuries were inevitable, there were not many people who were actually disabled or died.

Yue Gechar was also a professional. Just by looking at the cross-section and appearance of the railroad tracks, he could tell that it was top-quality iron, which could be made into fine steel with a little smelting.

In other forces, such steel is an expensive material used to forge swords and armor, and is considered a strategic material.

The river bend is used to pave the road!

And Strong, walking beside him, knew even more that the emergence of this kind of thing would strengthen the military force. "With this treasure in hand, the River Bend Legion can travel a thousand miles a day and eight hundred miles a night, and will be invincible in the world!"

As he was walking, Yue Gechaer saw his friend Ilewen standing by the railroad tracks with a group of dogs, so he quickly walked over to greet him, "Ilewen, why are you here?"

After Morse went to the atrium, Fesha sat in the Riverbend Mage Tower, with the ash shaman Ilewen and Yue Gechar serving as her right-hand man respectively, and everyone got along well.

Ilewen looked back and immediately wagged his tail, "Yue Gechaer, my good friend, I'm at work."

As they were chatting, the railroad tracks next to him had been installed and a foreman came up to report.

While Ilewen was chatting with Yue Gechar, he pointed his finger and invisible magic power bloomed from his body.

The steel materials in front of him that needed to be welded began to melt at the gaps, gradually merging into one, completing the welding.

This is another of Ileven's special skills, magic cold welding.

He was followed by more than a dozen newly promoted extraordinary dogs, who watched Ileven's operations and imitated him clumsily.

But some of them can only use magic to poke a hole in steel, some can only make a noise, or make their hair stand on end or fart, but they can't mobilize any magic at all.

Advanced magic control techniques like Ileven's require years of exploration and training.

This process can also be reduced by half the class time by following Ilewen, constantly imitating and experiencing.

When Yue Gechar arrived at Buck Fortress, the snow in the river bend had finally stopped.

Leo looked at the sky, handed Balder to Olivia, and put on a bearskin cloak. "I have to go to work too."