I led the Goblin Culture to victory.

Chapter 151 Tunnel Warfare

Seeing Li Mosi open the Xuan paper and pick up the ink stick, Zi Yi and Zi An quickly put down the wolf cub and ran over.

"Master, are we building a pigsty?"

Zi'an thought of the wild boar incident they had just discussed.

Zi Yi looked up at her, then shook her head at Li Mosi.

"Master, is Zian wrong?"

He had also seen the slave-catching teams' ranches, where they simply piled up stones and filled the inside with mud.

This is certainly not something my late teacher would specifically mention.

"It's not a pigsty or sheepfold. The slave-catching team's base doesn't have enough food to feed so many livestock through the winter. They can just slaughter them and eat them when winter comes."

Li Mosi looked at Zi Yi.

"What are your thoughts on the upcoming construction?"

Zi Yi was taken aback.

What are your thoughts on the upcoming construction?

He doesn't know.

They now have food, warehouses to store it, and have driven away those troublesome slave-catching teams.

Facing Li Mosi's earnest gaze, Zi Yi recalled what had happened in the past.

The current needs seem to be only the knight who is harassing them, and getting more goblins to live in the mud houses?

Zi'an spoke first: "Earthen houses? We need more earthen houses—enough to keep us warm through the winter without being too crowded!"

Zi Yi nodded: "We need earthen houses to spend the winter. We also need more walls to keep out those knights, and what's that Baron again."

Although he had thought about these things, he wasn't sure.

Judging from my master's eyes, something big is definitely going to happen!

Zi Yi couldn't help but take it seriously.

"Master, please teach me."

Why are you so serious?

The sudden change in atmosphere left Haki Saint stunned.

She couldn't help but look at Li Mosi.

Could it be that—

"More earthen houses were built for living in during the winter, and also to protect against humans."

Li Mosi wrote down her thoughts on the paper as she spoke.

"We can try to build a city."

"impossible!"

Upon hearing that her guess had been confirmed, the saintess spoke in surprise.

Building a city is so troublesome, even with these hundreds of goblins and those slaves, it's impossible to finish before winter!

Building the city wall would be a huge challenge!

"Eek!"

The wolf cubs that Zi'an placed next to her were startled.

All four of them subconsciously glanced at the boy.

Zi'an looked at Hagi Saint first.

"Why is it impossible? What task our master led us to accomplish was impossible?"

"You know—hmm!"

Just as Hagi Saint was about to start her debate, Li Moss stuffed a vine into her mouth.

This time it was tied up.

She absolutely cannot vomit it up.

That's enough.

Li Mosi really didn't expect this to happen.

After he tied up Hagi Saint, he put the wolf cubs by the fire to warm them.

"Hmm!"

Let's see what you're going to do!

Li Mosi ignored Hagi Saint's mumble and walked back to the table.

He asked Ziyi, "How deep was the snow here in the tribe last winter?"

Zi Yi answered, "About this deep."

He gestured uncertainly at himself a couple of times, and finally simply compared himself to the stone table.

Zi'an craned his neck to look: "It is indeed shallower than the surrounding area."

No wonder my master was unwilling to move to the existing slave-catching team's stronghold!

Li Mosi glanced at it and got a general idea.

It is only about twenty centimeters long.

It was still quite thick, but it gave him more confidence in his plan.

Li Mosi brought up the [Leshanshui] map and began drawing the terrain at the entrance of the tribe.

Are we really going to build a city?

Zi Yi asked, "Master, shall we still use rammed earth?"

"Hmm!"

It will definitely spoil when it thaws!

The saintess looked unconvinced.

Do craftsmen not even have this basic common sense?

Zian glanced at Hagi Saint subconsciously, then turned to look at Li Mosi.

"Master, won't the melting snow in spring affect the houses?"

Her house was built of wood, and it would collapse and be rebuilt every spring when the snow melted into water.

The soil was so soft back then that even wood couldn't support it.

Can the rammed earth support the load?

"Of course it has an impact."

Li Mosi drew a rough sketch and looked at Zi'an.

"However, we can find ways to reduce the impact."

As he spoke, he continued to draw.

The original owner's family tradition included methods for building and maintaining houses for lords.

If an ordinary person's house collapses, so be it; they can just patch it up with branches and mud.

Noblemen have a sense of shame.

If the house collapses, the craftsman will be blamed for damaging his dignity!

Their wooden houses are first built on piles, then covered with gravel and stone slabs, and finally covered with thick wooden planks to ensure the house is stable.

The original owner only knew how to do it, but not why.

Li Mosi didn't understand either.

However, he thought of the construction sites he had seen before he traveled through time.

The principles of building sturdy houses seem to be the same across different eras.

As she pondered, Li Mosi drew several crooked and distorted pictures.

He pointed and began to explain.

"This is the drawing of the underground section. We need to first lay a layer of gravel about the depth of a pen, and then lay fresh pine logs cut in half. The flat side of the log must be facing down."

This is how to make the building stable.

"This is part of the city wall. We need to add some dry grass and more large stones to the lower part so that the prisoners can tamp it down more firmly."

This way, it won't easily collapse.

"This is part of the house. The roof needs to be changed to a sloping roof, at least like this."

This way, we won't accumulate too much snow.

After saying that, Li Mosi drew a box on the tribal topographic map.

This frame is located next to the cliff where the two caves are now situated.

He then labeled the three sides with numbers.

100, 200, 100.

The rammed earth wall is a total of 400 meters long, which he estimated based on the prisoners' construction efficiency over the past few days.

This workload can definitely be completed before winter arrives.

After marking the dimensions, he looked at his two disciples.

Zi'an stared blankly, mouth agape.

She was already imagining what the city would look like once it was built.

Zi Yi stared at the cross-sectional diagram of the foundation.

He blinked. "Master, now that we've laid down the planks, can we use this as a roof? And could we leave some holes underneath?"

A cave was left underground?

Zi'an frowned.

She couldn't imagine what it would look like.

"Of course. That's a great idea."

Li Mosi began to praise.

It's a good thing that the disciple has his own ideas.

"We can add more planks to create a tunnel. That way, we can deal with the enemy when they come."

"Oh~"

Zi'an understood as soon as he heard this.

It's a rabbit's burrow.

Those little guys were burrowing holes everywhere in the fields, which annoyed her terribly.

"In that case, we can add one more thing."

Li Mosi continued drawing.

Zi'an couldn't resist leaning over out of curiosity.

"Can it be increased?"

"Hey! You're stepping on me!"

Ziyi quickly spoke up, and Zian stood up a little embarrassed.

"certainly."

After Zi Yi's reminder, Li Mosi recalled another hollow structure.

"We can build some heated brick beds."

"h...a heated brick bed?"

The two disciples repeated the word in confusion.

"It's a hollow structure built against the wall of the house, where firewood can be burned to heat the house and make the interior warmer."

"Hmm!"

Isn't that the structure of a church building?!

Upon hearing Li Mosi's explanation, the saintess immediately understood.

However, such buildings require specialized craftsmen to construct, and require digging very large pits, with complex structures inside the walls.

Even if the craftsmen understood, goblins and thieves would have absolutely no idea how to build it!

There's no time to spare!

Not to mention the materials!

Li Mosi just remembered that the churches in this world can stay warm and cozy even in winter.

The original owner simply didn't understand how it was done.

After all, local craftsmen were not used when the church was built.

Moreover, it is said that the church existed before the lords came into being.

During winter services, the pastor only said it was a miracle.

Before transmigrating, Li Mosi had heard that medieval buildings used heating systems, which seemed to be a remnant of ancient Roman technology.

That could heat the entire building in winter, but it would consume a huge amount of firewood.

Perhaps churches in this world also use similar technology.

But no matter what technology they used, the heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed) wasn't that complicated.

It's just the size of a heated bed.

When Ziyi and Zian saw Hajisheng's reaction, they immediately realized that what their master had said was true!

What else is there to say?

We started work as soon as it was light the next day!