Chapter 49: PROJECT STAR SHAPE CITY WALL

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Oliver wake up late in the morning he has been drawing the design of compound crossbow and ballista (also called as bolt thrower) late in the night. He design a crossbow which uses pully force to easily hit the target. With this crossbow they can train guards in minimum amount of time. Ballista will help in protecting the city wall. Today he will hand over this design to carpenter and also tell Tobias help him to form some metal part present in crossbow. He also design the arrow with metal tip which can cause greater damage to enemy.

After breakfast, Oliver went to Advisor Mike, today he decide to recruit worker which are in the city and spread the news of urgent recruitment with high pay. Oliver went to Mike's office. with knock he enter office. " Good morning counsellor Mike. Today we have lot to do"

"Good day to you Oliver. Yes we have lot to do. I have already clear up the area yesterday we can start construction at any time. " Mike said. They both seat in carriage and went towards the side of wall at front gate.

Oliver has already decided on wall design, he will use star fort design. A star fort is a fortification in the style that evolved during the age of gunpowder when cannon came to dominate the battlefield. It was first seen in the mid-15th century in Italy. Fortifications of the Medieval era proved vulnerable to damage or destruction by cannon fire, In contrast, the star fortress was a very flat structure composed of many triangular or lozenge shaped bastions designed to cover each other, and a (typically dry) ditch.

They went towards front gate of the wall, as his father is looking after improvement of military power, he has has given Oliver full autonomy to built wall. "Advisor Mike this wall are to shabby and not up to the mark. Call the meeting of senior advisors, including Tax official, cement supervisor, steel workshop supervisor, kiln supervisor, blacksmith Tobias, carpenter and if possible my father. tell them to gather at one of the hall near gate. I will tell the requirements and design of new wall in detail to them. Mike left with instruction.

In a mean time, Oliver make an announcement of recruitment for urgent construction worker, spread this with the help of his city guards. he also specifically highlighted a pay of 1 gold a month. In this era this pay is much higher than other paying jobs. After setting up the stall, Oliver sat there waiting for official to gather and also to recruit some worker.

After getting a news about recruitment, people started gathering near city wall. They are all type people . women, men , old age, you can also see some young age people. This days even if barony is growing at rapid speed but still it is unable to give opportunity to everyone. Looking at the crowd of people Oliver instructed guards to get them in like near the booth. One by One people started forming line with guards help. No one wants to miss this high paying job. People started coming and registering there name.

One person came forward, he wall tall and well built but little bit malnourished.

Guard ask, " Name"

" Roman, sir"

"Any prior experience in construction, we will pay higher if you can prove your experience"

" Yes sir, I had work in building some home with mason."

"Okay, now your play will be 1 gold a month , but after confirming your expertise we will raise it to 15 silver next month if you are agreed to this then you can go there and collect you worker pass and work will start in the afternoon. "

"Yes sir, I agree to the term. Thank you" He went to collect work pass.

Work pass is basically a metal token created by Oliver to separat the worker. Experience worker will have red metal token and newbie will have yellow token.

Just like this recruitment went on smoothly they have already cover the 5000 people when guard came to Oliver and tell him that everyone is waiting for him in meeting room near gate. Oliver walk towards City meeting hall. he greeted everyone, His father was not there because of certain reason so he presided the meeting.

"Everyone as you have known that we have taken up construction of our city wall. As you know our city will grow in future we will have to plan according to that and expand our city walls reach. I have all the plans here, We will first mark and the area of 5 kilometer, we will built square shape wall. We will create 4 gates of which west gate will be a major gate as mostly west is connected to every route. we will built guard post on left and right side of gate. also four major sentries on 4 corner to station our crossbow men and future weapons. Wall will be 8 feet in width and 15 feet height. first layer of wall will be flat, second one will be triangular shape and at the corner it will be star shape. star and triangular shape will resolve the problem of siege. "

" I want you all guys to coordinate with each other, As you know our city is in danger and time limit to built this wall is very tight. I hope you all guys works to protect our city and barony. "

" Do not worry young master, I will devote myself to the task." William said this.

Following his lead everyone expresses there willingness to work extra hour.

" so with all the thing in line we will start work from afternoon. cement, iron rod, brick production need to be increased. Also I will provide the side of city gate. Carpenter and blacksmith shop need to coordinate well and built 4 gate will solid frame in 3 weeks. All right everyone lets get to work. " Oliver expresses his final words and all of them scurried away to do there task.

Oliver came to recruitment site. He gather all the worker nearly 20000, He separate out experience personnel and create a groups with 50 member in each group having experience worker as there head. He started explaining the process of digging 10 feet to lay the foundation of wall. With solid foundation wall can last for generations. Oliver wanted to complete this digging task in 2 days. everyone get into there team and start digging. Oliver also gave the order to transport the bricks cement and iron rod to the 4 gate areas and also to 4 corners. Work started to get in full swing.

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INSIDE CARPENER WORKSHOP

On the other end of the city, in carpenter shop, they split up in two team, on team started working on the design of compound crossbow and one started working on Ballista. After receiving Oliver's input there progress hasten and they will complete first model of this weapon in now time.

Arrow part is to be made with help of blacksmith because arrow head is made from metal. Arrow will be require in large quantity so they started producing it on larger scale. Everyone was working very deligently.