A Fire Upon the Deep# SciFiction - 星际浪子
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CHAPTER 31
It was high summer when Woodcarver's army left for the
north. The preparations had been frantic, with Vendacious
driving himself and everyone else to the point of
exhaustion. There had been cannons to make -- Scrupilo cast
seventy tubes before getting thirty that would fire
reliably. There had been cannoneers to train -- and safe
methods of firing to discover. There had been wagons to
build and kherhogs to buy.
Surely word of the preparations had long ago filtered north.
Woodcarve