Ragnar spent the first shift of the night on watch, protecting the perimeter of the "Leicester Construction Site" as a foreman in the trenches.
The use of a trench line supported by sandbags, barbed wire, and "Employee Only" signage was an invention that would normally not exist until the late 19th century.
However, with his past life's memory as a project manager who dealt with OSHA regulations, Ragnar developed such a defensive system with ease.
Barbed wire had been used extensively in his northern territories to keep the "Interns" from wandering off the job site.
However, after the skirmish at Northampton, Ragnar quickly learned to utilize trench tactics to protect his high-value assets—specifically the prototype locomotive.
When he was resupplying in Nottingham, he ordered Leif the Elder to strip every chainmail shirt in the armory and twist the links into wire.
The engineers in his army spent some time constructing such complex fortifications.
