Throne of Vientiane Civilization

With the manufacturing technology and research experience of the three-bow crossbow, according to Zhuang Mengdie's ability, it is not a problem to develop a city-defense crossbow.

However, due to changes in the attack method and even the overall positioning, leaving aside the bracket problem, although there is no major problem with this city defense crossbow, based on the feedback from the crossbowmen and Zhuang Mengdie's own findings during the test, it needs There are still places to make adjustments.

After listening to Zhuang Mengdie's feedback, Zhou Xu nodded.

"It won't take time to adjust these small problems. The size of the crossbows shouldn't change anymore, right? In this way, I can order people to mass-produce the crossbows first."

The dimensions of the three-bow bed crossbow and the city defense crossbow are completely different, so the crossbow arrows used by the two are naturally incompatible.

This also made them have to manufacture a new batch of crossbow arrows of suitable size specifically for city defense crossbows, and even add an extra production line.

It's a little troublesome, but considering the value that the city defense crossbow can show in defending the city, this investment is completely worth it.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as there are city defense crossbows, the garrison troops can effectively contain the siege equipment on the opposite side. This alone is enough to make Huangsha City impregnable!

In this way, after confirming with Zhuang Mengdie, Zhou Xu immediately ordered people to start producing city defense crossbow arrows specifically for city defense crossbows.

As for Zhuang Mengdie, she certainly knows what her most important task is now, which is to make the core components of the city defense crossbow.

In addition to the core components, my own subordinates can make other components. The work of adjusting small problems like this can be left directly to the subordinates, and I can just give some advice from the side. There is no need to do it myself.

On this side, Zhou Xu in Huangsha City still maintained his strategy, sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, seriously improving his city defense strength, and paying no attention to things outside.

These days have continued for a while. As the climate gradually gets colder, the season here seems to have entered late autumn, and it is estimated that there are only a few days left before winter.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu ordered to call Drogo over. After some instructions, the centaur cavalry headed by Drogo left the city.

On the other side, Yan Sheng, whose recent military recruitment failed and was unable to go on an expedition. At the same time, the country was experiencing turmoil and constant disputes. His mentality was getting worse day by day.

As a result, Li Wenjian suffered severe beatings and torture from Yan Sheng almost every day.

This day was no exception. After beating him severely, Yan Sheng, who vented his emotions, ran back to deal with the documents that were sent to him.

Pushing open the door, Jie Liancheng walked in quietly. Looking at Li Wenjian who seemed to be dying, he also sighed with some emotion.

For Li Wenjian, do you want to say that he is pitiful? A little bit, sure, but definitely not much.

In Xie Liancheng's view, the phrase "poor people must be hateful" applies exactly to Li Wenjian.

When I traveled back in time, I didn't have a lot of money in my stomach. I only relied on my little keyboard experience, but my heart was as high as the sky. As a result, my life was naturally thinner than paper.

After a few glasses of water and wine, he couldn't remember how much he weighed. He spoke indiscriminately, taunting Yan Sheng that he was already on the road to death, and even tried to rape the concubines in Yan Sheng's harem.

Not to mention the swollen Yan Sheng, no man would be able to bear it?

I'm fine now. I can't die even if I want to.

When Li Wenjian was in a trance, he caught a glimpse of Jie Liancheng standing there from the corner of his eye, with obvious surprise in his eyes.

From the first day he was summoned, Li Wenjian could clearly feel that Xie Liancheng looked down upon him, and he also knew that Xie Liancheng had a tough fist and was not easy to mess with, so he always avoided him whenever possible.

And precisely because of this, although the two of them are both time travellers, they have basically no friendship with each other.

Li Wenjian never expected that Xie Liancheng would appear here at this time.

After a brief exchange of glances, Xie Liancheng hesitated for a moment, but finally squatted down and left after whispering to Li Wenjian.

But Li Wenjian, who heard what Xie Liancheng said, could not come back to his senses for a long time, and his blood-stained face looked a little dull.

I don’t know how much time passed after that. As if he had made up his mind, Li Wenjian’s eyes gradually became firm.

Just like that, another period of time passed, and now the season has entered winter. Looking at the latest military information sent through flying pigeons, Yan Sheng looked ugly.

He originally thought that after giving the order to the three remaining generals at the edge of the town to lead troops to put down the rebellion, the entire rebellion would be quickly wiped out.

But now the result is exactly the opposite. All three of his generals have failed in countering the rebellion. Now the situation in his country seems to be getting worse and worse.

The root cause of this matter is that he made things simple.

As mentioned earlier, the number of permanent troops stationed on the three borders is one thousand. Now that there are rebellions in the country, the prerequisite for his generals at the border to lead troops to quell the rebellion is that their respective border cities can ensure stability.

But now in this border city, the rebels and ordinary citizens are completely mixed together.

To put it simply, it is impossible to tell who are the rebels and who are the good citizens.

We can't arrest or even kill all the thousands of people in the city, right?

Even if they really think so, they don't have that many manpower.

Under this premise, if they want to lead troops on an expedition, they must leave a garrison in the city, and the number must not be small.

Otherwise, as soon as they leave the city gate with their front foot, the rebels are likely to occupy the city with their rear foot.

By then, not only will they have nowhere to retreat, they will even have nowhere to get supplies of food and grass.

Instead, they left enough garrison troops and then took the remaining troops to the inner cities to quell the rebellion.

But the city has already fallen into the hands of the rebels. They occupy the city and have such a high city wall. They do not have an siege weapon like the three-bow bed crossbow that can violently break the situation. They only have a few hundred troops on hand. , how easy is it to attack a city?

No, the remaining three of the four dragon generals were defeated one after another.

It's not that their personal abilities are not up to the mark, but that the conditions don't allow it, and this battle is really difficult to fight.

Therefore, when they first sent out troops, they did not go with the intention of attacking by force. They all wanted to outwit them.

Thinking that those rebels are just a bunch of rabble, when they arrive, with a little deterrence, and then as long as the people in the city can cooperate a little, they can find an opportunity to take back the city from the rebels.

Unexpectedly, a series of previous operations by His Majesty the First Emperor had caused resentment among the people in their country, and the people were complaining.

Nowadays, those rebels are what the people want, which makes several generals at the edge of the town suddenly have no choice.

Among them, Long Potian, one of the four dragon generals, was stationed behind the border city, which happened to be Xishan City.

But Naxi Mountain City is located against a mountain, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

After being defeated, Long Potian had a change of thought. Isn't it that His Majesty the First Emperor now holds 3,000 troops and is stationed in Black Rock City?

If Black Rock City is willing to send reinforcements and cooperate with him in a two-sided attack, the probability of recapturing Xishan City will be much greater.

With this idea in mind, Long Potian also quickly revised a letter and sent it to Yan Sheng via flying pigeon.

When Yan Sheng saw it, he immediately planned to mobilize his troops and head to Xishan City without saying a word.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, he would see the figures of centaur cavalry appear on the outskirts of Black Rock City...