Qianzhou

was the capital of the former Chen State. Now it is also the most important base camp of the monsters. The entire capital has become a monster city, and only monsters are allowed to live here.

At this time, the monster city is peaceful and serene. If an uninformed person sees the scene in front of him, he will not be able to imagine that all the people living here are monsters.

Of course, if there is no difference at all, that is not right. If you let someone who is more careful come, they will soon find that the smell of blood here is too strong. The most shops on the street are meat shops.

Moreover, most monsters do not like to cook meat, but like to eat it raw. They also have a low demand for vegetables and food, so the whole city is filled with the smell of blood.

At the same time, in the former Chen Kingdom Palace, a large group of high-level monster children were attending classes. The teacher in the classroom said to everyone, "Looking at the world, we monsters are the spirits of all things. We monsters have the strong bodies of wild beasts and the smart brains of humans..."

Not far from the classroom, there were young monsters watching the human alchemists making pills. These young monsters were very polite. When they encountered something they didn't understand, they would respectfully ask the human alchemists, and those alchemists would patiently answer them. There was no such thing as keeping a hand here, because the alchemists who did so would enter the monster's stomach the next day.

A little further away, this was once the royal library of the Chen Kingdom, which was known to have the largest collection of books in the world. At this time, dozens of monsters were reading quietly in the library.

Downstairs in the library, several monsters were communicating. One of them said, "From now on, it seems that our monster evolution path is correct. We have abandoned more monster characteristics and returned to the human body..."

"It's hard to say whether it's correct. Now monsters can't return to the ancient times. The entire race is developing towards humans. Our innate physical abilities have become much weaker." "

But our potential for cultivation is higher, isn't it? And our reproductive ability. In ancient times, for a monster to give birth to a child, the mother would almost die. But now, the risk of monster mothers giving birth is lower than that of humans, isn't it?"

"But this also leaves a big problem. In the past, human women would die after giving birth to offspring for our demon race, but now they are alive. You and I both know that mothers have a great influence on their children. Under their influence, we demons have countless servants. But now, the human race in the south has issued an order to kill demons, and these servants have killed hundreds of demons. Even those low-level demons have posed a problem for us. How should these children face their mothers when the time comes?"

"This is indeed something that needs to be considered carefully. My suggestion is to convene the wise men of the entire demon race to discuss. The books of the human race are a very powerful thing. They record things that happened a long time ago, and even wrong things are recorded to warn future generations. We should delegate the power of learning so that middle-level demons can also learn. There are too few of us high-level demons alone."

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North of Mizhou, more and more cavalry appeared in the territory of the demons. After a long period of exploration, the Datong Army has figured out a way to deal with the demons.

The most important thing when entering the enemy's territory is mobility, so cavalry becomes more and more important. The cavalry of the Datong Army harasses the lone monsters, then leads them into the pre-set ambush circle, and then uses a large number of bows and crossbows to shoot the monsters.

In this way, the Datong Army has shot and killed tens of thousands of monsters in a few years, and the entire defense line can be advanced.

"Your Majesty, this is a new repeating crossbow made by the Military Equipment Supervision. It is more than ten pounds heavier than the old repeating crossbow, but the number of crossbow arrows has increased from ten to twenty. The old crossbow can penetrate armor at twenty steps, and the new crossbow can penetrate armor at fifty steps, and it is more convenient to load crossbow arrows."

In the military camp, Lin Jiang and a group of senior officials came to the parade ground to see the new weapons. The repeating crossbow is just one of them, and many other weapons are being updated.

"Are there any new tactics for these new weapons, especially for the next step, when I want to attack the monsters?"

"Yes, the Military Equipment Bureau has built a large carriage. The carriages are made of the best hardwood and covered with iron sheets on the outside. Dozens of carriages are connected together to form a solid fortress. We prepare some new crossbows inside, which can be poured out like water. Whoever comes will die?" "Do you

have the real thing? Have you used it in actual combat? Not counting other things, this kind of carriage itself must weigh several thousand pounds. Can horses pull it?" "We

already have the real thing, but we haven't used it in actual combat yet. Our horses can't pull it, but the heavy horses from the Immortal Kingdom can. The military is collecting them, and we should be able to find a few hundred or a few thousand horses." "Put it in actual combat as soon as possible.

If it is effective, we will immediately start mass production,"

said Lin Jiang. After the Datong Army took over the border, it has not launched a large-scale offensive. Before, it mainly rested and recuperated. Now that two or three years have passed, it is time for him to move.

Lin Jiang inspected this batch of new weapons and equipment, and checked the reserves in the warehouse. He was very satisfied. Once a big country is mobilized, it is very scary, especially for a newly established country like Datong, where the system is not bloated and the efficiency is very high.

Half a month later, a team of thousands of people appeared in the north. Thousands of people were divided into several teams. One team was mainly light cavalry, going to harass the small tribe of monsters, and the other team was mainly composed of carriages, lying in an open place and waiting seriously. After the monsters suffered losses, they dared not rashly chase and kill, especially in some places where ambushes could be set up. They would not move forward casually.

"General, there is an alarm ahead, and the brothers who lured the enemy are back."

When the convoy was moving forward, a cavalry sentry came back and shouted. The general in charge waved his hand and the convoy stopped.

"Warning, enemy attack, be on guard!"

the general yelled, and then the whole team started moving. They found an open place, drove all the carriages together to form a square, untied the heavy horses pulling the carriages and drove them into the circle, and then martial arts masters were dispatched to connect the front and back of the carriages without leaving any gaps.

After doing all this, the soldiers entered the carriages and opened the side baffles. People could stand on the baffles and shoot arrows. Of course, there were not many archers, because the requirements for archers were very high for soldiers, but crossbows were different, so the long-range weapons of the entire team were mainly crossbows. The new type of continuous crossbows were quickly assembled and installed on the carriages.

This type of carriage is about three meters high, taller than most monsters, like a small city wall.

"Half an hour, too slow, you are too slow, it took twice as long as the training on the parade ground..."

The leading general scolded the soldiers. Today was to test the actual combat of the weapons, so he did not preset the positions in advance. It was a real actual combat. Once the actual combat was carried out, the problem was exposed. Fortunately, he placed the cavalry sentry far away, otherwise the enemy would have rushed and they would not have been able to resist.

The general did not scold for long, because when the enemy arrived, they first saw their own light cavalry, fleeing in a panic, and behind them was a group of more than a hundred monsters.

The monsters saw the chariot formation and did not attack immediately, because they had suffered a lot during this period, and were often lured to some valleys and other places to ambush, and they had never seen this chariot formation before.

The monsters hesitated for a moment, but decided to attack. Just now, the human light cavalry attacked their pasture and killed thousands of their cattle and sheep. They must take revenge.

The monsters also have horses and weapons, but most of their weapons are swords and knives, and there are very few bows and crossbows. It is not that their technology is not good, but that they believe in their own strength more.

The monsters started to charge, and the general in charge began to calculate the distance. When the monsters reached fifty steps, the general ordered to start shooting.

The new crossbow can break armor at fifty steps, and being able to break armor can basically break the innate warrior's qi, which means that this distance is already enough to kill the monsters.

A crossbow has twenty crossbow arrows. There are fifty soldiers on one side of the chariot formation, and fifty crossbows, a total of one thousand crossbow arrows, all shot out. The monsters with shields are still okay, but their mounts and horses died. The monsters without shields were shot into a hornet's nest. According to the data, each monster can be allocated ten crossbow arrows.

"Forty steps"

"Thirty steps"

"Twenty steps, shoot"

The general in charge was still calculating the distance of the monsters. The crossbows shoot arrows very quickly, and the monsters saw that the crossbow arrows disappeared, and began to charge again. At twenty steps, the general in charge saw that the crossbow arrows had not been loaded yet, and immediately ordered a few archers to shoot.

There were only a dozen archers, but they were all sharpshooters. They started to shoot quickly, without aiming, just shooting arrows, because their task was to delay the monsters.

After a while, most of the archers reloaded their crossbows and fired another round of volleys. More than half of the monsters lay on the ground, and the rest of the monsters were not scared away, but became even more ferocious.

At this time, dozens of martial arts masters flipped out of the chariot formation, and the light cavalry that had lured the enemy before also appeared and began to encircle the monsters.

"The distance when we took action was too close. We should have let the sharpshooters take the lead at a hundred steps away, and fire a volley every fifty steps, but the output of arrows should not be interrupted. We should divide them into several teams of archers to shoot continuously. In addition, there should be a team of spearmen outside the chariot formation..." The

general in charge looked at the scene of the fight and kept thinking in his heart. Now it was a real combat test, so we had to find out the inappropriate places and improve them, so that we would not suffer when the army really attacked.