Zhu Chong fled down Desheng Building in a panic, ignoring the pouting of Li Xiuning who was covering her butt behind him.
He really didn't mean it. If he had anyone to blame, he could only blame himself for his usual actions with the soldiers and for using the wrong target!
But no matter what, after doing that kind of thing in front of so many people, it would be difficult for Zhu Chong to step down given his status, so he could only quickly escape back home.
As for the Mongolian cavalry of King Liang outside the city, Zhu Chong didn't take them seriously at all. He even hoped that King Liang would take the initiative to attack.
After all, with the current height of Songming City's walls, and the fact that he has brave generals like Li Xiuning, Yu Jin and Lin Shu, who lead an army of over 100,000 to defend the city, it would be a pipe dream for King Liang to want to break the city!
That's why Zhu Chong now dares to go back home with confidence, open the system mall, and do what he wants.
What Li Xiuning had just said on the Victory Building reminded Zhu Chong that if the quality of the soldiers was not good enough, then he could just make up for it with weapons and equipment!
Zhu Chong has a system to rely on. Aren’t the weapons items in the system ready-made for supplementation?
From Li Xiuning's previous reminder, Zhu Chong subconsciously found the types of Qin Dynasty bows and crossbows from the system mall, but the result disappointed him greatly.
The cheapest Qin crossbow costs 100 points each. Different ranges, different materials, and even arrows all require points to exchange, which makes Zhu Chong a little discouraged.
His purpose of exchanging for the Qin crossbow was to replace the troops' equipment, and he wanted to buy them in bulk. The Qin crossbow was so expensive, and when combined with the arrows, his points were really not enough to consume them.
Therefore, Zhu Chong immediately eliminated the Qin Nu, and then he looked at the Tang Dynasty Mo Dao, but was instantly discouraged by the price of the Mo Dao at one thousand points.
As for guns, there is no need to even look at them, because the guns nowadays are actually only the so-called most advanced firearms in the current world.
Although the Ming Dynasty already had firearms and they occupied a very important position in the army, in reality the position of the firearms battalion in the war was very limited.
Of course, it also depends on the person who uses it. When Zhu Yuanzhang fought Chen Youliang in the decisive battle at Poyang Lake, his use of firearms was truly superb. It is no exaggeration to say that if Chen Youliang had Zhu Chong under his command at that time, it would be hard to say whether Zhu Yuanzhang would be the one who truly ruled the country!
Nowadays, Zhu Yuanzhang has a special quota allocation for the composition of the Ming army. Usually, the Ming army is composed of cold weapons and hot firearms. However, in Zhu Chong's view, the firearms of this period are subject to technical limitations, complex operation, and high failure rate, and are not suitable for him at all.
So in the end, Zhu Chong still turned his attention to cold weapons. After ruling out heavy weapons like the Mo Dao, Zhu Chong's attention was still fixed on the crossbow.
To deal with cavalry, long-range strikes with bows and arrows are the best way. Shooting all the cavalry before they rush to the infantry is the most effective way. This has been well verified by machine guns in later generations.
What kind of crossbow could be as powerful as a machine gun? It also had to be good and cheap, without costing Zhu Chong too many points. It would be best if it could be imitated, and self-sufficient.
So not long after, a crossbow in the mall was locked onto by Zhu Chong. The name of this crossbow was Ma Jun Crossbow.
Ma Jun is actually a person's name. This person lived in the Han Dynasty. He did a very amazing thing at that time, which was to improve the Zhuge Crossbow. He improved the Zhuge Crossbow that could fire ten arrows in a row into a crossbow that could fire fifty arrows in a row.
However, although the Ma Jun crossbow greatly reduced the size and weight of the Zhuge Crossbow at the time, making it an easy-to-carry individual weapon, it was restricted by the manufacturing technology and conditions at the time, and the arrows had to be specially made, so it could not be mass-produced and eventually lost.
However, the Ma Jun crossbow in the system mall does not have so many restrictions. After all, it is a product of the system and is absolutely a high-quality product.
However, the reason why Zhu Chong was interested in the Ma Jun crossbow was not because of the Ma Jun crossbow itself, but because this product, which was worth more than 100,000 points, was a buy-one-get-two-free deal.
Buy a Ma Jun crossbow and get the production drawings and an excellent craftsman. After seeing the product introduction, Zhu Chong immediately decided to spend 100,000 points to buy the Ma Jun crossbow.
With samples, production drawings, and excellent craftsmen, one's own troops can be equipped with a large number of Ma Jun crossbows in a very short time.
Once the soldiers equipped with a large number of Ma Jun crossbows encounter the Liang Wang cavalry in the wild, there is no need to rush. Just proceed steadily. The Ma Jun crossbow that can fire fifty arrows in a row will show the Mongolian cavalry how to behave in minutes!
But just as Zhu Chong was about to exchange for the Ma Jun crossbow, he unexpectedly heard the troop assembly bell from the city wall.
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Chong heard the sound of bull horns, which was only heard by the Mongolian cavalry, and this left him completely confused.
Is the King of Liang really that crazy, actually sending cavalry to attack his own city of Songming? This is unscientific!
Zhu Chong hurried back to the Victory Tower. Seeing all the generals with nervous expressions, he couldn't help but ask, "What's going on?"
"My lord, something is wrong. Another army has arrived, and they are coming from the direction of Qujing." Li Xiuning looked at Zhu Chong with a strange expression, wanting to say something but stopping himself.
Zhu Chong didn't bother to look at Li Xiuning's expression at this time. He hurriedly looked in the direction of Li Xiuning's finger, and saw dust all over the sky to the east of Songming City, and an army appeared at the end of the horizon.
This army is not King Liang's army!
Zhu Chong could tell from a distance by intuition that the approaching army was not Mongolian, and it felt very familiar.
In this world, the only army that Zhu Chong felt familiar with, apart from the Mongolian cavalry, was the Ming army.
When he was in Jianshanao before, Zhu Chong often went in and out of Fei Ju's camp, and he was very familiar with the uniforms of the Ming army.
But Songming was not under the control of the Ming army, so how could the Ming army appear here? Could it be that Fei Ju's men were lost, or was there something else going on?
Zhu Chong was a little puzzled and looked outside the city with a frown. The Ming army outside the city was getting closer and closer to Songming City, and there were quite a lot of them. From a distance, they looked like a large group, with both cavalry and infantry, at least more than 10,000 people.
At this time, King Liang outside the city also became nervous. His troops were closest to the Ming army and were the first to discover that the Ming army had entered the battlefield, which made him very nervous.
Anyone who is caught in a pincer attack would feel nervous, especially King Liang, who had been in Yunnan for such a long time. This was the first time he had seen so many Ming troops appear on the land of Yunnan, and they happened to run into him.
"Is that the word 'Mu'?" Yu Jin had the best eyesight and could recognize the big words on the Ming army's banner at a glance.
"It's Mu Ying, why is he here?" Zhu Chong frowned, feeling something was not right.
At the same time, King Liang also saw the flag raised by Mu Ying, and his heart began to beat wildly.
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