Chapter 612: The fight is endless, it is impossible to finish it!
At this moment, although the "opportunity" is in front of us, some problems that should be faced still need to be faced.
For example, military strength.
Although the other side has only one thousand troops stationed on the border, once the war breaks out, they will start recruiting troops. It should not be a problem to gather three thousand troops on the border in a short period of time.
And how can he deal with those three thousand soldiers when the Lizardmen can't move?
Regarding this question, Zhou Xu fell into deep thought.
In the past two years, their Great Zhou has been recuperating and developing, and new babies have been born continuously within the country.
Today, the total population has rapidly climbed to more than 17,000.
And before the summer of next year, Zhou Xu is sure that the population of their Great Zhou will completely exceed 20,000.
Among them, although the human race can reproduce, the Lizardmen, who have a larger population base, are undoubtedly the main force of the reproductive population at this stage.
The existence of the 'Sacred Incubation Pool' also played a vital role.
However, even so, it cannot change the reality that the drastically increased population is now all children, and there is no way to provide them with combat power or even labor.
During this period, Shi Lei received a summons and came to discuss the matter with Zhou Xu.
After all, if nothing unexpected happens, if Zhou Xu launches an offensive, Shi Lei will most likely be the commander-in-chief of this expeditionary force, and his ideas are also very important.
Shi Lei already knew about the internal and external troubles.
It has to be said that judging from the situation analyzed by their king, now is indeed the best time to attack while the other party is still dealing with internal troubles.
But even so, this battle doesn't seem easy to fight.
"Your Majesty, according to what you said, the other side has a city with the most basic city defense capabilities. They have 1,000 soldiers guarding the city, and we need at least 3,000 soldiers to attack the city to have a chance of winning. Not to mention that once the war starts, the other side should be able to urgently recruit 1,000 to 2,000 troops to support the city defense in the short term."
Sitting opposite, Shi Lei analyzed the situation very calmly and objectively.
"Indeed, our soldiers of the Great Zhou have advantages over the soldiers of the other side in terms of armor and weapons. At the same time, from the simple confrontations before, we can also feel that the individual strength of our soldiers of the Great Zhou is superior to that of the other side. This is due to the elite troops strategy that you have been implementing."
"But even so, if they have the city walls to rely on, it would be extremely difficult for us to capture them."
At the end, Shi Lei spread his hands helplessly.
If you ask about the specific strength of the soldiers on the opposite side, Shi Lei must know better than him.
After listening to Shi Lei's words, Zhou Xu also came up with some new ideas.
"If we can't win with quantity, we can win with quality. In other words, even without the support of the city walls, our soldiers will be able to fight, right?"
"For now, that's the case."
After a brief consideration, Shi Lei nodded.
"What if we can break through the city wall?"
When Shi Lei heard this, his expression was stunned.
Before Shi Lei could think about it, Zhou Xu had already announced the answer.
"Three-bow crossbow!"
Shi Lei really didn't know much about this three-bow crossbow.
He roughly knew that such a thing existed, and then that was it.
There is no way around it, because the triple-bow crossbow was originally manufactured to deal with the Lizardmen's armored dragons.
The three-bow crossbows that were made later were all sent to the plain battlefield to fight against the Lizardmen, and later sent to the southern border.
In addition, because military equipment is of vital importance, intelligence cannot be leaked casually.
Therefore, in the mountainous area, even the shadow of the three-bow crossbow has never been seen, and it is no wonder that Shi Lei has no knowledge of it.
Zhou Xu knew about this, so he told Shi Lei about it.
After hearing this, Shi Lei was also surprised.
"Is this three-bow crossbow really so powerful?"
Zhou Xu nodded in affirmation.
"I'm not sure whether we can blow up the city wall, but blowing up the city gate is definitely not a problem. Once the city gate is broken, how can they defend it?"
As they talked, the two of them discussed and immediately decided to send troops to the other side of the world after the spring! Although this was an opportunity, Zhou Xu was not in a hurry.
The previous unjust war on the other side has already laid hidden dangers. If they slow down their actions appropriately, it will allow it to ferment better and further increase the internal strife on the other side. It would be even better if it could form a scale and lead to an uprising.
Of course, it’s best not to delay it too long.
After all, the people are just people. They have no weapons or armor and have not received any training. Once the enemy gets angry and sends troops to suppress them, the rioters who have been swallowed up will have basically no chance of winning.
It is not difficult to see from previous intelligence that Yan Sheng, who claims to be the first emperor, is also a murderous man. If the rioters who have been annexed dare to cause trouble, he will kill them without hesitation.
If they were all killed, or killed too hard, the opponents would not dare to show up for a short time, and Zhou Xu would not be able to achieve his goal of suppressing the opponents by means of internal and external troubles at the same time.
After the order is issued, the troops are mobilized and the necessary materials are immediately mobilized.
When the order reached the Black Moon Village's ordnance forging department, Wang Dachui was swinging the hammer in his hand to forge a piece of iron scale on the forging table.
The pressure of war was great at the time, and in order to achieve efficiency, the iron scales were only simply polished after being cast and then handed over to the armor-making department to make scale armor.
There is no way. Time is tight and the task is heavy, so we have to make a choice.
In the past two years, the war with the ratmen has stabilized, and the work pressure in the ordnance forging department has also decreased, so naturally there is time to strengthen the scale armor.
Unlike the iron scales that were casually polished before, this batch of iron scales that have been carefully polished are stronger. The scale armor made of them is internally referred to as the second-generation scale armor.
Today, the armor worn by the soldiers serving in the Great Zhou has basically been replaced from the first generation to the second generation.
At this moment, the ordnance forging department is still polishing the iron scales in order to make spare scale armor.
Not only was it to allow the frontline soldiers to have spare scales to replace when their armor was damaged, but it was also to take into account that if the Great Zhou encountered a war, they would start recruiting soldiers on a large scale. At that time, the recruits would also need scales to wear. They couldn't wait until then to start forging, right? It would be too late.
In this way, according to their king's intention, there must be at least 2,000 sets of spare scale armor stored in the armory.
This meant that the Ordnance Forging Department was completely busy even during this relatively peaceful period.
After being so busy till now, I have finally almost finished this 'big order'.
As a result, before he put down the hammer in his hand, the order from their king came.
Along with the conscription order and troop transfer order came a list from their ordnance forging department.
Good fellow, there is no end to the fight, there is no end to the fight! (End of this chapter)
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