Chapter 675: Frequent Frustrations
With the manufacturing technology and research experience of the three-bow crossbow as a foundation, according to Zhuang Mengdie's ability, it should not be a problem to develop a city defense crossbow.
However, due to the changes in the attack method and even the overall positioning, apart from the problem with the bracket, although there is no major problem with this city defense crossbow, according to the feedback from the crossbow soldiers and Zhuang Mengdie's own findings during the testing process, there are still some areas that need to be adjusted.
After listening to Zhuang Mengdie's feedback, Zhou Xu nodded.
"It doesn't take much time to adjust these minor issues. The size of the crossbow arrows shouldn't change, right? Then I can order people to mass-produce the crossbow arrows first."
The sizes of the three-bow crossbow and the city defense crossbow are completely different, so the crossbows used by the two are naturally not interchangeable.
This also forced them to specially manufacture a new batch of crossbow arrows of suitable sizes for the city defense crossbows, and even added an additional production line.
It is a bit troublesome, but considering the value that the city defense crossbow can show in the city defense battle, 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 knew what her most important task was now, which was to make the core components of the city defense crossbow.
Except for the core components, other components can be made by his subordinates. For work like adjusting small problems, he can just hand it over to his subordinates and give them a few pointers. There is no need to do it himself.
On this side, Zhou Xu in Huangsha City still maintained his own strategy, sat back and watched, seriously improving his city defense capabilities, and did not care about what was happening outside.
Days like this continued for a while, and as the climate gradually got colder, it was already late autumn here, and it was estimated that only a few days were left until winter.
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu ordered Drogo to come over. After some instructions, the Centaur cavalry led by Drogo left the city.
On the other hand, Yan Sheng, who had recently failed in recruiting soldiers and was unable to go to the battlefield, and at the same time was experiencing unrest and constant disputes in the country, was feeling worse day by day.
As a result, Li Wenjian was beaten and tortured by Yan Sheng almost every day.
This day was no exception. After beating him up, Yan Sheng vented his emotions and ran back to deal with the documents that were sent to him.
Pushing open the door, Xie Liancheng walked in quietly. Looking at Li Wenjian who seemed to be dying, he sighed with some emotion.
Should we say that Li Wenjian is pitiful? A little, indeed, but definitely not much.
In Xie Liancheng's opinion, the saying "There must be something hateful about every pitiful person" is very suitable for Li Wenjian.
When I first traveled through time, I had no knowledge at all and only had a little experience using keyboards. However, I had high aspirations, but naturally, my life was fragile.
After a few glasses of wine, he forgot his weight and spoke without thinking, mocking Yan Sheng for being a dead end. He was also horny and tried to rape Yan Sheng's concubines.
Let alone the inflated Yan Sheng, any man would not be able to bear it. Now, he couldn't die even if he wanted to.
While his consciousness was in a trance, Li Wenjian caught a glimpse of Jie Liancheng standing there from the corner of his eye, and there was obvious surprise in his eyes.
From the first day he was summoned, Li Wenjian could clearly feel that Jie Liancheng looked down on him. He also knew that Jie Liancheng had a strong fist and was not easy to mess with, so he always avoided him whenever possible.
And precisely because of this, although both of them are time travelers, they have basically no friendship with each other.
Li Wenjian never expected that Jie Liancheng would appear here at this time.
After a brief eye contact, Xie Liancheng hesitated for a moment, but eventually squatted down and left after whispering with Li Wenjian.
After hearing Liancheng's words, Li Wenjian was unable to come back to his senses for a long time. His blood-stained face showed a dazed look.
After that, no one knew how much time had passed, but as if he had made up his mind, Li Wenjian's eyes gradually became firm.
Just like that, another period of time passed. It was already winter. Looking at the latest military intelligence sent via carrier pigeons, Yan Sheng's face looked grim.
He originally thought that after giving orders to the remaining three border generals and ordering them to lead troops to suppress the rebellion, the entire rebellion could be quickly wiped out.
But now the result is just the opposite. His three generals have all failed in suppressing the rebellion, and the situation in his country is apparently getting worse and worse.
To get to the root of this matter, to put it bluntly, it's that he thought things were simple.
It has been said before that the permanent garrison forces on the three borders are all one thousand. Now that rebellions are breaking out in the country, the prerequisite for his border generals to lead troops to quell the rebellion is that the border cities where they are respectively located can ensure stability.
But now in this border city, the rebels and ordinary citizens are completely mixed together.
Simply put, it is impossible to tell who are the rebels and who are the good citizens.
You can't arrest or even kill all the thousands of people in the city, right?
Even if they really want to, they don't have that many people.
Under this premise, if they want to lead the troops to war, they must leave garrisons in the city, and the number cannot be small.
Otherwise, the rebels would most likely occupy the city as soon as they left the city gate.
By then, not only would they have nowhere to retreat, they would also have no where to get supplies of food and supplies.
Instead, they left enough garrison troops and then took the remaining troops to the inner cities to quell the rebellion.
But the city had already fallen into the hands of the rebels. They occupied the city with such high walls, and they did not have siege weapons like the three-bow crossbow that could break through with violence. How could it be easy to attack the city with only a few hundred soldiers on hand?
Look, the remaining three of the four dragon generals were defeated one after another.
It’s not that their personal abilities are not up to par, but the conditions do not allow it, and this battle is really difficult to fight.
Therefore, when they first sent out their troops, they did not intend to attack by force, but each of them wanted to win by wits.
They thought that the rebels were just a group of rabble, and they would wait for them to arrive and intimidate them a little. Then, as long as the people in the city could cooperate a little, they would be able to find an opportunity to take the city back from the rebels.
Unexpectedly, the series of actions taken by their Emperor Qin Shi Huang before had already caused public outrage and complaints from the people in their country.
Now the rebels are what the people want, which makes several generals guarding the border helpless.
Among them, Long Potian, one of the Four Dragon Generals, was stationed in a border city, which happened to be Xishan City.
But Xishan City is located on a mountain, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
After being humiliated, Long Potian changed his mind and thought, isn’t their Emperor Qin Shi Huang now commanding 3,000 troops and stationed in Black Stone City?
If Black Rock City is willing to send reinforcements to cooperate with him in a two-pronged attack, then the probability of retaking Xishan City will be much greater.
With this thought in mind, Long Potian quickly wrote a letter and sent it to Yan Sheng by carrier pigeon.
When Yan Sheng saw this, he immediately planned to mobilize troops and head to Xishan City without saying a word.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, the Centaur Cavalry appeared outside of Black Stone City...
(End of this chapter)
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