I believe that this is an immortal truth, and that what is gained by the sword will also be lost by the sword.

- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)

Stepping crossbows, longbows, and ballistas, all of which are not part of the Tianlong Continent, are combined, and whether they can create a new type of long-range weapons that belong to the Tianlong Continent, Bai Feng's heart is bottomless, but he still believes that the potential of human craftsmen is unlimited.

One hundred crossbows, one hundred longbows, and two ballistae, these weapons were placed in a small space ring by Bai Feng, and sent people to the thundercloud base where Hess presided over affairs.

Bai Feng's requirements for the new type of weapon are that the range of this new long-range weapon cannot be shorter than that of a ballista, that is, the range must be at least 500 meters or more; second, the lethality of a new long-range weapon must be based on penetrating a fine iron shield or smashing a bluestone city wall.

All new weapons that cannot meet these two conditions, Bai Feng's characterization is defective, and it is impossible for defective products to be used in the army, so this is the death task that Bai Feng gave to Hess, requiring Hess to make sure to create qualified new long-range weapons.

It is actually not difficult to imitate the longbow and the treadmill, because both of these weapons are derivatives of the ordinary short bow, but the ballista, which has a relatively amazing range and power, is very difficult to imitate, after all, it is a new weapon.

On the basis of the existing ballista, by analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the longbow and the treadmill, a new type of long-range weapon was developed by combining three special weapons; whether such a task is difficult or easy depends on Hess's ability and the creativity of the craftsmen.

The reason why Bai Feng, who had a weapon workshop in Rome as early as Rome, gave Hess the task of developing new long-range weapons instead of the weapon workshop in Rome City was purely because the understanding and creativity of the barbarian craftsmen were far inferior to the master craftsmen of the human race.

For several years, the weapons workshop in Rome City had no other achievements other than the large-scale production of the Leng Huai longbow and the crossbow, and what made Bai Feng feel helpless was that for these two weapons, he still made the samples and drawings himself.

It is undoubtedly unrealistic to expect barbarian craftsmen who are not suitable for mental work to develop new weapons or anything like that, while the ability to learn and manufacture is far from that of any other race, and the ability and speed of the Terrans to develop and manufacture new types of weapons can still be trusted.

In order to create a powerful new long-range weapon, Bai Feng set very strict conditions for Hess's new weapons, and in order not to put too much pressure on Hess, Bai Feng gave Hess a very lenient time limit - a full two years!

No matter how much resources and gold Hess wants to invest in the research and development of new weapons, Bai Feng will support him unconditionally, and what Bai Feng needs is that he must develop new weapons within two years and have the ability to mass-produce new weapons.

After the task of developing new weapons was given to Hess, who was far away in the Thundercloud base, Bai Feng's main focus was on the construction of four fortress-type military camps, and it would take no more than three or five days to really build the envisioned fortress-type military camp.

At the current rate of construction, it will take at least a year or so for the four strong-fortified barracks to be completed, during which the garrisons of the pikes and the pro-guard will be temporarily stationed in the temporary barracks near the barracks site.

Because the prince of Pross had already built a Yulin Duke's Mansion for Bai Feng in Brojansong City, so after Bai Feng led his army to Mengdan City, he did not build another Yulin Duke's Mansion or Overseer's Mansion in Mengdan City.

It's just that after changing the name, Bai Feng didn't care too much about the affairs in Mengdan City, with Auchinleck, Heinrich and others taking full authority to handle the affairs of the three provinces, Bai Feng, who was originally going to be the shopkeeper, personally took his personal guards to the front line where the army was located.

Bai Feng, who lived in the temporary barracks of the Pro-Guard Corps in the name of handling front-line military affairs, only stayed on the front line for a few days, and just as August was about to pass, he set off to return to Rome with Bai Yi and other personal guards and the troops of Leng Gaoda and Leng Gaofei brothers.

This time he returned to the city of Rome, Bai Feng no longer came and went in a hurry in the past, but really stayed in the city of Rome, not only that, Bai Feng, who had just returned to the city of Rome, gave several orders to Luquis and Vipsani, making the entire city of Rome instantly busy.

As the military commander of the city of Rome, Luquis received an order to assemble all the regular troops of the city of Rome in the city of Rome within half a month, and in addition, the 110,000 troops of Camilios also needed to send 50,000 soldiers to the city of Rome to assemble.

In the next battle of unification, the Roman legions of Licinius, Vermina and others will be the absolute main force under Bai Feng's command, and the phalanx legions and barbarian legions of Leonidas, Peris and others will be auxiliary forces to cooperate with the Roman legions.

The crux of the matter is that both the Roman legions, which were the main force of the Great War, and the Barbarian Legions, which were auxiliary to the Great War, had a very large number of barbarian warriors, and these loyal and warlike barbarian warriors were bound to suffer considerable casualties with the outbreak of war.

The casualties of the systematic soldiers in the Roman legions can only be recovered by returning to the city of Rome after the end of the war through reorganization; as for the barbarian warriors in each legion, it is up to Bai Feng to find a way to replenish them, otherwise, the strength of each legion will be reduced and fewer.

The war to unify the eastern part of the barren land will no longer be the crushing war of the past, and the Luxi tribe and the Eastern Alliance, which are sitting on millions of barbarian people and hundreds of thousands of barbarian warriors, are powerful behemoths, and it will not be an easy task to deal with them.

Moreover, barbarian warriors are naturally warlike and fearless, and once the war between the enemy and the enemy begins, the war that will determine the hegemony of the eastern region will inevitably turn into a never-ending war of attrition between the city of Rome and the other two major tribes.

At that time, if the Roman side represented by Bai Feng wants to win the war, it must have strong enough strength and an army that crisscrosses the battlefield, and an army that crisscrosses the battlefield depends very much on logistics and personnel replenishment.

While Luquis was massing his army, Vipsani was also busy sleeping and eating, on the one hand, he had to transport a steady stream of food and grass resources for the army to the south bank of the Cangluo River, and on the other hand, he had to find time to eliminate the adverse effects of the expedition.

You must know that this time is the sowing season of the next crop after the maturity of the previous season's crops, and at this time, half of the Tuntian army will be withdrawn, and the impact on the eighteen Tuntian districts under the rule of the Roman city is not insignificant.

In order to prevent the food in the Tuntian District from being affected by the expedition of the army, Vipsani had to take out boxes and boxes of gold and silver coins from the warehouse, which were used to hire the young and strong people of the towns where the Tuntian District was located, so that they could help the under-armed Tuntian Legions complete the sowing.