Above the city, everyone's eyes were on the last stone bullet.

A giant stone bullet weighing more than 100 catties fell from the air with a whistling wind, and where it landed, everyone scattered and fled, accompanied by a loud bang, the flat ground above the city head suddenly sunk downward, and a huge sense of vibration came, and the objects placed around it jumped up involuntarily, and then fell around.

This was the last stone bullet, because the besieging Wuwei army was slowly retreating, and the defenders at the head of the city watched them slowly retreat.

There were no soldiers and horses out of the city to pursue, because the price paid for launching a counterattack while the enemy was retreating earlier was far more than the gain.

The Wuwei army has too many crossbows.

The first few times he went out of the city to counterattack, he wanted to take advantage of the retreat of the Wuwei army to get some results to boost morale, but in an instant, he suffered several rounds of crossbow covered fire, and the defenders in the city suffered heavy losses.

Even if it retreated, the Wuwei army also maintained a frame that could counterattack at any time, with foot soldiers retreating, cavalry wandering left and right, and crossbow archers on guard. When the two sides merged into one, the crossbowmen slowly retreated, and the foot soldiers waited in formation, and so on, without giving the army in the city any chance.

The Wuwei army retreated cleanly, and even the bodies of the Wuwei soldiers who died in the city would be taken away by them.

God knows why the Wuwei Army has so many crossbows.

A crossbow is worth a lot of money. Whether it is a crossbow or an arrow, it is much more expensive than an ordinary longbow and feather arrows, although it also has many advantages, such as not requiring too much training, unlike a qualified archer who needs to train for a long time, using a crossbow, you can get started in a short time.

Wu Wei's crossbow shooting, all of them are covering, once the shot is a large area of Wuyang, Tian Ping only roughly estimated, this morning's half-day attack, Wu Wei was afraid that nearly 100,000 crossbow arrows were fired. It's not a war, it's taking money and smashing people.

Tian Ping really couldn't understand why Li Ze was so rich.

Although Li Ze's territory is very large now, there are only a few places that are really rich, and there are more places, which cannot be compared with places like Wei Bo Zhaoyi, let alone these festival towns of Xuanwu, but even these festival towns cannot be as armed as Wuwei. Like the Hedong Army attacking Luzhou in the direction of Changzhi Tunliu at this moment, there are only 20,000 or 30,000 elite people in armor who really have combat effectiveness.

Wei Bobing is a well-known army in the world that can fight well, but the armor rate of the army only accounts for more than fifty percent, and Xuanwu is about the same, like Zhaoyi, it can only account for thirty percent. These people are considered the real elite of the army. But in today's battle, all the soldiers of Wuwei are wearing armor, although many of them are only half-armoured, but if you take into account the total strength of Wuwei to surround Luzhou, it is very terrifying, this is more than tens of thousands of troops.

Tian Ping couldn't figure out why Wu Wei was so rich, but he knew very well that although Wu Wei had been fighting for many days, none of them had really done their best. Compared to when they attacked the defense line outside Luzhou City, the intensity dropped by several notches.

Luzhou's outer defense line, after being hit hard by the Wuwei army, the most tenacious troops only held out for a day. But when they hit the city of Luzhou, it didn't seem to be in a hurry.

Holding on to the battlements, he stared at the city wall, a few miles away, where the Wuwei army was ramming earth to build a wall, and now the wall had been built to about a foot long.

In the entire periphery of Luzhou City, the Wuwei Army was building such earthen walls, and when the construction was completely completed, Luzhou City was completely closed and completely became a dead place.

He sighed, turned and walked towards the city, based on the experience of the past few days, today's battle was like this.

Several soldiers were holding iron hammers to hammer the boulder that had fallen on the city before, and smashed it into small stones weighing several catties or more than ten catties, which could also be used when the Wuwei army attacked.

Weibo's army has rich combat experience, and all the soldiers know how to use everything they can to use without the orders of their commanders, who knows how long this offensive and defensive battle will take? Maybe in the end, even the house will have to be demolished to prepare defensive equipment.

Tian Ping was looking at the newly rammed earth city wall of Wuwei in the distance, and what he didn't know was that just opposite him, on top of an earthen ram behind the rammed earth wall, a group of people were also looking at the city of Luzhou in the distance.

This person is Li Ze, the marshal of Wuwei.

Around him, there were many high-ranking generals of Wuwei, and the most striking thing was a young boy.

Ordinary generals don't know each other, but these senior generals know that this boy is one of the most noble people in the world, His Royal Highness Li Ke, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, the crown prince Li Ke at this moment, by Li Ze's side, is just a student of discipline and discipline.

In Li Ze's hand, he was playing with a crossbow.

It looked like an ordinary crossbow, but Li Ze looked at it repeatedly in his hand like a baby.

"Jieshuai, this is produced by Texas New Town." Cao Xin said with great interest: "According to the requirements of the section commander, the craftsmen there came up with the assembly line operation that the section commander said, and after unifying the standards, each workshop only made one part of the crossbow and then assembled it. As a result, the manufacturing rate of workers has increased greatly, but the scrap rate has been greatly reduced, and now 200 of these crossbows can be produced every day in New Town, Texas. ”

"Without him, only familiar hands." Li Ze smiled and turned to look at Li Ke beside him: "Your Highness, do you know that in addition to the improvement of production efficiency, does this crossbow have any other benefits?" ”

Li Ke shook his head ignorantly. In fact, he had not yet recovered from the shock of the fierce offensive and defensive battles between the two armies. In the eyes of Li Ze and the other generals, the previous ordinary battle was extremely fierce in his mind.

The deafening war drums, the hoarse roar, the stone bullets whistling and flying in the air, and the black pressure like locust feathered arrows, made him, who had never seen a real war scene, shake his heart.

The dripping blood, the flying stumps, the burning flags, and the destroyed weapons all left a heavy imprint on his heart.

War, is this what it looks like?

Listening to Li Ke's answer, Li Ze smiled and stretched out his hand to ask for another crossbow, skillfully dismantled the two crossbows, and then mixed all the parts together.

"Your Highness, please look!" Li Ze randomly selected one part after another, and in an instant, he reassembled the two crossbows, took two crossbow arrows from Li Yu's hands, pressed them on the crossbow, raised the crossbow and aimed it at the earthen wall in front of him, and with two crashing sounds, the two crossbow arrows broke out of the air and penetrated deeply into the earthen wall, almost without feathers.

"Does Your Highness understand?" Li Ze asked with a smile.

"These things can be mixed." Li Ke suddenly realized. "If a crossbow is broken and disassembled, their other parts can still be used, and a few broken bows may be able to rebuild a new bow."

"Your Highness is really smart." Li Zedao: "This is the benefit of unified standards. A crossbow costs a lot of money, and if one part is broken, the entire crossbow will be broken and unusable, and the loss will be too great, but now, there is no such worry. In fact, not only crossbows, in Wuwei, all equipment production, we are now implementing the same standard, bed crossbows, catapults, armor, etc., which will save us a lot of money and, of course, time. ”

"Although the crossbow is powerful, I don't think the lethality is very great today. Unlike General Li Hai, one arrow can kill an enemy. Li Ke said.

Listening to this childish answer, the generals above the earthen ramparts all laughed. Knowing that he must have said the wrong thing, Li Ke blushed.

"Your Highness doesn't know, how many marksmen like General Li Hai can there be in the whole world? Cultivating an archer, let alone General Li Hai, is ordinary, without a few years of kung fu and not much power, the archer's requirements for soldiers are too high. The crossbow does not have much requirement, like the range of the crossbow is provided by the crossbow itself, and the soldier only needs to be able to lift the bow to shoot. And this kind of covering shooting, they don't need to have any accuracy, even if a blind cat touches a dead mouse, it is much stronger than an archer. An archer can shoot three or five arrows without resting, but a crossbowman can shoot all the time without worrying about physical strength. ”

"I see!" Li Ke nodded.

"The only downside is that it costs money." Li Ze said with a smile: "In today's morning battle, we shot more than 100,000 crossbow arrows. A crossbow arrow costs about 20 to 30 yuan after counting labor and cost, and today we have spent more than 3,000 yuan on arrows alone. ”

Li Ke was stunned.

"As soon as the war starts, the money flows out like flowing water, so many places that were originally very rich, after a few battles, they will be poor, and they have to exploit the people, and the people will inevitably rise up to resist, which will become a vicious circle, and eventually lead to the collapse of the situation."

Li Ke took a few breaths and asked, "But Taifu, you have been fighting, but why are you getting richer and richer?" ”

Li Ze laughed: "It depends on each person's ability to govern the place, Your Highness, do you want to learn?" ”

"Of course I want to learn." Li Ke nodded again and again.

"Okay, but to learn this, it's a very complicated and huge task, and it's a very hard thing!" Li Ze looked at Li Ke with a smile.

"I'm not afraid of hard work. For the sake of Datang Zhongxing, I can bear more suffering. Li Ke said loudly. Taifu, are you willing to teach me these real skills? ”

"Of course." Li Ze nodded solemnly. "Today, it is the first lesson, Your Highness can draw inferences from one another, and he is really smart, His Majesty will be very happy."

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