After Li Chen was taken out, the atmosphere in the hall became a little dull. Ｘ

Although Lu Zhishen seems to be rude, he is actually as careful as a hair, noticing that Li Nan and the others are in a low mood, he immediately patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "Hahaha, children will inevitably make mistakes, who of you didn't come all the way like this, if the Sprinkle family hadn't done a few wrong things at the beginning, they wouldn't have gone to Daxiangguo Temple to grow vegetables." ”

Xiaohong, who was standing behind Hu Sanniang, also said: "Yes, the slave family often does wrong things and always makes Sanniang angry." ”

Hu Sanniang pinched Xiaohong, and said with a smile: "Dead girl, do you still know that you often make mistakes?" ”

"Oh, little lady, you are bullying me again, I will tell Brother Li what you said in your dream in a while......"

Looking at Hu Bing and Xiaohong, who were laughing together, Li Nan knew that Brother Lu and the others were all to comfort him, and a warmth suddenly appeared in his heart, and his mood was much better.

Several children like Li Chen also participated in the quarrel just now, and at this time they knelt down in front of Li Nan and begged: "Master, we know that we are wrong, please don't be angry." ”

"People are not saints and sages, and since everyone can gather together now, it is fate. I hope you can put aside the barriers between races, abandon those little selfishness, and accompany me to do great things! ”

After saying this, Li Nan smiled and said: "Stop this matter for the time being, everyone should think about it when they have time, and now let's continue to talk about preparing for war to meet the enemy." ”

Hearing that the topic turned back again, Lin Chong, who was not good at dealing with this kind of thing, breathed a sigh of relief and said: "What Dorcott said just now makes sense, although the number of these new slave soldiers is large, but the military spirit is unstable, I don't think they can fight a tough battle. Our army has a huge advantage in weapons and equipment, so we can think of ways in this regard, as long as we can establish superiority at the beginning of the war, it will certainly greatly boost the morale of the army. ”

Lin Chong is worthy of being the head of the forbidden army for many years, and he has a very thorough understanding of the psychology of soldiers.

Hearing him talk about weapons and equipment, Li Nan said to Li Tian, who was in charge of armaments: "Have all the weapons purchased from the Great Song Dynasty been shipped?" ”

"Returning to the general, we bought 3,000 divine arm crossbows through Cai You, and a total of 100,000 arrows of various kinds, all of which have been transported, but the 100 eight-ox crossbows are difficult to transport, and they are still on the way."

It is a loss that the powerful Eight Ox Crossbow cannot be transported, but with these Divine Arm Crossbows purchased with a lot of money, it is possible to train a group of crossbowmen in a short time, and it is also a solution to the urgent need.

"How much gunpowder and grenades?"

"The Guizhou workshop is fully producing, and there are 6,000 grenades and 3,000 catties of gunpowder."

Li Nan knew that the advantage of his army was long-range attacks, but crossbowmen alone were definitely not enough, and the range of grenadiers was too short, so he had to find other ways to attack to strengthen his attack.

After explaining this difficulty, Spartacus said: "When we Thracian tribes were helping the Roman army in battle, we have seen them use catapults to attack the enemy, do you not have such long-range weapons in this world?" ”

"Catapult?" Hearing the name of this weapon, Li Nan suddenly realized that he had been thinking about gunpowder and other things recently, and had actually forgotten about this most primitive long-range war equipment.

Li Nan walked quickly to his desk, and then walked over with a large stack of books.

After distributing the books to everyone, Li Nan said: "Everyone help to find it, there should be a way to make catapults in this book." ”

Everyone present was literate, only Dorcot and others from the Roman world could not recognize all of them, but fortunately there were illustrations in the book, and a few people were still interested in reading it.

Soon Meng Li found the book that recorded the catapult.

In this book, catapults are collectively referred to as cannons, and there are more than a dozen different styles of cannons recorded in it, including single-pin cannons, double-pin cannons, five-pin cannons, seven-pin cannons, tiger squat cannons, column belly cannons, whirlwind cannons, combined cannons, recumbent cannons, car cannons, traveling artillery vehicles, etc.

The book not only records in detail the size and power of various cannons and production methods, but also has more intuitive illustrations, now there are many forests in Guangyuan Prefecture, according to this book, you can make suitable ballistas on the spot.

When Li Nan and the others saw that there was indeed an answer in the book, they immediately discussed with joy which cannon to choose, while Dorcott and the others were still reading these all-encompassing books.

When they discovered that it was a military encyclopedia of countless melee and ranged weapons, and how to attack and fight the enemy, they exclaimed, "Oh my God, are these books a godsend?" ”

Li Nan shook his head and said to them, "No, all the equipment in these books was not invented by God, all of them were created by ordinary craftsmen over the years. ”

"Great craftsman, where did the owner of this amazing and precious book come from?"

"Uh... Although this book is magical, it is not precious in the Great Song Dynasty, and many high-level generals have a set in their homes. ”

"What?"

All the people from the Roman world were extremely shocked when they heard Li Nan's words, knowing that in their time, the method of making any war equipment was secret.

In fact, not only were they surprised, but Li Nan, as a latecomer, couldn't understand why Song Renzong wanted Zeng Gongliang and Ding Du to compile this set of "General Essentials of the Martial Arts".

This set of "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" is divided into two episodes, the first and the last, with 20 volumes each.

The first part introduces ancient and modern war examples, and introduces military theories and rules such as military system, military organization, selection and use of troops, formations, and geography of mountains and rivers. It reflects in detail the military system of the Song Dynasty, including the selection and use of soldiers, education and training, troop formation, marching and camping, ancient and modern formations, communication and reconnaissance, city attack and defense, fire attack and water warfare, weapons and equipment, etc., especially in the camp formation, weapons, and equipment, each of which is equipped with detailed illustrations.

The 20 volumes of the latter collection contain the stories of the use of troops in the past dynasties, preserve a lot of ancient war examples, and analyze and evaluate the battle examples and the gains and losses of the use of troops in the past dynasties.

Song Renzong took this book, which integrated the wisdom of the Chinese Han nation for many years, as an ordinary textbook and distributed it to many military generals of the Song Dynasty to study.

This is equivalent to the president of the United States, the situation of all the US military, the detailed parameters and specific manufacturing methods of various types of aircraft carriers, fighters, tanks, missiles and other equipment, all made public, perhaps such a thing can only appear in the strange Great Song Dynasty.

In any case, this all-encompassing "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" helped Li Nan a lot, and after discussion, everyone quickly selected two kinds of cannons with different firing distances, and immediately asked the attached slaves to step up their production.

According to the news, there is also a special kind of war elephant army in the army attacked by Li Changjie this time.

Although Li Nan doesn't know the number and strength of this kind of special forces for the time being, he has seen elephants in zoos and TV shows, as long as the number is enough, then the elephant herd is definitely a nightmare for his own side to use Roman battle infantry.

Elephants are not uncommon in Indochina, and in order to familiarize himself with this special enemy, Li Nan hurriedly asked the locals to get a few as soon as possible.

Originally, Li Nan didn't care too much about elephants, because in the descriptions of various stories and film and television works, it is very effective to deal with elephants with fire.

A few hours later, Li Nan and all the people who stood on the hillside to watch the elephant attack test frowned deeply,