In this regard, Yang Mu was also very helpless.

He already knew that this matter would come sooner or later, and he couldn't avoid it.

The equipment of Cangguo has been coveted by all countries for a long time, and it is finally possible to have such an opportunity, and no country is willing to miss it in vain.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't have much reserves of artifacts in Cangguo, and some time ago I have ordered someone to step up the construction, I'm afraid I can't help anything, I can only see if I can give some help in the siege equipment." Yang Mu said helplessly.

"I don't know, what is the siege equipment that Emperor Cang said?"

"Catapult."

"Catapult?"

"That's right, although it is named after the car, it is a completely different device from ordinary chariots, which can easily throw hundreds of catties of stone bullets onto the enemy's city wall and crush it."

The emperors of all countries nodded, and suddenly realized.

In the past few days, they have also heard some rumors about catapults, it is said that this thing also made great achievements when it was still attacking Shengguo, and each city only needs one attack to be able to easily collapse the city wall.

During this time, there was a lot of rumor in Cangcheng, and the emperors of all countries thought that it was the result of the public opinion propaganda of the Cangguo court, but they didn't expect it to be confirmed here by the emperor of Cangguo.

Yang Mu paused and said, "Although this thing is powerful, it is extremely heavy, and it is extremely complicated to disassemble and load, so I am afraid that it cannot be transported on a large scale." ”

The emperors of all countries also nodded silently, and they didn't have to think about it to know that what could throw hundreds of catties of stone bullets into the sky and smash the enemy's city wall must be a behemoth, and some countries that were closer to Cangguo could say that it would take a few months to transport catapults to their own countries.

But what about the countries on the other side of the Jin Kingdom?

When it arrived in China from the south, the daylilies were cold.

"I wonder if we can imitate it?" Empress Ruan Guo pondered for a moment and asked.

Immediately, the emperors of the rest of the countries looked at Yang Mu silently.

Obviously, compared to the finished catapult, they are also thinking about imitation.

Yang Mu shook his head: "The catapult is made after the breakthrough in the iron-smelting process of my Cangguo, many places on a catapult need steel, with the current iron-smelting process of various countries, it is impossible to meet the requirements, to say a bad word, just the nails on it, only my Cangguo can produce, the nails you produce, once they bear the weight, they will be bent at the light, and they will be wrung off at the heavy, if it is windy and rainy, it will rust in a few months, not to mention the stone projectiles weighing hundreds of kilograms." ”

"How is that a good ......?"

"That's right, the attack on the Jin Kingdom is imminent, so the artifact is unusable."

"I don't know the country...... Are there any other weapons? ”

"I heard that the crossbow chariot is good, it is better to give some to the countries, so that the Jin Kingdom can see our majesty."

"Then instant noodles and compressed biscuits, you can also have some."

"Your country's cavalry is unparalleled in the world, so it's okay to send us some riding equipment."

The emperors of the countries talked a lot, and when they saw that the catapult had no hope, they could only settle for the next best thing, and turned their minds to the rest of the equipment.

Yang Mu was very helpless, weighed it, and said, "Everyone, it's better to be like this." Wu, Chu, Mang, Yun, these four countries are also convenient, each country can allocate twenty catapults, two hundred crossbows, my Cangguo sent a few weapons personnel, with the army to guide and maintain, if there are damaged parts, you can come to my Cangguo to match, how? ”

"Yes, it's better than nothing."

"It's a good idea, although there are not many of them, but it is enough to equip a well-equipped army."

"When I go back this time, I will let the people of the country make the special arrows needed for the repeater, and I will definitely let the Jin Kingdom see the divine power of my country!"

The emperors of all countries discussed for a while, and they all accepted this reality, anyway, it is absolutely impossible for the iron-smelting process of Cangguo to be passed on, and there is no specific codex and the construction method of the iron-smelting factory, even the workers inside can't tell the reason, and they don't have to think about it.

If you can't imitate it, you can't imitate it, it's better than nothing, although this batch of equipment is not much, but it is barely enough to equip an army of 100,000 people.

Empress Ruan's beautiful eyes turned, looked at Yang Mu and said, "What about our four countries?" ”

"This ......"

Yang Mu opened his mouth, and he was also a little troubled, Ruan State, Wei State, Cao State, Lan State, these four countries are far away in the northwest, and Cang State happened to be blocked by the Jin State, it is impossible to transport catapults, even the crossbow is possible, but it takes too long.

"Why don't you sell some horseshoes to you?" Yang Mu proposed.

Horseshoe?

What is this?

The emperors of Cao and Lan were very surprised, and their faces were puzzled.

The face of the Emperor of Wei was a strange one.

Horseshoe!

Isn't this what is nailed to a horseshoe?

Only Empress Ruan Guo looked moved.

Yang Mu saw the reactions of the four emperors, glanced at the Empress Ruan, and said, "Your Majesty should know the use of this horseshoe, right?" ”

Empress Ruan Guo was slightly embarrassed, like a child who stole things, and was seen through by adults.

In fact, the fact that Nguyen Guo was secretly developing cavalry on a large scale was unknown to the outside world.

Just like when Cangguo secretly formed the Qilin Legion, it was completely closed in a deserted place, and there were many bans, even the people of Ruan State, no one knew.

When Cang Guo learned about this, it was because Ruan Guo purchased 50,000 scimitars and 100,000 crossbows, so he guessed it.

Although all countries are trying to find cavalry, there is no doubt that at present, only Nguyen Guo is the only country that can be regarded as entering the house and getting on the right track.

When Yang Mu mentioned the horseshori, the empress of the soft country was moved.

Horseshoe, this is something that the Nguyen cavalry desperately needs!

At the beginning, when the cavalry was first formed, she didn't think that a few small horseshoes were of any use, so she didn't pay too much attention to it, and she didn't purchase it from Cangguo.

Over time, the importance of the horseshoe became apparent.

After two years of training, the horse's hooves came into contact with the ground, and they were quickly detached due to the friction of the ground and the corrosion of stagnant water, and the 50,000 war horses prepared by Ruan Guo before had not been on the battlefield once, and many of them could no longer be used.

The only way is to replace the war horse.

You must know that the price of a war horse is not cheap, calculated at the price of Ruan Guo, a war horse costs about eighty taels of silver, and fifty thousand war horses are four million taels, which is a great waste!

Not only that, but training new war horses has to waste time, manpower, material and financial resources, which can be described as a blood loss to grandma's family.

Ruan Guo didn't think about making his own horseshoes, but the iron he forged was either easy to step on, or after a few months of use, all of them rusted, and even caused the horseshoes of some war horses to rot.

Originally, Empress Ruan Guo was going to propose to Cangguo to buy a batch of horseshoes made of stainless steel after the completion of the discussion of the alliance, but she didn't expect Yang Mu to take the initiative to point it out.

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