"Lord, this is a letter sent back by Zhou Bai from Yizhou, the two groups of troops have arrived in Yizhou smoothly and safely, and they are now making every effort to expand the territory of Yizhou."

What Lu Shuang is holding in his hand is the letter that Zhou Bai brought back with carrier pigeons from Yizhou, although the system has canceled the remote call function between players, but the game map is so big, if there is nothing to replace the remote call function, only rely on the people of the post station to deliver the message, this change will be meaningless, so the carrier pigeon has been greatly enhanced in the last game update, and basically every force has purchased a few carrier pigeons from NPC pigeon farmers.

Not only is the carrier pigeon extremely fast, the worst carrier pigeon can move faster than a thousand per hour, and the advanced or even special carrier pigeon can travel at a speed of more than 5,000 kilometers per hour, although it cannot be called in real time like a long-distance call, but it can also make players accept this change. In addition, the carrier pigeon has a positioning function, as long as it is located, no matter where the carrier pigeon takes off, it can fly to the designated place, except for some special maps.

Lu Shuang carefully read the letter sent by Zhou Bai, which was not a report on the military situation, but in another letter about the military situation, the one in his hand was some letters written by Zhou Bai to Lu Shuang about his personal views.

"My lord, did General Zhou say anything in his letter?" Wang He said curiously.

"After reading the whole letter, in fact, there is only one thing he wants to say, that is, he hopes that I can find a city heart for him." Lu Shuang was also very helpless, and spread his hands and said: "I also want to take a few more city hearts, but if this thing is so easy to get, there will not be few forces that can build small cities now." ”

"However, my lord, the construction of Yizhou is not trivial, and the general thinks that it should be given a higher priority, and if it can be built as soon as possible, it will be of great help to the development of the territory and Yizhou." Wang Hedao.

"But the heart of the city..."

Lu Shuang sent a lot of eighth-order soldiers to find ancient ruins a long time ago, and in fact, he also found a few ancient ruins, but the success rate of successfully passing the trial land was only half, and only 3 of the 6 were successful, which is still a relatively high win rate, even if the super guild exerts all its strength, few can get the heart of the city through the trial land.

"If there is a heart of the city, I can send it to Zhou Bai immediately." Lu Shuang promised.

"Actually, we don't have to get the Heart of the City from the Land of Trials, we can get one through our own methods, and exchange the city for the city." Wang He proposed.

"For example?"

"For example, if you don't have a small city without walls, you can sacrifice it." Wang He said mysteriously.

"You mean Iron Sail City?" Lu Shuang remembered the two newly upgraded small cities, now only King Kong City is seeing the city wall, and it has not been built, as for the Iron Sail City, it is by the sea, there is a strong navy to protect it, and the demand for the city wall is indeed not very urgent, so Lu Shuang has not yet started to work on the city wall of the Iron Sail City.

"It's Iron Sail City." Wang He explained: "Now that Tiefan City has not yet begun to build its walls, if you choose one of the many cities in the territory, it is indeed Tiefan City. Although the downgrading from a small town to a township will mean that all the buildings that were built before that required the level of a small town to be built will disappear, it is the least costly way to do it for the overall situation. ”

"I saw in Wang Yue's report that several teams of soldiers have found traces of other ancient ruins, if there have been a few failures before, then this time, with so many king-level generals, and Wang Yue's younger brother Wang Zhe has been promoted to a king-level strategist, the certainty of being able to win an ancient ruin should be great." Under Lu Shuang's wide-casting tactics, news came one after another that several teams of soldiers had found ancient ruins, and if they couldn't pass the trial with a lineup like them, the difficulty of this trial would be too great.

"However, these ancient ruins are very remote places, even if they teleport over, it will take a lot of time to arrive, of course, the sooner the Yizhou side is solved, the better, we can send a large army over as soon as possible, so..."

Lu Shuang weighed it, it was undoubtedly the best choice to obtain the heart of the city through the trial place of the ancient ruins, but Wang He's suggestion was the fastest shortcut, and the key was that Zhou Bai did not object, and said: "In fact, Zhou Bai also said in the letter, if you can't find the heart of the city in a short time, it doesn't hurt to have Latte Sail City." Because Tiefan City is strategically positioned as a grain production area, it is not a military fortress like King Kong City, but like Feitian City, the city wall is dispensable. After all, Tiefan City can be said to have been built by Zhou Bai, and he has no opinion, and the others should not have much of a problem. ”

"Why don't we hurry up and discuss this matter with the officials? Ask them what they think. Wang He was worried that they didn't think it through properly and missed some aspects, and wanted others to give their opinions.

"There's no need for a meeting, it just happened two days ago, and everyone went their separate ways. Wang He, wait a minute, you pass on my order, write this matter in detail on the announcement, let the officials and the residents of Tiefan City express their opinions, and then collect and sort it out. However, the time limit is three days, if this matter is okay, and I can't get the heart of the city from the ancient ruins, I want to let Zhou Bai upgrade the small city in Yizhou as soon as possible. ”

"At the end of the day, I will notify the officials of the two places to cooperate and complete the task as soon as possible." Wang He hugged his fists.

Lu Shuang waved his hand to signal Wang He to arrange it now, he was the only one left in the huge study room, and the matter of canceling the qualification of Tiefan City was big or small, if the development of the entire territory was important, it was okay to sacrifice Tiefan City, after all, the impact on their side was not very great, and in the future, the heart of the city would definitely give priority to Tiefan City. And if you take the heart of the city from the small city with the city wall built, the entire city wall will collapse directly, and the loss will be even greater.

But what do the residents of Iron Sail City think, you have to pay attention to it, the current game is no longer the era when the lord said they would do whatever they wanted, and there should be many people who have opinions about exchanging the status of a granary for a city in Yizhou, a wild land in their eyes. But no matter what, it has to be done, Lu Shuang solicited their opinions, in fact, he wanted to tell them this information in advance, and make concessions through the feedback to achieve the effect of stabilizing the people's hearts.

"It's a pity that the teleportation array in Iron Sail City, fortunately, 10,000 gold can still be accepted." Lu Shuang thought to herself.

Lu Shuang continued to review the documents submitted below, one of which caught Lu Shuang's attention, this was also submitted more than a month ago, he approved Huang Shi to set up a special research and development department for new types of equipment, which said that a new type of crossbow had been developed, which was more powerful than the crossbow used by ordinary crossbowmen.

Now the crossbowmen in Flying Sky City use crossbowmen who can use arm strength to load, and the speed of changing arrows is not much slower than using a bow, but the power and range are limited by the crossbow, no matter how high-level soldiers come, the power is the same, at most, the speed of changing arrows and the number of times of changing arrows are above those of low-level soldiers, even if you use a fourth-order soldier or a fifth-order soldier as a crossbowman, it is no problem.

And this sample in Lu Shuang's hand is much larger than the crossbow used by their Flying City crossbowmen, the string strength on the crossbow is surprisingly large, Lu Shuang with the strength of his special general, the upper string feels like he has to use a little force, you must know that when he used the repeater before, he almost went up with a light pull, Lu Shuang was worried about whether such a crossbow would be used normally by the soldiers.

In addition to this sample, the people from the Ministry of Industry also sent a manual, and Lu Shuang read the instructions and learned that this kind of crossbow was originally called a stepping crossbow, also known as a crossbow, and when used, the strings are controlled with both feet, which can achieve a power that can not be achieved by the arm crossbow. Lu Shuang found an open space and tried the crossbow a few times, if the general crossbow can only shoot through the chain mail, then this kind of crossbow can at least shoot through the soldiers of the rope fish scale armor, and even the whole body armor made of 100 steels has great penetration, and the rate of fire and range of this crossbow are comparable to the dragon tongue bow of the fifth level bow, the advantage is that the crossbow can be used by the seventh or sixth order soldiers, and the dragon tongue bow can be used well by the eighth order soldiers, and the disadvantage is that the speed of changing arrows is too slow.

Lu Shuang remembered that in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period or the Qin and Han dynasties, there had always been this kind of crossbow, and it seemed to be called the material officer crossbow in the Qin State, and the salvo could exert a devastating power, if I could also form a material officer crossbowman...

However, this crossbow is so powerful, although it is a new equipment developed and developed, but the system will not make the cost performance of an item too high, Lu Shuang looked at the cost, the total cost of a crossbow is as high as three thousand copper coins, which is more than twice that of the dragon tongue bow. Bows and crossbows are different from the weapons and armor of melee soldiers, and the general cost is not too expensive, but the crossbow in front of me, which cannot be said to be very large, is amazingly expensive.

Fortunately, Lu Shuang has the money, and he made 30,000 crossbows, which is just 10,000 gold, but the effect on the army is very great, and he now wants to set up a special crossbowman and hand it over to the Heavenly Absolute Legion to use, or let the five thousand crossbowmen in his legion switch to tread crossbows. In the case of other legions, a part of the crossbowmen may be of great use in the war. 2k reading web