Then Qin Fan went to Lu Tie's Qianji Pavilion again, Lu Tie's trebuchet was basically the same as he imagined, and it also used the principle of winch projectile to kink together a large number of elastic cow tendons and animal leather, and after flexibility treatment, it could produce great elastic force, enough to smash a certain amount of stone from three or five hundred meters away to the city wall.

This kind of trebuchet can not only throw stones, but also throw fire oil fills, and fire different shells according to the needs of different battlefields.

Lu Tie carefully inspected the trebuchet in front of him that was four meters high, three meters long and three meters wide, and eight groups of iron-inlaid wooden rollers were set up underneath, although this thing was powerful, but it was extremely cumbersome, and one required twenty people to participate in transportation and launch, so it was generally used in the battle of attacking the plain terrain or in the city defense battle.

"Mr. Lu, I've worked hard for you this time, this trebuchet is really very well-made!"

"Do your best for the son, don't talk about the hard work, the son will come with me."

Lu Tie was elegant and humble, and he didn't seem to value fame and fortune, so he took Qin Fan to the back of the trebuchet, where there were black balls the size of pumpkins, just like briquettes, but there was still a ring of fire outside the briquettes, which seemed to be an ancient cannonball.

"This is a thunderbolt specially developed by Lu Diaoying for trebuchets, which is wrapped in pulverized coal and lime, and stuffed with iron balls, nails and black powder. The explosion is amazingly powerful! ”

It's amazing, this is the original version of the artillery, but this weight is really enough, Qin Fan is becoming more and more interested in weapon research and development, and the bugs encountered by Qin Fan are destined to make it impossible for him to join or create an alliance by himself, because it will expose himself one hundred percent. So how to fight against the growing players in the later stage with limited strength is an important problem in front of him, and the development of weapons that can exchange for heavy casualties of the enemy at a very small price is naturally Qin Fan's development direction.

The production of trebuchets was small, with only five per day, which was the maximum production after the Twin Bolts were shut down. Although its powerful penetrating power has a defensive advantage in the face of enemy hoplites and shield warriors, the blasting ability of the Thunder Rocket can also play a role in breaking defenses, and even the effect of killing far exceeds that of twin crossbow arrows.

Then Qin Fan inspected the rocket battalion again, Qin Fan's fifth-order village warrior transferred from Tianya Town has been transferred to a rocket soldier, this type of army sounds unusually advanced, but the weapon is stuck in the primitive firearms era.

As soon as he came down from the mountain, a herald came to report, Xinglong asked to see him, Xinglong, as Qin Fan's intelligence officer, would definitely not notify him of trivial matters under normal circumstances, and once he took the initiative to find him, it would definitely be an urgent matter.

Xinglong waited for a while on the edge of the bamboo building where Qin Fan lived, and finally saw Qin Fan walking quickly, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Childe, recently, there is a group of people and horses gathered outside Fengzhou City, and the number has exceeded 120,000, and it seems that they are preparing to attack the city. I think we occupied Redwood in preparation for the capture of Toyoshu, and now is the opportunity to take Toyosu! ”

"Someone wants to attack Fengzhou?" Qin Fan was surprised: "Who is so bullish, he can gather more than 100,000 troops, how many people are there in Fengzhou Jinbing?" ”

"10,000 fifth-order lancers, 10,000 fifth-order sword and shield soldiers, archers, and spearmen!" Xinglong said.

"Originally, I thought that a big city like Toyosu was unbreakable and strong, but now it seems that it will be easy to take it. Okay, let's have a grass and beat the rabbit, all the way to the push! ”

Hongmu is one hundred and twenty miles away from Fengzhou, and Qin Fan, Xinglong, Ji Bing, and Li Yiyi went to Fengzhou overnight to investigate the news.

However, the actual situation is much more complicated than Qin Fan imagined, and it is not the old guild that is ready to attack Fengzhou, but the local alliance formed by itself: Backfire!

According to the news learned from the Toyosu Teahouse, Backfire is currently the largest alliance in Datong Prefecture, with a total number of tens of thousands. However, because the members are scattered, and a large part of the army's strength can only be enough to protect themselves, the number of people who can be pulled out to participate in collective battles is small, but for other small alliances, it is quite strong to be able to gather more than 100,000 troops in just three or two days.

The reason why it is said to be the main attack is because Backfire also found several alliances to guard his perimeter security and avoid being robbed by others. And the two alliances involved in the defense have fought against Qin Fan, one is the Chiba Alliance, and the other is the Black Tiger Alliance.

After the fiasco in Redwood County, Black Tiger and Chiba seem to have calmed down to develop logistics, and now they have grown to two or three thousand people, but the Chiba Alliance is a sub-alliance and the same as the Seventeenth Alliance of Dark Lin, and its strength in the whole region should not be underestimated.

The remaining one is a small alliance that Qin Fan has never heard of: Macho ......

Thanks to the last chaos event, the players' troops are now starting to spread to the third order, and at the same time, players have obtained a lot of war horses by strangling horse thieves and some Tianwei rebels. Therefore, almost half of the alliances besieging Fengzhou this time are third-order troops, and there are also third-order cavalry troops with a number of nearly 10,000.

It took about a day of effort, Qin Fan roughly counted the strength of the player troops near Fengzhou, and the total number of troops in Backfire had increased to 170,000, including 10,000 cavalry. The 40,000 infantry of the Chiba Alliance is mixed with a small number of cavalry, the Black Tiger Alliance has 50,000 infantry with 5,000 cavalry, and the Macho Alliance has 20,000 infantry. In addition, the Seventeenth Alliance of the Dark Lin on the periphery organized 60,000 troops, and it seemed that they wanted to make some small moves.

"So, a city of Toyosu has gathered more than 300,000 troops? What are these alliances of Black Tigers trying to do? Could it be that there is a deal? Qin Fan was a little puzzled, but he then opened the map and seemed to understand a little.

The Black Tiger and Chiba Alliance currently control one county each, and these two counties are very close to Fengzhou, estimated to be only twenty or thirty miles, so the Backfire Alliance has the strength to eat these two counties, but Backfire did not choose to forcibly push them away.

In this way, Backfire can completely threaten and force the two alliances to help them seize Toyosu, after all, even the two alliances together are no match for him.

Qin Fan compared it to know why Backfire would give up the two counties and take Fengzhou, the combined population of the two counties is 60,000, while Fengzhou is only 50,000. However, as one of the only three or five major cities under the jurisdiction of Datong Prefecture, Toyosu has tens of thousands of permanent freelancers.

The functions of the big city are complete, and the surrounding quest NPCs and monsters (bandits, horse bandits, ruffians, hooligans, and rebels) are quite dense, and the explosion rate is also high, attracting a large number of players to pour in. The consumption tax generated by these players in various aspects such as equipment supplies, food, accommodation, and travel is extremely considerable, and the income is far higher than that of the two counties.

In order to avoid the situation of Redwood County during the siege of the city, Backfire reached an agreement with several alliances of the Black Tiger, one main attack and several auxiliary defenses, so that even if someone wants to be a fisherman, they will be bitten off a few pieces of meat and return empty-handed.