Chapter 188: War is coming

Lorist didn't know that the second prince had made up his mind to use force against the Norton family, he even thought that the second prince's last letter was that the second prince had gone crazy, and he dared to put forward such harsh three conditions to the Norton family, what did he think of himself? He wanted to intimidate himself?

If it weren't for the fact that the family's energy was now focused on the development of the black mud swamp, Lorist really wanted to lead the family to teach the second prince a lesson. However, seeing that the second prince was gone, Lorist didn't care, thinking that the big word written on his reply should be regarded as a big slap to the second prince, which was enough to make him sober up.

At this moment, Lorist was standing on top of a huge wooden tank, and that's what Lorist called this latest steel crossbow chariot. In order to meet Lorlist's request, Master Fallin spent a lot of effort to build a huge super steel crossbow, about three times larger than the standard chariot steel crossbow, not to mention that the iron crossbow arrow of three meters and six long armor-piercing cone-shaped arrows alone was more than twice as heavy as the cavalry spear used by the Knights of Telman.

To accommodate the giant steel crossbow, Master Falin also worked with skilled carpenters to build a huge flatbed truck for easy movement and transport. When Lorist discovered that there were one, two, three, four, and five pairs of wooden wheels underneath the flatbed, he insisted on calling the seven-meter-long flatbed tank a tank.

Unfortunately, the tank did not have the main power of its own, moved slowly, and it took fifteen days to pull it from the crossbow-making workshop in the Blade Mountains to the black mud swamp with ten pack horses. Then a large wooden wheel sank into a small dirt pit. Lorist gathered fifty family soldiers and ten pack horses, and it took half a day to get the entire flatbed chariot.

"No way. Because the vibration of this super steel crossbow is so strong that ordinary cars will be shaken apart. So this flatbed truck is basically solid, and the estimated weight is more than 5,000 catties......" Master Falin explained a little embarrassed.

"Master Farin, what you made is a road roller, didn't you notice that the road that this flatbed chariot passed through was compacted and smoothed out?" Lorist smiled, "Tell me about the power of this super steel crossbow." ”

After this episode, Lorist thought it would be better to call it a flat chariot, although there were also five pairs of weight-bearing wheels, but there was no main power, and the difference was still too big.

"The main problem now is the relationship between the iron crossbow arrows, which are too heavy to be made of iron. It affects the range, but the lethality is doubled, and the direct shooting distance is about 500 meters, but we can guarantee that even if it is more than ten meters long, it is guaranteed to kill with one arrow. "Farin is very confident in the steel crossbow he made.

"Iron Spine Bay Crocodile! Be careful, Iron Spine Bay Crocodile is here, there are three of them! Left front, one large and two small! Combat vehicle steel crossbow attention, ready to fire!"

From the front came the shouts of the vigilant sentry. This has been a commonplace thing in the middle of the road for more than two months, and everyone is busy with their own things. Anyway, these Iron Ridge Bay crocodiles came to deal with the steel crossbows of their own chariot battalion.

Lorlist's plan to develop the black mud swamp in three ways at the same time, and the left road is the construction of the ditch and city wall from Woniugang to Turtle Mountain. The right road is from the Blade Mountain Range from the mountains to fill in the black mud swamp to the seaside highlands and hills of dozens of meters of drop, the mountains and rocks are rolling down, the momentum is amazing, the Iron Spine Bay crocodile will not go to join in the fun, and the Iron Spine Bay crocodile This kind of monster has no interest in the sea, and has always been far away from the sea, so this way does not need to consider the threat of the Iron Spine Bay crocodile.

That is, the middle road, to pave a road in the black mud swamp to the highland hills by the sea, from the black mud swamp to start filling in the soil to build the road, from time to time there have been Iron Ridge Bay crocodiles attacking, and the Iron Ridge Bay crocodiles were shot nearly 200 heads.

Lorist jumped down from the flatbed chariot and ran to the front to see that in the black mud swamp more than a hundred meters away, three muddy water ripples were paddling towards him. According to the display of muddy water ripples, Lorist estimates that the two small ones next to them should not be large, only three or four meters long, and the middle one is slightly larger, about seven meters. Just in time, you can try the power of this super steel crossbow made by Master Falin.

"You stand back, drive the chariot to the side of the flatbed chariot over there, and release these three iron-ridged crocodiles, the two smaller ones are in charge of you, and the larger one is picked by the super steel crossbow. Lorist ordered.

Lorist had to do this, after all, it would take half a day to move the flatbed chariot to where he was standing, and it would be better to step back the chariot in front of him and release the three iron-spine crocodiles.

The five charioteers in front were also very happy, in order to enhance the power of the steel crossbow, and in order to prevent the corpse of the Iron Ridge Bay crocodile that was shot from falling into the swamp and being drowned, they all lowered the Iron Ridge Bay crocodile fifty meters away from the roadbed before starting to shoot, so as to facilitate the harvest of the spoils. In this way, some of the huge Iron Spine Bay crocodiles pose a threat to the chariot, and the thick skin defense on these guys is too strong, and the one-meter-two-long iron crossbow arrows are often inserted into several and are still the same vigorous, and they must be shot in the head to be killed.

At this time, everyone wanted to see how powerful this super steel crossbow was, and they quickly retreated to the side of the flatbed chariot and waited for it.

The speed of the three-headed Iron Ridge Bay crocodile on the roadbed was greatly reduced between the rugged earth and rocks, and there was no agility and agility to navigate in muddy water, which also brought convenience to the aiming of the steel crossbow.

A deafening loud "boom" was followed by a "buzzing" and unsettling sound of wire crossbow strings. Lorist intuitively felt that a black shadow that could no longer be seen by the naked eye quickly swept past him, and the iron-ridged bay crocodile with a length of more than seven meters in front of him more than seventy meters away had been nailed to the ground, and he only struggled twice before he stood still.

"Okay!" Lorist roared excitedly, with such a super steel crossbow in his hand, are he still afraid of any four or five meters tall Iron Spine Bay crocodile?

Turning his head and wanting to praise a few words, the scene in front of him suddenly made Lorist dumbfounded.

I saw that the shooter who was aiming and firing was trembling like a swing, and the two assistants next to him were patting his shoulders and massaging his arms and body parts.

"What's wrong with him?" asked Lorlist.

"My lord, this is another shortcoming of this super steel crossbow. A person can only shoot once. Because the steel crossbow frame and wire crossbow string will vibrate after firing will make every archer who comes into contact with this super steel crossbow become like this. He had to rest for more than half an hour to recover. And I can't let him again today so as not to have problems with his body. But that's okay, we've got ten shooters for this super steel crossbow, which can come in one by one. Master Fallin explained.

Lorist took a closer look at the super steel crossbow and found that this huge steel crossbow was the same as the chariot steel crossbow, with only one support column underneath, but this support column was about three times larger than the diameter of the support column under the chariot steel crossbow. Above the support column was a large steel ball, and a hole was dug in the wooden beam underneath the super steel crossbow. Sleeve on a steel ball. In this way, it is convenient for this super steel crossbow to move up and down, left and right when aiming, and the shooter has to use his shoulders to hold the back half of the steel crossbow tightly, and after aiming, pull the crossbow machine and fire the crossbow arrow, no wonder it will be shaken like this by the vibration after shooting.

Lorist sighed secretly, and said that it was a big mistake to let Farin, the master of the bow and crossbow, improve the longbow, and he wanted the bow and cavalry battalion to replace it with a riding bow that could shoot on a horse that was not inferior to the longbow, but this matter was handed over to Master Farin but it was slow to make progress, and the main reason seemed to be that Master Farin had no ability to innovate.

Lorist asked him to design a powerful steel crossbow. Master Falin is to follow the cat and draw the tiger, and directly magnify the chariot steel crossbow by three times. Whether it's the size of the support column or the steel crossbow, this triple magnification is so perfect that people have nothing to say.

One person and one arrow, one person and one arrow, anyway, the chariot battalion is already a corps, there are many people, it's a big deal to line up and take turns, one person and one arrow will always kill those Iron Spine Bay crocodiles.

"Master Fallin, I'm very satisfied with this super steel crossbow. I'll bother you to make two more. I suppose there are three of these super steel crossbows, and then the Black Swamp Iron Ridge Bay crocodile is not a threat to our family soldiers. Lorist said.

"Yes, my lord, we will make two more super steel crossbows and send them to the Black Mudswamp as soon as possible. Master Farin smiled happily when he received Lorist's approval, and agreed to Lorist's request.

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At the end of May, Ovikis, commander of the 1st Guard Battalion of Rock Castle, sent a letter of arrows to Lorist overnight.

The messenger who sent the arrow book said that this arrow book was a knight who had come from under the rock castle at noon yesterday and shot the arrow directly at the castle tower and left. Lord Ovikis, the commander, found that there was a letter wrapped around the arrow, and when he untied it, he saw that it was written by Baron Norton himself, and he was in a hurry, so he did not dare to slack off, so he sent him to set out with a small group of men, and rushed for an afternoon and an all-night, and delivered the arrow book to Lorlist.

There is also a Z-shaped badge on the letter, which is a bit familiar. After thinking about it for a long time, I remembered that this was the family crest of Knight Henneid, that is, Baron Saheen. When he opened the letter, Lorist was furious, how could it be reasonable, he hadn't gone to the second prince to settle the account, but the second prince deceived the door.

Knight Henneid's letter was written very simply, meaning that he went to Gildusk to participate in the Northland Noble Association, and then heard the second prince announce at the meeting that he was going to crusade against the Norton family, accusing the Norton family of disrespecting the Iberian royal family, repeatedly disobeying the orders of the second prince, not handing over the annual payment, and accepting the canonization of the countdom of the Andinac royal family without authorization, which is tantamount to rebellion, so the second prince wants to send troops to fight.

Knight Henneid said that he had been placed under house arrest by the second prince, and the second prince forced him to send 10,000 horses to fight against the Norton family. Knight Henned said that he was trying to delay, and coupled with the friction of other Northland lords' troops, he expected that the second prince and the allied army of the Northland nobles would arrive at the Rock Castle before June 20 at most, hoping that Lorist would be ready to deal with it. In addition, the Earl of Kenmax was also under house arrest like him, and it is estimated that his family will also have to help in the war......

I don't want to participate in the so-called war game of those ambitious nobles who want to dominate the world, and I just want to develop the family territory, but why do people always put the idea on their heads, do they really think that the Norton family is a soft persimmon so easy to pinch? It seems that the lesson of Duke Lukins, the Grand Duke of the Northland, is not impressive enough, so use the chicken of the second prince to kill the chicken and make an example of the monkey, and see who else dares to provoke the Norton family, the angry bear of the Northland, in the future......

"The order goes down, all the working troops of the three roads that develop the black mud swamp stop their operations and stand by in the camp, all the knights of the three roads will arrive here on the same day, and I will hold a meeting......"

Lorist gave orders to the guards, and in an instant messengers carrying orders poured out of the camp and hurried to all directions.

At night, the small camp was crowded with dozens of family knights, many of whom were still covered in dust and mud, and everyone was curious why Lorist suddenly summoned the family knights to this meeting, was something wrong?

Reddy lifted the curtain on the back tent, and Lorist walked in with a tense face.

"Salute to your lordship!" Bodfinger shouted, and all the knights of the family in the camp stood upright and caressed their chests.

Loris nodded: "No excuses, sit down." ”

"Gather everyone here today, there is bad news for you. The second prince was mad, and last time he wrote to me, asking me to go to the audience, and also asked our family to send him 500,000 gold merit, and to hand over 10 million catties of snow salt to him every year as an annual offering, but I refused. Now he is going to call on the nobles of the Northland to send troops to conquer our family, and they will soon be in the city. ”

The big tent of "boom" suddenly burst into an uproar, and to Lorlist's surprise, almost everyone was excited, I really couldn't understand, are you so happy to fight?

"Locke, your plan is awesome, last time we asked us to change the arrow marks on the monster into sword stab wounds, and now a group of fools have come to the door and been beaten...... "Er said happily.

The black line on Lorist's face, the conscience of heaven and earth, the last time he ordered El to change the arrow marks on the monster to something else, the main reason why Lorist didn't want outsiders to know that his family already had such a powerful chariot steel crossbow, and the reason why wealth was not revealed Lorist still understood. Another reason is that Lorist also wants to use the scars on the corpses of those monsters to tell others that the Norton family is strong, and even such a fierce monster is still killed under the knives and guns of the Norton family.

It's a pity that Lorist didn't understand that the second prince was interpreting the scars on the corpses of these monsters from another direction, but instead came to the result that the Norton family's armed resistance to the monster tide suffered heavy losses, so he made up his mind to use force against the Norton family. If Lorist knew, he could only lament that his self-inflicted cleverness had brought about a war.

"My lord, please rest assured, with the strength of our family's armed forces, it is not a problem to defeat the second prince's alliance of the northern nobles. This time, we will not only defeat the enemy, but also capture more prisoners......" Bodfinger expressed his determination and fighting spirit to win this battle on behalf of all the knights of the family.

"Catch more prisoners? Capture prisoners and we need food, do you raise them?" Lorist scolded with a smile, not careless. It's a good thing that everyone has the confidence to win, but it seems to be too belligerent, and it's strange to hear that the war is approaching.

"It's a good thing to have the determination to win, but you can't be careless, our family is strong in armed strength, this time I want to teach the nobles of the second prince a profound lesson, and stop their jackal hearts that covet our family's territory and wealth. However, the situation on the battlefield is unpredictable, and everyone should be more careful, so as not to be bitten by a mad dog before victory comes, so that even if you win, it will be worth the loss, I hope you should pay attention. Lorist reminded.

"Since the enemy is coming to the door soon, we must also be prepared for battle. I now order that the development of the Black Mud Swamp be suspended, and that within five days the garrisons in the family domain be returned to their original places, ready to be mobilized at any time. All the regular armies of the families gathered at the Rock Castle to rest their armaments. Reserve soldiers who have been trained for two months in the new battalion should immediately be assigned to active duty, familiarize themselves with the new establishment as soon as possible, and be ready for battle. Lorist gave the order.

"Yes, sir!"

...... (To be continued.) )

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