Above the city, everyone's eyes were following the last stone bullet.

The giant stone bullet weighing more than 100 kilograms fell from the air with the whistling sound of wind. Everyone ran around wherever they landed. With a loud bang, the flat ground above the city suddenly sank a large piece of it down. A huge sense of vibration came, and the objects placed around them jumped up involuntarily, and then fell around them in a sensation.

This was the last stone bomb, because the Wuwei army siege was slowly retreating, and the defenders on the top of the city watched them slowly retreat.

No troops left the city to pursue, because in the earlier days, the price paid was much more than the gains obtained when the enemy retreated.

There are too many crossbows in the Wuwei Army.

The previous few times I went out of the city to counterattack, and wanted to take advantage of the Wuwei army's retreat to boost morale, but in an instant, I was subjected to several rounds of crossbow-covered shootings, and the defenders in the city suffered heavy losses.

Even when retreating, the Wuwei army maintained a stance that could counterattack at any time. The infantry retreated, the cavalry swept left and right, and the crossbow archers were on guard. When the two sides merged into one, the crossbow archers slowly retreated and the infantry stood in line. This repeated, without giving the army in the city any chance.

The Wuwei army retreated very cleanly, and even the bodies of the Wuwei soldiers who died in battle at the city would be taken away by them.

God knows why the Wuwei Army has so many crossbows.

A crossbow is valuable. Whether it is a crossbow or an arrow, it is much more expensive than an ordinary long bow and feather arrow. Although it also has many benefits, for example, it does not require too much training. Unlike a qualified archer who needs long-term training, you can get started in a short time by using a crossbow.

Wuwei's crossbow shooting is all covered. Once it is shot, it will be a vast area. Tian Ping just roughly estimated that after half a day of attack this morning, Wuwei was afraid that it would shoot nearly 100,000 crossbow arrows. This is not a war, it is a money to smash people.

Tian Ping really couldn't understand why Li Ze was so rich.

Although Li Ze's territory is very large now, there are only a few places that are truly wealthy. More places cannot be compared with places like Wei Bo Zhaoyi, let alone towns like Xuanwu. Even these towns cannot arm the army like Wuwei. For example, the Hedong Army, which attacked Luzhou in the direction of Changzhi Tunliu, is only 20,000 to 30,000 elite armored soldiers at the moment.

Wei Bobing is a well-known army in the world that can conquer and fight, but the armored rate of the army only accounts for more than 50%, and Xuanwu is the same, like Zhaoyi, which can only account for 30%. These people are the real elites of the army. But in today's battle, all the soldiers of Wuwei were wearing armor. Although many of them were only half-armed, it would be terrible if we consider the total force surrounding Luzhou by Wuwei, it would be tens of thousands of troops.

Tian Ping couldn't figure out why Wuwei was so rich, but he knew very well that although the Wuwei army had fought for so many days, it never really tried its best. Compared to when they attacked the defense line outside Luzhou City, the intensity had dropped by several levels.

After being severely attacked by the Wuwei army, the most tenacious troops only stood for one day. But when they reached the city of Luzhou, they seemed to be in a hurry.

Holding the battlements, he stared at the place where the Wuwei army was ramming the earth to build the wall several miles away from the city wall. Now the wall has been built about ten feet long.

The Wuwei Army was building such earthen walls on the outer periphery of Luzhou City. When the construction was completely steep, Luzhou City was completely closed and completely dead.

He sighed, turned around and walked down the city. According to the past few days, today's battle was just like this.

Several soldiers held hammers and were hammering the huge rock that had fallen on the city wall, hitting it into a small stone weighing several kilograms or more than ten kilograms. They could also be used when the Wuwei Army attacked.

Wei Bo's army has rich combat experience and no need for the commander to give it to all the soldiers, and they know how long it will take to use the things they can use. Who knows how long this offensive and defensive battle will take? Maybe in the end, even the house will be demolished to prepare defensive equipment.

Tian Ping was watching the newly-launched rammed earth city wall in the distance, and what he didn't know was that, just opposite him, on a soil tampered behind the rammed earth city wall, a group of people were also looking at the Luzhou city in the distance.

This person is Li Ze, the coach of Wuwei Festival.

Around him, senior generals from Wuwei gathered, and the most eye-catching one was a childish boy.

Ordinary military generals don’t know them, but these senior generals all know that this boy is one of the most noble people in the world, Li Ke, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, the Crown Prince Li Ke is just a student of discipline by Li Ze’s side.

Li Ze was playing with a crossbow in his hand.

Li Ze looked at the crossbow that looked very ordinary, but he looked at it repeatedly in his hand like he was looking at a baby.

"Jie Shuai, this is produced by Dezhou New City." Cao Xin said enthusiastically: "According to Jie Shuai's requirements, the craftsmen there made what Jie Shuai said. After unifying the standards, each workshop only manufactures a certain part of the crossbow, and then assembles it. In this way, the manufacturing speed of workers has greatly increased, but the scrap rate has been greatly reduced. Now, Dezhou New City can produce 200 such crossbows every day."

"There is nothing more than just a skillful person." Li Ze smiled and turned to look at Li Ke beside him: "Your Highness, can you tell that in addition to improving production efficiency, does this crossbow have other benefits?"

Li Ke shook his head ignorantly. In fact, he had not yet come back to his senses from the shock of the fierce offensive and defensive battles of the two armies. In the eyes of Li Ze and other generals, the usual battles before were extremely fierce in his mind.

The deafening war drums, the roaring and flying stone bullets in the air, and the black feather arrows like locusts, made him, who had never seen a real war scene, shook his heart for it.

The dripping blood, flying limbs, burning flags, and destroyed weapons all left a heavy mark in his heart.

Is this how the war looks like?

Listening to Li Ke's answer, Li Ze smiled and reached out to ask for another crossbow bow. He skillfully removed the two Bing crossbow bows, and then mixed all the parts together.

"Please look at your highness!" Li Ze randomly selected one parts after another. In a flash, he reassembled the two crossbows, took two crossbow arrows from Li Mi's hand, pressed them on the crossbow, raised the crossbow and aimed at the earth wall in front. Two sounds of collapse, the two crossbow arrows broke out of the air and pierced deeply into the earth wall, almost without feathers.

"Do your Highness understand?" Li Ze asked with a smile.

"These things can be mixed." Li Ke suddenly realized. "A crossbow is broken and broken, and their other parts can still be used. A few bad bows can be used, and a new bow may be reorganized."

"Your Highness is indeed smart." Li Ze said: "This is the benefit of unifying standards. A crossbow is expensive. If a component is broken, the entire crossbow will be broken and cannot be used, and the loss is too great. But now, there is no such worry. In fact, it is not just a crossbow. In Wuwei, all equipment production, we are now implementing the same standard, bed crossbow, stone catapult, armor, etc., which will save us a lot of money, and of course, there is still time."

"Although the crossbow is powerful, I don't think it's very lethal today. Unlike General Li Hai, you can shoot an enemy with one arrow." Li Ke said.

Listening to this childish answer, the generals above the Tuluo laughed. Knowing that he must have said the wrong thing, Li Ke blushed.

"Your Highness doesn't know how many sharpshooters like General Li Hai can have in the world? Cultivating an archer, let alone General Li Hai, is ordinary, and there is not much power in a few years. The archer has too high requirements for soldiers. The crossbow has no big requirements. For example, the range of the crossbow is provided by the crossbow itself. Soldiers only need to be able to raise the bow and shoot. This kind of covert shooting does not require them to have any accuracy. Even if a blind cat hits a dead mouse, it is much stronger than an archer. An archer has to rest after shooting three or five arrows, but the crossbow can keep shooting without any physical worries."

"So that's how it is!" Li Ke nodded.

"The only disadvantage is that it is costing money." Li Ze smiled and said, "In the battle this morning, we shot more than 100,000 crossbow arrows. A crossbow arrow, including labor and cost, costs about twenty to thirty cents. Today, we spent more than three thousand straits alone."

Li Ke was stunned.

"After the war starts, the money flows out like flowing water, so many places that were originally very rich, after a few wars, they will become poor and have to exploit the people. If they exploit the people ruthlessly, the people will inevitably rise up and resist. This has become a vicious cycle, which will eventually lead to the collapse of the situation."

Li Ke gasped for a few breaths and asked, "But Taifu, you have been fighting, but why are you getting richer the more you fight?"

Li Ze laughed: "It depends on everyone's ability to govern the local area. Your Highness, do you want to learn?"

"Of course I want to learn." Li Ke nodded repeatedly.

"Okay, but if you want to learn this, it is a very complicated and huge task, and it is an extremely hard thing!" Li Ze looked at Li Ke with a smile.

"I'm not afraid of hard work. For the sake of the revival of the Tang Dynasty, I can bear no matter how much hardship it is." Li Ke said loudly. "Tao Fu, are you willing to teach me these real abilities, right?"
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