Chapter 612: The fight can’t be finished, it can’t be finished at all!
At this moment, although the 'opportunity' is before us, some problems still need to be faced.
For example, military strength.
Although the other side has only a thousand troops stationed at the border, once the war starts, the other side will start recruiting troops. It should not be a problem to gather 3,000 troops at the border in a short period of time.
And when the lizard men cannot move, what should he do to deal with the three thousand troops?
Regarding this issue, Zhou Xu fell into deep thought.
In the past two years, they have been recuperating internally. While they are recovering and developing, new babies are also being born internally.
Now the total population has quickly climbed to more than 17,000 people.
And before summer comes next year, Zhou Xu is confident that their population in Great Zhou will completely exceed 20,000.
Here, although the human race can give birth, the lizard people with a larger population base are undoubtedly the main force in the reproductive population at this stage.
Among them, the existence of the ‘Sacred Incubation Pool’ also played a decisive role.
But even so, it cannot change the reality that the population has grown significantly. Now all of them are children, and there is no way to provide them with combat power or even labor force.
During the period, Shi Lei received a summons and came over to discuss the matter with Zhou Xu.
After all, if nothing unexpected happens, if Zhou Xu launches an offensive, then Shi Lei will most likely be the commander-in-chief of this expeditionary force, and his ideas are also very important.
Shi Lei already understood the internal and external troubles.
I have to say that judging from their king's analysis of the situation, it is indeed the best time to attack while the opponent's internal worries are still lingering.
But even so, this battle doesn’t seem to be easy to fight.
"Your Majesty, according to your statement, the opponent has a city and has the most basic city defense capabilities. With a thousand soldiers defending the city, we need at least three thousand soldiers to attack the city to have a chance of winning, let alone It is said that once the war starts, the other side should be able to urgently recruit one to two thousand troops to support the city defense in the short term."
Sitting opposite, Shi Lei analyzed the situation in front of him calmly and objectively.
“Indeed, our soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty have advantages in armor and weapons against the soldiers on the opposite side. At the same time, we can also feel from the previous simple battles that the individual strength of our soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty is very high. To be superior to the opponent, this is due to the strategy of elite troops that you have been implementing.”
"But even so, when the opponent has a city wall to rely on, it may be difficult for us to capture it."
At the end, Shi Lei reluctantly took action.
If you want to ask about the specific strength of the soldiers on the opposite side, Shi Lei must know better than him.
After listening to Shi Lei's words, Zhou Xu also had some new ideas.
“If quantity is not enough, then quality will win. In other words, without the city wall to rely on, our soldiers are capable of fighting, right?”
"As of now, that's the case."
Shi Lei nodded after thinking about it for a while.
"Then what if we can break through the city wall?"
When Shi Lei heard this, his expression was immediately stunned.
After that, before Shi Lei could think more, Zhou Xu announced the answer first.
"Three-bow bed crossbow!"
Shi Lei really didn't know much about this three-bow bed crossbow.
He probably knew there was such a thing, and then it disappeared. There is nothing that can be done about this, because the three-bow bed crossbow was originally manufactured to deal with the armored dragons of the lizard people.
The three-bow bed crossbows that were later built were all sent to the plain battlefield to fight the lizard people, and then sent to the southern border.
In addition, because ordnance is of vital importance, information cannot be leaked casually.
So here in the mountains, we haven't even seen the three-bow bed crossbow. It's no wonder that Shi Lei doesn't know anything about it.
Zhou Xu also knew about this, so he told Shi Lei about it.
After hearing this, Shi Lei was also surprised.
“Is this three-bow crossbow really so powerful?”
Zhou Xu nodded in affirmation.
“I’m not sure whether the city wall opposite can be breached, but it’s certainly not a problem to breach the city gate. Once the gate is breached, how can they defend it?”
< br>While talking, the two of them summed it up and immediately decided to send troops to the opposite world after the beginning of spring!
Although this is an opportunity, Zhou Xu is not in a hurry.
The previous unjust war on the opposite side has already laid hidden dangers. If they slow down their actions appropriately, they can ferment it better and further increase the internal strife on the opposite side. If it can develop on a large scale, they can start a rebellion. An uprising would be even better.
Of course, it's best not to wait too long.
The people are the people after all, and they have no weapons or armor, and at the same time they have not received any training. Once the opponent becomes ruthless and sends troops to suppress it, the annexed rebels have basically no chance of winning.
It is not difficult to see from the previous intelligence that Yan Sheng, who calls himself the First Emperor, is also a murderous master. If the annexed rebels dare to cause trouble, he will kill them without any ambiguity.
If he is killed cleanly, or killed too hard, the opponent will not dare to take the lead in a short period of time, then Zhou Xu's goal of suppressing the opponent through internal and external troubles will not be achieved.
After the order is issued, the troops are mobilized, and the needed materials are also mobilized immediately.
When the order came to the Black Moon Village Ordnance Forging Department, Wang Dachui was forging an iron scale on the forging platform with the hammer in his hand.
At that time, the pressure of the war was high. In order to achieve efficiency, after the iron scales were cast and formed, they were simply polished and then handed over to the armor making department to make scale armor.
There is no way, time is tight and the task is heavy, so a choice must be made.
In the past two years, the war with the Ratmen has stabilized, and the work pressure in the Ordnance Forging Department has also decreased, so naturally there is time to strengthen the scale armor.
Different from the previously casually polished iron scales, this batch of carefully polished iron scales are stronger. The scales made from them are internally referred to as second-generation scales.
Nowadays, the armor on their soldiers serving in the Great Zhou Dynasty has basically completed the replacement from the first generation to the second generation.
At this moment, the Ordnance Forging Department is still polishing iron scales to make spare scale armor.
Not only to allow the frontline soldiers to have spare ones to replace their scale armor after it is damaged, but also to consider that if they encounter war during the Great Zhou Dynasty, they will begin to recruit troops on a large scale. The new recruits who come up must also wear scale armor. We can't wait until then to start forging, right? Then where is the time?
In this way, according to the wishes of their king, there must be two thousand sets of spare scale armor stored in the arsenal.
This makes the Ordnance Forging Department completely inactive during this relatively peaceful period.
I have been so busy now that I have finally finished this ‘big list’.
As a result, before the hammer was put down in his hand, the order from their king came over.
Along with the conscription and troop deployment orders, there was also a list from their Ordnance Forging Department.
Good guy, I can’t finish the fight, I can’t finish it at all!
(End of this chapter)