Chapter 15 Preparations (Part 2)

Discover problems, find answers, and solve problems in practice.

In the past few days, Xiao Yu repeated this process in Lilliputian and reality, and felt extremely fulfilled.

Relying on his good habit of asking experts on professional forums when he didn't understand, coupled with the good craftsmen invited by General Babu, he finally made the first giant collapsible trebuchet in Lilliputian.

The whole machine is composed of 50 standard parts, and the key parts are all extravagantly used wrought iron fasteners. When folded, it is five meters long and can be carried on wheels. Trebuchet.

In Lilliputian, this trebuchet can be said to be an epoch-making war machine, not only easier to transport than the large-scale equipped catapults and ballistas of the same era.

The most important thing is that the effective range of this trebuchet exceeds the 800-meter distance of the war machine ballista with the longest range at present, reaching an astonishing 2,500 meters!

If the projectile is lighter than a standard stone bullet, the range can be improved!

Moreover, Xiao Yu used a lot of mathematical knowledge and classic formulas when training the artillerymen, so that the attack accuracy of the trebuchet was much higher than that of the ballista.

As for the catapult with a range of three or four hundred meters and a mess of accuracy, there is no need to even compare it.

And when the trebuchet was successfully developed, and when the large amount of wrought iron brought by Xiao Yu began to manufacture parts in an assembly line, General Babu's plan to attract the barbarians also succeeded with the help of Xiao Yu's rice.

After promising that he would have two full meals a day during his service in the army, and that he would be given five grains of rice for each enlisted soldier, fifty or sixty thousand barbarians came from all directions in a short period of time.

These barbarians have been struggling to survive in the wilderness. How many years have passed, and the number of barbarians living in the vast wilderness has never exceeded 100,000 people!

The old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled among them are almost all spontaneously eliminated by the cruel environment. Nature itself has formed a restriction on the population of the barbarians, so they have cultivated them to be indifferent to life and death, greedy for immediate benefits but keeping their promises. habit.

It's not that no tribe came here with the idea of ​​robbery from the beginning, but after seeing Xiao Yu, the protector of the kingdom over 100 meters tall, these barbarian tribes became more honest.

"Let me see, is this the list of supplies needed for tomorrow?" Xiao Yu would stay at the camp every day until the evening before going back, and would bring the supplies needed for the camp the next day.

"The weapons and armor of the barbarians need a lot of wrought iron. This is simple, and a hundred catties should be enough."

Xiao Yu whispered, and suddenly thought of his increasingly shriveled wallet.

In order to facilitate the transportation of supplies, Xiao Yu bought an electric tricycle, which saved Xiao Yu a lot of effort, but his wallet was almost at its limit, and if Xiao Yu wanted to buy large items, he would have to swipe his credit card.

But after returning home and using the computer to sort out the data captured by the camera, Xiao Yu felt that it was all worth it!

These few days Xiao Yu paid tens of catties of rice and wrought iron, but it was not in vain.

After learning that Xiao Yu was interested in human cultivation methods, Enrique presented the royal family's knight cultivation secret book.

At the same time, all the knight training cheats that could be collected in the world were sent to Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yu controlled the camera to scan them page by page.

By understanding the secret method of knight training in Lilliputian, Xiao Yu roughly understood its working principle and the basis for obtaining extraordinary power.

However, he was not in a hurry to practice, because according to the instructions, ordinary people who want to become knights need a large amount of supplies and special knight-level medicines when practicing, and they should also conduct a test on their own attributes. Choose the right path to step into the extraordinary.

Otherwise, half the effort will result in half the effort, and there is a danger of going mad!

Xiao Yu already had such a huge advantage, why would he take risks for a moment's convenience?

After the king's capital is captured, use the special equipment of the king's capital to test the attributes before practicing.

It's a pity that wizards are just too or at least too mysterious.

In the borders of the Kingdom of Steel, apart from knowing that wizards either live in seclusion or belong to a certain academy, practicing witchcraft costs more money than knights, and pays more attention to personal understanding and innate aptitude! The rest of the information is mostly blank.

Not to mention being able to get the practice methods of wizards.

Xiao Yu was not angry either. In his opinion, as long as he really became the protector of the Steel City Kingdom as planned, would he be afraid that those wizards would not give in?

But when it comes to wizards, you really have to pay attention.

The spells of wizards are all kinds of strange, and there are not a few of them that have strange effects. It is also heard that the magic power of official wizards is several times or dozens of times that of apprentice wizards. If you are not prepared, once the boat capsizes in the gutter, it will be a shame!

Back home, Xiao Yu took a rest, firstly prepared the materials to be transported tomorrow, and then sat in front of the computer to organize the information collected today into various files.

The customs and landforms, the hearsay and rumors, the customs and family system of the nobles of the Kingdom of Steel.

After Xiao Yu sorted out the materials and edited them, he thought about it and opened a certain secret document.

"The rumors involving wizards and suspected world wonders in the Kingdom of Steel City over the past five hundred years...how can there be no reason for it? These rumors will more or less involve the abilities mastered by these wizards!"

Xiao Yu cheered up, while watching and guessing the truth of the rumors, looking for ways to deal with them.

On the side of Iron Furnace City, the capital of the king, under the influence formed by Grand Duke Yanan over the years, a large number of noble private soldiers, desperate mercenaries and even reinforcements from non-human tribes gathered together. A branch of the legion.

In the farms on the outskirts of the royal capital, a large number of horse-drawn carts pulled the grain out of the cellar as military rations.

The blacksmith shop in full swing is making a new type of super large armor-piercing arrowhead.

Armament depots that had been stored for many years were also opened one by one. As dozens of responsible persons were beheaded, many arms dealers were held accountable, and a large amount of weapons and equipment were taken out to arm those hard-working mercenaries.

At the same time, crates of gold coins and silver coins were brought directly to the school grounds, and the cronies arranged by Grand Duke Yanan distributed them on the spot.

As for the former quartermaster, he is hanging on the city gate tower waiting to dry.

On the tallest watchtower in Wangdu Square, overlooking the endless barracks below, Grand Duke Yanan was full of spirit:

"Wizard Marfa, my best friend." He said to a white-robed wizard beside him, "See, this is the foundation of my Yanan family!"

"In the entire kingdom, only I can gather so many troops! And rule them all!"

"I! I am the real king of this kingdom!"

"The giant, if one legion is not enough, then use two! Three! Even ten legions to deal with it!"

"If 3,000 people are not enough, then use 10,000 people! If 10,000 people are not enough... then use 100,000 people!"