Lords Trying to Survive: Strategizing from a Rundown Yard

This baggage box is full of iron caltrops the size of a sea bowl.

Zong Shen had seen this kind of thing before, in ancient military documentaries.

Iron spiked obstacles were used by the military in the cold weapon era. In ancient wars, caltrops were spread on the ground to delay the enemy's movements. There were holes in the middle of the caltrops that could be connected in series for easy laying and collection.

The caltrops in this baggage box are different from the ones Zong Shen saw in the documentary, and are larger in size, but their functions should be similar.

The main threat from the sea bowl-sized caltrops is not the infantry targets, but the cavalry targets. Speaking of which, the group of heretics from the Calamity Church in Odo Village seem to be focusing on the aboriginal cavalry.

[Heavy-duty caltrops (green)]

[Quality: Excellent grade]

[Piercing damage: 67~70]

[Durability: 500]

(The heavy version of caltrops, the nemesis of heavy armored cavalry, can reduce the charge efficiency of cavalry. It is a very practical defense weapon. It can also be connected in series with tough ropes to form a caltrop net, which can wrap around horseshoes. better effect)

The heretics of the Calamity Raven Church are very afraid of the kingdom's cavalry, including the horse-blocking ditch dug outside the village and the iron caltrops in the baggage boxes, all of which are deliberately targeting the cavalry.

After preparing so many measures, I just had the word fear written on my face.

Now all these caltrops belong to someone from his clan. When Zong Shen was expanding his territory to deal with the herds of barbarian cattle on the grassland, he discovered that his territory's defense efficiency was very poor against enemies that could charge and attack.

Even the wild cattle on the grassland can easily rush under the city wall, and the outside is almost unobstructed. This must be improved.

First, wait for the crypt challenge to end, and then re-plan the future part of the city. All buildings will be divided according to regions, and then let Mariel slowly start to move, and first establish the prototype of the city.

The current city walls and lord's courtyard will be retained as the inner city, and no other changes will be made.

Zong Shen and his men did a little inventory. There were about 90 caltrops in one baggage box. There were 20 baggage boxes filled with these things, totaling 1,800 caltrops. Each of these caltrops were very heavy. Zong Shen's strength value felt a little dropped in his hand.

These large iron caltrops are completely black, with a layer of grease smeared on the surface for basic maintenance. If you are in the dark, you will not be able to see these things on the ground.

Especially when dealing with heavy armored cavalry, when passing by at high speed, the horse's hoof will be stepped on and fall to the ground. Each caltrop has three spikes with a length of 20 centimeters, which is enough to penetrate the horse's hoof. Even if it does not penetrate, it will make the horse slip. ,lost balance.

If it is laid on a large scale at an important pass, it can indeed delay the cavalry's offensive, either causing them to fall off their backs or terminating the charge. This thing is a conspiracy for the cavalry.

Zong Shen accepted them all. In the future, it would be a good choice to use them for territorial defense or as a reserve for general needs. If a large-scale war breaks out in the future, these caltrops will come in handy.

After collecting all the caltrops, there are still 10 baggage boxes left. These baggage boxes are all rectangular and are larger than other baggage boxes in terms of volume. I don't know what treasures are contained in them.

Zong Shen used his familiarity to split open the cover with his sword. Inside these rectangular luggage boxes was a strange ordnance.

Each baggage box contains two weapons, which look a bit like siege crossbows, but have a square box in front.

There is a palm-sized winch on the side, and a trigger similar to that of a crossbow. There is a safety card above the trigger. The trigger can only be pulled when the safety is pulled. This is also a protective measure to avoid accidental contact and Misoperation.

This thing is not small in size and needs to be set up before it can be used. There are two horizontal brackets at the bottom to support it when placed on the ground. There is also a convenient support point on the trigger. By adjusting it, the shooting direction can be adjusted at a small angle.

Judging from these structures, this thing is definitely a crossbow machine, and it is the kind of crossbow machine used to attack or defend cities. Judging from the size and weight, it is a small crossbow machine.

The huge box in front was covered by a sliding panel. Zong Shen reached out and pulled out the panel from bottom to top, revealing the ferocity hidden in the wall.

The box is divided into 120 squares, and each square contains a crossbow arrow.

In other words, this thing can fire 120 crossbow bolts at one time. According to the world of 12 people per squad and 120 people per squadron, this crossbow machine can be worth a squadron of crossbowmen firing one round at the same time.

Zong Shen's eyes lit up, this is definitely a good thing!

He stared at the crossbow machine, and its specific attributes began to emerge before his eyes.

[Storm Crossbow (Blue)]

【Lightweight Positional Crossbow】

[Quality: Excellent]

[Puncture damage: 89~92]

[Range: 210 meters]

[Shoot height: 100 meters]

[Sturdiness value: 600]

[Armor value: 15]

[Skill: Storm Shot lv10 (release all crossbow bolts in the specified direction within 3 seconds, causing 1.0 times puncture damage to all targets, and causing the enemy to enter a vulnerable state for 10 seconds, and the damage received will increase by 10%. This Skills have no cooldown)

Passive skills: single/three-shot mode (can switch between single-shot or three-shot mode, fire one or three arrows at a time)]

(A practical lightweight positional crossbow that can be used for long-range suppression. In single-shot mode, the accuracy is extremely poor. When the enemy is about to break through the front line, it enters a storm shooting state and pours all the crossbow bolts at once, causing a wide range of puncture damage)

This storm crossbow machine is indeed similar to what Zong Shen expected. It can carry out long-range suppression. In addition to being able to fire all the crossbow bolts at once, it can also fire with a single shot or three shots. However, with such a densely distributed firing hole, I don't think it has It doesn’t matter how accurate it is.

It's good for long-range suppression, and the crossbow arrows used by this storm crossbow machine are also ordinary crossbow arrows. Four sets of crossbow arrows are required for one refill, but the crossbow bolts and arrows can be recycled, so you don't have to worry too much. .

Now the front line of Zong Shen's territory is a big consumer of crossbow bolts and arrows. Most of the fired crossbow bolts and arrows are specially recycled at regular intervals.

Some bent and worn arrows need to be forged and repaired by the dwarf uncle. Basically, most of them can be reused without repair, so the problem of consumption is not a big deal.

Zong Shen closed the cover again and put the crossbow machine back into the box.

There are ten rectangular luggage boxes here. Each luggage box contains two storm crossbows. There are twenty storm crossbows in total. They can pour 2,400 crossbow bolts in a short period of time. It is definitely a bloody storm. .

However, this kind of crossbow takes two hours to load and five minutes to fire. After one round, it is not easy to fire the second round. Loading the crossbow bolts one by one and tightening the winch requires at least half of the time. hours of time.

They can only be used in groups and fired in turns.

Or just use it as the trump card of the position, without considering the second round, because one round will determine life or death.

No matter how you use these, they are good things that can strengthen the defense of the territory. Zong Shen takes them all!

I don’t know what the people of the Calamity Raven Church will think after they find out that all the secret supplies have been evacuated. This is undoubtedly a big blow to the church heretics in Odo Village.

The food problem is easy to solve, but the lack of [Heavy Caltrops] and [Storm Crossbow] will definitely have an impact on their ability to resist the crusade or the Knights.

After Zong Shen emptied all the luggage boxes, the entire warehouse seemed much empty. After repeatedly confirming that nothing was missing, he directly chose to go home.

Walk through the narrow space, return to the compartment, climb back through the hole in the fault of the city wall, and then return directly to the ground.

Luna is taking a walk nearby, and so far there are no suspicious people or other situations around her.

So Zong Shen immediately took out two loader mechas, greeted everyone to get on the bus, and immediately set off back to the territory without stopping too much.

But this time he didn't notice that as the tracks of the loader's mecha rolled over the ground and continued to advance, it also left obvious marks on the grass behind him...

These marks were intermittent, pointing to the location of Zong Shen's territory in the distance.

If there are no accidents, this kind of trace will disappear naturally in just a day or two.

But now, this is undoubtedly a big flaw and omission...

…

More than an hour later, Zong Shen had returned to the territory with the soldiers of the exploration team happily.

It was already afternoon. In the territory, Mariel and San Pang were simply processing some ingredients at the stove. Today, another batch of iron ore was put up for sale, and territory technology was also continuing to research.

After having Mariel, Zong Shen has indeed saved a lot of energy. Mariel has taken care of some trivial arrangements and work, including technological research and market sales. Usually, Zong Shen relies on Zong Shen to come and hang up a machine when he returns to his territory. Yes, now Mariel is basically watching around the clock.

The efficiency before and now are not the same.

Zong Shen stored all the supplies he obtained this time in the territorial storage box, leaving only some in his personal storage compartment.

The two gold diggers were still hanging on the arrow tower. Their bodies were covered with dust and dirt. They looked miserable. They looked like two beggars. They were surrounded by the smell of defecation. Even the three fat men would bring people here every day. I cleaned it once, but it still stinks.

They saw Zong Shen walking into the small courtyard, and they whimpered again, as if begging for mercy. However, Zong Shen still had no desire to deal with them. Now he would temporarily let them down at regular times every day, and give them saliva each time. Giving him a piece of barbecue seemed a bit inhumane, but at least there was no problem in saving one life.

Just hang him like this first, and then hang him for five or six days, and then talk about killing with vigor.

When the time comes, put on the shackles and send them directly to the mine to mine with the kobolds. Such a good mining talent cannot be wasted. I just found thousands of mining pickaxes in the mining area warehouse and the kobold warehouse. It's enough for mining to last a long time.

This time Zong Shen went directly to the cellar. He had built a cellar before, with a total volume of about 27 cubic meters. It was too small to store supplies, and the food could not be kept fresh, so it has been left idle here.

But now this cellar can be fully used. The cold storage blueprint requires frost gems, which he cannot make for the time being. But now that he has the frost raven, there is no problem in transforming the cellar into a replica cold storage.

Zong Shen contacted Colby and asked him to lead someone to carry the Frost Raven trapped into a rice dumpling to the entrance of the yard, and then prepare more than a dozen barrels of water.

After announcing that he was ready, he came to the entrance of the small courtyard, came to the front of the Frost Raven, and directly drew out the Guards' sword. The bright silver sword light flashed, frightening the Frost Raven to keep shaking its body. .

Zong Shen cut open the hemp rope binding its beak and pointed at the bucket on the ground with his sword.

"I'll lend you some cold air!"

"Freeze all these buckets into ice."

This kind of artificially cultivated monsters have a certain degree of intelligence and can understand simple instructions.

Sure enough, after Zong Shen finished speaking, its eyes looked at the barrels very smartly, but it did not act, as if it was hesitating whether to follow the instructions.

Zong Shen didn't know how to rub it with it. He raised his hand and took out a mottled and exaggerated epee with a "swipe" sound. It was the dragon-slaying epee.

This heavy sword once killed a giant dragon and was stained with dragon blood. Even if it is damaged, it is still a real killing weapon. It has a powerful deterrent effect on raptors such as the Frost Raven.

Zong Shen held up the Dragon-Slaying Heavy Sword with both hands and made a gesture on its neck.

"Oh, you are such a useless bird, why should I keep you?"

"Why don't you roast it and eat it? Such a big bird can still eat a meal!"

When the blade of the Dragon-Slaying Heavy Sword was about to touch its neck, all the feathers on its body stood up.

He quickly let out a whine and began to breathe cold air into the bucket in front of him.

A white cold air swept out and sprayed towards the bucket on the ground. The escaped cold air rolled up and blew around. Suddenly, the armor on Zong Shen and the wolf cavalry soldiers beside him began to condense with frost flowers.

The giant wolf under the wolf cavalry was even more agitated, and ice began to condense on its thick fur.

Zong Shen and the Wolf Cavalry took a few steps back, allowing Frost Raven to perform freely.

Just twenty seconds later, the dozen buckets on the ground were all frozen into ice cubes, and even a layer of ice appeared on the ground.

Zong Shen asked Colby to put all the ice cubes in the wood into the cellar, and laid a layer underground. Then he asked the Wolf Cavalry to bring more than a dozen buckets of water, and placed them on the Frost Raven again. in front of you and let it continue making ice.

The Frost Raven was about to cry. It was a serious bird of prey, and a magical beast that had mastered frost magic. It was served by big fish and meat every day in the church, and everyone respected it.

But everything is different here!