Building infrastructure in a digital world

It took too long for two planes, and Anjie was not sure, but it was more than enough to use the shortened time to make one more.

Su You: "If you are sure that you can make more without affecting the quality of this mechanical equipment, then give priority to making the catapult. If there is still time left, then make more replacement parts."

The reason for choosing to make the catapult first is simple, because the catapult consumes nearly countless stone warehouses, but the crossbow arrows consumed by the city defense crossbow need to be made by Canglan, which takes a lot of time and a lot of materials.

Moreover, the production time of the catapult is one hour shorter than that of the city defense crossbow, so the time will not be too tight.

In addition, it is also necessary to prepare replacement parts.

Because she didn't know the scale and specific situation of the beast tide, Su You was not sure how many days the beast tide would last.

But even a small beast tide lasts three days, a medium one lasts five to seven days, and a large one starts at ten days, with no upper limit.

After three days of continuous use of these things, not to mention that the machine will not be tired, but the wear of the internal parts will definitely be serious, and they must be replaced in time. The use of parts cannot be saved, otherwise the entire machine will be scrapped.

"Yes, I understand. In addition to parts, I will also make a few more repair tool boxes..." An Jie understood what Su You meant and immediately said that he would do it, and at the same time, he decided to prepare some things on his own.

The maintenance toolbox is not a literal toolbox, but a prop that can continue to increase the durability and wear of the machine for a period of time after use.

Among them, durability affects the use status of the machine, while wear and tear affects the use quality of the machine. The difference between the two is similar to whether a mobile phone has power and a mobile phone whose hardware is aging and often lags.

"Okay, it would be best if you could make a repair tool box." Su You expressed great satisfaction that he could think about what items he needed to prepare.

"By the way, if possible, the lord can find a few people who are interested in machinery and let them come and study for a period of time. I dare not say anything else. At least I can guarantee that they will know the most basic mechanical maintenance by then!"

"No problem, people will be arranged to the machine shop no later than tomorrow morning." Su You recruited people for the machine shop not only to make the fault tolerance of this beast wave higher, but also because she felt that There are many work procedures in the territory that can actually be prepared for gradual mechanization.

Using physical labor as human power is always the last choice. Human beings' most valuable resource should be their brains with thousands of ideas, not their physical labor.

If you want to mechanize, the first thing that will hinder the mechanization process is the manpower problem, so Su You is not only ready to recruit people, but also prepares to recruit a few more talented people.

After all, unless a person without talent has such an adventure like Anjie, he will not make any progress in machinery in this life. At most, he can only do odd jobs for a lifetime. This is unnecessary.

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So far, all preparations for the beast wave have been carried out.

In addition to the items and props that need to be prepared, Su You also issued an announcement to organize a group of people——

Although there is still some time before the beast tide, manpower must be prepared in advance, otherwise if it is caught by surprise, it will definitely be too late to organize manpower by then.

If a very small situation occurs, for example, this incident does not imply a beast tide, it doesn't matter. Su You can still lead this group of people to solve the matter.

Anyway, this incident clearly requires combat effectiveness.While organizing manpower, Su You also began to look for ways to perfectly protect people without being discovered.

This search took two days...

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The past two days seemed calm, nothing happened, and even the beasts that were restless during the inspiration season gradually disappeared.

However, this is not only not a good thing, but also proves that danger is coming. In Su You's view, all this is just the calm before the storm.

In two days, Ain's city wall construction progress reached 90%. According to his plan, the construction of the city wall is expected to be completed at noon tomorrow.

Anjie's machinery production progress is only short of the last catapult.

Cang Lan even stopped what he was doing, handed it over to the apprentices around him, and personally built a thousand large and lethal crossbow arrows in two days.

These one thousand crossbow arrows, plus the crossbow arrows Su You had asked her to make in her spare time, totaled three thousand three hundred!
This amount looks like a lot, but it's actually not much.

There are five city-defending crossbows. On average, each city-defending crossbow can only use more than 600 crossbow arrows.

Using Doya's consumption in the battle with dark creatures as a reference, she consumed two quivers and a hundred arrows in less than half an hour.

Of course, the use and lethality of large machines like the city defense crossbow cannot be compared with the bows and arrows used by humans, but the arrows consumed every hour are at least 120, which is equivalent to two arrows per minute.

More than 600 sticks are only enough to last less than six hours.

Therefore, it is inevitable that the crossbow arrows are not enough, but it does not matter, because the city defense crossbow can also use ordinary arrows as ammunition, but because the ammunition does not match, the ordinary arrows cannot enjoy the attribute bonus of the city defense crossbow when attacking.

But the city defense crossbow, which can only fire one large crossbow arrow at a time, can fire at least five ordinary arrows at one time!
As the number of arrows increases, the attack range increases, the damage increases, while the accuracy decreases, the durability consumption of the city defense crossbow decreases, and the wear and tear increases.

According to the cost-effectiveness data specially tested, the most cost-effective one is to fire ten ordinary arrows at the same time. This number of arrows has a large range, high damage, and the accuracy will not be too outrageous. It is very important for the durability of the city defense crossbow itself. And the wear rate is not particularly fast.

There is quantity to make up for it. Even if there is no attribute bonus, the city defense crossbow can still use ordinary arrows, thus playing a huge role in battle.

As for the large crossbows, they were prepared by Su You for the 'Beast Boss Battle' later on.

The beast leader here does not refer to the battle with the beast leader of Black Snake's status, but the battle with the beast with the deepest degree of pollution, the greatest degree of erosion, and the strongest combat power in the pollution.

When fighting against this kind of beast leader, the damage of ordinary arrows is not enough, especially without the attribute bonus of the weapon, it is easy to be unable to break through the opponent's defense.

So at this time, the crossbow arrows come in handy.