Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 943 Launch Action
From the early bed crossbows to the current heavy individual crossbows, the Great Zhou can be considered to be experienced in making crossbows.

But even so, there are only twenty-one people with Zhuang Mengdie as the core who have the ability to manufacture the core structure of the crossbow.

To this end, Zhou Xu also specially arranged a team for the twenty people other than Zhuang Mengdie. Their daily work was to constantly polish the core mechanisms needed to manufacture the crossbow.

As for other parts that do not require such high precision, they are left to their apprentices.

When these apprentices' skills improve to the point where they can polish these fine parts and assemble core structures, they can be converted to full-time employees.

After years of hard work, the number of three-bow crossbows and city defense crossbows within the Great Zhou has basically been built enough, and the work intensity can be gradually reduced.

They also thought that work would be easier this year.

Who would have thought that, unexpectedly, they would be given a single-soldier crossbow.

You know, the smaller and more delicate the parts are, the more difficult it is to polish them.

The newly developed heavy-duty individual crossbow is the smallest crossbow currently available in their Great Zhou. The polishing of these parts requires more effort, which can be clearly felt when watching their minister making the test product.

What's even more terrible is that, considering the nature of this heavy individual crossbow, their Majesty wanted to form a crossbow unit, and the initial plan set the size at 500 people.

That means they need at least 500 heavy crossbows for individual soldiers! At the same time, considering the problem of damage and replacement, they have to make another 200 to 300 as backup on top of the 500.

How many of the three-bow crossbows were built before? How many of the city defense crossbows were built?

Just thinking about the seven or eight hundred heavy individual crossbows in front of them made them feel dizzy.

But Zhou Xu obviously didn't care about all that. He would allocate sufficient funds to you and you could choose whatever staff you needed. As a ruler, he had done everything he could, and the specific manufacturing and production would depend on themselves.

Time passes quietly in the busyness, and winter is coming to an end.

During this period, Soros, who was in the southern border, had used a carpet search to completely clean out the ratmen who had intruded into the southern border of their Great Zhou.

Now, judging by the time, it is almost time for their troops stationed in the southern border to launch follow-up operations.

Before the main force set out, the first to take action were the reconnaissance troops.

In fact, the reconnaissance team's mission basically never stopped throughout the winter.

After all, the ratmen from the Corrupt Clan on the opposite side had already had a brain storm in the fall, and no one can guarantee that they won't have another brain storm in the winter.

At that time, a large-scale wave of rats will be sent to fight them. If they are not prepared, they will suffer heavy losses.

To this end, it became a very important task to send out reconnaissance troops to monitor the rat people's territory from a long distance while ensuring their own safety and confirming the situation on the rat people's border.

After almost a whole winter, the ratmen from the Corrupted Clan behaved unexpectedly obediently. Judging from the situation, the battle in the autumn really hurt them.

This also invisibly gave Soros and his team, who were about to lead a large army, some confidence.

During this period, the reconnaissance troops received follow-up orders and officially launched further reconnaissance operations.

Unlike the long-distance surveillance before, the reconnaissance troops, knowing that the main force was about to set out, began to act more aggressively. They even began to frequently penetrate into the ratman territory, just to obtain as much intelligence as possible from the opposite ratman, to provide assistance for the subsequent attack of their southern border troops.

In the process, they inevitably came into conflict with the Skaven border patrols.

Without sufficient troop support, the combat effectiveness that the ratmen squad could demonstrate was very poor, and several armed conflicts basically ended with the victory of the Lizardman reconnaissance troops.

According to the situation of the rat people, they naturally would not care about the casualties, but this does not mean that they can tolerate the Lizardmen, their mortal enemies, acting recklessly in their territory.

On the ratman side, the patrol team's strength increased rapidly. In fact, it could no longer be called a patrol team, but more like a small troop.

And there are many small forces like this near the border. Once they find any trace of Lizardman reconnaissance troops, they will immediately send out a signal.

At that time, the surrounding troops will gather here as quickly as possible and attack together!
Faced with such a situation, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, the Lizardman reconnaissance troops wisely chose to retreat temporarily.

At the same time, back at the Southern Fortress, they had been preparing for this battle throughout the winter.

Everything that needs to be prepared has already been prepared.

Now that the time has come, with Soros's order, the large army officially set out, advancing steadily towards the territory of the ratmen.

While maintaining their condition, the large force moved from their southern fortress to the border of the ratmen's territory, a journey of about five days.

After arriving at the front line, Soros did not rush to launch an offensive.

Their whereabouts must have been exposed long ago, and the ratmen on the opposite side were already on guard anyway, so there was no need for them to rush. It would be better for them to let the soldiers who had just completed a wave of marching have a good rest for three days and adjust their condition.

Soros is extremely experienced in fighting against the ratmen, and his performance throughout was as steady as an old dog.

During this period, facing such a steady southern border army, the rat people became anxious before they officially took action.

It was all because of the battle in autumn, which really caused them to suffer heavy injuries.

In addition, the intelligence information brought back by the deserters also invisibly caused some panic among the rat people.

This wave of fighting has already doubled their pressure before it even started.

After receiving the news now, from the perspective of the ratmen, how could they allow the southern border troops to rest in peace?
Basically, Soros and his men had just arrived at the front line when a large swarm of rats broke into their field of vision.

Looking at the tidal wave of rats sweeping towards them in the distance, Soros did not show much surprise on his face. It was obvious that he had been mentally prepared.

"Form a formation! Fight back!"

Drawing the sword from his waist, Soros shouted an order.

"For the Emperor!"

"For the Emperor!!!"

Instantly, earth-shaking war cries echoed across the border, and the Lizardman troops in the southern border officially launched their first battle in their transition from defense to offense!
(End of this chapter)