will of the planet

Chapter 12: Chapter 22: Expansion of the Army
After dealing with the staffing of the small town, Lin Xiao felt relieved. Although his set was simple, it was sufficient.

For the next few days, Lin Xiao basically worked out in the training room. This does not mean that he was diligent, but that the small town was really boring.

It's fine if there are no entertainment facilities, not even gourmet food, and the worm meat that tastes good in the eyes of clones is also mediocre to him.

The red fruit tastes like glutinous rice, and at first I thought it tasted good, but if I ate too much, it would be the same, and there was no salt.

He also tried to make wine with red fruit, which tasted mediocre, but was still very popular among soldiers.

As a modern person, Lin Xiao was unable to adapt to this kind of life at first, but now he has silently accepted it.

This doesn't mean he won't resist, as an amateur book artist, painting can make him very fulfilling even if he has nothing to do.

However, even if the workers can make paper, the paint can't handle it, so they can only give up.

Lin Xiao had almost finished exercising. When he walked out of the exercise room, he saw chocolate curled up on the sofa, sleeping lazily.

There is nothing to worry about chocolate, eating and sleeping, eating and sleeping, it is much more comfortable than him.

Looking at Chocolate's soft body, Lin Xiao suddenly had some evil thoughts, but quickly threw them out of his mind.

Although he likes the cat girl very much, it must be his life. The shadow of being bitten last time makes him feel faint pain now.

Out of sight, out of mind, he withdrew his gaze and went outside to find something to do.

At this time, two workers ran over from the bushes in the west, holding many plants they had never seen before.

"Report Captain, we have not found the plant you described, but we have found similar plants." The worker reported respectfully.

"Similar?" Lin Xiao asked.

"That's right, I grow this kind of grass with round leaves. It tastes spicy."

Lin Xiao is not very interested in spiciness, and it is acceptable as a seasoning. These days, he almost feels uncomfortable eating food without salt.

After scanning for non-toxicity, he tried a bite. It was really spicy and could completely replace chili peppers, calling it a spicy dish worthy of its name.

In addition, the workers also found mushrooms, Lin Xiao was taken aback for a moment, and said, "You two don't know how to eat them, do you?"

"Captain, is there a problem?"

Hearing this, Lin Xiao quickly scanned it, and after confirming that it was non-toxic, he breathed a sigh of relief, and reprimanded the two people, and he could not try to eat food randomly in the future, he didn't want to kill one of his subordinates inexplicably.

These two plants are not a small harvest. He immediately sent people to transplant the spicy vegetables and mushrooms for large-scale planting.

It will take some time to plant, but fortunately, there are a lot of these two kinds of plants, so Lin Xiao can finally improve his food.

What made him even happier was that the weather had turned cloudy and it was going to rain soon, which finally dispelled his worries. It was going to rain these days.

The rain was not heavy, and it stopped in a few minutes. The workers who were sheltering from the rain under the wooden house immediately cheered. It seemed that they didn't like rain.

Lin Xiao frowned. The scouts he sent to keep an eye on the Beetle Monster in the north had returned and reported the Beetle Monster's change to him.

Judging from the current trend, these beetle monsters seem to be migrating, which is not good news for him.

Lin Xiao became serious, and ordered the scouts to keep a close eye on the beetle monster, but don't disturb the other party, and report to him if there is any abnormality.

After watching the scouts leave, he went to check the progress. Currently, half of the city wall was completed, and the beetle monster could easily break in from the unfinished part.

If there is a war with the beetle monster, the battlefield must not be set here, otherwise, even if he wins, there is a high chance that he will suffer heavy losses.

To the north is a plain five kilometers away, with mountains on both sides, which is very suitable as a battlefield, which is beneficial to Lin Xiao and the beetle monster.

If there is a war with the Beetle Monster, this place is the best place, but Lin Xiao doesn't want the Beetle Monster to have such a good time.

He directly allocated half of the manpower to build the city wall to build the fortifications. He didn't want to waste manpower and material resources, but now he can't lose the big because of the small.

Anyway, this place is not very wide, and a city wall can be repaired in 7 days, and the simplified construction can be shortened to 1 day.

After issuing this order, Lin Xiao went to the blacksmith workshop to check the current weapons and equipment reserves.

"What, only 100 steel knives have been forged in such a long time?" Lin Xiao said coldly.

"Captain, we are really wronged." The worker captain said cautiously: "Before you gave us an order to forge 500 brick cutters and various tools. There is only so much iron..."

"Okay, okay." Lin Xiao interrupted, he sighed, and didn't blame the worker captain any more.

The number of weapons did not meet his requirements, and the convenient storage of armors exceeded the requirements, especially leather armor.

His requirement is 300 sets, and 500 sets have been built so far, and 100 sets of armor are also at the end.

More importantly, 30 heavy crossbows have been built so far. This is not because the workers are not strong enough. Compared with other weapons, the production of crossbows is much more.

Crossbowmen do not need many energy points, only 10 energy points, which is the same as the energy points required by cannon fodder units.

Humans are easy to obtain, but crossbows are not easy to make. Currently, Lin Xiao cannot use crossbowmen as cannon fodder.

In addition to consuming less energy points, crossbowmen still have advantages. Lin Xiao tested with the first heavy crossbow, and it can sink two-thirds of the arrows into the shell of the beetle monster, while the short bow can sink the arrows at most.

This is only the power of the heavy crossbow. The light crossbow is comparable to the short bow, but the manufacturing speed is three times that of the heavy crossbow.

The long-armed strong bow equipped by the longbowmen is as powerful as the heavy crossbow. Lin Xiaolaman shot an arrow, which passed directly through the shell of the beetle monster.

This is due to his great strength. The actual power of the longbowman should be similar to that of the heavy crossbow. The difference in rate of fire between the two is quite large. The heavy crossbow can shoot 1 arrows in 3 minute at the fastest, while the long-armed strong bow can shoot 6 arrows.

This also reflects the value of longbowmen, but they need to spend 30 points of energy alone.

Crossbowmen are cheap, but the production speed of heavy crossbows is slow, which can't stop Lin Xiao's idea of ​​making them. You must know that he only has a red laser pistol that can easily break through the shell of the beetle. Even a steel knife? Only a small part can be absorbed, he needs such a powerful weapon very much.

In addition, the more powerful siege crossbow is also being built. Making the siege crossbow takes a long time to occupy the lathe. Lin Xiao has never seen the power, and only ordered the construction of two. It will take several days to complete.

In order to resist the beetle monsters, Lin Xiao didn't just do these things. He also built two catapults, which can be completed tomorrow.

After Lin Xiao checked the workshop, he returned to the colonial battleship and began to clone the soldiers.

He directly increased the number of sword and shield soldiers that he used very easily to 200, and it took him one night to complete. As the main force, he directly equipped them with steel swords and armor.

He also cloned 30 crossbowmen, but there were too many crossbowmen to equip them.

Longbowman Lin Xiao didn't have clones, it was too expensive, and he already had crossbowmen, so why waste the money.

He directly increased the number of short archers to 100, so that a slightly larger rain of arrows could be formed, and a large number would be fatal.

As the cheapest cannon fodder, the number of pikemen also increased to 400, which cost nearly 9000 energy points in total, leaving less than 1000 energy points for backup.

(End of this chapter)