Throne of Vientiane Civilization

From the early bed crossbow to the current heavy single-soldier crossbow, Da Zhou can be considered experienced in making crossbows.

But even so, there are only 21 people with Zhuang Mengdie as the core who are capable of manufacturing the core structure of the crossbow.

For this reason, Zhou Xu also specially arranged a group for the 20 people except Zhuang Mengdie. Their daily work is to constantly polish the core mechanism required for manufacturing the crossbow.

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

When these apprentices improve their skills to the point where they can polish these fine parts and assemble the core structure, they can also become regular employees.

Originally, after years of hard work, the number of three-bow bed crossbows and city defense crossbows in Da Zhou has basically been built, and the work intensity can be slowly reduced.

They also thought that this year's work should be easier.

As a result, who would have thought that they would have made a single-soldier crossbow for them.

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

The newly developed heavy-duty individual crossbow is the smallest crossbow in their Great Zhou. It takes more time to polish the parts. This can be clearly felt when watching their ministers making test products.

At the same time, what is more terrible is that considering the nature of this heavy-duty individual crossbow, their majesty wants to form a crossbow unit, and the initial plan is to set the scale at 500 people.

That is to say, this heavy-duty individual crossbow needs at least 500! At the same time, considering the problem of damage and replacement, on the basis of these 500, they must make at least 200 to 300 as backup.

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

Just thinking about the heavy-duty individual crossbows that are prepared to start at 700 to 800, they feel dizzy.

But Zhou Xu obviously doesn't care about these. The funds are enough for you, and you can choose whatever manpower you need. As a ruler, he has done everything he can, and the specific manufacturing and production can only depend on them.

In the busyness, time passed quietly, and winter has come to an end.

During this period, Soros, who was in the southern border, had completely cleaned up the ratmen who had entered their southern border with a carpet search.

Now, it is almost time for their southern border garrison to launch follow-up actions.

Before the main force set off, the first to take action was the reconnaissance unit.

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

After all, the ratmen of the opposite corrupt clan had already had a brain twitch in the autumn, and no one can guarantee that they will not have another brain twitch in the winter.

At that time, a large-scale rat tide will be sent to fight them. If they are not prepared, they will suffer painful losses.

For this reason, sending reconnaissance troops to monitor the ratmen's territory from a distance and confirm the situation of the ratmen's border while ensuring their own safety has become a very important task.

In this way, almost a winter has passed, and the ratmen of the opposite corrupt clan have behaved unexpectedly honestly. From this situation, the battle in the autumn did hurt them.

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

The reconnaissance troops that received subsequent orders during the period also officially launched further reconnaissance operations.

Unlike the previous long-distance surveillance, the reconnaissance troops, who knew that the large army was about to go on an expedition, began to become more powerful throughout the operation.

They even began to frequently penetrate into the territory of the ratmen, just to obtain as much intelligence as possible from the opposite ratmen, to provide assistance for the subsequent attack of their large army in the southern border.

In this process, they inevitably clashed with the ratmen's border patrol team.

Without sufficient military support, the combat effectiveness that the small team of ratmen could show was very poor. Several armed conflicts basically ended with the victory of the lizardmen reconnaissance troops.

According to the situation of the ratmen, they naturally would not care about the casualties, but this did not mean that they could tolerate the lizardmen, who were their mortal enemies, acting recklessly on their territory.

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

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

At that time, the surrounding troops will gather at the fastest speed and attack together!

In the face of such a battle, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, the Lizardman reconnaissance troops also wisely chose to retreat temporarily.

At the same time, in the South Border Fortress, they have been preparing for this battle during this winter.

Everything that needs to be prepared has been prepared long ago.

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

While maintaining the state, the large army moved from their South Border Fortress to the border of the rats' territory, which took 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. The ratmen on the opposite side have already been prepared. There is no need for them to rush for a while. It is better to let the soldiers who have just completed a wave of marches rest for three days and adjust their status.

Soros has a lot of experience in fighting with ratmen. His performance is as steady as an old dog.

During this period, facing such a stable southern border army, the ratmen were already anxious before they officially started.

It’s just that the battle in autumn really hurt them.

In addition, the intelligence information brought back by the deserters also brought some panic among the ratmen.

This wave has doubled their pressure before the battle.

Now that they received the news, from the perspective of the ratmen, how could they let the southern border troops rest at ease?

Basically, Soros and his men had just arrived at the front line, and a large wave of rats broke into their field of vision.

Looking at the rat tide sweeping towards them in the distance, Thoros's face did not show much surprise, and he had obviously prepared himself mentally.

"Line up! Fight!"

Drawing the sword at his waist, Thoros shouted the order.

"For the Emperor!"

"For the Emperor!!!"

Instantly, the earth-shaking war cry echoed on the border, and the Lizardmen troops in the southern border officially launched their first battle of turning defense into offense!