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Chapter 34 The Catapult Test
"boom!"

In the depths of the dense forest, a 5-jin stone bullet drew a perfect arc in mid-air and hit the trunk of a big tree hard. In the center, there was a three centimeter deep smash mark.

Soon, Li Si appeared on the scene with a serious expression, and was collecting the shooting data of the small catapult, but the result did not satisfy him.

"On flat ground, the effective attack distance of this small catapult is between 200 meters and 250 meters, but the damage cannot be calculated. However, as long as it hits, even a level 5 soldier wearing iron full-body armor will undoubtedly die."

"And if it's on the top of the mountain, relying on height to project, 400 meters is no problem."

"Medium and large catapults are not considered for the time being. Small catapults can be carried with the army, and the initial assembly can be completed in the time of a cup of tea, but the rate of fire that only takes about 2 minutes to throw once is very urgent."

Li Si scratched his head anxiously, really, even with a master like Lu Ban, even with the basic knowledge of physics provided by him, this catapult could not become an epoch-making killer.

In fact, it is not bad. This small catapult adopts the counterweight + lever + gear mode.

The lever is the core, the counterweight is to provide physical impact to the catapult, and the gears are used to assist in loading the counterweight device. Therefore, each small catapult can be easily controlled by only five people.

And among these five people, only one craftsman is needed, and the rest can be young and strong.

But apart from that, there is actually another disadvantage that once assembled, the direction cannot be adjusted. Fortunately, if it is used to defend the city, the throwing area can be set in advance. The rest depends on whether the stone bullet is standard. .

In short, in the face of real data, Li Si had to admit that even an existence like Lu Ban could not be supernatural.

"I'm afraid it's very difficult to use it to fight the Daomen holy beast, unless that guy's speed is as slow as a tortoise!"

"But for the regular army, as long as I deploy more than 100 catapults at Zhuluguan, I can indeed smash their mothers so that they don't even recognize them."

Next, Li Si led people around the mountain, not only looking for a suitable place to put the catapult, but also looking for the few kinds of herbs that Sun Simiao pointed out to him.

The former still needs constant argumentation, even actual throwing to be sure.

The latter is not difficult. Yanhui Mountain is not far from Luming Mountain, so he easily collected these kinds of herbs, but after the third-level medical officer Zheng Shizhen looked at them, he shook his head and said that these kinds of herbs had opposite medicinal properties and could not be used. Useful.

Li Si wasn't angry either, and he wouldn't argue with Zheng Shizhen on this matter. The medicine doesn't work?
For his uncle, there are monsters who come across the border, you tell me what it means to have incompatible medicines.

The gold content of Medicine King Sun Simiao is beyond your comprehension.

So Li Si turned back and asked Zhao Xiaoer to lead someone to pick it himself, dry it, and keep it for later use.

In a blink of an eye, another day passed, Li Si was busy from morning to night, and he was exhausted like a dog, but fortunately, what should be done was proceeding step by step.

23 semi-finished products of the God Arm Crossbow have been produced.

Five small catapults can be crafted per day.

5 stone bombs weighing 500 jin can be made every day.

The simple iron smelting and forging workshop has basically taken shape. 15 level 1 blacksmiths will smelt iron materials, forge arrows and crossbow bolts here. These are not too complicated crafts, and they are fully capable of them.

The foundation of Zhuluguan is being excavated, and the granaries, warehouses, and permanent housing in Huluyuli are also being urgently built.

Among the Luming South Mountain and Luming North Mountain, Li Si also found more than 50 areas where the catapults could be placed. He planned to spend a few days to test-fire and finally determine the area where the catapults will fall.

In addition, Chen Qing's logistics operation is the most important link in Li Si's plan.

They set off before dawn today, carrying a lot of money, to Huangzhuangji in the north, Wangjia Town in the west, and even more prosperous Lujia Town, like a county town, to go shopping.

Iron, cloth, cotton, wood, medicine, salt, dried meat, salted fish, as long as they can be sold and stored for a long time, they are all bought.

They went on horseback, bought livestock and carts on the spot, and transported away the goods one by one under the eyes of shopkeepers and shopkeepers who looked at fools.

Because of the crazy purchases of the supply camp, the prices of daily goods in these three small towns have increased by [-]%, and the supply camp has paid a premium of [-]% on this basis. Isn't this a fool or something?
But only Li Si knows that wars will break out, and these materials may not be able to be bought at double or even more times the money in the future.

It's a pity that Lucheng is too far away, and he didn't dare to disturb the Lu family in Lucheng, otherwise Li Si would have to buy a large number of them. This is the reason for the so-called hoarding.

At this moment, as the sun was setting, carts lined up thousands of meters, and they were slowly stopping outside Zhulu Pass, no more, no less, 240 carts, 480 rough horses, plus the Goods, Li Si's original wealth of [-] gold, has been consumed to only a few thousand gold.

But Li Si felt that it was too worth it. He didn't even care about his tired body, so he ran out to help unload the goods. All the supplies had to be sorted. In addition, those who were afraid of rain, tide, and insects had to be properly handled.

After being busy in the middle of the night, Li Si ate casually and fell asleep in a hurry. This was the second day of the game.

All night.

When the morning of the third day of the opening came, Li Si woke up from his sleep, first inspected the large construction site of Zhuluguan, and then asked the patrolling soldiers if they saw crows circling at low altitude nearby.

In the end, he took Zhao Xiaoer, forty rangers, ten chief arresters, and caught up with ten carts, which contained semi-finished products of the god arm crossbow and two hundred freshly baked god arm crossbow bolts. , Go straight to Xishan Town.

Along the way, Li Si was not in a hurry, and walked slowly, but let the chief arresters go to Huangzhuangji one step ahead. If the thousand black-toothed barbarians went south as scheduled, he could carry out his plan.

It was around eleven o'clock in the morning when Li Si and his party entered Xishan Town. They also bought a lot of fruits, vegetables, live fish, wild game and delicacies. It was delayed until 11:30, when the convoy came to blacksmith Zhang San's shop.

And Zhang San has been waiting eagerly for a long time. For this big deal, he didn't sleep a wink for two days.

"Master Zhang's craftsmanship is beyond words."

Li Si patiently checked all the stainless steel components, then nodded in satisfaction, and then paid the balance under Zhang San's expectant and nervous eyes.

At this time, Zhao Xiaoer gave Li Si a wink, but a few scouts who were gathering in Huangzhuang were rushing back, needless to say, the black-toothed barbarians came.

Li Si smiled slightly, and under Zhang San's terrified gaze, he skillfully assembled the god arm crossbows, while Zhao Xiaoer led nineteen ranger captains to quickly wind up and test.

They are all superb archery skills, and they only need to test a few times to get the magic arm crossbow before they can master the essentials.

"Li—boss Li, I didn't see anything, I will keep it secret."

Blacksmith Zhang San was so frightened that his face turned pale and he trembled all over. The government doesn't care about bows and arrows, but heavy crossbows that can shoot through heavy armor have always been prohibited!
Catch and kill.

"Don't worry, we are here to save you."

Li Si patted Zhang San's shoulder with a smile, and at this moment, the sound of chaotic horseshoes sounded, and some people shouted, and when he looked up again, black smoke had already risen from Huangzhuangji, and there was even a faint There was a thunderous sound, and there was no need to guess that it was the roar of large-scale cavalry galloping at full speed.

"take away!"

With Li Si's order, Zhang San's whole family, as well as all the blacksmiths and apprentices in his blacksmith shop, were pulled out. As for the various finished iron wares, semi-finished iron wares, iron materials, and many other The tools were quickly loaded into the car. With these things, his god arm crossbow could be continuously produced.

(End of this chapter)