Ding! Daily cultivation completed. You have received a slight increase in physical fitness Zhuge Repeating Crossbow arrows (100 rounds).
Ding! Daily cultivation completed. You have received a slight increase in physical fitness rice (100 pounds).
Ding! Daily cultivation completed. You have received a slight increase in physical fitness rice (100 pounds).
【........】
Five days passed in the blink of an eye.
Every morning, Xue Li would wake up and practice the Eighteen Single Hand Strikes to complete his daily cultivation mission. This was something that he had to do.
Of course, he did not get much. He had gained 100 extra special arrows from the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow and 400 pounds of rice. It was probably enough for the 100 auxiliary troops of Dragon's Gate Village to eat three or four meals. He had to save some.
Unless they were forced to go through an army and needed to replenish their strength, Xue Li would not use this batch of reserve rations.
During this period of time, because everyone was only working on the parts, they had yet to complete a ladder. Even Meng Tian had come to urge them again and again. He did not want to see this seedling with potential get punished for this kind of thing.
" Hundred Generals, it's already halfway through the deadline. We still haven't completed a single scaling ladder."
"Isn't this not good? The other 100 auxiliary troops are laughing at us for being so slow despite our strength.”
"This group of fellows clearly can't stand the Hundred Generals. They actually went around slandering you, saying that you're just a young boy.”
"If it wasn't for Xue Hu pulling me, I would have rushed up to beat them up long ago.”
In Xue Li's tent, two Dragon's Gate Village's auxiliary soldier station commanders walked in, looking rather worried.
They didn't know much about the 'assembly line production method' that Xue Li mentioned, but they still knew a little about the most basic math problems.
Meng Tian's mission was to build 1,000 scaling ladders, 50 siege chariots, and 10 siege chariots within 10 days!
(ps. Number of modifications, mainly here)
There were a total of 5,000 auxiliary soldiers carrying out the mission. Among them, 1,000 were responsible for the siege vehicles, 2,000 for the tower vehicles, and 2,000 for the scaling ladders. In this way, it would take about 10 days for each of the 100 auxiliary soldiers to complete 50 scaling ladders.
Although the difficulty of making a ladder was the lowest, it was also a necessary item to attack a city and seize territory. He could not be careless!
"Relax, I wanted to build it on the last day.”
"Since everyone is so anxious and worried that something might go wrong, let's start building it today.”
"Pass on my order. Everyone stop what they are doing and build all the parts that have been prepared into a ladder.”
“.......”
Xue Li put down the wooden bowl in his hand, which was filled with corn, and said seriously.
Now that everything was ready, the only thing missing was the east wind!
With all the parts, the efficiency of building it would be terrifying. It would not take much time to complete.
"Where is Xue Li?"
Meng Tian's voice came from outside.
Xue Li patted the dust off his body, stood up, and walked straight out of the tent.
"This lowly general Xue Li greets Lieutenant Meng.”
"Xue Li! Xue Li! What do you want me to say about you?!"
"What's wrong?"
"It's already been five days, and you still haven't built a scaling ladder. At that time, even I won't be able to protect you. Do you know the punishment for delaying?”
"The siege weapons in the army are not sentenced to death for being late, but they will be flogged thirty times.”
Xue Li replied.
He was whipped thirty times, and each time he used all his strength, it was enough to make your skin split open.
Don't look at television dramas. A normal man would be almost half-dead after taking 30 lashes. If they didn't use medicine, there were probably not many who could survive.
Even if Xue Li's physique was extraordinary, he didn't intend to be punished for no reason.
"Since you know the punishment, why are you still so slow?”
"Commandant Meng, how did you know that the efficiency of our Dragon Gate Village's 100 auxiliary troops is the slowest?”
"The other hundred squads have already completed twenty-five scaling ladders, and some have even completed thirty.”
Meng Tian said with a straight face.
Military law was merciless. Even if he thought highly of Xue Li's potential, if he were to violate it, he could only be ruthless.
In the entire Great Qin, the only person who could ignore military law was probably the King of Qin, Ying Zheng. He could protect whoever he wanted, and no one would raise any objections, unless he was tired of living.
"Commandant Meng, how about we make a bet?
"Bet?"
"Let's bet on whether I can complete fifty scaling ladders in half a day.”
"Fifty in half a day?"
"If I win, Commandant Meng will owe me a favor. If I lose, I will be at the mercy of Commandant Meng.”
Meng Tian did not directly reject Xue Li's suggestion. She seemed to be quite interested.
Looking at how confident he was, he probably would not bring up something he was not confident in. However, Meng Tian wanted to know how this guy was going to complete the production of 50 scaling ladders in half a day.
He had not completed a single one yet, but he needed half a day to complete a mission that took ten days.
It was truly inconceivable!
"Alright, I agree."
"A promise is a promise."
"Alright, if I can't see 50 scaling ladders in half a day, you can come to our Meng family and be a personal guard.”
"In that case, I would like to ask Commandant Meng to come and inspect it at noon.”
Xue Li clasped his hands and said confidently.
He would definitely win this bet. It was not bad to be able to get a favor from the future 'China's number one valiant general'.
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