Wang Youdao led the army to a large tent.
Eastern Garrison General Su De 'an, Western Garrison General Zhao Fei, Annan Garrison General Lin Yi, and a dozen important deputy generals and deputy generals were all gathered in the tent.
"This time, Lin Yi set up an ambush and we defeated the Wu Dynasty army. You don't have any objections to reporting Lin Yi's credit, right?”
A group of people sat down and were convinced. If it wasn't for Lin Yi giving Wu Chengen such a move, how could they have eaten the other party's 80,000 people so smoothly?
How could they recover their lost territory so quickly?
All the generals were unconvinced. They all cupped their fists.
"It's meaningless for us. Marshal, please help General Lin Yi claim credit. This victory was all thanks to his plan!”
At this moment, Lin Yi became humble
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"Marshal, there is no need to show off your merits for me. Why don't Your Majesty reward the brothers who served the country at the border? It is also good to give each of them a few taels of silver.”
"Good! Sure!"
"It's rare for you to be so considerate of your subordinates. Don't worry, I'll submit a memorial for you to ask for merit. I'll also report the matter of asking for rewards for my brothers.”
"Right now," Wang Youdao got to the point.
"The Wu Dynasty's army has been defeated, and they have seized the other prefectures of our dynasty. We are defenseless now. Before the news of the defeat at the frontline reaches the Wu Dynasty, we should recover our lost territory in one go!”
"Yes, sir!"
Recovering lost territory was already very easy at this stage.
The most difficult part was actually dealing with the 120,000 troops of the Wu Dynasty. Once these troops were wiped out,
there would be no more than 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers stationed in each prefecture. Zhao Fei, Su De 'an, and Lin Yi, the West Garrison General, and Wang Youdao's elite central army could be used in four directions.
Now, as long as one ran fast and rushed to the Wu Dynasty's reinforcements, the more provinces they took down, the more lost land they would recover.
After Wang Youdao agreed on the four-way division plan, Lin Yi and the others did not dare to delay for even a moment.
Although it wasn't a life-and-death situation, it was still a critical moment.
It was like a mountain of gold in front of you. You were given a minute to move as much as you could.
At this moment, he had already conquered four prefectures and 12 prefectures. Naturally, it was impossible to conquer them all at once,
but the more he conquered, the better.
After all, once the troops of the Wu Dynasty arrived, they would switch from attacking to defending, and the Yan Han side would become a stalemate or a siege.
The time and casualties they would have to pay would be much more than now!
Beside the Flow State were the Yan State and the Yong State. The journey was four to five hundred miles. Lin Yi's army traveled through the night and
only set up camp when they were about to reach the Yan State. They could only rest for four hours.
Lin Yi was also speechless. After counting all kinds of armaments and handling all kinds of affairs, he was finally able to draw a lottery while he was sitting in the military tent and dozing off.
"System, one draw from the super prize pool!”
[Ding! Consuming 50000 merit points, drawing from the super prize pool!】
[Ding! Congratulations, you have won the blueprint for the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow!】
Lin Yi was stunned!
Zhuge Repeating Crossbow?
Was it the kind of divine weapon that could hold ten or twenty arrows at a time and release them continuously without changing arrows?
Good fellow!
Now that Lin Yi had drawn the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow, it was basically equivalent to directly upgrading the era of cold weapons to the era of semi-automatic weapons!
After a normal crossbow was loaded with an arrow, it would have to be reloaded immediately.
If Lin Yi had a thousand archers under him, they would usually be divided into five echelons, with each echelon having two hundred people.
The first group of 200 people would lower their heads and load their arrows after shooting. The second group would catch up and release their arrows, then the third group…and so on.
This is actually very inefficient.
If he had the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow, he could load ten or twenty arrows at once.
Lin Yi immediately sent 3,000 archers to surround the enemy. Kakakaka, 30,000 to 60,000 arrows were shot out in an instant.
Not only did it save time by several times, but the power of the rapid crossbows also increased greatly!
If the entire army were to be equipped with this thing, when facing the enemy, the number of enemy soldiers would instantly increase from hundreds to thousands.
This was simply the most perfect weapon of war at present!
Moreover, Lin Yi had obtained the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow blueprint. With this blueprint, as long as the materials were sufficient, the system could immediately synthesize it.
After taking a look at the materials, Zhang Tie found that the iron and wood required for the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow could be easily obtained. The
main material of the spring was a special refined copper, which was several times more elastic than common copper.
The great lethality of the repeating crossbow mainly depended on the spring.
This made Lin Yi's heart ache.
He would probably have to purify the refined copper as well. If that was the case, he would have to spend merit points again.
"Who has copper coins? Bring them all over, I'll exchange them with silver!”
Lin Yi still had more than 20,000 merit points. He wanted to immediately synthesize two to try.
He ordered the soldiers to chop a few pieces of wood back. The wood required for the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow was best sandalwood or boxwood, and the last bit was green oak wood. It had to be elastic and dense.
Lin Yi asked someone to chop down two pieces of green oak wood and exchanged them for ten taels of silver coins. He placed them on the table.
After pulling up the tent, Lin Yi began to synthesize.
"System, synthesize a Zhuge Repeating Crossbow.”
[Ding! The dry wood and refined copper used to synthesize the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow are missing. Do you want to purify them?】
What the f * ck?
There was no problem with pure copper, but did he need to spend merit points to deal with the wood?
"Let's refine the copper first."
[Ding! Ten strings of copper coins detected. Refining refined copper consumed 1000 merit points. Do you want to purify it?】
1000 points?
"Why don't you go rob them!"
Lin Yi was anxious, but for the sake of the early release of the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow, he endured it.
"Begin, begin."
[Ding! Purification complete!]
After the purification was completed, a fist-sized piece of refined copper appeared in front of Lin Yi.
"System, help me deal with the two pieces of wood.”
[Ding! Two pieces of Cyclobalanthes were detected. Converting them into dried wood consumed 400 merit points. Do you want to process them?】
Where could he find dried green oak wood now?
Lin Yi directly spent 400 merit points to convert it.
[Ding! Congratulations, you have synthesized a Zhuge Repeating Crossbow!】
A bow suddenly appeared in Lin Yi's hand.
This bow was extremely exquisite, and it had many other devices, making it even heavier in his hand.
Lin Yi gathered the scrap iron he had collected in advance and combined it into ten crossbow bolts.
After loading the crossbow bolts, Lin Yi walked out of the battlefield and found a big tree to test the crossbow.
"Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh…"
He quickly pulled the trigger, and ten arrows flew out in a row, piercing more than half of the wood.
This power was really amazing!
When Lin Yi looked at the blueprint of the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow, he realized that when Zhuge Liang made this crossbow, the spring used was not refined copper. It was replaced by other items, and its power was slightly weaker than the real finished product.
The root of the problem was that copper and iron were used to build coins. At that time, Shu Han had only a small population and national strength. Where did they get so much copper to make mechanical springs?
Lin Yi combined all the remaining materials and only made a total of 30 repeating crossbows.
Based on this number and price, it would still be very difficult for the entire army to spread it.
Fortunately, wood and refined copper could be obtained manually, which could reduce the cost of merit points.
However, the matter of copper was not easy to solve. This blueprint was also the perfect structure of the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow. Lin Yi did not know what metal to use to replace the effect of copper.
He also ordered the soldiers to cut down the green wood and gather the copper coins on everyone. Lin Yi exchanged them with the silver in the army.
After a while, Lin Yi had already made 600 repeating crossbows.
However, there was a problem. His merit points were already empty!
There were a total of 600 personal guards by his side. They were the elites of the elites in the army.
Lin Yi first gave the crossbows to these people and equipped them with weapons in a small area to test their power.
Fortunately, the system was free to synthesize crossbows, but it could only synthesize 200 at a time.
Lin Yi had only synthesized a total of 5,000 ballista bolts. No matter how many broken ironware there were in the army, they were all used up at this moment.
If they really wanted to achieve weapon innovation, they could only do it together with the entire country. Only by mobilizing all the resources could they mass produce it.
Lin Yi yawned and called his guards to test the crossbow.
After these guys tried it, they were dumbfounded and speechless.
After a long time, the bodyguards and guards who had been stunned for a long time asked Lin Yi,
"General, where did you get such a divine weapon?"”
"Yeah, I've never seen General take it out before. First, there were binoculars, sabers, and medicines. Then, there were the Nine Revolutions Soul Returning Pills to treat my dying brothers. Now, there's this repeating crossbow. Its power and speed are better than other crossbows. General, you're really too unpredictable!”
"That's right. General, you actually managed to obtain such a magical item. I wonder where you got it from?”
For this reason, Lin Yi had already said,
"Do you remember what the storyteller said? I'm the direct disciple of Old Mother Li Shan?"”
Everyone was shocked. In this era, almost everyone believed in gods and ghosts.
"
This was passed down by the old mother. Use it carefully," said Lin Yi.”
After saying that, Lin Yi communicated with the system in his mind and synthesized two crossbows, which immediately appeared in his hands.
This method of transforming objects out of thin air immediately shocked everyone!
"General, this…this is really godly!”
"How can a disciple of Old Mother of Blackfoal Mountain be a mortal?”
Lin Yi gathered them and said,
"This matter is a heavenly secret. It should not be known by others. If rumors spread, your lifespan will be shortened by three years. This divine artifact is called a repeating crossbow. Cherish it and use it. If it is damaged, be careful not to be blamed by the old mother."”
"Yes, sir!"
Lin Yi thought that he could also equip the Wudang Flying Army with a crossbow.
However, it seemed that there was no need to turn the tide, and there was no need to equip the soldiers with too many.
Living in a chaotic world, one had to have a backup plan, a foothold, and a place to retreat at any time. Such a divine artifact naturally could not be taken out easily.
For the next few days, Lin Yi did not even rest for two hours.
At this moment, the army had already arrived at Yan Prefecture. As the army surrounded the city, the 4,500 soldiers of the Wu Dynasty held fast.
However, these 20,000 people attacked from the four city gates. Even if 4,000 people attacked each city gate, the Yan State would not be able to withstand it.
After all, these 4,500 people were guarding four city gates at the same time. How could they hold on?
After more than an hour, the battering ram had broken through the city gate tower, and the remaining Wu Dynasty soldiers had been killed.
The people in the city were very mixed. There were the Yan Han people who had survived after the city fell, the commoners who had migrated from the Wu Dynasty, and a few poor people who had moved out from the mountains.
As for the purpose of these people gathering here, it was very simple.
Some were helpless and forced, while some were unable to obtain land. They knew that this was a war-torn zone and that their lives could be safe at any time, but they had no choice but to migrate here to survive.
Ever since the war between the sixteen kingdoms, the Central Plains had suffered heavy casualties, and population was already the scarcest resource.
Lin Yi put up a notice to appease the people. The law was strict, and no one was allowed to bully any of the people. He also classified all the people here as Yan Han citizens and began to register them.
Leaving 5,000 people to defend the city, Lin Yi once again took down Yongzhou.
In three days, Yan Han had already taken back nine out of the sixteen provinces he had lost.
At this time, the Wu Dynasty had already received news that reinforcements had arrived at the border. Every city had stockpiled food and increased the number of guards. It seemed that this battle would be difficult to fight.
As for Chizhou, when Jin 'er woke up in the morning to eat porridge, she suddenly felt nauseous and began to vomit…
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