Looking at Shi Xie who had returned, Wei Xiang smiled: "It's very simple. Have you forgotten the crossbow I've shown you directly?"

Shi Xie immediately came to his senses: "Is it the crossbow worth 500,000 that you mentioned?"

Wei Xiang smiled and nodded: "You Shishi refused to pay 500,000 yuan to buy my crossbow. He would definitely suffer a great loss. If you don't believe it, just watch it."

The crossbow is a very powerful weapon, and its appearance changed the history of war.

The protagonist of this era is the chariot soldiers, and the infantry holding the crossbow happens to be the nemesis of the chariot soldiers. There is no need to shoot the soldiers on the chariots to death. As long as the horse pulling the chariot is shot to death, a chariot can be destroyed in an instant.

In the early years of the Warring States Period, the Wei Wuzun, a military strategist Wu Qi, was the first army in Chinese history to be equipped with a crossbow. The record in the book "Xunzi" is that all the Wei Wuzuns "operated twelve stone crossbows and carried fifty arrows."

One person had fifty crossbow arrows, plus the number of Wei Wushu at its peak was as high as 100,000. What kind of chariots were thousands of cyclones were a joke in front of the five million crossbow arrows that were shot wherever they were pointed.

It was also marked by the emergence of Wei Wuzhang that the crossbow making technology in various countries began to develop rapidly, while the status of the chariot soldiers was constantly deteriorating.

The chariot soldiers have struggled, such as adding horse armor on the war horses. However, the result of this is that the war horses that were originally pulling heavy chariots have become increasingly burdened, and their continuous combat capabilities on the battlefield are almost terrible.

There are countless other methods, but they fail one by one and cannot resist this historical process.

Finally, in the late Warring States Period, the chariot soldiers completely degenerated from the original main force into marginal forces, and infantry who held a powerful crossbow and could adapt to all battlefield terrain became the protagonist.

Of course that's all a story later, so I'd better turn my attention to the upcoming war now.

Due to Zhao Shuo's generosity and Zhao's wealth, Wei Xiang got all the materials from Zhao's warehouse that were enough to create five hundred Wei's crossbows. As long as two hundred can be made in these two months, no, even one hundred crossbows, Wei Xiang didn't feel that he would have any possibility of failure in this upcoming guard battle.

The Chidi tribes did not have the technology of large-scale smelting, so they could not have excellent bronze armor. The Chidi soldiers wearing simple leather armor and even shirtless were moving live targets in front of the Wei crossbow.

In fact, even a top Chinese vassal state like Jin State, only senior officers at the level of 2500 lords in the Duke Army were generally equipped with bronze armor. Most of the officers and soldiers below were leather armor, unless they were built by themselves.

"I can't lose, I really can't lose." Wei Xiang spread his hands helplessly: "Two hundred crossbows are placed on the city wall. Tell me how to lose this battle?"

Shi Xie was obviously not as optimistic as Wei Xiang: "The Wei crossbow is just a weapon that has never been on the battlefield to verify its power. Then you actually want to place the entire Xia clan and your life and death on this?"

Wei Xiang touched his nose and said, "To be honest, I have actually gotten the dream of the dragon. In the dream, I have seen the power of the Wei crossbow, and even seen a weapon that is more powerful than the Wei crossbow."

Shi Xie spat and left angrily again.

Wei Xiang turned around and looked at Lan Ru with a helpless expression: "Ru'er, no one believes it nowadays."

Lan Ru looked at Wei Xiang calmly, and after a while, she said, "What your husband just said is the truth?"

Wei Xiang: "...It's true and true, like a fake one!"

Lan Ru's doubts made Wei Xiang feel that his man's dignity was very hurt. In order to protect his self-esteem, Wei Xiang severely "punished" Lan Ru that night.

As the saying goes, the effects of force are mutual. Lan Ru was punished, and Wei Xiang also put in a huge amount of physical strength, so it was natural that Wei Xiang slept until the sun was at midnight the next day before getting up.

Lan Jie appeared in front of Wei Xiang with a panda eye. It was obvious that the second brother-in-law did not sleep well in the night just past.

"Wei Xiang, I've decided. After a while, I'll go back to Neijiru and ask my father for help!"

Wei Xiang widened his eyes and said, "Xia Yi has enough manpower."

Lan Jie was furious: "Although this is your territory, it is also a place I have worked hard to build for more than a month. I absolutely cannot allow this city to fall into the hands of Hu and Liu Yu because of your pride!"

Looking at Lan Jie's back as he left angrily, Wei Xiang couldn't help but shrugging: "Who said pride must be bound to arrogance? These are obviously two words, okay?"

Wei Xiang didn't care about these doubts, because he knew very well that whether it was Shi Xie, Lan Ji or Lan Ru, their doubts were based on their concerns about Wei Xiang and Xia Yi, and the starting point was good.

But Wei Xiang had no way to explain, or no one believed him after the explanation.

So Wei Xiang could only take the position that facts were better than words, and quietly waited for the invasion of Hu and Liu Yu.

After almost two months, Wei Xiang could not be idle, and it was the most urgent thing to transform the fief of Xiayi.

With the addition and guidance of craftsmen and the sufficient labor of slaves, the changes in Xiayi can be said to be a new look every day.

The first and most important thing is of course the reinforcement of the outermost wall. The craftsmen made full use of the inexhaustible forest and wood resources around Xiayi, and successfully raised the exterior wall of Xiayi to a height of one meter.

Not only that, according to Wei Xiang's order, the craftsmen and slaves also cut down all the vegetation and trees in the entire 150 meters away from the valley entrance, clearing out a wide area, and the area of ​​this open area continued to expand outward as time passed.

The changes in the valley were also significant. The dense wooden houses began to rise up in the valley. The outermost side was closest to the entrance of the valley. The military camp was designed to accommodate a thousand soldiers.

Since Xiayi is located on two sides of the valley surrounded by mountains, the construction of the military camp drew a right angle along these two sides, and from the sky it looked like a big "L".

Behind the military camp is the civilian area. The area of ​​the civilian area occupies about half of the entire valley and is divided into four "houses" equivalent to later communities. Each house does not have a wall like other Chinese cities, but four houses are completely connected together.

The design standard is to accommodate 1,000 households. Considering the area of ​​the valley in which Xiayi City is located, such a standard will obviously make the distance between ordinary houses quite crowded, but Wei Xiang did not think his own people would have any objection to this.

The civilian area comes back to a market with an area of ​​more than 10,000 square meters, and the market also does not have walls.

Since the preparations for war are now top priority and there is no commercial activity at Xiayi, the market is now still soil.

After passing the market, it is the residence of government agencies and officials at all levels. This part is the smallest area in the entire valley, but compared with civilian areas, it will undoubtedly be much better in terms of building level and environment.

After passing through the officials' residences, there is the Wei Prime Minister's Mansion, which is the deepest part of the entire valley.

Although there is only one two-story building in this lord's mansion, the land belonging to the lord's mansion of Wei Xiang accounted for a full third of the entire valley in the previous plan.

After learning about the plan, Wei Xiang was shocked and directly cut the area around the waist and then downgraded it directly to an area of ​​about two acres.

In fact, in Wei Xiang's opinion, the two acres of land is still too exaggerated. This is a serious homestead. What does it mean to have two acres of homestead? If there was such a big place to build a house in the future, you wouldn't be laughing at me.

However, this time Wei Xiang's view was opposed by everyone. Even outsiders like Shi Xie who have never spoken out, thought that Wei Xiang was using the Jin state ceremony to make treasures, so Wei Xiang could only make a retreat: "Okay, that two acres of land is only two acres."

After finishing all this, a month passed in a flash. The entire Xiayi finally took shape and had some fiefdoms and cities.
Chapter completed!