"How is that possible?!"

On the tower of the south gate of Linzi City, King Lu Bai of Qi opened his eyes wide in shock.

The entire confrontation between the Fei Xiong Army outside the city and the Huling Navy Army of Wei State on the Zi River was watched by the monarch of Qi from the tower.

He originally thought that the Flying Bear Army could easily drive back the Wei army outside the city, or even defeat it, but he never expected that the fact was exactly the opposite of what he had guessed. In just one battle, the Flying Bear Army lost nearly

There were 1,400 to 5,000 soldiers. If we add the crossbowmen who were shot to death by the Wei army's crossbowmen, the number of casualties would probably have exceeded 2,000.

Beside them, Right Prime Minister Tian Tao, Shang Qing Gao Xiu and others even frowned with solemn expressions on their faces.

They didn't pay much attention to it before. It wasn't until the arrows fired by the crossbowmen of the Flying Bear Army at the Wei warships were bounced away that they discovered that the key parts of the hulls of the twelve giant warships seemed to be wrapped in iron sheets.

, the defensive performance is simply extraordinary.

But soon, their attention was attracted by the Wei Liannu on the Wei warship.

Wei Liennu, a war weapon, is now familiar to all countries in the Central Plains. Even though the Wei State is very strict in this regard, in some hidden and unknown channels, Wei Liennu, such as the first generation Wei Liennu, the second generation Wei Liennu, etc.

War weapons that have been obsolete for nearly ten years are actually still in circulation.

It is said that the thieves who caused trouble in the Weilu area a few years ago obtained two first-generation Wei Liannu and defeated the Weiguo County soldiers who went to collect them.

Of course, this is just a rumor. After all, one or two Wei Liannu does not have the ability to reverse victory or defeat, let alone the first generation Wei Liannu which seems to be quite crude today.

At least this is what Qi and Lu think.

I still remember that a few years ago, before the "Four Kingdoms Alliance of Wei, Qin, Wei, and Chu" and the "Five Kingdoms Alliance of Han, Qi, Song, Lu, and Yue" started the unprecedented decisive battle that shocked the Central Plains, Qi State had tried to get Wei Liannu from Wei State.

There is nothing that can be done about it, even though the Wei State has very strict control over Wei Liannu - in fact, as long as it is a war weapon forged by the Wei State Smelting Bureau, the supervision is quite strict in this regard. Not only is every war weapon inscribed with

It has a number, and its whereabouts will be recorded in detail. Even if it is eliminated by the regular army and assigned to local county soldiers, or even if it is sold privately to Qin or Chu in the form of smuggling, it will be recorded.

But even so, it still could not prevent these war weapons from falling into the hands of Wei's enemies.

At that time, Qi State tried to get a few of them and tried to dismantle them for research, but unfortunately the results were not very good.

It’s no wonder, after all, the first-generation Wei Liannu was the technology of Wei State around the time of Hongde’s 16th or 17th year. At that time, Wei State had already entered the Xing’an period, and the time gap was as long as more than ten years. Even though Qi State had found a way to obtain those first-generation Wei Liannu and the second-generation Wei Liannu

What significance does Wei Liannu have? After all, the Qi State itself also has similar war weapons such as bed crossbows and ship-borne fire crossbows used in siege warfare.

Because of the age difference, the craftsmen of Qi State did not gain much after dismantling the first generation Wei Liannu. In their opinion, this so-called Wei Liannu was not as good as their Qi State bed crossbows and ship-borne fire crossbows.

Therefore, Qi State did not pay attention to it at that time.

Of course, the more important reason is that Qi has never fought against Wei before. Even in the war that affected the entire Central Plains a few years ago, Qi's opponent was only Chu, not Wei.

The armies have competed - the only exception was the confrontation between Wei Gongzi Run and Qi General Tian Dan in Ningyang. However, because Wei Gongzi Run's heart was not here, the two armies did not have a chance to compete.

Because of this, Qi State is not very clear about Wei State's technological strength, but blindly believes that Wei State's technological craftsmanship is probably still at a level of "slightly weaker than Lu State".

But in fact, in the "Battle of Song County" during the Wei Civil War a few years ago, the leader of the Beibo Army at the time, Xiang Ding, had already realized this problem: the weapons and equipment forged by the Lu State were not as good as those forged by the Wei State.

Easy to use.

Perhaps the world still thinks that Lu is still the country with the best technology and craftsmanship, but in fact, Wei has already quietly caught up with Lu, just like the "Daliang Alliance" a few years ago, Wei used it to intimidate other countries.

The ballistas, trebuchets, etc. of the Central Plains countries were actually inconceivable even to the representative of the Lu State, Gong Zixing and the Minister Ji Ping.

Since then, various countries in the Central Plains have gradually realized that Wei's craftsmanship may have surpassed Lu's, but to what extent is unknown. Just like Wei's fourth-generation Wei Liannu, how many people only know his name

, but I have seen it with my own eyes.

But now, after seeing with their own eyes that the repeating crossbows on the Wei warships outside the city easily penetrated the shields and armor of the Flying Bear Army, Qi King Lu Bai, Tian Bao, Gao Xi and other ministers realized that the Wei State's cutting-edge

How terrible are the weapons of war?

You must know that the Flying Bear Army has just replaced its weapons and equipment. As the most trusted garrison of Qi State, this army has always had the highest replacement of weapons and equipment among all the armies of Qi State, even if its number of dispatches is pitiful.

The people who forged these weapons and equipment were also selected from experienced craftsmen in Qi and Lu.

But even so, the new equipment of the Flying Bear soldiers were still as fragile as paper in front of the Wei Liannu carried on the Wei warships.

Is it because the craftsmanship of Qi and Lu is too backward?

Not really.

After all, Wei's Wei Liennu, especially the fourth-generation Wei Liennu carried on the Huling Navy's Tiger warships, can actually easily penetrate the latest shields or armors of Wei, let alone one, no matter how many.

With a few shields and a few more sets of armor, it can still penetrate easily.

The Smelting Bureau has conducted tests on this, using the latest iron shield from Wei State, a knuckle-thick iron shield, as a reference object.

At a distance of about three hundred feet, the fourth generation Wei Liannu could only leave an obvious indentation on the iron shield made in Wei.

At a distance of about two hundred feet, the fourth-generation Wei Liannu has the ability to shoot through an iron shield and produce an obvious indentation on the second iron shield.

At a distance of one hundred feet, the fourth-generation Wei Liannu can shoot through three iron shields at once.

The most terrifying thing is that at a distance of about forty feet, the fourth generation Wei Liannu can shoot through up to six iron shields at once.

In the current world, there is no machine crossbow with such powerful lethality.

Even the iron shield forged during the Xing'an period of the Wei state was still unable to stop the fourth-generation Wei Liannu forged by his own country. How could the Feixiong Army resist it?

Just like Li Huo, the general of the Huling Navy, said, the Flying Bear Army thought that they were holding a shield and the Wei Army on the opposite side was helpless. This was very stupid.

This is Wei Jun!

Not the Chu army!

Is it really possible for Wei's army to be the same as Chu's army, armed with weapons and equipment far behind those of Qi?

It has to be said that the Qi army's concept of war needs to be corrected. Maybe the opponent they once encountered, Chu, allowed them to gain an advantage by relying on the gap in equipment, but this will not work for the Wei army.

The weapons and equipment of Wei's army are no worse than those of Qi, in fact, worse than those of Qi.

No, Lu Sheng, the commander-in-chief of the Flying Bear Army, committed this mistake. He believed that the Wei army did not have the ability to harm his infantry of the Flying Bear Army holding strong iron shields, so he ordered the infantry to be orderly.

They advanced towards the shore, attracting the attention of the Wei army and creating powerful combat conditions for the crossbowmen in the army. Unexpectedly, these three thousand Feixiong army infantry became a living target of the Wei fleet. In just a few

In the blink of an eye, most of them were shot to death.

Fortunately, Wei general Li Huo considered that the number of repeating crossbow bolts in the fleet's cabin was not very large, and he was relatively restrained when he ordered the shooting. It was just a volley. Otherwise, if the Wei army poured out the crossbow bolts regardless of consumption, others would

Regardless of the situation, at least none of the three thousand "living targets" on the river bank will survive.

"Withdraw! Withdraw!"

I don’t know whether he was frightened away by the terrifying lethality of the Wei army or because the Feixiong army suffered huge losses. The commander of the Feixiong army, Lu Sheng, panicked and ordered a retreat. He planned to retreat a few miles to regroup and then fight with Wei general Li Huo.

clash of armies.

In the second round of confrontation, Lu Sheng, the leader of the Flying Bear Army, became more cautious than in the first time.

But unfortunately, as an army, the Flying Bear Army lacks effective means of restraint against a navy parked on the river, unless it brings in war weapons such as crossbows and catapults.

As a result, the Wei army repelled the second offensive of the Fei Xiong Army without any surprise.

Both attacks were repelled by the Wei army. Not to mention the morale of the Feixiong army plummeted, even the city of Linzi was at a loss.

At least King Lu Bai of Qi was no longer as arrogant as he was a moment ago, and was brought back to the palace by the ministers in a daze.

"Is the Wei army... actually so powerful?"

In the main hall of the Qi Palace, Qi King Lu Bai looked at several ministers sitting in the palace and said rather bitterly.

He still remembered that a moment ago, he had ambitiously wanted to imitate his father Lu Xi's feat of expelling the Korean army and expel or defeat the Wei army outside the city. However, he did not expect that the elite flying bears that Qi was proud of would

The army was defeated twice by the Wei army outside the city.

Damn it!

This is just an army of Wei State!

After taking a long breath, King Qi Lu Bai asked worriedly: "What do you think we should do now?"

At this time, the Right Prime Minister Tian Tao was frowning and thinking about something, as if he had not heard what King Qi Lu Bai said, while Gao Xi, Uncle Bao, Guan Zhong, and several others looked at each other in confusion.

Among them, the scholar-officials kept moving their lips slightly, as if they wanted to say something.

Seeing this, Qi King Lu Bai immediately asked: "Lian Chen, do you have any great ideas?"

"Ah? Yes, uh..."

Lian Chen said a few words vaguely, which made Qi Wang Lu Bai, who was already anxious, even more unhappy. He frowned and scolded: "I asked you what countermeasures you have, what are you hesitating about?"

Seeing King Qi's anger, Lian Chen was shocked and said quickly: "Your Majesty, please calm down. I have a plan, but..."

"Speak quickly if you have anything to say!" King Lu Bai of Qi urged.

Seeing this, Lian Chen hesitated and said: "I think it might as well ask Mr. Zuo Xiang to intervene. That... Mr. Zuo Xiang is, well, he is from Wei and is the brother of the King of Wei. If he is willing to come forward and say

Xiang, the Wei army outside the city may..."

"absurd!"

Before Lian Chen could finish speaking, Uncle Bao frowned and interrupted the former, and said righteously: "It is true that Mr. Zuo Xiang is from Wei, and it is true that he and the King of Wei are brothers. However, this is

The war between Da Qi and Wei is a battle between countries. How can it be confused with a personal relationship?!... What's more, the Wei general Li Huo outside the city is not related to the left prime minister, and he serves Wei

The king ordered us to attack our country, how can we withdraw our troops just because of a few words from Mr. Zuo Xiang?"

"What's the harm in trying?" Lian Chen's momentum was a little weak at first, but then he didn't know if he thought of some powerful words, and his voice suddenly became louder: "Why don't you just do nothing? Mr. Bao also sees it.
To be continued...