Lai Cang said: "There are 245 regular city defense troops, 750 reserve militias, and only thirty monks. This is the one who counts the six gates.
In addition, there are more than 20 mercenary teams of all sizes in Fenglin City, and they can also gather about one hundred monks and five hundred soldiers."
The combat effectiveness of ordinary soldiers is much worse than that of monks, especially when dealing with monsters, basically only monks are the main force, and ordinary soldiers can only play an auxiliary role.
There are only more than one hundred cultivators in Fenglin City, which makes Li Xuan a little helpless. Isn’t it a cultivator to deal with ten monsters?
Seeing Li Xuan’s concerns, Lai Cang said: “Don’t worry, Lord, the imperial envoy. Although our cultivators are small, we have more powerful weapons!”
"What weapon?"
Li Xuan asked.
Ding Zhen and others all had their eyes lit up and said happily: "Yes, we still have the cannons! Ask people to prepare the cannons, and when the monsters get close, they will slam them hard!"
Talisman cannon?
Li Xuan showed joy. Although he had assembled a cannon in the talisman formation, he had never seen the cannon fire with his own eyes. Could it be that this time it was eye-opening?
The sky is gray, and gray clouds cover most of the sky, and only the distant sky reveals a trace of the sun's afterglow.
After noon, the sky became haze and a gust of cold wind blew, as if snowflakes would fall in the sky at any time.
A soldier with his hands and feet stood at every five meters away on the wall of Fenglin City. They were chilling all over by the wind, but had to stare into the distance with wide eyes.
According to information, the army of monsters is less than two kilometers away from Fenglin City and has entered the range within its sight.
However, no one has discovered the traces of monsters yet. This upcoming but delayed crisis has made everyone's emotions tense to the peak, and it seems to be broken at any time! Fires of all sizes are burning on the city walls.
It is not to keep the soldiers warm, but to ignite the fire that will be used to light the bomb later.
At this moment, the soldiers' feet were filled with bombs stuffed with black gunpowder. This kind of bomb is cheap and is the most common firearm in the army, but its power is only ordinary.
It is enough to use it to blow up some low-level monsters. When dealing with bloody spirit beasts and armored beasts, it is a bit overwhelming.
Of course, no one expects the black gunpowder bomb to deal with high-level monsters. The killing weapon they are counting on is standing directly above the city gate. A row of dark cannons with three talisman array cannons pointing to the sky, as if they can
Can release an angry roar.
Several officers were busy conducting final inspections of the artillery, taking into account the route of each talisman engine, and ensuring the supply of spirit crystals.
At this time, the Talisman Array Artillery has become the hope of the entire city, and there must be no mistakes.
Lai Cang patrolled the city walls back and forth. He spread the soldiers out of defense and formed several teams of monks temporarily recruited from the army and mercenary groups.
The monk is the real main force in battle, and it must be used on the blade.
Li Xuan's attention was all focused on the talisman array cannon. The structure of these three cannons was obviously much more complicated than the one he and Chen Meina assembled. In addition to being five or six times larger in size, the talisman array circuit alone was
Four different formations are formed in parallel.
The flame array and the burst array are the basis of all artillery talisman array circuits. In addition, there is an additional "continuous pearl array" and "precision array". With the combined effect of the four formations, the artillery not only increases the continuous shooting function, but also greatly
Improves accuracy and becomes an absolute weapon of destruction.
Li Xuan greedily kept the structure of the talisman array circuit in his mind. This is knowledge that cannot be learned elsewhere. If he could study it thoroughly, he might be able to create such a powerful cannon in the future.
"Where did these cannons come from?"
After the officers completed the maintenance, Li Xuan reluctantly withdrew his gaze and asked Ding Zhen.
“It was bought from Daxiguo for a lot of money.
There are only three cannons, each of which costs this number!"
Ding Zhen stretched out one hand and shook four fat and thick fingers.
"Four...100,000 spirit stones?"
Li Xuan asked in surprise.
Ding Zhen smiled bitterly: "How is that possible! You can't even buy a cannon barrel for 400,000 spirit stones! It's 40,000 spirit crystals!"
"Oh My God!"
Li Xuan was talking.
The value of a spirit crystal is about one hundred spirit stones. In this way, the price of a cannon is four million spirit stones! Three cannons are only one thousand two million spirit stones! Even if Li Xuan is quite rich,
I was shocked to hear this number.
No wonder Chen Meina said before that the price of the talisman engine is high and few people can afford it. Just attacking the cannon is expensive. Li Xuan probably can't afford it except the country! "It's too expensive."
Li Xuan shook her head and said.
"This is the latest generation of tale array artillery made by Daxiguo, and of course it is expensive."
Ding Zhen said proudly, "When the late emperor was still alive, he wanted to develop the talisman engine for a while, so he tightened his belt and bought a hundred doors from Daxiguo. One is to consolidate national defense, and the other is to study and study.
.
Our eastern province has only been divided into twelve gates, so I have three gates for Fenglin City.
Before, An Rulong thought the monthly maintenance cost was high. Now, it’s not up to them to defend the city!”
Li Xuan said in confusion: "Why did I hear that many nobles oppose the development of talisman array machinery?
Many people should have opposed the late emperor buying these cannons, right?"
Ding Zhen snorted coldly and said, "Some mud legs think that with the talisman array machinery, you can get the same power as the monk. That is a delusion of overestimating yourself! This kind of external force is only used occasionally and can never replace the real one.
strength!"
Li Xuan understood as soon as he heard this. It seemed that Ding Zhen was the conservative nobles who opposed the development of the talisman machinery.
However, these people are really strange in their minds. They want to enjoy the convenience and powerful power brought by the talisman array machinery, and are worried that their status will be shaken by the tide caused by the talisman array machinery. What is this called?
By the way, this is called wanting to be a bitch and setting up a archway! Li Xuan was about to ask a few more questions when he suddenly heard a noise on the city wall. Someone pointed to the distance and shouted loudly: "Here is here! Here is here! The monster is here
!”
Everyone looked at it in horror and saw dense black dots suddenly surged out from the gray horizon, and monsters gathered into a black torrent, rushing towards Fenglin City.
Although I had known about the news of the monster siege, I really saw the appearance of so many monsters, and everyone felt like a heavy stone was pressed on their hearts, feeling breathless.
Lai Cang whispered loudly: "Everyone is cheering up, and our home is behind us. If we fail, our relatives and friends will suffer! Even for them, we must not take a step back! I also mean
The military, the prefect, Lord An Rulong and Ding Jiassa family, promised that if they could defeat the monsters, and the spoils were evenly divided, everyone could get a bounty of one hundred spirit stones!"
"roar!"
The emotional offensive and the temptation of bounty made the soldiers with a little depressed morale cheer up again.