Lai Cang said: "There are a total of 245 regular city defense troops, a total of 750 reserve militiamen, and only thirty monks, including those from the six gates.
In addition, there are more than twenty mercenary teams in Maplewood City, large and small, and we can still gather about a 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 a supporting role.
There are actually only more than a hundred monks in Maplewood City, which makes Li Xuan a little helpless. Doesn't it mean that one monk has to deal with ten monsters?
Seeing Li Xuan's worry, Lai Cang said: "Don't worry, Imperial Envoy. Although our monks are small in number, we have more powerful weapons!"
"What weapon?"
Li Xuan asked.
However, Ding Zhen and others' eyes lit up and they said with joy on their faces: "Yes, we also have the cannon of the Talisman Formation! Ask people to prepare the cannon quickly, and when the monsters get close, we will hit them hard!"
Talisman cannon?
Li Xuan looked happy. Although he had assembled a talisman cannon, he had never seen the cannon fire with his own eyes. Could it be an eye-opener this time?
The sky was grey, gray clouds covered most of the sky, and only the afterglow of the sun showed in the distant sky.
After noon, the sky became gloomy, and a cold wind blew by. It seemed that snowflakes would fall from the sky at any time.
On the walls of Maplewood City, there was a shrinking soldier standing every five meters away. They were chilled by the wind, but they had to stare into the distance with their eyes wide open.
According to intelligence, the monster army is less than two kilometers away from Maplewood City and has already entered the range of sight.
However, no one has found traces of the monster yet. This crisis that is coming but has not come yet has made everyone's emotions tense to the extreme, and it seems that they will break at any time! There are large and small fires burning on the city walls.
Not to keep the soldiers warm, but to be used as tinder to light bombs later.
At this moment, the soldiers' feet were piled with bombs stuffed with black powder. These bombs were low-cost and the most common firearm in the army, but their power was only average.
It's enough for blasting some low-level monsters, but it's a bit incapable of dealing with blood spirit beasts and armored beasts.
Of course, no one expects black powder bombs to be able to deal with high-level monsters. The big killer they are counting on is standing directly above the city gate. The black barrels of a row of three talisman artillery are pointing towards the sky, seemingly ready to attack at any time.
Can release angry roars.
Several officers were busy conducting final inspections on the artillery. Each line of the talisman engine had to be taken into account, and the supply of spiritual crystals had to be ensured.
At this time, the Talisman Artillery has become the hope of the entire city, and there must be no mistakes.
Laicang patrolled back and forth on the city wall. He dispersed the soldiers for defense, and organized temporarily recruited monks from the army and mercenary regiments into several small teams.
The monks are the real main force in the battle, and they must use their swords.
Li Xuan's attention was focused on the talisman array artillery. The structure of these three artillery pieces 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 made of
It is composed of four different formations connected in parallel.
The flame array and the explosion array are the basis of all artillery array circuits. In addition, there is an additional "continuous array" and "precision array". Under the combined effect of the four arrays, the artillery not only increases the continuous fire function, but also greatly increases the fire rate.
The accuracy is improved and it becomes an out-and-out lethal weapon.
Li Xuan greedily kept the structure of the talisman array circuit in his mind. This was knowledge that could not 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 their overhaul, Li Xuan reluctantly looked back and asked Ding Zhendao.
"I bought it from Daxi Country at a huge price.
Just three cannons, each costing this amount!"
Ding Zhen stretched out a hand and shook four fat and thick fingers.
"Four...one hundred thousand spirit stones?"
Li Xuan asked in surprise.
Ding Zhen smiled bitterly: "How is that possible! Four hundred thousand spiritual stones can't even buy a cannon barrel! It's forty thousand spiritual stones!"
"Oh My God!"
Li Xuan was stunned.
The value of one spiritual stone is approximately equal to one hundred spiritual stones. In other words, the price of one cannon is four million spiritual stones! Three cannons are equivalent to twelve million spiritual stones! Even if Li Xuan is quite rich,
I was very shocked when I heard this number.
No wonder Chen Meina said before that the price of the talisman engine is high and few people can afford it. Considering how expensive the cannon is, Li Xuan estimates that no one except the country can afford it! "It's too expensive."
Li Xuan shook his head and said.
"This is the latest generation of talisman artillery manufactured by Daxi Kingdom. The price is of course expensive."
Ding Zhen said proudly, "When the late emperor was still alive, he wanted to develop a talisman engine for a while, so he tightened his belt and bought a hundred engines from the Daxi Kingdom. Firstly, it was to consolidate national defense, and secondly, it was also for research and study.
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Our Eastern Province is only allocated twelve gates in total, so I asked for three gates for Maplewood City.
Before, An Rulong thought the monthly maintenance costs were too high, but now, we don’t have to rely on them to defend the city!"
Li Xuan said doubtfully: "How come I heard that many nobles are opposed to the development of talisman formation machinery?
When the late emperor bought these cannons, there should be many people who objected, right?"
Ding Zhen snorted coldly and said: "Some mud-legged people think that with the talisman machine, they can gain the same power as monks. Those are all delusions of overestimating their capabilities! This kind of external force can only be used occasionally and can never replace the real power."
strength!"
Li Xuan understood immediately when he heard it. It seemed that Ding Zhen was one of those conservative nobles who opposed the development of talisman machinery.
However, these people have really strange thoughts. They want to enjoy the convenience and powerful power brought by the Talisman Array Machine, but they are also worried that their status will be shaken by the trend caused by the Talisman Array Machine. What is this called?
By the way, this is called wanting to be a bitch and building a memorial arch at the same time! Li Xuan was about to ask a few more questions when he suddenly heard a noise on the city wall. Someone pointed in the distance and shouted: "Coming! Coming! The monster is coming.
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Everyone looked in horror, and sure enough, they saw dense black spots suddenly emerging from the gray horizon, and monster beasts gathered into a black torrent, rushing towards Maplewood City.
Although they had known about the monster beasts attacking the city for a long time, when they really saw the appearance of so many monster beasts, everyone felt as if a heavy stone was weighing on their hearts, making them feel breathless.
Lai Cang said loudly: "Everyone, cheer up. Behind us is our home. If we fail, our relatives and friends will suffer! Even for them, we must not take a step back! I also represent
The military, the prefect An Rulong, and the Sa family of the Ding family have promised that if they can defeat the monster, in addition to sharing the spoils equally, everyone will receive a bounty of one hundred spirit stones!"
"Roar!"
The emotional offensive and the lure of bounty helped the soldiers, whose morale was somewhat low, to regain their spirits.