Chapter 84： pause search

  Chapter 84 Pause Search

  Qu Mao didn't react at all, and he froze on the spot. Su Yan, who was looking a little sluggish, saw the scene here, and walked over on her own initiative.

Su Buqing told Qu Mao a very cruel fact, that is, the crossbow bolts of the third-level princess guards are about to be used up, even if all the remaining crossbow bolts are recovered and redistributed, it is not enough to ensure that each third-level princess guard warrior has two crossbow bolts .

  In the strategy folding space, the reason why no soldiers and civilians were killed in battle, and the strategy can be completed within three hours, is all because of the fierce firepower of the third-level princess guards, and the arm crossbow can remotely suppress the charge of low-level monsters.

  Now that there is a lack of crossbow bolts, it will be difficult to suppress the monsters in the folding space, which means that the third-tier princess guards need to bear greater pressure in hand-to-hand combat, and the probability of injury and death will rise sharply.

Yesterday afternoon plus this morning, the total number of monsters killed in the two folding spaces must have exceeded 8,000. The third-tier princess guards are warriors rather than heroes. After all, the crossbow arrows they carry are limited. The consumption is indeed not small.

  Now the crossbow arrows of these 100 Tier 3 princess guard soldiers are exhausted, but not to mention that nearly half of them are injured. Even the captain Su Buqing was injured by an arrow in the arm, and his combat power has been damaged by at least half.

  Hearing the news, Qu Mao frowned, and asked nervously: "Su Buqing, after the crossbow arrows are exhausted, how much will it affect our combat power?"

  Su Yan also asked: "Captain Su, if there are less than two crossbow arrows per person, isn't it possible to carry out at most one round of long-range firepower suppression? After entering the folding space, there will certainly not be only one battle to fight!"

Su Buqing pondered for a while, and said: "My lord, Your Royal Highness, once the crossbow bolts are exhausted, it means that the third-tier princess guards will lose their long-range strike ability. It is okay to encounter melee monsters, but they can only concentrate on attacking and charging when encountering long-range monsters... "

  Qu Mao interrupted Su Buqing and asked, "I don't really understand what you're saying, so just tell me how much our troops have lost in combat power!"

  Su Buqing said helplessly: "Sorry, my lord, my subordinates don't know either. Losing the long-range attack ability, the combat ability of the third-tier princess guard fighters will be lost by at least 60%, and this does not include the currently injured comrades.

  So compared with yesterday before the expedition, we can only retain about 20% of our combat power. "

  Qu Mao's eyes widened in an instant, and after a while he muttered to himself: "If you don't consider the injury situation, only 40% of your combat power is left, and if you consider the injury situation, only 20% is left. What a joke."

  Su Buqing said bitterly: "Yes, my lord! Considering the brothers who are injured and unable to fight, 20% of the combat power is an optimistic estimate."

  Su Yan persuaded Qu Maodao: "My lord, our military equipment is insufficient, and the soldiers who are not guarded by the princess are not strong enough."

   Qu Mao asked: "Su Yan, is the army of your Tassel Principality also incapable of sustained combat?"

Su Yan said: "My lord, although I didn't understand military affairs in the past, I know very well that in large-scale battles, the logistics officer is responsible for escorting the military supplies. Once the frontline troops are exhausted to a certain extent, the logistics officer will replenish the military equipment to ensure Sustained combat capability of frontline forces."

  Su Buqing stopped talking and turned his attention to Qu Mao.

   Qu Mao raised his head and asked Su Yan, "Su Yan, how did the logistics officer of the Liusu Principality obtain the military supplies, such as these consumables—crossbow arrows!"

  Su Yan smiled wryly: "My lord, crossbow arrows are just the simplest war consumables, and carpentry workshops can generally produce them directly. At most, a blacksmith's assistance is needed to cut some crossbow arrows.

However, it is impossible for ordinary countries to rely solely on carpentry workshops and blacksmiths to produce arrows. After all, a country has at least tens of thousands of archers. The small batch production of carpentry workshops and blacksmiths alone cannot meet the consumption of the army. Especially in times of war.

Therefore, the general country will build a special military factory inside each city. The military factory generally gathers carpenters, blacksmiths, and craftsmen for centralized production, specializing in the production of weapons, armor, arrows, war tools, etc. A series of combat needs supplies.

  Currently, we have not built a military factory in Yi Village. First, there are no blueprints for the construction. Second, our army is not large, so we don’t need to spend resources to build a military factory for the time being.

  In other countries on the mainland, military factories are basically produced by slave organizations with high loyalty, or by prisoners of war, and skilled workers are trained by slaves. Basically, they are all government-run, and rarely handed over to private individuals for production.

   But we are now a territory, the adults can arrange for the people to learn technology and organize production without completely relying on slaves. "

   Qu Mao listened carefully to Su Yan's explanation, and asked, "In other words, there is no way for us to buy ready-made crossbows by ourselves?"

Su Yan nodded and said: "Yes, my lord, the armament business is generally a transaction between countries at least at the level of the Marquis and above, including Yancheng Port, where armaments and materials are allowed to enter and not to be exported. .”

   Qu Mao nodded helplessly, and said, "That means we will have to build a military factory sooner or later."

   Immediately Qu Mao turned on the cheating system, but unfortunately the cheating mall, cheating military and cheating logistics are still in the "off" state.

  Waved her hand and asked Su Yan to urge the logistics auxiliary soldiers to distribute the roasted animal meat. Qu Mao sat under a big tree and wanted to think quietly for a while.

  Exploring outside is eating barbecue. It happened that Qu Mao had just been hit by some bad news. He didn't want to eat barbecue for a while, so he just leaned against the big tree and closed his eyes to rest, waiting for the soldiers to finish their lunch.

  After the third-tier princess guards and logistics auxiliary soldiers finished their lunch, Su Buqing walked up to Qu Mao and asked, "My lord, the lunch has been finished and the soldiers have rested. Let's go next..."

   Qu Mao waved his hand to stop Su Buqing from continuing, stood up and said, "Okay, Su Buqing, lead the troops back to Yi Village, if you encounter wild animals along the way, kill them and bring them back.

After returning to Yi Village, you personally summon all the third-tier princess guards from Mingang Village and Fisherman Village to Yi Village to stand by. All injured third-tier princess guards will be sent to the medical room for treatment as soon as possible. If the Yi Village medical room is not enough, send them to Yi Village. Mingang Village and Fisherman Village.

  Yi Village still needs to build more medical rooms. After returning to the village, Su Yan started the construction of Yi Village Military Factory. "

   "Yes, my lord!" Su Buqing and Su Yan said at the same time.

  Su Yan thought for a while, and said: "My lord, let the skilled workers in the blacksmith shop and carpentry workshop first swear allegiance to Yi Village, which happens to have 20 more control points."

  Nodded, shouted: "Target Yi Village, let's go!"

   Then Qu Mao got on his horse and led the large army slowly towards Yi Village.

  (end of this chapter)