Chen Tianxing woke up early the next morning and saw Song Ziyu and Xu Yingnan whispering when he went out.
"Why do you get up so early? This doesn't fit in with your lifestyle." Chen Tianxing asked curiously.
The two of them looked at each other with disdain, and the little loli on the side smiled with her lips pursed.
This idiot is called a five-star hunter, but he didn't even know that he was knocked unconscious. What an idiot.
"What kind of expression is this?" Chen Tianxing, the second-largest monk, was confused.
Song Ziyu urgently made an appointment with the Big Three, so he didn't say much to Chen Tianxing. After making arrangements, he took Xu Yingnan to see Ma Senming.
In the Ma family's inner house, Song Ziyu told the three people that the Northern Chamber of Commerce would launch a war against Longshan.
Upon hearing the news, the three of them were shocked, but after being shocked, they also burst out with the unique ferocity of people in the apocalypse.
"These guys from the Northern Chamber of Commerce are really haunted, and they still want to attack us? But who is afraid of whom! Now we have people with guns, if it doesn't work, just fuck them!" Tian Yue was the first to speak, and he looked very angry.
Ma Senming glanced at Tian Yue in surprise, thinking that this was not Tian Yue's style.
But Ma Senming didn't think much about it. After all, what Tian Yue said was similar to his own opinion.
"Settlements are the foundation for our survival. Even if a powerful enemy invades, we must resist to the end! But when it comes to resistance, recruiting people, buying weapons, hoarding ammunition, and storing food are all urgent matters!" Ma Senming Jia looked at Song Ziyu and said: "This... people eat what horses chew. I wonder how much help you can provide, Xiao Song?"
Song Ziyu heard this and said: "Don't worry, Longshan is your foundation, and it is also my foundation! We will both suffer losses and prosperity, and I will advance and retreat with you. If necessary, I will help you!"
There’s nothing to hesitate about, Soha!
It is impossible for Song Ziyu to give up his interests in the Longshan settlement because of the enemy's attack.
After working so hard for so long, I didn't want to be knocked back to my original shape.
Hearing Song Ziyu's words, the three giants all showed expressions of relief on their faces, and Tian Yue's face smiled even more.
"Then, let's discuss military expansion." Ma Senming said eagerly.
So the four parties began to delineate the matters they were responsible for, and then came planning and preparation!
After unifying his thoughts, Song Ziyu returned to his residence and began to consider mobilization.
The plan he is responsible for is to first purchase a batch of weapons from the civilized world, and then use these weapons to arm the hungry people in the settlement!
The settlement only has 300 combat-ready soldiers, and it is somewhat overestimating its capabilities to resist the enemy's offensive with this small number of troops.
Expanding the army is the first priority!
But military expansion is not just about recruiting people, it also requires weapons.
Only with weapons can we form enough combat effectiveness!
So the first priority is to get usable weapons.
Although it is difficult to obtain guns and ammunition in batches in Yuxia Kingdom, there are always some substitutes available, such as...bows and crossbows!
As the best long-range attack weapon in the cold weapon era, crossbows are very lethal.
It is only because of the changes in the times that hot weapons have become the mainstream, and crossbows have withdrawn from the practical battlefield.
But crossbows still have a considerable market in the apocalyptic wasteland world.
Just do it!
Song Ziyu found a store selling bows and arrows online and ordered 1,500 compound recurve bows at a unit price of 350 yuan. These crossbows are equipped with a full range of accessories, including: arm and finger guards, five-pin sights, return curves, arrow rests, etc.
In addition, considering the losses caused by the war, Song Ziyu spent a huge amount of money to purchase 100,000 carbon arrows.
Hundreds of thousands were spent, and the store owner at the online store was so elated that he immediately hired a truck and drove 800 kilometers overnight to Nandu to deliver the goods in person.
Song Ziyu unloaded the things in the warehouse he had found, and then spent another four days completely transporting them to Longshan.
After such a large amount of weapons and equipment arrived at Longshan, the Big Three were immediately shocked!
Fifteen hundred sets of recurve bows and 100,000 arrows, all in brand new packaging, new ones that haven't even been stringed yet.
Looking at these compound bows, the Big Three refreshed their understanding of Song Ziyu.
Xiao Song’s path is so wild!
Most of what Xiao Song delivered to the settlement before was daily necessities, but he never expected to be able to get so many weapons.
These are composite bows, using advanced craftsmanship from the civilized world, and are completely different from the original crossbows handmade in the settlement itself.
The recurve bow equipped with a pulley group is more labor-saving and has a longer range. The key is that the accessory calibrator can accurately hit the range, which is completely lacking in the original crossbow.
Just imagine, a scene of 1,500 archers launching a volley, how... terrifying it would be!
That's all for crossbows. What shocked the Big Three even more was not the compound bows, but those carbon steel arrows thrown around like garbage!
The arrows made by this advanced smelting method are not only light, but their armor-breaking ability is even better than that of bone arrows!
The three giants took the arrows in their hands and looked at them again and again, and studied them again. They still couldn't figure out what kind of craftsmanship was needed to create such perfect arrow feathers.
You must know that a large part of the arrows in the Longshan settlement are still polished from animal bones, and only a very small number of arrows are made of precious steel.
But these arrows made of steel are strategic reserves of the settlement and they dare not be used easily.
There is no other reason than that resources are too scarce.
…
With this batch of bows and arrows, hundreds of people under the Big Three immediately completed the costume changes. Each person had a bow and arrow, and two pots of carbon arrows. They also wore the elbow pads provided by the online store. They were handsome, sturdy, and powerful.
So what to do with the remaining crossbows?
The settlement opened its gates widely and urgently recruited more than a thousand hungry people as supplementary archers for unified arming and training.
As a result, the armed force of the entire settlement quickly expanded to 1,500 people!
Don’t underestimate these fifteen hundred people!
This is the peak of the martial arts value in the history of Longshan settlement.
There are less than 10,000 people living in the settlement, not counting the women, children and old people. There are 1,500 armed personnel alone. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a military force.
But even so, Song Ziyu still felt a little unstable.
Song Ziyu is a student of the History Department of Nanjing University. After reading a lot of history, he has a completely different view on war.
My own free thinking has long been separated from the concept of village fighting. Even among NTU students, the wars and battles everyone discusses are those grand past events in which hundreds of thousands of people participated, not to mention those devastating battles. A world war that will destroy the earth.
Therefore, a mere 1,500 people gave me the feeling of three words: unsafe!
