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Chapter 146 Alternative Invasion Plan 2
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"Too few arrows! 6,000 per day, which is barely enough to cover the basic loss of our own troops for daily training (arrows can generally be reused, but they are inevitably lost. The main reason is that the arrows are hardened as a whole. Although they are hard and have strong penetration, they are easy to break). But if we encounter a tough battle, a big battle, it will definitely not be enough. I need you to find a way to increase the output to about 20,000 arrows immediately. If it is a problem of manpower, then find Musa for me. If there are technical difficulties, come to me directly. In a word, within a week, I must see 20,000 arrows appear in the army logistics warehouse every day."
Think about it, after that guy named Yura escaped from the Andrel Canyon, he must have gathered a group of East Continent coalition forces to search for us everywhere. If I don’t make preparations in advance, I might be the one in trouble.
"Sir, there are no problems with the hands and technology, especially the wood turning machine you provided us, which is really easy to use. Who would have thought that such a small thing, driven by water, would rotate at such a high speed, and after installing the small thing called a cutter, it could turn out one arrow shaft per minute. This is really amazing. If we use the speed of making arrows on the mainland in the past, it would take a skilled craftsman half an hour to make one!
But the most important problem now is that we don't have enough eagle feathers to make tail feathers for arrows. Even within this area of dozens of miles, even if all the birds are shot by the soldiers, we can't make arrows quickly enough! If I can be provided with suitable eagle feathers in sufficient quantity, I think I can make 16,000 arrows every day without adding any manpower or machines. . . . . . "Hearing that I want 20,000 arrows, Shen Xiang immediately smiled bitterly.
After listening to his explanation, I immediately slapped my head in frustration. This is a troublesome matter. Within the empire, I can let the soldiers openly go out to buy eagle feathers. As long as I hook up with enough mountain villages, I can quickly buy enough arrow tail feathers. However, now I am not in the Kastark Empire, but near the enemy-occupied area. If any news leaks out, it will be a headache.
"So, you ask the inspectors of that factory to select some of the best arrows from the daily routine production and install the eagle feathers on them. For the rest of the arrows, open four V-shaped grooves on their tails. Let the soldiers carry these arrows for long-range covering attacks, and the arrows with eagle feathers will be given priority to sniper archers. Although arrows with grooves like this are more likely to miss than arrows with eagle feathers, and the range is also affected, as long as the data is not greatly affected, this is the only way to do it now." Suddenly I remembered that many rockets now have metal tail fins, don't they? Their main function is to guide the airflow. After the four grooves are opened on the tail of the arrow, the remaining tail will appear in a cross shape, and this shape can also have the function of guiding airflow. (You can take a look at the cross-shaped anti-theft lock in your hand. The tail of the arrow after opening the four V-shaped grooves looks just like that, but there are no teeth)
"This... Sir, will this work? Can you shoot accurately with such a fast arrow?" With extreme doubt, Shen Xiang looked at me with suspicion, as if what I said was a fairy tale.
The concept of bow and arrow manufacturing over the past thousand years may have been deeply engraved in the minds of these craftsmen, and it is extremely difficult to change their thinking. But I did not explain it to him. After all, if I wanted to explain it to him, I would have to explain the principles of aerodynamics to him, or I would have to tell him what air is. . . . . . At that time, I might even have the thought of committing suicide.
"Try what I say. If it doesn't work, come back to me." After saying "give it a try", I was ready to send Shen Xiang away. Now, I need to expand the sales of my goods. I hope those workshop owners in the East Continent will not blame me for stealing their jobs.
"Yes, sir. But I have one more thing to report to you. The Tianfeng Lake Dam that you asked the Elders of the Andriel Resistance Army to help you build has now been sealed as you intended. If you are free, please help us build a water power source as soon as possible so that we can make use of the remaining equipment..." Shen Xiang, who was about to go out, suddenly remembered that the cofferdam under construction on the steep Tianfeng Mountain had been completed. Thinking about the water resources there that were dozens of times larger than what he was using now, Shen Xiang immediately set his sights on that place.
"What? No, absolutely not. I'm not going to use that place as a production base. Don't attack it anymore. If you feel that the power plant of the factory is not enough, make a few power plants that use horsepower to drive. This can also meet the production needs of the factory." Thinking of the huge war fortress under construction, I shook my head again and again. The water resources there, I am now accumulating as much as possible, and it is absolutely impossible to waste the water resources there easily. Once this fortress is built, as long as the water source of Tianfeng Lake is not exhausted, then my fortress will be an invincible city that will not fall. Even if someone bombards it with forbidden spells, I don't think it will necessarily destroy me. Hehe, the so-called forbidden spells are at most a larger equivalent of a fuel-air bomb, not a ground-penetrating missile. What can you do to me? Besides, in that mountain city, I am equipped with a large number of improved catapults and bed crossbows. If I find that a magician tries to use forbidden spells on me, then my long-range weapons alone will be enough to make them suffer. If I can lead a legion of troops inside, then no matter how many more troops there are, they will not be able to capture this immortal city of oblivion.
After Shen Xiang left, I began to think about what I should worry about next. Now the biggest problem for me to develop military industry is no longer iron ore, wood, coal, or other resources. The biggest problem has now turned into sales channels.
If I can’t sell all the equipment I have, then my plan will fail completely. Yes, that’s right, it’s the sales channel. At this moment, I recalled the few tips my boss taught me in order to show off his business talent to me, and they began to revolve in my mind. . . . .
The goods I can sell now not only have a production speed that others cannot match, but also have an absolute profit margin in terms of price. As everyone knows, in this world, to make a long sword, you need to pay the craftsman about 1 silver coin, the price of the iron ore is about 6 silver coins, the hilt and scabbard are 1 silver coin, plus the tools and auxiliary materials such as coal that are consumed in making it, it is no less than 2 silver coins. In other words, the cost of a long sword in this world is at least 1 gold coin, and if the interests of merchants are added, then the highest may be 1.5-2 gold coins.
As for me, since the coal and iron ore are purchased by the Andriel resistance army at a price to pay for their living expenses, and the wood is cut down by my own troops from the forests all over the mountain, only some small parts need to be purchased from the outside world. Therefore, if I use a No. 2 quality longsword that is completely comparable to the standard longswords in this world, then with the absolute advantage of a manufacturing cost of less than 5 silver coins, I will definitely be able to break through the manufacturing industry of the East Continent and occupy the East Continent from a certain perspective. After that, those No. 2 and even No. 1 longswords in my hand will slowly appear in the hands of my enemies... (To be continued)