Chapter 2040: Survive from the brink of death

Small forces have limited resources and not much iron ore reserves.

They want to buy catapults and crossbows, but they are unable to do so.

After all, although large-scale lethal weapons such as catapults and crossbows are powerful, they also have certain requirements for quantity.

If you can only buy one catapult and crossbow, the effect will be minimal.

Unless the other party is like you, with only one or two catapults or crossbows, or if the other party has several times more catapults and crossbows than you, this war basically doesn't need to be fought.

Because you may not have broken through the other party's city wall, and the other party may destroy all your buildings in one round of attack.

Even if the other party's catapult operation technology is a little stronger, it may directly destroy your only catapult and crossbow.

Once you lose the help of catapults and crossbows, you will be a live target and can only be beaten passively before the two sides launch a landing battle.

Therefore, the more catapults and crossbows, the better. In this way, with just a few rounds of attacks, all the enemy's buildings can be destroyed.

Therefore, the number of catapults and crossbows is also a symbol of strength and wealth.

Because under normal circumstances, ordinary small forces may only have 1-2 catapults and crossbows.

Because if there are more, their financial resources cannot keep up.

After all, siege weapons such as catapults and crossbows are not only expensive to manufacture, but also their ammunition is a considerable expense.

Of course, the purpose of buying them is not just for display. They must be used to attack the enemy or defend against the enemy's attack.

But after each use, regardless of whether you win the opponent in the end, you must refill the ammunition.

In addition, whether it is the business alliance or other trading platforms, when they sell such siege weapons, they will deliberately do something so that the users who buy them need to repair them after a few uses, or directly scrap them and buy new ones.

So no matter which one it is, it is a considerable expense for small forces.

Because of their low strength, their daily income is also very small.

This is the case when they do not fight often, they can only afford 1-2 crossbows and catapults.

If they fight frequently, they may not be able to afford any.

So they can only buy crossbows and bows, which are slightly weaker in lethality but dozens or hundreds of times cheaper.

Because they are poor, they do not expect to rely on siege weapons such as catapults and crossbows to cause damage to the other side.

They usually try to get close to the other side's island directly, and then after landing on the other side's island, they directly let their men fight with the other side with bows and crossbows.

Although before the connection, it will cause considerable damage.

Because the other side is not stupid, knowing that you do not have catapults and crossbows, the other side will definitely not want to have a landing battle with you.

Because once the landing battle begins, the normal war is basically coming to an end.

Unless the number of people on one side is much less than that of the other side, or the other side is not equipped with weapons.

Otherwise, if both sides use crossbows and bows, it is really hard to say who will win or lose.

Because the distance is relatively close, it is almost impossible to dodge.

In addition, the area of ​​the sky island is so large, if there are too many people, even if you want to dodge, you may be hindered by others around you.

So in the end, you either pick up a shield to defend or hide behind a building to defend.

But as I said just now, when a landing battle occurs, the buildings of both sides are generally almost destroyed.

At this time, even if you want to hide, you can't, so apart from the shield, you can only end up being hit.

You must know that a long-range hit may make you lose your mobility and combat effectiveness, let alone being hit at close range.

At that time, even if you don't die on the spot, you may lose too much blood and fall into a coma.

Once you fall into a coma, you are actually not far from death.

So at that time, it all depends on luck, who will make the first move, who can hit the other party first, and who will win this battle.

However, if both sides start the landing battle at the beginning, no matter who wins the battle, they will eventually be considered a failure.

Because the distance between the two sides is too close, weapons such as crossbows and bows are not expensive, and basically everyone has them. The price of arrows is also cheap, and it is convenient to carry, and it does not take long to refill each time.

So once the two sides land, if they attack each other with crossbows and bows, the casualties will be absolutely heavy.

At that time, there may be only a few people who survive.

This is also why under normal circumstances, especially those large forces and top forces, do not like landing battles.

Because once a landing battle occurs, their advantages are not much.

After all, as I said just now, even if Zhang Jun has advanced martial arts, he can't withstand the attack of crossbows.

Even he can't withstand it, let alone others.

His strength is that if he fights with the enemy in close combat, without using long-range weapons, he can beat ten or even a hundred at a time.

If he faces an enemy attacking from a distance, if he wants to win, he can only dodge by his body movements while trying to get close to the enemy.

Once he reaches his attack range, the enemy can only be slaughtered by him.

But everyone knows that whether it is a crossbow or a bow, there will not be only one enemy attacking from a distance.

After all, it is cheap and easy to operate. It is not like a catapult or a crossbow cart. Not only is the body expensive, but the price of giant arrows and boulders is also beyond their reach.

The most important point is that it takes at least several minutes to refill the ammunition each time, and it takes several people to complete it.

Such weapons can only be used to attack the city, not to kill the enemy, especially to kill only one enemy, the effect is almost zero.

So killing the enemy can only be done by archers and crossbowmen, and their speed is often very high, at least dozens of people in a formation.

So no matter how powerful Zhang Jun is, he can dodge the crossbow attack of one or ten people, but can he dodge dozens of people?

Because every time he dodged, he consumed a lot of energy, and after dodging, he could only kill one person at a time.

Then he had to repeat the previous steps, and he might not make mistakes once or twice.

Once the number of times increased, his energy would drop sharply, and he would eventually die.