Chapter 2038: City of Slaughter

Basically, after a few launches, these catapults and crossbows will have problems and must be repaired by the Merchant Alliance before they can continue to be used.

Of course, this is still the better quality they bought.

If they bought the cheapest and worst quality ones.

It is very likely that after just one launch, these catapults and crossbows will fall apart on the spot and be scrapped directly.

This is what the Merchant Alliance often says, 'You get what you pay for! '

If you want it to be useful, you must be willing to spend money, otherwise you can only buy some defective products and put them in the base camp to fill the number, as a decoration, or as a deterrent.

It's not that the Merchant Alliance really can't make catapults and crossbows that can be used all the time and do not require maintenance.

It's just that making such things will completely cut off their own financial resources.

Once someone buys it, they will not buy it again. At best, they will buy some ammunition needed for catapults and crossbows from them.

Compared with repairing catapults and selling new catapults, the price of these things can be ignored.

So he would never do such a loss-making business.

Jiang Tian said that he was not interested in the hegemony for the time being, and he just wanted to be a businessman quietly for the time being.

Since he is a businessman, he must live up to his identity.

What is a businessman? No business is without fraud, that is, a businessman.

So he would never make a penny if he could make two cents, unless the person was one of their own in the business alliance, then he could make a catapult and crossbow cart that would never be damaged for the other party.

Even if he didn't ask the other party for a penny, he could just give it to the other party directly.

As for other forces, whether they are allies or enemies, they can't buy such siege weapons no matter how much money they spend.

This is the difference between your own people and outsiders. Good things must be kept in the hands of your own people.

This is not only for your own good, but also to ensure your own interests and your own safety.

After all, the business alliance also knows the truth that a big tree attracts the wind. Even if they try their best not to show their wealth, in the eyes of outsiders, they are all like the God of Wealth.

After all, there are conflicts between so many forces every day, and these forces all need to buy weapons and equipment.

Although other forces also sell them, the Merchant Alliance is absolutely unique in terms of quality.

Then the price may seem a little bit more expensive, but if you calculate it comprehensively, buying from the Merchant Alliance is the most cost-effective.

So unless it is those small and medium-sized forces, they really cannot buy the high-quality equipment of the Merchant Alliance because they do not have enough iron ore.

They can only settle for the second best and buy some three-no products made by other forces.

Of course, even if they have enough money, they may not choose the Merchant Alliance.

Because their strength is there, most of the forces that can conflict with them and make them go to war with each other are almost the same as their strength.

These forces are not only weak in strength, but also have relatively few resources.

In addition, when the two sides go to war, no matter how small the scale is, some resource loss is inevitable.

After such a war is over, even if the other side occupies all the resources of the losing party, in the end, the total resources may not necessarily be more than the resources needed to buy the equipment of the Merchant Alliance.

So buying the equipment and weapons of the Merchant Alliance is a sure loss for them.

If they really have the money to spend on the Merchant Alliance, it would be better to leave here directly and avoid the war.

So they can only buy those cheap three-no products, so that they can make some money after defeating the opponent and harvesting the opponent's resources.

So the real customers of the Merchant Alliance are still those rich people.

Because using their equipment to go to war, you can't afford it without some money.

The power of their Merchant Alliance equipment is indeed huge, but every attack is a considerable expense.

Even if the opponent does not fight back, even if the opponent is taken down by you, the boulders and crossbows you launch will require a lot of iron ore.

This is also one of the reasons why the two sides gave up using catapults and switched to landing operations after destroying the opponent's buildings.

Unless they have super skills and can hit the target every time.

Otherwise, once the opponent's gates, walls, and palaces are destroyed, if you still use catapults and crossbows to attack, it will really be like a stone sinking into the sea, just like having too much money and having no place to spend.

At that time, it will be the same as what I said before. Even if you finally defeat the opponent, you will run out of resources and become more harm than good.

So basically few people are stupid enough to keep attacking with catapults.

Generally, after attacking several important facilities, they will start to change other attack methods.

Unless the members of the opponent's forces are so many that there is no place to hide on their sky islands, and all the people are concentrated in a certain area in large numbers.

If this is the case, then the siege weapon will instantly become a killing weapon.

Every attack will harvest a batch of fresh lives.

However, such a thing is still difficult to achieve. At this stage, no force has so many members.

If there are really so many members, their strength is naturally unquestionable, and they will not be forced into such a desperate situation by the opponent in a battle.

So such a statement can only be self-contradictory when used on such a force.

As I said earlier, when the two sides fight, they usually attack from a distance first.

When they have almost consumed all their energy, they switch to close combat, which is the so-called landing battle.

For example, a general like Zhang Jun can only play a role at this time.

Although he can easily avoid the attacks of catapults and crossbow carts, don't forget that after the landing battle begins, it is not that the personnel of both sides will just face each other and kill each other.

Because in addition to the siege weapons mentioned earlier, there are also some weapons with explosive lethality.

These weapons are also a way of long-range attack. Although they are not as far as catapults and crossbow carts, they can reach a distance of tens or hundreds of meters.

However, the attack targets of these things are relatively single, unlike catapults and crossbow carts, once they hit, they will hit a large area.

This kind of weapon is crossbow arrows and bows and arrows, although they do not have the large range and range of catapults and crossbow carts.

But they are not useless. Their advantage is that they can be used by one person, unlike catapults and crossbow carts, which require several people to cooperate every time.

Crossbows and bows are not only easy to operate, but they can also be used for continuous firing, with each shooting usually taking only a few seconds to complete.