At the beginning, his wife came to him, and he became rich by selling kidney treasures.

"The commander-in-chief is seriously injured! The young commander is currently leading the troops. The ancient Wei army attacked the pass a month ago, and the army had a hard time resisting. The young commander hopes that Master Ren can make 2,000 composite crossbows to resist."

"Second uncle is seriously injured? How could this happen? As the commander-in-chief, does he have to brave the arrows and stones himself?" Xu Yating asked.

Li Yi said helplessly: "There was a merchant named Lu Ming, who crossed the river in white clothes and wanted to offer food and grass. The Marshal personally met him, but he was secretly plotted against by this guy. When I left, the Marshal was still unconscious."

"How abominable!" Xu Yating said angrily.

Ren Hao still frowned: "Two thousand compound crossbows, I'm afraid they can't solve the big problem?"

The advantages of a compound crossbow are: first, it can fire quickly without manual loading; second, it saves effort because of the pulley.

But the disadvantages are also obvious. The first is the lack of accuracy.

The accuracy of traditional bows is far superior to that of compound crossbows. However, compound crossbows are not very practical on the battlefield and are sometimes even worse than traditional bows.

Secondly, the compound crossbow is much heavier than the traditional bow and is not as convenient to carry as the traditional bow.

On the battlefield, if soldiers carry one less thing, they can save a lot of energy and increase their chances of winning the next battle.

Therefore, the greatest use of the compound crossbow should be in defending the city!

If there were enough compound crossbows, they could fire a dense rain of arrows downwards, and no matter how many people came, they would not be able to attack.

However, three thousand compound crossbows may not be enough. A city has four gates, and at most one thousand compound crossbows can be placed at the gate with the largest number of enemy troops. But if one thousand compound crossbows are used alternately, the amount will be only five hundred compound crossbows.

Five thousand arrows per minute is far from being described as a rain of arrows.

Even the other city gates could not even reach 5,000 arrows, which could only be described as useless.

Unless all three thousand compound crossbows were assembled together and rotated in groups of one thousand, it could be called a dense rain of arrows, which would prevent the enemy from sieging the city.

"This...I don't know." Li Yi said honestly.

"What do you think?" Xu Yating looked at Ren Hao expectantly.

"Fuck! But two thousand are not enough, let's do five thousand!" Ren Hao's eyes were sharp.

In the past, Ren Hao would never do these things for Xu Qing, but now that he has married Xu Yating, Xu Qing is one of his brothers-in-law.

If he wanted to bring Xu Yating to the Xu family to show up, he needed the support of the Xu family. With Xu Qing's support, the situation would probably be better. At least the Xu family would not blatantly cheat him.

There was a gleam in Xu Yating's beautiful eyes, and there was a hint of gratitude in her eyes as she looked at Ren Hao.

"Xu Hu! Go and notify all the villagers to come over!" Ren Hao said.

"Yes!" After a period of training, Xu Hu had obviously become stronger, and gradually began to show the image of meticulously executing orders.

"Go tell Fourth Uncle Yang to go to the county to find Guo Qian and Hu Sanyan, and ask them to quickly get 5,000 bowstrings made of ox tendons and some pig iron!"

"Madam, please write a letter to your uncle and uncle-in-law and ask them for support." Ren Hao looked at Xu Yating.

Hearing Ren Hao's address, Xu Yating's pretty face blushed slightly and she hummed.

In the afternoon, Ren Hao mobilized the entire village and directly offered a price of ten copper coins a day. Men, women, old and young all joined in the work. Even the papermaking work was stopped and replaced by the production line of compound crossbows, which were manufactured day and night.

Before the bowstrings and pig iron arrive, make the other things first.

Three days later, the bowstrings and pig iron arrived.

Seven days later, five thousand compound crossbows and fifty thousand arrows were manufactured.

The next step is to escort the God of War to Xu Qing.

With so many compound crossbows, Ren Hao found Guo Qian and asked him to requisition more than a hundred donkey carts and more than a hundred drivers in the name of the county magistrate.

In addition, there must be escort personnel.

Ren Hao decided to escort him there personally.

After all, these compound crossbows cannot be lost. Once they are obtained by people with ulterior motives, Ren Hao's entire family will suffer, and the imperial court will not let him go.

After all, what would the imperial court think if so many weapons were produced at once?

Rebellion?

So after discussing with Su Wan'er and Xu Yating, Ren Hao decided to escort them personally.

To this end, Ren Hao selected twenty people in the village to escort the prisoners together with him.

Of course Xu Hu had to be taken away, and the remaining ten members of the security team were left behind, allowing Su Wan'er and Xu Yating to maintain the operation and business of the paper mill together.

It is better to entrust your property to your wife than to anyone else.

Su Wan'er is in charge of the money and Xu Yating is in charge of the business, and they complement each other.

Ren Hao could also let go of a worry.

The next morning, Ren Hao dressed neatly. When he was about to go out, Su Wan'er leaned on his chest and whispered, "Be careful on your journey, my husband. I'll be waiting for you at home."

"Don't worry, it's only a month's journey back and forth. I'll be back soon. Just take care of the house for me."

Su Wan'er nodded, stepped out and walked out the door.

Just when Ren Hao was about to leave, Xu Yating walked in gracefully, her beautiful eyes resting on Ren Hao's face.

"You...be careful..."

"Yeah." Ren Hao nodded.

"I'm at home, hoping you'll come back soon." Xu Yating said softly.

Ren Hao couldn't help but feel moved. After spending these days together, he really fell in love with this beautiful and intelligent girl. She had cognition and values ​​that were beyond many people, and her strong and unyielding character was also rational.

Perhaps choosing herself is what she wants deep down in her heart.

Ren Hao walked forward and gently took Xu Yating into his arms.

Xu Yating's pretty face flushed, her heart beat faster, and she couldn't help feeling intoxicated as she breathed in the strange yet familiar masculine scent from Ren Hao.

Ren Hao lowered his head and kissed her forehead gently, then said, "Be careful at home and wait for me to come back."

"When I come back, I will hold a wedding for you." Ren Hao said solemnly.

Neither Su Wan'er nor Xu Yating had ever held a wedding.

Su Wan'er came because her family was poor, and Xu Yating came because of a misunderstanding and responsibility. In addition, her parents were not at home, so there was naturally no need to hold a wedding. Although Xu Yating lived here during this period of time, she slept alone, and except for that time, she had never shared a room with Ren Hao.

Now Ren Hao's powerful words made Xu Yating's eyes red.

"Just hope you come back safely."

Ren Hao walked out of the door, said goodbye to the women in his family, and headed towards the county town with Xu Hu, Li Yi, and the convoy.

If you go north from here, you will reach the God of War Pass in about half a month.

This was the first time that Ren Hao had traveled far away since coming to this world, and his heart was filled with excitement.

Soon, the convoy walked out of the north gate of the county town. At the fork in the road ahead, Li Yi pointed to the road on the left and said, "Mr. Ren, the left one leads to the God of War Pass, and the right one leads to the capital."