Basically, after firing a few times, these catapults and ballistae will have problems and must be repaired by the merchant alliance before they can continue to be used.

Of course, these are the relatively high-quality products they purchased.

If they buy the cheapest one with the worst quality.

It is very likely that after just one launch, these catapults and ballistae fell apart on the spot and were directly scrapped.

This is what the business 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 replenish the currency, use them as decorations, or act as a deterrent.

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

It's just that making something like this will completely cut off one's own financial path.

Once someone else buys it, they won't buy it a second time. At best, they just buy some ammunition for catapults and ballistae from them.

Compared with repairing catapults and selling new catapults, the price of these things is negligible.

Therefore, it is impossible for him to do such a loss-making transaction.

Jiang Tian said that he is not interested in fighting for hegemony for the time being. For the time being, he just wants to be a quiet businessman.

Since you are a businessman, you must be worthy of your status.

What is a businessman? Anyone who is not a businessman is a businessman.

Therefore, if he can make two cents, he will never make a penny, unless it is one of his own who makes their business alliance, then he can make catapults and ballistae for the other party that will never be damaged.

You don’t even need to pay a penny from the other party, just give it directly to the other party.

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

This is the difference between our own people and outsiders. Good things must stay in the hands of our own people.

This is not only to please yourself, but also to ensure your own interests and safety.

After all, the business alliance also knows that a big tree attracts wind. Even if they try their best to hide 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 need to purchase weapons and equipment.

Although other forces also sell it, in terms of quality, Merchant Alliance is definitely unique.

Then the prices may seem a little expensive, but if you put them all together, buying from Merchant Alliance is actually the most cost-effective.

Therefore, unless they are small and medium-sized forces, they are indeed unable to purchase high-quality equipment from the Merchant Alliance because of insufficient iron ore.

They can only settle for the next best thing and buy some Sanwu products produced by other forces.

Of course, even if they have enough money, they may not choose the business alliance.

Because their strength is there, most of the people who can conflict with them and make them go to war with each other are beings whose strength is almost the same as theirs.

Not only are these forces weak, they also have relatively few resources.

In addition, if the two sides go to war, no matter how small the scale, some loss of resources is inevitable.

After such a war is over, even if all the resources of the losing side are occupied by the other party, in the end, the total resources may not be as much as the resources needed to purchase the equipment of the merchant alliance.

Therefore, buying the equipment and weapons of the Merchant Alliance is a sure-fire deal for them.

If you really have that kind of money to spend on the Merchant Alliance, you might as well leave here directly to avoid a war.

Therefore, they can only look for cheap Sanwu products to buy. In this way, they can make some profits after defeating the opponent and harvesting the opponent's resources.

Therefore, the real customers of the Merchant Alliance are still wealthy people.

Because they cannot afford to use their equipment to go to war without some money.

The equipment of their merchant alliance is indeed powerful, but every attack costs a lot of money.

Even if the opponent doesn't fight back, even if the opponent is captured by you, the boulders and crossbow arrows you fired will cost a lot of iron ore.

This is also one of the reasons why both sides started a war and after destroying the other side's buildings, they gave up using catapults and switched to landing operations.

Unless they are those who are extremely skilled and can hit the mark with perfect accuracy.

Otherwise, once you destroy the opponent's city gates, walls, and palaces, and you still use catapults and ballistae to attack, it will really be like sinking a stone into the sea, and you will have too much money and nowhere to spend it.

At that time, as mentioned before, even if you finally defeat the opponent, you will run out of resources and the gains will outweigh the losses.

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

Generally, after attacking a few important facilities, they start to change to other attack methods.

Unless there are so many members of the opposing force that there is no place to hide on their empty island, all people will be concentrated in a certain area in large numbers.

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

Each attack will harvest a batch of fresh lives.

It's just that such a thing is still relatively difficult to achieve. At this stage, no force has so many members.

If there are really so many members, there is no doubt about their strength, and they will not be forced into such a desperate situation by the other party when fighting against them.

Therefore, such a statement can only be self-contradictory when applied to such a force.

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

After the battle was almost exhausted, it was changed to close combat, which is the so-called landing battle.

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

Although he can easily avoid the attacks of catapults and ballistae, please don't forget that after the landing battle begins, the personnel from both sides will not just attack each other face to face.

Because in addition to the siege weapons just mentioned, there are also some extremely lethal weapons.

These weapons are also methods of long-distance attack. Although they are not as far as catapults and ballistas, they can still reach distances of tens or hundreds of meters.

It's just that the attack targets of these things are relatively single. They are not the same as catapults and ballistas. Once they hit, they will cause a large area.

Such weapons are crossbows and bows, although they do not have the same range and range as catapults and ballistas.

But they are not without merit. Their advantage is that they can be used by one person, unlike catapults and crossbows, which require several people to use them each time.
Chapter completed!