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Chapter 379 Become the male silver of One Piece, let's go!
If Sima Yi were to be placed in later generations, he would probably be a marketing genius, and the dirty work of raising military pay was exhausting. As a result, he finished it in five days and transported more than 8 shi of grain to Pingchang County.

They shouted a good slogan, and the banner they played was to spend money and avoid disasters to send the plague god!
You guys can think about it, the autumn harvest is coming soon, if Zhang Yan is still stationed in Qi, your family harvests this wheat, and the other cavalry harvests it back with cavalry knives, who will be more miserable?Who pays to send this living plague god out with this little food?
At this time, Lord Zhou's mobilization of troops is completely for the sake of the big guys!

As soon as this slogan came out, the Qi family, who thought it was the case, even took the initiative to organize the stocks of their family members, and while transporting food, they were still praying to the eternal fire. These robbers had better die outside. came back!
The food was in place, and the Taishan and Heishan thieves did not shirk, saying that it was 400 cavalry, but Zhang Yan took out all the 3000 cavalry from the Black Mountain Army, plus the selected powerful infantry, a total of [-] cavalry. People came to meet up.

Also showing off their military power, the Taishan bandits brought all the main forces of the Le'an brigade and the Jinan brigade. Compared with the Black Mountain army's bandit cavalry, although there are only more than 800 cavalry of the Taishan army who were exploited, but The two brigades were completely equipped with Rizhao equipment, and the heavy infantrymen of the former army even specially customized a set of Rizhao ghost masks. The heavy infantrymen wrapped in steel all over their bodies walked on the official road like giant beasts, with an extraordinarily fierce aura.

The chest plate armor also ordered a ferocious animal head, and even the horses under the crotch were equipped with nailed iron leather vests. He arrogantly kicked the sturdy Liaodong horse under him, and walked across the road with a disdainful look. The black mountain army cavalry in leather and cloth armor frowned in disgust like beggars on the street, and immediately flicked the horse's reins forward. Uncle Thanos, amidst the crisp and clear sound of horseshoes hitting the official road, frowned gracefully. jumped over.

Zang Ba pretended to be so realistic!After all, the relationship and the degree of control are superior, and it is impossible for him to obtain equipment supplies from the Rizhao Smelter. In terms of equipment, the Black Mountain Army really deserves the title of their peasant rebels.

After returning from Wang Hou's order, Zhang Yan was really played by Zang Ba. Looking at the Taishan army marching forward in neat steps, his jealous eyes seemed to have turned scarlet, and he squinted. After watching the marching Taishan Iron and Steel Legion for a few seconds, he gave a cold snort full of jealousy, and hurried forward with his horse.

The Taishan heavy infantrymen who were marching seemed to have heard him throw down a sour sentence like a fat sheep with a thousand knives.

Zhang Yan's attention was all on the Taishan Army's heavy infantry and heavy cavalry Zang Ba, while Wang Hou's attention was on the light infantry who didn't attract so much attention.

The Taishan Army's two brigades were adapted and trained by Wang Houchu's military teaching group. They are almost replicas of the Rizhao brigade, but after all, they are still foreign troops with their own unique characteristics. Unknowingly, they have developed differently from the Rizhao brigade. come in style.

The difference lies in the long-range support light infantry who seems to be less valued.

Wang Hou's light infantry is equipped with double bows and strong crossbows. His tactical thinking comes from the Spanish phalanx that the native Americans fought against by the Spanish devils in later generations. But the current gunpowder industry really can't keep up. A flintlock gun, equipped with a cannon now, Wang Hou can't even afford to equip it, and a single artillery battle can destroy his year's savings.

So he uses the pulley heavy crossbow as long-range firepower. The crossbow can shoot about 25 meters when thrown at 40 degrees, and the precision shooting has an attack distance of about 50 to [-] meters. Zhong raised the crossbow behind the heavy infantry for a sneak attack.

However, the light infantry of the Taishan Army completely abandoned Wang Hou's tactical thinking at this time, and each of them carried a longbow more than one meter long on their backs.

The Taishan plain is narrow and the mountains are vertical and horizontal, so the Taishan army has fewer riders and more good archers. Even Wang Hou recruited two extra bow regiments in Mount Tai, 800 people, as long-range support. After all, the range of the crossbow is only 100 meters, but the bow can reach 150 meters or even 200 meters. It is said that the farthest single longbow, the British longbow, can shoot up to 250 meters.

In the beginning, Wang Hou only provided single crossbows, which were eliminated equipment. Under such circumstances, Wu Dun, who went to Rizhao to change equipment, suddenly caught sight of the dazzling array of armories, and casually took the experimental weapon pulley bow that Wang Hou had built for his engineers. out.

Later generations have never eaten pork, at least they have seen pigs running. In movies and dramas, the bow held by the protagonist has two big pulleys, and Wang Hou offered a large bounty to reward technological innovation. The blacksmith also improved and popularized the metal wire drawing technology he proposed. Now it can produce several extremely thin steel wires twisted into extremely tough bowstrings. Combining several technologies together, there is a sunshine steel that is half close to the composite bow of later generations. Making pulley bows.

To be honest, Wang Hou’s pulley bow has almost the same performance as an entry-level bow that costs a few hundred dollars in a later generation. Compared with the rubber-horned compound bow of this era, its power and range may even be slightly weaker. It's also about a pound heavier.

but!The only advantage is that it was built so damn fast!
Casting the pulley is enough. It takes a little time to compound the bow piece with oak wood angle glue and steel sheet. The bow arm can also be cast directly. It takes about three days to make several materials, and they can be put together and tightened with screws and nuts. You can make a bow in 5 minutes!

What about traditional compound bows?The corners are ruled in spring, the tendons are ruled in summer, the materials are glued in autumn, the body of the bow is fixed in winter, and the strings can only be reinstalled in the spring of the following year.

The bow that has just been made is not tight enough to be used immediately, and needs to be stored for a year before it can be evenly stressed and relaxed.To make a standard military bow, craftsmen need to prepare various materials in four seasons, making a good bow can be as short as one year and as long as three years!Not to mention the cost and labor spent during the period, I can't wait.

Another advantage of the pulley bow steel wire is that it is not as afraid of the weather as the horn bow wire. When it is rainy and wet, the performance of the bow will not drop so much. Using habits and cost are put together. Wu Dun immediately ordered a row of thighs and bought two. Ten thousand!
As a result, the Taishan Army took another long-range attack path that was completely different from Wang Hou's. The range was more than baptized, and the battle support was insufficient, and the independent bow regiment was eliminated. However, which of these two light infantry tactics is better, Wang Hou didn't know either, so he had to leave it to the battlefield for testing.

"master?"

The shout brought Wang Hou back to his senses, but it was the girl Zhuge Ying who was urging curiously behind her, no matter what kind of double bow or pulley bow, this girl likes the old cannon that she cheated from her, looking at it She was dangling the flintlock gun in the cotton sheath, her little face flushed with excitement, Wang Hou couldn't help but nodded with a smile.

"set off!"

Carrying the horse, he and Zhuge Ying also joined the marching team.

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Beihai is not the main commercial route, the road is still the old official road of the Eastern Han Dynasty, carrying grain from Pingchang County, the army walked west for a few more days, Qingzhou has already started harvesting, and the army of nearly 4 people has just arrived harbor.

However, it is not the island city that has been perfected day by day, but Weigang in the north. On the one hand, the Qingzhou fleet has been ordered to gather there, and on the other hand, Wang Hou dare not go with a gang of robbers. The island city that has settled down is uncomfortable!
Weigang has just completed the construction of the shipyard and port, and it still looks very simple, but standing on the unnamed mountain near the port, looking down, it seems like a city on the sea appears on the sea, and countless huge sailboats follow Floating up and down on the sea in the autumn wind.

Watching this scene, Wang Hou put his thumb on his nose in a happy mood.

(End of this chapter)