Phoenix Grand Lord

The archer's long-range lethality coverage is of course very useful.

However, Luo Wei is also well aware of his current shortcoming - the small number of arrows.

Although Meilin Valley has the blessing of "wild resources", without the manufacturing base, making bows and arrows is not as simple and quick as imagined.

Even if the senior blacksmith Gerlan and the blacksmith apprentice use molds to cast armor-piercing arrows in large quantities, the number of arrow feathers cannot keep up.

For this defense battle, the chickens, ducks and geese in Meilin Valley are almost plucked out.

Moreover, using poultry feathers to make arrow feathers can only barely pass, the arrow flight is not balanced enough, and the accuracy is also greatly affected.

Of course, the main problem is the insufficient number of arrows.

Therefore, after the first wave of first-hand blows up the kerosene, it can't be so unrestrained.

The few arrows must be used at key tactical nodes to try to form effective killing.

At present, there are only about 300 arrows left.

If we assume that 50 arrows are consumed in one round of volley, then there are about 6 more arrows left.

According to the killing rate of the previous wave of arrows, Luo Wei estimated that 6 volleys could only kill more than 30 serfs.

Considering that some serfs would be seriously injured, 300 arrows could only make 50 enemies lose their combat capability at most.

And this is still under the most ideal circumstances.

This means that archers alone cannot kill all the enemy's living forces.

However, being able to kill half of the enemy's combat capability without any casualties is already in line with expectations.

For now, the path of training archers is absolutely correct.

In the future, bows and arrows will still be manufactured in large quantities.

The archer is definitely the most cost-effective type of soldier at this stage.

Generally speaking, when it comes to powerful soldiers in cold weapon wars, heavy cavalry will come to mind first.

However, the cost of cavalry is very high. Not only does it require a full set of heavy armor, but it also requires raising war horses.

Infantry is cheaper than cavalry, but the various weapons and equipment of infantry are also expensive.

Moreover, the infantry's casualty ratio in war is the highest among all arms.

The archer's casualty ratio is much lower than that of infantry and cavalry.

Moreover, the arrows of archers can be recycled and reused.

Of course, the premise is that you can win and have the right to clean up the battlefield.

Around the 13th century on Earth, archers were the strongest arms in Western countries.

As a game siege anchor, Luo Wei has done some research on major battles and arms advantages in Earth.

The Battle of Agincourt, one of the four major battles of the Hundred Years' War between England and France, is one of the most famous battles in the history of Western cold weapons in Earth.

At that time, the total force of the British King Henry V was only 7,000, and he was in a desperate situation, while the total force of the noble coalition forces led by most of the French nobles was 36,000.

However, among the 7,000 British troops, 5,500 were longbow archers.

As soon as the French nobles formed their battle formations, 5,500 arrows from the British army fell from the sky.

After several rounds of arrow rain, the French army, which was full of nobles and had a large number of troops, fled for their lives.

As long as the French army's casualties exceeded 5%, they basically dared not fight, which was their traditional dignity.

In the Battle of Agincourt, the French army lost more than 10,000 and the casualties exceeded 25%.

It was not because the French army resisted fiercely, but because the British longbows on the opposite side were too fierce, and the French army had no time to escape.

In this battle, more than 5,000 French nobles and noble descendants died in the battle, including 3 dukes, 5 earls and 90 barons.

The biggest loss of the British army was the Duke of York who died in the battle, and the other losses were only more than a dozen knights and more than 100 longbowmen.

This is also an extremely rare battle with a low casualty ratio in the history of the earth, relying on longbow archers-and the fine traditions of the French army.

After this battle, the British army won victory after victory, until the appearance of Joan of Arc, France finally turned the tide of the war.

Longbow archers, since the Battle of Agincourt, have been deified!

Of course, in the later period of the Anglo-French War, with the equipment of wrought iron plate armor, the status of archers as gods quickly fell.

The later period of the Anglo-French War was all open terrain confrontation wars. Archers had no barriers. When the opponent's iron cavalry attacked and rushed close, archers could not shoot many arrows and would be killed by close combat.

Wrought iron plate armor greatly limited the killing efficiency of archers, so archers stepped down from the altar.

In the East, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, archers were no longer the most powerful type of soldiers, and this change was 1,000 years earlier than the West.

When the Qin Dynasty swept across the six countries, it did not rely on the Qin bow - although the Qin bow was also very strong, but during the war of the six countries, the Qin State had upgraded its long-range weapons to the Qin crossbow, and adopted a mixed infantry crossbow.

Each Qin soldier is both an infantryman who can fight in close combat and a long-range crossbowman.

Qin soldiers have crossbows on their waists and hold 3.5-meter-long Qin halberds. When the battle begins, they greet with a powerful crossbow, then charge the formation with Qin halberds, and finally fight with Qin arrows in close combat.

Why is the Qin army called a tiger and wolf army?

After this set of offensive processes, even an iron wall on the opposite side will be penetrated.

The strength of the Qin army has never been just the number of troops.

In addition to the military merit system, there is also its own economic support and weapon research and development advantages.

It can be said that the Qin State in the Warring States Period was a true template for hegemony.

As long as the development follows the general pattern of the Qin State's six generations of vigor, it will definitely be right.

Not to mention the role of Qin halberds in cold weapon wars, the Qin crossbow and the specially made double-winged triangular crossbow arrows alone are 1,000 years ahead of the West.

If the Qin soldiers were used to fight the Anglo-French War, the King of England, the King of France, and the nobles would have to kneel down and learn to speak Shaanxi dialect, and be proud of it.

The triangular arrows of the Qin soldiers not only greatly reduced the air resistance of the bows and arrows, but also had extremely high armor-piercing ability.

Equipped with the Qin State's powerful crossbow, the arrows can penetrate armor within 900 meters.

You know, the maximum effective range of modern rifles is about 500 meters, while the effective range of the Qin crossbow is equivalent to twice that of modern rifles. Tens of thousands of Qin crossbows fired at the same time, the lethality is definitely more terrifying than the scene of harvesting leeks.

Luo Wei's next goal is to manufacture crossbows and double-winged triangular arrows similar to those of the Qin Dynasty.

Of course, the upgrade of weapons and equipment is not achieved overnight.

From short bows to long bows, and then to strong crossbows.

And strong crossbows are not the end.

Guns and cannons are.

In the Regan world, there are already gunpowder firearms, but the manufacturing technology of gunpowder firearms is completely in the hands of the dwarves in the south of the Tia continent.

Gunpowder firearms are very expensive, so in the Soladin Empire, only the royal direct troops are equipped with a small number of guns and cannons.

Of course, guns and cannons are not new to Luo Wei, who came from the Earth world.

Almost every Chinese understands the principle of black gunpowder.

Luo Wei has been able to recite the formula of one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal since he was a child.

As long as he can refine qualified steel, Luo Wei is sure to manufacture smoothbore guns and cast iron cannons.

As long as he can carve rifling, Luo Wei is sure to make rifles.

But industrial bases are never developed in a single way. It takes a long way to go.

As for Luo Wei's current situation, he still has to fight the current war first, plunder as much as possible, and complete the accumulation.

Fortunately, the war between manor lords is only equivalent to the early stage of the Anglo-French War in the Earth World.

The coalition forces on the opposite side do not have wrought iron plate armor or heavy armor at all, so Luo Wei can win this defense war at a very small cost, or even zero casualties, as long as he makes good use of the archers and the remaining bows and arrows in his hands.

At this time, the enemy's light armor soldiers' line has advanced to a position of 50 kilometer away from the sentry tower, and the serf soldiers have advanced to a position of 55 kilometer.

Luo Wei still did not order the archers to shoot arrows.

Geller on the opposite side shouted loudly: "Meiling Valley really has no arrows! Charge! Rush across the bridge! Kill them all!"

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