Utopia

So after a month, Tulo, who had been exploring the unknown rainforest area opposite the west bank of Fnocheng, witnessed a good show, a bloody fight on the grass in the middle of the rainforest.

"Ah!"

Clang! Poke!

Accompanied by the sound of weapons colliding and the wailing mixed in it, the fight between thousands of people made Tulo extremely boring.

Because such a cold weapon fight in the Kingdom of Nigan, except for the bloody smell and the tension of killing, there is nothing to see.

And... it's too slow, the fight of cold weapons is really too slow.

Don't look at the fighting style of you and I with a spear on the battlefield, which quickly created a large number of wounded or dead bodies lying on the ground. Compared with the gunfire and rain of bullets and massacres caused by the invasion of the Black Crow Principality Army in Blackwater Town in the past, no matter what flag the natives raised, they were all scum worth mentioning.

Although Tulo himself is an expert in magic and knows how to summon large-scale meteorites to bombard opponents, the premise for launching such a vertical attack is time.

The larger the area and distance to launch the attack, the more time he needs to concentrate his mind and absorb the magic energy flowing from nature to complete the attack.

Therefore, after retiring from the army, he concluded that the simpler the spell, the better it works. After all, the opponent is not a fool, and it is unlikely that he will stand there waiting for your spell attack. Even some treacherous opponents will disguise or lay traps to lure him to take the initiative and confirm his position for sniping.

Yes, when he was still in the army conducting actual combat exercises, he was once accurately hunted by his comrades. Even though he released the acceleration spell to escape quickly at that time, he was still not faster than a rifle grenade that came from nowhere and was defeated.

Afterwards, he realized why the Black Crow Principality had the ability to beat the Kalai tribe to death. In addition to the extremely powerful lethality of gunpowder weapons, the most powerful thing was the great innovation of related military tactics.

It turned out that the dense formations used by the natives and the cold weapon combat forms of close-range fighting were outdated. The skirmish line he learned in the army was the current mainstream combat style in the Old World.

Of course, the more advanced multi-stage trenches and underground three-dimensional defense systems are not something that the natives can easily understand now, because even the Iron Fist Empire, the first powerful country to complete modernization in the Old World, is still under research.

In the end, whether trench warfare will continue to exist, it will have to be tested through repeated wars.

But does this make sense for the natives?

Especially the archers of the natives had already fallen to the ground in the first battle because of shooting arrows at each other. The remaining archers who were still alive could hardly pull the bow, and they were so tired that they could only squat on the ground to rest behind the front-line troops.

For this, Tulo looked helpless. Because even the famously tall and thin Kalai, who were called "bean sprouts" by the old world, all the rangers who used bows and arrows began to train their strength since childhood.

Only idiots would think that drawing a bow was a trivial matter and not worth mentioning. The Kalai members who could draw a bow belonged to the elite warrior class in the United Kingdom of Eri. Not only did they have a high status, but they also had to pass their birth and training.

Therefore, before the birth of gunpowder, it was absolutely smart for the human kingdoms in the old world to use crossbows to deal with the Kalai people.

At least Tulo himself tried it. Although he was also a high-level white-skinned Kalai male, it was difficult for him to keep the aiming posture for more than three seconds after drawing the bow, and he couldn't even hold on for two seconds and directly released the arrow.

Therefore, in the current Kingdom of Nigan, bows and arrows have completely become performance items, and are no longer a must-learn practical skills.

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On the contrary, the crossbows that the Iron Fist Empire used and still uses have become common weapons for law enforcement departments, or survival tools commonly used by maritime departments (shooting rope arrows or hooks with claws to grab something).

So the words that archers need to be agile are basically ignorant remarks made by novelists who have never touched bows and arrows or some uneducated people.

Judging from the way Tulo saw the natives squatting on the ground and breathing heavily after shooting arrows, it means that they have tried their best. As for the rest...

"Tulo, both sides are heavy infantry with square shields and short swords, plus some spearmen holding javelins as spears. How long do you think it will take?"

"Let me see, there are less than... um... 5 natives standing on both sides. They will hit each other with shields for at least a day."

"Why?"

"The shield has a large protection area, not to mention the short sword, even a spear over 1.5 meters long is not easy to find a chance to stab in."

In Tulo's opinion, the double-edged straight short swords in the hands of the natives are only 6 centimeters or even shorter, which are outdated and reflect the failure of the natives' metal smelting and processing technology.

If we change to the current ceremonial knives of the Kingdom of Negan, they are all at least 92 cm long. Like the standard military saber forged by their Royal Highness, this is a straight semicircular guard sword with a total length of 1 cm.

A little worse, the willow-shaped waist knife carried by Tulo himself is also 98 cm long. Just stabbing, the daggers used by the natives are impossible to beat.

What's more, most of the daggers used by the natives are still cast in bronze, and a small number of daggers made of iron are actually wrought iron!

This is a blatant "crime", wrought iron is notoriously soft! Even if it is mixed with other types of slag, it cannot change the ruthless reality that the daggers made of wrought iron are completely vulnerable!

You must know that no matter how poor the Kingdom of Negan is, it can guarantee that it will be used every year. 】The steel with the highest quality is used in various undertakings. Moreover, as the only brown-skinned Kalai member of the Kingdom of Negan who had learned from the dwarf craftsmen, his steelmaking technology has been fully expanded as the Kingdom of Negan took root in the New World.

So even if it is not steel from a professional steel mill, the folk blacksmiths of the Kingdom of Negan also have their own ways to forge sharp swords and sabers by recycling various scrap irons and various wood residues. For this, Tulo really admires His Royal Highness and every blacksmith in the Kingdom of Negan, and also feels why His Royal Highness has to add a forging department in some military academies.

A race that cannot handle metals cannot have excellent weapons and equipment...