total war rise of empire

Chapter 46 The Expansion of the Temporary Army

After reading the test data of the range, Lei Zihao already had the bottom line in his heart. If the enemy on the opposite side has light armor or no armor, and the cross-section of the dense formation battlefield is wide enough, he will start salvoing within 150 meters. , if the opposite side wears iron armor, it can only be shot within 50 meters...

As for projectiles, Lei Zihao, who only has 100 people, never even thought about it!

The crossbow needs to be at least over a thousand to be thrown out to cause basic damage!

After measuring the effective range of the crossbow, Lei Zihao tested the shooting frequency of the crossbow. For the elite Wei soldiers who are proficient in operating the crossbow, they can only shoot three rounds per minute on average!

Lei Zihao reckoned that this was already the fastest shooting frequency of the crossbow, after all Wei Wuzu was already an elite soldier with the limit of physical fitness!
If the three-stage shooting method is used, it can make up for the defect in the shooting frequency of the crossbow. However, if only 100 people perform three-stage shooting, what is the use of more than [-] crossbows being disabled at a time?
Lei Zihao sighed helplessly, the composition of an army really couldn't just rely on a small number of elites!

Compared with the test of crossbows, the melee test of Wei Wuzu is very common. If Wei Wuzu is wearing chain mail and holding a large shield, if he is in formation, he can completely destroy the Spartan pants man in close combat. If you choose, the Spartan warriors can't take advantage of it. The reason is very simple. The Wei soldiers with large shields and chain mail can protect themselves in every aspect by relying on their high-strength martial arts skills. The flexible Spartan warriors are very flexible. It is difficult to cause damage to it, and vice versa, it is difficult for Wei Wuzu, who carries too much weight and is not flexible enough, to catch the nimble Spartan warrior!
However, on the battlefield, Wei soldiers mainly fight in formations, and there are very few times when they are single-handedly fighting!
Equipped with sharp iron swords, they are only used by Wei soldiers for self-defense when they have to. When they exert their strongest combat effectiveness, they still fight in formation with long halberds and large shields!
With a chain mail and a large shield, the Wei soldier's protection against arrows is amazing. Even the overwhelming arrow rain can hardly cause casualties to the Wei soldier!

And the Spartan warrior's protection against the rain of arrows is far inferior to that of Wei Wuzu!
In such a comparison, the price/performance ratio of Wei Wuzu is indeed slightly higher than that of Spartan fighters, but Spartan fighters are more inclined to rely on personal force for melee combat, while Wei Wuzu is strongest in formation duels and long-range kicks. Tension shooting!
On the battlefield, the role of Wei Wuzu is undoubtedly much more than that of Spartan soldiers!
After trying Wei Wuzu's force value, Lei Zihao is undoubtedly very satisfied, and Longhan Town has once again entered a state of full preparation for battle!
Since he didn't know how many gnolls were attacking, Lei Zihao asked Antonio to train some young and strong people from Longhan Town and Seris, and even carefully selected many prisoners who belonged to the Pylos army. Come and act as cannon fodder!
These selected Pylos captives are relatively obedient, and the only weapon in their hands is a shoddy and cheap spear, which is an old weapon that was left over and captured before...

As for the captured Pylos shields, bronze armor and short swords, they were all used to arm the militia!
It is a pity that the bronzes used by the Pylos are too fragile, especially the armor, which is basically destroyed in an instant in front of the Thracian long sword. Only the equipment of the Pylos who knelt and surrendered is still intact.

However, not every soldier in the Pylos regular army has money to buy armor and shields. They are also filled with a large number of Pylos light infantry. These Pylos light infantry with low morale are also the main force in the surrender of the Pylos army!
Those real Pylos heavy infantry had more than [-]% casualties!

The Pylos heavy infantry stood at the forefront during the battle, and naturally they also suffered the most casualties!

As for the so-called Pylos light infantry, apart from the tattered throwing spears, they only have a short sword like a long dagger...

Not even a shield, let alone armor!

Therefore, Lei Zihao's men really don't get many complete armors, weapons and shields...

To sum it up in one sentence, bronze ware is crunchy in front of iron ware!
Of course, for Lei Zihao, who had bottomed out his inventory, he couldn't spend any extra money to build weapons. These scrap iron-like bronzes were turned into militia armaments. The militia unit with bronze ware, which means Greek infantry, means that the only ones who really hold the shields are the thinnest row at the front, which is many times more shabby than the original Pylos heavy infantry phalanx...

The main component of the militia phalanx is equipped with a large number of spear-throwing spearmen. This kind of cheap spearmen, Lei Zihao doubts whether their combat effectiveness is stronger than that of peasant spearmen...

In any case, the militia still has a huge advantage. Under the oppression of the orc crisis, Lei Zihao tricked a group of young men from Seris to join the militia, and Longhan Town, which has harvested 2000 refugees and its population has skyrocketed. Lei Zihao easily assembled a phalanx of more than 1000 militiamen!
In addition to these more than 1000 militiamen, there are more than [-] Pylos prisoners of war equipped with spears and cannon fodder!
In order to encourage the enthusiasm of the prisoners of war, Lei Zihao made a public promise that as long as they win this battle, they will be freed from slavery and become a glorious Seris militiaman!
From now on, as long as you are willing to work for the great governor Lei Zihao, you can live comfortably!
The selected Pylos are all citizens who have served as soldiers and fought wars, and they are not very resistant to war. Compared with the status of slaves who cannot control their lives, they serve the current Governor of Siris and the future King Siris, Obviously it is very much in line with their wishes. Of course, there may be a small deviation here, because Lei Zihao doesn't like the country name Siris...

It's just that Lei Zihao is a little far away from the road to founding a country, and he hasn't thought about the problem of naming a country that would kill many brain cells...

Even the military flag uses the original Bagua flag...

Later, Lei Zihao felt that the gossip flag was not imposing enough, so he asked someone to make a handsome flag, which was also disguised as the king's flag of Longhan Town. This flag was more interesting, and Lei Zihao was quite satisfied. Because the flag has a red background and a black uppercase word '雷'!

It does look scary enough...

Lei Zihao's bad taste, I won't say much here...

2000 Pylos prisoners of war who used short spears, more than 1000 militiamen who used captured bronzes, plus 120 Qin crossbowmen, [-] Wei soldiers, and [-] Spartan general guards. This is Lei Zihao All the troops to deal with the Gnoll crisis are here!

It looks pretty good!

　This chapter is to make up for y2893MOMO’s reward of 3000 starting coins yesterday, Eryue’s tipping of 500 starting coins, and the absolute powerhouse’s tipping of 100 starting coins

　　
　
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