The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

There is a reason why Ye Tianlong wants to be the master of this hands-off job. His cultivation has been improving very quickly recently, and he feels that he is about to break through to the secret cultivation level, so he must take some time to concentrate on cultivation.

Except for Ye Tianlong, the cultivation levels of several other team members have also improved greatly during this period. According to Li Rufeng's speculation, in at most one month, most of the first batch of team members will be able to break through to An Jin cultivation level.

This is not because these people have outstanding martial arts talents, but simply because the elixirs used to assist their training are sufficient.

In the real world, due to the extreme shortage of raw materials for refining the Blood Essence Pills, most warriors can only take some low-end versions of the Blood Essence Pills at most, and the genuine Blood Essence Pills may not be available for a month. One pill, but Ye Tianlong and the others ate these pills as snacks every day, so their cultivation level naturally increased rapidly.

Even Li Rufeng was able to break through to the innate realm so smoothly by relying on the top-grade blood essence pills refined from the materials obtained in the world of riding and slashing.

This is why Li Rufeng places his hope of continuing martial arts in this virtual world. After all, the resources here are too rich compared to the real world. With such abundant martial arts resources to assist, it is easy for a martial artist to make a difference in his practice. Cheng, unlike in today's real world, even those with good martial arts qualifications like Zhang Quan, who have been practicing for decades, can only reach the level of Mingjin. The ratio of effort to benefit is so low that naturally few people can persevere. Most people probably give up after practicing for a few years and feeling little achievement.

After practicing in seclusion for two days, Ye Tianlong successfully broke through to the realm of dark strength. Internal strength began to emerge in his body, and his attribute values ​​were also greatly improved. His strength value was increased to [-] points, and his agility value was also increased to six. At [-] o'clock, even the mental power has increased to [-] o'clock. The blood volume suddenly increased to as high as [-] points.

And on the afternoon when Ye Tianlong broke through to Anjin, Jiang You, who looked dusty and tired, also came back with a horse-buying caravan.

When they went there, they brought with them a lot of glass products and artificial gems that were of high value in this world. Along the way, they sold these goods to wealthy merchants and nobles in exchange for money, and then used the money to buy horses and hire people from all over the world. powerful mercenaries.

In this way, they walked all the way to the Kujit Khanate, where they turned on the shopaholic mode and began to buy horses lavishly.

With the guidance of Nanny Cha, an expert, Jiang You purchased a total of more than [-] war horses this time. As for inferior horses such as traveling horses and pack horses, he purchased more than [-] horses. In addition, there are more than [-] excellent stallions and more than [-] mares that can be used for breeding. You must know that these stallions and mares are as valuable as hens that can lay golden eggs in the hands of horse dealers. If it were not for the professional help and guidance of Mammy Cha, Jiang You would never be able to buy these stallions. Of horses and mares.

After Ye Tianlong personally inspected the horses, he found that many of the mares were already pregnant. It seemed that they would be able to give birth to ponies in a short time. The stallions who were stallions also looked in good condition. They are all over [-] meters tall at the shoulders and have extremely strong physiques.

In addition to these more than [-] horses, Jiang You also hired more than [-] mercenaries along the way, many of whom were hired in Kujit. Their riding skills were above level five, and they were slightly more capable. After training and arming, you will be an extremely qualified cavalry.

Ye Tianlong is very satisfied with the results of Jiang You's large purchase. With so many horses, even if his troops have increased a lot during this period, he can still achieve the goal of all mules and horses. In addition, with so many war horses, He has been able to form a cavalry unit of more than [-] people.

The cavalry that Ye Tianlong will form next will be divided into two types. One is the heavy cavalry unit. This heavy cavalry unit will be the most elite cavalry unit under his command. Each person will be equipped with three horses, two of which War horse, a pack horse. Among them, the pack horses will be specially responsible for carrying weapons and armor. Let the two war horses save energy as much as possible during non-war times. Once the war comes, the riders can take turns riding the two war horses, always maintaining high-speed maneuvers, so that the enemy can never catch up with them, and these horse archers can Keep using arrows to kill the enemy soldiers chasing them.

Because both the riders and horses are wearing heavy armor, when necessary, these heavy horse archers can be converted into shock cavalry at any time, using long weapons such as lances and moon swords to attack the enemy's formation.

After all, there are only a few all-round cavalry that can ride, shoot, and fight in close combat, so their number will definitely not be large at the beginning. Ye Tianlong only plans to form about a hundred cavalry.

In addition to the most elite heavy cavalry, Ye Tianlong is also preparing to form a medium-mounted cavalry unit of more than [-] people. This type of unit will have one man and two horses, one horse and one horse. Pack horses, weapons and armor are usually carried by pack horses. Compared with the heavy cavalry troops, the medium cavalry troops are actually equipped with both men and horses, but the heavy cavalry troops are generally three layers per capita. Armor, while the medium-mounted cavalry troops only wear two layers of armor, and their defense is worse than that of heavy cavalry. In addition, the weapons are generally only equipped with light one-handed weapons such as sabers, and are not equipped with lances and cavalry. Long pole weapons such as the Yanyue Sword will be avoided in close combat as much as possible during combat. Generally, their sabers will only be used when chasing defeated troops.

These two cavalry units were also called Dragon Cavalry and Eagle Cavalry respectively by Ye Tianlong. Of course, Dragon Cavalry was used to refer to the heavy cavalry, while Eagle Cavalry was used to refer to the medium cavalry.

The reason why Ye Tianlong made his cavalry unit a full cavalry unit is mainly because he now has a limited number of qualified riders and horses, and he cannot waste them casually like the Kingdom of Swadia and the Kujit Khanate. You must know that even the most well-equipped Swadian knights will always suffer some damage after charging. If Ye Tianlong lets his cavalry troops follow the same tactics as the Swadian knights, it is estimated that they will use Within a few battles, more than half of the hundreds of cavalry in his hands would be lost or even the entire army would be destroyed.

The archers are different. They mainly choose to harass from a distance. If the armor is good enough and close combat is avoided as much as possible, the battle damage will not be great.

Anyway, the purpose of Ye Tianlong's formation of the cavalry force was only to entangle the enemy at the critical moment, rather than to use the cavalry to fight the enemy. He only needed to drag the cavalry until his own infantry arrived, and the mission of the cavalry was completed.

Ye Tianlong calculated that after deducting the more than [-] cavalry, he still had more than [-] soldiers, and these would naturally be incorporated into the infantry unit.

After the actual combat test of the last national war between the Kingdom of Nord and the Kingdom of Swadia, Ye Tianlong also discovered that his own car formation has great restraint ability against the enemy's cavalry troops, so he is not going to continue to expand in the future. The melee infantry will still maintain the previous size of [-] people. In addition, these soldiers will continue to work part-time as artillery. The remaining one thousand infantry will become long-range units such as musketeers or archers.

But to be honest, the number of archers in Ye Tianlong's army is really a bit small now, only about [-] people in total, because Ye Tianlong needs these soldiers to have strong bow skills of level [-] or above before he can officially change to an archer. .

This is mainly because if the skill of the strong bow is too low, the lethality of the arrows shot will be far less than that of the bullets shot by the flintlock rifle. In this case, it is naturally better to continue to use the flintlock rifle to fight. After the strong bow skill is upgraded to seven points, although the lethality of the arrows fired is still slightly inferior to the bullets fired by the flintlock rifle, the rate of fire is far higher. It is better than a flintlock rifle and can cause huge damage to enemy heavily armored targets in actual combat. That's why Ye Tianlong set such a standard that his soldiers can only officially use the strong bow skill after reaching level seven or above. Change class to Archer.

And if you want to arm so many new soldiers, it will naturally take a while to produce a sufficient number of weapons and armors.

Different from the last time, this time Ye Tianlong no longer only made one type of iron pagoda heavy-duty armor, but also added several other types of armor for mass production.

The first one is Mingguang Armor, which is intended to be equipped to our most elite dragon cavalry troops and archer troops. The other is heavy-duty full-body steel plate armor, which is intended to be equipped to those non-commissioned officers who have made more meritorious deeds in the army. of.

The average thickness of this kind of heavy-duty steel plate armor reaches about three millimeters, and the thickness of the breastplate is as high as six millimeters. The weight is generally more than fifty kilograms, but Ye Tianlong is not afraid that his men will not be able to wear this kind of armor. Heavy armor.

After all, those who can equip this type of armor are veterans who have served in his army for a long time and have achieved many military exploits. Many of them have reached the Ming Jin standard in martial arts. Even if they are wearing this kind of heavy plate armor, He can also run and jump freely.

The last type of armor is the giant python battle armor made from the scales shed by the giant python with a body length of nearly twenty meters and the second-level python dragon before it broke through to the second level, and the even better green python. War armor, this type of armor not only has high defensive power, but is also lighter than steel plate armor. It will only be used by Ye Tianlong to reward those soldiers or players who have made great contributions. They are usually rewarded together with this armor. There will also be a knighthood.

That's right, Ye Tianlong is now an official baron, so he is naturally qualified to canonize his trusted subordinates as knights like other nobles.

However, there are currently no more than ten people under Ye Tianlong who have received knighthoods, but in terms of military rank, there are more than a hundred people who have been promoted to the level of non-commissioned officers. The current military rank system in Ye Tianlong's army is basically copied from the modern military rank system of the Xinghan Empire.

For example, those soldiers who have just joined the army are the lowest rank of privates, and their external rank mark is a red feather on their helmet. Those soldiers who have served in the army for more than two years or who have killed more than three enemies on the battlefield can be upgraded to superior soldiers, and the feathers on their helmets will be replaced with orange ones.