Lord of Riding and Slashing

Amon Mountains, Tammy Village.

As the war approached, the entire Tammy village became tense, and even some well-informed villagers knew that Nord was about to go to war with the Krissen family.

But instead of fear and panic, they were filled with righteous indignation, especially the immigrants who had just arrived in Christenburg not long ago in Tammy Village. The happy and busy life of the past few months has made them almost forget the previous experience in Christenburg. Difficult days in the shack.

But as soon as the news of the war came, the villagers were very angry. They felt that the Chrisson family was haunting them like lingering ghosts. Their lingering nightmare.

The villagers were angry about this, and all the anger accumulated before broke out at this moment. When Nord was on the road, some bold new immigrants expressed their determination to Nord. If the Krissen family really fought Come here, they too ask to join the fight, to fight for a better tomorrow.

Nord was very moved, because the behavior of the villagers represented that the current Tammy Village is not only the Tammy Village of Nord, but also the Tammy Village of more than a thousand villagers, and countless villagers will fight for it. The family gradually becomes more cohesive.

Nord knows that his hard work has not been in vain. Tammy Village is getting better and better. More and more villagers begin to identify with Tammy Village and regard Tammy Village as their home.

Nord didn't want to dampen the enthusiasm of the villagers, so he recruited another 50 recruits from the new immigrants, but now they are training and don't know if they will be able to participate in this battle, but it is good to be a reserve force, at least Another layer of protection, one more layer of odds.

In fact, there is another more important reason. In the spare time of the past few months, Fussen and Dulu have improved the crossbow technology. It turned out that this was the surprise that Fussen wanted to give Nord.

When Fusen saw the black iron wood for the first time, his eyes were flooded. The properties of these woods are simply too special. Not only does it have all the properties of other woods, but it is also very tough and heavy. It is like a carpenter. A treasure in the hand.

Just using it to make black wood spears is simply overkill. Fusen and Du Lu have been researching the use of black iron wood these days. The first thing they made was a longbow. It took a lot of effort to finally make a longbow, but there is no No one can use it.

Because the strength of this bow is too heavy, if you want to pull the bowstring to the full moon, you need at least three hundred catties of strength. At present, only Lehman can barely do it, but it is still very difficult to use it normally, let alone others. For ordinary people, even Marco can only pull halfway, but this also shows how powerful Lehman is now, and once again let Marco know the gap between himself and Lehman.

But there is no doubt that the power of the black iron and wood longbow is still very amazing. The furthest range reaches three to four hundred meters, which is much farther than the previous crossbow, and is almost twice that of the current Bauhinia bow. What's even more frightening is that the shooting range has reached ten times that of the hunting bows used by the villagers before.

What a terrible statistic this is. The means of long-distance output such as bows and arrows, not to mention doubling, is a huge advantage even if it is more than ten meters, and according to Nord's understanding, the longbows in circulation in this era are more powerful than the ones in Tammy Village before. Hunting bows are not much better, and longbows with a range of 100 meters are hard to find in the market.

Even if it does appear, it will soon be collected by some big nobles into their own treasury and carefully maintained. A longbow like the Bauhinia Bow with a range of 150 meters has never been seen in the Principality of Besse.

However, the shortcomings of the black iron wood longbow are also very obvious. While the shooting range is long and the power is great, the strength required is also amazing. I heard that during the previous test, every time Lehman shot an arrow, he had to rest for a long time to recover, so Now the black iron wood longbow is only produced for Lehman's use, and production will be discontinued indefinitely.

But Fusen didn't want to let the precious wood such as black iron wood be shelved, and he didn't want it to be just a simple and crude long shaft used to make black wooden spears. Just when Fusen couldn't figure it out, Du Lu suddenly thought that the bow and arrow No, why not try making a crossbow out of black ironwood.

Fusen suddenly came to his senses. Longbows are not acceptable, so they can be used as crossbows. Moreover, crossbows are more labor-saving than longbows. It does not mean that crossbows are less powerful than longbows, but that bows and arrows The characteristics of the crossbow are not the same.

The most difficult thing about bow and arrow is to aim after drawing the bowstring, which is why archers need a lot of time to train, because experienced archers have already aimed at the target when drawing the bowstring, so they can save a lot of effort .

The crossbow is different. Due to the characteristics of the structure, as long as the string is wound, you don’t need to expend energy to maintain the bowstring, and you can aim better. Of course, Nord knows that the pulley compound bow in the previous life can also do this, but in the past According to the current technical level, this kind of craft Tammy Village is still far from enough.

Soon Fusen and Dulu made a crossbow made of black iron wood. The new crossbow showed a black iron-like grim luster, full of bloodthirsty taste, and the arm bow was bigger than the previous one. , looks very powerful.

The power is indeed as it shows, the range has reached an astonishing 600 meters, but without a sight, the distance of 600 meters is not accurate, and the fall of such a long-distance crossbow is completely impossible to estimate. Hitting the target is all about luck, or a massive salvo.

Moreover, the power at close range is also amazing. At a distance of 100 meters, not only the target was shot through, but the ordinary wooden arrow shaft behind the crossbow also burst due to the impact force, which forced Fusen to hurry up. A batch of black iron wood crossbow bolts were bought, and the black iron wood crossbow bolts were matched with special cone-headed arrows. This time, even the specially prepared iron plate was shot through within a hundred steps.

However, although the black iron wooden crossbow is amazingly powerful and has a very powerful armor-piercing damage ability, due to its heavy weight, the shooting range has also been reduced by half, and the falling of the black iron wooden crossbow is even more serious. It is very difficult to hit the target if it is more than 10 meters away, but its flaws do not conceal its advantages, and all these problems cannot conceal its powerful armor-piercing ability.

Nord likes the current black iron crossbow very much, which is another reason why Nord continues to recruit soldiers. Even if their training time is relatively short, I believe that with the black iron crossbow, they can also play a very important role in the battle situation. key role.

That's right, for the fifty recruits recruited this time, Nord intends to train them to become crossbowmen. Originally, Nord did not plan to form a crossbowman unit so soon, because as mentioned earlier, the current archers alone can It was enough for Nord to use, but the plan could not keep up with the changes. On the one hand, during the time when the mountains were covered by heavy snow, the troops in Tammy Village were somewhat weak with the support of Nanshanzhai. This was one of the reasons for Nord's expansion of troops.

And another reason is that Nord had to admit that he was moved when he saw such a powerful black iron crossbow.