Mercenaries and Adventurers

In the past two days, my book friend Bai Yejun asked many interesting questions, and I answered them. I think it's very interesting. During the answering process, I also revealed some of the novel's settings, so I posted a single chapter for some book friends who don't read the comments. Finally, thank you Bai Yejun for your question.

Question: I have a question. I think the protagonist has always used a rifle gun that can be swung directly. Will he use that kind of knight gun in the future? Or is it the style of the big gun now? Because I feel that knightly guns in the Middle Ages are only suitable for sprinting. In fact, their knightly contests are also two knights charging at each other to see which side takes the lead to knock it down with a gun. This kind of day I feel very special Transformed charge, not suitable for wielding. But if I use the current style of the gun, I feel that it will be a bit weak to charge the enemy with the knight gun when fighting immediately in the future. How should the author deal with this?

Sorry, it's a bit too wordy, but I'm really curious, please understand

A: Thank you for your comment. I know you are talking about the lance of the knight's charge, but this is what the medieval European knights used in our world. The design and use of that kind of weapon is completely prepared for normal humans, not only the user, the horse, but also the target of the attack, they are all just "normal" use. But in another world, none of this applies. Knight-level powerhouses who use weapons will despise this kind of lance as impractical, too light and have no impact, because their opponents are generally not ordinary people or ordinary animals.

However, for monster-like war horses or real monster horses ridden by knights, they can have extremely strong carrying capacity or carrying capacity, so they can carry one or two armored horses while wearing a full set of armor. strong knights. These thick and over-standard armors are not the kind of lance that can be destroyed in your impression. Therefore, even if this weapon exists in another world, it will not be a limited weapon. More will be given to underappreciated cavalry equipment.

The use will also change from fighting against the same cavalry to suppressing popular riots, because ordinary people who riot against the ruler rule, it is difficult for them to have strong knights who support them, or these strong people are leaders, and it is difficult to get rid of the command task Fight on the front lines. Second, the property is not enough to equip a large amount of armor, which is difficult to resist when facing the cavalry's cavalry charge. Therefore, this weapon should be equipped for ordinary cavalry, and it has a single function.

Finally, the weapons used by knight-level powerhouses will also be varied, but the general level will be mainly medium and long-range projectile weapons, because most of them are subject to the production level of high-end magic weapon weapons around the place of residence, and their respective property levels , and the source of magic materials. In addition, there is who their respective enemies are, which is also the main question for each knight. But this topic is too big to expand, so I won't go into details here.

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Question: But there are still doubts. The medieval European knight guns in our world, although the charge has a certain force can punch a hole in the medieval knight armor, and in reality, human beings lack arm strength, so they are generally wooden guns, which are only made on the front end. An iron gun head, and they don't know it, it's not killing the enemy on the horse, but knocking him off the horse. This is the main purpose, because as long as the horse is shot off, the rest is killing. As for the fantasy theme, I mainly think that this kind of knight gun can be modified. First of all, it can be changed from wood to all metal, so that the sprinting power will be greatly increased. The cavalry with fantasy themes use a variety of weapons, but long weapons still have a certain effect when fighting on horseback. Those who use axes, swords, and hammers on horseback, I feel like Liu Bei, with their hands above their knees. This has a certain length. Although I feel that it has no practical value when fighting World of Warcraft, it is still necessary for war, and cavalry charges are terrifying. So there is still use value.

Answer: That's right. Compared with ordinary lances, if the physical weapons used by knights don't consider projectile weapons, if you think about it carefully, professional melee weapons still have a few characteristics.

The first point is that it must be long enough, and it must be much larger than the size of the riding beast, so that it can fight close enemies in a wide range.

The second point is that it must be an extraordinary weapon. You said that your armor has enchantments or blessings, so my side must be a weapon of the same level.

The third point is that its shape can be varied, and the source of materials can also have the characteristics of the fantasy world, such as the horns of monsters, huge ribs of monsters, a whole straight magic tree, and so on.

The fourth point is the way it is carried and used. This point also needs to be considered. Although the knights’ beast mounts have a strong carrying capacity and can be carried directly, after all, the human body is here, and the weapons are too big and too long. Knights are not only very It is difficult to carry around, and manipulation when using is also a problem.

I think, on the one hand, I told you that you can make changes in the knight himself to actively adapt to the upgraded lance weapons, such as adding a pair of arms to control the lance in addition to the common use of sword and shield. Or your arms can be extended at will like Luffy and Mister Fantastic, so that you can use other types of weapons to fight against knight enemies of the same level without a powerful lance. My weapons are not as long as yours, but my hands are long Ah, the same can fight.

besides. What will be the role of re-upgrading the lance. I think it's more important to kill the same enemy in close combat than just knock down the beast. It must have the lore ability against the same knight-level fighters. Curse, mass change under magic, forced space exile upon contact, cracking matter, anti-magic, anti-armor, tracking magic location markers. These can cause lore effects, not only that, but also general magic attacks.

Only these important functions that can change the battlefield situation can reflect the role of melee weapons. Otherwise, it would be more reasonable for everyone to ride high-mobility mounted beasts and use crossbows or throwing spears throughout the battle. Although realistically boring. I have already thought about the reasons. Arrows, crossbows, and spears with limited volume are difficult to arrange complex high-level magical blessing effects on them, and they are too expensive and wasteful. A melee weapon that can be reused would be nice.

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Q: Well, the weapons are similar to Dark Souls, with a bit of a fantasy theme. There are various materials for making, and the final weapons are also various. I understand what you mean. Under this world view, it is impossible to mass-produce weapons with a common configuration, at least in the country where the protagonist lives now, because I have seen that the strong knights have not reached the general strength, although it is possible It is remote, but it is easier to say that it is a feudal system, and it is impossible to mass-produce weapons without a central unified system. The knight gun I am talking about is a mass-produced weapon, mainly used for large-scale knight charges. Knight-level powerhouses, according to what you said, use long-range weapons to throw guns, bows and arrows, ride horses and shoot in circles, and then fight in close combat after running out of ammunition. It is impossible to have too many, similar to elite troops against elite troops, which can only be used for small-scale operations. If the two armies confront each other, anyway? Ten thousand people should have it! In this case, how can a remote attack be possible? It's not modern trench warfare. At the beginning, magic cannons or magic attacks are used, and the rest is cold weapon battles, so knight impact is used in such places. Although judging from the current plot, it is difficult to have a large-scale war. . Moreover, the main purpose of the knight charge is to clear the soldiers. It is impossible for every knight to be a strong knight, right? Moreover, the knight's charge does not necessarily rely solely on the momentum brought by the speed to charge, and it can also have some magical features. For example, when several knights gather together, they will use life energy to generate something similar to a group skill. The higher the force.

Answer: Thank you, thank you. What you said is very good, I am very excited, I feel that it is great to discuss these with book friends, let me explain to you a little bit. First of all, in the setting, those who fight on horseback are divided into knights and cavalry. This is very important. Knights are the lowest-level land lords composed of strong knights, because their strength is far beyond that of ordinary humans, and they already have the ability to break the traditional feudal society at the most basic level of violence.

It is impossible not to let them participate in the distribution of power, so in order to win over and appease these people, they must be designed as the basic low-level nobles. From bottom to top, other low and mid-level nobles will naturally have the strength of knights. This change will always be changed after the wealth of the nobles increases to a certain extent. Because some nobles who are rich and shrouded by the **** of nobles can use other means (including but not limited to magic items, magic blood, and being a church position, etc.) to gain the strength to fight against and suppress knight-level fighters.

In addition, when you reach a higher noble level, greater power itself can suppress knight-rank fighters. After all, when you have knight-rank fighters under your command, you who hold power naturally don’t have to worry about a certain knight treating you Do harm, because other knights under feudal rule will pledge their allegiance or voluntarily maintain the rules of feudal rule for the sake of power check and balance and growth. This is a basic setting that includes the kingdom where the protagonist lives, some other scattered kingdoms, and parts of the empire. Also some of the basis in the novel.

There are other large areas ruled by the society, and there are also areas where the church of the gods replaced the feudal rule, but the social structure in them is quite different. I won't go into details here. Let's go on to talk about knights fighting. You think there's going to be a massive cavalier charge, but I don't think that's going to happen by itself. Let me analyze it carefully for you.

First of all, I don't know if you, book friend, understand the combat scope of the modern army. That's right, due to the large-scale use of rifles, machine guns and artillery, the era of line formation and line-up shooting in early modern times has long since passed away. The reason is that the attack range of soldiers has greatly increased. Similar to the full-power rifle ammunition used by the Mauser rifle, they do not consider the accuracy when shooting the rifle, and they have enough lethality to hit a parabolic trajectory from more than 2,000 to 3,000 meters away. It can be attacked by high-tech soldiers, which leads to a very wide combat range of a small group of soldiers. In field battles, in order to ensure the density of firepower, basically a small group of soldiers can control a radius of three to five hundred with them as the center. A circular range of meters.

Turning back to the novel, the knights do not have rifles, but they have the ability to use all-metal bows themselves, and shoot metal arrows that are not inferior to rifles and machine guns. And because of their excellent eyesight and extremely precise arms, their bows and arrows are far stronger than rifles in terms of strikes, regardless of continuous shooting. Presumably you have already expected that knights with such a wide attack range will definitely not all gather together in battle, because in this way, a large amount of battlefield control range will be lost in vain.

And if the knights gather together, their respective firepower will be greatly wasted. This does not take into account the next magic problem. Let's make an analogy, two knights are facing each other, assuming that they don't have a large-scale roaming confrontation between them, but only fight to destroy each other. In this way, on a plain, two hundred knights from each of the two knights fought on horseback. One side gathered together, used strong bows and lances, and mainly used lances, while the knights on the other side dispersed their teams and divided them into two groups. A team of five, forty teams.

When the Lance Knights formed a group to attack, the opponent's Bow and Arrow Knights were directly dispersed into forty groups, spreading out on the left and right wings to surround the Lance Knights. Although the Lance Knights would also use bows and arrows to fight back, but when they gathered, the lances in their hands had no opponents to attack in groups.

The opponent did not accept the attack of the Knights of the Lances at all, and in the long-range bow and arrow shooting, the Knights of the Lances gathered in a group in order to be able to use their lances, although collective shooting can effectively kill the bow and arrows from a distance. They can kill with a salvo, but they can only destroy one or two teams of the Knights of the Bow and Arrow at one time, and the Knights of the Bow and Arrow can shoot the surrounded Knights of the Lance from all directions. In terms of effectiveness, the Bow and Arrow Knights are much higher than the Lance Knights.

That's about it. Next, let me talk about the second question of large-scale knight combat. That is, are there so many strong knights? Consider that Kendall County includes Baron Kendall, who also has the strength of a knight. How many knights are there in the county under the command of the baron?

The answer is 7 digits. So what is the maximum number of militia teams that can be organized in Kendall County?

The answer is beyond imagination, more than 6,000 people. Among them, women who are also tough and strong, old people who are too old to fight, and young people who can't handle spears are excluded. The last question, 7 strong knights fought with 6,000 people, regardless of terrain and logistical factors, who would win?

The answer is seven strong knights.

Let me analyze it here. First, and most importantly, the militiamen had no weapons to effectively injure the knights. The crossbows of the militia are okay against farmers or bandits, because these people don't have enough armor. And their bows and crossbows are not bad, and they can kill cavalry wearing iron armor in large-scale shooting, but for all the knights who wear very thick steel armor, even men and horses, the crossbows of the militia Can't hurt the opponent at all.

The second is the reason for the mobility. The militiamen move all by their legs and feet, while the knights on the opposite side are all riding monster-like horses that surpass ordinary horses. Cavaliers always have the initiative in combat. They can launch an attack at any time, and fight when they want, and withdraw when they want. The militiamen can only regroup to save their lives after chasing for a certain period of time.

The third is the issue of attack distance. The crossbows of the militiamen have been described in detail in the previous extermination of the bandits in Luodaidong. It can be seen that most of the crossbows of the militiamen are within a hundred meters. On the one hand, it was due to the topography of the mountains and forests at that time, and the crossbows used by the militiamen were weapons manufactured on a large scale by the artisans in the artisan area. They lacked shooting accuracy and aiming methods. The original Wangshan was designed for shooting within 100 meters, and the excellent performance in the story was made by some elite militiamen. For the less described spear militia, I didn't write about their bow and crossbow performance, but everyone can feel it a little bit.

Fourth, the small number of knights guarantees their command and morale problems. Since the number is only 7, they can carry out the plan strongly. Even if the militiamen have a good command system, it will take a while from the commander to issue an order to the response of the 6,000-strong grassroots combat team. The time gap between this is enough for the knights to initiate a battle, obtain results, and then retreat a complete set of combat procedures.

And as time goes by, the knights' morale will only increase, but their combat power will continue to increase before their physical strength is exhausted. On the other hand, with the militia, as a large number of people are killed, morale will only decrease, not rise, and as the number of deaths exceeds the mental threshold of the illiterate militia per capita, they will collapse and flee at any time when the command system is poor.

The fifth is the baron's magic crown~www.readwn.com~Careful readers may have noticed that the eldest son of the baron has a very powerful and versatile magic crown. The description of the magic tiara differs between the eldest sons, with the baron's magic tiara being far stronger than his son's.

Let's not explain the power of the magic crown first, let's talk about the source of that thing first. The Baron Kendall family itself came from the empire. Although they were not nobles before the empire moved, from the design and construction of the underground waterway in Kendall City, we know that the Kendall family is a technocrat with relevant water conservancy construction technology. The family, they are good at designing and organizing people to build complex precision water conservancy projects that include magic operations. This can also be seen from the fact that Baron Kendall has been working in the province's capital all year round as the province's hydraulic construction work. They have technology behind them and are related to magicians. Naturally, after becoming nobles in the kingdom, Kendall City was put on the right track and their income increased greatly. They obtained valuable magic crowns through the family's magician relationship.

It seems a bit off topic. Back to the topic, since a small number of elite knight-level fighters can defeat a large number of soldiers composed of ordinary people, then the question arises, how will a normal war similar to the story be carried out.

First of all, ordinary soldiers are still needed, why? Because the purpose of war is not for war, but a means of politics, and politics is for the benefit of political participants, so the ultimate goal of war is to benefit political participants. Instead of fighting wars for war's sake.

Therefore, when considering the purpose of war in feudal countries, we know that for feudal land lords, the land and the people on the land are their purpose for launching wars. Although ordinary soldiers can't beat knights, they can beat people. To rule a piece of land, you need some soldiers to control the people on the ground.

These things are complicated and need to be shown. It is impossible for the nobles in the feudal society, that is, the knights. Do it yourself, these things have to be done by ordinary soldiers.

Secondly, ordinary soldiers participated in the war, so they just occupied the land after the knights fought? Nor is it. As I said before, there are only 7 knights in a territory like Kendall County, so even if one kingdom initiates a war against another kingdom, it cannot be decided by a battle between hundreds of knights.

Not only is it too child's play, it is impossible for a king to mobilize his country like this. Modern society cannot achieve this level of mobilization, let alone a different world under the feudal system. Although similar outrageous wars occurred in the Spring and Autumn Period of ancient my country, they only happened when the social and military levels were still very backward.

Therefore, in the story, in a large-scale war, considering the actual situation, it will be a war in which various noble lords lead a few knights and more soldiers, scattered without mutual support and cooperation.

The lords may have common war interests, but they are different from each other, and it is impossible to unite to fight unless a higher-level noble is deployed, but it is impossible for a high-level noble to directly command a certain knight and knight Soldiers under him. Knights under the same noble will cooperate on a small scale, but it is impossible to cooperate with knights under other nobles.

This is a matter of principle under the feudal lord and aristocratic system.

So looking at it this way, the fighting power of the knights directly belonging to the kingdom will far exceed that of the various lords below. Of course, the great nobles will not be at the mercy of the king. In terms of financial resources, due to the aristocratic lordship system, the king surpasses the great nobles in terms of rank, but it is difficult to distinguish between the two in terms of financial resources. After all, there is only one king. , but there can be many great nobles who are not inferior to him in strength. The king can form a knightly order in the name of the country, and the great nobles can naturally form a smaller knightly order by themselves. The number does not need to be too many, dozens of people directly Noble knights will do.

When the overall strength of several great nobles is comparable to that of the king, a balance of power at the top of a country's military appears. It seems to be pulling away again. In short, large-scale wars will happen, but large-scale battles between knights, such as thousands or tens of thousands of people, may not happen?

I have another good idea. Maybe this kind of battle will happen, but it can't be in the real world, but what about the world of the dead? What about the afterlife? After the death of the strong, their souls returned to the gods' kingdoms of gods. After a long time, how much strength did the gods accumulate? That's all for today. Having said so much, it is estimated that it will not be updated today. Sorry everyone.

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Question: What I'm talking about is whether there is a centralized country similar to the empire? In that case, mass production of weapons should not be a problem, right? And didn't you say that magic in this world is highly advanced? Then there should be a magic gun, right? Or is it similar to World of Warcraft?

Answer: There must be a centralized feudal country similar to an empire, but it is not necessarily a human country. Human beings have enough to have an empire. For an empire of that level, mass production of magic weapons is naturally not a problem, but who will produce magic weapons?

this is a big problem. The status of magicians is higher than that of knights. Knights are already so difficult to deal with. It is naturally difficult for the empire to let magicians be used as workers to mass-produce magic weapons.

Let me make a point first, the magicians of the empire cannot accept the empire to let them mass-produce magic weapons, but what about people?

Why use a gun to release magic? I understand what you mean. A convenient device that releases magic quickly has actually appeared in the novel. Need I remind you?

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Q: Why are there no guns? Doesn't it mean that the magic civilization is highly advanced? At least there should be firecrackers! And why don't you just post a long comment, it's hard to read section by section! You didn't see the comment just posted below.

Answer: No way, I use the interactive management of the writer's zone to reply to your question. Here, you can write a maximum of 150 characters for a reply, and one more will not work.

I don't like to log in to the starting point with my mobile phone to read and type. I always type with a keyboard. In this way, the speed of typing can be exactly the same as my thinking speed. You don't have to think a lot in your head, but you can't write it out.

As for the question about guns, as an amateur military enthusiast who can no longer be an amateur, I can give you a brief answer.

The so-called gun is a device that uses the expansion of gunpowder gas to push and accelerate the projectile warhead in the barrel and launch it. Regarding the part of gunpowder gas, modern technology can already use electromagnetic force to push projectiles instead of gunpowder gas to do work.

Among them, the power of the weapon is determined by the weight and type of the projectile, whether it contains internal explosives, the length and sealing degree of the barrel, the number of rifles in the barrel, the degree of friction between the projectile and the rifle, and the fixed charge of the bullet and shell. The quantity, type, degree of sealing of the gunpowder, and the number of projectiles fired by the firearm per unit time are related to the accuracy of the projectile.

It's relatively simple to say, but in my understanding, that's about it.

Bringing it into the novel, it is not that modern firearms or modern firearms cannot appear. After all, although the development of firearms in the real world is complicated, it is not very complicated. One of the most fundamental reasons is why there are guns?

The development of firearms in the real world is because with the development of technology, firearms have to be invented, because human beings have only this simple weapon route to go. You said why didn't modern Europe invent a plasma weapon, or laser weapon, or particle beam weapon, or radiation weapon in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. To put it simply, during the second industrial revolution, it is okay to invent an electromagnetic weapon similar to the magnetic storm infantry in the red police.

The only reason is that the development of these weapons is too difficult. Even in modern times, there are not many types of actual combat equipment. So, in the different world in the story, those magicians are humanoid self-propelled forts, and it is difficult for them to have a motivation to develop a gunpowder weapon that does not rely on magic for other people who cannot use magic.

Even with weapons like bombs, which can exist, it is unlikely to appear. Because of the explosive power that dynamite can achieve, flame magic in magic can naturally do it too.

A magic jewel arrow inlaid with powerful flame magic is shot by an elf archer who has superb magic shooting skills. How is it different from a 155mm self-propelled artillery?

You may say that the self-propelled artillery uses rocket-extended shells, which can shoot sixty to seventy kilometers at once, but elf archers pray for the blessing of the gods to make the arrow lose weight, and then release the magic by themselves, letting an elf ride on the tail of the arrow , After the arrow shot, he pushed the weightless arrow at the tail of the arrow all the way, and then, he activated the magic bow and arrow, letting the arrow shoot out of his hand at a high speed.

Such an arrow may be able to fly all the way in the sky for days and nights. Finally, after the elf sees the target, he pushes the arrow to the ground. It jumps away, and spends days and nights before slowly flying back to its owner.

And the magic gem at the tip of the arrow can be replaced with any kind of magic, which is far more than the real cannonball that can only have a few effects. For example, the gem at the front end of the arrow can be frozen magic, or a source of guidance that guides magicians from far away to release large-scale disaster magic to attack the target, or it can be a punctuation point for space transmission, and the moment the arrow lands as the In the center, send a group of knight-level warriors armed to the teeth to raid the enemy's leader.

Similar effects are endless. The possibilities of magic far exceed any weapon in the real world. That's why sometimes I don't like to read novels where the reality beats the other world. I feel that since it is a different world, why do I always deliberately lower the development level of the other world for the sake of the refreshing feeling of the story.

In a real fight, the magic world randomly sends out some invisible assassins to assassinate leaders and commanders on a large scale. Considering the strength of the leaders of both sides, the real world simply cannot fight. You may say to use nuclear weapons, but gods of similar strength on the other side will not fly directly to outer space, and directly intercept ballistic missiles in outer space during the mid-flight.

So, I think that after careful consideration, the real world has a highly developed social system and management system that are far superior to the traditional different world. Fighting is difficult, but in terms of learning after exposure, the real world has opponents. Unrivaled ability to learn and implement~www.readwn.com~Because of the strength of the strong in the other world, it is difficult for them to unite to do something, but in the real world, they can exchange information at a high speed, reach consensus, and turn defeat into victory .

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Question: Then you need to make more magical weapons, which are different from the real world, and it is a test of imagination. The magical weapons I refer to are not bows or crossbows, but similar to guns, but different from The magic weapon of the gun, from the shape to the inside, is completely original. It is a test of imagination and creativity, so I recommend you to use a gun. It is actually a more convenient behavior. After all, most people can’t imagine it. Things that do not exist in reality, you will be more or less affected by some things in the real world

Answer: Hee hee, it's actually not that troublesome. In the opening part of Baron Kendall's militia training, and the part about the young but beautiful Griffin Knight a few days ago, I have already hinted at the appearance of similar weapons. To put it bluntly, it was the magic wand on the waists of the two of them. The magic weapon used in battle is made into a short staff, and if you hold it in your hand, it can be used directly as a long and short spear soon. As for the aiming problem, it can be the user's visual guidance.

Finally, I would like to thank Mr. Bai Ye for your comments. I can post comments with everyone. This reminds me of a post I saw on station A today. The content is that the spirit of everyone on the Internet in the early years is missing in the recent Internet.

Indeed, I also have this feeling, and I also have some opinions that coincide with those of the netizens in the post, but I won’t say much here.

But after reading that post, I saw Bai Yejun's comment in the Writer's Zone. I was very happy after replying, and felt that I had found the feeling of the Internet again. Really good.