Rivers and lakes in another world

Chapter 349 Cavalry Archers

The attack speed of these archers is also very fast.Not long after Chen Zheng and the others arrived, they also came to Kangzhuang County.This is also the first time that Chen Zheng has seen systematic regular cavalry.

Although Chen Zheng and the others were riding horses, there was no way to compare them with the cavalry.

They can only be regarded as using horses for transportation, and people also use horses as a tool for fighting.

And these cavalry archers look unusual from the outside.

First of all, they are all dressed differently.It is neither the animal skin worn by the grassland people nor the standard leather armor of Beiyan.

Instead, he was wearing fish-scale chain mail, covering the whole person in the armor, except for his nose, eyes and mouth.

Not only that, but they also simply covered the horses with a softer silk armor.

Silk armor is a special kind of armor just like paper armor, but it is not necessarily an armor in the strict sense.

But they all have certain defensive capabilities.

And from the literal meaning, it can be seen that silk armor and paper armor are actually made of silk and simple rough paper.

The effects of the two are similar, but the cost is very different.

The main function of paper armor and silk armor is to resist penetrating damage.

That is the meaning of the end of a strong crossbow in the idiom.

Silk armor and paper armor can slow down the impact of the rain of arrows to a certain extent, so that the rain of arrows will not be directly inserted into the human body, but through a certain buffer, the penetration force will be reduced, and the wound will be reduced or even not injured.

This wisdom was discovered by the common people.

In retrospect, it happened to be the era of the feudal hegemony in the New Year's Eve.

At that time, it took 200 years for the current situation of several parties.

And these 200 years of struggle, although there has been a lot of progress in the military, but it has a very adverse impact on the economy and culture.

I don't know how many of some martial arts classics and cultural orphans are incomplete because of the war.

In addition, some precious calligraphy, calligraphy and paintings, as well as various precious collections are also scattered all over the place.

In terms of brokerage, in addition to the influence of a large number of currencies, price fluctuations and price instability.The most important thing is the lack of various resources.

To fight a war is to fight for resources and logistics.

This sentence is the same truth no matter which world it is in.

No logistics, no resources.No matter how powerful the general is, no matter how brave the soldiers are, they cannot win.

In troubled times, the army is the confidence in the hearts of every prince and the trump card in his hand.Only with the army can one's own safety be guaranteed and one's desire for power can be satisfied.

And if an army wants to ensure its combat effectiveness, in addition to the army's combat quality and loyalty, the most important thing is equipment.

All kinds of main combat equipment, as well as various auxiliary equipment.

Combat equipment such as shields, weapons, and crossbows.This directly affects how a soldier attacks the enemy.

And auxiliary equipment, such as healing elixir, and horses, stirrups, etc., although they cannot be used to directly hurt people, they can be used to enhance the combat effectiveness of the army.

When the two armies are fighting, in addition to the bravery of the soldiers and the commanding ability of the general, equipment is also a very important factor.

In the same melee combat, well-equipped people can eliminate the enemy's armor at once.And those who are equipped with inferior equipment are likely to use a wave of methods to pass, and as a result, their defense is very good, but they have no result but they are hacked by someone with a knife.I can't stand such an embarrassing thing.

Therefore, in order to allow their troops to quickly form combat effectiveness, all major forces forged weapons like crazy.

As a result, Yuanwu Continent began to lack resources.But one cannot go to the battlefield shirtless.

This triggers the wisdom of the masses.

It can be said that bows and arrows are consumed the most during war.

If a party's long-range attack is huge, then he is likely to attack his own long-range units.

At this time, I have gained a little bit of experience among the people.

There isn't enough ore to craft armor that will protect you.

Even weapons can't be produced normally, let alone armor and so on.

So Paper Armor was born with this thing in operation.

It doesn't need very good paper, even the worst is fine.

Paper armor only needs to be made into a simple whole-body pattern to defend against bows and arrows, and the effect is very good, reducing the lethality of bows and crossbows a lot.

The silk armor is similar, but from the paper armor, the materials used are also more expensive than ordinary paper armor.

Of course you get what you pay for.Some of these silk armors are no worse than leather armors and iron armors.

Now these horse archers wear such silk armor on their horses, the purpose is to reduce the damage of bows and arrows to horses.

If cavalry archers want to perform good output, they need a mobility.

Beiyan's regular army can reach one man and two horses.

This refers to the regular soldiers of Beiyan.

For Beiyan's Shangjiu Army, especially the Iron Cavalry Army of the Tie Family, it is very normal for one person to have three horses. This is the welfare treatment of the elite army.

The city guards were not so lucky.What Chen Zheng saw was just a horse.

Therefore, the city guards attach great importance to this horse.

They didn't have me to exchange for the second batch of horses.

Apart from the horses, the only equipment on these cavalry archers was the big black bow and the sharp warrior sword.

Chen Zheng is also a person who has practiced the hundred-step piercing. He has a certain level of understanding of bows and arrows, and his eyesight is also somewhat good.The level of these cavalry archers in front of them is not low, almost all of them are in the luck realm, and the lowest one is still in the early stage of luck realm.The longbows in the hands of these archers are about 2-3 stone.

It is very sharp in terms of hitting the enemy. With metal arrows, unless it is a heavy armored shield, it will directly penetrate it.

But by coincidence, the guy who came to Kangzhuang County to show his existence came again at this time.

It's just that the cavalry archers entered the city from the south of the city, and those who abandoned their religion these days gathered in the north of the city.

The city guards on the city wall immediately reported the information to Yuan Kang.

After Yuan Kang saw it, he asked the horse archers for help.

The leader of this team of archers is a man named Feng Yin who looks only in his 20s.

It is also a very rare surname in Beiyan.

However, Chen Zheng remembered that in the book, there was a person with such a surname in history.That's the one named Feng.And it also left a mark in the history books.

It is said that many people in the Feng family's blood are born sharpshooters, maybe Feng Yin is.

Chen Zheng also began to look forward to Feng Yin's performance for a while.

(End of this chapter)