life in ancient gods

Chapter 113 113 Development【Please subscribe for monthly ticket】

The sixth day of April in the fourth year of Yongtai, that is, more than half a month later.

In the early morning, the orange sun shines on the Su family military camp outside Jinling City.

Outside the camp, thousands of soldiers in black armor were running around the camp in the morning. The soldiers were full of energy, each of them had a look of hard work in their eyes, and they were still rhythmically shouting slogans: "One, two, one, one!" Eryi, work hard, work hard!..."

The slogans shouted by the soldiers resounded ten miles away.

In the camp, on the martial arts arena.

Su Pingan was dressed in a green robe, holding a golden carved bow in his left hand, and a carved feather arrow on the bowstring in his right hand.

Facing the red heart archery target 50 meters away, he is practicing archery.

"Hoo!" The arrow missed and missed the heart.

Su Pingan sighed, "...Hey, I missed the red heart again..."

Liu Xiaohui held an arrow pot with carved feather arrows at the side, smiled and encouraged: "General Su, you can shoot on the target now. I think you can hit the target as long as you practice more."

After speaking, he took another carved feather arrow from the quiver and handed it to Su Ping'an.

"Okay, let's try again!" Su Pingan took the carved feather arrow that Liu Xiaohui handed to him, put it on the bowstring again, aimed at the red heart on the target, and drew the bowstring fully.

"call out!"

Carrying a gust of strong wind, the carved feather arrow flew through the air and shot towards the red heart of the target.

"Oh!"

An arrow hits the red heart!
"Ding, congratulations to the host, your sunset bow has been upgraded to lv2, and your agility has increased by 5 points."

Liu Xiaohui said happily: "I hit it! Hee hee, General Su, your subordinates said you could hit the bull's-eye. How about it? Your subordinates are very accurate, right?"

"It's very accurate...but my general's archery skills are very accurate!" Su Ping'an said with a smile.

"Cut, stinky!" Liu Xiaohui glanced at Su Ping'an with a smile.

At this time, a soldier guarding the gate of the camp ran over and cupped his hands to Su Ping'an and said, "Report to the general! There is a knight-errant who claims to be Zhao outside the camp. He has something important to ask to see the general!"

"Please!" Su Ping'an couldn't help squinting his eyes slightly, looking outside the gate of the camp.

"Here!"

Soon, the soldiers came towards Su Pingan with a big man in a purple robe.

The big man in purple robe knelt down and bowed to Su Ping'an and said, "Villain Zhao Po, I pay my respects to General Su!"

Su Pingan saw that the purple-robed man seemed familiar, "Please! Why are you here?"

Zhao Po stood up, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you so much, General. I heard about General Su's benevolence and righteousness, so I came here to express my admiration for him!"

"..." Su Pingan took a careful look at Zhao Po, and only then did he realize that the Zhao Po in front of him was the big square-faced man pawning the golden eagle bow.

Zhao Po also recognized the general in front of him, the owner of the pawnshop he saw at Pingyue's pawnshop that day...

Both of them couldn't help but looked at each other and smiled.

……

During this period of time, Ye Chenli was the main force guarding Jinling County, and his army had grown to more than [-] people. Except for [-] heavy cavalry and [-] light cavalry, most of the others were infantry. Most of the infantry are forced laborers.

Although Ye Chenli's actions lost popular support, Ye Chenli had no other choice. The enemy army had already reached the door of his house. At this critical moment, he could only use extreme means.

Su Pingan, as an auxiliary force supporting Ye Chenli, continued to recruit refugees and did not compete with Ye Chenli for resources.

The two of them, brothers, were inseparable from each other.

Ye Chenli is from a family of generals. He has received militarized training since he was a child. He has much more combat experience than Su Ping'an, which Su Ping'an can't match.

Only by tempering slowly can Su Pingan grow step by step.

During this period of time, the Su Family Army not only received many new soldiers, but also hundreds of knights and knights came to join them. Su Ping'an incorporated them all into the swordsman force, which was the Su Family Army's special forces.

The soldiers and horses of the Su family army have grown from more than 2000 to more than 5000, but more than half of them are recruits.

Among them, 1000 recruits were trained as pike soldiers and sword and shield soldiers.

The other 2000 recruits were all trained as crossbowmen, and the crossbowmen used by the crossbowmen were all god-armed crossbows.

The god arm crossbow is a military crossbow of the Daye Dynasty. It uses the bow as the bow body and the hemp rope as the bowstring. The range can reach more than 200 steps.

Although crossbows are not as fast as bows for reloading arrows, crossbowmen are superior in that the training time is short, and it is easy to train a large number of crossbowmen, and the range of using a bow with a god arm is longer than that of an archer.

It is conceivable that 2000 crossbowmen fired crossbow arrows at the same time, and their power is quite terrifying.

Just like Li Guang's eldest grandson, Li Ling, who was able to defeat 5000 Huns with more than [-] crossbowmen, one can imagine its power.

If there is another cavalry unit to attack from the enemy's flank, the enemy will soon collapse.

It takes two or three years to train an archer, but only two or three days to train a crossbowman.

Because archers and cavalry are not easy to train, they also have cheats like Su Ping'an, which can quickly learn skills.

Therefore, the bow and arrow troops of the Su family army are basically from Orion origin. Archers from Orion origin can become qualified archers with a little training.

The bow and arrow troops excel in flexibility and fast loading speed, and can flexibly cooperate with crossbowmen to deal with emergencies.

It is more troublesome for cavalry units to train in large quantities.

A qualified cavalry requires at least three years of training.

And cavalry is quite expensive.

Fortunately for the light cavalry, people wear light armor, and horses don’t need horse armor. They just need to feed the horses with concentrated feed every day.

The heavy armor on the heavy cavalry is not a small expense, and the horses carry heavy loads and must wear horse armor, so the horses of the heavy cavalry need to use high-quality horses.

A set of equipment for heavy cavalry including men and horses would cost at least a thousand taels of silver.

Therefore, Su Ping'an's army now has no cavalry except for the self-funded cavalry composed of a hundred students.

However, cavalry is a must, and Su Pingan selected [-] infantrymen from the army who are quick to learn and flexible in mind to train them into cavalry.

With Ma Fuyuan, a steady stream of war horses are supplied to the Su family's army. The Su family's army does not lack war horses, but cavalry.

Su Ping'an also wanted to train a black-armored elite cavalry like Li Shimin to serve as the main force of the Su family army, to be invincible across the battlefield.

in a few days

Fang La's army captured Hu County and Guangde County on Jiangnan East Road.

The more towns Fang La's army captured, the more dispersed his forces became.

In order to prevent the captured towns from being recovered by the imperial court, he assigned some soldiers to guard each captured town.

Towns are generally guarded by at least 300 to 2000 soldiers and horses.

The county seat is guarded by about 1000 to 5000 soldiers and horses.

Prefectures, counties and passes must be guarded by at least 5000 to [-] soldiers and horses.

In the towns that have just been captured on the front line, a large number of troops will be stationed, and in the towns that have been stabilized in the rear, a small number of troops will be left behind.

Now that Fang La's army has captured Hu County and Guangde County, Jinling's door is wide open. All counties and towns in Jinling County have lost their last barrier, and Jinling County is in danger.

(End of this chapter)