total war rise of empire

Chapter 118 Robbery Journey (reward plus more)
After Lei Zihao upgraded to the main city of a level 4 city, he has fully realized that there is only one thing he lacks now - gold coin resources!
Whether it is valuable native artwork or expensive luxury goods, it is very useful to Lei Zihao. When the army can be visualized out of thin air, iron ore, the source of raw materials for making weapons, is very useful to Lei Zihao. The effect has been greatly reduced, and it can be used to build some siege equipment and equip servant soldiers with weapons!
However, Lei Zihao was reluctant to use the loyal population rewarded by the system to serve as cannon fodder for the servants. They were all selected from prisoners of war, and every expansion of the servants was accompanied by a victory in a big battle.

Now that you have won the war, you will naturally have a large amount of spoils. Those big soldiers are poor, but the weapons in their hands are still good. Even more than half of the cold weapons will be scrapped when the combat effectiveness is damaged. On the battlefield, as long as there are one or two mature weapons that can continue to be used, it is enough for Lei Zihao to arm the prisoners of war cannon fodder without any pressure!
The biggest advantage of cold weapon warfare over hot weapon warfare is that the cold weapons required for combat will not put too much pressure on logistics!

An ordinary iron sword of good quality can kill and injure at least a dozen people before it can be damaged. An ordinary soldier on the battlefield can kill two or three people, which is considered a good record. How can he have the chance to get it in his hands? The weapons used to be abolished?
Unless everyone is a powerful warrior like a walking knight!
However, the weapons used by real elite fighters are basically made of refined wrought iron repeatedly hammered. The quality is much better than ordinary iron swords, and the durability used is naturally much higher than ordinary weapons!
For example, the thick long sword used by the Scarlet Crusade, as long as it is strong enough, can even break the iron sword used by ordinary soldiers with one blow!

Naturally, the price of one long sword used by the Scarlet Crusade can buy more than a dozen ordinary iron swords...

In the human world, it is definitely a high-end weapon that only formal knights can afford!
If the system hadn't packaged and delivered a full set of equipment when rewarding the troops, I'm afraid Lei Zihao would have gone bankrupt countless times just by preparing weapons for them...

The number of offensive weapons seized on the battlefield is naturally sufficient, and a lot can be allocated for the security militia in Megara City and Longhan City!

But intact armor is hard to come by!
Armor is much more valuable than weapons anywhere, even ordinary leather armor is worth as much as a refined sword!

After all, armor uses more materials, is more complicated to manufacture, and consumes a lot of man-hours. Every piece of armor means a lot of wealth!

Among the mercenaries that are common in the human world, few can wear real iron armor on the battlefield. Most of them can only put on a simple layer of leather armor. Even the mercenaries who can wear iron armor wear what they inherited from their predecessors. The armor that came over, or simply pulled from the corpses of the dead on the battlefield, was repaired and used...

Therefore, there are really not many soldiers in the Crusaders who can wear real iron armor. Coupled with the death of the owner of the armor, the armor on his body will inevitably be damaged to varying degrees, and some even cannot be repaired at all!
Therefore, after defeating the Crusaders, Lei Zihao didn't get much armor from the spoils, not even much that could be repaired!
The intact ones are even rarer, and only a few were taken from the few prisoners who surrendered voluntarily...

Naturally, the approximately 1 prisoners of war cannon fodder Li Si organized had a very low armor equipment rate, and they couldn't even get enough leather armor!

There is not even a set of iron armor. Lei Zihao arranged for the security guards in Megara City and Longhan City to wear the few repaired iron armor. , it is really not very useful on the battlefield...

Even for nobles in the human world, the enthusiasm for manufacturing various weapons is much higher than that of armor!

Because armor-piercing crossbows, armor-piercing hammers, and armor-piercing long weapons are ubiquitous cold weapons in the human world, even full-body plate armor is not invulnerable. You only need to prepare a team of armor-piercing troops specially designed for it. Troops armed with expensive full-body plate armor are smashed to pieces!
Because in terms of cost performance, the enemy can easily crush them with elite troops ten times the strength of full-body plate armor equipped with targeted armor-piercing weapons!

Compared to building expensive high-end armor, the cost of soldiers is really ridiculously low!
If it weren't for the existence of knights in the human world who are extraordinary personal martial arts masters, I am afraid that the expensive armor has already disappeared from the army of the human world...

Just like the ancient eastern countries in the history of the earth, with the development of science and technology, there are fewer and fewer heavy armors, and the role of armor is more to defend against arrows, rather than to play a role in close combat...

After the popularization of firearms, armor has become a "ceremonial dress" for the upper-level generals to show their status and dignity. No country is willing to equip soldiers with expensive but useless armor...

Of course, this does not mean that the armor is not effective, but compared with the cheap crowd tactics, the cost performance of heavy armor is too low. If any nobleman is rich and powerful, he will still equip himself with a batch of heavy armor as much as possible Troops act as close guards, and this kind of troop can perform miraculously at certain times!
For Lei Zihao, thanks to the magic of the total war system, he could completely ignore the high cost of heavy armor, so naturally, he chose a route of crushing the enemy by relying on equipment!

This kind of extravagant behavior is what every ruler dreams of, but it is also something a rational ruler tries to avoid. Fighting a war is very costly. If you spend a lot of money to build a heavy armored force, you will be bankrupt after the first battle. But there is no place to cry!
Unless, the ruler has a steady stream of energy, and has the economic strength to burst out the heavy armored troops!

In this world, except for the night elves, who value the lives of their own people, and the dwarves, who have a small army, no country dares to fully armor their army!

Including the wealthy church, the armor used by the Judgment Army is also a lightweight chain mail, mainly used to defend against long-range projectile arrows...

In this way, in the middle of the 501st year of the Dark Calendar, Lei Zihao led a large army and started a robbery trip against the last main city of the city-state of Pylos——Pylos City!

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