total war rise of empire

Chapter 18 Lottery
This lottery drawing interface once again embodies the anthropomorphism of the total war system. What appears on it is the game lottery interface that Lei Zihao is very familiar with...

A big question mark is drawn in a round frame, and below it is the word 'lottery draw' written in Chinese characters. There is no turntable and no reward pool...

However, Lei Zihao openly clicked the lottery button with the idea of ​​free lunch!

The question mark in the round frame immediately began to change rapidly. Although the change speed was very fast, Lei Zihao, who had sharp eyes, could still roughly see the images that had been rotated.

In the round frame is a cartoon image of a soldier, with the names of the arms below. In just ten seconds, Lei Zihao has seen Egyptian spearmen, Egyptian archers, Iribian sword and shield soldiers, and Roman youth soldiers. Zhao cavalry, Chu warriors and other early Eastern and Western arms!
These transformed portraits of Lei Zihao cannot be manipulated, they are truly randomly selected!
After nearly a minute of rotation, a cartoon character holding a short crossbow, wearing rough leather armor, and with hair tied into a round gourd was determined!
A team of Qin crossbowmen!

The "team" here refers to the hundred-man team set up by Lei Zihao, that is, a full 100 people!

After Lei Zihao determined the military system, the total war system naturally entered this system into the database, and the recruitment and training were also directly operated with the system of centuries!
After the result of Lei Zihao's first lottery draw was confirmed, a miraculous scene happened in the central hall on the first floor of the Temple of War!
As the light flickered, a Qin Kingdom's crossbowmen, the size of a hundred-man team, lined up neatly in three rows and stood facing Lei Zihao!

The hand crossbow of the Qin State and the famous kicking crossbow in modern society are completely two kinds of devices. The kicking crossbow belongs to the large single-soldier foot crossbow, which is the later Han crossbow!

The string is pulled up by stepping on the crossbow with the strength of the waist and hips. The tension of the string is extremely strong, and the range is naturally longer!

The hand crossbow is a short-distance small crossbow that is directly wound with both hands, and its range is far inferior to that of the crossbow. It is somewhat similar to the crossbow that was popular in the Middle Ages in Europe.

Although the hand crossbow is not as ruthless as the long-range shooting of the kicking crossbow, the advantages of the hand crossbow are not small. The winding speed of the hand crossbow is faster than that of the kicking crossbow. It is very laborious to operate!
The hand crossbow is much more convenient, and its small size also makes the hand crossbow a hidden killer that can be carried around. Even the firing devices of many hidden weapons in ancient times are improved from the hand crossbow!
The effective killing range of the hand crossbow is only less than 50 meters. With such a short effective range, it is not as good as a single bow, let alone a compound bow and a crossbow. The reason why the hand crossbow became popular in the army is that there is another The advantage is the armor-piercing effect of the hand crossbow!
Of course, the armor-piercing effect of the kicking crossbow is better, but not everyone can play the kicking crossbow, and as long as the hand crossbow is an individual, even a woman can use it!
This is the reason why crossbows became popular in the Middle Ages in Europe. Ancient Europe was different from ancient China. There were fewer people and less land in various countries in the Middle Ages in Europe...

Therefore, the policy of elite soldiers was pursued in the Middle Ages, and the armor equipment rate was relatively high. This caused the shortage of bows and arrows with poor armor-piercing ability, and crossbows were naturally used on a large scale!
Most of the crossbows used in ancient China were foot-operated crossbows, that is, pedal crossbows, mainly because China was rich!
It might sound a bit boastful, but that's the truth...

The land is vast and abundant in ancient China, the truth is not an exaggeration...

If you have money, you will naturally use a good crossbow!

It doesn't matter if the conditions of use are harsh, there are still plenty of people in China!The big deal is to train more!

Therefore, the hand crossbow was used on a large scale when Qin State first rose, and when Qin State became the overlord and rich, it banned the hand crossbow on a large scale with the kicking crossbow!
During the European Renaissance, due to the advent of the Age of Discovery, some European countries also became rich through trade, such as Venice...

Then, the wealthy Venice banned crossbows with heavy crossbows (pedal crossbows)...

These historical facts told Lei Zihao that the quality of military equipment depends on the amount of money!
With the appearance of Qin's hand crossbowmen, Lei Zihao's eyes cooperated with the basic information to emerge!

[Soldiers: Qin Crossbowmen

Soldier Size: Standard Centuries.

Skills: Shooting

Morale: Six Stars (War Faith Bonus)

Recruitment costs (???), maintenance costs (no military pay for food and clothing).

Ability: Can form three rows of horizontal shooting teams to shoot in turn, can dig tunnels, etc.

Remarks: They are professional soldiers who rose up in the early days of the Qin State. They have good discipline and organization. They can draw out their short swords for hand-to-hand combat when necessary, but please don't expect surprises in the hand-to-hand combat of these hand crossbowmen. 】

Huh?The lack of the evaluation of the highest combat effectiveness, is it because they belong to the long-range arms?

Lei Zihao turned his head and glanced at the Qin hand crossbowmen who had already lined up to leave the center of the hall and stood on the left side of the temple hall. He understood why there was only such a spacious hall on the first floor of the War Temple, which was as big as a training ground. ...

Lei Zihao quickly averted his eyes from the hand crossbowmen of Qin who were holding crossbows and daggers hanging from their waists. He stared brightly at the reset button for the lottery. The first round gave him the long-range units he desperately needed. , the lottery of this temple of war is much better than the fixed arms of the barracks!
Even the collection of power of faith is unstable, and there is no specific value to show that the temple of war can accumulate two lucky draw chances at the beginning, which still takes advantage of the blank belief of the villagers!
Otherwise, the other two temples will not be built first, and the master will be promoted to the Temple of War. In this way, the power of faith should be concentrated on the lottery as much as possible...

Thinking carefully, Lei Zihao pressed the lottery button again!

During some transformations that made Lei Zihao drool, an image of a young man appeared inside...

Spartan pants man?

your sister!Who the hell came up with such a bad name!

Total War System: "Your Excellency, please rest assured that the names of all arms are based on your subconscious."

"Damn it! It's time for you to explain!" Lei Zihao cursed inwardly with twitching corners of his mouth, and looked up at the center of the hall, where the so-called Spartan man in pants...

Lei Zihao would never admit it, the moment he saw the name, the image he should have appeared in his mind...

Sure enough, the one hundred men in the Spartan trousers displayed were no different from the image in Lei Zihao's mind, oh, no, it should be said that they were no different from the soldiers of the general Spartan guard!

The lottery of the Temple of War is full of surprises!

(End of this chapter)