total war rise of empire

Chapter 45 Defects of the Tensioned Crossbow (3000 rewards plus more!)

In Lei Zihao's military concept, the more such elites, the better, but it is not realistic. As for the regular army used as consumables, it should be similar. Faster, it will affect the overall morale of the army!
Elites like Wei Wuzu and Spartan warriors are best used as a final reserve team. Unfortunately, the "reserve team" with a total of just over two hundred is really too shabby. Fortunately, today's Lei Zihao There is no need to face the mainstream powers of this world...

Hey, I seem to have overlooked a key issue!
Lei Zihao suddenly turned his gaze back to Wei Wuzu's profile, staring at the monthly maintenance fee of 20 gold coins written on it!
Oh my god, that's double the upkeep cost of a Spartan! ! !

Sure enough, this equipment was not given for nothing!

Although Lei Zihao had used up all the gold coins in Longhan Town's inventory, he would not be able to pay the army's salary and servants' wages. The servants who served Lei Zihao plus the administrative staff of Longhan Town Hao’s entourage), together they only need to pay less than one gold coin for a month. After all, entourages like Xu Tangran and Wang Er, Lei Zihao don’t need to pay wages, they can get such a high position, I'm so grateful!
However, the army is indeed big. Fortunately, the army that Longhan Town needs to bear now, plus Wei Wuzu, is only in the early [-]s...

But more than two hundred of them need to pay extra military pay!
Every month in Longhan Town, a small amount of floating commercial tax will enter Lei Zihao's pocket. Unlike the fixed poll tax and agricultural tax, the commercial tax is collected irregularly. To charge an extra amount, Lei Zihao had already calculated before spending all the gold coins in his inventory. These extra meager commercial taxes can fully meet the salaries of his troops and servants!

This is also the reason why Lei Zihao doesn't want to recruit scumbag troops in the military camp. Compared with the troops drawn from the Temple of War, those troops are not worth Lei Zihao's extra effort. of!
Soldiers are very edible!

This Wei soldier is good or bad, but the military salary of 20 gold coins is extra, which is more than Lei Zihao’s monthly military salary and servant wages plus food expenses, which is really a bit hurt...

"Hey, it seems that I have to reduce the enjoyment of luxury goods and servants. No wonder some nobles don't like to fight. Just maintaining an elite money is enough to raise the quality of life of nobles by several levels!"

Lei Zihao calculated in his heart, and felt that he could barely support the maintenance cost of Wei Wuzu by saving a little money, and then taking points from Xu Tangran, plus a little commercial tax from Megara City!

However, if you want to expand the elite, it will be a headache. It seems that the robbery schedule should be brought up!
Lei Zihao looked in the direction of the city-state of Pylos, and felt that those Pylos people who couldn't even afford to use iron were simply 'rich boys' arranged by the system!
As for those captives of Pylos, they will be escorted to Longhan Town one after another in the next few days, and a free labor force will be provided in Longhan Town, which is fully under construction and upgrading!

Lei Zihao glanced at the killing experience in his personal information, and he just broke through the 4000 mark, so he didn't care anymore. Maybe after the gnoll attack is eliminated, he can kill some kobold captives to increase the killing experience to [-] !

All the resources gained in the war were carefully calculated and counted by Lei Zihao, and the slaves were the most important thing. The captured slaves not only had to pay free labor for Longhan Town, but also had to gather all the resources for Lei Zihao when necessary. Thousands of killing experience are enough to exchange blood essence and contribute life!
Of course, the order in which Lei Zihao kills is still biased. The first one to be stabbed must be the alien kobold. After the alien race is killed, it will be the turn of the human Pylos captive. As for the excuse for killing, hehe , It is too convenient for the lord to kill these foreign prisoners of war without status!
In the eyes of Lei Zihao, who puts interests first, anyone who is not one of his own is a 'resource' that can be used!
Naturally, there is the encouragement of the total war system, without the killing experience provided by the system to exchange for the longevity hope of blood essence, Lei Zihao would not kill prisoners of war for no reason!
The first thing Lei Zihao did after drawing the elite soldiers of Wei was naturally to test their combat effectiveness. Among them, the most convenient test is also the one that needs the most test, naturally the twelve-stone crossbow!
In the test supervised by Lei Zihao himself, the approximate shooting range of the crossbow has been recorded. The crossbow equipped by the elite soldiers of Wei can shoot as far as 500 meters away. Naturally, this data is of no use to the battlefield. It has no effect, and the crossbow bolts that fly so far can even be caught by ordinary people with their hands. It is conceivable how weak the strength and speed are...

What is really useful is that the effective killing distance for lightly armored or unarmored targets is 180 meters to 300 meters!
However, these data are based on the projectile principle. Due to the different structure of the crossbow machine and the bow body, long-distance projectile is rarely used, because it is impossible to grasp the approximate direction of the landing point. It is likely that hundreds of crossbow bolts will be shot out, and only a dozen crossbow bolts will be in the end. Falling on the enemy's line...

To put it simply, the crossbow can theoretically kill a target at a distance of 300 meters, provided that it can hit the target when projected...

Obviously, the probability of this shot is less than [-]%!
So, unless the real rich don't care about the loss of the crossbow, and there are thousands of crossbows that can be squandered, otherwise, it's better not to project long-distance targets...

For a crossbow, it is still intuitive to rely on direct shooting to cause lethality!

If you shoot directly, the effective range of the crossbow is only about 150 meters, and the target must be light armor or no armor to cause effective damage!
During the test, Lei Zihao discovered many fatal flaws in the legendary majestic crossbow!

If the arrow shoots directly, the trajectory will not be too 6!

It's not that there is a problem with aiming, but after aiming, as long as there is a slight breeze, the arrow can be shot to the point of being horrible...

Of course, as long as the wind is not too strong, using a large number of crossbow volleys can make up for the lack of accuracy, otherwise, you can only shoot as close as 50 meters...

Well, if it is within 50 meters, the crossbow can still guarantee the hit rate, and only within 50 meters, it is possible to use the armor-piercing arrow to penetrate the enemy's ordinary chain mail!
As for the heavier armored Lei Zihao, there is no test...

No wonder matchlock guns can replace crossbows. The actual combat ability of this thing is not as powerful as it looks!

　It's still the 3000 starting point coin that the little friend rewarded before, the author will do what he says, and add more!
　　
　
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