The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

There were quite a lot of people living around Ludburg, tens of thousands of them, so Olaf easily recruited thousands of young men among them, and then he hired hundreds of mercenaries with money.

Although the number of these mercenaries is far less than that of the young and strong ones, they all have a certain amount of combat experience. Most of the armors and weapons are complete. They do not require much training and can form a certain combat effectiveness once they are incorporated into the army.

Of course, compared to the regular armies of the same level in various countries, the combat power of mercenaries is actually weaker, and their wages are higher than those of regular armies in various countries. That is to say, when troops are urgently needed to defend the city, some lords Only then can these mercenaries be hired on a large scale. Normally, they mainly rely on the regular armies of their respective countries to fight.

Just after Olaf cut down all the trees outside the city, the forward troops of the Kingdom of Swadia arrived.

As a country with the most powerful heavy cavalry in the entire continent, the forward troops of the Kingdom of Swadia are naturally composed of elite cavalry. Among the five hundred forward troops, there are hundreds of Swadia. Dia Knight. These heavily armored knights, once they sprint at full speed in the field, are extremely lethal. That's why Olaf has no intention of fighting the opponent in the field. As soon as he hears the opponent's army approaching, he decides to clear the field. tactics.

If the Swadia Knights are the strongest field arms on the continent of Calradia, then the Nord Royal Guards of the Kingdom of Nord are definitely the strongest arms in city battles.

No matter whether they are attacking or defending a city, they will inevitably have to face brutal hand-to-hand combat in the end. At this time, the Nord royal guards wearing heavy armor and equipped with two-handed giant axes will show their powerful combat power, often in just a few seconds. Ten Nord royal guards can kill hundreds of soldiers.

After the forward troops of the Kingdom of Swadia arrived at Rudburg Castle, looking at the fields that had been completely burned to ashes and the trees that had been completely cut down, they understood that the other side was already ready for a battle.

So the forward force did not stay long and quickly retreated. At the same time, the detected information was reported to King Haraus.

After listening to the report from his men, Harlaus could only ask the troops to stop advancing more than ten miles away from Fort Rud, then cut down trees on the spot and make various siege equipment. After that, they also A large number of manpower had to be deployed to transport all these siege equipment all the way to Ludburg.

This is the benefit of strong walls and clearing the field. It prevents the enemy from obtaining any supplies around the city. Even the wood for building siege equipment needs to be obtained elsewhere. This effectively delays the enemy's attack speed and gives Our side called in reinforcements to buy more time.

At this time, Ye Tianlong, who was far away in Oudasan Town, didn't know all this. After having lunch with Baron Sol, he took the peasants and craftsmen who had picked up their families and set off back. distance to camp.

After the goods and gifts on the carriages were unloaded, they were now loaded with a large group of old, weak, women and children. The families of these civilian husbands, due to Baron Saul's cruel exploitation, were basically hungry and full these days. Each of them was extremely weak and could not walk far at all. Fortunately, Ye Tianlong also brought him this time. We bought more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages so that the weakest people could take turns to rest and recover their strength.

There were more than [-] people when we went, but when we returned, the number was close to [-]. In addition, there were a large number of old and weak people among them, so we stopped and stopped all the way and it took more than three hours to return to the camp.

After returning to the camp, Judy found Ye Tianlong again and made a request to him, that is, his son Murphy could also study with Jamila.

Ye Tianlong was very surprised that Judy would actually make such a request. After all, most of the lower class people in Calradia are basically illiterate and do not understand the importance of knowledge at all, but Judy can realize this. , and wants to let his son study with Jamila, which is obviously a very smart approach. Once Judy's son Murphy can really learn some tricks, then the old Judy family will probably Because his son would soar into the sky and break away from the lower class of the common people.

After Ye Tianlong thought about it for a while, he decided to just open a literacy school here. After all, after he helped the peasants bring in their families, he already had dozens of them in his camp. Children, there are so many children, it is very necessary to open a school. After all, he is different from other indigenous lords in the world of riding and cutting. What he needs is not a group of illiterate people who only know how to farm, so he opened it as early as possible. It is very necessary for schools to start literacy education. At that time, this school will be responsible for teaching children who are not yet adults during the half day, and literacy classes for adults in the evening.

When having dinner together in the evening, Ye Tianlong talked about his idea with several other team members. Because they still don't have enough manpower here, Ye Tianlong asked these team members to take turns to work as teachers in the school. After all, he is just a In the literacy school, Ye Tianlong and the others are all famous for being scholars, so it is definitely enough to teach those who are illiterate.

And Luo Chenguang happened to have some things to discuss with Ye Tianlong today. He has designed some new weapons these days. He wants Ye Tianlong to take the design drawings and produce some in the real factory and try them out. OK? use.

Ye Tianlong took a look at the opponent's design drawings and found that the opponent had designed two types of rifles. The barrels of these two rifles were much longer than those currently equipped for armed civilians, and the inside of the barrel The rifling is also pulled out. This kind of shooting is used to improve accuracy at first glance.

The fact is as Ye Tianlong guessed. According to Luo Chenguang, this is the sniper rifle he plans to equip for snipers. During this period of training, he discovered that there are many good prospects among the armed civilians. , so when he saw the hunting spirit, he wanted to ask Ye Tianlong to produce some more accurate rifles to be used as weapons for the armed civilians he trained as snipers.

Another type of rifle, the barrel is shorter than the flintlock rifle currently equipped to those armed civilians, and the caliber is also larger. The caliber of the flintlock rifle currently equipped to those armed civilians is [-] mm. This caliber It's not too small anymore, but the caliber of this rifle designed by Luo Chenguang has reached [-] mm. Ye Tianlong feels that this caliber can actually be regarded as a small cannon.

According to Luo Chenguang, this kind of rifle with a short barrel and surprisingly large caliber is an extremely primitive shotgun that can be specially used to shoot shotguns. In some special combat environments, This primitive shotgun might work wonders.

In addition to rifles, Luo Chenguang, a veteran, also designed a flash grenade, a small-caliber artillery that can be fired continuously, and a rocket.

The flash bomb is nothing here. After all, this thing does not rely on the power of the explosion to kill the enemy, but relies on the strong light it emits when it explodes to temporarily blind the enemy, so you only need to be able to figure it out. After knowing the formula of modern flash bombs, and with a little modification to suit local conditions, we can design a home-made flash bomb suitable for use in the world of riding and cutting.

As for the small-caliber continuous artillery, it is actually not a complicated thing. This thing is actually the Ferrangi cannon, an extremely primitive breech-loaded artillery. This kind of artillery is divided into sub-guns and mother-guns. Generally, each gun Each weapon will be equipped with five to nine sub-guns. These sub-guns can be pre-loaded with ammunition for later use. During battle, they can be loaded into the mother gun in turn and fired to achieve the effect of rapid bursts of fire.

However, due to insufficient manufacturing precision in ancient times, the sub-guns often failed to fit perfectly when they were installed into the groove behind the mother gun. This resulted in a lot of gas leaking from those gaps when they were launched, resulting in The range and power of this kind of artillery are far inferior to those of front-mounted artillery. It can only be used to kill enemy infantry at most. If the target is changed to those solid city walls, this thing will not be very effective.

However, Luo Chenguang improved this old antique and came up with it. He did not expect to use this thing to bombard the city walls and attack the city. Instead, it was originally intended to allow his army to have a lightweight weapon that could always accompany the army. Carrying light artillery.

During this time, Luo Chenguang could see that the road conditions in most areas of the riding and slashing world were extremely bad. In mountainous kingdoms such as the Rhodok Kingdom, the terrain was even more complicated and rugged. Like they are now It is difficult for the heavy artillery with a caliber of [-] mm to move quickly with the troops in such rugged terrain, so he designed this one with a caliber of only [-] mm, but it can fire continuously. Light artillery.

Although the caliber is much smaller, its advantage of being able to fire continuously completely makes up for its shortcomings in power and range. It can provide extremely sufficient artillery support to one's own army in field battles.

The last rocket he designed was not actually a high-tech weapon. In Ye Tianlong's opinion, it looked like a large flying monkey, but with a tail fin added to the tail to increase the stability of its flight. Just sex.

However, despite its crude design, because it is large enough and has enough explosive charge, its range is as high as more than [-] meters. The disadvantage is that its accuracy is very poor, and it is only suitable for dealing with larger enemy forces.

After Ye Tianlong listened to Luo Chenguang's explanation of the functions of the new weapons he designed, he nodded and agreed to the other party's request. He was going to let him produce some samples in the real factory and test them first. See if it works.

Of course, for safety reasons, these weapons will only have components produced in the real world, and then taken to the riding and slashing world and assembled one by one.

At the end of the dinner, Ye Tianlong's master Li Rufeng also made a suggestion of her own, that is, she felt that we should not just develop these firearms because they are easy to use. After all, these firearms are very primitive. In addition, they use black powder and are easily affected by moisture. Once they encounter bad weather, it can easily affect its power, so just in case, they still have to prepare some crossbows for the soldiers as backup weapons. They should also pay attention to practicing some skills in this area in order to prevent the firearms from being unable to be used later. , one's own martial arts skills were completely useless.