Chapter 199: "·Plotting a Long Bow"

Getting married is like walking into a snake's den, and you have to pray for an eel.
-Leonardo da Vinci (typical artist of the Renaissance)
Arms: Spartak heavy infantry
Number of people: 160
Experience: Level 4
Recruitment maintenance fee: 460 gold for special recruitment
Weaponry: super long gun, heavy round shield, short sword
Features: Can form a lance phalanx, fight against cavalry bonuses, high morale, strong charge, excellent endurance, digable tunnels
This Spartan heavy infantry is the same four-tier armament as the German Berserker. The more powerful is their maintenance cost; so far the most expensive recruitable arm in Rome is the battle mastiff with a recruitment cost of up to 680 gold, second only to The battle mastiff is the 440 gold youth army.
The particularity of the battle mastiffs is that they can kill the enemy troops without their own soldiers. In addition to the special presence of the battle mastiffs; the maintenance cost of the Spartan heavy infantry has exceeded the recruitment cost of the junior army. They are powerful.
Regarding the strength of the Spartan heavy infantry, Bai Feng feels that all his descriptions are superfluous. Anyone who has heard the name of the Spartan will understand their strength; and the newly called Spartan heavy infantry is The instructors of the cheetahs of the cheetah regiment.
After taking these Spartan heavy infantry to the barracks of the Cheetah Regiment, Bai Feng issued a death order to Gattus who was focused on training the soldiers; all the Spartan heavy infantry asked the spearmen to do, plus Tus must do his best to cooperate with them.
In other words, even if these Spartan heavy infantrymen demanded that the cheetah corps spearmen go to the sun for a day, or let them stab their comrades with their spears, the captain of the army, Gattus, must have no Keep the support to cooperate with them!
Faced with the serious orders of Bai Feng, Gattus, who was immersed in the cheerleading performance of the Cheetah Corps, naturally would not have the slightest opinion; so the Macedonian phalanization of the Cheetah Corps was officially trained by the Spartan heavy infantry.
Bai Feng did not ignore the coordination of other soldiers, archers, and cavalry. The training of the first two was coordinated by Gattus himself. The formation of the cavalry was officially started after Bai Feng provided 2,000 war horses to the Cheetah Legion.
After dealing with the Cheetah Legion, Bai Feng desperately wants to improve the combat effectiveness of the Roman city army and put his goal in another aspect; that is how to enhance the long-range strike ability of the Roman army, which is another thing that is enough to change the Roman army. Big thing.
Why is the Qin dynasty in Chinese history so powerful, and the large-scale crossbow attack is definitely the sharpest attack method of the Qin military phalanx; the medieval history in Europe, why the use of crossbows was banned is not because the crossbow’s attack power is too terrible Too.
A civilian who has never received any military training, after getting a crossbow, can easily shoot a noble knight who has practiced various sword skills since childhood. This is simply a weapon that subverts the world view of the medieval nobles in Europe.
There are many things like this, which are enough to prove the strength of the crossbow; the bows and arrows produced by the blacksmiths in the Roman city are ordinary bows and arrows with a range of only 100 meters, which cannot meet the fighting needs of the Roman army at least, at least. Bai Feng's request.
Because the production of blacksmiths in the city of Rome is very rigid, Bai Feng can only put hope on those barbarian bow craftsmen in order to develop a stronger bow and crossbow; with the skill level of the barbarian craftsmen, Bai Feng wisely gave up his crossbow Conception.
The production of crossbows is quite complicated. If people who do not understand the structure carefully teach, with Bai Feng’s general description of the crossbow, it is almost impossible for these barbarian craftsmen to make a crossbow; instead of wasting time on the crossbow, it is better to find a way to make it. The bow.
Although Bai Feng neither knows how to make crossbows, nor how to make bows, but he still knows a kind of bow, that is, a longbow built in the history of medieval wars! As a history lover, Bai Feng, how could he not know the prestige of the British Longbowmen?
The British longbow originated in the south of Wales, and it has been recorded about 1150. The 13th century Britain began to develop the longbow vigorously, from Edward I to Henry VIII. During this period, the British monarchs all developed the bow and arrow forces. Improve the lethality of the bow, so that the long bow has been greatly developed.
Long bows are generally about 1.5 meters long, roughly eyebrowed, and some are up to two meters long, which is longer than the 1.2 meter bows common in Europe. This is an inevitable choice for single bows to enhance their power; in order to pursue stronger elasticity It must be made of hard material and not easy to bend, so it must be made longer. The back of the bow is made of a complete piece of wood. The strength of the long bow depends on it.
The best bows are made of yew fir, which is hard and flexible; the raw materials come from the warm and humid Mediterranean coast, such as Italy, Tyre, Crete, etc., especially Castile is the best.
The King of England has set special tariffs for this-every barrel of wine imported from the European continent must pay a few yew blanks; the British islands do not produce high-quality yew, but the quantity is scarce, and they are sparse by the wise British It is strictly managed as a strategic resource reserve and is not allowed to be used.
When the Black Prince travelled to Spain and defeated the original local shot with a long bow, the Castilians turned their anger on the trees. The legislation strictly eliminated all yews. Hard materials such as elm, ash, oak, etc. were also available. Alternative, but the performance is always worse.
Longbows were used in wars by many European countries in the Middle Ages. Although crosshairs were more popular in continental Europe, they were the main weapon used by British archers during the Anglo-French Centennial War between the 14th and 15th centuries.
Normal long archers, face and ears wrapped in cloth, shoulder chains, wrists protected by leather cords and leather blocks, protective leather sleeves at finger joints, daggers and leather sacs hanging on belts; they wear various armor, It's just an ordinary layered tights.
Each archer carries twenty-four arrows, bundles them and puts them in the quiver, and when they are used up, they go to the supply caravan; most archers would rather insert the arrows in their belts than put them in the quiver. You can also hang the arrow behind your back. When defending, they can put the arrow on the ground in front of their feet, which makes it easier to take the arrow.
When Bai Feng first saw the record of the British long archer in the medieval history book, his heart collapsed; because he could hardly imagine that the British archer could defeat the French heavy cavalry, so he focused on understanding Fan this long bow.
Bai Feng, who has a detailed understanding of the development history of the British longbowmen and the production of longbows, still made his own longbow himself under the eyes of his eyes; even if the production of the longbow is quite crude, then Can shoot more than 80 meters away!
If the qualified longbow can be elaborately made by skilled bow-making craftsmen, Bai Feng estimates that even if there is no yew as the material, this long-range version of the longbow can shoot at a distance of nearly 300 meters, which is quite a terrifying range; As long as the city of Rome has a large-scale long archer, the Cretan archer who once made Bai Feng extremely valuable can completely withdraw from the stage of history!
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