If Sima Yi was placed in later generations, he would probably be a marketing genius. He would have been a tiring job of levying military pay. As a result, he completed it in five days and transported more than 80,000 stone grain to Pingchang County.

People shouted well, but the banner they put forward was to save money from disasters and send plague gods!

Everyone has already thought about it. The autumn harvest is about to be approaching. If Zhang Yan is still stationed in Qi State, your family will harvest this wheat and the other cavalry will be harvested back with cavalry swords. Who will be more miserable? Who will be more cost-effective to send this living plague god with this little food?

At this time, Mr. Zhou was completely thinking about everyone!

As soon as this slogan was released, the Qi family, who thought it was like this, even took the initiative to organize the servants to collect the stock. While transporting food, they were also praying to the Eternal Fire. It would be better for these robbers to die outside and not come back!

The food was in place, and the Taishan bandits and the Black Mountain bandits did not shirk responsibility. They said they were two thousand cavalrymen, but Zhang Yan brought out all the assets of the more than 3,400 cavalrymen in the Black Mountain Army. In addition to the selected powerful infantry, a total of 13,000 people came to meet.

It was also like showing off military power. The main forces of the two brigades of the Taishan bandits and Jinan brigades were also brought together. Compared with the bandit cavalry of the Black Mountain Army, although the Taishan Army was only exploited by more than 800, the two brigades were completely equipped with Rizhao. The heavy infantrymen of the front army even specially customized a set of Rizhao ghost masks. The heavy infantry wrapped in steel walked to the official road like a giant beast, with an extremely fierce momentum.

The armor on his chest also made an additional ferocious beast head, and even the war horses under his crotch were equipped with iron vests. He arrogantly kicked the strong Liaodong horse under his body. He looked at the Black Mountain cavalry, who were marching across a road, wearing shabby leather armor and cloth armor, frowned like the beggar on the street, and then shook the reins forward. Uncle Thanos jumped over gracefully with the crisp sound of the horse's sling on the official road.

This realistic thing is called Zang Ba pretending to be perfect! After all, it is a step further in terms of relationships and control. It is impossible for him to obtain equipment supplies from the Rizhao smelter. In terms of equipment, the Black Mountain Army is really worthy of their title as a peasant uprisinger.

After returning from Wang Hou's order, Zhang Yan was really fully performed by Zang Ba. Looking at the Taishan Army who were neatly walking and marching forward, his eyes seemed to have turned into aura. He looked at the Taishan Iron Legion marching with his eyes slanted and looked at the Taishan Iron Legion marching for a few seconds. Then he snorted coldly with jealousy and hurried forward with his war horse.

The marching heavy infantry of Mount Tai seemed to hear him leaving a fat sheep with a thousand-slayed sword.

Zhang Yan's attention was all about the heavy infantry of the Taishan Army and Zang Ba, who was a heavy cavalry, while Wang Hou's attention was about the light infantry that was not so popular.

The two brigades of the Taishan Army were adapted and trained by Wang Houchu's military teaching regiment. They were almost a replica of the Rizhao Brigade. But after all, they were still foreign troops and had their own unique personality. Before they knew it, they developed a different style from the Rizhao Brigade.

The difference lies in the remote support light infantry, which seems to be less valued.

Wang Hou's light infantry was equipped with double bows and powerful crossbows. His tactical ideas came from the Spanish formations that the Native Americans fought by later Spanish devils. But the current gunpowder industry really couldn't keep up. Not to mention a flintlock rifle for each person, even if you are equipped with cannons, Wang Hou couldn't afford it. A single gun battle could destroy his savings for a year.

So he used the pulley heavy crossbow as long-range firepower. The crossbow can shoot about 100 meters in twenty-five degrees, and the precise shooting range is about 40 to 50 meters. It attacks a long-range attack of one to two arrows in front of the formation, and then lifts the crossbow behind the heavy infantry in the melee.

However, the Taishan Army light infantry completely abandoned Wang Hou's tactical ideas at this time, and they were carrying a long bow of more than one meter long behind them.

The Taishan Plain is narrow and the mountains are crisscrossing, so the Taishan Army has few cavalry and good archers. Even Wang Hou recruited two bow groups in Taishan for long-range support. After all, the crossbow range is only 100 meters, but the bow can reach 150 meters or even 200 meters. It is said that the farthest single longbow British longbow can shoot up to 250 meters.

At the beginning, Wang Hou only provided a single crossbow. In this case, Wu Dun, who went to Rizhao to replace his equipment, suddenly lit up in the dazzling armory, and took out the test weapon pulley bow created by Wang Hou for his engineers.

I have never eaten pork in later generations at least I have seen pig run. In movies and dramas, the protagonist's bows are held by two big pulleys, and Wang Hou took out a large bounty to reward technological innovation. A blacksmith in Rizhao Iron and Steel Factory also improved and promoted the metal wire drawing technology he proposed. Now it can produce several extremely fine steel wires and twisted into extremely tough bow strings. When several technologies are combined together, there will be Rizhao steel pulley bows that are half close to the compound bows of later generations.

To be honest, after all this, Wang Hou's pulley bow is similar to the entry-level performance of a few hundred yuan per Taobao in later generations. Compared with this era's rubber-angle composite bow, the power and range may even be slightly weaker, and the weight will be about one pound heavier.

But! The only advantage is that it is so fucking fast!

The pulley is enough to cast, and the bow piece is combined with oak corner glue and steel piece takes some time, and the bow arm is also just cast directly. It takes about three days to build several materials. You can put them together and tighten them with screws and nuts. An apprentice can make a bow in less than five minutes!

What about traditional composite bows? Treat horns in spring, tendons in summer, stick to various materials in autumn, and fix the bow body in winter, and only then can the strings be installed in the spring of the following year.

The newly made bow is not tight and cannot be used immediately. It needs to be stored for a year to be evenly resistant and have strong tension. To make a standard military bow, craftsmen need to prepare various materials in all seasons, making a good bow from a shorter than a year or as long as three years! Not to mention the cost of labor spent during the period, they can’t wait.

Another advantage of pulley bow steel wire is that it is not as afraid of the weather as the corner bow rib wire. When it is rainy and wet, the performance of the bow will not drop so much. When it is used, plus the cost of the construction are put together. Wu Dun immediately rowed his thighs and purchased 20,000 first!

So, the Taishan Army took another long-range strike path that was completely different from Wang Hou. The range was more than baptized and the battle formation was insufficient, so it eliminated independent bow regiments. However, Wang Hou didn't know which of these two light infantry tactics was better, so he had to leave it to the battlefield for testing.

"master?"

The shouting made Wang Hou come to his senses, but Zhuge Ying, the girl, was curiously urging behind her. No matter what the double crossbow or the pulley bow, the girl liked the old cannon that she cheated from her. Seeing her swaying and flintlocked in a cotton cover, her little face turned red with excitement, Wang Hou couldn't help but nodded with a smile.

"Set off!"

Carrying the war horse, he and Zhuge Ying also joined the marching team.

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The Beihai Kingdom was not the main commercial road, but the road was still the old official road of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It took the grain from Pingchang County. The army walked west for a few more days. Qingzhou had already started harvesting, and the army of nearly 40,000 people arrived at the harbor.

However, it is not an island city that has been gradually improved, but Weigang located in the north. On the one hand, the Qingzhou fleet has been ordered to gather there. On the other hand, Wang Hou dared not go to the island city that is not easy to stabilize the security. Are you feeling uncomfortable!!

Weigang has just completed the construction of the shipyard and port, and it still looks very simple. However, standing on the unknown mountain near the port and looking down, the sea is like a sea city. Countless huge sailboats are floating up and down with the autumn wind.

Looking at this scene, Wang Hou also pushed his nose with a relaxed and happy thumb.
Chapter completed!