Chapter 307

Snowflakes came with the new wind and covered Pinghu Town with silver.

"That's a terrible double headed dragon. Its head is as big as a hut. It can swallow a cow in one bite!"

There was a lot of noise in the goat hotel. People crowded in the hall and talked warmly about the Dragon slaughter not long ago. A well-informed person seems to have become the focus of public attention. He spits everywhere. When he talks about the highlights, he can always cause an exclamation. He sells it from time to time, and someone will invite a cup of warm purple cane wine. His look of elation finally attracted jealousy.

"The two heads of the evil dragon have been hanging on the column of the square for a long time. How do you know that they are the legendary two headed dragon? I heard that they are two ground dragons..."

"What do you know?" The well-informed person stared round and scolded, "can the terrain dragon have wings? I saw with my own eyes that several segmented membrane wings jumped down from a carriage."

"Yes! I can see it too. It's like a bat's meat membrane, loaded with a whole carriage... Only a giant dragon has such wings. It must be right!"

"It is said that two headed dragons are cruel and greedy. They will burn towns, rob all the treasures and eat a pure virgin every day. Unexpectedly, we are so close to a dragon... Fortunately, it was killed. Praise the merciful Supreme Lord."

"Also thank the great master, who called the knight to get rid of the dragon!"

"To father Miller, to father Conley, cheers!"

"Cheers to the master, to the Randall family!"

The crowd cheered and raised their glasses. A young man asked excitedly, "all dragons have names. What's the name of the Dragon killed by its owner?"

"Uh." The well-informed person hiccupped and said redly, "itus... Gotus? Anyway, it has two heads, and each head has a name!"

"Yes, yes, yes, dragon itus, gotus!"

"Itus, gotus! Itus, gotus!"

The atmosphere in the tavern was pushed to a climax when the glass knocked on the table.

Itugos is not a giant dragon, but its size is equivalent to that of a giant dragon. It's not easy to carry such a giant beast in the Everglades, and there is a complex process to deal with alienated blood and meat, which can't be careless. In case of emergency, Sylvia took charge of Yinyue manor and mobilized 1200 tusk soldiers, more than 300 craftsmen and scholars. First, she built a solid camp near the body of itugos, and two great knights were responsible for guarding it. She dismembered the valuable alienated dragon lizard on site, and then transported it to Pinghu Town for fine processing in batches, The treated alienated flesh and blood will be personally escorted back to Jinshui city by two other knights. The work has been going on for 28 days and is not over yet.

Alienated war animals are related to the future of the family. Knights and scholars of York family are busy with this matter. Of course, the church will not miss a good opportunity to publicize teachings and inspire the people. The head of itugos was publicly displayed in the church square for half a day, which completely exploded the enthusiasm of Pinghu Town. People cheered and praised each other, which was even happier than the harvest celebration.

The grand celebration is nothing more than free food and drink, more reward, and witnessing the deeds of killing dragons is enough to boast about the glory of a lifetime.

In this case, itugos can only be a dragon, it must be a dragon. Word of mouth, its head has doubled inexplicably. Bone spurs are regarded as dragon horns, and its abdominal fins are like wings. Anyone who dares to question the identity of the dragon will be ridiculed and besieged by others.

The rumor of dragon killing actually strengthens the relationship between protection, redemption and dedication, which is conducive to enhancing the influence of the Lord and the church and the people's sense of belonging to the Randall family. Victor naturally will not come forward to clarify the truth. Just when the people revel, he is testing a new weapon with master Edwin.

"Bang"!

The iron oak target wrapped in fine steel armor vibrated. A bodyguard came forward to check the fine iron crossbow arrow running through the wood target and shouted, "100 meters away, center the armor, completely penetrated!"

Victor lifted his shooting posture and held a dark military crossbow. He nodded with satisfaction. With his eyesight, he had already seen the test results. The bodyguard actually shouted to master Edwin.

"I'm right. This pedal crossbow made of keel steel has an effective range of 280 meters and penetrates the standard fine steel armor within 100 meters, which has exceeded your requirements." While dusting off the snow on his cloak, master Edwin complained: "in fact, the pedal crossbow is not a new thing. Its firing speed is not as fast as the crossbow, and its power and range are not as powerful as the military Heavy Crossbow..."

Victor looked at the new crossbow carefully and said with a smile, "its power is not much worse than the military Heavy Crossbow..." After hearing this, Edwin blew his beard and shouted angrily, "that's because of the keel steel! The keel steel consumed by this pedal crossbow is enough to make four stronger military heavy crossbows. Victor, the manufacturing cost of the keel steel pedal crossbow is too high to be popularized. In fact, the pedal crossbow has been eliminated since the technology of the military Heavy Crossbow matured."

Sylvia's dual military system made Victor deeply realize that the shining church is a huge organization with strict self-discipline. They are integrated with the Lord on both sides. As long as they do not touch the bottom limit of the shining code, the clergy will not interfere with the army construction of the Randall family.

Despite political concerns, Victor began to improve his mercenaries ambitiously. However, there are many strange races in the world. They have their own talents. It is inappropriate to copy the military system of the ancient earth, but Victor is not willing to let only mercenaries serve as auxiliary soldiers.

Victor has an alchemy tower, top soldier training methods, and an efficient production and construction system. Randall's war potential is extremely amazing. Mercenaries should play more roles, including participating in high-intensity combat. In short, Victor should walk out of a road different from the dual military system.

Compared with the strong alien race, the greatest advantage of ordinary humans lies in their ability to build fortifications and use sophisticated weapons and equipment. The basic strategy of the dual military system is to build fortifications while fighting, first gain a firm foothold, and then slowly erode it. Victor's mercenaries should further expand this advantage. In his vision, mercenaries can attack and defend, build societies, and have the ability of mobile warfare and positional warfare. When they encounter weak enemies, they will drum down, and when they encounter powerful enemies, they will form an array to protect themselves. To achieve this, in addition to the personal quality of soldiers, military equipment is also extremely important. For example, military carriages that can not only carry materials, but also quickly form a solid vehicle array, small crossbows that can be assembled, various types of bows and crossbows, and so on.

With these equipment, a mercenary army of 1000 people can move to favorable terrain, rely on the formation of vehicles, dig trenches, set up anti horses, cut down timber, erect arrow towers and build solid camps. Under the guidance of the alchemy crow, the elite commandos first destroy the opponent's logistics personnel, withdraw to the camp when they encounter a powerful enemy, repel the incoming enemy with the help of dense crossbows and arrows, continuously weaken the enemy's strength, and finally defeat it completely.

Whether the tactics can succeed or not and how to improve the details can be found and solved one by one through the actual combat of the bear group, but the preparations that the bear group should make before departure still need to be done.

If a worker wants to do well, he must sharpen his tools first.

It happened that the craftsmen and scholars of the York family gathered in Pinghu Town. With their help, Victor took the lead in solving the design problem of military carriage and small crossbow. The alchemical auxiliary soldiers have mastered the manufacturing method of these special equipment. As long as the corresponding materials are collected, the alchemical auxiliary soldiers of the bear regiment can copy the carriage and crossbow. Then Victor took out the keel steel given to him by Viscount Negus, asked master Edwin to help design a new military crossbow, and put forward two requirements: first, it can shoot through the savage skin of ordinary ogres within 80 meters. Second, the new military crossbow does not need the upper chord of the winch, and the parts are detachable and replaceable.

In only two days, the craftsmen of York family made two samples of pedal crossbows, and their performance and structure fully met the requirements. Victor was very satisfied with the pedal crossbow, but master Edwin said that this kind of crossbow had been eliminated by the military heavy crossbow.

The secret of the strong power of the military Heavy Crossbow lies in its material. The alloy bow arm forged with keel steel and 100 steel can withstand 1200 pounds of tension. The crossbow string made of ferocious animal tendons will not break. Soldiers must use a winch to wind it.

The keel steel crossbow has an effective range of 350 meters (flat shot), and can penetrate fine iron armor within 150 meters. It is the strongest single soldier long-range weapon at present. It's like a small catapult. In theory, it can shoot ogres. Of course, in practical application, those monsters with extremely strong vitality will hardly be directly killed by the military crossbow. Even if they are seriously injured, they can often fight for a long time.

An adult ogre can span a distance of 150 meters in about 10 seconds, while it usually takes 40 seconds for a military Heavy Crossbow to string again. Therefore, mercenaries need to be equipped with a military crossbow with stronger firepower and faster firing speed. Qualitative change is caused by quantitative change. If a few arrows can't kill large monsters, shoot more arrows and turn them into hedgehogs.

With the 700 pound pull of the pedal crossbow, strong soldiers step on it with one foot and string it with both hands. It can be fired in 5 seconds. Its power is not as powerful as the winch crossbow, but it is enough to penetrate the armor within 100 meters. In order to achieve the effect of rapid shooting, craftsmen had to greatly increase the proportion of keel steel in the alloy, so as to reduce the tension of crossbow arm, and use spider silk as string.

Spider silk is valuable. Keel steel is a scarce resource and can't be bought with money.

Since it can't be popularized, why reduce the power of crossbow?

Edwin didn't understand Victor's idea because he didn't know Victor had silver. Not to mention the pedal crossbow, even the 1200 pound winch crossbow can be popularized by Victor. Purple shirts and hibiscus trees with excellent elasticity can be used as bow arms, sisal string or ordinary ox tendon can be used as crossbow strings. In front of Se Yin, the keel steel of Dodo kingdom is not enough.

Victor only wanted the standardized design of the pedal crossbow. Although it's not time to expose ceryin's equipment, it's always good to prepare some weapon drawings in advance. Who makes Randall lead have no R & D ability.

Victor shook his head and sighed: "knights are usually busy giving birth to children, training soldiers, sharpening fighting spirit, and don't care about anything... Sylvia created a dual military system, and I have to deal with specific things..."

Edwin stayed for a long time and said fiercely, "boy, you're off the subject!" Then he couldn't help laughing and said, "that's right! The family's affairs depend on us scholars. Look at your mouth, I'm designing a carriage for you, improving the crossbow, and taking out the outdated pedal crossbow... Can you spare me the trouble, old man?"

"Logistics will be king in the future war!" Victor continued: "with 3000 elite and 10000 auxiliary soldiers, it is still very difficult to ensure the clothing, food, housing and transportation of so many people, not to mention combat? The production, transportation and deployment of various materials will become very complex. Any problem in any link may lead to the collapse of auxiliary soldiers. They do not have a firm will. Therefore, this is a great test of the family's logistics ability."

"Fortunately, we can try and deduce before the war. It doesn't matter if we fail countless times, as long as we can find the best logistics scheme. For example, this crossbow..." Victor raised his crossbow and said: "It may be out of date, but it's not worthless. The winch crossbow has great power and complex structure. Once damaged, it's difficult to repair. The new crossbow has a simple structure and its parts can be interchanged. Even in battle, it can be repaired immediately to ensure that the combat effectiveness of the army is not damaged. Now, as long as we improve its material, we can obtain a crossbow that is more powerful than the crossbow and faster than the winch crossbow, A new weapon that can be used by all refugee auxiliary soldiers. "

"It is not an obsolete pedal crossbow. It should be born in the future war and should be called a standard war crossbow."

Master Edwin pondered for a long time and murmured, "is this the standardization you've been talking about?"

Victor nodded: "Standardization is the most important principle of logistics in the future. It can not only improve production efficiency, reduce production and transportation costs, but also improve the combat effectiveness of auxiliary troops. Elite soldiers have practiced martial arts since childhood and are skilled in using all kinds of weapons, but refugee auxiliary soldiers are not good. Their training time is too short. A longer or shorter spear can affect their play , they may not even have the right head to change a crossbow. Therefore, standardized weapons are very important for refugee auxiliary soldiers, and legions can complement each other with standardized armaments. "

Master Edwin looked at Victor for a long time and sighed, "Victor, if I don't know you, I must think you are the student taught by the master secretly."

Victor moved in his heart and said humbly, "master, I'm still far away. In fact, I've always admired the silver white tower and wanted to study in the tower."

Edwin smiled a flower on his old face and shook his head regretfully: "it's a pity that the Lord can't leave the territory for a long time. I'm afraid you won't have a chance to study in the white tower."

"Knowledge is wealth, power and the jewel on the crown. The white tower is the place where wealth, power and jewels are stored. The motto of the Marquis Basten, the palace minister, has always inspired the children of the court nobility, including me." Victor solemnly saluted and said, "master Edwin, as the Lord of the Randall family, I can't go to the white tower to study. I still urge you to write a letter of recommendation for the Randall family. I will send family members to the white tower to study history, pharmacy and forging."

"Of course!" Edwin nodded and said, "however, the tuition of Baita is not cheap. Each discipline has to pay Baita 2000 kinsol a year. The tuition fees are calculated separately. The charging standards of different scholars are different, but the average tuition fees of the three disciplines are 10000 kinsol a year. It takes at least seven years to learn advanced pharmaceutical formulas such as energy potions."

"This... This is too expensive!"

Master Edwin said seriously, "child, knowledge is a wealth that can be inherited, so the silver white tower is both high and expensive."