Become a feudal king from today

"Your Highness, do you want to try bow and arrow again?"

Xu Lie and Lu Chang came over at this time. They both took off their helmets and were covered with sweat. read

"Of course." Zhao Xu nodded. His purpose of doing this was not only to verify the performance of the armor, but also to let the soldiers understand what they were wearing.

In this way, they can estimate what kind of damage they can withstand on the battlefield in the future.

"Shoot arrows at me directly." Lu Chang patted his chest, looking fearless.

When the soldiers heard this, their hearts suddenly rose to their throats.

This is really no different from actual combat.

Xu Lie raised the corners of his mouth, and without saying much, he bent his bow and set an arrow thirty meters away.

A "whoosh" sound broke through the air, and the arrow hit Lu Chang.

Like the scale armor, the bow and arrow left a dent in the plate armor and fell to the ground.

When the soldiers saw it, they cheered excitedly and wanted to get their armor and put it on immediately.

"Well, the armor-making skills that His Highness taught to the Bingzhan Division are truly outstanding. With such sophisticated armor, he will definitely suffer a bloody blow in Beidi this autumn." Chang Wei praised.

It had to be said that there were many things they admired about King Yan.

"This is nothing. There will be many things that will open your eyes in the future." Zhao Xu said with a smile.

Chang Wei's heart suddenly became itchy, "Your Highness, what is it?"

Zhao Xu smiled and said nothing, and said, "It won't be long before you know."

After that, he stood up and said to Chang Wei: "Distribute all the armor."

"Yes, Your Highness." Chang Wei responded, turned and left.

Zhao Xu's eyes were now turned to the soldiers on the school field.

The full strength of the royal army is 20,000. Including the previous county soldiers, the number of troops he can mobilize now is 23,000.

According to his current plan, he wants to build a cavalry of 5,000 people, but due to the lack of horses, there are currently only 1,500 people.

But as horses are purchased later, more people will continue to be added.

After deducting the number of cavalry, all that is left is infantry.

Among them were 4,000 heavily armed spearmen, 2,000 lightly armed spearmen, 8,000 heavily armed sword and shield bearers, and 4,000 light sword and shield bearers.

After deducting these soldiers, there are still 3,500 people.

"Cavalry, spearmen, sword and shield bearers." Zhao Xu muttered.

For him, the army still lacks a key unit, that is, archers.

But it was too late for him to train archers now.

Because in ancient times, the training of a professional archer often took five years.

After all, it is difficult to draw a bow and arrow, and it is even harder to draw it and shoot accurately.

So he thought about it and decided to equip his archers with a crossbow.

This type of crossbow is called a pulley crossbow.

In ancient times, crossbows were also difficult to pull, so sometimes soldiers needed to pull with one hand and push with one foot to pull the crossbow string into position.

But coming from modern times, Zhao Xu knew that the contemporary military would also prepare some crossbows.

In order to make the crossbow easier to use without reducing its power, pulleys are used to reduce the force required when pulling the string.

This kind of crossbow has a pulley at each end of the crossbow arm, and the crossbow string goes around the pulley.

Today, Bingzhangsi is able to refine steel of various strengths.

It is completely possible to make a strong pulley that can withstand the force of the string without deforming.

These days, what he draws is this kind of pulley crossbow.

In ancient times, the craftsmanship of crossbows was mature, and only a pulley was added.

More importantly, crossbows have many advantages over bows and arrows.

For example, it has high accuracy, high power, and long range.

Of course, there are also disadvantages, that is, it cannot be used flexibly immediately, and the filling speed is relatively slow.

However, the reloading speed of his pulley crossbow can be at least doubled.

If the crossbow could fire three rounds per minute before, it should be able to fire six rounds now.

Such a long-range infantry equipped with a pulley crossbow can definitely give the Beidi cavalry a big surprise.

Thinking of this, he and Xu Lie went to the Bingzhan Division.

"Hehe, Xianguan Zhengjue is enjoying his leisure time, and now he finally has something to do."

At the War Department's office, Wang Ying immediately became excited when he saw Zhao Xu's drawings.

Now that the craftsman has mastered the smelting technology and armor-making technology, he only needs to supervise on weekdays.

These days, he always felt much more bored than before.

After saying that, he looked at the drawing carefully and suddenly showed a surprised expression.

"Wonderful, really wonderful." Wang Ying sighed while looking at it.

Zhao Xu was sitting on a chair drinking tea.

In fact, there have been some primary applications of pulleys in ancient times, such as rolling logs.

So after Zhao Xu took out this design, with Wang's familiarity with various technologies, he immediately understood the beauty of this crossbow.

"Can it be made?" Zhao Xu spit out a piece of tea leaf and asked.

"No problem, Your Highness, the Department of War has craftsmen who specialize in making crossbows. I will cast this small wheel." Wang Ying did not raise his head, still looking at the drawings.

Zhao Xu nodded. The craftsmanship of the pulley crossbow was not complicated. He believed in Wang Ying.

"Armor, crossbows, swords, and shields all need to be faster. Time is running out." Zhao Xu warned Wang Ying.

"Yes, Your Highness, I have ordered the craftsmen to work in three shifts as Your Highness said." Wang Ying said.

Since doing this, the efficiency of the Military Division has improved a lot.

After getting up and going outside the office, Zhao Xu looked at the busy craftsmen and felt a little more at ease.

In Yan County, almost everyone who met him felt that he was very confident about this autumn hunting.

But in fact, only he knew it, and he was panicked.

Although Qiushui was not a large-scale attack by the Beidi people.

But in the past few years, more and more Beidi troops entered Yanzhou to plunder every year.

What's even more deceiving is that with the current situation, once Beidi goes hunting in autumn, the Yuan family is afraid that they will just watch him being beaten by Beidi people.

And the imperial army at Yanguan may not come to help him.

After all, Yan Guan can't make any mistakes, the only one he can rely on is himself.

But I only have these few soldiers.

If everything was lost, he would have to go back to before liberation overnight.

At that time, let alone the Yuan family, the Zhang family would definitely not give him another chance to make a comeback.

Because of this, he wanted to arm his own troops to the teeth. They were really his treasures.

After staying in the Military Division for a while, he returned to the palace.

At this time, the front courtyard of the Wangfu Palace was very busy, with cartloads of garlic being transported to the courtyard.

Feng'er was holding her waist and giving instructions.

This little girl is becoming more and more like a housekeeper now.

"Feng'er, don't forget to buy the petals." Zhao Xu reminded him before entering the door.

"Your Highness, I remember this," Feng'er said softly, wiping the sweat from her forehead.

Zhao Xu nodded. In addition to armaments, Zhao Xu also naturally did not forget to expand his business territory.

You are a bastard if you don't make money if you have money, not to mention there will be many places that will need money in the future.

Yanjun is in a chaotic place like Yanzhou, and war will be inevitable in the future.

And war is about money.