If I let you farm, will you become the emperor of the empire?

Crossbows were mainly provided to farmers.

Of course, not everyone gets one.

Rather, it provides a place to train.

The crossbow equipment was placed in the training ground. The farmers went to the training ground regularly and put the crossbow equipment back to its original position after leaving.

It is estimated that there will be about ten of these training grounds.

A settlement is a hundred brick houses, and four or five settlements share a training ground. Go and train when you have time.

Roman only provides crossbows and training grounds.

As for other things, don't care.

Practitioners are responsible for making homemade targets, recycling crossbow arrows, and, if necessary, learning skills in repairing and maintaining crossbows.

Two police officers were dispatched to regularly count the number of crossbows every day.

Roman didn't think the farmers would be repulsed by this.

In the past, they had no qualifications or channels to access ordnance. It’s not that I hate ordnance.

Humans, intelligent creatures, are born with a desire for weapons of mass destruction.

After they master the use of crossbows, they will have an additional method of killing, and their spines that were originally bent will slowly stand up.

In the past, when they faced nobles and knights, they would at most fantasize about stabbing them to death with pitchforks.

But now, their minds will fantasize about shooting those masters with crossbows.

Once they are cornered and have a crossbow in hand, they will pull the trigger without hesitation.

I can't survive!

Don't even think about living!

And this is the martial virtue that Roman wants to see!

The more martial virtue you have, the stronger your combat effectiveness!

Even if one day in the future, Roman takes all the troops and goes on an expedition, he won't have to worry about someone stealing his home.

Thousands of peasants who mastered crossbows would tell them what it meant: 'Anyone who violates the lord's territory will be struck and destroyed.'

For those more outstanding farmers, Roman will also call them together to form militia crossbowmen.

There is no threshold for this.

As long as you shoot accurately and move quickly, you can become one of the militia crossbowmen.

After one year of development, we can easily recruit two to three thousand people.

But correspondingly, the militia crossbowmen are not paid either.

What kind of salary do you need to defend your homeland?

It’s good if I don’t charge you for training.

Of course, if Roman recruits these crossbowmen to go out to fight, he will also have to pay military salaries and provide pensions.

But that's another story.

Crossbows for the militia.

Heavy crossbows for the army.

The characteristic of the heavy crossbow is its strong penetrating power.

It can also cause effective damage to combat knights. To a certain extent, it is no less destructive than Roman's armor-breaking bow.

But the disadvantage is that the heavy crossbow is inconvenient to carry, so you can equip it as appropriate.

After all, it is impossible for the opponent to have many knights in battle.

Generally speaking, longbowmen are enough.

Archers have greater range than crossbowmen, fire faster, and cover a wider area.

In field battles, the archer's flexibility is far superior to that of the former.

As for the knowledge of making crossbows, Roman also passed it on to his carpenter disciples through the power of sapphire.

Today the carpentry factory employs approximately 700 people.

Three hundred apprentices made furniture, and the remaining senior carpenters began to mass-produce crossbow parts.

…

Trek is one of the Shattered Archers of the Crack Armor family.

Now he is responsible for escorting the prisoners of war in Bucks Heights to see the Archduke of Armor Crackers.

He was also the son of the previous Archduke of Ulster.

In terms of blood, he is Roman's half-brother.

The original Shattered Archers were the followers of the first Archduke of Armor Breaker.

After a hundred years of development, today's Broken Archers are mostly held by the descendants of Split Armor.

Just because the previous duke had many illegitimate children, and the children of the cracked armor had stronger eyes than ordinary people, he was naturally a good marksman.

They are war knights and broken archers. They are omnipotent on the battlefield and have almost no opponents - long-range units are too difficult to deal with.

The best Broken Armor scion like Roman will definitely become a qualified Broken Archer after the age of twenty.

For Broken Archers, the sniper range of 150 meters is only the basis.

During this trip to quell the rebellion in Bucks Highland, Broken Archer was considered the first success.

That day Lord Owen walked up to the city wall to boost his morale, but was shot to death by an arrow from a Broken Archer standing more than 300 meters away.

The entire Stag Castle fell into chaos, and was eventually captured by Trek.

But now, Trek was uneasy.

It wasn't because of the stag knights peeping in secret, but because of an army that didn't know where it came from behind.

Their banners are a ring of thorns and a spear of light.

Shutrick had poor eyesight and was nearly forty years old. He had never seen such a coat of arms before and it seemed strange.

When he sent someone to inquire, the other party rushed over and told them that they were the army of the King of the Valley.

King of the valley?

Where did the King of the Valley come from?

For such a nobleman of the royal title level, he should be like thunder.

There are only three dukes in the Black Iron Land.

This may mean that the latter comes from a foreign country, or Cang Yue, or Iceland, or Wan Dong... But those foreign countries don't have great nobles with this name.

After all, those are a thousand elite soldiers.

He asked about the purpose of their visit, but the messenger avoided answering, claiming that their trip was for a businessman named Morey Perea.

The messenger also said. The King of the River Valley is a close friend of Morey. He is willing to offer a hundred gold coins to redeem Mr. Morey, hoping that Lord Trek can give him face.

This request was directly rejected by Trek Armorbreaker.

According to clues, the lord of Bucks Heights colluded with the witch, and the businessman was not clean either.

They want to bring order to the chaos.

Owen's descendants can succeed to the throne. As long as they bow to Grand Duke Gale in the future, the Owen family will still be the ruler of that land.

Even if they are unwilling to be dogs, it's okay. At most, they will be under house arrest, and they still have to be served with good food and drink.

There is only one thing, they cannot be taken away by the Stag Knight, otherwise it means that the mission of suppressing the rebellion has failed.

But the merchant is a bit complicated.

Perea has a contract with the Oak Family.

The son of Selin has a promising future, but he is in cahoots with the witch, which is abnormal no matter how you look at it.

The matter is of great importance, and Grand Duke Gale must personally inquire about it. Maybe he can follow the clues and catch the big fish.

After the letter gave him the answer, he didn't say much and rode back directly.

...

Then late that night, he saw the army hundreds of meters away moving, and the flag of the thorn iron ring was shaking in the night. Getting closer and closer.

Moreover, he saw deer antlers appearing in the forest, and the figure of the Stag Knight was looming.

"Damn it!" Trick cursed inwardly and began to wake up the soldiers and line up for battle.

His troops suffered some losses during the siege of the Stag Castle.

After all, the attack had lasted for two months, and now there were only about 3,000 conscripts, and some were injured.

The Stag Knights were never taken seriously by the Broken Archers.

Although they only had 20 Broken Archers on this trip, they could shoot and kill 50 Stag Knights on the battlefield. Even if all the opponents were dead, they would not be able to touch them.

But the key point was the 1,000 elite soldiers who came out of nowhere.

He had excellent eyesight and could clearly see that the army advanced and retreated in a measured manner, had strict discipline, and was well-equipped.

Six hundred heavy infantrymen took down the heavy and wide shields from the baggage carts, carried the 50-jin shields on their backs, and began to march silently, which made his eyelids jump.

It was quiet in the middle of the night, and the moonlight was thin.

The highlands were covered with dense forests, and the shadows of the trees were looming.

But the lower the terrain, the sparser the forest.

A war was inevitable.