My Empire War Game

It only took two days to complete the construction of the Weapons Bureau, and the properties are not bad.

[Weapon Bureau: a department used to research, develop, improve, and make weapons; research acceleration +10, excellence +8, craftsmanship +10, work efficiency +10]

Although the attributes have only increased a little, the effect is very good. Su Lun has arranged 30 craftsmen here. Now the first weapon studied by the Weapons Bureau is the crossbow.

The crossbow obtained by Su Lun has a simple structure, low power, short range, and slow winding speed. Compared with the current centaur longbow and elf longbow, it has no advantages, and it is almost the same as the birch bow used by human archers. This level of crossbow equipment has no advantages at all, so Su Lun intends to study the upgrade first and then equip it.

Of course, even if you want to research and upgrade the crossbow, you need to make the basic crossbow first. Many countries have equipment such as the crossbow, but they prefer the powerful bed crossbow. There is not much research, and the price of making a crossbow machine is not a small amount, so the popularity of small crossbow machines in various countries is not high.

Ordinary crossbow arrows are not a high threat to knights. In this extraordinary world, a knight can dash back and forth on the battlefield wearing plates, and ordinary crossbow arrows cannot pierce plate armor at all. Only large bed crossbows can pose some threats to them, but the bed crossbows are heavy and inconvenient to move. As long as they are discovered in advance, the hit rate will be lower, and they are more suitable for use in siege or defense.

Because he has mechanical control and has made a crossbow before, making a small crossbow machine is not difficult for him. Let those craftsmen do it for themselves, and Su Lun made it according to the design of the crossbow machine.

As long as the bracket of the crossbow machine is made of metal, this part can be directly poured in the future. The other parts are made of elastic wood, and the bowstring is made of beef tendon and other materials. The bowstring used on the crossbow machine is more than ordinary bows It is tough, so it is made of several beef tendons tanned. When necessary, iron wire can be added to increase the strength.

With the completion of the last part, Su Lun finally completed all the parts of the crossbow machine, and moved some body. Su Lun picked up the parts and started to assemble. Compared with production, the assembly speed was much faster. In only ten minutes, a crossbow was made.

In fact, the crossbow machine in the blueprint given by the system is an arm-stretched crossbow, but the arm-stretched crossbow has a slower winding speed. Su Lun modified it and turned it into a squatting crossbow. That is, a pedal is added to the front end of the crossbow machine. When opening the crossbow, stepping on the pedal with one foot and pulling the string with both hands is faster and less labor-intensive than completely using both arms to wind the string.

Su Lun tried to open the crossbow, and then put the specially made crossbow arrow on the crossbow machine. The crossbow arrow used by the crossbow machine and the arrow used by the bow and arrow are different. Lun took the other craftsmen to a weapons testing ground at the back.

Ask someone to place the targets at distances of 50 meters, 80 meters, 100 meters and 120 meters, and Su Lun started the test. Holding the crossbow machine in one hand and the handle in the other, then aim the crossbow machine at the distant target and pull the trigger with your fingers.

"collapse!"

There was a sound of the bowstring vibrating, and the crossbow arrow instantly shot towards the distant target, hitting the center of the bullseye. Next, Su Lun continued to wind up and shoot, and the sound of the bowstring sounded one after another. After a while, Su Lun shot out a dozen crossbow arrows.

Next, I began to check the lethality of the crossbow arrows. The arrows on the 50-meter target directly penetrated the arrow target. These arrow targets are all made of hardwood, with a thickness of seven centimeters. It is not easy to penetrate. The crossbow arrows on Mi's archery target didn't go very deep.

On the 100-meter archery target, the penetration depth of the crossbow arrow is very shallow, only about one centimeter. On the 120-meter archery target, the crossbow arrow can be easily pulled out, and it basically has no lethality. The strength of Su Lun's crossbow is 30 kilograms, and an adult can easily pull it open.

The power is also so-so, the lethality is very strong within 80 meters, the armor can be pierced at a distance of 50 meters, and the power will plummet when the distance exceeds 100 meters. The power is gone.

However, a 30-kilogram crossbow can only be regarded as the most basic level, and a stretched crossbow is usually more than 60 kilograms. By then, the range of the crossbow arrow will definitely be longer, and the armor-piercing effect will be stronger. In fact, the 60-kilogram crossbow only needs to strengthen the bow arm chords, and the main body of the crossbow machine does not need to be changed.

After Suren tested this crossbow machine without any problems, he let those craftsmen conduct research and design in the basic field of this crossbow. Suren did not intend to participate in this research and design. If he did everything, he would still need those craftsmen. What do they do? As a lord, he is very busy. He only intends to take time to take a look at the Institute of Weapons Bureau and give pointers when he encounters problems that cannot be solved.

When Su Lun established the Weapons Bureau, the corresponding training in the barracks had already begun, and the militia system in Zhenbei City had now been established. The militia was different from professional soldiers. The salary of the militia was very low, with a minimum of five days per month. Training time, the rest of the time is normal work.

The training of the militia has also been changed, which is to form formations and be familiar with various password semaphores. In fact, the training of the army is often about formations. Whether it is a pikeman or an archer, you need to know the formation.

Now the soldiers in Zhenbei City are training the phalanx of crossbow soldiers. After the crossbows are made, they will soon be able to form combat effectiveness. These soldiers do not need to go out of the city to fight, and usually stay in the city for defensive operations.

Crossbowmen need to be assisted by other armies to fight out of the city. Crossbowmen can only be powerful when they form a dense formation. If there is no formation, or the formation is loose, the crossbowmen are completely a group of lambs to be slaughtered.

At the same time, the flanks of the crossbowmen also need to be protected by other arms, otherwise it is easy to be raided by detouring from the rear. As far as the current militias in Zhenbei City are concerned, their psychological qualities simply cannot meet the requirements. Zhenbei City now includes the security army, regular army and militia. The total number of soldiers has exceeded 10,000, and the total population in the Suron territory is less than 150,000. Of course, this does not count slaves such as goblins and kobolds.

This ratio is already very high in the surrounding countries, and the military salaries of the Zhenbei City army are also higher than those of the surrounding countries. Now Zhenbei City's finances are also somewhat stretched. Originally, the income of Zhenbei City could support so many troops, but who made Zhenbei City carry out too much work now.

Zhenbei City now spends the most on various projects. Although many materials are produced in Zhenbei City to reduce costs, many magic materials can only be purchased with the caravan. The price here is at least twice as high.

Moreover, many magic experiments require the consumption of gold. Gold is a common material in alchemy. Hathaway is also a large consumer of gold. According to the statistics of some wizards, a legendary wizard may consume a lot of gold in his life. Tons to dozens of tons.

For example, magic gold (a substitute metal for fine gold) made by wizards requires a lot of gold to be refined each time. Thorium, which is also used to replace mithril, is also refined with silver.

It takes at least a few million gold nars to build a wizard tower, and now most of the wealth in Sullun's treasury has been used up. Fortunately, there are still underground gold and silver mines that continue to be excavated. A large amount of gold and silver will be credited to the account every month. The repair of the secret realm has slowed down, and Su Lun is going to build the wizard tower first.

Because he is ready to establish a principality, Su Lun is now preparing to issue his own currency. Currency exchange in this world is very confusing. There are more than 30 kinds of gold coins, and the gold content and weight of these gold coins are different. The gold coins with the highest value are the Fortune Gold coins issued by the Fortune Church.

This kind of gold coin is very popular all over the continent because it is well-made and has a high gold content, and the money that merchants like to receive is this kind of wealth gold coin. It can be said that it is because of the pursuit of wealth that Ms. Fortune has a huge number of followers.

It's just because of money, most of these people are pan-believers, and there are not many devout believers and fanatics. Who makes those businessmen all speculators, it is really difficult to make them believe in a god wholeheartedly. .

Su Lun was going to mint coins and plan to print the wonder buildings in the territory on it. As for why he didn't print his own portrait, Su Lun felt too ashamed. Moreover, because of technical reasons, the avatars on the gold coins are not clear. Of course, the Fortune Gold Coins used divine magic to assist because of the wealth of the Fortune Church, but Su Lun did not have so many wizards to help make gold coins.

He plans to print the image of the Arc de Triomphe on the gold coin, and the face value of the gold coin is printed on the front of the gold coin. At the same time, he also plans to make the exchange rate of the gold coin simpler, what a gold coin is exchanged for 18 silver coins, and one gold coin is exchanged for Thirty-six silver coins, the brain-dead exchange rate, will all be canceled. He intends to exchange it directly for one to ten, but the weight of the gold coins should be well controlled and not lose money.

The unified exchange rate can greatly facilitate ordinary people to trade and buy. Zhenbei City must vigorously develop business here, and Su Lun will not deliberately make special troubles.

Zhenbei City has had experience in minting coins before, but now it is just replacing the coins of the Kingdom of Florence with coins of Zhenbei City. In fact, gold coins are rarely made of pure gold, because the quality of pure gold is too soft and easy to deform and wear, so many times All are mixed with some other metals to increase the hardness.

PS: Su Lun is ready to establish a duchy, asking for the name of the duchy, Zhenbei Gongtai has made a show