Summoning Total War

Chapter 43: Blacksmith Shop (Part 1)

The length of the centaur longbow is about 1.5 meters. The bow body has smooth lines and carved patterns to make it easier to hold the bow.

Murphy put an arrow on the bow and tried it, but after shooting the arrow, he realized that he didn't know how to do it at all. The action of shooting the arrow just now was basically a subconscious action learned and used from the movies in his previous life.

But it seems that he still has some talent in this area, and the arrows he shoots are not very powerful.

In order to more accurately test the actual lethality of this centaur longbow, Murphy ordered the best archer in the town to be called and handed the centaur longbow to him for testing.

The test took most of a day.

Murphy took out a pen to make special statistics on the test data.

The maximum range of the Centaur Longbow is about 400 yards (about 360 meters), and the effective range is about 200 meters. The maximum attack range is about 100 meters. Within this distance, the arrows fired have strong penetrating power!

The arrows used by the Centaur Longbow are cone-shaped arrows, which are very penetrating arrows with armor-breaking properties.

Even at a distance of 200 meters, this kind of arrow can easily penetrate ordinary half-body armor! This kind of terrifying lethality was already a very abnormal weapon in this relatively primitive era!

However, the shortcomings of this weapon are also very obvious. Pulling it open requires very strong arm strength!

Ordinary town residents and ordinary soldiers cannot use this kind of centaur longbow. If you want to draw this longbow, you must have strong enough arm strength! This requires archers to undergo a period of training and supplement with adequate nutrition.

Murphy was unable to make precise statistics on the strength required to pull the centaur's longbow, but according to his rough estimate, it takes about 120-140 pounds, which is about 60 kilograms of force! Ordinary people cannot pull off such a strength requirement. This requires specially trained archers, and their arm strength will be far stronger than ordinary people!

If Murphy remembers correctly, longbows did not appear on a large scale until about 1,230 years ago in the Earth's era.

In other words, this kind of bow and arrow was nearly a thousand years ahead of the Roman era!

Murphy had heard about this kind of weapon, but he really had no clue about its specific production. But what he didn't expect was that this time the goddess of luck would be on his side!

He was actually able to come into contact with this weapon through people in this world.

Although these weapons are used by the centaurs, some strong humans can still use them.

And from a structural point of view, the production of this kind of centaur longbow is not very complicated, but the requirements for wood are relatively high. Murphy's territory is close to the Karazhan Mountains and is surrounded by a vast forest.

If you're just looking for trees that are good enough to make lumber, that's definitely not a problem.

In fact, after testing the lethality of the centaur longbow, Murphy's hands trembled slightly.

Whether Murphy can reach a trade with the Centaur clan is not what he cares about. What he really cares about at the moment is whether he can imitate this kind of Centaur longbow at the level of urban residents!

Even if it can't reach its lethality standard, as long as it can be made to be close to ten, that's pretty much it.

If the territory can train a thousand long archers, then all jackals will be scum and not a threat at all!

Against unarmored creatures like gnolls, archers are definitely a crushing threat!

Although javelin throwing is quite lethal, its effective range is too short.

Without the advantage of attack distance, the role of the harpooneer is greatly suppressed!

In previous tests, as long as the strength is reached, the amount of ammunition fired by the centaur longbow is about 5-7 arrows per minute. This attack speed can be accelerated through training. According to Murphy's budget, a skilled archer should be able to shoot about 10 arrows a minute. That’s about six seconds for an arrow!

One thousand long archers can shoot 10 arrows per minute, so one thousand long archers can shoot 10,000 arrows per minute!

What terrible data this is!

Imagine that in just one minute of fighting on the battlefield, a full 10,000 arrows were poured onto your position.

Just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle!

If that were all, it wouldn't be enough to make Murphy so excited.

What is the strongest thing about the Greek phalanx?

Defensive ability!

It is invulnerable in frontal confrontation!

However, the flaws of the Greek phalanx are also very obvious. It lacks mobility and takes away the advantage of face-to-face confrontation. There are countless ways to gradually defeat it.

Now, with the ultra-long-distance longbow, everything will no longer be a problem!

In future confrontations with enemies, as long as they cannot pass through the defense line of the Greek spear phalanx, then all enemies will be living targets for the longbowmen!

Waiting for them will be harvested one by one!

It can be said unceremoniously that if the Greek army gave Murphy the ability to protect himself and defend himself in this world, then the appearance of this centaur longbow means that Murphy uses the strongest attack method!

"Pulifa! Very good! Very good!" Murphy looked at the sturdy middle-aged businessman in front of him and couldn't help but said a few words of "very good". As a military enthusiast, Murphy knew very well what kind of power this longbow had. He patted Pulifa heavily on the shoulder and said in a deep voice: "There is a piece of fertile land of about one thousand acres 20 kilometers north of the town. When the matter is completed, it will be your territory. You You can arrange your own manpower to cultivate it!”

"Of course, we have to deal with those jackals first!"

Upon hearing this, Puli Fei's hands trembled and his legs almost gave out.

A thousand acres!

That’s a thousand acres of land!

It seems that this investment is really profitable!

In fact, it is not easy to obtain a longbow from a centaur, otherwise he would not have only such a bow in his hand. As a smart businessman, he has always kept this bow well, because he knows that only when this thing is taken out at the right time can he gain the greatest benefit!

As it turns out, he was right.

Murphy's generous reward is almost equivalent to the efforts of two entire generations of the indigenous people of this world!

Now, not only did he have a noble title, he also had a noble fiefdom.

The only thing missing is that Murphy issued a decree to officially canonize him as a noble!

The human heart is actually not that complicated sometimes.

At least at this moment, Puli Fei felt like he had met the Ming Lord! On Earth, there is a saying that ‘learned literature and martial arts and sold them to the emperor’s family’. In this world, is this not the case?